מִכְתָּב
miktâb · H4385 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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writing
Action by which humans or deities mark letters, words or other symbols on a surface, such as clay, stone, skin, or papyrus, usually with a pointed stylus or reed
ExamplesExodus 32:16 The tablets were God’s work, and the writing was God’s writing engraved on the tablets.
Deuteronomy 10:4 “Then He wrote on the tablets, like the first writing, the Ten Commandments which the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and the LORD gave them to me.
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writing, written message, inscription
A written document, written on an unspecified surface
ExamplesExodus 39:30 They also made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and inscribed it like the engravings of a signet, “Holy to the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 21:12 Then a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, “This is what the LORD, the God of your father David says: ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of your father Jehoshaphat and the ways of Asa king of Judah,
2 Chronicles 35:4 “Prepare yourselves by your fathers’ households in your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel and according to the writing of his son Solomon.
How it’s used In 7 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
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- אֱלֹהִיםGod, gods 1
- פִּתּוּחַengravings 1
- שְׁלֹמֹהSolomon 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רִאשׁוֹןfirst, former 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קֹדֶשׁholiness 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כָּתַבto write down, to write, to inscribe 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 3
- כlike/as 2
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
- γραφή graphḗ · G1124 · passage, part of a document, part of Scripture
- מִכְתָּב (miktâb, H4385) denotes the physical act or product of writing in general contexts, while γραφή (graphḗ, G1124) specifically refers to Scripture/holy writings in the LXX/NT corpus, representing a semantic narrowing from the broader Hebrew term to its sacred textual instantiation.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Write002001001072
- מִכְתָּב names writing, the act or product of inscribing, as in the tablets "written by the finger of God" (Exodus 32:16) and Hezekiah's own written record of his recovery (Isaiah 38:9).
- Scrolls001003001001014
- The word also names the physical written document itself, a scroll or record, distinct from the act of writing.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4385. miktab מִכְתָּב noun masculine2Ch 21:12 writing; — absolute ׳מ Deu 10:4 + 5t.;…
מִכְתָּב noun masculine2Ch 21:12 writing; — absolute ׳מ Deu 10:4 + 5t.; construct מִכְתַּב Exo 32:16 Exo 32:2t.; —
1 = handwriting הוּא אֱלֹהִים מִכְתַּב וְהַמִּכְתָּב Exo 32:16.
2 = thing written, Exo 39:30 (accusative of congnate meaning with verb with כָּתַב), Deu 10:4; specifically a royal enactment or edict (= כתם כְּתָב 4), 2Ch 35:4 || כְּתָב, 2Ch 36:22 = Ezr 1:1; a prophetic writing 2Ch 21:12.
3 in a title, ׳מ לְחִזְקִיָּהוּ Isa 38:9 Writing of Hezekiah.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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