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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From εἴρω (eírō, “to say”) + -μα (-ma).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r̥ɛ̂ː.ma/ → /ˈri.ma/ → /ˈri.ma/
Noun
ῥῆμα • (rhêma) n (genitive ῥήματος); third declension
- word, saying, statement
- topic, subject matter
- phrase, sentence
- (grammar) verb
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References
- “ῥῆμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥῆμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥῆμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- “ῥῆμα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G4487 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- allegation idem, page 25.
- assertion idem, page 45.
- expression idem, page 296.
- period idem, page 607.
- phrase idem, page 610.
- proposition idem, page 653.
- sentence idem, page 753.
- speech idem, page 800.
- term idem, page 862.
- utterance idem, page 941.
- verb idem, page 948.
- word idem, page 987.