A Comparison of the Usage of ajkouvw and ajkouvw-Compounds 73 Col 1:23, which has no explicitly noted response, represents an occasion of the attraction of the relative (ou|) to the case of its antecedent (eujagge- liou) 19. Finally, although Rev 16:1 [h[kousa...legouvsh», «I heard a great v voice...saying»] presents no explicit response, this statement is in parallel with two other statements (Rev 16:5, 7) that have genitive objects with a modifying participle of levgw. Here the genitive may be attributed to nar- rative concerns overruling grammatical expectations 20. This indicates that noun phrase objects of ajkouvw that do not produce a response by the subject [– response] consistently exhibit objects in the accusative case. Examination reveals that 134 of the accusative occur- rences in fact are characterized by the feature [– response] 21: oiJ de; su;n ejmoi; o[nte~ to; me;n fw'~ ejqeavsanto th;n de; fwnh;n oujk hkousan [ Those with me saw the light but didn’t hear the voice (Acts 22:9). 1:12; Isa 6:8; 28:23; 32:9; 37:6; 38:5; 42:24; 48:18; 50:10 [A]; Jer 3:13, 25 [A]; 5:15; 6:17; 7:23, 28; 9:12; 11:3, 4, 10; 18:10; 20:16; 22:21; 23:22; 33:10 [A], 13; 34:16; 39:23; 42:8; 47:3; 49:6, 13, 21; 50:4, 7; 51:23; Bar 1:18, 19, 21; 2:5, 10, 22, 24, 29; 3:4a, 4b; Ezek 35:12; Dan 3:5, 7, 10, 15, 29; 9:10 [Sy], 11, 14; Mark 14:64; Luke 6:47; 15:25; John 5:25, 28; 7:40; 10:3, 16, 27; 12:47; 18:37; 19:13; Acts 7:34; 9:7b; 11:7; 22:1, 7; 2 Tim 1:13; Heb 3:7, 15; 4:7; 12:19; Rev 3:20; 11:12; 14:13; 16:1; 21:3. These observations assume a continuity in the referents of subjects between «you [s.]» to «your [s.] eyes» (1 Kgs 8:28). Although 1 Kgs 5:14a and 5:14b offer no explicit statement of a response by those listening to Solomon’s wisdom, the context links Solomon’s recep- tion of gifts (5:41b) with the action of hearing his wisdom by others. These occurrences establish the possibility of fulfilling the requirement of a response by the context. The parallel passage in 2 Chr 9:23 explicitly recognizes the hearers’ response in giving gifts (9:24). 19 Attraction of the relative pronoun to the case of its antecedent is well-attested in the LXX and NT: cf. F. Blass, A. Debrunner, and R. W. Funk, A Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961), p. 153-154. 20 An alternative explanation would be that the narrator’s action in reporting the exe- cution of the command given by the voice itself constitutes a response to hearing: that is, the narrator hears the voice; and its response is the narration of the events instigated by the voice. 21 Object noun phrase [– response, – speaker] (accusative, direct): Num 7:89; 24:16; Deut 4:12, 33; 11:27; 32:1; Josh 6:10; 1 Sam 15:14; 2 Sam 19:36; 1 Kgs 10:6, 7, 8; 22:19; 1 Chr 17:20; 2 Chr 9:7; Jdt 5:5; 11:16; Tob 3:7 [S], 13, 15; 5:10 [S]; 10:12; Ps 61:12; 80:5; 140:6; Prov 16:21; Eccl 7:5a, 5b; Job 3:18; 4:16; 5:27; 13:17; 15:8; 27:9 [A]; 28:22; 31:30; 33:8; 37:2; 42:5; Sir 6:35; 16:5; 17:13; 29:23; Hos 4:1; Amos 3:1; 8:4; Mic 1:2; 3:1, 9; 6:2; Joel 1:2; Obad 1; Zeph 2:8; Isa 21:10b; 28:22, 23; 29:18; 30:9; 37:26; 41:26; 48:1, 16; 66:19; Jer 2:4, 31; 4:31; 8:16; 9:9; 11:2, 6; 18:13, 18; 19:3; 23:16; 27:45; 30:8; 42:13; 49:14; Ezek 1:24; 2:1; 3:12; 6:3; 21:3; 34:7; 36:1, 4; Matt 10:14; 11:4; 12:19, 42; 13:17, 18, 22; 21:33; Mark 4:18, 24; Luke 5:1; 7:22a; 10:24b, 39; 11:31; 19:11; John 8:43, 47a; 14:24; Acts 2:22, 33; 10:22, 33; 13:7, 44; 17:21; 19:10; 22:9; 1 Cor 2:9; 2 Cor 12:6; Gal 4:21; 2 Pet 1:18; 1 John 2:7, 24a; Rev 5:11, 13; 6:6; 7:4; 9:13, 16, 20; 12:10; 14:2a, 2b; 18:4; 19:1, 6; 22:8a.