ῥῆμα rhēma

Greek word for “declaration” · Strong’s G4487 · used 68 times in 65 verses

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Meaning

ῥῆμα, -τος, τό; 1. prop., of that which is said or spoken;

How it is translated

Glosses given for rhēma in context, with how often each is used:

• declaration 37
• declarations 29
• word 1
• declarations — 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Luke 2 (6), Luke 1 (3), Acts 10 (3), Romans 10 (3), Luke 24 (2), John 6 (2), John 8 (2), John 12 (2), Acts 5 (2), Acts 6 (2)

Forms

• ῥήματα 24
• ῥῆμα 19
• ῥήματος 7
• ῥημάτων 6
• ῥήματι 4
• ῥῆμά 3
• ῥήματά 3
• ῥήματί 1
• ῥήμασιν 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with rhēma more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• λαλέω laleō “to speak” 17
• ἀκούω akouō “to hear” 10
• μιμνήσκω mimnēskō “to remember” 5
• ἅγιος hagios “holy” 7
• Πέτρος Petros “Peter” 6
• πνεῦμα pneuma “spirit/breath” 7
• μάρτυς martus “witness” 4
• ἵστημι histēmi “to stand” 5
• τρίς tris “three times” 3
• ἀλέκτωρ alektōr “rooster” 3
• ἀπαρνέομαι aparneomai “to deny” 3
• πρίν prin “before” 3

Key verses

The verses using rhēma that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• John 3:34 — For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
• John 6:63 — It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
• John 12:48 — He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
• John 14:10 — Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he…
• John 15:7 — If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
• John 17:8 — For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed…
• Acts 6:11 — Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
• Acts 6:13 — And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
• Acts 10:22 — And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an…
• Romans 10:18 — But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
• Ephesians 5:26 — That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
• Hebrews 1:3 — Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.