ketubahn.
/kɛtuːˈvɑː/ A formal Jewish marriage contract which includes financial provisions for the wife in the event of the husband's death or of divorce.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > gifts and payments > [noun] > marriage settlement
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ketubah1841
1841 G. Borrow Zincali I. ii. vii. 344 The walking of the bride..to the house of her betrothed..the reading of the Ketubah.
1891 M. Friedländer Jewish Relig. 487 The fulfilment of the conditions agreed upon in the kethubhah..tended to render divorce a rare event.
1960 Commentary June 500/1 The Rabbinical Assembly has modified the Ketubah (marriage contract).
1960 L. P. Gartner Jewish Immigrant vi. 168 Social pressure and legal adjustments in the ketubah (marriage document) could force the most recalcitrant of husbands to grant his estranged wife a get (divorce).
1962 B. Abrahams tr. Glückel of Hameln Life iv. 79 When we stood all together under the chuppah with the bride and bridegroom, we found that..the Ketuba had not been drawn up!
1974 H. Kemelman Tuesday Rabbi saw Red 7 I read the Ketubah, that is the marriage contract, which the groom has signed previously.
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