Strong's #3792: kthab (pronounced keth-awb')
(Aramaic) corresponding to 3791:--prescribing, writing(-ten).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ּ (Aramaic)
kethâb
1) a writing
1a) writing, inscription
1b) written decree, written requirement
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: corresponding to H3791
Usage:
This word is used 12 times:
Ezra 6:18: "of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses."
Ezra 7:22: "of oil, and salt without prescribing"
Daniel 5:7: "Whosoever shall read this writing, and show me the interpretation"
Daniel 5:8: "men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known the interpretation"
Daniel 5:15: "me, that they should read this writing, and make known thereof: but they could not"
Daniel 5:16: "thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet,"
Daniel 5:17: "yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation."
Daniel 5:24: "sent from him; and this writing was written."
Daniel 5:25: "And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN."
Daniel 6:8: "establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law"
Daniel 6:9: "Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree."
Daniel 6:10: "Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows"