γράμμα gramma

Greek word for “something written” · Strong’s G1121 · used 14 times in 13 verses

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Meaning

γράμμα, -τος, τό; (γράφω);

How it is translated

Glosses given for gramma in context, with how often each is used:

• letter 5
• writings 3
• letters 3
• bills 2
• learning 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Luke 16 (2), Romans 2 (2), 2 Corinthians 3 (2), John 5 (1), John 7 (1), Acts 26 (1), Acts 28 (1), Romans 7 (1), Galatians 6 (1), 2 Timothy 3 (1)

Forms

• γράμματα 6
• γράμμασιν 3
• γράμματος 3
• γράμματι 1
• γράμμα 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with gramma more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• δέχομαι dechomai “to receive” 3
• ἑκατόν hekaton “hundred” 2
• καταργέω katargeō “to abate” 2
• γράφω graphō “to write” 3
• περιτομή peritomē “circumcision” 2
• πνεῦμα pneuma “spirit/breath” 3
• ὥστε hōste “so” 2
• πῶς pōs “how?!” 2
• νόμος nomos “law” 2
• Ἰουδαῖος Ioudaios “Jew” 2
• δύναμαι dunamai “be able” 2
• οἶδα oida “to know” 2

Key verses

The verses using gramma that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Luke 16:6 — And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.
• Luke 16:7 — Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.
• John 7:15 — And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?
• Acts 26:24 — And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.
• Acts 28:21 — And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judæa concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came shewed or spake any harm of thee.
• Romans 2:27 — And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
• Romans 2:29 — But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
• Romans 7:6 — But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
• 2 Corinthians 3:6 — Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
• 2 Corinthians 3:7 — But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses…
• Galatians 6:11 — Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand.
• 2 Timothy 3:15 — And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.