Lexicon arrétos: unspeakable Original Word: ἄρρητος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: arrétos Phonetic Spelling: (ar'-hray-tos) Short Definition: not to be uttered, secret Definition: not to be uttered (because too sacred), secret, unspeakable, unspoken. HELPS word-Studies 731 árrhētos (from 1 /A, "not" and 4490 /rhētṓs, "speakable") – properly, can not be spoken; unutterable because beyond description. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alpha (as a neg. prefix) and rhétos (stated) Definitionunspeakable NASB Translationinexpressible (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 731: ἄρρητοςἄρρητος, 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.
Strong's 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 |
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