# H3789 כָּתַב

כָּתַב (kâthab), Strong’s H3789: to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe) KJV: describe, record, prescribe, subscribe, write(-ing, -ten).. Occurs 227 times.

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*kâthab* — to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)

KJV: describe, record, prescribe, subscribe, write(-ing, -ten).

Occurs 227 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- 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.

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 17:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/17?v=14) — The LORD said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will…
- [Exodus 24:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/24?v=4) — Moses wrote all the LORD’s words, then rose up early in the morning and built an altar at the base of the mountain…
- [Exodus 24:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/24?v=12) — 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…
- [Exodus 31:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/31?v=18) — When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the covenant, stone tablets…
- [Exodus 32:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/32?v=15) — Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand; tablets that were…
- [Exodus 32:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/32?v=32) — Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”
- [Exodus 34:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/34?v=1) — The LORD said to Moses, “Chisel two stone tablets like the first. I will write on the tablets the words that were on…
- [Exodus 34:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/34?v=27) — The LORD said to Moses, “Write these words; for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with…
- [Exodus 34:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/34?v=28) — He was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets…
- [Exodus 39:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/39?v=30) — They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engravings of a signet…