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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, ἡ, (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 MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:2 - and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 15:30

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:30 - So when they were sent off, they came to Antioch; and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:5 - “as also the high priest bears me witness, and all the council of the elders, from whom I also received letters to the brethren, and went to Damascus to bring in chains even those who were there to Jerusalem to be punished.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 23:25

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:25 - He wrote a letter in the following manner:

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 23:33

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:33 - When they came to Caesarea and had delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 16:22

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:22 - I, Tertius, who wrote this epistle, greet you in the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 5:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 5:9 - I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 16:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 16:3 - And when I come, whomever you approve by your letters I will send to bear your gift to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:1 - Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, epistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:2 - You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:3 - clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 7:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:8 - For even if I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it. For I perceive that the same epistle made you sorry, though only for a while.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 10:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 10:9 - lest I seem to terrify you by letters.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 10:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 10:10 - “For his letters,” they say, “are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 10:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 10:11 - Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such we will also be in deed when we are present.

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 4:16 - Now when this epistle is read among you, see that it is read also in the church of the Laodiceans, and that you likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:27 - I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read to all the holy[fn] brethren.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Th 2:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Th 2:2 - not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ[fn] had come.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Th 2:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Th 2:15 - Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Th 3:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Th 3:14 - And if anyone does not obey our word in this epistle, note that person and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Th 3:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Th 3:17 - The salutation of Paul with my own hand, which is a sign in every epistle; so I write.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 3:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:1 - Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder),

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 3:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:16 - as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.
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