אִגְּרָא
igra · letter
Aramaic word · Strong’s number H104 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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igra (אִגְּרָא) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “letter”.
(Aramaic): an official writing carried by a messenger of the kingdom.
How to say it
i·gra
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
- An official writing sent by a messenger.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Ezra 4:8
Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows:
- Ezra 4:11
This is the copy of the letter that they sent to him: “To Artaxerxes the king: your servants, the men of the other side of the river. And now:
- Ezra 5:6
The copy of the letter that Tattenai, governor of the other side of the river, and Shethar-bozenai and his companions, the Apharsachites who were in the other side of the river, sent to Darius the king.