Lexical Summary rhētōr: a public speaker Original Word: ῥήτωρTransliteration: rhētōr Phonetic Spelling: (hray'-tore) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: a public speaker Meaning: a public speaker Strong's Concordance attorney, advocateFrom rheo; a speaker, i.e. (by implication) a forensic advocate -- orator. see GREEK rheo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4489: ῤήτωρῤήτωρ, ῤήτορος, ὁ, ( 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 |