702. Aretas

Strong's Concordance

Aretas: Aretas, an Arabian king

Original Word: Ἀρέτας, α, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: Aretas
Phonetic Spelling: (ar-et'-as)
Definition: Aretas, an Arabian king
Usage: Aretas IV, King of the Nabataeans.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
of uncertain origin
Definition
Aretas, an Arabian king
NASB Translation
Aretas (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 702: Ἀρέτας

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 ); cf. Schürer, Neutest. Zeitgesch. § 17 b., p. 233f); an Arabian king who made war (A.D. 36) on his son-in-law Herod Antipas for having repudiated his daughter; and with such success as completely to destroy his army (Josephus, Antiquities 18, 5). In consequence of this, Vitellius, governor of Syria, being ordered by Tiberius to march an army against Aretas, prepared for the war. But Tiberius meantime having died (March 16, A.D. 37), he recalled his troops from the march, dismissed them to their winter quarters, and departed to Rome. After his departure Aretas held sway over the region of Damascus (how acquired we do not know), and placed an ethnarch over the city: 2 Corinthians 11:32. Cf. Winers RWB under the word; Wieseler in Herzog i., p. 488f; Keim in Schenkel i., p. 238f; Schürer in Riehm, p. 83f; (B. D. American edition under the word ; Meyer on Acts, Einl. § 4 (cf. ibid., Wendt edition)).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Aretas.

Of foreign origin; Aretas, an Arabian -- Aretas.

Forms and Transliterations

Αρετα Ἁρέτα Areta Hareta Haréta

Englishman's Concordance

2 Corinthians 11:32 N-GMS
GRK: ὁ ἐθνάρχης Ἁρέτα τοῦ βασιλέως
NAS: the ethnarch under Aretas the king
KJV: the governor under Aretas the king
INT: the governor under Aretas the king

Strong's Greek 702
1 Occurrence

Ἁρέτα — 1 Occ.