{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H3789",
  "lemma": "כָּתַב",
  "transliteration": "kâthab",
  "definition": "to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)",
  "kjv": "describe, record, prescribe, subscribe, write(-ing, -ten).",
  "occurrences": 227,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "כָּתַב 223 vb. write",
    "Qal",
    "1. write",
    "2. = write down, describe in writing",
    "3. = register, enroll",
    "4. = decree",
    "Niph.",
    "1. be written",
    "2. = be written down, recorded",
    "Pi. frequent."
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 17:14",
      "text": "The LORD said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/17?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 24:4",
      "text": "Moses wrote all the LORD’s words, then rose up early in the morning and built an altar at the base of the mountain…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/24?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 24:12",
      "text": "The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the stone tablets with the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/24?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 31:18",
      "text": "When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the covenant, stone tablets…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/31?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 32:15",
      "text": "Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand; tablets that were…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/32?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 32:32",
      "text": "Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/32?v=32"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 34:1",
      "text": "The LORD said to Moses, “Chisel two stone tablets like the first. I will write on the tablets the words that were on…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/34?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 34:27",
      "text": "The LORD said to Moses, “Write these words; for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/34?v=27"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 34:28",
      "text": "He was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/34?v=28"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 39:30",
      "text": "They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engravings of a signet…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/39?v=30"
    }
  ],
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