כְּתַבkᵉthab

write

Pronunciation: keth-ab' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3790

Meanings

Pe`al: active (Daniel 6:26; Daniel 7:1; Ezra 4:8)

Pe`il: was written (Ezra 5:7; Ezra 6:2)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 8 times in the Bible.

  • Ezra 4:8 Rehum the governor and Shimshai the court secretary wrote the letter, telling King Artaxerxes about the situation in Jerusalem.
  • Ezra 5:7 “To King Darius. Greetings.
  • Ezra 5:10 And we demanded their names so that we could tell you who the leaders were.
  • Ezra 6:2 But it was at the fortress at Ecbatana in the province of Media that a scroll was found. This is what it said: “Memorandum:
  • Daniel 5:5 Suddenly, they saw the fingers of a human hand writing on the plaster wall of the king’s palace, near the lampstand. The king himself saw the hand as it wrote,
  • Daniel 6:25 Then King Darius sent this message to the people of every race and nation and language throughout the world: “Peace and prosperity to you!
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).