STRONGS G5498:
χειρόγραφον,
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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