ῥῆμα, -τος, τό [in LXX chiefly for דָּבָר, also for פֶּה, and Aram. פִּתְגָּם, etc. ;] 1. prop., of that which is said or spoken, (a) a word: Mat.27:14, 2Co.12:4; pl., τὰ ῥ., of speech, discourse, Luk.7:1, Jhn.8:20, Act.2:14, Rom.10:18, 2Pe.3:2, al.; (b) opposite to ὄνομα (a single word), a saying, statement, word of prophecy, instruction or command (in cl., phrase): Mat.26:75, Mrk.9:32, Luk.1:38 2:50, Act.11:16, Rom.10:8, Heb.11:3; ῥ. θεοῦ (κυρίου), Luk.3:2, Act.11:16, Eph.6:17, Heb.6:5 11:3, 1Pe.1:25" (LXX) ; τὰ ῥ. τ. θεοῦ, Jhn.3:34 8:47; ῥ. ἀργόν, Mat.12:36;ῥ. ἄρρητα, 2Co.12:4. 2. Like Heb. דָּבָר (but perh. also a Gk. colloquialism, see Kennedy, Sources, 124; Thackeray, Gr., 41), of that which is the subject of speech, a thing, matter (Gen.15:1, Deu.17:8, al.): Luk.1:37 2:15, Act.10:37; pl., Luk.1:65 2:19, 51, Act.5:32 13:42 (AS)
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G4487 — ῥῆμα
rhēma · declaration · Greek
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Matthew 4:4 · ῥήματιBut he answering said, ‘It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.’Matthew 12:36 · ῥῆμα‘And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;Matthew 18:16 · ῥῆμα.and if he may not hear, take with thee yet one or two, that by the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may stand.Matthew 26:75 · ῥήματοςand Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, he having said to him—‘Before cock-crowing, thrice thou wilt deny me;’ and having gone without, he did weep bitterly.Matthew 27:14 · ῥῆμαAnd he did not answer him, not even to one word, so that the governor did wonder greatly.Mark 9:32 · ῥῆμαbut they were not understanding the saying, and they were afraid to question him.Mark 14:72 · ῥῆμαand a second time a cock crew, and Peter remembered the saying that Jesus said to him—‘Before a cock crow twice, thou mayest deny me thrice;’ and having thought thereon—he was weeping.Luke 1:37 · ῥῆμα.¶because nothing shall be impossible with God.’Luke 1:38 · ῥῆμάAnd Mary said, ‘Lo, the maid-servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to thy saying,’ and the messenger went away from her.Luke 1:65 · ῥήματαAnd fear came upon all those dwelling around them, and in all the hill-country of Judea were all these sayings spoken of,Luke 2:15 · ῥῆμαAnd it came to pass, when the messengers were gone away from them to the heavens, that the men, the shepherds, said unto one another, ‘We may go over indeed unto Bethlehem, and see this thing that hath come to pass, that the Lord did make known to us.’Luke 2:17 · ῥήματοςand having seen, they made known abroad concerning the saying spoken to them concerning the child.Luke 2:19 · ῥήματαand Mary was preserving all these things, pondering in her heart;Luke 2:29 · ῥῆμά‘Now Thou dost send away Thy servant, Lord, according to Thy word, in peace,Luke 2:50 · ῥῆμαand they did not understand the saying that he spake to them,Luke 2:51 · ῥήματαand he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was subject to them, and his mother was keeping all these sayings in her heart,Luke 3:2 · ῥῆμαAnnas and Caiaphas being chief priests—there came a word of God unto John the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness,Luke 5:5 · ῥήματίand Simon answering said to him, ‘Master, through the whole night, having laboured, we have taken nothing, but at thy saying I will let down the net.’Luke 7:1 · ῥήματαAnd when he completed all his sayings in the ears of the people, he went into Capernaum;Luke 9:45 · ῥῆμα · ῥήματοςAnd they were not knowing this saying, and it was veiled from them, that they might not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.Luke 18:34 · ῥῆμαAnd they none of these things understood, and this saying was hid from them, and they were not knowing the things said.Luke 20:26 · ῥήματοςand they were not able to take hold on his saying before the people, and having wondered at his answer, they were silent.Luke 24:8 · ῥημάτωνAnd they remembered his sayings,Luke 24:11 · ῥήματαand their sayings appeared before them as idle talk, and they were not believing them.John 3:34 · ῥήματαfor he whom God sent, the sayings of God he speaketh; for not by measure doth God give the Spirit;John 5:47 · ῥήμασινbut if his writings ye believe not, how shall ye believe my sayings?’John 6:63 · ῥήματαthe spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;John 6:68 · ῥήματαSimon Peter, therefore, answered him, ‘Sir, unto whom shall we go? thou hast sayings of life age-during;John 8:20 · ῥήματαThese sayings spake Jesus in the treasury, teaching in the temple, and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come;John 8:47 · ῥήματαhe who is of God, the sayings of God he doth hear; because of this ye do not hear, because of God ye are not.’John 10:21 · ῥήματαothers said, ‘These sayings are not those of a demoniac; is