Hebrew noun (feminine) · H107
אִגֶּרֶת
iggerethig-eh'-reth
letter
10 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼiggereth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H107is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H107
an epistle
The King James renders it: letter.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
iggereth is rendered "letter". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Six of the uses stand in Nehemiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Chronicles 30:1Then Hezekiah sent word throughout all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh inviting them to come to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
Then Hezekiah sent word throughout all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh inviting them to come to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 30:1אִגְּרוֹת֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's ten uses are in Nehemiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- letters3
- and a letter2
- letter of1
- letters of1
- letters their1
- the letter1
- with the letters1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אִגְּרוֹת֙2
- אִגְּר֣וֹת1
- אִגְּר֛וֹת1
- אִגֶּ֧רֶת1
- אִגְּרֹ֣תֵיהֶ֔ם1
- בָּֽאִגְּר֜וֹת1
- הָאִגֶּ֣רֶת1
- וְאִגֶּ֡רֶת1
- וְאִגֶּ֥רֶת1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine plural3HNcfpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncfsc
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfpc
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcfpc/Sp3mp
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfsc
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine plural1HRd/Ncfpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HTd/Ncfsa
2 Chronicles
two uses
Then Hezekiah sent word throughout all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh inviting them to come to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel.
- אִגְּרוֹת֙ʾigerotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: letters
So the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, which read: “Children of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that He may return to those of you who remain, who have escaped the grasp of the kings of Assyria.
- בָּֽאִגְּר֜וֹתbaigerotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: with the letters
Nehemiah
six uses
I also said to him, “If it pleases the king, may letters be given to me for the governors west of the Euphrates, so that they will grant me safe passage until I reach Judah.
- אִגְּרוֹת֙ʾigerotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: letters
And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the king’s forest, so that he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel to the temple, for the city wall, and for the house I will occupy.” And because the gracious hand of my God was upon me, the king granted my requests.
- וְאִגֶּ֡רֶתveigeretconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a letter
Then I went to the governors west of the Euphrates and gave them the king’s letters. The king had also sent army officers and cavalry with me.
- אִגְּר֣וֹתʾigerotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: letters of
The fifth time, Sanballat sent me this same message by his young servant, who had in his hand an unsealed letter
- וְאִגֶּ֥רֶתveigeretconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a letter
Also in those days, the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came back to them.
- אִגְּרֹ֣תֵיהֶ֔םʾigeroteihemnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: letters their
Moreover, these nobles kept reporting to me Tobiah’s good deeds, and they relayed my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me.
- אִגְּר֛וֹתʾigerotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: letters
Esther
two uses
Therefore these days are called Purim, from the word Pur. Because of all the instructions in this letter, and because of all they had seen and experienced,
- הָאִגֶּ֣רֶתhaigeretthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the letter
So Queen Esther daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim.
- אִגֶּ֧רֶתʾigeretnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: letter of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.