Meaning of k'tiv | Babel Free

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The written form of a word in a Hebrew text, when the form that is traditionally read aloud (k'rei) differs.

Examples

“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.”

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