‖ Kethubim, n. pl.
(kɛθuːˈviːm, kɛt-)
Also 7 Chetoubim, 20 Ketubim, K'tubhim, -vim.
[Heb. k'thūbīm writings.]
= Hagiographa n. pl.
| 1690 tr. J. Le Clerc's Five Lett. ii. 102 Others..they call Chetoubim, or simply Writings; that is to say, the Psalms [etc.]. 1892 H. E. Ryle Canon of Old Testament vi. 127 The Psalter is the most important book of the ‘Kethubim’. Ibid. 132 The Book of Job..had no fitting place in the Canon save in the mixed group of ‘the Kethubim’. 1904 Jewish Encycl. VI. 151/1 It can not now be ascertained when the name ‘Ketubim’ and the Greek designation ‘Hagiographa’ were first given to the collection. 1961 Jrnl. Biblical Lit. LXXX. 106 Tanak..stems from the abbreviations of the three divisions, Torah, Nebhi'im, and K'tubhim, of the Hebrew Scriptures. 1967 D. T. Kauffman Dict. Relig. Terms 274 Ketuvim or Kethubim, third section of the Jewish Scriptures: the Sacred Writings beginning with the Psalms and ending with the Chronicles. |