HebrewH5406Noun (Masculine)

נִשְׁתְּוָן

nish.te.van

“letter”

2Occurrences

H5406Strong's #

Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

an epistle

probably of Persian origin;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)

letter Aramaic equivalent: nish.te.van (*נִשְׁתְּוָן *"document" H5407)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

נִשְׁתְּוָן appears 2 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Ezra

Key Passages

Ezra 4:7BSB

And in the days of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his associates wrote a letter to Artaxerxes. It was written in Aramaic and then translated.

Ezra 7:11BSB

This is the text of the letter King Artaxerxes had given to Ezra the priest and scribe, an expert in the commandments and statutes of the LORD to Israel:

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.