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מִכְתָּב
miktâb · Hebrew · Strong's H4385 · 9 occurrences
The KJV renders 4 different Hebrew and Greek words as “writing”
What it means
a thing written, the characters, or a document (letter, copy, edict, poem)
from H3789 (כָּתַב);
How the KJV renders it
writing
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
Answers that weigh this word
Where it appears
9 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 8 verses shown.
2 Chronicles 21:12 · HNcmsa
A letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, “Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
2 Chronicles 35:4 · HC/R/Ncmsc
Prepare yourselves after your fathers’ houses by your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.
2 Chronicles 36:22 · HR/Ncmsa
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
Deuteronomy 10:4 · HRd/Ncmsa
He wrote on the tablets, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly; and Yahweh gave them to me.
Exodus 32:16 · HC/Td/Ncmsa
The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
Exodus 39:30 · HNcmsc
They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engravings of a signet: “HOLY TO YAHWEH”.
Ezra 1:1 HR/NcmsaIsaiah 38:9 HNcmsa
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