a demon able blind men’s eyes to open?’John 12:47 · ῥημάτωνand if any one may hear my sayings, and not believe, I—I do not judge him, for I came not that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world.John 12:48 · ῥήματά‘He who is rejecting me, and not receiving my sayings, hath one who is judging him, the word that I spake, that will judge him in the last day,John 14:10 · ῥήματαBelievest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? the sayings that I speak to you, from myself I speak not, and the Father who is abiding in me, Himself doth the works;John 15:7 · ῥήματάif ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.John 17:8 · ῥήματαbecause the sayings that Thou hast given to me, I have given to them, and they themselves received, and have known truly, that from Thee I came forth, and they did believe that Thou didst send me.Acts 2:14 · ῥήματάand Peter having stood up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and declared to them, ‘Men, Jews! and all those dwelling in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and harken to my sayings,Acts 5:20 · ῥήματα‘Go on, and standing, speak in the temple to the people all the sayings of this life;’Acts 5:32 · ῥημάτωνand we are His witnesses of these sayings, and the Holy Spirit also, whom God gave to those obeying him.’Acts 6:11 · ῥήματαthen they suborned men, saying—‘We have heard him speaking evil sayings in regard to Moses and God.’Acts 6:13 · ῥήματαthey set up also false witnesses, saying, ‘This one doth not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the law,Acts 10:22 · ῥήματαAnd they said, ‘Cornelius, a centurion, a man righteous and fearing God, well testified to, also, by all the nation of the Jews, was divinely warned by a holy messenger to send for thee, to his house, and to hear sayings from thee.’Acts 10:37 · ῥῆμαye—ye have known;—the word that came throughout all Judea, having begun from Galilee, after the baptism that John preached;Acts 10:44 · ῥήματαWhile Peter is yet speaking these sayings, the Holy spirit fell upon all those hearing the word,Acts 11:14 · ῥήματαwho shall speak sayings by which thou shalt be saved, thou and all thy house.Acts 11:16 · ῥήματοςand I remembered the saying of the Lord, how he said, John indeed did baptize with water, and ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit;Acts 13:42 · ῥήματαAnd having gone forth out of the synagogue of the Jews, the nations were calling upon them that on the next sabbath these sayings may be spoken to them,Acts 16:38 · ῥήματαAnd the rod-bearers told to the magistrates these sayings, and they were afraid, having heard that they are Romans,Acts 26:25 · ῥήματαand he saith, ‘I am not mad, most noble Festus, but of truth and soberness the sayings I speak forth;Acts 28:25 · ῥῆμαAnd not being agreed with one another, they were going away, Paul having spoken one word—‘Well did the Holy Spirit speak through Isaiah the prophet unto our fathers,Romans 10:8 · ῥῆμά · ῥῆμαBut what doth it say? ‘Nigh thee is the saying—in thy mouth, and in thy heart:’ that is, the saying of the faith, that we preach;Romans 10:17 · ῥήματοςso then the faith is by a report, and the report through a saying of God,Romans 10:18 · ῥήματαbut I say, Did they not hear? yes, indeed—‘to all the earth their voice went forth, and to the ends of the habitable world their sayings.’2 Corinthians 12:4 · ῥήματαthat he was caught away to the paradise, and heard unutterable sayings, that it is not possible for man to speak.2 Corinthians 13:1 · ῥῆμα.This third time do I come unto you; on the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every saying be established;Ephesians 5:26 · ῥήματι,that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the bathing of the water in the saying,Ephesians 6:17 · ῥῆμαand the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God,Hebrews 1:3 · ῥήματιwho being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might—through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,Hebrews 6:5 · ῥῆμα,and did taste the good saying of God, the powers also of the coming age,Hebrews 11:3 · ῥήματιby faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by a saying of God, in regard to the things seen not having come out of things appearing;Hebrews 12:19 · ῥημάτων,and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of sayings, which those having heard did entreat that a word might not be added to them,1 Peter 1:25 · ῥῆμα · ῥῆμαand the saying of the Lord doth remain—to the age; and this is the saying that was proclaimed good news to you.2 Peter 3:2 · ῥημάτωνto be mindful of the sayings said before by the holy prophets, and of the command of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour,Jude 1:17 · ῥημάτωνand ye, beloved, remember ye the sayings spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: