arrētem

Strong’sG731

not to be uttered, secret

stem arrēt-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

** ἄρρητος, -ον

(< ἀ- neg., ῥητός, ῥέω), [in Sm.: Le 18:23*;]

1. unspoken (Hom., al.).

2. unspeakable (Hat., al.; freq. in Inscr.; MM, s.v.): II Co 12:4.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G731 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidar'-hray-tos

unsaid, i.e. (by implication) inexpressible

Fromfrom G1 (as a negative particle) and the same as G4490;

King Jamesunspeakable.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἄρρητος, ον,
also η, ον Refs 5th c.BC+:— unspoken, ἔπος προέηκεν ὅ πέρ τ᾽ ἄρρητον ἄμεινονRefs 8th c.BC+; οὐκ ἐπ᾽ ἀρρήτοις γε τοῖς ἐμοῖς λόγοις not without warning spoken by me, Refs 5th c.BC+. adverb -τως, σιγᾶνRefs 4th c.BC+
II that cannot be spoken or expressed, ἀδιανόητον καὶ ἄ. καὶ ἄφθεγκτον καὶ ἄλογονRefs 5th c.BC+: hence, unspeakable, immense, Refs 1st c.BC+
III not to be spoken: hence,
III.1 not to be divulged, ἱροργίαι, ἱρά, Refs 5th c.BC+; διδακτά τε ἄρρητά τ᾽, i.e.things profane and sacred, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄ. κόρη the maid whom none may name (i.e. Persephone), Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀρρήτων θέσμια, i.e. of Demeter and Persephone, Refs
III.2 unutterable, horrible, δεῖπναRefs 5th c.BC+; ἄρρητ᾽ ἀρρήτων 'deeds without a name', Refs 5th c.BC+
III.3 shameful to be spoken, ῥητόν τ᾽ ἄ. τ᾽ ἔποςRefs; ῥητὰ καὶ ἄ. ὀνομάζων 'dicenda tacenda locutus', Refs 4th c.BC+. adverb -τωςRefs 3rd c.AD+
IV of numbers, ἄρρητα, τά, irrationals, surds, opposed to ῥητά, Refs 5th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

inexpressible1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	arrētos	arrētas	arrētem	arrētois	arrētais	arrēteim1×ἄρρητα
object accusative	arrēton	arrētan		arrētoin	arrētain
direct address vocative	arrētor	arrētar		arrētoir	arrētair
of, belonging to genitive	arrētou	arrētau	arrēteu	arrētoiu	arrētaiu	arrēteiu
to, for dative	arrēto	arrēta	arrēte	arrētoi	arrētai	arrētei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

arrētstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

arrēt is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

arrēteim“inexpressible”subject or objectdirect plural1×

2 Corinthians 12:4… harpazita eis ton paradeison kai akouata arrēteim rēmeim heim ouk exestinarōntem anthrōpo lalara.… Paradise. The things he heard were inexpressible, things that man is not permitted …