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:
Esther 1:19: "let there go commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians"
Esther 2:23: "on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king."
Esther 3:9: "If it please the king, let it be written and I will pay ten"
Esther 3:12: "on the thirteenth of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman"
Esther 3:12: "of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus"
Esther 6:2: "And it was found written, that Mordecai of Bigthana and Teresh,"
Esther 8:5: "the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters"
Esther 8:5: "the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews"
Esther 8:8: " Write ye also for the Jews, you, in the king's name,"
Esther 8:8: "ring: for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed"
Esther 8:9: "Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded"
Esther 8:10: " And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, it with the king's ring, and sent"
Esther 9:20: "And Mordecai wrote these and sent letters unto"
Esther 9:23: "they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto"
Esther 9:29: "of Abihail, the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm"
Esther 9:32: "these of Purim; and it was written in the book."
Esther 10:2: "advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles"
Job 13:26: "For thou writest bitter things against the iniquities of my youth."
Job 19:23: "my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!"
Job 31:35: "is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book."
Psalms 40:7: "I come: of the book it is written of"
Psalms 69:28: "out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous."
Psalms 87:6: "The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, man was born there. Selah."
Psalms 102:18: "This shall be written for the generation to come: which shall be created shall praise the LORD."
Psalms 139:16: "and in all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none"
Psalms 149:9: "To execute upon them the judgment written: this have all his saints. Praise"
Proverbs 3:3: "them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:"
Proverbs 7:3: "Bind them upon thy fingers, write the table of thine heart."
Proverbs 22:20: "Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels"
Ecclesiastes 12:10: "to find out acceptable and that which was written was upright, even words of truth."
Isaiah 4:3: "shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:"
Isaiah 8:1: "me, Take roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz."
Isaiah 10:1: "unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;"
Isaiah 10:1: "decrees, grievousness which they have prescribed;"
Isaiah 10:19: "shall be that a child may write"
Isaiah 30:8: "Now go, write it before a table, and note it in"
Isaiah 44:5: "himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name"
Isaiah 65:6: "Behold, it is written before me: I will not but will recompense,"
Jeremiah 17:1: "The sin of Judah is written with a pen and with the point of a diamond: it is graven"
Jeremiah 17:13: "thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken"
Jeremiah 22:30: "Thus saith the LORD, Write this man childless,"
Jeremiah 25:13: "against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah"
Jeremiah 30:2: "God saying, Write thee all the words that"
Jeremiah 31:33: "my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God,"
Jeremiah 32:10: " And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took and weighed him the money in the balances."
Jeremiah 32:12: "mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all"
Jeremiah 32:44: "Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe and seal them, and take witnesses"
Jeremiah 36:2: "Take thee a roll of a book, and write all the words"
Jeremiah 36:4: "of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah"
Jeremiah 36:6: "and read in the roll, thou hast written from my mouth, the words"
