k'tiv

English

Etymology

From Hebrew כְּתִיב (“spelling”)

Noun

k'tiv

1. The written form of a word in a Hebrew text, when the form that is traditionally read aloud (k'rei) differs.
   • 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page xix:

     Furthermore, as the reader may know, the Hebrew text's k'tiv (written tradition) and k'rei (reading tradition) differ for occasional words; where this occurs, our edition first prints that word's k'tiv letters in small type, followed by the pointed k'rei letters in normal text type.