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STRONGS NUMBER G731

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Word Summary
arrētos: unspeakable
Original Word: ἄρρητος
Transliteration: arrētos
Phonetic Spelling: (ar'-hray-tos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: unspeakable
Meaning: unspeakable
Strong's Concordance
unspeakable.

From a (as a negative particle) and the same as rhetos; unsaid, i.e. (by implication) inexpressible -- unspeakable.

see GREEK a

see GREEK rhetos

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 731: ἄρρητος

ἄρρητος, ἀρρητον (ῤητός, from Ρ᾽ΑΩ);

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 Corinthians 12:4, explained by what follows: ἅ οὐκ ἐξόν ἀνθρώπῳ λαλῆσαι.



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