Lexical Summary nishtevan: a letter Original Word: נִשְׁתְּוָןTransliteration: nishtevan Phonetic Spelling: (nish-tev-awn') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a letter Meaning: an epistle Strong's Concordance letter Probably of Persian origin; an epistle -- letter. Brown-Driver-Briggs H5406. nishtevan נִשְׁתְּוָן noun [masculine] letter (usually derived from Persian , i.e. writing, HoffmZA ii (1887), 52 yet compare MeyerJudenthum 22); — absolute ׳נ Ezra 4:7; 7:11. נתב (√ of following; Arabic swell forth, become prominent, protuberant, Lane2760). |