γράμμα

gravmma gravmma,
gravmmato",
tov (
gravfw), that which has been written;1. a letter i. e. the character: (R G L brackets Tr marginal reading brackets); .2. any writing, a document or record; a. a note of hand, bill, bond, account, written acknowledgment of debt (as scriptio in Varro sat. Men. 8, 1 (cf. Edersheim ii., 268ff)): f. ((Josephus, Antiquities 18, 6, 3), in L text T Tr WH plural
tav
gravmmata; so of one document also in Antiph., p. 114 (30); Demosthenes, p. 1034, 16; Vulgate cautio). b. a letter, an epistle: ; (Herodotus 5, 14; Thucydides 8, 50; Xenophon, Cyril 4, 5, 26, etc.). c.
tav
iJerav
gravmmata the sacred writings (of the O. T.; (so Josephus, Antiquities prooem. sec. 3; 10, 10, 4 at the end; contra Apion 1, 10; Philo, de vit. Moys. 3, 39; de praem. et poen. sec. 14; leg. ad Gai. sec. 29, etc. -- but always
tav
iJerav
gravmmata)): (here T WH omit; L Tr brackets
tav);
gravmma equivalent to the written law of Moses, ;
Mwu>sevw"
gravmmata, . Since the Jews so clave to the letter of the law that it not only became to them a mere letter but also a hindrance to true religion, Paul calls it
gravmma in a disparaging sense, and contrasts it with
tov
pneu'ma i. e. the divine Spirit, whether operative in the Mosaic law, , or in the gospel, by which Christians are governed, ; f (but in R G T WH read the plural written in letters, so L marginal reading Tr marginal reading).3.
tav
gravmmata, like the Latin litterae, English letters, equivalent to learning: ;
eijdevnai,
memaqhkevnai
gravmmata (cf. German studirt haben), of sacred learning, . (
manqavnein,
ejpivstasqaiv, etc.,
gravmmata are used by the Greeks of the rudiments of learning; cf. Passow, i. p. 571; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, II. a.).)*