12 occurrences

'Letters' in the Bible

The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?"

and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

They said to him, "We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you.

When I arrive, I will send whoever you approve with letters to carry your gracious gift to Jerusalem.

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.

For, "His letters," they say, "are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised."

Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
אגּרא 
'igg@ra' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 3

אגּרת 
'iggereth 
Usage: 10

נשׁתּון 
Nisht@van 
Usage: 2

נשׁתּון 
Nisht@van (Aramaic) 
Usage: 3

ספרה ספר 
Cepher 
Usage: 186

פּתגּם 
Pithgam (Aramaic) 
Usage: 6

γράμμα 
Gramma 
Usage: 12

ἐπιστέλλω 
Epistello 
Usage: 3

ἐπιστολή 
Epistole 
Usage: 24