Divorce
כְּרִיתוּתStrong’s H3748keritut (ke-ri-tut)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Keritut is the Hebrew word usually translated “divorce”, “divorce of” and “divorce her”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“When 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.”
Meaning
- Divorce, dismissal, divorcement
How it's translated
- divorce 2
- divorce of 1
- divorce her 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 2
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 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.
Hebrew dictionary
כְּרִיתוּת keritut · divorce
divorce, dismissal, divorcement
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “divorce” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DIVORCE, noun
[Latin See Divert.]
- A legal dissolution of the bonds of matrimony, or the separation of husband and wife by a judicial sentence.
- The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband, a mensa et thoro.
- Separation; disunion of things closely united.
- The sentence or writing by which marriage is dissolved.
All definitions and other forms of “divorce”
- The cause of any penal separation.
DIVORCE, verb transitive
- To dissolve the marriage contract, and thus to separate husband and wife.
- To separate, as a married woman from the bed and board of her husband.
- To separate or disunite things closely connected; to force asunder.
- To take away; to put away.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.