STRONGS G647:
ἀποστάσιον,
-ου,
τό, very seldom in native Greek writings,
defection, of a freedman from his patron, Demosthenes 35, 48 [940, 16]; in the Bible:
1. divorce, repudiation:
Matthew 19:7;
Mark 10:4 (
βιβλίον ἀποστασίου, equivalent to
סֵפֶר כְּרִיתֻת book or bill of divorce,
Deuteronomy 24:1,
3; [
Isaiah 50:1;
Jeremiah 3:8]).
2. a bill of divorce:
Matthew 5:31. Grotius at the passage and
Lightfoot, Horae Hebrew at the passage, give a copy of one.
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