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Lexicon :: Strong's G1992 - epistolē

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ἐπιστολή
Transliteration
epistolē (Key)
Pronunciation
ep-is-tol-ay'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:593,1074

Strong’s Definitions

ἐπιστολή epistolḗ, ep-is-tol-ay'; from G1989; a written message:—"epistle," letter.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 24x

The KJV translates Strong's G1992 in the following manner: epistle (15x), letter (9x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 24x
The KJV translates Strong's G1992 in the following manner: epistle (15x), letter (9x).
  1. a letter, epistle

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐπιστολή epistolḗ, ep-is-tol-ay'; from G1989; a written message:—"epistle," letter.
STRONGS G1992:
ἐπιστολή, -ῆς, , (ἐπιστέλλω), a letter, epistle: Acts 15:30; Romans 16:22; 1 Corinthians 5:9, etc.; plural, Acts 9:2; 2 Corinthians 10:10, etc.; ἐπιστολαὶ συστατικαί, letters of commendation, 2 Corinthians 3:1 [Winers Grammar, 176 (165). On the possible use of the plural of this word interchangeably with the singular (cf. Thomas Magister, Ritschl edition, p. 113, 8), see Bp. Lightfoot and Meyer on Philippians 3:1. (Euripides, Thucydides, others)].
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Acts
9:2; 15:30
Romans
16:22
1 Corinthians
5:9
2 Corinthians
3:1; 10:10
Philippians
3:1

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1992 matches the Greek ἐπιστολή (epistolē),
which occurs 24 times in 23 verses in the TR Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:2 - and asked of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, so that if he found any who were of the way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:30 - They therefore, being let go, came to Antioch, and having gathered the multitude delivered to them the epistle.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:5 - as also the high priest bears me witness, and all the elderhood: from whom also, having received letters to the brethren, I went to Damascus to bring those also who were there, bound, to Jerusalem, to be punished.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:25 - having written a letter, couched in this form:
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:33 - And these, having entered into Caesarea, and given up the letter to the governor, presented Paul also to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:22 - I Tertius, who have written this epistle, salute you in the Lord.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 5:9 - I have written to you in the epistle not to mix with fornicators;
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 16:3 - And when I am arrived, whomsoever ye shall approve, these I will send with letters to carry your bounty to Jerusalem:
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:1 - Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or do we need, as some, commendatory letters to you, or commendatory from you?
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:2 - *Ye* are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read of all men,
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:3 - being manifested to be Christ's epistle ministered by us, written, not with ink, but the Spirit of the living God; not on stone tables, but on fleshy tables of the heart.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:8 - For if also I grieved you in the letter, I do not regret it, if even I have regretted it; for I see that that letter, if even it were only for a time, grieved you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 10:9 - that I may not seem as if I was frightening you by letters:
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 10:10 - because his letters, he says, are weighty and strong, but his presence in the body weak, and his speech naught.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 10:11 - Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by letters when absent, such also present in deed.
Unchecked Copy BoxCol 4:16 - And when the letter has been read among you, cause that it be read also in the assembly of Laodiceans, and that *ye* also read that from Laodicea.
Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:27 - I adjure you by the Lord that the letter be read to all the holy brethren.
Unchecked Copy Box2Th 2:2 - that ye be not soon shaken in mind, nor troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as if it were by us, as that the day of the Lord is present.
Unchecked Copy Box2Th 2:15 - So then, brethren, stand firm, and hold fast the instructions which ye have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.
Unchecked Copy Box2Th 3:14 - But if any one obey not our word by the letter, mark that man, and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed of himself;
Unchecked Copy Box2Th 3:17 - The salutation by the hand of me, Paul, which is the mark in every letter; so I write.
Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:1 - This, a second letter, beloved, I already write to you, in both which I stir up, in the way of putting you in remembrance, your pure mind,
Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:16 - as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; among which some things are hard to be understood, which the untaught and ill-established wrest, as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.
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