Midvash

נִשְׁתְּוָןnishtᵉvân

letter (Ezra 4:7; Ezra 7:11)

Pronunciation: nish-tev-awn' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5406

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • Ezra 4:7 Even later, during the reign of King Artaxerxes of Persia, the enemies of Judah, led by Bishlam, Mithredath, and Tabeel, sent a letter to Artaxerxes in the Aramaic language, and it was translated for the king.
  • Ezra 7:11 King Artaxerxes had given a copy of the following letter to Ezra, the priest and scribe who studied and taught the commands and decrees of the Lord to Israel:

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).