Jastrow: כָּתוּב

כָּתוּב m. (כָּתַב) Biblical verse, passage; הַכָּ׳ the Bible text. Ḥag. 18ᵃ, a. fr. במה הכ׳ מדבר of what does the text speak? Ib. הא לא מסרן הכ׳ אלא וכ׳ this proves that the Law intended to leave it to the discretion of the scholars to decide &c.—Pes. 3ᵃ עקם הכ׳ שמנה וכ׳ the text made a circumlocution of eight letters (more than would have been required). Sifra introd., beg. בנין אב מכ׳ אחד a standard rule derived from one verse. Ib. end כ׳ אחד אומר וכ׳ one verse reads …, and another reads &c.; a. fr.—Pl. כְּתוּבִים, כְּתוּבִין. Sifra l. c. Snh. 45ᵇ; Meïl. 11ᵇ, v. לָמַד; a. fr.—[Ex. R. s. 20, v. כְּתָב.]—Esp. K’thubim, Hagiographa, the third part of the Bible. Keth. 50ᵃ תורה נביאים וכ׳ (abbrev. תנ"ך) Pentateuch, Prophets and Hagiographa. B. Bath. 14ᵇ סידרן של כ׳ וכ׳ the order of the books of the Hagiographa is: Ruth &c. Meg. 31ᵃ ומשולש בכ׳ and for the third time intimated in the Hag.; a. fr.