נִשְׁתְּוָן
nishtᵉvân · H5406 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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letter
Written document; composed by government official and used to communicate instructions or information to other people
ExamplesEzra 4:7 And in the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his colleagues wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the text of the letter was written in Aramaic and translated from Aramaic.
Ezra 7:11 Now this is the copy of the letter which King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, learned in the words of the commandments of the LORD and His statutes to Israel:
How it’s used In 2 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- כָּתָבwriting, script 1
- פַּרְשֶׁגֶןcopy (of a letter) 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
- אִגֶּרֶת ʼiggereth · H107 · letter
- Both terms denote a written letter or document, sharing essentially identical glosses.
- סֵפֶר çêpher · H5612 · scroll, book, letter
- Both terms denote written documents. One's gloss explicitly includes "letter" as one of its senses alongside book and scroll, overlapping directly with the other's sense of "letter."
Semantic domains 1 entry
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5406. nishtevan נִשְׁתְּוָן noun [masculine] letter (usually derived from Persian , i.e.…
נִשְׁתְּוָן noun [masculine] letter (usually derived from Persian , i.e. writing, HoffmZA ii (1887), 52 yet compare MeyerJudenthum 22); — absolute ׳נ Ezr 4:7; Ezr 7:11.
נתב (√ of following; Arabic swell forth, become prominent, protuberant, Lane2760).
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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