Dictionaries :: Divorce, Divorcement

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Divorce, Divorcement:

"to let loose from, let go free" (apo, "from," luo, "to loose"), is translated "is divorced" in the AV of Mat 5:32 (RV, "is put away"); it is further used of "divorce" in Mat 1:19; 19:3, 7-9; Mar 10:2, 4, 11; Luk 16:18. The Lord also used it of the case of a wife putting away her husband, Mar 10:12, a usage among Greeks and Romans, not among Jews.
See DISMISS.

Divorce, Divorcement:

primarily, "a defection," lit., "a standing off" (apo, "from," stasis, "a standing;" cp. aphistemi, "to cause to withdraw"), denotes, in the NT, "a writing or bill of divorcement," Mat 5:31; 19:7; Mar 10:4. In Sept., Deu 24:3; Isa 50:1; Jer 3:8.