adverb

rētōs

Greekῥητῶς (rētōs)

Strong’sG4490

in so many words

stem rētō-once in the New Testament

Translated as

expressly1×

What it means

*† 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.

Every form

This word never changes. It is spelled the same wherever it appears, so there is nothing to learn beyond the word itself.

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

rētōs1×

1 Timothy 4:1“expressly”Tem de pneumem rētōs legatō hoti en husteroi kairoi afistaneli tinois tau pistiau, prosecharōtois pneumei planei kai didaskaliai daimoneiuNow the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,