‖ ketubah
(kɛtuːˈvɑː)
Also kethubah, ketuba.
[Heb. kethūbhāh written statement.]
A formal Jewish marriage contract which includes financial provisions for the wife in the event of the husband's death or of divorce.
| 1841 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. ii. vii. 487 The fulfilment of the conditions agreed upon in the kethubah..tended to render divorce a rare event. 1960 Commentary June 500/1 The Rabbinical Assembly has modified the Ketubah (marriage contract). 1960 [see get n.3]. 1962 B. Abrahams tr. Life Glückel of Hameln 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. |