כְּתַב kᵉthab — (Aramaic) corresponding to H3789
Translated in the KJV as write.
(Aramaic) corresponding to H3789.
kᵉthab in each stem
Pe'al
Perfect (qatal) 3Participle (active) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.
In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Pe'il
Perfect (qatal) 2
They sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king, all peace.
And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:
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 ›