Original Word: ἆρろーαあるふぁ
Part of Speech: Particle, Interrogative
Transliteration: ara
Phonetic Spelling: (ar'-ah)
Definition: an untranslatable interrogative particle implying anxiety or impatience
Usage: a particle asking a question, to which a negative answer is expected.

687 ára – whether. This difficult-to-translate interrogative particle (adverb) injects the element of surprise and the pressing need to respond. Depending on the context, 687 (ára) will emphasize the aspect of hesitation, bewilderment, etc. (J. B. Lightfoot).

Word Origin
from ara
Definition
an untranslatable interrog. particle implying anxiety or impatience.

STRONGS NT 687: ἄρろーαあるふぁ (2)ἄρろーαあるふぁ (2), an interrogative particle (implying anxiety or impatience on the part of the questioner. Liddell and Scott, under the word) (of the same root as the preceding ἄρろーαあるふぁ, and only differing from it in that more vocal stress is laid upon the first syllable, which is therefore circumflexed);

1.numigitur, i. e. marking an inferential question to which a negative answer is expected: Luke 18:8; with γέ rendering it more pointed, ἄρろーαあるふぁ γέ (GT ἄραγε): Acts 8:30; (ἄρろーαあるふぁ οおみくろんὖνにゅー ... διώκομεν Lachmann edition min. also major marginal reading are we then pursuing etc. Romans 14:19).

2. ergone i. e. a question to which an affirmative answer is expected, in an interrogative apodosis (German soistalsowohl?), he is then? Galatians 2:17 (where others (e. g. Lachmann) write ἄρろーαあるふぁ, so that this example is referred to those mentioned under ἄρろーαあるふぁ, 3, and is rendered Christ is then a minister of sin; but μή γένοιτο, which follows, is everywhere by Paul opposed to a question). Cf. Winers Grammar, 510f (475f) (also Buttmann, 247 (213), 371 (318); Herm. ad Vig., p. 820ff; Klotz ad Devar. ii., p. 180ff; speaking somewhat loosely, it may be said "ἄρろーαあるふぁ expresses bewilderment as to a possible conclusion ... ἄρろーαあるふぁ hesitates, while ἄρろーαあるふぁ concludes." Lightfoot on Galatians, the passage cited).

therefore.

A form of ara, denoting an interrogation to which a negative answer is presumed -- therefore.

see GREEK ara

αあるふぁρろーαあるふぁ ἄρろーαあるふぁ ἆρろーαあるふぁ Ἆρά αραβά άραβα αραβώθ ara ára âra ÂráInterlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts