ἘΠΙΣΤΟΛΑΙ, ἐπιστολαι
EPISTOLAI, epistolai
Sounds Like: ep-is-to-LAI
Translations: letters, epistles, dispatches
From the root: ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to written communications, such as letters or official dispatches. It is commonly used in the New Testament to refer to the epistles written by apostles. It is a compound word, formed from the preposition ἐπί (epi), meaning 'upon' or 'to', and στέλλω (stellō), meaning 'to send'.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Vocative
Strong’s number: G1992 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 18 — 6:234
Josephus' The Jewish War
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- 2 Corinthians — 10:10
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΗ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΠΕΙΣΤΟΛΗΣ — of a letter, of an epistle
- ἘΠΙΣΤΟΛΑΙΣ — to letters, to epistles, to messages, to dispatches
- ἘΠΙΣΤΟΛΑΣ — letters, epistles, a letter, an epistle
- ἘΠΙΣΤΟΛΗ — letter, an epistle, a letter, an epistle
- ἘΠΙΣΤΟΛΗΝ — letter, an epistle, a letter, an epistle, a written message
- ἘΠΙΣΤΟΛΗΣ — of a letter, of a message, of an epistle
- ἘΠΙΣΤΟΛΩΝ — of letters, of epistles, of messages
- ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΑΙ — letters, epistles
- ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΑΙΣ — to letters, to epistles, in letters, in epistles
- ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΑΣ — letters, epistles
- ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΗ — letter, epistle, a letter, an epistle
- ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΗΝ — letter, an epistle, a message
- ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΗΣ — of a letter, of an epistle, a letter, an epistle
- ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΩ — letter, an epistle, a message
- ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΩΝ — of letters, of epistles
- ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛ‾Η‾ — letter, an epistle, a message
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