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נִשְׁתְּוָןStrong’s H5407nishtevan (nish-te-van)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nishtevan is the Aramaic word usually translated “letter the”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me.”
Meaning
- Letter
How it's translated
- letter the 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 3
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Ezra 4:23Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
- Ezra 5:5But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter.
Aramaic dictionary
נִשְׁתְּוָן nishtevan · document
letter Aramaic of nish.te.van (נִשְׁתְּוָן "letter" H5406)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “document” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DOCUMENT, noun
[Latin, to teach.]
- Precept; instruction; direction.
- Dogmatical precept; authoritative dogma.
- More generally, in present usage, written instruction, evidence or proof; any official or authoritative paper containing instructions or proof, for information and the establishment of facts.
All definitions and other forms of “document”
DOCUMENT, verb transitive
- To furnish with documents; to furnish with instructions and proofs, or with papers necessary to establish facts.
- To teach; to instruct; to direct.
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.