LETTER.See Writing.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
let?ẽr. See EPISTLE.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Letter
stands in only two passages of the Bible in its narrow sense of an alphabetical character (γράμμα, in the plural, Luk_23:38; and prob. Gal_6:11, πηλίκοις γράμμασι; A. V. how large a letter, rather in what a bold hand); elsewhere it is used (for סֵפֶר, a book; γραμμα, either sing. or plur.; but more definitely for the later Heb. אַגֶּרֶת[Chald. אגְּרָא, נַשְׁתְּוָן: [Chald. id. also פַּתְגָּם; ἐπιστολή ) in the sense of an epistle (q.v.). SEE ALPHABET; SEE WRITING.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.