| Lexical Summary miktab: writingOriginal Word: מִכְתָּב Transliteration: miktab Phonetic Spelling: (mik-tawb') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: writing Meaning: a thing written, the characters, a document Strong's Concordancewriting From kathab; a thing written, the characters, or a document (letter, copy, edict, poem) -- writing. see HEBREW kathab Brown-Driver-Briggs H4385. miktab מִכְתָּב noun masculine2 Chronicles 21:12 writing; — absolute ׳מ Deuteronomy 10:4 + 5t.; construct מִכְתַּב Exodus 32:16 2t.; — 1 = handwriting הוּא אֱלֹהִים מִכְתַּב וְהַמִּכְתָּב Exodus 32:16. 2 = thing written, Exodus 39:30 (accusative of congnate meaning with verb with כָּתַב), Deuteronomy 10:4; specifically a royal enactment or edict (= כתם כְּתָב 4), 2 Chronicles 35:4 "" כְּתָב, 36:22 = Ezra 1:1; a prophetic writing 2 Chronicles 21:12. 3 in a title, ׳מ לְחִזְקִיָּהוּ Isaiah 38:9 Writing of Hezekiah. | 



