rētōs

Strong’sG4490

in so many words

stem rētō-once in the New Testamentnever changes form

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.

*† ῥητῶς

adv.

(< ῥητός, stated, specified),

in stated terms, expressly: I Ti 4:1.†

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

Strong’s G4490 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhray-toce'

out-spokenly, i.e. distinctly

Fromadverb from a derivative of G4483;

King Jamesexpressly.

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

Included with: ῥητ-ός, ή, όν,
(ἐρῶ) stated, specified, covenanted, μισθῷ ἔπι ῥ. Refs 8th c.BC+; παρεῖναι ἐς χρόνον ῥ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν ἡμέραις ῥ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ῥ. ἀργύριον a stated sum, Refs; ἐπὶ ῥητοῖσι, Attic dialect ἐπὶ ῥητοῖς, on stated terms, on certain conditions, according to covenant, Refs 5th c.BC+; ῥ. ἀπόκρισις a distinct, definite answer, Refs 2nd c.BC+, fixed date for a lawsuit, Refs 3rd c.BC+; so perhaps ἀπὸ ῥητῶν Refs 6th c.BC+ adverb -τῶς expressly, distinctly, NT+5th c.BC+: superlative ῥητότατα Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 spoken of, famous, ῥητοί τ᾽ ἄρρητοί τε Refs 8th c.BC+
3 of language, in common use (= συνήθης), Refs 2nd c.AD+. adverb -τῶςRefs 5th c.BC+
II that may be spoken or told, εἰ ῥητόν, φράσον Refs 4th c.BC+; ἦ ῥητό; ἢ οὐχὶ θεμιτὸν ἄλλον εἰδένα; Refs 5th c.BC+; αὐδῶν ἀνόσι᾽ οὐδὲ ῥητά μοιRefs; δεινὸν γάρ, οὐδὲ ῥ. Refs
II.2 that can be spoken or enunciated, συλλαβή Refs 5th c.BC+; communicable in words, Refs 5th c.BC+
III in Mathematics texts, rational, of magnitudes, opposed to surds (ἄλογα), ῥητὰ πρὸς ἄλληλα Refs 3rd c.BC+ “*Deff.” 128; in Metric, ῥ. πούς, opposed to ἄλογος, Refs 3rd c.AD+; see at {ἄρρητος} IV.
IV τὸ ῥ. the precise, literal contents of a document, the letter of the law, Refs 2nd c.AD+; ῥητός literal, opposed to allegorical, Refs 1st c.AD+
V ={ῥῆμα} Refsa living thing, Hebrew dâvâr, LXX

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.

expressly1×

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

Where it appears

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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

rētōs1×

1 Timothy 4:1Tem de pneumem rētōs legatō hoti en husteroi kairoi apostēeli …Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some …