gramma · letter, writing

What it means

gramma (γράμμα) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “letter, writing”.

Letter of the alphabet, writing; "letters", learning. "His writings": what someone wrote.

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 character of writing.
2. Something written: a letter, a document, a book.
3. The law as mere writing, against the Spirit who gives life.
4. Education, having studied.

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

How it is translated

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

• letter ×5
• letters ×4
• bill ×2
• writings ×2
• learning ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Luke×2
• John×2
• Acts×2
• Romans×3
• 2 Corinthians×3
• Galatians×1
• 2 Timothy×1

• Luke 16:6

  And he said, ‘A hundred baths of olive oil.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’

• Luke 16:7

  Then he said to another, ‘And you, how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred cors of wheat.’ He says to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’

• John 5:47

  But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

• John 7:15

  So the Jews were amazed, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never studied?”

• Acts 26:24

  And while he was saying these things in his defense, Festus says in a loud voice, “You are out of your mind, Paul; your great learning is driving you to madness.”

• Acts 28:21

  And they said to him, “We have neither received letters about you from Judea, nor has any of the brothers come and reported or spoken anything evil about you.

• Romans 2:27

  And the one who is physically uncircumcised but fulfills the law will judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law.

• Romans 2:29

  but the one who is one inwardly is a Jew, and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose praise is not from people but from God.

• Romans 7:6

  But now we have been released from the law, having died to that in which we were held, so that we serve as slaves in newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.

• 2 Corinthians 3:6

  who also made us sufficient to be servants of a new covenant, not of letter but of Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

• 2 Corinthians 3:7

  Now if the service of death, engraved in letters on stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel could not gaze at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, a glory that was being set aside,

• Galatians 6:11

  See with what large letters I have written to you with my own hand.

• 2 Timothy 3:15

  and that from infancy you have known the sacred writings that are able to make you wise for salvation through faith that is in the Messiah Jesus.

And 1 more times.