Parakouo means “neglect to hear” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3878 — levi in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3878 παρακούω (parakouo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. parakouo (par-ak-ou'-o) v. 1. to mishear 2. (by implication) to disobey It has 8 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include neglect. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
parakouo (par-ak-ou'-o) v. 1. to mishear 2. (by implication) to disobey [from G3844 and G191] KJV: neglect to hear Root(s): G3844, G191
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3878. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to ignore
Usage: παρ-ακούω [in LXX: Est.3:3, 8 (עָבַר, עָשָׂה, with neg.) Est.4:14 7:4 (חָרַשׁ hi.), Isa.65:12 (שָׁמַע, with neg.), I Est.4:11, Tob.3:4 * ;] __1. to overhear. __2. to hear amiss or imperfectly. __3. Later (as in LXX, Polyb., Plut.; also in π., see MM, xviii), to hear without heeding, take no heed: Mrk.5:36; with genitive, Mat.18:17.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render parakouo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3878 (παρακούω) appears 7 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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1 indexed usage in New Testament.
And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
5 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And they in the king’s palace said to Mordecai, Mordecai, why dost thou transgress the commands of the king?
And he spoke to King Artaxerxes, saying, There is a nation scattered among the nations in all thy kingdom, and their laws differ from those of all the other nations; and they disobey the laws of the king; and it is not expedient for the king to let them alone.
For if thou shalt refuse to hearken on this occasion, help and protection will be to the Jews from another quarter; but thou and thy father’s house will perish: and who knows, if thou hast been made queen for this very occasion?
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
and these keep watch round about him, neither may anyone depart, and do his own business, neither disobey they him in anything.
for they obeyed not thy commandments: wherefore thou hast delivered us for a spoil, and unto captivity, and unto death, and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed.
First 8 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3878.
And they in the king’s palace said to Mordecai, Mordecai, why dost thou transgress the commands of the king?
And he spoke to King Artaxerxes, saying, There is a nation scattered among the nations in all thy kingdom, and their laws differ from those of all the other nations; and they disobey the laws of the king; and it is not expedient for the king to let them alone.
For if thou shalt refuse to hearken on this occasion, help and protection will be to the Jews from another quarter; but thou and thy father’s house will perish: and who knows, if thou hast been made queen for this very occasion?
For both I and my people are sold for destruction, and pillage, and slavery; both we and our children for bondmen and bondwomen: and I consented not to it, for the slanderer is not worthy of the king’s palace.
I will deliver you up to the sword, ye shall all fall by slaughter: for I called you, and ye hearkened not; I spoke, and ye refused to hear; and ye did evil in my sight, and chose the things wherein I delighted not.
And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
and these keep watch round about him, neither may anyone depart, and do his own business, neither disobey they him in anything.
for they obeyed not thy commandments: wherefore thou hast delivered us for a spoil, and unto captivity, and unto death, and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3878, grouped by book.
Parakouo (Strong's G3878) is a Greek word most simply glossed "neglect to hear". parakouo (par-ak-ou'-o) v. 1. to mishear 2. (by implication) to disobey
This page currently indexes 8 linked usages for Strong's G3878 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3878 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as neglect. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 5 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3878, with linked reader references where each row is available.