Strong’s H3789 · Hebrew
כָּתַב
kâthab
kaw-thab'
Definition
to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)
Etymology
a primitive root;
How the KJV renders it
- describe
- record
- prescribe
- subscribe
- write(-ing
- -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.