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Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #3791 - כְּתָב
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
1) a writing, document, edict
1a) register, enrolment, roll
1b) mode of writing, character, letter
1c) letter, document, a writing
1d) a written edict
1d1) of royal enactment
1d2) of divine authority
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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.
1 register, enrolement, Ezekiel 13:9; Ezra 2:62 = Nehemiah 7:64.
2 = mode of writing, character, letter, הִנִּשְׁתְּוָן כָּתוּב אֲרָמִית׳וּכ Ezra 4:7 and the writing of the letter was written in Aramaic (characters; so probably, see BeRy Ryle, compare Late Hebrew Hoffm ZAW i.(1881), 334ff.); compare Esther 1:22; Esther 3:12; Esther 8:9 (twice in verse).
3 = letter, 2 Chronicles 2:10; Esther 9:27.
4 of a royal enactment, edict 2 Chronicles 35:4 ("" מִכְתָּב), Esther 3:14; Esther 8:8,13; more fully כְּתָבהַֿדָּת Esther 4:8.
5 of a writing with divine authority 1 Chronicles 28:19; אֱמֶת׳כ Daniel 10:21, i.e. a book of truth.
כְּתָב m. Chald. id.
(1) something written, a writing, Daniel 5:8, 15, 16, 24.
(2) Specially a mandate, a precept, Ezra 6:18, 7:22, דִּי לְא כְתָב “without prescription,” i.e. at will, as much as is wanted.