ῥῆμα

See also: ρήμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From εἴρω (eírō, “to say”) +‎ -μα (-ma).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ɛ̂ː.ma/ → /ˈri.ma/ → /ˈri.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ɛ̂ː.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈre̝.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈri.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈri.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈri.ma/

Noun

ῥῆμα • (rhêma) n (genitive ῥήματος); third declension

1. word, saying, statement
2. topic, subject matter
3. phrase, sentence
4. (grammar) verb

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ ῥῆμᾰ; τοῦ ῥήμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῥῆμᾰ tò rhêma	τὼ ῥήμᾰτε tṑ rhḗmate	τᾰ̀ ῥήμᾰτᾰ tà rhḗmata
Genitive	τοῦ ῥήμᾰτος toû rhḗmatos	τοῖν ῥημᾰ́τοιν toîn rhēmátoin	τῶν ῥημᾰ́των tôn rhēmátōn
Dative	τῷ ῥήμᾰτῐ tôi rhḗmati	τοῖν ῥημᾰ́τοιν toîn rhēmátoin	τοῖς ῥήμᾰσῐ / ῥήμᾰσῐν toîs rhḗmasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ ῥῆμᾰ tò rhêma	τὼ ῥήμᾰτε tṑ rhḗmate	τᾰ̀ ῥήμᾰτᾰ tà rhḗmata
Vocative	ῥῆμᾰ rhêma	ῥήμᾰτε rhḗmate	ῥήμᾰτᾰ rhḗmata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Hyponyms

• (grammar): ἐνεργητικὸν ῥῆμα (energētikòn rhêma, “active verb”), ἐπίμεσον ῥῆμα (epímeson rhêma, “middle verb”), παθητικὸν ῥῆμα (pathētikòn rhêma, “passive verb”)

Derived terms

• ἐπίρρημα (epírrhēma, “adverb”)
• ῥήματα ἀντ’ ἀλφίτων (rhḗmata ant’ alphítōn, “fine words butter no parsnips”)

Descendants

• → English: rheme
  • ⇒ English: rhematic
  • ⇒ English: rhetic
• → French: rhème
• → Greek: ρήμα (ríma, “verb”)
• → German: Rhema
• → Latin: verbum (“verb”) (semantic loan)

References

• “ῥῆμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥῆμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ῥῆμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “ῥῆμα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G4487 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • allegation idem, page 25.
  • assertion idem, page 45.
  • expression idem, page 296.
  • period idem, page 607.
  • phrase idem, page 610.
  • proposition idem, page 653.
  • sentence idem, page 753.
  • speech idem, page 800.
  • term idem, page 862.
  • utterance idem, page 941.
  • verb idem, page 948.
  • word idem, page 987.