כְּתַב
ke.tav
“to write”
Definition
{to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)}
(Aramaic) corresponding to H3789 (כָּתַב)
- to write 1a) (P'al) to write, to be written
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Verb
A:V
A:V
Occurrences
כְּתַב appears 6 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,
In the first year of the reign of Belshazzar over Babylon, Daniel had a dream, and visions passed through his mind as he lay on his bed. He wrote down the dream, and this is the summary of his account.
Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:
The report they sent him read as follows:To King Darius:All peace.
We also asked for their names, so that we could write down the names of their leaders for your information.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.