scroll: document
se.pher denotes a written item, especially a record of deeds, an authoritative written instruction, or a dispatched letter.
The term most often designates a written record preserving royal acts or other accounts; it also identifies written instruction and covenant material that is found, read, and obeyed, as well as letters or documents sent with directives.
Senses in use
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Written historical record · dominant
The singular construct form identifies a written source in which a ruler's remaining acts, words, battles, or building works are recorded. In 1 Kings 14:19 the APB renders the clause that Jeroboam's acts “are written in the book of the chronicles,” while 2 Chronicles 32:32 places Hezekiah's remaining words in a named written account.
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Authoritative written instruction or covenant · common
The singular form denotes a text associated with the LORD's instruction, Moses, or a covenant, whose words are found, read, and acted upon. In 2 Chronicles 34:21 the APB renders concern for “the words of the scroll that was found” and for doing what is written on it; in 2 Chronicles 34:30 the king reads the words of the covenant to the assembled people.
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Sent letter or official document · occasional
Plural and singular forms refer to written communications that are composed, sealed or carried, received, and read. In 1 Kings 21:8 the APB renders Jezebel's action as writing and sending “letters,” and in 2 Kings 5:6 it renders the item brought to Israel's king as a “document” containing the sender's request.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the term as “book,” “scroll,” “letters,” and “document” according to the verse's wider clause. These labels show its presentation of the written item rather than a fixed English equivalent.