Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H3748: כְּרִיתוּת

kᵉrîythûwth · pronounced ker-ee-thooth' · “divorce”

Definition

a cutting (of the matrimonial bond), i.e. divorce

KJV translates it as: divorce(-ment).

Word origin: from H3772 (כָּרַת);

Extended definition

divorce, dismissal, divorcement

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H3748 is translated

  • divorce ×2
  • the divorce of ×1
  • her ×1

Bible verses with H3748 (kᵉrîythûwth)

Kᵉrîythûwth appears in 4 verses.

  • Deuteronomy 24:1

    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.

  • Deuteronomy 24:3

    And 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 50:1

    Thus 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 3:8

    And 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.