Meaning of hearken

Thinker · #1 (permalink) Tue Feb 10, 2004 16:19 pm *Meaning of hearken*

Hi all!

I don't get meaning of word "to hearken" and the difference between" to hearken" and" to listen".

Answer me, please
Thinker

Alan · #2 (permalink) Tue Feb 10, 2004 18:33 pm *Hearken*

Hi Thinker,

The word is an archaic/oldfashioned verb for listen and would have been used in the first English translation of the Bible in 1611.

Alan
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Thinker · #3 (permalink) Tue Feb 10, 2004 19:06 pm *Hearken*

Hi Alan! Thank you !
Thinker

Lisaless · #4 (permalink) Wed Nov 04, 2009 16:44 pm *Meaning of hearken*

Hi Thinker,

The meaning of the word listen is to hear.

The meaning of the word hearken is to hear with a view to obeying, to hear and do, to hear and obey.

Lisa

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