כְּתֹבֶת
kᵉthôbeth · H3793 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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incision, tattoo, scar
Incision in the flesh, made with a sharp knife, as part of a pagan mourning rite, forbidden by the law
ExamplesLeviticus 19:28 ‘You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead, nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קַעֲקַעincision 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- χάραγμα cháragma · G5480 · mark, brand, likeness
- Greek χάραγμα denotes a mark, stamp, or engraved/inscribed sign, serving as a direct translation equivalent for the Hebrew כְּתֹבֶת which refers to a mark or inscription, particularly in the context of being engraved or written upon something
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Impact002001001024
- This word's sole occurrence (Leviticus 19:28) denotes a tattoo or incised mark on the skin, a mark made by an impressing or cutting action, so it belongs among words associated with impact.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3793. kethobeth כְּתֹ֫בֶת noun feminine only construct בָּכֶם תִתְּנוּ לֹא קַעֲקַע…
כְּתֹ֫בֶת noun feminine only construct בָּכֶם תִתְּנוּ לֹא קַעֲקַע וּכְתֹבֶת Lev 19:28 i.e. a writing (mark or sign) of imprintment, scriptio stigmatis, perhaps of tattooing, compare Di (see also BaNB 61).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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