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# מִכְתָּב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4385

**writing** — used 9 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/1502/4385/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִכְתָּב: n.m. writing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4385/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 2 Ch 21:12 writing;—abs. מ׳ Dt 10:4 + 5 times; cstr. מִכְתַּב Ex 32:16 + 2 times;— = hand-writing וְהַמִּכְתָּב מִכְתַּב אֱלֹהִים הוּא Ex 32:16. = thing written, Ex 39:30 (acc. cogn. c. כָּתַב), Dt 10:4; specif. a royal enactment or edict (= כְּתָב 4), 2 Ch 35:4 (‖ כְּתָב), 36:22 = Ezr 1:1; a prophetic writing 2 Ch 21:12. in a title, מ׳ לְחִזְקִיָּהוּ Is 38:9 Writing of Hezekiah.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 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 (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: writing (4); a writing (2); \[was\] the writing (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 38:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.9/#tree)

מִכְתָּ֖ב לְחִזְקִיָּ֣הוּ מֶֽלֶךְ־יְהוּדָ֑ה בַּחֲלֹת֕וֹ וַיְחִ֖י מֵחָלְיֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* a.writing of Hezekiah the.king of.Judah when he was.sick and he.lived from sickness his

*JPS 1917:* The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.

[Exodus 32:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.32.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.32.16/#tree)

וְהַ֨לֻּחֹ֔ת מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה אֱלֹהִ֖ים הֵ֑מָּה וְהַמִּכְתָּ֗ב מִכְתַּ֤ב אֱלֹהִים֙ ה֔וּא חָר֖וּת עַל־הַלֻּחֹֽת׃

*Word for word:* and the tablets \[were\].the.work of.God they and the writing \[was\].the.writing of.God it engraved on the tablets

*JPS 1917:* And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4385.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4385/): 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).