מִכְתָּב
mikh.tav
“writing”
Definition
a thing written, the characters, or a document (letter, copy, edict, poem)
from H3789 (כָּתַב);
- writing, thing written 1a) handwriting 1b) thing written 1c) writing
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
מִכְתָּב appears 8 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Then a letter came to Jehoram from Elijah the prophet, which stated:“This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says:‘You have not walked in the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or of Asa king of Judah,
Prepare yourselves by families in your divisions, according to the instructions written by David king of Israel and Solomon his son.
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:
And the LORD wrote on the tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments that He had spoken to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly. The LORD gave them to me,
The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
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