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== Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_78337" /> == | == Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_78337" /> == | ||
<div> '''1: | <div> '''1: '''''Γράμμα''''' ''' (Strong'S #1121 — Noun Neuter — amma — gram'-mah ) </div> <p> primarily denotes "that which is traced or drawn, a picture;" then, "that which is written," (a) "a character, letter of the alphabet," 2—Corinthians 3:7; "written," lit., "(in) letters;" Galatians 6:11; here the reference is not to the length of the Epistle (Paul never uses gramma, either in the singular or the plural of his Epistles; of these he uses epistole, No. 2), but to the size of the characters written by his own hand (probably from this verse to the end, as the use of the past tense, "I have written," is, according to Greek idiom, the equivalent of our "I am writing"). Moreover, the word for "letters" is here in the dative case, grammasin, "with (how large) letters;" (b) "a writing, a written document, a bond" (AV, "bill") Luke 16:6,7; (c) "a letter, by way of correspondence," Acts 28:21; (d) the [[Scriptures]] of the OT, 2—Timothy 3:15; (e) "learning," John 7:15 , "letters;" Acts 26:24 , "(much) learning" (lit., "many letters"); in the papyri an illiterate person is often spoken of as one who does not know "letters," "which never means anything else than inability to write" (Moulton and Milligan); (f) "the letter," the written commandments of the Word of God, in contrast to the inward operation of the [[Holy]] Spirit under the New Covenant, Romans 2:27,29; 7:6; 2—Corinthians 3:6; (g) "the books of Moses," John 5:47 . </p> <div> '''2: '''''Ἐπιστολή''''' ''' (Strong'S #1992 — Noun [[Feminine]] — epistole — ep-is-tol-ay' ) </div> <p> * see EPISTLE </p> | ||
== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_61220" /> == | == King James Dictionary <ref name="term_61220" /> == | ||
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== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_52327" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_52327" /> == | ||
<p> <strong> | <p> <strong> [[Letter]] </strong> See Writing. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_48693" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_48693" /> == | ||
<p> stands in only two passages of the Bible in its narrow sense of an alphabetical character ( | <p> stands in only two passages of the Bible in its narrow sense of an alphabetical character ( '''''Γράμμα''''' '','' in the plural, Luke 23:38; and prob. Galatians 6:11, '''''Πηλίκοις''''' '''''Γράμμασι''''' ; A. V. "how large a letter," rather in what a bold hand); elsewhere it is used (for '''''סֵפֶר''''' , ''A Book;'' '''''Γραμμα''''' , either sing. or plur.; but more definitely for the later Heb. '''''אַגֶּרֶת''''' [Chald. '''''אגְּרָא''''' , '''''נַשְׁתְּוָן''''' : [Chald. id. also '''''פַּתְגָּם''''' ; '''''Ἐπιστολή''''' ) in the sense of an [[Epistle]] (q.v.). (See [[Alphabet]]); (See Writing). </p> | ||
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