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Definition: Listen

Listen

Verb

1. Hear with intention; "Listen to the sound of this cello".

2. Listen and pay attention; "Listen to your father"; "We must hear the expert before we make a decision".

3. Pay close attention to; give heed to; "Heed the advice of the old men".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "listen" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Synonyms: Listen

Synonyms: hear (v), heed (v), mind (v), take heed (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Listen

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Attention

Revert to; watch; (expect), (take care of); hearken to, listen to; prick up the ears; have the eyes open, keep the eyes open; come to the point.

Intelligence Wisdom

Discriminate; know what's what; listen to reason.

Resolution

Devote oneself to, give oneself up to; throw away the scabbard, kick down the ladder, nail one's colors to the mast, set one's back against the wall, set one's teeth, put one's foot down, take one's stand; stand firm; (stability); steel oneself; stand no nonsense, not listen to the voice of the charmer.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Listen

English words defined with "listen": Begineavesdropfetoscope, foetoscopegenuinelyhark, harken, hear, hear out, hearkeninclinelisten in, ListenedRastafari, Rastas, really, recitaltake a joke, take heed, To give audience, To give ear to, To listen after, truly, turn. (references)
Specialty definitions using "listen": ASSEMBLY TECHNICIAN, AzraelBORECONTINUITY DIRECTOR, control-S, Cork, CSMA/CD, CSMACDDesdemonaeditor, continuity and script, emoGallio, GogglesHEAVENJ.B. Kid, Jemmy Dawsonlistening keymonitoring keyNSA line eaterOccultistPoetic Termssacadm, Social pressure, Sparrow, Spirit or Specter, SQUEAK, RATTLE, AND LEAK REPAIRERtoken bus, token ringvoice mailWake, Wandering Wood, Wrath's Hole. (references)
Etymologies containing "listen": Auscultation. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Listen" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

German (guiles, listings, mandatory, stratagems, wiles).

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Modern Usage: Listen

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Have you heard enough? I've had to listen to that for centuries (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

Listen to my heart, can you hear it sing (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

Listen! You smell something (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.)

Why doesn't anyone listen to me (The Lost World: Jurassic Park; writing credit: David Koepp)

And most important, how in God's green earth it got into Congressman Albert's hotel room? Listen people, everyone knows where this is going (Enemy of the State; writing credit: David Marconi)

Lyrics

Listen people to what I say (Listen People; performing artist: Herman's Hermits)

And listen to what I gotta say (Are You That Somebody; performing artist: Aaliyah)

Well, before you do anything rash, baby, listen to this (Everybody Plays the Fool; performing artist: Aaron Neville)

But I just couldn't listen (Amazing; performing artist: Aerosmith)

I'd like for you to listen to (Pop A Top; performing artist: Alan Jackson)

Clever

I said "no" to drugs, but they didn't listen. (references; author: unknown)

Learn to listen. Opportunity often knocks softly. (references; author: unknown)

Don't listen to what I say; listen to what I mean. (references; author: unknown)

The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent. (references; author: unknown)

If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say, talk in your sleep. (references; author: unknown)

Tongue Twisters

Listen to the local yokel yodel. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Listen to My Story (1974)

Look and Listen Strop (1952)

Stopwatch and Listen (1952)

Judge Listen (1952)

Look and Listen Hop (1948)

Song Titles

Listen To The Music (performing artist: The Doobie Brothers)

Listen People (performing artist: Herman's Hermits)

Listen To What The Man Said (performing artist: Paul McCartney and Wings)

Listen To Your Heart (performing artist: Roxette)

STOP LOOK LISTEN TO YOUR HEART  (performing artist: Stylistics )

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Listen

DomainTitle

Books

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Listen

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Shown is the back of a female patient with a doctor who is using a stethoscope to listen to her lungs. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Participants in WOW (Wonderful Outdoor World) listen intently to lessons about nature. Credit: Unknown.

[High School students listen to presentation at the Student Science Congress] / P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Robert S. Pumphrey..

[Army Nurses listen to election returns over radio]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Ship's Chief Petty Officers listen to the radio broadcast of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's address to the Congress requesting a declaration of War against the Axis powers, circa 8 December 1941. Note photograph of President Roosevelt on the bulkhead. Credit: NAVY.

