Hebrew word · H5406

נִשְׁתְּוָן

hanishtevan

letter

Appears 2 times in 2 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

letter

Aramaic equivalent: nish.te.van (נִשְׁתְּוָן "document" H5407)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Ezra · 2

  1. Ezra 4:7 הַֽנִּשְׁתְּוָ֔ן the letter

    And in the days of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his associates wrote a letter to Artaxerxes. It was written in Aramaic and then translated.

  2. Ezra 7:11 הַֽנִּשְׁתְּוָ֗ן the letter

    This is the text of the letter King Artaxerxes had given to Ezra the priest and scribe, an expert in the commandments and statutes of the LORD to Israel:

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.