כָּתַב (ka.tav) means “to write” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: kaw-thab' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
כָּתַב · ka.tav · to write
1) to write, record, enrol 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to write, inscribe, engrave, write in, write on 1a2) to write down, describe in writing 1a3) to register, enrol, record 1a4) to decree 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be written 1b2) to be written down, be recorded, be enrolled 1c) (Piel) to continue writing Aramaic equivalent: ke.tav (כְּתַב "to write" H3790)
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a primitive root; to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)
KJV glosses: describe, record, prescribe, subscribe, write(-ing, -ten).
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| written | 52 |
| are they not written | 8 |
| as it is written | 6 |
| wrote | 6 |
| recorded | 5 |
| that is written | 5 |
| write | 5 |
| and write | 4 |
| it is written | 4 |
| write down | 4 |
| write them | 4 |
| as written | 3 |
| had written | 3 |
| he wrote | 3 |
| were recorded | 3 |
| wrote down | 3 |
| according to what is written | 2 |
| and i will write | 2 |
| inscribed | 2 |
| is written | 2 |
| that were written | 2 |
| was written | 2 |
| you have written | 2 |
| and all this was recorded | 1 |
| and he wrote them | 1 |
| and inscribe it | 1 |
| and issue | 1 |
| and let it be recorded | 1 |
| and map it out | 1 |
| and the lord wrote | 1 |
| and the order was written | 1 |
| and they engraved | 1 |
| and to record | 1 |
| and written | 1 |
| and you shall write | 1 |
| are written | 1 |
| as prescribed | 1 |
| be written | 1 |
| but acted according to what is written | 1 |
| compose | 1 |
| could count them | 1 |
| decrees | 1 |
| did you write | 1 |
| enroll | 1 |
| have mapped out | 1 |
| have you written | 1 |
| he also wrote | 1 |
| he built it according to what is written | 1 |
| he had written | 1 |
| he may write | 1 |
| he must write | 1 |
| he wrote them | 1 |
| i have written | 1 |
| i signed | 1 |
| in accordance with what is written | 1 |
| in the register | 1 |
| it was written | 1 |
| joshua inscribed | 1 |
| let a decree be issued | 1 |
| listed | 1 |
| map it out | 1 |
| mapping it | 1 |
| may an order be written | 1 |
| may write | 1 |
| mordecai wrote | 1 |
| or be recorded | 1 |
| putting it in writing | 1 |
| recorded their names | 1 |
| rewrite | 1 |
| shall write | 1 |
| she wrote | 1 |
| that are written | 1 |
| that had been written | 1 |
| that he wrote | 1 |
| that read | 1 |
| that was written | 1 |
| the following written | 1 |
| the passage stating | 1 |
| the young man wrote down | 1 |
| then jehu wrote | 1 |
| then jezebel wrote | 1 |
| they are recorded | 1 |
| they are written | 1 |
| they recorded | 1 |
| they were inscribed | 1 |
| though i wrote for them | 1 |
| to map out | 1 |
| to what was written | 1 |
| was lodged | 1 |
| was recorded | 1 |
| were among those listed | 1 |
| were written | 1 |
| when he wrote | 1 |
| which are written | 1 |
| which were written | 1 |
| who are recorded | 1 |
| who were noted | 1 |
| who were signing | 1 |
| will be signed | 1 |
| will be written | 1 |
| will write | 1 |
| write it down | 1 |
| write this | 1 |
| writes | 1 |
| writing | 1 |
| written against them | 1 |
| wrote a letter | 1 |
| wrote them | 1 |
| you record | 1 |
| you write | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| written | 53 |
| they not written | 33 |
| wrote | 14 |
| write | 12 |
| and he wrote | 7 |
| and write | 7 |
| that are written | 6 |
| and thou shalt write | 5 |
| according to all that is written | 3 |
| and wrote | 3 |
| which he wrote | 3 |
| all that is written | 2 |
| and describe | 2 |
| and i will write | 2 |
| and it was written | 2 |
| as it is written | 2 |
| had written | 2 |
| let it be written | 2 |
| was written | 2 |
| which are written | 2 |
| which thou hast written | 2 |
| according unto all that which is written | 1 |
| after all that is written | 1 |
| and another shall subscribe | 1 |
| and described | 1 |
| and i subscribed | 1 |
| and i wrote | 1 |
| and let it be written | 1 |
| and not be written | 1 |
| and she wrote | 1 |
| and subscribe | 1 |
| and that write | 1 |
| and there was written | 1 |
| and these written | 1 |
| as it was written | 1 |
| every one that is written | 1 |
| for thou writest | 1 |
| have not i written | 1 |
| he wrote | 1 |
| her and write | 1 |
| i have written | 1 |
| in her then let him write | 1 |
| may write | 1 |
| neither shall they be written | 1 |
| not according unto that which is written | 1 |
| not written | 1 |
| now therefore write | 1 |
| of him and he described | 1 |
| of them that were written | 1 |
| of writing | 1 |
| otherwise than it was written | 1 |
| recorded | 1 |
| shall be written | 1 |
| shall write | 1 |
| so she wrote | 1 |
| that he shall write | 1 |
| that subscribed | 1 |
| that were written | 1 |
| then he wrote | 1 |
| therefore wrote | 1 |
| thereof and it was written | 1 |
| thereof and write | 1 |
| they have prescribed | 1 |
| they written | 1 |
| this shall be written | 1 |
| to describe | 1 |
| us now how didst thou write | 1 |
| was it written | 1 |
| were written | 1 |
| when he had written | 1 |
| when he writeth up | 1 |
| whereon thou writest | 1 |
| which i have written | 1 |
| which is written | 1 |
| which were written | 1 |
| who wrote | 1 |
| why hast thou written | 1 |
| ye shall therefore describe | 1 |
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And there it was found recorded that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the eunuchs who guarded the king’s entrance, when they had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.
