ῥῆμα

See also: ρήμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From εἴρω (eírō, “to say”) +‎ -μᾰ (-mă).

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 ῥήμᾰτος); third declension

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

Declension

Third declension of τὸ ῥῆμᾰ; τοῦ ῥήμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῥῆμᾰ tò rhêmă	τὼ ῥήμᾰτε tṑ rhḗmăte	τᾰ̀ ῥήμᾰτᾰ tằ rhḗmătă
Genitive	τοῦ ῥήμᾰτος toû rhḗmătos	τοῖν ῥημᾰ́τοιν toîn rhēmắtoin	τῶν ῥημᾰ́των tôn rhēmắtōn
Dative	τῷ ῥήμᾰτῐ tōî rhḗmătĭ	τοῖν ῥημᾰ́τοιν toîn rhēmắtoin	τοῖς ῥήμᾰσῐ / ῥήμᾰσῐν toîs rhḗmăsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ ῥῆμᾰ tò rhêmă	τὼ ῥήμᾰτε tṑ rhḗmăte	τᾰ̀ ῥήμᾰτᾰ tằ rhḗmătă
Vocative	ῥῆμᾰ rhêmă	ῥήμᾰτε rhḗmăte	ῥήμᾰτᾰ rhḗmătă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἐνεργητῐκὸν ῥῆμᾰ (energētĭkòn rhêmă, “active verb”)
• ἐπῐ́μεσον ῥῆμᾰ (epĭ́meson rhêmă, “middle verb”)
• ἐπῐ́ρρημᾰ (epĭ́rrhēmă, adverb)
• πᾰθητῐκὸν ῥῆμᾰ (păthētĭkòn rhêmă, “passive verb”)
• ῥήμᾰτᾰ ᾰ̓ντ’ ᾰ̓λφῐ́των (rhḗmătă ănt’ ălphĭ́tōn, “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)

Further reading

• “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.