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# כְּתָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3791

**writing** — used 17 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

writing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3791/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּתָב: n.m. writing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3791/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ezr 4:7 writing (late Aramaic; Biblical Aramaic כְּתָב, Syriac ܟܬܳܒ);—כ׳ abs. 1 Ch 28:19 + 4 times; cstr. Ez 13:9 + 4 times; sf. כְּתָבָהּ Est 1:22 + 2 times; כְּתָבָם Ezr 2:62 + 3 times;—writing: register, enrolment, Ez 13:9 Ezr 2:62 = Ne 7:64. = mode of writing, character, letter, וּכ׳ הַנִּשְׁתְּוָן כָּתוּב אֲרָמִית Ezr 4:7 and the writing of the document was written in Aramaic (characters; so prob., v. Be-Ry Ryle, cf. NH Hoffm ZAW i. (1881), 334 ff.); cf. Est 1:22; 3:12; 8:9(×2). = letter, 2 Ch 2:10 Est 9:27. of a royal enactment, edict 2 Ch 35:4 (‖ מִכְתָּב), Est 3:14; 8:8, 13; more fully כְּתָב־הַדָּת 4:8. of a writing with divine authority 1 Ch 28:19; כ׳ אֱמֶת Dn 10:21; i.e. a book of truth.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 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)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: to (5); the writing (4); document (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 28:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.28.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.28.19/#tree)

הַכֹּ֥ל בִּכְתָ֛ב מִיַּ֥ד יְהוָ֖ה עָלַ֣י הִשְׂכִּ֑יל כֹּ֖ל מַלְאֲכ֥וֹת הַתַּבְנִֽית׃פ

*Word for word:* (the) everything in writing from the.hand of.Yahweh on me he.made.clear all the.works of the.pattern

*JPS 1917:* 'All this do I give thee in writing, as the LORD hath made me wise by His hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern.'

[Ezra 2:62](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.62/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.62/#tree)

אֵ֗לֶּה בִּקְשׁ֧וּ כְתָבָ֛ם הַמִּתְיַחְשִׂ֖ים וְלֹ֣א נִמְצָ֑אוּ וַֽיְגֹאֲל֖וּ מִן־הַכְּהֻנָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* these they.sought document their \[those who.had\].had.themselves.enrolled and not they.were.found and they.were.defiled from the priesthood

*JPS 1917:* These sought their register, that is, the genealogy, but it was not found; therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3791.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3791/): 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).