Strong's Concordance
Aretas: Aretas, an Arabian king
Original Word: Ἀρέτας, α, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: Aretas
Phonetic Spelling: (ar-et'-as)
Short Definition: Aretas
Definition: Aretas IV, King of the Nabataeans.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 702: ἈρέταςἈρέτας (
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