Letter
אִגְּרָאStrong’s H0107iggra (ig-g-ra)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Iggra is the Hebrew word usually translated “letters”, “letter” and “letters of”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.”
Meaning
- Letter, missive (Aramaic loan-word used in last OT books)
How it's translated
- letters 3
- and a letter 2
- with letters 1
- letters of 1
- letters their 1
- the letter 1
- letter of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 6
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Esther 2
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 30:6So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
- Nehemiah 2:7Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;
- Nehemiah 2:8And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
- Nehemiah 2:9Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.
- Nehemiah 6:5Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;
- Nehemiah 6:17Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.
Hebrew 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.