k'tiv
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Hebrew כְּתִיב (“spelling”).
Noun
[edit]k'tiv
- 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.