Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong's Definition
properly, something separative, i.e. (specially) divorce
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
defection, desertion, as of a freedman from a patron; in NT the act of putting away a wife, repudiation, divorce, Mt. 19:7; Mk. 10:4; meton. a bill of repudiation, deed of divorce, Mt. 5:31*
Translated in KJV as
(writing of) divorcement
Etymology
neuter of a (presumed) adjective from a derivative of G868 (ἀφίστημι);
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