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Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary
Strong's #03789 - כָּתַב
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2295) btk (כתב KTB) AC: Write CO: Writing AB: ?
V) btk (כתב KTB) - Write: [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (231): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Piel) write, describe, subscribe, record - Strongs: H3789 (כָּתַב), H3790 (כְּתַב)
Nm) btk (כתב KTB) - Writing: Something written as well as the act of writing. [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (29): writing, register, scripture, prescribing - Strongs: H3791 (כְּתָב), H3792 (כְּתָב)
cf2) tbftk (כתובת KTWBT) - Writing: KJV (1): any - Strongs: H3793 (כְּתֹבֶת)
hm) btkm (מכתב MKTB) - Writing: A written composition. KJV (9): writing - Strongs: H4385 (מִכְתָּב)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
כָּתַב fut. יִכְתֹּב to write. (Arab., Syr., Ch. id. [“Eth. ክታብ፡ book, letter”].) Constr. followed by an acc. of that which is written, 2 Samuel 11:14; Deuteronomy 10:2, 31:24, but followed by עַל Deuteronomy 6:9, 11:20 אֶל Jeremiah 36:2; Ezra 2:10, and בְּ Nehemiah 7:5, 8:14 13:1, of the material written on, more rarely followed by an acc. Isaiah 44:5, יִכְתֹּב יָדוֹ לַיהֹוָה pr. “he fills his hand with letters (er befchreibt feine Hand) in honour of Jehovah;” compare Exodus 32:15; Ezra 2:10. כָּתַב סֵפֶר אֶל־פּ׳ to write a letter to any one, 2 Samuel 11:14 followed by עַל of pers. 2 Chronicles 30:1. But this last mentioned construction also denotes, to prescribe, to direct in writing, 2 Kings 22:13; Psalms 40:8 also followed by אֶל Esther 9:23, and לְ Proverbs 22:20; Hosea 8:12; Ezra 4:7, כָּתוּב אֲרָמִית “written in Aramean letters.” Specially it is
(a) to write down, to put in writing (auffchreiben), Numbers 33:2; Judges 8:14.
(b) to describe, Joshua 18:4, 6:8.
(c) to inscribe, to put down in a list, men, citizens, or soldiers, Psalms 87:6, יְהֹוָה יִסְפֹּר בִּכְתוֹב עַמִּים “Jehovah will count as he writes down the peoples;” Isaiah 4:3, כָּל־הַכָּתוּב לַחַיִּים “whosoever is written down for life;” compare Jeremiah 22:30; Psalms 69:29.
(d) to write a sentence, i.e. to decree, Isaiah 65:6; Job 13:26. (Arab. كتب followed by عاى to decree concerning any one; كتاب the sentence of a judge.)
Niphal, pass. to be written, written down, Esther 1:19, 2:23 Job 19:23; Jeremiah 17:13.
Piel i.q. Kal let. d, Isaiah 10:1.
Hence מִכְתָּב and the words immediately following.
כְּתָב m. (with kametz impure) i.q. Syr. ܟܬܳܒܳܐ Arab. كِتَابُ a word used in the later Hebrew for the more ancient סֵפֶר.
(1) something written, a writing, Esther 3:14, 8:8 2 Chronicles 2:10, וַיּאֹמֶר בִּכְתָב “and he said in writing,” i.e. by letters: used of the kind of writing, or of the form of letters, Ezra 4:7 of a transcript, Esther 4:8.
(2) a book, Daniel 10:21 specially a list, a register, Ezekiel 13:9; Ezra 2:62; Nehemiah 7:64.
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