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Strong's numbers

ἐπιστολή G1992

epistolḗ

ep-is-tol-ay'

from ἐπιστέλλω; a written message:--"epistle," letter.

Abbott–Smith

ἐπι-στολή, -ῆς, ἡ (< ἐπιατέλλω), [in LXX for אִגֶּרֶת, etc.; freq. in Mac ;]
1. a message.
2. a letter, an epistle: Ac 9:2, I Co 5:9, al.; pl., Ac 22:5, I Co 16:3, al.; ἐ. σνστατικαί, II Co 3:1 (cf. Milligan, NTD, 254 f.). (On the NT ἐπιστολαί, cf. Milligan, Th., 121 ff.; NTD, 85 ff.; Deiss., BS, 3 ff.; St. Paul, 8 ff.)

From G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), in the public domain.

23 occurrences

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  • 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 tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
  • 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 for a season.
  • 2 Corinthians 10:9
    That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
  • 2 Corinthians 10:10
    For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
  • 2 Corinthians 10:11
    Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
  • Colossians 4:16
    And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.
  • 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 2:15
    Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
  • 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.