STRONGS NUMBER H3799


Word Summary
katham: to be stained
Original Word: כְּתַם
Transliteration: katham
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-tham')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be stained
Meaning: to carve, engrave, to inscribe indelibly
Strong's Concordance
mark

A primitive root; properly, to carve or engrave, i.e. (by implication) to inscribe indelibly -- mark.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3799. katham

[כָּתַם‎] verb only

Niph`al be stained (Late Hebrew Niph`al id. (Jastr); כֶּתֶםblood-stain; כְּתִים ᵑ7‎ (blood-)stained Isaiah 1:18; כִּיתְמָאblood-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, לְפָנַי עֲוֺנֵךְ נִכְתָּםJeremiah 2:22 stained is thine iniquity before me (compare English phrase iniquity of deepest dye).

II. כתם‎ (√ of following; meaning unknown).