ketav · write

What it means

ketav (כְּתַב) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “write”.

To write (Aramaic). Related to the Hebrew "katav".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To put words down in writing, in the language of the imperial court.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• wrote ×3
• was written ×2
• was writing ×1
• we might write ×1
• were writing ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Ezra×4
• Daniel×4

• Ezra 4:8

  Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows:

• Ezra 5:7

  They sent a message to him, and thus was written in it: “To Darius the king: all peace.

• Ezra 5:10

  And we asked them also their names, to inform you, so that we might write the name of the men who are at their head.

• Ezra 6:2

  And there was found in Ecbatana, in the fortress that is in the province of Media, a scroll, and thus was written in it: “Memorial:

• Daniel 5:5

  At that very moment there came out the fingers of a man’s hand and were writing opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the palace of the king; and the king was seeing the palm of the hand that was writing.

• Daniel 6:25

  Then King Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages that live in all the earth: “May your peace increase!

• Daniel 7:1

  In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head on his bed; then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.

And 1 more times.