igeret · letter

What it means

igeret (אִגֶּרֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “letter”.

A written message that is sent. A word of the late books (Chronicles, Nehemiah, Esther).

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 others, especially by a king or ruler.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• letters ×6
• letter ×4

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Chronicles×2
• Nehemiah×6
• Esther×2

• 2 Chronicles 30:1

  Hezekiah sent word to all Israel and Judah, and also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, to come to the house of YHWH in Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover to YHWH, the Elohim of Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 30:6

  So the runners went with the letters from the hand of the king and his officials through all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, “Sons of Israel, return to YHWH, the Elohim of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to those who escaped who are left to you from the hand of the kings of Assyria.

• Nehemiah 2:7

  And I said to the king, “If to the king it seems good, let letters be given to me for the governors of the other side of the river, that they may let me pass until I come to Judah,

• Nehemiah 2:8

  and a letter to Asaph, keeper of the park that belongs to the king, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress that belongs to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I will go into.” And the king granted it to me, according to the good hand of my Elohim upon me.

• Nehemiah 2:9

  And I came to the governors of the other side of the river and gave them the letters of the king. And the king had sent with me commanders of troops and horsemen.

• Nehemiah 6:5

  And Sanballat sent to me according to this word a fifth time his young man with an open letter in his hand.

• Nehemiah 6:17

  Also in those days the nobles of Judah were multiplying their letters going to Tobiah, and those of Tobiah were coming to them.

• Nehemiah 6:19

  Also they kept speaking of his good deeds before me, and my words they kept carrying out to him. Letters Tobiah sent to frighten me.

• Esther 9:26

  Therefore they called these days Purim, after the name of Pur. Therefore, because of all the words of this letter, and what they had seen concerning this, and what had come to them,

• Esther 9:29

  And Esther the queen, daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew wrote with all authority to establish this second letter of Purim.