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Koine Greek wordlink #122435

SR GNT 2Cor 3:1 ἐπιστολῶν (epistolōn) ‘as some of commendatory letters to you_all or’ Strongs=19920 Lemma=epistolē
Word role=noun case=genitive gender=feminine number=plural

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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’.

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

2Cor 10:9 ‘you_all by my letters’ SR GNT 2Cor 10:9 word 10

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

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

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

ACTs 28:21 γράμματα (grammata) N-ANP Lemma=gramma ‘said we neither letters concerning you received’ SR GNT Acts 28:21 word 9

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

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

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

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

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