Strong G4490ῥητῶς

Included with: ῥητ-ός, ή, όν,
(ἐρῶ) stated, specified, covenanted, μισθῷ ἔπι ῥ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.445)]; παρεῖναι ἐς χρόνον ῥ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.77, compare 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.124)]; ἐν ἡμέραις ῥ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.29; ἐπὶ ῥητοῖς γέρασι πατρικαὶ βασιλεῖαι [prev. author] 1.13)]; ῥ. ἀργύριον a stated sum, [Refs ([prev. author] 2.7, 4.69)]; ἐπὶ ῥητοῖσι, Attic dialect ἐπὶ ῥητοῖς, on stated terms, on certain conditions, according to covenant, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.57, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 459, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.122, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.22, +others; παρέσεσθαι εἰς ῥ. ἡμέραν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.5.6)]; ῥ. ἀπόκρισις a distinct, definite answer, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 32.6.7: ῥητόν, τό)], fixed date for a lawsuit, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PSI” 4.463.14 (3rd c.BC), etc.)]; so perhaps ἀπὸ ῥητῶν [Refs 6th c.BC+ (“IG” 12 (9).1273 (Euboea, 6th c.BC).)] adverb -τῶς expressly, distinctly, [NT+5th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.23.5, “SIG” 685.77 (2nd c.BC), 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.105 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, NT.1Tim.4.1, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 17(2).427)]: superlative ῥητότατα [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 7.16.)]
2 spoken of, famous, ῥητοί τ᾽ ἄρρητοί τε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 4.)]
3 of language, in common use (= συνήθης), [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “Pron.” 113.18; φράσις [prev. author] “Synt.” 39.15)]. adverb -τῶς[Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.161 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus)]
II that may be spoken or told, εἰ ῥητόν, φράσον [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 765)]; ἦ ῥητό; ἢ οὐχὶ θεμιτὸν ἄλλον εἰδένα; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 993)]; αὐδῶν ἀνόσι᾽ οὐδὲ ῥητά μοι[Refs ([prev. work] 1289; ῥ. ἄρρητόν τ᾽ ἔπος [prev. author] “OC” 1001)]; δεινὸν γάρ, οὐδὲ ῥ. [Refs ([prev. author] “Ph.” 756; compare ἄρρητος 111.3.)]
II.2 that can be spoken or enunciated, συλλαβή [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 202b, compare 205d, 205e; διάλεκτοι 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.110S.; οὐ ῥ. κατ᾽ ἰδίαν αἱ ἐγκλιτικαί 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Pronominibus;” 36.30)]; communicable in words, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 341c.)]
III in Mathematics texts, rational, of magnitudes, opposed to surds (ἄλογα), ῥητὰ πρὸς ἄλληλα [Refs 3rd c.BC+ ([prev. author] “R.” 546c, “Hp.Ma.” 303b, compare 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 10 “Deff.” 3 and 4, 2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus)] “*Deff.” 128; in Metric, ῥ. πούς, opposed to ἄλογος, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD(?): Aristides Quintilianus Musicus 1.14)]; see at {ἄρρητος} IV.
IV τὸ ῥ. the precise, literal contents of a document, the letter of the law, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 2.36, etc.)]; ῥητός literal, opposed to allegorical, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.69, +others)]
V ={ῥῆμα} [Refs (I.3, even of)]a living thing, Hebrew dâvâr, [LXX (LXX.Exo.9.4.)]