To write
כְּתַבStrong’s H3790ketav (ke-tav)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ketav is the Aramaic word usually translated “it was written”, “wrote” and “we will write”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.”
Meaning
- To write(P'al) to write, to be written
How it's translated
- it was written 2
- he wrote 2
- they wrote 1
- we will write 1
- and writing 1
- writing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 4
- Daniel 3
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 6:25In contextThen king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.
- Daniel 7:1In contextIn the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.
- Ezra 4:8Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
- Ezra 5:7They sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king, all peace.
- Ezra 5:10We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.
- Ezra 6:2And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:
Aramaic dictionary
כְּתַב ketav · to write
1) to write 1a) (P'al) to write, to be written
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “write” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WRITE, verb transitive
preterit tense wrote.; participle passive writ, written. [Latin]
- To form by a pen on paper or other material, or by a graver on wood or stone; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.
- To express by forming letters and words on paper or stone; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement.
- To engrave. [See the preceding definition.]
- To impress durable. write useful truths on the heart.
All definitions and other forms of “write”
- To compose or produce, as an author.
- To copy; to transcribe.
- To communicate by letter.
WRITE, verb intransitive
- To perform the act of forming characters, letters or figures, as representatives of sounds or ideas.
- To be employed as a clerk or an amanuensis.
- To play the author; as, he thinks, he speaks, he writes, he sings.
- To recite or relate in books.
- To send letters.
- To call ones self; to be entitled; to use the style of.
- To compose; to frame or combine ideas and express them in words.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.