a.zan denotes giving attentive hearing to a voice, words, instruction, prayer, or an announced message.

The verb consistently concerns attentive reception of speech: people, rulers, and the created world are summoned to hear spoken words or instruction, while prayers ask God to attend to a voice or plea. Perfect and imperfect forms also describe whether such hearing did or did not occur.

1. Attentively hearing a voice or message · dominant

   Imperative forms call hearers to receive spoken words: in Deuteronomy 32:1 the masculine plural imperative addresses the heavens before the speaker's words, and in Isaiah 28:23 the APB renders the surrounding appeal, “Give ear and hear my voice; pay attention and hear my word.” The same imperative use addresses Job in Job 33:1, rulers in Judges 5:3, and God's people in Isaiah 51:4. Perfect, imperfect, and participial forms describe the corresponding response or failure to respond, as in 2 Chronicles 24:19, Job 9:16, and Proverbs 17:4.

   Deuteronomy 32:1Isaiah 28:23Job 33:1Judges 5:32 Chronicles 24:19Psalm 141:1

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses the APB commonly presents the clause with “listen,” “give ear,” “hear,” “pay attention,” or “attend.” Those variations reflect the surrounding appeals, reports of refusal, and petitions, rather than establishing separate lexical senses.