Lexical Summary katham: to be stained Original Word: כְּתַםTransliteration: katham Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-tham') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to be stained Meaning: to carve, engrave, to inscribe indelibly Strong's Concordance mark A primitive root; properly, to carve or engrave, i.e. (by implication) to inscribe indelibly -- mark. Brown-Driver-Briggs H3799. katham [כָּתַם] verb only Niph`al be stained (Late Hebrew Niph`al id. (Jastr); כֶּתֶם blood-stain; כְּתִים ᵑ7 (blood-)stained Isaiah 1:18; כִּיתְמָא blood-stain Jeremiah 2:22; Syriac stain, defile, Participle, also Pa`el, Ethpa`al, and derive.; Arabic is cover, conceal, so Assyrian katâmu; Zinjirli כתם (?) DHMSendsch. P. 37); — Niph`al Participle, figurative, לְפָנַי עֲוֺנֵךְ נִכְתָּם Jeremiah 2:22 stained is thine iniquity before me (compare English phrase iniquity of deepest dye). II. כתם (√ of following; meaning unknown). |
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