Letter
נִשְׁתְּוָןStrong’s H5406nishtevan (nish-te-van)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nishtevan is the Hebrew word usually translated “letter”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.”
Meaning
- Letter
How it's translated
- the letter 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 2
1 book in all.
Hebrew dictionary
נִשְׁתְּוָן nishtevan · letter
letter Aramaic equivalent: nish.te.van (נִשְׁתְּוָן "document" H5407)
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.