hearken
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To listen; to lend the ear; to attend to what is uttered; to give heed; to hear, in order to obey or comply.
To inquire; to seek information.
To hear by listening.
To give heed to; to hear attentively.
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After that Jacob preached against the practice of polygamy: "Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none."
An apparent marketing slide for the Mario-Rabbids game, breaking down how the game would play on Nintendo Switch, with a mix of exploration and turn-based combat that seems to hearken to Nintendo-published Mario role-playing games.
Graciously hearken to us as soldiers who call upon Thee that, armed with Thy power, we may advance from victory to victory and crush the oppression and wickedness of our enemies, and establish Thy justice among men and nations.
The large scale dramatic works of Karl Jenkins seem to hearken back to the theatricality of Orff, and the music of James MacMillan continues the tradition of boundary-pushing choral works from the United Kingdom begun by Britten, Walton, and Leighton.
And while there are similarities between the two LPs—the churning chords of the new song “Luna” hearken back to “Dreamhouse”, for example—the differences are indeed striking.
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.