noun · masculine
rētōros
Strong’sG4489
an orator
stem rētōr-once in the New Testament1 of 10 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.
* ῥήτωρ, -ορος, ὁ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4489 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhray'-tore
a speaker, i.e. (by implication) a forensic advocate
Fromfrom G4483;
King Jamesorator.
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
also ἡ Refs 5th c.BC+: (ἐρῶ):— public speaker, μύθων ῥήτορες Refs 5th c.BC+; especially at Athens, οἱ ῥήτορες the public speakers in the ἐκκλησία, Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ δέκα ῥ. the Ten Attic Orators, Refs 2nd c.AD+; ὁ ῥ. 'par excellence' = Demosthenes, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 one who gives sentence, judge, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 advocate, Refs 1st c.AD+
4 later, teacher of eloquence, rhetorician, Refs
II as adjective, ῥ. λόγος oratory, Refs
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.
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | rētōros | rētōrois |
| object accusative | rētōron | rētōroin |
| direct address vocative | rētōror | rētōroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | rētōrou1×ῥήτορος | rētōroiu |
| to, for dative | rētōro | rētōroi |
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
rētōro 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
rētōrou“attorney”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 24:1“attorney”… archierevos Hananios meta presbuteroiu tinoiu kai rētōrou Tertullou tinou, hotinois emfanizala to hēgemono …… later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, who presented to the governor their case …