נִשְׁתְּוָן
nishtvan · letter
Aramaic word · Strong’s number H5407 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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nishtvan (נִשְׁתְּוָן) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “letter”.
Official writing (Aramaic, a word of Persian origin).
How to say it
nisht·van
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 to the king or from him.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Ezra 4:18
the letter that you sent to us has been read clearly before me.
- Ezra 4:23
Then, as soon as the copy of the letter of Artaxerxes the king was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem, to the Jews, and made them cease by force and with troops.
- Ezra 5:5
But the eye of their Elah was upon the elders of the Jews, and they did not make them cease until the report should go to Darius and then they should return a letter about this.