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Strong's #1121: gramma (pronounced gram'-mah)

from 1125; a writing, i.e. a letter, note, epistle, book, etc.; plural learning:--bill, learning, letter, scripture, writing, written.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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gramma

1) a letter

2) any writing, a document or record

2a) a note of hand, bill, bond, account, written acknowledgement of a debt

2b) a letter, an epistle

2c) the sacred writings (of the OT)

3) letters, i.e. learning

3a) of sacred learning

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: from G1125

Citing in TDNT: 1:761, 128




Usage:

This word is used 15 times:

Luke 16:6: "unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write"
Luke 16:7: "unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore."
Luke 23:38: "written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and"
John 5:47: "ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?"
John 7:15: "How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?"
Acts 26:24: "Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad."
Acts 28:21: "We neither received letters out of Judea concerning thee,"
Romans 2:27: "judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?"
Romans 2:29: "is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not"
Romans 7:6: "of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter."
2 Corinthians 3:6: "ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for"
2 Corinthians 3:6: "but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the"
2 Corinthians 3:7: "the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones,"
Galatians 6:11: "Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand."
2 Timothy 3:15: "thou hast known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto"









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