ἐπιστολή epistolē

Greek word for “epistle” · Strong’s G1992 · used 24 times in 23 verses

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Meaning

ἐπι-στολή, -ῆς, ἡ; (ἐπιατέλλω);

How it is translated

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

• letter 16
• letters 8

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

2 Corinthians 3 (3), 2 Corinthians 10 (3), Acts 23 (2), 2 Thessalonians 2 (2), 2 Thessalonians 3 (2), 2 Peter 3 (2), Acts 9 (1), Acts 15 (1), Acts 22 (1), Romans 16 (1)

Forms

• ἐπιστολὴν 4
• ἐπιστολῶν 4
• ἐπιστολῇ 3
• ἐπιστολὴ 3
• ἐπιστολῆς 3
• ἐπιστολὰς 2
• ἐπιστολήν 2
• ἐπιστολαὶ 1
• ἐπιστολή 1
• ἐπιστολαῖς 1

Words used with it

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

• γράφω graphō “to write” 5
• ἀναγινώσκω anaginōskō “to read” 3
• λόγος logos “word” 5
• συναναμίγνυμι sunanamignumi “to associate with” 2
• ἐγγράφω engraphō “to write in” 2
• ὡς hōs “as/when” 5
• Ἱερουσαλήμ Hierousalēm “Jerusalem” 3
• Δαμασκός Damaskos “Damascus” 2
• παρά para “from/with/beside” 3
• δέω deō “to bind” 2
• ἀδελφός adelphos “brother” 3
• ἄγω agō “to bring” 2

Key verses

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

• Acts 9:2 — And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto…
• Acts 22:5 — As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to…
• 1 Corinthians 5:9 — I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
• 2 Corinthians 3:1 — Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
• 2 Corinthians 3:3 — Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in…
• 2 Corinthians 7:8 — For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but…
• 2 Corinthians 10:10 — For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
• 1 Thessalonians 5:27 — I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.
• 2 Thessalonians 2:2 — That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
• 2 Thessalonians 3:14 — And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
• 2 Peter 3:1 — This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
• 2 Peter 3:16 — As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable…

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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.