divorcement
part of speech
noun
meaning for a pupil
The act of divorcing, or the ending of a marriage. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Deuteronomy it appears in "a bill of divorcement," the written paper a husband gives his wife to end the marriage. Interpretation: Tradition takes this verse as the source for the get, a written document that must be freely given and handed to the wife.
examples
- and the latter husband hateth her, and writeth her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife; (Torah DEU.24.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- Thus saith the LORD: Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? (Prophets ISA.50.1, JPS 1917) tree →
- And I saw, when, forasmuch as backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorcement, that yet treacherous Judah her sister feared not; but she also went and played the harlot; (Prophets JER.3.8, JPS 1917) tree →
note
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In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «divorcement» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.