Word Summary
rhētōs: in stated terms
Original Word: ῥητῶςTransliteration: rhētōs
Phonetic Spelling: (hray-toce')
Part of Speech: Adverb
Short Definition: in stated terms
Meaning: in stated terms
Strong's Concordance
expressly.
Adverb from a derivative of rheo; out-spokenly, i.e. Distinctly -- expressly.
see GREEK rheo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4490: ῤητῶςῤητῶς (
ῤητός), adverb,
expressly, in express words:
ῤητῶς λέγει,
1 Timothy 4:1. (
Polybius 3, 23, 5;
Strabo 9, p. 426;
Plutarch, Brut. 29; (de Stoic. repugn. 15, 10); (
Diogenes Laërtius 8, 71; (others; cf.
Wetstein on 1 Timothy, the passage cited;
Winer's Grammar, 463 (431)).)