ῥῆμα
See also: ρήμα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From εἴρω (eírō, “to say”) + -μα (-ma).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ɛ̂ː.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈre̝.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈri.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈri.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈri.ma/
Noun
ῥῆμα • (rhêma) n (genitive ῥήματος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ῥῆμᾰ tò rhêmă |
τὼ ῥήμᾰτε tṑ rhḗmăte |
τᾰ̀ ῥήμᾰτᾰ tằ rhḗmătă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ῥήμᾰτος toû rhḗmătos |
τοῖν ῥημᾰ́τοιν toîn rhēmắtoin |
τῶν ῥημᾰ́των tôn rhēmắtōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ῥήμᾰτῐ tōî rhḗmătĭ |
τοῖν ῥημᾰ́τοιν toîn rhēmắtoin |
τοῖς ῥήμᾰσῐ / ῥήμᾰσῐν toîs rhḗmăsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ῥῆμᾰ tò rhêmă |
τὼ ῥήμᾰτε tṑ rhḗmăte |
τᾰ̀ ῥήμᾰτᾰ tằ rhḗmătă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῥῆμᾰ rhêmă |
ῥήμᾰτε rhḗmăte |
ῥήμᾰτᾰ rhḗmătă | ||||||||||
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Hyponyms
- (grammar): ἐνεργητικὸν ῥῆμα (energētikòn rhêma, “active verb”), ἐπίμεσον ῥῆμα (epímeson rhêma, “middle verb”), παθητικὸν ῥῆμα (pathētikòn rhêma, “passive verb”)
Derived terms
- ἐπίρρημα (epírrhēma, “adverb”)
- ῥήματα ἀντ’ ἀλφίτων (rhḗmata ant’ alphítōn, “fine words butter no parsnips”)
Descendants
- → English: rheme
- → French: rhème
- → Greek: ρήμα (ríma, “verb”)
- → German: Rhema
- → Latin: verbum (“verb”) (semantic loan)
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ῥῆμα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1283
Further reading
- “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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- allegation idem, page 25.
- assertion idem, page 45.
- expression idem, page 296.
- period idem, page 607.
- 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.