Lexicon katham: to be stained Original Word: כָּתַםPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: katham Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-tham') Short Definition: stain NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto be stained NASB Translationstain (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ כָּתַם] verb only Niph`al be stained (Late Hebrew Niph`al id. (Jastr); כֶּתֶם blood-stain; ᵑ7 כְּתִים (blood-)stained Isaiah 1:18; כִּיתְמָא blood-stain Jeremiah 2:22; Syriac  stain, defile, Participle, also Pa`el, Ethpa`al, and derive.; Arabic  is cover, conceal, so Assyrian katâmu; Zinjirli כתם (?) DHMSendsch. P. 37); — Niph`al Participle, figurative, נִכְתָּם עֲוֺנֵךְ לְפָנַי Jeremiah 2:22 stained is thine iniquity before me (compare English phrase iniquity of deepest dye). II. כתם (√ of following; meaning unknown).
Strong's mark A primitive root; properly, to carve or engrave, i.e. (by implication) to inscribe indelibly -- mark. |
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