Aretas - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H702 — arba (“four”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G702 Ἀρέτας (Aretas) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. Aretas (ar-et'-as) n/p. 1. Aretas, an Arabian [of foreign origin] It has 2 linked Bible usages across 2 books. Visible English usage signals include aretas. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Aretas (ar-et'-as) n/p. 1. Aretas, an Arabian [of foreign origin] KJV: Aretas
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G702. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
Aretas
Usage: Ἀρέτας (WH, Ἀρ.; Intr., 313), -α, ὁ, Aretas, an Arabian king: 2Co.11:32 (Deiss., BS, 183 f., thinks the proper spelling Ἀρέθας was changed, as Schürer suggests, "by desire to Hellenise a barbaric name by assimilation to ἀρετή").† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Aretas, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G702 (Ἀρέτας) appears 1 time in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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1 indexed usage in New Testament.
In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
In the end therefore he had an unhappy return, being accused before Aretas the king of the Arabians, fleeing from city to city, pursued of all men, hated as a forsaker of the laws, and being had in abomination as an open enemy of his country and countrymen, he was cast out into Egypt.
First 2 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G702.
In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
In the end therefore he had an unhappy return, being accused before Aretas the king of the Arabians, fleeing from city to city, pursued of all men, hated as a forsaker of the laws, and being had in abomination as an open enemy of his country and countrymen, he was cast out into Egypt.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G702, grouped by book.
Aretas (Strong's G702) is a Greek word most simply glossed "Aretas". Aretas (ar-et'-as) n/p. 1. Aretas, an Arabian [of foreign origin]
This page currently indexes 2 linked usages for Strong's G702 across 2 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G702 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as aretas. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G702, with linked reader references where each row is available.