ἀποστάσιον
apostásion · G647 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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written notice of divorce
A written statement prepared by a husband and given to a wife as evidence of a legal divorce
ExamplesMatthew 5:31 “Now it was said, ‘WHOEVER SENDS HIS WIFE AWAY IS TO GIVE HER A CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE’;
Matthew 19:7 They said to Him, “Why, then, did Moses command to GIVE HER A CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE AND SEND HER AWAY?”
Mark 10:4 They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send his wife away.”
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- δίδωμιto give, to grant 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- βιβλίονbook, scroll 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- כְּרִיתוּת kᵉrîythûwth · H3748 · divorce
- Hebrew כְּרִיתוּת (kᵉrîythûwth, H3748) and Greek ἀποστάσιον (apostásion, G647) both denote the formal certificate or act of divorce, with the Greek term appearing in LXX and NT as the direct translation equivalent of the Hebrew technical legal term.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Written notice of divorce33.41
- In Matthew 5:31, Jesus quotes the traditional teaching, “whoever sends his wife away is to give her a certificate of divorce (apostásion),” naming the formal legal document that dissolved a marriage.
Word family 58 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀποστασίου, τό, very seldom in native Greek writings, defection, of a freedman from his…
1. divorce, repudiation: Mt 19:7; Mk 10:4 (βιβλίον ἀποστασίου, equivalent to כְּרִיתֻת סֵפֶר book or bill of divorce, Deut 24:1, Deut 24:3; (Isa 50:1; Jer 3:8)).
2. a bill of divorce: Mt 5:31. Grotius at the passage and Lightfoot, Horae Hebrew at the passage, We a copy of one.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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