Lexical Summary arrētos: unspeakable Original Word: ἄρρητοςTransliteration: arrētos Phonetic Spelling: (ar'-hray-tos) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: unspeakable Meaning: unspeakable Strong's Concordance unspeakable. From a (as a negative particle) and the same as rhetos; unsaid, i.e. (by implication) inexpressible -- unspeakable. see GREEK a see GREEK rhetos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 731: ἄρρητοςἄρρητος, ἀρρητον (ῤητός, from Ρ᾽ΑΩ); a. unsaid, unspoken: Homer, Odyssey 14, 466, and often in Attic. b. unspeakable (on account of its sacredness) (Herodotus 5, 83, and often in other writings): 2 Corinthians 12:4, explained by what follows: ἅ οὐκ ἐξόν ἀνθρώπῳ λαλῆσαι. |