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# אִגֶּרֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H107

**letter** — used 10 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

letter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/107/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אִגֶּ֫רֶת: n.f. letter, letter-missive [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/107/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. letter, letter-missive (late, prob. loan-word, As. egirtu DlW)—abs. Ne 2:8 + 2 textual; cstr. Est 9:29; pl. אִגְּרוֹת abs. 2 Ch 30:1 + 3 textual; cstr. Ne 2:9; אִגְּרֹתֵיהֶם Ne 6:17—letter, especially royal letter 2 Ch 30:1, 6 Ne 2:7, 8, 9; but also others Ne 6:5, 17, 19 Es 9:26, 29 (‖ סֵפֶר vv 20, 30; other syn. מִכְתָּב, נִשְׁתְּוָן q.v.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: letters (5); a letter (2); the letter (2).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 6:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.5/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַח֩ אֵלַ֨י סַנְבַלַּ֜ט כַּדָּבָ֥ר הַזֶּ֛ה פַּ֥עַם חֲמִישִׁ֖ית אֶֽת־נַעֲר֑וֹ וְאִגֶּ֥רֶת פְּתוּחָ֖ה בְּיָדֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent to me Sanballat according to the.manner (the) this a.time fifth (et) servant his and a.letter open \[was\].in hand his

*JPS 1917:* Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;

[Nehemiah 6:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.17/#tree)

גַּ֣ם ׀ בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵ֗ם מַרְבִּ֞ים חֹרֵ֤י יְהוּדָה֙ אִגְּרֹ֣תֵיהֶ֔ם הוֹלְכ֖וֹת עַל־טוֹבִיָּ֑ה וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר לְטוֹבִיָּ֖ה בָּא֥וֹת אֲלֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* also in the days (the) those \[were\].multiplying the.nobles of.Judah letters their \[which.were\].going to Tobiah and.\[those\] which \[belonged\].to Tobiah \[were\].coming to them

*JPS 1917:* Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/107.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/107/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).