G703 – arete – ἀρετή – a vitality, vigor; lit. manliness
- Strong’s ID:
- G703
- Greek Word:
- ἀρετή
- Transliteration:
- arete
- Pronunciation:
- ar-et’-ay
- Part of Speech:
- noun feminine
- Etymology:
- from the same as G730
- Usage Count:
- 5
- Search:
- Find “arete” in the Bible (New Testament)
Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon
1) a vitality, vigor
2) literally: a manliness
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Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from the same as G730; properly, manliness (valor), i.e. excellence (intrinsic or attributed):—praise, virtue.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) a virtuous course of thought, feeling and action
1a) virtue, moral goodness
2) any particular moral excellence, as modesty, purity
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.