Strong's Hebrew: 5406. nishtevan -- a letter

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Lexicon

nishtevan: a letter

Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: nishtevan
Phonetic Spelling: (nish-tev-awn')
Short Definition: decree

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

letter

Probably of Persian origin; an epistle -- letter.