ῤύμη, ῥυμης, ἡ (from Ρ᾽ΥΩ equivalent to ἐρύω 'to draw' (but Curtius, § 517; Vanicek, p. 1210, others, connect it with ῤέω 'to flow')); 1. in earlier Greek the swing, rush, force, trail, of a body in motion. 2. in later Greek a tract of way in a town shut in by buildings on both sides; a street, lane: Mat_6:2; Luk_14:21; Act_9:11; Act_12:10; cf. Isa_15:3; Sir_9:7; Tob_13:18. Cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 401; (Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 488; Wetstein on Matt. as above; Winer's Grammar, 22, 23). STRONGS NT 4505a: ῤυπαίνωῤυπαίνω: (ῤύπος, which see); to make filthy, befoul; to defile, dishonor (Xenophon, Aristotle, Dionysius Halicarnassus, Plato, others); 1 aorist passive imperative 3 person singular ῤυπανθήτω, let him be made filthy, i. e. tropically, let him continue to defile himself with sins, Rev_22:11 L T Tr WH text STRONGS NT 4505a: ῥυπαρεύομαιῥυπαρεύομαι: 1 aorist (passive) imperative 3 person singular ῤυπαρευθήτω; (ῤυπαρός, which see); to be dirty, grow filthy; metaphorically, to be defiled with iniquity: Rev_22:11 G L stereotyped edition. WH marginal reading Found nowhere else; see ῤυπαίνω and ῤυπόω.

ῥύμη rhymē 4x pr. a rush or sweep of a body in motion; a street, Act_9:11 ; Act_12:10 ; a narrow street, lane, alley, as distinguished from πλατεῖα , Mat_6:2 ; Luk_14:21

ῥύμη , -ης , ἡ , [in LXX : Isa_15:3 ( H7339 ), Pro_31:23 ΰ , Tob_13:18 , Sir_9:7 ΰ 1 * ;] 1. in cl ., the force, rush, swing, of a moving body; esp . of a charge of soldiers. 2. In late Greek (as in Macedonian, v. Kennedy , Sources , 15), a narrow road, lane, street : in Polyb ., of a road in camp; in LXX and NT (Papyri also) of streets in a town, Mat_6:2 , Luk_14:21 Act_9:11 ; Act_12:10 ( cf. Rutherford, NPhr. , 488).†

ῥύμη [page 564] For this word in its late Greek sense street, lane, which it has in its four occurrences in the NT ( Mat_6:2 , Luk_14:21 , Act_9:11 ; Act_12:10 ), cf. P Par 51 .16 (B.C. 159) (= UPZ i. p. 360, Selections , p. 20) ἔρχομαι εἰς τὴν ῥύβ (= μ )ην μετ᾽ αὐτῶν , BGU IV.1037 .16 (A.D. 47) εἰς τὴν ἐκ λιβὸς ῥύμην βασιλική [ν , P Oxy1. 99 .9 (A.D. 55) ἀνὰ μέσον οὔσης τυφλῆς ῥύμης ( blind alley ), and P Ryl II. 156 .4 (i/A.D.) δημοσία ῥύμη . In an Alexandrian papyrus of the time of Augustus we hear of a street named Εὐδαίμων ἐν τῆι Εὐδαίμονος λεγομένηι ῥύμηι (see Archiv v. p. 37 n. .1 ). For the diminutive ῥύμιον (not in LS 8 ) = a little lane or alley, cf. the direction in P Meyer 20 verso .5 (1st half iii/A.D.) ἀντικρὺ του̣̑ [. . .] πωλ̣ι̣ου ἥκ̣εις <εἰς > τὸ ῥύμιον , over against the shop you come to the little lane. See further Rutherford NP p. 487 f., and Kennedy Sources p. 15 f., where the different stages in the history of ῥύμη are stated.

ῥύμη ῥύμη, ἡ, [Etym: *ῥύω ῀ ἐρύω] "the force, swing, rush" of a body in motion, Lat. impetus, ῥύμῃ with "a swing", Thuc. ; πτερύγων ῥύμη "the rush" of wings, Ar. ; ἡ ῥ. τῶν ἵππων Xen. :—metaph., εὐτυχεῖ ῥύμῃ θεοῦ Eur. ; ἡ ῥ. τῆς ὀργῆς "the vehemence of" passion, Dem. absol. "a rush, charge", of soldiers, Thuc. , Xen. "a street", Lat. vicus, Polyb. , NTest.

ῥύμη, -ης, ἡ [in LXX: Isa.15:3 (רְחֹב), Pro.31:23 א, Tob.13:18, Sir.9:7 א1* ;] __1. in cl., the force, rush, swing, of a moving body; esp. of a charge of soldiers. __2. In late Greek (as in Macedonian, see Kennedy, Sources, 15), a narrow road, lane, street: in Polyb., of a road in camp; in LXX and NT (π. also) of streets in a town, Mat.6:2, Luk.14:21 Act.9:11 12:10 (cf. Rutherford, NPhr., 488).† (AS)