ῥῆσις
saying, utterance
Where this word appears
Every passage where ῥῆσις appears in the Greek Septuagint — 9 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Ezra 5:7 ῥῆσις They sent an account to him, and thus it was written in it: All peace to king Darius.
- Proverbs 1:6 ῥῆσις and will understand a parable, and a dark speech; the saying of the wise also, and riddles.
- Proverbs 1:23 ῥῆσις Behold, I will bring forth to you the utterance of my breath, and I will instruct you in my speech.
- Proverbs 2:1 ῥῆσις My son, if you will receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it with you;
- Proverbs 4:5 ῥῆσις and do not neglect the speech of my mouth.
- Proverbs 4:20 ῥῆσις My son, attend to my speech; and apply your ear to my words:
- Proverbs 15:26 ῥῆσις An unrighteous thought is abomination to the Lord; but the sayings of the pure are held in honor.
- Proverbs 19:27 ῥῆσις A son who ceases to attend to the instruction of a father will cherish evil designs.
- Proverbs 27:27 ῥῆσις My son, you have from me words very useful for your life, and for the life of your servants.
About this word
About this word
ῥῆσις (rhē̂sis), “saying, utterance,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 9 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
