כָּתַם kâtham — properly, to carve or engrave, i.e. (by implication) to inscribe indelibly
Translated in the KJV as mark.
a primitive root; properly, to carve or engrave, i.e. (by implication) to inscribe indelibly.
kâtham in each stem
Niph'al
Simple · passive — the plain action; the subject has it done to them
Participle (passive) 1
נִכְתָּ֤ם Jer 2:22 Participle (passive), masculine singular
For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›