2001 Translation

EPISTOLĒN, epistolēn

Sounds Like: ep-is-toh-LEN

Translations: letter, an epistle, a letter, an epistle, a written message

From the root: ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΗ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a written message, a letter, or an epistle. It is typically used to describe a communication sent from one person or group to another, often for official or personal purposes. It can be used in contexts such as sending a decree, a personal note, or a formal communication.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G1992 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:41, 1:42, 1:51

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 47:1

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 7 — 7:136
• Book 8 — 2:53
• Book 11 — 1:12, 2:21, 2:26, 4:117, 4:119, 5:122, 5:123, 5:131, 5:167
• Book 12 — 2:52, 5:258, 6:199, 6:202, 6:203
• Book 13 — 2:39, 2:44, 2:46, 2:47, 3:64, 3:70, 5:167
• Book 14 — 10:241, 10:243, 10:252, 10:254
• Book 15 — 6:168, 6:170, 6:171, 6:173
• Book 16 — 9:296
• Book 17 — 5:93, 5:134, 5:135, 5:137, 5:139, 8:194
• Book 18 — 4:104, 6:161, 6:164, 8:305, 8:307
• Book 19 — 1:10
• Book 20 — 1:10, 8:183, 8:184

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 32:9, 34:21, 34:22
• Book Two — 21:32
• Book Four — 4:5, 4:10, 10:33

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 44:217, 44:220, 44:221, 44:222, 44:223, 44:227, 45:229, 49:255, 56:292, 60:312, 61:313

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Ezra (Alpha) — 2:15, 2:22
• Ezra (Beta) — 4:8
• Nehemiah — 2:8, 6:5
• Esther — 10:3
• 1 Maccabees — 13:35
• 2 Maccabees — 9:18, 11:34
• 3 Maccabees — 3:11, 3:25, 6:41, 7:10
• Jeremiah — 36:1
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 4:34

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Acts — 15:30, 23:25, 23:33
• Romans — 16:22
• 1 Thessalonians — 5:27
• 2 Peter — 3:1

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
• ἘΠΙΣΤΟΛΑΙ — letters, epistles, dispatches
• ἘΠΙΣΤΟΛΑΙΣ — to letters, to epistles, to messages, to dispatches
• ἘΠΙΣΤΟΛΑΣ — letters, epistles, a letter, an epistle
• ἘΠΙΣΤΟΛΗ — letter, an epistle, a letter, an epistle
• 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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