Members of the carrier's Ordnance Department pose with decorated 2000-pound bombs, during Korean War operations, 9 March 1951. Messages painted on the bombs are: "Greetings from PhilCee"; "Happy Easter"; and "Listen! To This One it will Kill you". Among the planes parked in the background are F4U-4Bs of Fighter Squadron 113 (VF-113). Credit: NAVY.

Listen, Mamma! she's singing it over -- the Spring Song -- listen!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Woodcutter and family pausing to listen to seated girl reading about Washington] / A. Castaigne. Credit: Library of Congress.

Say! Listen!. Credit: Library of Congress.

What a spirited motorist has to listen to --. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Listen
 

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"Egg" by David Lahav
Commentary: "In some cases, egg needs to listen to music as well..."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Listen

AuthorQuotation

A. S. Hardy

A thousand times listen to the counsel of your friend, but seek it only once.

Benjamin Disraeli

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Brigham Young

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

Confucius

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Dante Alighieri

Go right on and listen as thou goest.

Elizabeth Gaskell

I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Germain G. Glidden

The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Listen

AuthorDateQuotation

Winston S. Churchill

1946

It could have been prevented in my belief without the firing of a single shot, and Germany might be powerful, prosperous and honored to-day; but no one would listen and one by one we were all sucked into the awful whirlpool. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Listen

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

Frank Churchill turned towards her to listen.

A Grief Observed

C.S. Lewis

Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly

Alice in Wonderland

Carroll, Lewis

She felt very curious to know what it was all about, and crept a little way out of the wood to listen.

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

Observing that the hand was pointed to them, Scrooge advanced to listen to their talk

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

" "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen!"

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

And he motioned to Jean Valjean to listen.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

If you think I have an excrementitious intelligence run after Donovan and ask him to listen to you.

Time Enough for Love

Robert Heinlein

Always listen to experts

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Listen to her whistle

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Listen to every zephyr for some reproof, for it is surely there, and he is unfortunate who does not hear it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Listen

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Call 1-888-232-3299 and listen to the instructions. (references)

Listen attentively to the child when he or she speaks. (references)

It allows you to listen at a comfortable volume and helps lessen background noise. (references)

Business

Young people and middle aged people listen more than others. (references)

Women listen more to radio than men do. People with low education listen considerably more than people with higher education. (references)

Civil Liberties

Honduras

Parents who do not want their children to listen to the readings may notify school authorities in writing. (references)

Guinea

Many citizens listen regularly to foreign-origin short-wave radio because of a lack of confidence in the state media; and access to foreign television satellite broadcasts is growing. (references)

Tanzania

In 1999 President Mkapa met with leaders of the Muslim community at a Dar es Salaam mosque to listen to their grievances and propose solutions; however, urban Muslim leaders claim that no action has been taken to address their concerns. (references)

Economic History

Romania

About 50 percent of the population listen to the radio and over 60 percent watch television daily. (references)

Human Rights

Lebanon

He is not allowed to read newspapers or listen to the radio. (references)

Iceland

Under the strictest form of solitary confinement, prisoners cannot leave their cells, except briefly to exercise alone or to use the showers, and are not allowed to listen to the radio, watch television, or receive visitors other than their lawyers, the prison doctor, and a chaplain. (references)

Political Rights

Oman

The tour allows the Sultan to listen directly to his subjects' concerns. (references)

Worker Rights

China

However, Tibetans are able to listen to the broadcasts at least some of the time. (references)

Nepal

On August 13, Maoist labor organizers stopped work at four Kathmandu Valley garment factories for several hours, shut off the electricity, and forced employees outside to listen to speeches. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Listen

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Al Hunt

Bob, Henry Hyde is loyalist, but I think, if you listen carefully, he's worried that if George Bush lays down markers and they're ignored by Ariel Sharon, it really hurts American credibility seriously.

Andy Rooney

Oh listen, there's some very good ones. That's the thing I regret. There are four of five of them who are really quite good. That's not the point. That's not the point.

Dennis Miller

Listen I'm all for anything that will prolong my life.

Dominick Dunne

I mean, listen, everyone seems to be behind him. I mean, it was just fascinating on the outside the Old Bailey today, hundreds of people cheering him, cheering him.

Marla Hanson

Terrifying. Yeah, it was the controlled atmosphere of the courtroom, but, you know, I had to listen to that kind of stuff.

Peter Jennings

This is about catching a moment when just one of the men suggested that if he were a Palestinian living under occupation, he might do what the bomber did. Listen.

Robert Novak

Senator, in opposing the national commission, Vice President Cheney also invoked national security. Let's listen for a minute to what he had to say.

