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ῥήτωρ

rhḗtōr · G4489 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. lawyer, attorney, advocate

    One who speaks in court as an attorney or advocate (either for the prosecution or for the defense)

    Examples

    Acts 24:1 Now after five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and an attorney named Tertullus, and they brought charges against Paul to the governor.

How it’s used In 3 roles

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the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Lawyer, attorney, advocate56.36
The noun names a professional advocate engaged to argue a case in court. When Paul is brought before Felix, the high priest arrives “with some elders and an attorney named Tertullus, and they brought charges against Paul to the governor” (Acts 24:1).
Word family 9 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ῥέω rhéō · G4483 · to utter, i.e. speak or say · 0×ῥῆμα rhēma · G4487 · word, saying, message · 67×παῤῥησία parrhēsía · G3954 · boldness, courage · 31×παῤῥησιάζομαι parrhēsiázomai · G3955 · to speak boldly, to speak openly, to be bold · 9×ἀναντίῤῥητος anantírrhētos · G368 · cannot be denied, without opposition, without objection · 1×ἀναντιῤῥήτως anantirrhḗtōs · G369 · cannot be denied, without opposition, without objection · 1×ἄῤῥητος árrhētos · G731 · what cannot be spoken · 1×ῥήτωρrhḗtōr · G4489ῥητῶς rhētōs · G4490 · thusly, just as said, in so many words · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ῤήτορος, ὁ, ( Ρ᾽ΑΩ), a speaker, an orator (Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Xenophon,…
ῤήτορος, ὁ, ( Ρ᾽ΑΩ), a speaker, an orator (Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, others): of a forensic orator or advocate, Acts 24:1. (Cf. Thomas Magister, under the word (p. 324, 15 edition Ritschl); B. D., under the word , 2.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Attorney, Lawyer1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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