כָּתַב
ka.tav
1. to write, record, enrol
a. (Qal)
1. to write, inscribe, engrave, write in, write on
2. to write down, describe in writing
3. to register, enrol, record
4. to decree
b. (Niphal)
1. to be written
2. to be written down, be recorded, be enrolled
c. (Piel) to continue writing
Aramaic equivalent: ke.tav (כְּתַב "to write" H3790)
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
Translated as (BSB)
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Old Testament
New Testament
Concordance 212 verses
- Esther 6:2 כָת֗וּב
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.
- Esther 8:5 יִכָּתֵ֞בכָּתַ֗ב
“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.
- Esther 8:8 כִּתְב֨וּנִכְתָּ֣ב
Now 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.”
- Esther 8:9 וַיִּכָּתֵ֣ב
At 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.
- Esther 8:10 וַיִּכְתֹּ֗ב
Mordecai 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.
- Esther 9:20 וַיִּכְתֹּ֣ב
Mordecai recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews in all the provinces of King Xerxes, both near and far,
- Esther 9:23 כָּתַ֥ב
So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.
- Esther 9:29 וַ֠תִּכְתֹּב
So Queen Esther daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim.
- Esther 9:32 וְנִכְתָּ֖ב
So Esther’s decree confirmed these regulations about Purim, which were written into the record.
- Esther 10:2 כְּתוּבִ֗ים
And 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?
- Job 13:26 תִכְתֹּ֣ב
For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.
- Job 19:23 וְיִכָּתְב֣וּן
I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,
- Job 31:35 כָּ֝תַ֗ב
(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.
- Psalms 40:7 כָּת֥וּב
Then I said, “Here I am, I have come— it is written about me in the scroll:
- Psalms 69:28 יִכָּתֵֽבוּ׃
May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.
- Psalms 87:6 בִּכְת֣וֹב
The LORD will record in the register of the peoples: “This one was born in Zion.” Selah
- Psalms 102:18 תִּכָּ֣תֶב
Let this be written for the generation to come, so that a people not yet created may praise the LORD.
- Psalms 139:16 יִכָּ֫תֵ֥בוּ
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.
- Psalms 149:9 כָּת֗וּב
to execute the judgment written against them. This honor is for all His saints. Hallelujah!
- Proverbs 3:3 כָּ֝תְבֵ֗ם
Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
- Proverbs 7:3 כָּ֝תְבֵ֗ם
Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
- Proverbs 22:20 כָתַ֣בְתִּי
Have I not written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge,
- Ecclesiastes 12:10 וְכָת֥וּב
The Teacher searched to find delightful sayings and to record accurate words of truth.
- Isaiah 4:3 הַכָּת֥וּב
Whoever remains in Zion and whoever is left in Jerusalem will be called holy— all in Jerusalem who are recorded among the living—
- Isaiah 8:1 וּכְתֹ֤ב
Then the LORD said to me, “Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary stylus: Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
- Isaiah 10:1 וּֽמְכַתְּבִ֥יםכִּתֵּֽבוּ׃
Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,
- Isaiah 10:19 יִכְתְּבֵֽם׃פ
The remaining trees of its forests will be so few that a child could count them.
- Isaiah 30:8 כָתְבָ֥הּ
Go 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.
- Isaiah 44:5 יִכְתֹּ֤ב
One 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.”
- Isaiah 65:6 כְתוּבָ֖ה
Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps,
- Jeremiah 17:1 כְּתוּבָ֛ה
“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.
- Jeremiah 17:13 יִכָּתֵ֔בוּ
O 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.
- Jeremiah 22:30 כִּתְב֞וּ
This 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.”
- Jeremiah 25:13 הַכָּתוּב֙
I 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.
- Jeremiah 30:2 כְּתָב־
“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you.
- Jeremiah 31:33 אֶכְתֲּבֶ֑נָּה
“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.
- Jeremiah 32:10 וָאֶכְתֹּ֤ב
I signed and sealed the deed, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.
- Jeremiah 32:12 הַכֹּתְבִ֖ים
and 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.
- Jeremiah 32:44 וְכָת֨וֹב
Fields 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.”
- Jeremiah 36:2 וְכָתַבְתָּ֣
“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.
- Jeremiah 36:4 וַיִּכְתֹּ֨ב
So 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.
- Jeremiah 36:6 כָּתַֽבְתָּ־
so 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.
- Jeremiah 36:17 כָּתַ֛בְתָּ
“Tell us now,” they asked Baruch, “how did you write all these words? Was it at Jeremiah’s dictation?”
- Jeremiah 36:18 כֹּתֵ֥ב
“It was at his dictation,” Baruch replied. “He recited all these words to me and I wrote them in ink on the scroll.”
- Jeremiah 36:27 כָּתַ֥ב
After 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:
- Jeremiah 36:28 וּכְתֹ֣ב
“Take another scroll and rewrite on it the very words that were on the original scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah has burned.
- Jeremiah 36:29 כָּתַ֨בְתָּ
You 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?’
- Jeremiah 36:32 וַיִּכְתֹּ֤ב
Then 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.
- Jeremiah 45:1 בְּכָתְבוֹ֩
This 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:
- Jeremiah 51:60 וַיִּכְתֹּ֣בהַכְּתֻבִ֖ים
Jeremiah had written on a single scroll about all the disaster that would come upon Babylon—all these words that had been written concerning Babylon.