Lectionary Calendar

Sunday, July 13th, 2025
the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15

video advertismenet

Attention!

Tired of seeing ads while studying? Now you can enjoy an "Ads Free" version of the site for as little as 10¢ a day and support a great cause!
Click here to learn more!

Bible Lexicons

Old & New Testament Greek Lexical DictionaryGreek Lexicon

Strong's #702 - Ἀρέτας

Transliteration

Arétas

Phonetics

ar-et'-as

Origin

of foreign origin

Parts of Speech

proper masculine noun

TDNT

None

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's
Aretes = "graver"

An Arabian king

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

ASV (1)

2 Corinthians 1

BSB (1)

2 Corinthians 1

CSB (1)

2 Corinthians 1

ESV (1)

2 Corinthians 1

KJV (1)

2 Corinthians 1

LEB (0)

The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (1)

2 Corinthians 1

N95 (1)

2 Corinthians 1

NAS (1)

2 Corinthians 1

NLT (1)

2 Corinthians 1

WEB (1)

2 Corinthians 1

YLT (1)

2 Corinthians 1

ASV (1)

under aretas 1

BSB (1)

aretas 1

CSB (1)

aretas 1

ESV (1)

aretas 1

KJV (1)

aretas 1

LEB (0)

The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (1)

aretas 1

N95 (1)

aretas 1

NAS (1)

aretas 1

NLT (1)

aretas 1

WEB (1)

aretas 1

YLT (1)

of aretas 1

RAH

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

SWE

N-GSM 1

ANT

N-GSM 1

BEZ

N-GSM 1

BGB

N-GSM 1

BMT

N-GSM 1

BYZ

N-GSM 1

ELZ

N-GSM 1

NA26

N-GSM 1

SBL

N-GSM 1

SCV

N-GSM 1

STV

N-GSM 1

TIS

N-GSM 1

N-GSM-P 1

TRG

N-GSM 1

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

Thayer's Expanded Definition

Ἀρέτας (WH ἀρετάς, see their Introductory § 408), Ἁρέτα (cf. Winers Grammar, § 8, 1; (Buttmann, 20 (18))), ὁ, Aretas (a name common to many of the kings of Arabia Petraea or Nabathaean Arabia (cf. B. D. under the word ); cf. Schürer, Neutest. Zeitgesch. § 17 b., p. 233f); an Arabian king who made war (A.D. 36) on his son-in-law Herod Antipas for having repudiated his daughter; and with such success as completely to destroy his army (Josephus, Antiquities 18, 5). In consequence of this, Vitellius, governor of Syria, being ordered by Tiberius to march an army against Aretas, prepared for the war. But Tiberius meantime having died (March 16, A.D. 37), he recalled his troops from the march, dismissed them to their winter quarters, and departed to Rome. After his departure Aretas held sway over the region of Damascus (how acquired we do not know), and placed an ethnarch over the city: 2 Corinthians 11:32. Cf. Winers RWB under the word; Wieseler in Herzog i., p. 488f; Keim in Schenkel i., p. 238f; Schürer in Riehm, p. 83f; (B. D. American edition under the word ; Meyer on Acts, Einl. § 4 (cf. ibid., Wendt edition)).

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

Ἀρέτας

(WH, Ἀρ .; Intr., 313), -α , ὁ ,

Aretas, an Arabian king: 2 Corinthians 11:32 (Deiss., BS, 183 f., thinks the proper spelling Ἀρέθας was changed, as Schürer suggests, "by desire to Hellenise a barbaric name by assimilation to ἀρετή ").†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

The form Ἁρέτας (for rough breathing see WH Intr..2 p. 313) instead of Ἁρέθας may, as Deissmann (BS p. 183 f.), following Schürer Geschichte i. p. 738, has suggested, be due to a desire to Hellenize the barbaric name by assimilation to ἀρετή.

List of Word Forms

Αρετα Ἁρέτα Areta Hareta Haréta