epistolē · letter

What it means

epistolē (ἐπιστολή) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “letter”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A written message sent to a person or an assembly.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• letter ×16
• letters ×8

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Acts×5
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×2
• 2 Corinthians×8
• Colossians×1
• 1 Thessalonians×1
• 2 Thessalonians×4
• 2 Peter×2

• Acts 9:2

  and asked from 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.

• Acts 15:30

  So they, when they were sent off, went down to Antioch, and having gathered the multitude, they delivered the letter.

• Acts 22:5

  as also the high priest testifies for me, and the whole council of elders; from whom I also received letters to the brothers, and I was traveling to Damascus to bring also those who were there in chains to Jerusalem so that they might be punished.

• Acts 23:25

  He wrote a letter having this form:

• Acts 23:33

  When they had come into Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they presented Paul also to him.

• Romans 16:22

  I, Tertius, who wrote the letter, greet you in the Lord.

• 1 Corinthians 5:9

  I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with sexually immoral people,

• 1 Corinthians 16:3

  And when I arrive, whomever you approve, these I will send with letters to carry your gift to Jerusalem.

• 2 Corinthians 3:1

  Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or surely we do not need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you?

• 2 Corinthians 3:2

  You are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by all people,

• 2 Corinthians 3:3

  since you are shown to be a letter of the Messiah delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets that are hearts of flesh.

• 2 Corinthians 7:8

  For even if I grieved you by the letter, I do not regret it; even if I did regret it —I see that that letter grieved you, even if only for a while—

• 2 Corinthians 10:9

  I say this so that I may not seem as if I would frighten you with the letters.

• 2 Corinthians 10:10

  For “The letters,” he says, “are weighty and strong, but the bodily presence is weak and the speech contemptible.”

• 2 Corinthians 10:11

  Let such a person consider this: that what we are in word through letters when absent, such we are also when present in deed.

• Colossians 4:16

  And when this letter has been read among you, see that it is read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans, and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:27

  I solemnly charge you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the brothers.

• 2 Thessalonians 2:2

  that you not be quickly shaken from your mind or alarmed, whether by a spirit or by a word or by a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord is here.

• 2 Thessalonians 2:15

  So then, brothers, stand firm and hold fast the traditions that you were taught, whether by word or by our letter.

• 2 Thessalonians 3:14

  And if anyone does not obey our word through this letter, take note of that person and do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.

• 2 Thessalonians 3:17

  The greeting is by my own hand, Paul’s, which is a sign in every letter; so I write.

• 2 Peter 3:1

  Beloved, this is now the second letter I am writing to you; in both of which I stir up your sincere mind by way of reminder,

• 2 Peter 3:16

  as he does also in all his letters, speaking in them about these things, in which there are some things hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsteady twist, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

And 1 more times.