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# נִשְׁתְּוָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5406

**letter** — used 2 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/1504/5406/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נִשְׁתְּוָן: letter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5406/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] letter (usually der. from Pers. نُوِشْتن, نُبِشْتن i.e. writing, Hoffm ZA ii (1887), 52 yet cf. Meyer Judenthum 22);—abs. נ׳ Ezr 4:7; 7:11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: the letter (2).

## In the verses

[Ezra 4:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.7/#tree)

וּבִימֵ֣י אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֗שְׂתָּא כָּתַ֨ב בִּשְׁלָ֜ם מִתְרְדָ֤ת טָֽבְאֵל֙ וּשְׁאָ֣ר כְּנָוֺתָ֔יו עַל־אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֖שְׂתְּ מֶ֣לֶךְ פָּרָ֑ס וּכְתָב֙הַֽנִּשְׁתְּוָ֔ן כָּת֥וּב אֲרָמִ֖ית וּמְתֻרְגָּ֥ם אֲרָמִֽית׃פ

*Word for word:* and in the.days of.Artaxerxes he.wrote Bishlam Mithredath Tabeel and the.rest his.associates his to Artaxerxes the.king of.Persia and the.writing of the.letter \[was\].written Aramaic and \[it.was\].translated Aramaic

*JPS 1917:* And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Aramaic character, and set forth in the Aramaic tongue.

[Ezra 7:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.11/#tree)

וְזֶ֣ה ׀ פַּרְשֶׁ֣גֶן הַֽנִּשְׁתְּוָ֗ן אֲשֶׁ֤ר נָתַן֙ הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֔סְתְּא לְעֶזְרָ֥א הַכֹּהֵ֖ן הַסֹּפֵ֑ר סֹפֵ֞ר דִּבְרֵ֧י מִצְוֺת־יְהוָ֛ה וְחֻקָּ֖יו עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃פ

*Word for word:* and this \[is\].(the).copy of the.letter which he.gave the king Artaxerxes to Ezra the priest the scribe the.scribe of.the.matters of.the.commandments of.Yahweh and statutes his on Israel

*JPS 1917:* Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of His statutes to Israel:

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5406/): 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).