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BH);— Pf. 3 ms. כ׳ Dn 6:26 ל pers. + orat. rect., 7:1 acc. rei; 3 mpl. כְּתַ֫בוּ Ezr 4:8 acc. אִגְּרָה; 1 pl. נִכְתּוּב 5:10, acc. rei; Pt. act. abs. fs. כָּֽתְבָה Dn 5:5, subj. יְדָא, fpl. כָּֽתְבָן v 5, subj. אֶצְבְּעָן. Peʿîl (WCG 224) Pf. 3 ms. כִּדְנָה כְּתִיב Ezr 5:7 thus (it) was written, so כֵּן כ׳ 6:2. ### Jastrow 1903 כְּתַב I: the text reads evening it is written, it reads speak speak vayhi vayhi to be written, recorded Pa [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5ea_5b7_5d1/#m3) **The whole Jastrow entry:** Targ. Deut. VI, 9 (v. Berl. Targ. O. II, p. 51). Ib. XXXI, 24. Targ. Josh. XVIII, 4; a. v. fr.—Part. pass. (כְּתוּב) כְּתִיב. Targ. Ex. XXXI, 18. Targ. O. Num. XI, 26 (Y. כתוביא); a. fr.—B. Kam. 88ᵃ bot. כְּתַבְתִּינְהוּ לניכסי וכ׳ she willed her property to &c. Gitt. 20ᵃ איהי קא כָתְבָה ליה she (the wife) had it written (at her expense). B. Bath. 168ᵇ ולִיכְתּוֹב לן מר וכ׳ write for us another document (copy) in addition to this; a. v. fr.—Sabb. 115ᵇ היכא דכְתִיבֵי תרגום וכ׳ when the books are written in Chaldaic or any other tongue (than Hebrew); a. fr.—Esp. (in arguments on Biblical texts) כ׳ or כ׳ רחמנא the Lord has written, the text reads. Pes. 21ᵇ טעמא דכ׳רחמנא וכ׳ this is so because the text reads לא יֵאָכֵל (passive voice), but if it did not read so &c. Ib. לִכְתּוֹב רחמנא וכ׳ it ought to read &c. Ber. 3ᵇ א"ה לכתוב מהנשף וכ׳ if this were so (that נשף invariably means evening), it ought to read (I Sam. XXX, 17) מהנשף ועד הנשף; a. v. fr.—כְּתִיב it is written, it reads (used also in Hebr. diction). Ib. 13ᵇ דִּכְ׳ לדבר בם for it says (Deut. XI, 19) ‘to speak thereof’; ה"נ הא כ׳ ודברת בם here, too, (in the first part of the Sh’ma) it says (VI, 7), ‘and thou shalt speak thereof’!—Meg. 10ᵇ כ׳ הכא ויהי … וכ׳ התם ויהי here (Lev. IX, 1) vayhi is used, and there (Gen. I, 5) vayhi is used. Ib. והָכְ׳, והא כ׳ but does it not also read &c.?—Gen. R. s. 1 ומאי כ׳ אחריו and what do we read after this?—הדא הוא דכ׳, v. דָּא I.—Snh. 71ᵃ, a. e. בעינן קרא כְּדִכְ׳ we must construe the Biblical text as it is written (literally, e.g. Mish. ib. VIII, 4 as an interpretation of Deut. XXI, 19); a. v. fr.—B. Kam. 66ᵃ שינוי קונה כְּתִיבָה ותנינא כ׳ that a change of form of a stolen object gives possession (compelling the thief to restore in value) is written (intimated in the Biblical text) and has been taught in the Mishnah.—V. כְּתִיב. to be written, recorded &c. Targ. Esth. I, 19. Targ. Ps. XL, 8. Ib. LXXXVII, 6 דמִכָּתְבִין Ms. (ed. דמְכַתְּבִין Pa.); a. fr.—Meg. 7ᵃ דאיבעי איכתיב וכ׳ (Ms. M. מאי דבעי כתיב, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note; Rashi: דאי בעי כתב) that which was liked was written down &c.; a. fr. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates) ## Glosses MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he wrote (2); it was written (2); \[they were\] writing (1). ## In the verses [Ezra 4:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.8/#tree) רְח֣וּם בְּעֵל־טְעֵ֗ם וְשִׁמְשַׁי֙ סָֽפְרָ֔א כְּתַ֛בוּ אִגְּרָ֥ה חֲדָ֖ה עַל־יְרוּשְׁלֶ֑ם לְאַרְתַּחְשַׁ֥שְׂתְּא מַלְכָּ֖א כְּנֵֽמָא׃ *Word for word:* Rehum lord of.command and Shimshai the scribe they.wrote a.letter one concerning Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as.follows *JPS 1917:* Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort — [Ezra 5:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.10/#tree) וְאַ֧ף שְׁמָהָתְהֹ֛ם שְׁאֵ֥לְנָא לְּהֹ֖םלְהוֹדָעוּתָ֑ךְ דִּ֛י נִכְתֻּ֥ב שֻׁם־גֻּבְרַיָּ֖א דִּ֥י בְרָאשֵׁיהֹֽם׃ס *Word for word:* and also names their we.asked to them to make known.to.you (diy).that we.will.write the.name of the.men who \[are\].at heads their *JPS 1917:* We asked them their names also, to announce to thee, that we might write the names of the men that were at the head of them. ## On Mova - [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5ea_5b7_5d1.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5ea_5b7_5d1/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).