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Strong's #4489 - ῥήτωρ

Transliteration
rhḗtōr
Phonetics
hray'-tore
Root Word (Etymology)
from (G4483)
Parts of Speech
Noun Masculine
TDNT
None
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Definition   
Thayer's
  1. a speaker, an orator
    1. of a forensic orator or advocate
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Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

ῥήτωρ, ορος, ὁ,

also Ar. Fr. 945 (cf. Th. 292 ): ( ἐρῶ ):

public speaker, μύθων ῥήτορες E. Hec. 124 (anap.), cf. Fr. 597.4, Isoc. 8.129, Arist. Top. 149b25, Phld. Rh. 2.272S., Plu. 2.131a, etc.; esp. at Athens, οἱ ῥήτορες the public speakers in the ἐκκλησία, Ar. Ach. 38, 680, Eq. 60, 358, al., Th. 8.1, And. 3.1, Lys. 30.22, etc.; sg. prob. in IG 12.45.21; οἱ δέκα ῥ. the Ten Attic Orators, Luc. Am. 29; ὁ ῥ. 'par excellence' = Demosthenes, Hermog. Inv. 4.1, al.

2. one who gives sentence, judge, S. Fr. 1090 .

3. advocate, POxy. 37.4 (i A.D.), etc.

4. later, teacher of eloquence, rhetorician, OGI 712 ( Egypt ), etc. II as Adj., ῥ. λόγος oratory, IG 2.1386.7 .

Thayer's Expanded Definition

ῤήτωρ, ῤήτορος, , ( Ρ᾽ΑΩ), a speaker, an orator (Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, others): of a forensic orator or advocate, Acts 24:1. (Cf. Thomas Magister, under the word (p. 324, 15 edition Ritschl); B. D., under the word , 2.)


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Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

ῥήτωρ , -ορος , ,

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


Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
List of Word Forms
ρητορος ρήτορος ῥήτορος retoros rētoros rhetoros rhētoros rhḗtoros
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