כְּרִיתוּת
keritut · divorce
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3748 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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keritut (כְּרִיתוּת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “divorce”.
The "cutting" of the marriage bond.
How to say it
ke·ri·tut
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Cutting the marriage bond.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 24:1
When a man takes a woman and becomes her husband, and it happens, if she does not find favor in his eyes because he has found in her a nakedness of something, and he writes for her a document of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her away from his house,
- Deuteronomy 24:3
and the latter man hates her and writes for her a document of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her away from his house, or if the latter man who took her to himself as a wife dies,
- Isaiah 50:1
Thus says YHWH: “Where is the document of divorce of your mother, with which I sent her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I sold you? Look, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
- Jeremiah 3:8
And I saw that for all the reasons that apostate Israel had committed adultery, I had sent her away and given her her certificate of divorce; yet treacherous Judah, her sister, did not fear, but she went and prostituted herself too, she herself.