H3789: כָּתַב
kâthab · pronounced kaw-thab' · “to write”
Definition
to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)
KJV translates it as: describe, record, prescribe, subscribe, write(-ing, -ten).
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to write, inscribe, engrave, write in, write on
1a2) to write down, describe in writing
1a3) to register, enrol, record
1a4) to decree
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be written
1b2) to be written down, be recorded, be enrolled
1c) (Piel) to continue writing
Aramaic equivalent: ke.tav (כְּתַב "to write" H3790)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H3789 is translated
- written ×41
- he wrote ×20
- are written ×20
- what is written ×16
- write ×10
- them ×8
- thing written ×7
- it was written ×7
- was written ×7
- you will write ×6
- is written ×6
- were written ×5
Bible verses with H3789 (kâthab)
Kâthab appears in 212 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Exodus 17:14
And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
- Exodus 24:4
And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
- Exodus 24:12
And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
- Exodus 31:18
And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
- Exodus 32:15
And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
- Exodus 32:32
Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
- Exodus 34:1
And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
- Exodus 34:27
And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
- Exodus 34:28
And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
- Exodus 39:30
And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
- Numbers 5:23
And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
- Numbers 11:26
But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.
- Numbers 17:2
Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man’s name upon his rod.
- Numbers 17:3
And thou shalt write Aaron’s name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers.
- Numbers 33:2
And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the Lord: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.
- Deuteronomy 4:13
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
- Deuteronomy 5:22
These words the Lord spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
- Deuteronomy 6:9
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
- Deuteronomy 9:10
And the Lord delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the Lord spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
- Deuteronomy 10:2
And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
- Deuteronomy 10:4
And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the Lord gave them unto me.
- Deuteronomy 11:20
And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
- Deuteronomy 17:18
And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:
- Deuteronomy 24:1
When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
- Deuteronomy 24:3
And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
All 212 references
- Deuteronomy 27:3
- Deuteronomy 27:8
- Deuteronomy 28:58
- Deuteronomy 28:61
- Deuteronomy 29:20
- Deuteronomy 29:21
- Deuteronomy 29:27
- Deuteronomy 30:10
- Deuteronomy 31:9
- Deuteronomy 31:19
- Deuteronomy 31:22
- Deuteronomy 31:24
- Joshua 1:8
- Joshua 8:31
- Joshua 8:32
- Joshua 8:34
- Joshua 10:13
- Joshua 18:4
- Joshua 18:6
- Joshua 18:8
- Joshua 18:9
- Joshua 23:6
- Joshua 24:26
- Judges 8:14
- 1 Samuel 10:25
- 2 Samuel 1:18
- 2 Samuel 11:14
- 2 Samuel 11:15
- 1 Kings 2:3
- 1 Kings 11:41
- 1 Kings 14:19
- 1 Kings 14:29
- 1 Kings 15:7
- 1 Kings 15:23
- 1 Kings 15:31
- 1 Kings 16:5
- 1 Kings 16:14
- 1 Kings 16:20
- 1 Kings 16:27
- 1 Kings 21:8
- 1 Kings 21:9
- 1 Kings 21:11
- 1 Kings 22:39
- 1 Kings 22:45
- 2 Kings 1:18
- 2 Kings 8:23
- 2 Kings 10:1
- 2 Kings 10:6
- 2 Kings 10:34
- 2 Kings 12:19
- 2 Kings 13:8
- 2 Kings 13:12
- 2 Kings 14:6
- 2 Kings 14:15
- 2 Kings 14:18
- 2 Kings 14:28
- 2 Kings 15:6
- 2 Kings 15:11
- 2 Kings 15:15
- 2 Kings 15:21
- 2 Kings 15:26
- 2 Kings 15:31
- 2 Kings 15:36
- 2 Kings 16:19
- 2 Kings 17:37
- 2 Kings 20:20
- 2 Kings 21:17
- 2 Kings 21:25
- 2 Kings 22:13
- 2 Kings 23:3
- 2 Kings 23:21
- 2 Kings 23:24
- 2 Kings 23:28
- 2 Kings 24:5
- 1 Chronicles 4:41
- 1 Chronicles 9:1
- 1 Chronicles 16:40
- 1 Chronicles 24:6
- 1 Chronicles 29:29
- 2 Chronicles 9:29
- 2 Chronicles 12:15
- 2 Chronicles 13:22
- 2 Chronicles 16:11
- 2 Chronicles 20:34
- 2 Chronicles 23:18
- 2 Chronicles 24:27
- 2 Chronicles 25:4
- 2 Chronicles 25:26
- 2 Chronicles 26:22
- 2 Chronicles 27:7
- 2 Chronicles 28:26
- 2 Chronicles 30:1
- 2 Chronicles 30:5
- 2 Chronicles 30:18
- 2 Chronicles 31:3
- 2 Chronicles 32:17
- 2 Chronicles 32:32
- 2 Chronicles 33:19
- 2 Chronicles 34:21
- 2 Chronicles 34:24
- 2 Chronicles 34:31
- 2 Chronicles 35:12
- 2 Chronicles 35:25
- 2 Chronicles 35:26
- 2 Chronicles 35:27
- 2 Chronicles 36:8
- Ezra 3:2
- Ezra 3:4
- Ezra 4:6
- Ezra 4:7
- Ezra 8:34
- Nehemiah 6:6
- Nehemiah 7:5
- Nehemiah 8:14
- Nehemiah 8:15
- Nehemiah 9:38
- Nehemiah 10:34
- Nehemiah 10:36
- Nehemiah 12:22
- Nehemiah 12:23
- Nehemiah 13:1
- Esther 1:19
- Esther 2:23
- Esther 3:9
- Esther 3:12
- Esther 6:2
- Esther 8:5
- Esther 8:8
- Esther 8:9
- Esther 8:10
- Esther 9:20
- Esther 9:23
- Esther 9:29
- Esther 9:32
- Esther 10:2
- Job 13:26
- Job 19:23
- Job 31:35
- Psalms 40:7
- Psalms 69:28
- Psalms 87:6
- Psalms 102:18
- Psalms 139:16
- Psalms 149:9
- Proverbs 3:3
- Proverbs 7:3
- Proverbs 22:20
- Ecclesiastes 12:10
- Isaiah 4:3
- Isaiah 8:1
- Isaiah 10:1
- Isaiah 10:19
- Isaiah 30:8
- Isaiah 44:5
- Isaiah 65:6
- Jeremiah 17:1
- Jeremiah 17:13
- Jeremiah 22:30
- Jeremiah 25:13
- Jeremiah 30:2
- Jeremiah 31:33
- Jeremiah 32:10
- Jeremiah 32:12
- Jeremiah 32:44
- Jeremiah 36:2
- Jeremiah 36:4
- Jeremiah 36:6
- Jeremiah 36:17
- Jeremiah 36:18
- Jeremiah 36:27
- Jeremiah 36:28
- Jeremiah 36:29
- Jeremiah 36:32
- Jeremiah 45:1
- Jeremiah 51:60
- Ezekiel 2:10
- Ezekiel 13:9
- Ezekiel 24:2
- Ezekiel 37:16
- Ezekiel 37:20
- Ezekiel 43:11
- Daniel 9:11
- Daniel 9:13
- Daniel 12:1
- Hosea 8:12
- Habakkuk 2:2
- Malachi 3:16