5406. nishtevan

Strong's Concordance

nishtevan: a letter

Original Word: נִשְׁתְּוָן
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: nishtevan
Phonetic Spelling: (nish-tev-awn')
Definition: a letter

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
of foreign origin
Definition
a letter
NASB Translation
decree (1), letter (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

נִשְׁתְּוָן noun [masculine] letter (usually derived from Persian , i.e. writing, Hoffm^{ZA ii (1887), 52} yet compare Meyer^{Judenthum 22}); — absolute ׳נ Ezra 4:7; Ezra 7:11.

נתב (√ of following; Arabic swell forth, become prominent, protuberant, Lane²⁷⁶⁰).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

letter

Probably of Persian origin; an epistle -- letter.

Forms and Transliterations

הַֽנִּשְׁתְּוָ֔ן הַֽנִּשְׁתְּוָ֗ן הנשתון han·niš·tə·wān hannishteVan hanništəwān

Englishman's Concordance

Ezra 4:7
HEB: פָּרָ֑ס וּכְתָב֙ הַֽנִּשְׁתְּוָ֔ן כָּת֥וּב אֲרָמִ֖ית
NAS: and the text of the letter was written
KJV: and the writing of the letter [was] written
INT: of Persia and the text of the letter was written Aramaic

Ezra 7:11
HEB: וְזֶ֣ה ׀ פַּרְשֶׁ֣גֶן הַֽנִּשְׁתְּוָ֗ן אֲשֶׁ֤ר נָתַן֙
NAS: is the copy of the decree which
KJV: Now this [is] the copy of the letter that the king
INT: now this is the copy of the decree which gave

2 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 5406
2 Occurrences

han·niš·tə·wān — 2 Occ.