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# berith

«berith» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A Hebrew word meaning "covenant," a solemn agreement** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A Hebrew word meaning "covenant," a solemn agreement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/berith/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Baal-berith ("lord of the covenant") and El-berith were names of a god worshiped at Shechem. Israel went astray after him. Interpretation: The word berith usually names the covenant between God and Israel. Here the same word is used for a false god, which the tradition treats as a sad twisting of Israel's loyalty.

### examples

- And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard thereof, they entered into the hold of the house of El-berith. (Prophets JDG.9.46, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/berith/#x1)
- And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him. (Prophets JDG.9.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/berith/#x2)
- And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel again went astray after the Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god. (Prophets JDG.8.33, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/berith/#x3)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «berith» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/berith/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.