כְּרִיתוּת
kᵉrîythûwth · H3748 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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divorce
Dissolution of a marriage
ExamplesDeuteronomy 24:1 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens, if she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, that he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her away from his house,
Deuteronomy 24:3 and the latter husband turns against her, writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand, and sends her away from his house, or if the latter husband who took her to be his wife dies,
Isaiah 50:1 This is what the LORD says: “Where is the certificate of divorce By which I have sent your mother away? Or to whom of My creditors did I sell you? Behold, you were sold for your wrongdoings, And for your wrongful acts your mother was sent 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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- אֵםmother 1
- הּher 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- סֵפֶרbook, scroll, letter 4
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
- ἀποστάσιον apostásion · G647 · written notice of divorce
- Greek ἀποστάσιον renders Hebrew כְּרִיתוּת as the standard LXX equivalent for the formal legal term denoting a certificate or act of divorce, maintaining the specialized juridical register across both languages.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Dissociate002003002009
- This word denotes divorce, the formal legal dissolution of a marriage bond, so it belongs among words for separating or dissociating.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3748. kerithuth כְּרִיתוּת noun feminine divorcement; — ׳כ Isa 50:1; כְּרִיתֻת Deu 24:1,…
כְּרִיתוּת noun feminine divorcement; — ׳כ Isa 50:1; כְּרִיתֻת Deu 24:1, Deu 24:3; plural suffix כְּרִיתֻתֶיהָ Jer 3:8; כ ׳סֵפֶר writing (i.e. deed) of divorcement, Deu 24:1, Deu 24:3; Isa 50:1; Jer 3:8.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), 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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