Strong's Greek: 5489. χάρτης (chartēs) -- a sheet of paper (made of papyrus strips)

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Lexical Summary

chartēs: a sheet of paper (made of papyrus strips)

Original Word: χάρτης
Transliteration: chartēs
Phonetic Spelling: (khar'-tace)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a sheet of paper (made of papyrus strips)
Meaning: a sheet of paper (made of papyrus strips)

Strong's Concordance

papyrus, a sheet of paper

From the same as charax; a sheet ("chart") of writing-material (as to be scribbled over) -- paper.

see GREEK charax

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 5489: χάρτης

χάρτης, χάρτου, ὁ (χαράσσω), paper: 2 John 1:12; Jeremiah 43:23 (). ((Plato's commentary fragment 10, p. 257 (Didot); cf. inscr. () in Kirchhoff, Inscriptions Attic. i. No. 324); Cebes () tab. 4; Dioscorides (?) 1, 115.) (Cf. Birt, Antikes Buchwesen, index i., under the word; Gardthausen, Griech. Palaeographie, p. 23; Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, ii., p. 270f.)

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