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εἰσα^κούω ,
A.hearken or give ear to one, ὡς ἔφατ᾽: “οὐδ᾽ ἐσάκουσε.. Ὀδυσσεύς” Il.8.97, cf. Hdt.4.133, al. : c. acc., “φωνὴν ἐσάκουσαν” h.Cer.284, cf. E.Hec.559, etc. : c. gen. pers., S.Aj.789 ; “τῶν ἐμῶν λόγων” E.IA 1368 : c. dat. pers., Hdt.1.214, etc. ; “τινί τι” Id.9.60 ; give way, yield to a request, Th.1.126,3.4; of God, τινός or “τῆς προσευχῆς” LXX Ps. 4.2, etc. :—so in Pass., of the prayer, Ev.Luc.1.13 ; of the person, Ev.Matt.6.7.
2. in Poets, simply, hear, “τούτου λέγοντος εἰσήκουσ᾽ ἐγώ, ὡς..” S.Tr.351; τίνος βροτῶν λόγον τόνδ᾽ εἰ.; Id.El.884, cf. Aj. 318, Axiop.1.12 ; “ζῶντ᾽ εἰσακούσας παῖδα” E.El.416.
3. perceive, feel effect of, “τοῦ ἐγκεφάλου ἐσακούσαντος τοῦ τρώματος” Hp.Prorrh.2.14.
II. Pass. in strict sense, “ἔξωθεν εἰς τὰς οἰκίας εἰσακούεται μᾶλλον ἢ ἔσωθεν ἔξω” Arist.Pr.903b13 (v.l. εἴσω ἀκ.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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