אִגֶּרֶת
ʼiggereth · H107 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences
Meanings
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letter
Written document; composed by government official and used to communicate instructions or information to other people
Examples2 Chronicles 30:1 Now Hezekiah sent word to all Israel and Judah and also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover to the LORD God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 30:6 The couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with the letters from the hand of the king and his princes, even according to the command of the king, saying, “Sons of Israel, return to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that He may return to those of you who escaped and are left from the hand of the kings of Assyria.
Nehemiah 2:7 And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given me for the governors of the provinces beyond the River, so that they will allow me to pass through until I come to Judah,
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- מֶלֶךְking 1
- פּוּרPurim, lot 1
- הֶםtheir 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- זֹאתthis 2
- הָלַךְto go, to walk 1
- פָּתַחto open 1
- שֵׁנִיsecond 1
What is done to itIt is the object
6 occurrences in 5 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 2
- כָּתַבto write down, to write, to inscribe 1
- קוּםto arise 1
- רָבָהto increase 1
- שָׁלַחto send, to send away 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָדhand, power 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- דָּבָרword, thing, matter 1
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.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- סֵפֶר çêpher · H5612 · scroll, book, letter
- Both words denote written documents; the target specifically means “letter,” while סֵפֶר covers a broader range of written documents (bill, book, scroll, letter).
- נִשְׁתְּוָן nishtᵉvân · H5406 · letter
- Both words denote a written letter or document; נִשְׁתְּוָן is the Aramaic term and the target is Hebrew.
In the other Testament 2 words
- ἐπιστολή epistolḗ · G1992 · letter (normally written on papyrus), letter
- Greek ἐπιστολή renders Hebrew אִגֶּרֶת as the standard translation equivalent for 'letter' (written correspondence), representing direct lexical correspondence across the languages for this documentary genre term.
- אִגְּרָא ʼiggᵉrâʼ · H104 · letter
- Aramaic cognate of Hebrew אִגֶּרֶת, both denoting a written letter or epistle; the two share the same lexical root across sister languages.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Scrolls001003001001014
- אִגֶּרֶת names a written letter, as the letters Hezekiah sent throughout Israel and Judah to summon them to Passover.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H107. iggereth אִגֶּ֫רֶת noun feminine letter, letter-missive (late, probably loan-word,…
אִגֶּ֫רֶת noun feminine letter, letter-missive (late, probably loan-word, Assyrian egirtu DlW) — absolute Neh 2:8 Neh 2:2t.; construct Est 9:29; plural אִגְּרוֺת absolute 2Ch 30:1 2Ch 30:3t.; construct Neh 2:9; אִגְּרֹתֵיהֶם Neh 6:17 — letter, especially royal letter 2Ch 30:1, 2Ch 30:6; Neh 2:7-8, Neh 2:9; but also others Neh 6:5, Neh 6:17, Neh 6:19; Est 9:26, Est 9:29 (|| סֵפֶר Est 9:20; Est 9:30; other synonym מִכְתָּב, נִשְׁתְּוָן q. v.)
אֲגַרְטָל see גרטל.
אֶגְרֹף see גרף.
אֹדוֺת אוֺדוֺת, אֵד, see אוד.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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