hear

HEAR, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive heard, but more correctly heared. [Latin audio; auris.] 1. To perceive by the ear; to feel an impression of sound by the proper organs; as, to hear sound; to hear a voice; to hear words. 2. To give audience or allowance to speak. He sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ. Acts 24:4. 3. To attend; to listen; to obey. Today, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your heart. Psalms 95:7. 4. To attend favorably; to regard. They think they shall be heard for their much speaking. Matthew 6:7. 5. To grant an answer to prayer. I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice. Psalms 116:1. 6. To attend to the facts, evidence, and arguments in a cause between parties; to try in a court of law or equity. The cause was heard and determined at the last term; or, it was heard at the last term, and will be determined at the next. Song of Solomon 2:14Sam.15. 7. To acknowledge a title; a Latin phrase. HEAR'st thou submissive, but a lowly birth. 8. To be a hearer of; to sit under the preaching of; as, what minister do you hear? [A colloquial use of the word.] 9. To learn. I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him. John 8:43. 10. To approve and embrace. They speak of the world, and the world heareth them. l John 4:1. To hear a bird sing, to receive private communication. HEAR, verb intransitive To enjoy the sense or faculty of perceiving sound. He is deaf, he cannot hear 1. To listen; to hearken; to attend. He hears with solicitude. 2. To be told; to receive by report. I hear there are divisions among you, and I partly believe it. 1 Corinthians 11:18.