Lexical Summary epistolē: an epistle, a letter Original Word: ἐπιστολήTransliteration: epistolē Phonetic Spelling: (ep-is-tol-ay') Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: an epistle, a letter Meaning: an epistle, a letter Strong's Concordance epistle, letter. From epistello; a written message -- "epistle," letter. see GREEK epistello Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1992: ἐπιστολήἐπιστολή, ἐπιστολῆς, ἡ (ἐπιστέλλω), a letter, epistle: Acts 15:30; Romans 16:22; 1 Corinthians 5:9, etc.; plural, Acts 9:2; 2 Corinthians 10:10, etc.; ἐπιστολαί συστατικαι, letters of commendation, 2 Corinthians 3:1 (Winers Grammar, 176 (165). On the possible use of the plural of this word interchangeably with the singular (cf. Thomas Magister, Ritschl edition, p. 113, 8), see Lightfoot and Meyer on Philippians 3:1. (Euripides, Thucydides, others)). |