Hebrew noun (Aramaic, masculine) · H5407
נִשְׁתְּוָן
nishtevannish-tev-awn'
document
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nishtᵉvân
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5407is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5407
{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
nishtevan is rendered "document". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Ezra, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 4:18The letter you sent us has been translated and read in my presence.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
The letter you sent us has been translated and read in my presence.
Ezra 4:18נִשְׁתְּוָנָ֕א
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Ezra.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- letter the3
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| נִשְׁכָּה | nishkah | chamber | Uses3 |
| נִשְׁתְּוָן | nishtevan | letter | Uses2 |
| נִשְׁמָא | nishma | breath | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- נִשְׁתְּוָנָ֕א1
- נִשְׁתְּוָנָא֙1
- נִשְׁתְּוָנָ֖א1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)3ANcbsd/Ta
Ezra
three uses
The letter you sent us has been translated and read in my presence.
- נִשְׁתְּוָנָ֕אnishtevana'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: letter the
When the text of the letter from King Artaxerxes was read to Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their associates, they went immediately to the Jews in Jerusalem and forcibly stopped them.
- נִשְׁתְּוָנָא֙nishtevana'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: letter the
But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, so that they were not stopped until a report was sent to Darius and written instructions about this matter were returned.
- נִשְׁתְּוָנָ֖אnishtevana'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: letter the
The letters
Gematria 806· 1,456 mispar gadol
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.