STRONGS NUMBER H3791


Word Summary
kethab: a writing
Original Word: כָּתָב
Transliteration: kethab
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-thawb')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a writing
Meaning: something written, a writing, record, book
Strong's Concordance
register, scripture, writing

From kathab; something written, i.e. A writing, record or book -- register, scripture, writing.

see HEBREW kathab

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3791. kethab

כְּתָבnoun masculineEzra 4:7 writing (late Aramaic; Biblical Aramaic כְּתָב‎ Syriac ); — ׳כ‎ absolute 1 Chronicles 28:19 4t.; construct Ezekiel 13:9 4t.; suffix כְּתָבָהּEsther 1:22 2t.; כְּתָבָםEzra 2:62 3t.; — writing:

1 register, enrolement, Ezekiel 13:9; Ezra 2:62 = Nehemiah 7:64.

2 = mode of writing, character, letter, ׳וּכ אֲרָמִית כָּתוּב הִנִּשְׁתְּוָןEzra 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; 3:12; 8:9 (twice in verse).

3 = letter, 2 Chronicles 2:10; Esther 9:27.

4 of a royal enactment, edict2 Chronicles 35:4 ("" מִכְתָּב‎), Esther 3:14; 8:8, 13; more fully כְּתָבהַֿדָּת4:8.

5 of a writing with divine authority 1 Chronicles 28:19; ׳כ אֱמֶתDaniel 10:21, i.e. a book of truth.