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Nehemiah 2:8
“And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H107 · Hebrew
- Definition
- an epistle
- Derivation
- feminine of H104 (אִגְּרָא);
- KJV renderings
- letter.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- אִגֶּ֡רֶת — common noun, feminine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 10 times in the Hebrew Bible.2 Chronicles 30:12 Chronicles 30:6Nehemiah 2:7Nehemiah 2:9Nehemiah 6:5
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read אִגֶּרֶת here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.