Lexical Summary cheirographon: a (handwritten) document, legal note, bond Original Word: χειρόγραφονTransliteration: cheirographon Phonetic Spelling: (khi-rog'-raf-on) Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Short Definition: a (handwritten) document, legal note, bond Meaning: a (handwritten) document, legal note, bond Strong's Concordance manuscript, record of debtsNeuter of a compound of cheir and grapho; something hand-written ("chirograph"), i.e. A manuscript (specially, a legal document or bond (figuratively)) -- handwriting. see GREEK cheir see GREEK grapho Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5498: χειρόγραφονχειρόγραφον, χειρογραφου, τό (χείρ and γράφω), a handwriting; what one has written with his own hand (Polybius 30, 8, 4; Dionysius Halicarnassus 5, 8; others); specifically, a note of hand, or writing in which one acknowledges that money has either been deposited with him or lent to him by another, to he returned at an appointed time (Tobit 5:3 Tobit 9:5; Plutarch, mor., p. 829 a. de vitand. aere al. 4, 3; Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 3, 40); metaphorically, applied in Colossians 2:14 ((where R. V. bond)) to the Mosaic law, which shews men to be chargeable with offences for which they must pay the penalty. |
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