Strong's #4487: rhema (pronounced hray'-mah)
from 4483; an utterance (individually, collectively or specially),; by implication, a matter or topic (especially of narration, command or dispute); with a negative naught whatever:--+ evil, + nothing, saying, word.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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rhēma
1) that which is or has been uttered by the living voice, thing spoken, word
1a) any sound produced by the voice and having definite meaning
1b) speech, discourse
1b1) what one has said
1c) a series of words joined together into a sentence (a declaration of one' s mind made in words)
1c1) an utterance
1c2) a saying of any sort as a message, a narrative
1c2a) concerning some occurrence
2) subject matter of speech, thing spoken of
2a) so far forth as it is a matter of narration
2b) so far as it is a matter of command
2c) a matter of dispute, case at law
Part of Speech: noun neuter
Relation: from G4483
Citing in TDNT: 4:69, 505
Usage:
This word is used 70 times:
Acts 16:38: "sergeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared,"
Acts 26:25: "most noble Festus; but I speak forth the words of truth and soberness."
Acts 28:25: "they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the"
Romans 10:8: "what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in"
Romans 10:8: "heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;"
Romans 10:17: "and hearing by the word of God."
Romans 10:18: "earth, and their words unto the ends of the"
2 Corinthians 12:4: "and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man"
2 Corinthians 13:1: "three witnesses shall every word be established."
Ephesians 5:26: "washing of water by the word,"
Ephesians 6:17: "of the Spirit, which is the word of God:"
Hebrews 1:3: "upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself"
Hebrews 6:5: "And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world"
Hebrews 11:3: "that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made"
Hebrews 12:19: "of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated that the word"
1 Peter 1:25: "But the word of the Lord endureth forever. And"
1 Peter 1:25: "And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you."
2 Peter 3:2: "That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets,"
Jude 1:17: "remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles"
Revelation 17:17: "kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled."
