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  #3789 כָּתַב kathab {kaw-thab'}

 a primitive root; TWOT - 1053; v

—Hebrew Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar)


 1) to write, record, enrol
    1a) (Qal)
        1a1) to write, inscribe, engrave, write in, write on
        1a2) to write down, describe in writing
        1a3) to register, enrol, record
        1a4) to decree
    1b) (Niphal)
        1b1) to be written
        1b2) to be written down, be recorded, be enrolled
    1c) (Piel) to continue writing

—Brown-Driver-Briggs (Old Testament Hebrew-English Lexicon)

A primitive root; to grave; by implication to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe):—describe, record, prescribe, subscribe, write (-ing, -ten).

—Strong's (Hebrew & Chaldee Dictionary of the Old Testament)

#3789.
כָּתַב
kathab (507a); a prim. root; to write:—
NASB - decreed(1), describe(3), described(1), inscribed(1), prescribed(2), record(3), recorded(7), registered(3), registers(1), sign(1), signed(2), write(31), write them down(1), write down(1), write...down(1), writes(2), writing(1), written(126), written down(4), wrote(27), wrote down(2).

—NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries

 AV - write 210, describe 7, subscribe 4, recorded 1, write up 1; 223

describe
Joshua 18:4, 6, 8, 8.

described
Joshua 18:9. Judges 8:14.

prescribed
Isaiah 10:1.

recorded
Nehemiah 12:22.

subscribe
Isaiah 44:5. Jeremiah 32:44.

subscribed
Jeremiah 32:10, 12.

up
Psalms 87:6.

write
Exodus 17:14; 34:1, 27. Numbers 5:23; 17:2, 3. Deuteronomy 6:9; 10:2; 11:20; 17:18; 24:1, 3; 27:3, 8; 31:19. 2 Chronicles 26:22. Nehemiah 9:38. Esther 8:8. Proverbs 3:3; 7:3. Isaiah 8:1; 10:1, 19; 30:8. Jeremiah 22:30; 30:2; 31:33; 36:2, 17, 28. Ezekiel 24:2; 37:16, 16; 43:11. Habakkuk 2:2.

writest
Job 13:26. Ezekiel 37:20.

writing
Deuteronomy 31:24.

written
Exodus 24:12; 31:18; 32:15, 15, 32. Numbers 11:26. Deuteronomy 9:10; 28:58, 61; 29:20, 21, 27; 30:10. Joshua 1:8; 8:31, 34; 10:13; 23:6. 2 Samuel 1:18. 1 Kings 2:3; 11:41; 14:19, 29; 15:7, 23, 31; 16:5, 14, 20, 27; 21:11; 22:39, 45. 2 Kings 1:18; 8:23; 10:34; 12:19; 13:8, 12; 14:6, 15, 18, 28; 15:6, 11, 15, 21, 26, 31, 36; 16:19; 20:20; 21:17, 25; 22:13; 23:3, 21, 24, 28; 24:5. 1 Chronicles 4:41; 9:1; 16:40; 29:29. 2 Chronicles 9:29; 12:15; 13:22; 16:11; 20:34; 23:18; 24:27; 25:4, 26; 27:7; 28:26; 30:5, 18; 31:3; 32:32; 33:19; 34:21, 24, 31; 35:12, 25, 26, 27; 36:8. Ezra 3:2, 4; 4:7; 8:34. Nehemiah 6:6; 7:5; 8:14, 15; 10:34, 36; 12:23; 13:1. Esther 1:19; 2:23; 3:9, 12, 12; 6:2; 8:5, 8, 9; 9:23, 32; 10:2. Job 19:23; 31:35. Psalms 40:7; 69:28; 102:18; 139:16; 149:9. Proverbs 22:20. Ecclesiastes 12:10. Isaiah 4:3; 65:6. Jeremiah 17:1, 13; 25:13; 36:6, 29; 45:1; 51:60. Ezekiel 2:10, 10; 13:9. Daniel 9:11, 13; 12:1. Hosea 8:12. Malachi 3:16.

wrote
Exodus 24:4; 34:28; 39:30. Numbers 33:2. Deuteronomy 4:13; 5:22; 10:4; 31:9, 22. Joshua 8:32, 32; 24:26. 1 Samuel 10:25. 2 Samuel 11:14, 15. 1 Kings 21:8, 9. 2 Kings 10:1, 6; 17:37. 1 Chronicles 24:6. 2 Chronicles 30:1; 32:17. Ezra 4:6, 7. Esther 8:5, 10; 9:20, 29. Jeremiah 36:4, 18, 27, 32; 51:60.