Dictionary entry

Ἀρέτας

G. Abbott-Smith's A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

Ἀρέτας (WH, Ἀρ.; Intr., 313), -α, ὁ,

Aretas, an Arabian king: II Co 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").†