--- title: כְּתָב — writing · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary description: כְּתָב (lemma:כְּתָב), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 12 times: writing. BDB 1906: n.m. writing. 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Dn 5:7 writing;—abs. כְּתָ֑ב Ezr 7:22 (Baer כְּתַב, but v. K§ 57 ad fin. Str); cstr. כ׳ 6:18; emph. כְּתָכָא Dn 5:8 +, ה—ָ 5:7, 15;— writing, inscription (on wall) Dn 5:7, 8, 15, 16, 17, 24, 25. written decree 6:9, 10, 11. written requirement Ezr 6:18; 7:22. ### Jastrow 1903 כְּתָב: writing, writ character. signature [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5ea_5b8_5d1/#m3) **The whole Jastrow entry:** preced.) writing, writ; character. Ab. V, 6; Pes. 54ᵃ; Sifré Deut. 355 (of things created in the last hour of the sixth day) הכתב והמִכְתָּב the art of writing and the writing on the tablets (Ex. XXXII, 16; Rashi to Pes. l. c. והמְכַתֵּב and the pencil); Mekh. B’shall., Vayassa, s. 5 only כתב. Ab. Zar. 10ᵃ אין להם לא כ׳ ולא לשון they (the Romans) have neither (original) types nor language; Gitt. 80ᵃ (of פרסיים!). Y. Meg. I, 71ᵇ bot., v. אַשּׁוּרִי. Snh. 21ᵇ; Meg. 8ᵇ כ׳ עברי(ת), v. לִיבּוֹנָאָה. \[Ib. עד שיכתבנו בכתב אשורית, strike out בכתב, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l., a. Meg. 9ᵃ.\]—תורה שֶׁבִּכְּ׳ written Law, opp. שבעל פה. Yoma 28ᵇ; a. fr.—Meg. 18ᵇ שלא מן הכ׳ without a written copy, from memory.—Pes. 21ᵇ, a. e. דברים כִּכְתָבָן וכ׳ וכ׳ construe the Biblical words as they are written (Deut. XIV, 21) , to the resident stranger give it as a present, to the foreigner sell it.—כְּתַב יד signature. Keth. II, 3 sq.; a. fr.—Tosef. B. Kam. VII, 4 כ׳ היכר יד שלו.—Gen. R. s. 48 בכל מקום … הכ׳ רבה על הנקודה אתה דורש את הכ׳ וכ׳ wherever you find in the Biblical text the plain writing, i.e. the number of undotted letters in a word, prevailing over the number of the dotted, you must interpret the undotted (ignoring the dotted); where the dotted prevail, you must interpret the dotted, e.g. א̇לי̇ו̇ (Gen. XVIII, 9) read אַיּוֹ, where is he (Abraham)?; ib. s. 78; Cant. R. to VII, 5.—Tosef. Meg. IV (III), 41 (ref. to II Kings X, 27 מחראות) קורין אותו ככְתָבוֹ we read it as it is written (not as emended in the K’ri); a. fr.—Pl. כְּתָבִים, כְּתָבִין. Tanḥ. Masé 1; Num. R. s. 23, beg. כ׳ רעים מן המלכות government papers containing orders of hard measures against the Jews. Esth. R. introd. כְּתָבָיו של מלך royal decrees. Ex. R. s. 20 עד שילמוד בני כ׳ (some ed. כתובין) until my son shall have studied documents; a. e. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «כְּתָב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5ea_5b8_5d1/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Daniel 5:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.25/) וּדְנָ֥ה כְתָבָ֖א דִּ֣י רְשִׁ֑ים מְנֵ֥א מְנֵ֖א תְּקֵ֥ל וּפַרְסִֽין׃ *Word for word:* and this \[is\].the writing which it.was.inscribed mene mene teqel and pharsin *JPS 1917:* And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE MENE, TEKEL UPHARSIN. [Daniel 6:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.10/) כָּל־קֳבֵ֖ל דְּנָ֑ה מַלְכָּא֙ דָּֽרְיָ֔וֶשׁ רְשַׁ֥ם כְּתָבָ֖א וֶאֱסָרָֽא׃ *Word for word:* as to because this the king Darius he.signed the writing and the prohibition *JPS 1917:* Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the interdict. - ← previous: [כְּתַב](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5ea_5b7_5d1.md) - next →: [כְּתַל](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5ea_5b7_5dc.md) - ↑ back to [כ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/1499.md)