ἄῤῥητος
árrhētos · G731 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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what cannot be spoken
Pertaining to what cannot or must not be spoken
Examples2 Corinthians 12:4 was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which a man is not permitted to speak.
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἀνεκδιήγητος anekdiḗgētos · G411 · indescribable, beyond words
- ἀνεκδιήγητος emphasizes what cannot be narrated or described fully (from διηγέομαι), focusing on the inability to recount, while ἄῤῥητος focuses on the inability or prohibition to speak; both convey inexpressibility but from different angles of verbal communication
Semantic domains 1 entry
- What cannot be spoken33.95
- In 2 Corinthians 12:4, Paul describes a man caught up into Paradise who “heard inexpressible (árrhēta) words, which a man is not permitted to speak,” describing revelation too sacred to be put into ordinary human speech.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀρρητον (ῤητός, from Ρ᾽ΑΩ); a. unsaid, unspoken: Homer, Odyssey 14, 466, and often in…
a. unsaid, unspoken: Homer, Odyssey 14, 466, and often in Attic.
b. unspeakable (on account of its sacredness) (Herodotus 5, 83, and often in other writings): 2 Cor 12:4, explained by what follows: ἅ οὐκ ἐξόν ἀνθρώπῳ λαλῆσαι.
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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