noun · masculine

rētōros

Greekῥήτωρ (rētōr)

Strong’sG4489

an orator

stem rētōr-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

attorney1×

What it means

* ῥήτωρ, -ορος, ὁ

a public speaker, an orator: Ac 24:1.†

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.

Every form

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

rētōrstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

rētōrou“attorney”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Acts 24:1“attorney”Meta de pente hēmerain katabainata tos archierevos Hananios meta presbuteroiu tinoiu kai rētōrou Tertullou tinou, hotinois emfanizala to hēgemōno kata tou Paulou.Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, who presented to the governor their case against Paul.