akroates denotes a person who hears the word or law, especially when hearing is contrasted with doing.

The attested use denotes those who receive the word or law by hearing, consistently set against those who do it: the contrast concerns hearing without corresponding action.

1. A person who hears without necessarily doing · dominant

   In James 1:22 and James 1:23, the nominative plural and singular forms stand in clauses contrasting hearers of the word with doers; in James 1:22 the APB renders, “Be doers of the word and not hearers only.” James 1:25 describes a singular person as not becoming “a forgetful hearer but a doer of work,” while Romans 2:13 contrasts the plural hearers of the law with its doers.

   James 1:22James 1:23James 1:25Romans 2:13

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across all four verses, the APB uses “hearers” or “hearer,” including “a forgetful hearer” in James 1:25. These renderings occur in repeated contrasts with doing.