Letter
אִגְּרָאStrong’s H0104iggra (ig-g-ra)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Iggra is the Aramaic word usually translated “letter the” and “letter”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:”
Meaning
- Letter, missive (Aramaic loan-word used in last OT books)
How it's translated
- letter the 2
- a letter 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezra 4:11This is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even unto Artaxerxes the king; Thy servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time.
- Ezra 5:6The copy of the letter that Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shetharboznai, and his companions the Apharsachites, which were on this side the river, sent unto Darius the king:
Aramaic dictionary
אִגְּרָא iggra · letter
letter, missive (Aramaic loan-word used in last OT books) Aramaic of ig.ge.ret (אִגֶּ֫רֶת "letter" H0107)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “letter” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LET'TER, noun
[from let.]
- One who permits.
- One who retards or hinders.
- One who gives vent; as a blood-letter.
All definitions and other forms of “letter”
LET'TER, noun
[Latin litera.]
- A mark or character, written, printed, engraved or painted; used as the representative of a sound, or of an articulation of the human organs of speech.
- A written or printed message; an epistle; a communication made by visible characters from one person to another at a distance.
- The verbal expression; the literal meaning.
- Type; a charter formed of metal or wood, usually of metal, and used in printing books.
- Letters, in the plural, learning; erudition; as a man of letters.
LET'TER, verb transitive
To impress or form letters on; as, to letter a book; a book gilt and lettered.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.