נִשְׁתְּוָן
nishtᵉvân · H5407 · Aramaic · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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A written document composed by a government official and used to communicate instructions or information to other people
ExamplesEzra 4:18 the document which you sent to us has been translated and read before me.
Ezra 4:23 Then as soon as the copy of King Artaxerxes’ decree was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their colleagues, they went in a hurry to Jerusalem to the Jews and stopped them by military force.
Ezra 5:5 But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until the report could reach Darius, and then the decree concerning it could be sent back.
How it’s used In 4 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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׁתָּאArtaxerxes 1
- שְׁלַחput 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קְרָאcall 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- תּוּבto return, to answer 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- פַּרְשֶׁגֶןcopy 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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Semantic domains 1 entry
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- Ezra 4:18 recounts the king's reply, “the document which you sent to us has been translated and read before me.”
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5407. nishtevan [נִשְׁתְּרָן] noun masculineEzr 4:18 letter (probably Persian; see…
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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