Bible Names

Aretas: meaning of the name

Aretas means “agreeable, virtuous.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Aretas in Hebrew and Greek

Ἀρέτας G702

Arétas — Aretas, an Arabian

of foreign origin;

Who named Aretas in the Bible

Aretas in Scripture

“Aretas” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • 2 Corinthians 11:32

    In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: