H3791

כְּתָב

ka.tavH:N-M

writing

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 Aramaic equivalent: ke.tav (כְּתָב "inscription" H3792)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

כְּתָב noun masculine^{Ezra 4:7} writing (late Aramaic; Biblical Aramaic כְּתָב Syriac ); — ׳כ absolute 1Chr 28:19 + 4 t.; construct Ezek 13:9 + 4 t.; suffix כְּתָבָהּ Esth 1:22 + 2 t.; כְּתָבָם Ezra 2:62 + 3 t.; — writing:

1. register, enrolement, Ezek 13:9; Ezra 2:62 = Neh 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), 334 ff.}); compare Esth 1:22; Esth 3:12; Esth 8:9 (twice in verse).

3. = letter, 2Chr 2:10; Esth 9:27.

4. of a royal enactment, edict 2Chr 35:4 (|| מִכְתָּב), Esth 3:14; Esth 8:8; Esth 8:13 more fully כְּתָבהַֿדָּת Esth 4:8.

5. of a writing with divine authority 1Chr 28:19 אֱמֶת ׳כ Dan 10:21, i.e. a book of truth.

14 occurrences

I Chronicles (1), II Chronicles (1), Ezra (2), Nehemiah (1), Esther (7), Ezekiel (1), Daniel (1)