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Aramaic word · H3790

כְּתַב

ketav

to write

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears 8 times in 7 verses of the Aramaic of the Old Testament.

Where it appears

Ezra · 4
  1. Ezra 4:8 כְּתַ֛בוּ they wrote

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

  2. Ezra 5:7 כְּתִ֣יב it was written

    The report they sent him read as follows: To King Darius: All peace.

  3. Ezra 5:10 נִכְתֻּ֥ב we will write

    We also asked for their names, so that we could write down the names of their leaders for your information.

  4. Ezra 6:2 כְּתִ֥יב it was written

    And a scroll was found in the fortress of Ecbatana, in the province of Media, with the following written on it: Memorandum:

Daniel · 4
  1. Daniel 5:5 וְכָֽתְבָן֙ כָתְבָֽה׃ and [they were] writing, [was] writing

    At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,

  2. Daniel 6:25 כְּ֠תַב he wrote

    Then King Darius wrote to the people of every nation and language throughout the land: “May your prosperity abound.

  3. Daniel 7:1 כְתַ֔ב he wrote

    In the first year of the reign of Belshazzar over Babylon, Daniel had a dream, and visions passed through his mind as he lay on his bed. He wrote down the dream, and this is the summary of his account.

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