כְּרִיתוּתkᵉrîythûwth

divorcement (Isaiah 50:1; Deuteronomy 24:1; Deuteronomy 24:3; Jeremiah 3:8)

Pronunciation: ker-ee-thooth' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3748

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 4 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 24:1 “Suppose a man marries a woman but she does not please him. Having discovered something wrong with her, he writes a document of divorce, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house.
  • Deuteronomy 24:3 But if the second husband also turns against her, writes a document of divorce, hands it to her, and sends her away, or if he dies,
  • Isaiah 50:1 This is what the Lord says: “Was your mother sent away because I divorced her? Did I sell you as slaves to my creditors? No, you were sold because of your sins. And your mother, too, was taken because of your sins.
  • Jeremiah 3:8 She saw that I divorced faithless Israel because of her adultery. But that treacherous sister Judah had no fear, and now she, too, has left me and given herself to prostitution.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).