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Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #3799 - כָּתַם
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- (Niphal) to be stained, be defiled, be deeply stained
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2297) mtk (כתמ KTM) AC: ? CO: Gold AB: ?
V) mtk (כתמ KTM) - Stain: [Unknown connection to root;] KJV (1): (vf: Niphal) mark - Strongs: H3799 (כָּתַם)
Nm) mtk (כתמ KTM) - Gold: KJV (9): gold - Strongs: H3800 (כֶּתֶם)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Niph`al be stained (Late Hebrew Niph`al id. (Jastr); כֶּתֶם blood-stain; ᵑ7כְּתִים (blood-) stained Isaiah 1:18; כִּיתְמָא blood-stain Jeremiah 2:22; Syriac 
stain, defile, Participle, also Pa`el, Ethpa`al, and derive.; Arabic 
is cover, conceal, so Assyrian katâmu; Zinjirli כתם (?) DHM Sendsch. P. 37); —
Niph`al Participle, figurative, נִכְתָּם עֲוֺנֵךְ לְפָנַי Jeremiah 2:22 stained is thine iniquity before me (compare English phrase iniquity of deepest dye).
II. כתם (√ of following; meaning unknown).
כָּתַם unused in Kal.
(I) i.q. كتم to hide away, to lay up; see כֶּתֶם.
(II) to be soiled, stained; Syriac Pael ܟܰܬܶܡ to stain. Ethp. to be soiled, filthy, stained; see Niph.
(III) i.q. כָּתַב, by a change of the letters מ and ב; see מִכְתָּם. [The arrangement of this root in its meanings must be regarded as very doubtful, see Thes.]
Niphal, pass. of No. II, to be stained, filthy [in Thes. to be written], Jeremiah 2:22. From No. I. is
