Ketav כְּתַב

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Ketav (Aramaic כְּתַב, Strong's H3790) is an Aramaic verb meaning “to write”. It occurs 8 times in 7 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) to write
1a) (P'al) to write, to be written

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

KJV	wrote (5), written (2), write (1)
BSB	wrote (3), read as follows (1), we could write down (1), written (1), was writing (1), he wrote down (1)

Every verse with Ketav, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Ezra 4:8
Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:
Ezra 5:7
They sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king, all peace.The report they sent him read as follows: To King Darius: All peace.
Ezra 5:10
We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.We also asked for their names, so that we could write down the names of their leaders for your information.
Ezra 6:2
And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:And a scroll was found in the fortress of Ecbatana, in the province of Media, with the following written on it: Memorandum:

Daniel 5:5
In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,
Daniel 6:25
Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.Then King Darius wrote to the people of every nation and language throughout the land: “May your prosperity abound.
Daniel 7:1
In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.In the first year of the reign of Belshazzar over Babylon, Daniel had a dream, and visions passed through his mind as he lay on his bed. He wrote down the dream, and this is the summary of his account.

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).