From the primary verb Rheo (???) to flow or run , as water; and the suffix ma(µa) , a finite dispensation or portion (eg. "charis", grace ; but "charisma", a portion of grace, (spiritual) gift, etc. From Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, Greek word #4487. It can be found in the following New Testament passages (not exhaustive):
* Matthew 4:4 "Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." (also Luke 4:4)
* Matthew 12:36 *Matthew 12:36 "... every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render account for it on the day of judgment..."
* Matthew 18:16 "...by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word ( NIV- matter ) may be established."
* Matthew 26:75 " Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken..." (also Mark 14:72)
* Matthew 27:14 " And He answered him not a word..."
* Luke 1:38 "Be it unto me according to your word". (NIV - "as you have said.")
* Luke 2:29 "according to your word" (NIV - " as You have promised.")
* Luke 3:2 " ...the word of God came to John son of Zechariah..."
* Luke 5:5 "...nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net." ( NIV - "because you say so" )
* John 3.34 "For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit."
* John 8:20
* John 15:7 "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be done for you."
* Acts 2:14
* Acts 6:11,13
* Acts 10:36-37 "The word (NIV - message ) which God sent unto the children of Israel..."37 "that word, [I say,] ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea..." (NIV - omitted, "you know what has happened throughout Judea...").
* Acts 11:14-16
* Acts 13:42
* Acts 26:25
* Romans 10:8
* Romans 10:17-18
* 2 Corinthians 12:4
* 2 Corinthians 13:1
* Ephesians 6.17 Take the helmet of salvation and the Sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
* Hebrews 6:5
* Hebrews 11:3
* Hebrews 12:19
* 1 Peter 1:25
* 2 Peter 3:2
* Jude 1:17
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Pentecostal and Evangelical Christians have different understandings of how Rhema should be used and understood [often compared with Logos].
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