Rush Limbaugh

Just listen to how Dionne flips out, simply because Brian Williams quoted me as saying I didn't want to get out of bed the day after that Gore speech.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Listen

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Washington

1789-1797To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969I am sure that the American people would welcome a chance to listen to the Soviet leaders on our television-as I would like the Soviet people to hear our leaders on theirs.

Richard Nixon

1969-1974We will strive to listen in new ways--to the voices of quiet anguish, the voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart--to the injured voices, the anxious voices, the voices that have despaired of being heard.

George W. Bush

2001-2005Many in our country do not know the pain of poverty, but we can listen to those who do.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Listen

"Listen" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 49.55% of the time. "Listen" is used about 5,742 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)49.55%2,8453,250
Lexical Verb (base form)49.03%2,8153,287
Noun (singular)1.39%8037,112
Unclassified Items0.03%2245,945
                    Total100.00%5,742N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Listen

The following table summarizes the usage of "listen" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
ListenLast name10081,955
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Listen

Expressions using "listen": listen attentively listen before talking listen before transmission listen carefully listen for listen in listen in on listen in to listen out for listen to listen to me! listen to reason listen to smb. listen to the radio listen to what follows! listen while transmitting make smb. listen to reason not listen to the voice of the charmer To listen after. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "listen": listen-in, listen-to-me, listen-while-talking.

Ending with "listen": half-listen, question-and-listen, re-listen.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Listen

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

listen to music

8,590

listen live

66

listen to music online

1,409

listen to police scanner

58

listen to free music

1,348

listen to music on line

54

listen to

322

listen to music on the web

53

listen to song

290

listen online

52

listen to radio

286

listen to wedding song

50

listen to free music online

248

listen live radio

46

listen to radio online

218

cha cha listen slide

45

listen to country music

126

listen to cds

45

listen to rap music

120

listen paul sean

44

listen to gospel music

96

free listen song

43

can i listen spacemusic that

94

listen magic stick

41

listen to music on the internet

93

listen music video

39

listen and quran

87

listen to song online

39

listen to radio station

87

listen to internet radio

38

listen to music.com

82

listen to mp3

38

listen to christian music

74

listen to your heart

36

listen to wedding music

73

hip hop listen music

36

50 cent listen

73

listen air traffic control

34

listen to arabic music

68

computer listen music

33
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Listen

Language Translations for "listen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

luister naar, luister, beluister. (various references)

   

Albanian

  

dëgjoj (auscultate, hark, hear, reach smb.'s ears). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نصت (hark), ‏إستمع (hearken, pay attention), ‏إضغاء, ‏أصغى (attend, hark, hear, hearken, listen to smb., monitor, pay attention, prick up one's ears, strain). (various references)

   

Asturian

  

oyer (to listen). (various references)

   

Aymara

  

ist'aña (to listen). (various references)

   

Bemba

  

ukumfwa (to listen). (various references)

   

Blackfoot

  

yisstsiiyi (to listen). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

слушам (attend, hark, hear, listen to, obey, pay attention), вслушвам се (harken, hearken), ослушвам се (hark). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

escoltar. (various references)

   

Cebuano

  

maminaw (to listen). (various references)

   

Chamorro

  

para ma ekungok (to listen). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(allow, hear, let, obey), (apprehend, hear), (hark, Listened, listening), 傾聽 (hark). (various references)

   

Cornish

  

goslowes orth (to listen to). (various references)

   

Czech

  

poslouchat (hear, obey). (various references)

   

Danish

  

lytte til, lytte. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

luisteren, beluisteren, aanhoren. (various references)

   

Ecuadorian Quechua

  

uyariana (to listen). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

aŭskulti. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

lurta. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پیروی کردن از (Follow), پذیرفتن (Accept, Admit, Allow, Embrace, Hear, Matriculate, Receive, Vouchsafe), گوش دادن , استماع کردن (Hark, Hear, Hearken), استماع (Audition), شنیدن (Hear). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kuunnella (attend, eavesdrop, sit in, tap). (various references)

   

French

  

ausculter, audition (listen to), écoutons, écoutez, écouter (listen in, listen to), écoutent. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

harkje, beharkje. (various references)

   

