Kᵉthab — H3790

Definition

verb

to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)

1. to write
1. (P'al) to write, to be written

Usually translated as

written, write

Origin

(Aramaic) corresponding to H3789

• Kâthab (H3789)

Occurrences

Kᵉthab occurs 8 times in 7 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Ezra (4), Daniel (3)

• Ezra 4:8 — Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote (כְּתַ֛בוּ) a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
• Ezra 5:7 — They sent a letter unto him, wherein was written (כְּתִ֣יב) thus; Unto Darius the king, all peace.
• Ezra 5:10 — We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write (נִכְתֻּ֥ב) the names of the men that were the chief of them.
• Ezra 6:2 — And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written (כְּתִ֥יב):
• Daniel 5:5 — In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote (וְכָֽתְבָן֙) over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
• Daniel 5:5 — In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote (כָתְבָֽה).
• Daniel 6:25 — Then king Darius wrote (כְּ֠תַב) unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.
• Daniel 7:1 — In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote (כְתַ֔ב) the dream, and told the sum of the matters.