Strong's Concordance rhétós: in stated terms Original Word: ῥητῶςPart of Speech: Adverb Transliteration: rhétós Phonetic Spelling: (hray-toce') Short Definition: in so many words Definition: expressly, explicitly, in so many words. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4490: ῤητῶςῤητῶς (ῤητός), adverb, expressly, in express words: ῤητῶς λέγει, 1 Timothy 4:1. (Polybius 3, 23, 5; Strabo 9, p. 426; Plutarch, Brut. 29; (de Stoic. repugn. 15, 10); (Diogenes Laërtius 8, 71; (others; cf. Wetstein on 1 Timothy, the passage cited; Winer's Grammar, 463 (431)).) Strong's Exhaustive Concordance expressly. Adverb from a derivative of rheo; out-spokenly, i.e. Distinctly -- expressly. see GREEK rheo Forms and Transliterations ρητως ρητώς ῥητῶς ρίγει retos rētōs rhetos rhetôs rhētōs rhētō̂sLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 44901 Occurrence ῥητῶς — 1 Occ. 1 Timothy 4:1 Adv GRK: δὲ πνεῦμα ῥητῶς λέγει ὅτι NAS: But the Spirit explicitly says KJV: the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in INT: but [the] Spirit expressly speaks that |