Strong H3748כְּרִיתוּת
divorce
- Transliteration
- kerîythûth
- Pronunciation
- ker-ee-thooth'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Feminine)
Definition
From H3772; a cutting (of the matrimonial {bond}) that {is} divorce: - divorce (-ment).
Detailed definition
divorce, dismissal, divorcement
In the Bible
Strong H3748 appears in 4 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- divorcement3
- divorce1
First verses
- Deuteronomy 24:1When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
- Deuteronomy 24:3And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
- Isaiah 50:1Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
- Jeremiah 3:8And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.