נכתב

Passive of כָּתַב (katáv), from the root כ־ת־ב (k-t-b).

נִכְתַּב • (nikhtáv) third-singular masculine past (nif'al construction, active counterpart כָּתַב)

1. To be written: to get written, to undergo writing, to come into written existence.
   • 1170 CE, Maimonides, Mishneh Torah:

     אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁלֹּא נִכְתְּבָה תּוֹרָה שֶׁבְּעַל פֶּה, לִמְּדָהּ מֹשֶׁה רַבֵּנוּ כֻּלָּהּ בְּבֵית דִּינוֹ לְשִׁבְעִים זְקֵנִים; וְאֶלְעָזָר וּפִינְחָס וִיהוֹשׁוּעַ, שְׁלָשְׁתָּן קִבְּלוּ מִמֹּשֶׁה.

     ʾaf ʿal pi shelo niḫteva tora shebeʿal fe, limeḏa moshe rabenu kula bebeyṯ dino leshivʿim zeqenim; veʾelʿazar ufinḥam vihoshuʿa shelashtan qibelu mimoshe

     Although the Oral Torah was not written down, Moses taught all of it in his tribunal to seventy elders; and Eliezer and Phinehas and Joshua all received it from Moses.

   הספרים נכתבו במשך שנה וחצי. — has'farím nikht'vú b'méshekh shaná vakhétsi. — The books were written over the course of a year and a half.

2. (נִכְתָּב, nikhtáv) Masculine singular present participle and present tense of נִכְתַּב.

• This verb refers to the event of being written. For the state of having been written, the adjective כָּתוּב (katúv, “written”) is used.