Strong's #3789: kathab (pronounced kaw-thab')
a primitive root; to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe):--describe, record, prescribe, subscribe, write(-ing, -ten).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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kâthab
1) to write, record, enroll
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to write, inscribe, engrave, write in, write on
1a2) to write down, describe in writing
1a3) to register, enroll, record
1a4) to decree
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be written
1b2) to be written down, be recorded, be enrolled
1c) (Piel) to continue writing
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 223 times:
Exodus 17:14: "said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse"
Exodus 24:4: "And Moses wrote all of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning,"
Exodus 24:12: "and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach"
Exodus 31:18: "of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God."
Exodus 32:15: "of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side"
Exodus 32:15: "their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written."
Exodus 32:32: "me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written."
Exodus 34:1: "tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words"
Exodus 34:27: "said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for"
Exodus 34:28: "nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words"
Exodus 39:30: "of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a signet,"
Numbers 5:23: "And the priest shall write these in a book, and he shall blot them out with"
Numbers 11:26: "rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied"
Numbers 17:2: "their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou"
Numbers 17:3: " And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon of Levi: for one"
Numbers 33:2: "And Moses wrote their goings out by the commandment of the LORD:"
Deuteronomy 4:13: "you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone."
Deuteronomy 5:22: "and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two"
Deuteronomy 6:9: " And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house,"
Deuteronomy 9:10: "tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all"
Deuteronomy 10:2: " And I will write on the tables that were in"
Deuteronomy 10:4: " And he wrote on the tables, according to the first the ten commandments,"
Deuteronomy 11:20: " And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house,"
Deuteronomy 17:18: "upon the throne that he shall write him a copy of this law"
Deuteronomy 24:1: "he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand,"
Deuteronomy 24:3: "And if the latter husband hate her, and write of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand,"
Deuteronomy 27:3: " And thou shalt write upon them all of this law, when thou art passed over,"
Deuteronomy 27:8: " And thou shalt write upon the stones the words of this law"
Deuteronomy 28:58: "the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear"
Deuteronomy 28:61: "which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD"
Deuteronomy 29:20: "man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD"
Deuteronomy 29:21: "of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:"
Deuteronomy 29:27: "it all the curses that are written in this book:"
Deuteronomy 30:10: "to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if"
Deuteronomy 31:9: "And Moses wrote this and delivered it unto the priests"
Deuteronomy 31:19: "Now therefore write ye this for you, and teach it the children"
Deuteronomy 31:22: "Moses therefore wrote this the same day, and taught"
Deuteronomy 31:24: "And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law"
Joshua 1:8: "that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make"
Joshua 8:31: "the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar"
Joshua 8:32: " And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses,"
Joshua 8:32: "of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel."
Joshua 8:34: "of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law."
Joshua 10:13: "themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun"
Joshua 18:4: "them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to"
Joshua 18:6: "Ye shall therefore describe the land parts, and bring the description hither"
Joshua 18:8: "them that went to describe the land, saying, Go"
Joshua 18:8: "Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast"
Joshua 18:9: "went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in"
Joshua 23:6: "and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn"
