Strong’s H3790 · Hebrew
כְּתַב
kᵉthab
keth-ab'
Definition
{to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)}
Etymology
(Aramaic) corresponding to H3789 (כָּתַב)
Where the KJV renders it
- write(-ten)
Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.
What the first audience heard
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