Read word by word“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.
Read word by wordNow you may write in the king’s name as you please regarding the Jews, and seal it with the royal signet ring. For a decree that is written in the name of the king and sealed with the royal signet ring cannot be revoked.”
Read word by wordAt once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush—writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.
Read word by wordMordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes and sealed it with the royal signet ring. He sent the documents by mounted couriers riding on swift horses bred from the royal mares.
Read word by wordMordecai recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews in all the provinces of King Xerxes, both near and far,
Read word by wordSo the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.
Read word by wordSo Queen Esther daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim.
Read word by wordSo Esther’s decree confirmed these regulations about Purim, which were written into the record.
Read word by wordAnd all of Mordecai’s powerful and magnificent accomplishments, together with the full account of the greatness to which the king had raised him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?
Read word by wordFor You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.
Read word by wordI wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,
Read word by word(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.
Read word by wordThen I said, “Here I am, I have come—it is written about me in the scroll:
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 40.8
May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 69.29
The LORD will record in the register of the peoples: “This one was born in Zion.” Selah
Read word by wordLet this be written for the generation to come, so that a people not yet created may praise the LORD.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 102.19
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
Read word by wordto execute the judgment written against them. This honor is for all His saints. Hallelujah!
Read word by wordNever let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
Read word by wordTie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Read word by wordHave I not written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge,
Read word by wordThe Teacher searched to find delightful sayings and to record accurate words of truth.
Read word by wordWhoever remains in Zion and whoever is left in Jerusalem will be called holy—all in Jerusalem who are recorded among the living—
Read word by wordThen the LORD said to me, “Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary stylus: Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
Read word by wordWoe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,
Read word by wordThe remaining trees of its forests will be so few that a child could count them.
Read word by wordGo now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.
Read word by wordOne will say, ‘I belong to the LORD,’ another will call himself by the name of Jacob, and still another will write on his hand, ‘The LORD’s,’ and will take the name of Israel.”
Read word by wordBehold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps,
Read word by word“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.
Read word by wordO LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.
Read word by wordThis is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”
Read word by wordI will bring upon that land all the words I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.
Read word by word“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you.
Read word by word“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
Read word by wordI signed and sealed the deed, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.
Read word by wordand I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement and all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.
Read word by wordFields will be purchased with silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed, and witnessed in the land of Benjamin, in the areas surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah—the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev—because I will restore them from captivity, declares the LORD.”
Read word by word“Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you during the reign of Josiah until today.
Read word by wordSo Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and at the dictation of Jeremiah, Baruch wrote on a scroll all the words that the LORD had spoken to Jeremiah.
Read word by wordso you are to go to the house of the LORD on a day of fasting, and in the hearing of the people you are to read the words of the LORD from the scroll you have written at my dictation. Read them in the hearing of all the people of Judah who are coming from their cities.
Read word by word“Tell us now,” they asked Baruch, “how did you write all these words? Was it at Jeremiah’s dictation?”
Read word by word“It was at his dictation,” Baruch replied. “He recited all these words to me and I wrote them in ink on the scroll.”
Read word by wordAfter the king had burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
Read word by word“Take another scroll and rewrite on it the very words that were on the original scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah has burned.
Read word by wordYou are to proclaim concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah that this is what the LORD says: You have burned the scroll and said, ‘Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon would surely come and destroy this land and deprive it of man and beast?’
Read word by wordThen Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and at Jeremiah’s dictation he wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.
Read word by wordThis is the word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Neriah when he wrote these words on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah:
Read word by wordJeremiah had written on a single scroll about all the disaster that would come upon Babylon—all these words that had been written concerning Babylon.
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