Word

אִגְּרָא

ʼiggᵉrâʼ · H104 · Aramaic · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

letter

A written document composed by a government official and used to communicate instructions or information to other people

Examples
Ezra 4:8 Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes, as follows—
Ezra 4:11 this is a copy of the letter which they sent to him: “To King Artaxerxes: Your servants, the men of the region beyond the Euphrates River; and now
Ezra 5:6 This is the copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor of the province beyond the Euphrates River, and Shethar-bozenai and his colleagues the officials, who were beyond the River, sent to Darius the king.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

3 occurrences in 2 groups

שְׁלַחput 2
חַדa 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

כְּתַבwrite 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

פַּרְשֶׁגֶןcopy 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

In the other Testament 2 words

ἐπιστολή epistolḗ · G1992 · letter (normally written on papyrus), letter: Greek ἐπιστολή renders Hebrew אִגְּרָא as the standard translation equivalent for written correspondence, both denoting a letter or epistle.
אִגֶּרֶת ʼiggereth · H107 · letter: אִגֶּרֶת (ʼiggereth, H107) is the Hebrew cognate of Aramaic אִגְּרָא (ʼiggᵉrâʼ, H104), both denoting a written letter or epistle; the distinction is purely linguistic (Hebrew vs. Aramaic reflex of the same root), not semantic.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Scrolls001003001001014: Ezra 4:8 recounts that “Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes.”

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

אִגְּרָאʼiggᵉrâʼ · H104אִגֶּרֶת ʼiggereth · H107 · letter · 10×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H104. iggerah אִגְּרָה (K§ 50, 3) noun feminine letter-missive (late Biblical Hebrew…

H104. iggerah
אִגְּרָה (K§ 50, 3) noun feminine letter-missive (late Biblical Hebrew אִנָּ֫רֶת, Old Aramaic אנרת, Palmyrene אגרתא Lzb207); — absolute ׳א Ezr 4:8 (van d. H. רָא-); emphatic אִגַּרְתָּא Ezr 4:11; Ezr 5:6.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Scrolls3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0