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Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #3748 - כְּרִיתוּת
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- divorce, dismissal, divorcement
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did not use
this Strong's Number
2291) trk (כרת KRT) AC: Cut CO: ? AB: ?: A cutting off or down of anything. Often used as a cutting of the covenant in the sense that the sacrificial animal is cut in half (see Jeremiah 34:18) . [from: yq- being cut short] (eng: create)
V) trk (כרת KRT) - Cut off: KJV (288): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil, Hophal, Pual) cut off, make, cut down, cut, fail, destroy, want, covenant, hew - Strongs: H3772 (כָּרַת)
df1) etfrk (כרותה KRWTH) - Beam: As cut off from the tree. KJV (3): beam - Strongs: H3773 (כְּרֻתוֹת)
bf3) tftirk (כריתות KRYTWT) - Divorce: As cut off from the husband. KJV (4): divorcement, divorce - Strongs: H3748 (כְּרִיתוּת)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
כְּרִיתוּת and כְּרִיתֻת f. a cutting off from marriage, a divorce; סֵפֶר כְּרִיתֻת Deuteronomy 24:1, Deuteronomy 24:3; Isaiah 50:1 סֵפֶר בְּרִיתֻתִים Jeremiah 3:8, a bill of divorce. Root כָּרַת.
