Hebrew noun (feminine) · H3748
כְּרִיתוּת
kerithuthker-ee-thooth'
divorce
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kᵉrîythûwth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3748is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3748
a cutting (of the matrimonial bond), i.e. divorce
The King James renders it: divorce(-ment).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
kerithuth is rendered "divorce". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 24:1If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.
Deuteronomy 24:1כְּרִיתֻת֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in Deuteronomy.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- divorce2
- divorce of1
- divorces her1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- כְּרִיתֻת֙2
- כְּרִית֤וּת1
- כְּרִיתֻתֶ֖יהָ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular2HNcfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfsc
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcfsc/Sp3fs
Deuteronomy
two uses
If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.
- כְּרִיתֻת֙keritutnoun · feminine singulartagged: divorce
and the second man hates her, writes her a certificate of divorce, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house, or if he dies,
- כְּרִיתֻת֙keritutnoun · feminine singulartagged: divorce
Isaiah
one use
This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
- כְּרִית֤וּתkeritutnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: divorce of
Jeremiah
one use
She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.
- כְּרִיתֻתֶ֖יהָkerituteihanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: divorces her
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.