arrétos
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731. arrétos

arrétos: unspeakable
Original Word: ἄρρητος, ον
Part 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.

731 árrhētos (from 1 /A, "not" and 4490 /rhētṓs, "speakable") – properly, can not be spoken; unutterable because beyond description.

Word Origin
from alpha (as a neg. prefix) and rhétos (stated)
Definition
unspeakable
NASB Translation
inexpressible (1).

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: οὐκ ἐξόν ἀνθρώπῳ λαλῆσαι.



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

αρρητα άρρητα ἄρρητα άρριζος αρρωστείν αρρωστία αρρωστίαις αρρωστίαν αρρωστίας αρρωστών ηρρώστει ηρρώστησε ηρρώστησεν arreta arrēta árreta árrēta


Strong's Greek 731
1 Occurrence


ἄρρητα — 1 Occ.

2 Corinthians 12:4 Adj-ANP
BIB: καὶ ἤκουσεν ἄρρητα ῥήματα ἃ
NAS: and heard inexpressible words,
KJV: and heard unspeakable words, which
INT: and heard inexpressible sayings which

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