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ketiv / qere כְּתִיב / קְרֵי ketiv / qere

'Written' / 'read' — the Masoretes' double track: where tradition READ a word differently than the consonants WRITE it, they left the written letters in the column and set the reading beside them. Daniel 11 shows several (vv 10, 12, 18, 39 — an unpointed word beside its pointed twin in the Hebrew column here). The manuscript's own honesty, kept. → first discussed at Dan 11:10