Differences between how the Hebrew Bible is spoken versus read
An image from the Masoretic Aleppo Codex of Deuteronomy 33, containing a qere and ketiv in the second column, the fifth line, the second word (33:9). The ketiv is "Beno" - "his son" בְּנוֹ, while the qere is "banaw" - "his sons" בָּנָיו.
Qere and Ketiv (from the Aramaic qere or q're, קְרֵי, "[what is] read"; ketiv, or ketib, kethib, kethibh, kethiv, כְּתִיב, "[what is] written") refers to a system for marking differences between what is written in the consonantal text of the Hebrew Bible, as preserved by scribal tradition, and what is read. In such situations, the qere is the technical orthographic device used to indicate the pronunciation of the words in the Masoretic text of the Hebrew language scriptures (Tanakh), while the ketiv indicates their written form, as inherited from tradition.
The word קרי is often pointed קְרִי and pronounced "kri" or "keri", reflecting the opinion that it is a passive participle rather than an imperative. This is reflected in the Ashkenazi pronunciation "keri uchsiv".
general head of fixation of pronunciation, and the second under the head of QereandKetiv (i.e. "What is read" and "What is written"). Various explanations...
and overlooked by St. Giles House University Hall', [Edinburgh] Dictated but not read Evidentiality Irony punctuation List of Latin phrases Qereand Ketiv...
is almost no flow and little water in the basin. Barada is identified as Abana (or Amanah, in QereandKetiv variation in Tanakh and classical Chrysorrhoas)...
no function, is another example of plene scriptum or else a case of qereandketiv. The Babylonian Talmud discusses why the Hebrew Bible in Leviticus 23:42–43...
instance of QereandKetiv in the Masoretic Text. The KJV translation "and not we ourselves" is based upon the ketiv, and agrees with the Septuagint and Vulgate...
books of Ezra and Nehemiah, one of the groups of Nethinim. The QereandKetiv system for recording variants gives the forms "Nephisim" and "Nephusim" in...
de la Lettre". Textus. 14 (1). ISSN 0082-3767. —————— (1990-08-19). "Qeré-Ketiv et Massora Magna dans le Manuscrit B 19a". Textus. 15 (1). ISSN 0082-3767...
are the words to be pronounced in place of the Tetragrammaton (see QereandKetiv), as shown also by the subtle pronunciation changes when combined with...
is a transcription of various words in Semitic languages, and may refer to: QereandKetiv, in Hebrew textual criticism Katib or secretary, a position...
notes were almost totally omitted and the printed edition showed only some of the original Codex's qereandketiv notes and incompletely indicated the Codex's...
word "cursed": "Naboth has blessed God and King" instead of "Naboth has cursed God and King". Qereandketiv Sofer (scribe) Tikkun (book) § Tikkun soferim...
many which are based on the difference of QereandKetiv, as well as on the variant spellings of words (plene and defective). Many words, also, are explained...
many or too few in the whole Pentateuch; and he bases many of his aggadic interpretations on the QereandKetiv. One of the main features of his commentary...
lectionis, and about qereandketiv. Midrash Tadshe (also called Baraita de-Rabbi Pinchas ben Yair), on the symbolism of the Tabernacle, and various symbolic...
Proverbs 3:18). "Fear" (from Hebrew: ירא yi-rā; as in Masoretic Ketiv, LXX and Vulgate): in Qereand Targum read "see" (from Hebrew: יראה yir-'eh). Benjamin David...
it as an acceptable variation of the word gəḇīrā within the ketiv (featuring a common qere), or opting for a distinct separation of the two words, despite...
word to be read (the qere) differed from that indicated by the consonants of the written text (the ketiv), they wrote the qere in the margin as a note...
("מַיִם"), "noon" ("צָהֳרַיִם"), "sky/heaven" ("שָׁמַיִם"), and in the qere – but not the original "ketiv" – of "Jerusalem" ("ירושל[י]ם"). It should also be noted...
from the Hebrew written text (kethib or ketiv) לֹא, loʾ (could be rendered as "not"), but here is read (Qere) as לוֹ, "to him"). The RSV renders as: "Behold...
Masoretic tradition is written (ketiv) with punctuation as הַשָּׁלִישִׁים֒, ha-shə-lō-shîm (meaning "thirty"), but read (qere) as הַשָּׁלִישִׁים֒, ha-shā-lî-shîm...
kinsman of her husband's": from the Ketiv reading מְיֻדַּע (mō-w-ḏa'; absolute מְיֻדָע) which is much preferred than the Qere מודַע, although מְיֻדָּע is ambiguous...
not wash in them and be clean?" So he turned and went away in a rage. "Abanah" (אבנה) from written (ketiv) Hebrew, Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate; "Amanah"...
messengers to David, and cedar trees, with masons and carpenters, to build him a house. "Hiram" (written (ketiv) as חירם, but read (qere) as חוּרָ֨ם, ḥū-rām):...
Zebudah (as should be read (qere); literally written (ketiv) as זְבִידָה 'Zebidah') might help Josiah securing control on the area and Necho would take advantage...
D. Ginsburg's Masoretic Text OL or : Old Latin / Vetus Latina (list) Q: qere xQx: Dead Sea Scrolls (list) S: Peshitta SP: Samaritan Pentateuch Tg: Targum...
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