ῥητῶς
rhētōs · G4490 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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thusly, just as said, in so many words
Pertaining to what is spoken or has been spoken
Examples1 Timothy 4:1 But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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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In the other Testament 2 words
- בָּאַר bâʼar · H874 · to make clear
- Hebrew verb meaning 'to make plain, explain distinctly' - the Pi'el form is used in Deuteronomy 1:5 and 27:8 for making the law clear/distinct, capturing the same semantic field of explicit, clear declaration that ῥητῶς conveys
- פָּרָשׁ pârâsh · H6567 · to be separated, to secrete poison
- Hebrew/Aramaic verb (both languages) meaning 'to make distinct, explain clearly' - used in Ezra 4:18 (Aramaic) for a letter being 'distinctly read,' matching the adverbial sense of explicit/distinct declaration
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Thusly, just as said, in so many words33.94
- The adverb marks a statement as unambiguous and directly stated. Paul writes, “But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith” (1 Timothy 4:1).
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ῤητός), adverb, expressly, in express words: ῤητῶς λέγει, 1 Tim 4:1. (Polybius 3, 23, 5;…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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