German

  

zuhören (eavesdrop, listen in, listen to, to listen), hören (hark, hear, hearing, learn, listen to, listening, pay attention, to hear), anhören (hear, listen to, overhear, to listen to), lauschen (eavesdrop, list, to eavesdrop, to listen to). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ακούω (hear), αφουγκράζομαι (eavesdrop, hear, hearken). (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

dëgjoj (hear). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לשמוע (attend, hear, hearken, pay heed), להקשיב (attend, hark, hear, monitor, pay attention), להאזין (hear, hearken, heed, monitor), הקשיב (attend), האזין. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hallgat (hold one's peace, listen in, to clam up, to hearken, to hush, to keep quiet, to list, to listen, to observe silence, to play dead, to play possum, to say nothing, to shut the mouth). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

mendengar (hear, noted). (various references)

   

Inuktitut

  

naalakluni (to listen). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ascoltare (attend, hark, harken, hear, hearken, listen to, pay attention). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

聞く (to ask, to hear, to listen), 耳を澄ます (to listen carefully), 聴く (to ask, to hear, to listen). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ききよい (pleasant to listen to), はいぶん (allotment, distribution, hear, listen to, prose with a poetic haiku flavor), みみをかす (to lend an ear to, to listen to), みみをすます (to listen carefully, to strain one's ears), いれる (to admit, to bring in, to cast, to commit, to comprehend, to employ, to include, to insert, to introduce, to let in, to listen to, to pay, to put in, to put into, to set, to take in, to tolerate, to usher in), べんきょうのかたわらおんがくをきく (to listen to music while studying), とりあげる (to accept, to adopt, to confiscate, to deprive, to disqualify, to listen to, to pick up, to take up), きく (chrysanthemum, compass and ruler, fear, misgivings, opening line, opening line of apoem, rule, standard, to ask, to be effective, to hear, to listen), たみのこえをきく (to listen to the voice of the people), ききいる (to be lost in, to listen attentively to), ききかえす (to ask again, to ask in return, to listen repeatedly), ききほれる (to listen to in an ecstasy), ききなおす (to ask again, to listen again), ききおく (to listen), ききすます (to listen attentively), ひたむきにきく (to listen intently). (various references)

   

Kongo

  

ku-wila (to listen). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

들으십시요 (hear). (various references)

   

Manx

  

cur cleaysh. (various references)

   

Maori

  

whakarongo-hia (to listen). (various references)

   

Maya

  

u'uy (to listen). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

lytte, høre (hear). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

scucha. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

istenlay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

słuchać. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

escutar (attend, audition, hark, harken, hear, hearken), ouvir (audition, hark, harken, hear, to hear). (various references)

   

Provencal

  

escotar (to listen). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

asculta (believe, credit, examine, hear, hearken, intercept, list, obey). (various references)

   

Romany

  

kandàva (to listen). (various references)

   

Ruanda

  

kumviriza (to listen). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

слушать (hark, harken, hear, hearken, listen in, listen to, listened). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

éisd (hear, hearken). (various references)

   

Sepedi

  

theetaa (to listen). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

slušati (hark, harken, hearken, obey), saslušati (hear, interrogate, lend an ear), pokoravati se (make an obeisance, subjugate, toe), čuti (hear). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

escuchar (answer, hang on, harken, hear, hearken, heed, listen in, listen to, monitor, pay attention to, play back). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

yere (hear), arki. (various references)

   

Swazi

  

kú-laléla (to listen). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

lyssna (hark, hearken, listening), höra (be told, belong, get, hear, hearing, learn, wench). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

makiníg. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ฟัง (lend an ear to, listen to). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kulak asmak, dinlemek (attend, follow, hark, harken, hear, hearken, lend an ear, lend one's ear, listen to, obey), dínlemek, baksana (heigh, hi, I say, look here). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

diсleяmek (overhear), diсlemek. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

слухатися (obey), слухати (hark, harken, hearken), поступатися (admit, attribute, cede, comply, concede, give ground, give in, knuckle down, knuckle under, relinquish, retreat, surrender, yield), послухай. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

gwrando (hearken). (various references)

   

Zulu

  

-lalela. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Listen

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

obedia, oboedias, oboediatis, oboediatur, oboediebat, oboediemus, oboediens, oboedient, oboediente, oboedientes, oboedientia, oboedientibus, oboedieris, oboedierit, oboedieritis, oboedierunt, oboediet, oboedio, oboedire, oboedirent, oboediret, oboedisti, oboedistis, oboedit, oboedite, oboeditionem, oboeditis, oboediunt, oboedivimus, oboedivit. (various references)

