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Exodus 24:4
“And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H3789 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- describe, record, prescribe, subscribe, write(-ing, -ten).
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יִּכְתֹּ֣ב — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 227 times in the Hebrew Bible.Exodus 17:14Exodus 24:12Exodus 31:18Exodus 32:15Exodus 32:15
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read כָּתַב here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.