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Koine Greek wordlink #124139

SR GNT 2 Cor 10:9 ἐπιστολῶν (epistolōn) ‘you_all by my letters’ Strongs=19920 Lemma=epistolē
Word role=noun case=genitive gender=feminine number=plural
Year=60 AD

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Other uses (3) of identical word form ἐπιστολῶν (N-GFP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐπιστολῶν’ (N-GFP) is always and only glossed as ‘letters’.

1 Cor 16:3 ‘whomever you_all may approve by letters these I will_be sending to carry_away’ SR GNT 1 Cor 16:3 word 10

OET-LV: 3 And whenever I _may _arrive, whomever if you _all _may _approve, by letters these I _will _be _sending, to _carry _away the grace of _you _all to Hierousalaʸm/(Yərūshālayim). (CO1_16:3)

OET-RV: 3 Then, when I arrive, I’ll write letters to send with those you recommend to take to Jerusalem with your gift, (CO1 16:3)

2 Cor 3:1 ‘as some of commendatory letters to you_all or’ SR GNT 2 Cor 3:1 word 15

OET-LV: 3 We _are _beginning again ourselves to _be _commending? Or not we _are _needing, as some, of _commendatory letters to you _all or from you _all? (CO2_3:1)

OET-RV: 3 Oh, are we beginning to pat ourselves on the back again? Don’t we need written references for you all, or from you all, like some others do? (CO2 3:1)

2 Cor 10:11 ‘we are in message by letters being_absent such also’ SR GNT 2 Cor 10:11 word 11

OET-LV: 11 This let _be _counting the such one, that such _as we _are the in _message by letters being _absent, such also being _present the in _work. (CO2_10:11)

OET-RV: 11 Those people should reconsider and realise that as we are in our letters when we’re absent, that’s also how we’ll work when we’re present. (CO2 10:11)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘epistolē’ have 3 different glosses: ‘a letter’, ‘letter’, ‘letters’.

Greek words (8) other than ἐπιστολῶν (N-GFP) with a gloss related to ‘letters’

YHN 7:15 γράμματα (grammata) N-ANP Lemma=gramma ‘saying how this one letters has known not having learned’ SR GNT Yhn 7:15 word 9

OET-LV: 15 Therefore the Youdaiōns were _marvelling saying: How has_ this one _known letters, not having _learned? (JHN_7:15)

OET-RV: 15 Even the Jewish leaders were surprised, asking, “How can this man know so much when he hasn’t been trained as a teacher?” (JHN 7:15)

ACTs 9:2 ἐπιστολάς (epistolas) N-AFP ‘he requested from him letters into Damaskos/(Dammeseq) to’ SR GNT Acts 9:2 word 5

OET-LV: 2 he _requested letters from him to the synagogues into Damaskos/(Dammeseq), so _that if he _may _find any of _the way, being both men and women, having _been _bound he _may _bring them to Hierousalaʸm/(Yərūshālayim). (ACT_9:2)

OET-RV: 2 and obtained official letters to enable him to enter the Jewish meeting halls in Damascus so that if he found either male or female followers of Yeshua, he could arrest them and bring them to Yerushalem in chains. (ACT 9:2)

ACTs 22:5 ἐπιστολάς (epistolas) N-AFP ‘from whom also letters having received to the’ SR GNT Acts 22:5 word 18

OET-LV: 5 as also the chief _priest is _testifying to _me and all the council _of _elders, from whom also having _received letters to the brothers, I _was _going to Damaskos/(Dammeseq), going _to_ also _bring the ones being there, having _been _bound to Hierousalaʸm/(Yərūshālayim), in _order _that they _may _be _punished. (ACT_22:5)

OET-RV: 5 as the Chief Priest and all the council of elders can tell you. I took letters from them to our Jewish brothers in Damascus when I went so that I could arrest the ones there and bring them back here to Yerushalem to be punished. (ACT 22:5)

ACTs 28:21 γράμματα (grammata) N-ANP Lemma=gramma ‘said we neither letters concerning you received’ SR GNT Acts 28:21 word 8

OET-LV: 21 And they said to him: We neither received letters concerning you from the Youdaia, nor having _arrived anyone of _the brothers reported or spoke anything evil concerning you. (ACT_28:21)

OET-RV: 21 “We haven’t received any correspondence here about you,” they answered. “Nor have any of our brothers from Yerushalem arrived here to report any crimes of yours. (ACT 28:21)

2 COR 3:7 γράμμασιν (grammasin) N-DNP Lemma=gramma ‘service of death in letters having_been engraved in stones was become’ SR GNT 2 Cor 3:7 word 9

OET-LV: 7 But if the service the of _death in letters having _been _engraved in _stones was _become in glory, so _as not to _be _able to _look _intently the sons of _Israaʸl/(Yisrā^ʼēl) at the face of _Mōsaʸs/(Mosheh), because _of the glory of _the face of _him, which is being _nullified, (CO2_3:7)

OET-RV: 7 The system which was inscribed on stone tablets and which results in death was so incredible when it was given that the Israelis couldn’t even bring themselves to look at Mosheh’s face because it shone so brightly. But if that system is being nullified, (CO2 3:7)

2 COR 10:10 ἐπιστολαί (epistolai) N-NFP ‘because his letters indeed he is saying heavy’ SR GNT 2 Cor 10:10 word 4

OET-LV: 10 Because: His letters indeed, he _is _saying: heavy and strong are, but the presence of _his body is weak, and his speech having _been _scorned. (CO2_10:10)

OET-RV: 10 Some are saying, “His letters are heavy and strongly-worded, but when he’s actually here, he’s weak and his words get mocked.” (CO2 10:10)

GAL 6:11 γράμμασιν (grammasin) N-DNP Lemma=gramma ‘see in how_large to you_all letters I wrote with my own hand’ SR GNT Gal 6:11 word 5

OET-LV: 11 See in _how _large letters I _wrote to _you _all the with _my own hand. (GAL_6:11)

OET-RV: 11 Look how big these letters are when it’s my own handwriting. (GAL 6:11)

2 PET 3:16 ἐπιστολαῖς (epistolais) N-DFP ‘also in all letters speaking in them’ SR GNT 2 Pet 3:16 word 6

OET-LV: 16 as also in all letters, speaking in them concerning these things, among which is hard _to _understand things some, which the ignorant and unstable are _twisting as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction of _them. (PE2_3:16)

OET-RV: 16 He speaks in all his letters concerning these things, some of which are hard to understand and which ignorant and unstable people twist just like they twist the other scriptures to their own destruction. (PE2 3:16)

Key: N=noun AFP=accusative,feminine,plural ANP=accusative,neuter,plural DFP=dative,feminine,plural DNP=dative,neuter,plural GFP=genitive,feminine,plural NFP=nominative,feminine,plural