Brown-Driver-Briggs   [כָּתַם]  verb only Niph`al be stained (Late Hebrew Niph`al id. (Jastr); כֶּתֶם blood-stain; ᵑ7 כְּתִים (blood-)stained Isaiah 1:18; כִּיתְמָא blood-stain Jeremiah 2:22; Syriac  Niph`al Participle, figurative, נִכְתָּם עֲוֺנֵךְ לְפָנַי Jeremiah 2:22 stained is thine iniquity before me (compare English phrase iniquity of deepest dye). II. כתם (√ of following; meaning unknown).  Forms and Transliterations נִכְתָּ֤ם נכתם nichTam niḵ·tām niḵtāmLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts | 
 stain, defile, Participle, also Pa`el, Ethpa`al, and derive.; Arabic 
 is cover, conceal, so Assyrian katâmu; Zinjirli כתם (?) DHMSendsch. P. 37); — 


