Ancient Greek

Noun

ῥῆμα • ‎(rhêma) n ‎(genitive ῥήματος); third declension

1. word, saying, statement
2. topic, subject matter
3. phrase, sentence
4. (grammar) verb

Inflection

Hyponyms

• (grammar): ἐνεργητικὸν ῥῆμα ‎(energētikòn rhêma, “active verb”), ἐπίμεσον ῥῆμα ‎(epímeson rhêma, “middle verb”), παθητικὸν ῥῆμα ‎(pathētikòn rhêma, “passive verb”)

Derived terms

• ῥήματα ἀντ’ ἀλφίτων ‎(rhḗmata ant’ alphítōn, “fine words butter no parsnips”)

Descendants

• English: rheme
• Greek: ρήμα ‎(ríma, “verb”)
• German: Rhema

References

• ῥῆμα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ῥῆμα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ῥῆμα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ῥῆμα in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G4487”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • allegation idem, page 23.
  • assertion idem, page 45.
  • expression idem, page 296.
  • period idem, page 606.
  • phrase idem, page 610.
  • proposition idem, page 653.
  • sentence idem, page 753.
  • speech idem, page 800.
  • term idem, page 862.
  • utterance idem, page 941.
  • verb idem, page 948.
  • word idem, page 987.