berith
11Berith — noun the Jewish rite of circumcision performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life • Syn: ↑Berit, ↑Brith, ↑Bris, ↑Briss • Hypernyms: ↑circumcision * * * Seph. /breet/; Ashk. /brddis/; Eng. /bris, brit/ …
12BAAL-BERITH — (Heb. בַּעַל בְּרִית; Lord of Covenant ), the name of the deity worshiped in the earliest Israelite period at the Temple of Shechem (Judg. 9:4). That temple was destroyed in the 12th century B.C.E. by abimelech , the half Shechemite son of the… …
13Congregation Berith Sholom — (Covenant of Peace) is a synagogue in Troy, New York. The synagogue is the oldest continuously used synagogue in the state of New York, the second oldest house of worship in the state outside of the city of New York,[1] and one of the oldest… …
14Baal-berith — was the god of the Canaanite city. His temple was destroyed when Abimelech quelled the rising of his fickle subjects (Jud. iX. 4, 46). The name denotes a form of Ba al worship prevailing in Israel, according to the Book of Judges (viii. 33), and… …
15Baal-berith — BAAL BERITH, war also bey den Phöniciern und andern der Gott der Bündnisse und Eidschwüre, weil Berith ein Bund heißt. Man will, daß er mit der Gottheit der Kretenser Britomartis einerley sey. S. Britomartis. Jedoch, da die Phönicier zwo… …
16Baal-Berith — u. Baal Gad (Myth.), s.u. Baal …
17Baal-berith — Covenant lord, the name of the god worshipped in Shechem after the death of Gideon (Judg. 8:33; 9:4). In 9:46 he is called simply the god Berith. The name denotes the god of the covenant into which the Israelites entered with the Canaanites,… …
18BAAL-BERITH — Latine dominus foederis. Iudic. c. 9. v. 4. Beryti urbis idolum facit Bochartus, quem sis consule Geogr. p. 859. Hîc filii Israel exstruxerunt Fanum Baali, ibique iurârunt, et foedus inierunt, cum Baal, ut esset ipsorum Deus. Est in Tribu Ephraim …
19Sefer Ha-berith — Sefer ha Berit (ספר הברית) ist hebräisch und bedeutet Bundesbuch. Es bezieht sich auf die Kapitel 20,19 24,18 im 2. Buch Mose. Diese Kapitel folgen auf den Dekalog, d.h. auf die Zehn Gebote der schriftlichen Tora der hebräischen Bibel. Es enthält …
20Baal-Berith — ‘God of the covenant’, who presided over contracts and agreements …
