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מִכְתָּב

michtav · writing

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4385 · appears 9 times in the Bible

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What it means

michtav (מִכְתָּב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “writing”.

What is written.

How to say it

mich·tav

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. A text: a letter, or letters engraved in stone or metal.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • writing ×8
  • inscription ×1

Related words

Comes from

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

Where it appears

  • Exodus 32:16

    And the tablets were the work of Elohim, and the writing was the writing of Elohim, engraved on the tablets.

  • Exodus 39:30

    And they made the plate of the holy diadem of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription with the engravings of a seal: “Holiness to YHWH.”

  • Deuteronomy 10:4

    And he wrote on the tablets, according to the first writing, the ten words that YHWH had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and YHWH gave them to me.

  • 2 Chronicles 21:12

    A writing came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, “Thus says YHWH, Elohim of David your father: ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father or in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

  • 2 Chronicles 35:4

    Prepare yourselves by your fathers’ houses, according to your divisions, following the writing of David king of Israel and the writing of Solomon his son.

  • 2 Chronicles 36:22

    In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of YHWH by the mouth of Jeremiah, YHWH stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, and he sent a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also in writing, saying,

  • Ezra 1:1

    And in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of YHWH from the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, YHWH stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, and he made a proclamation pass throughout all his kingdom, and also in writing, saying:

  • Isaiah 38:9

    A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and had lived from his sickness:

And 1 more times.