This is the name of Aretas: King of the Nabataeans in Damascus.
Definition
Ἀρέτας (WH, Ἀρ.; Intr., 313), -α, ὁ,
Aretas, an Arabian king: 2 Corinthians 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").
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- 2 Corinthians 11:32Ἁρέτα · AretasIn Damascus, the governor under King Aretas secured the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me.