Dictionary entry

ῥύμη

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

ῥύμη, -ης, ἡ

[in LXX: Is 15:3 (רְחֹב), Pr 31:23א, To 13:18, Si 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, v. 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, Mt 6:2, Lk 14:21, Ac 9:1112:10 (cf. Rutherford, NPhr., 488).†