Old English450-1100

gehlystan, hieran, hlystan. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Listen

LanguageDateSourceIsaiah Chapter 49, Verse 1
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintAkousate mou nhsoi kai prosecete eqnh dia cronou pollou sthsetai legei kurioV ek koiliaV mhtroV mou ekalesen to onoma mou
Latin405VulgateAudite insulae et adtendite populi de longe Dominus ab utero vocavit me de ventre matris meae recordatus est nominis mei
Middle English1395WyclifHereth, yee iles, and taketh heed, yee puples fro aferr; the Lord fro the conceyuende wombe clepede me, and fro the wombe of my moder recordede of my name.
Jacobean English1611King JamesListen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
Victorian English1833WebsterListen to me, O Isles; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
Basic English1964OgdenGive ear, O sea-lands, to me; and take note, you peoples from far: I have been marked out by the Lord from the first; when I was still in my mother's body, he had my name in mind:

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Listen

LanguageIsaiah Chapter 49, Verse 1
Cebuano¶ Pamati, Oh mga pulo, kanako; ug patalinghug, kamo nga mga katawohan, gikan sa halayo: gitawag ako ni Jehova gikan sa tagoangkan; gikan sa mga tiyan sa akong inahan iyang gihisgutan ang akong ngalan.
CroatianÈujte me, otoci, slušajte pomno, narodi daleki! Jahve me pozvao od krila materina, od utrobe majke moje spomenuo se moga imena.
DanishHør mig, I fjerne Strande, lyt til, I Folk i det fjerne! HERREN har fra Moders Liv kaldt mig, fra Moders Skød nævnet mit Navn;
DutchHoort naar Mij, gij eilanden! en luistert toe, gij volken van verre! De HEERE heeft Mij geroepen van den buik af, van Mijner moeders ingewand af heeft Hij Mijn Naam gemeld.
FinnishKuulkaa minua, te merensaaret, ja tarkatkaa, kaukaiset kansat. Herra on minut kutsunut hamasta äidinkohdusta saakka, hamasta äitini helmasta minun nimeni maininnut.
FrenchIles, écoutez-moi! Peuples lointains, soyez attentifs! L`Éternel m`a appelé dès ma naissance, Il m`a nommé dès ma sortie des entrailles maternelles.
GermanHöret mir zu, ihr Inseln, und ihr Völker in der Ferne, merket auf! Der HERR hat mich gerufen von Mutterleib an; er hat meines Namens gedacht, da ich noch im Schoß der Mutter war,
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariDengarlah aku, hai negeri-negeri yang jauh perhatikanlah kata-kataku. TUHAN memanggil aku sebelum aku dilahirkan, Ia memilih aku sejak dari kandungan.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaDengarlah olehmu akan daku, hai segala pulau! berilah telinga, hai segala bangsa yang jauh-jauh! Bahwa aku sudah dipanggil oleh Tuhan dari pada kandungan, dan dari pada rahim ibuku sudah disebutnya namaku.
ItalianAscoltatemi, o isole, udite attentamente, nazioni lontane; il Signore dal seno materno mi ha chiamato, fino dal grembo di mia madre ha pronunziato il mio nome.
Maori¶ Whakarongo, e nga motu, ki ahau; kia whai whakaaro, e nga iwi o tawhiti; na Ihowa ahau i karanga, no te kopu mai ano; no nga whekau o toku whaea i whakahua ai ia i toku ingoa.
NorwegianHør på mig, I øer, og gi akt, I folk fra det fjerne! Herren har kalt mig fra mors liv av, han har nevnt mitt navn fra min mors skjød.
Rumanian,,Ascultayi-Mq, ostroave! Luayi aminte, popoare depqrtate! Domnul M`a chemat din sknul mamei wi M`a numit dela iewirea din pkntecele mamei.
RussianуМХЫБКФЕ нЕОС, ПУФТПЧБ, Й ЧОЙНБКФЕ, ОБТПДЩ ДБМШОЙЕ: зПУРПДШ РТЙЪЧБМ нЕОС ПФ ЮТЕЧБ, ПФ ХФТПВЩ НБФЕТЙ нПЕК ОБЪЩЧБМ ЙНС нПЕ;
SwedishHERRENS tjänares kamp och lön. Sions klagan och tröst.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Listen

Derivations

Words beginning with "listen": listenable, listened, listener, listeners, listenership, listenerships, listening, listens. (additional references)

Words ending with "listen": glisten. (additional references)