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Strong's #702 - Ἀρέτας
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Aretes = "graver"
- An Arabian king
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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
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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 ").†
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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.
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