Lexicon kethab: a writing Original Word: כְּתָבPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: kethab Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-thawb') Short Definition: script NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom kathabDefinitiona writing NASB Translationdecree (1), edict (2), letter (1), register (1), registration* (2), regulation (1), script (4), text (2), writing (3).
Brown-Driver-Briggs כְּתָב noun masculineEzra 4:7 writing (late Aramaic; Biblical Aramaic כְּתָב Syriac  ); — ׳כ absolute 1 Chronicles 28:19 4t.; construct Ezekiel 13:9 4t.; suffix כְּתָבָהּ Esther 1:22 2t.; כְּתָבָם Ezra 2:62 3t.; — writing: 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 HoffmZAW i.(1881), 334 ff.); compare Esther 1:22; Esther 3:12; Esther 8:9 (twice in verse). 3 = letter, 2 Chron 2:10; Esther 9:27. 4 of a royal enactment, edict2Chronicles 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.
Strong's register, scripture, writing From kathab; something written, i.e. A writing, record or book -- register, scripture, writing. see HEBREW kathab |
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