Berith


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the Jewish rite of circumcision performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life

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The covenant on which I want to focus, however, is the first specific mention of berith in the Hebrew scriptures (Genesis 6-9): the covenant between YHWH and the living earth, established through Noah.
The very word "federal" came from one of the Latin translations (foedus) of the Hebrew word for covenant (berith).
Pili Pala's new collection has been inspired by company founder Berith Lochery's Danish roots.
We know, from correspondence between the MPPDA and B'Nai Berith, a prominent Jewish civil rights organization, that intense negotiations were undertaken in order to avoid casting blame upon the Jews.
Holy berith beris, beris rede ynowgh; The thristilcok, the popyngay daunce in euery bow.
Fletcher for Richard Royston, 1653), 1, that (contrary to puritans like Ames and Anglicans like Sparke) the covenant of grace in the New Testament, whether called berith or diatheke, is always bilateral and conditional "and never a testament."
Husband and wife, whether they know it or not, are incipiently father and mother, parents of children for whose moral and spiritual education they bear a sacred obligation--to ancestors, to community, to God--an obligation symbolized first in the covenant-making commandment of berith milah, of circumcision....
(Development of pre implantational mouse embryos from mating of male after falcata Berith ingestion).
The term "covenant" (berith) was rendered, early on, in Latin as "Testamentum," so it was the enactment by God of a new Testamentum, thus an easy move to "New Testament." Even though the text declares a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judab, the claim is made in Heb.
Kronoberg." In: Alex, Peder , Peter Normark, Inger Schorling, Yohanan Stryjan and Berith Wikstrom.
Starting in the early 1890s, as physicians were recommending and performing the operation more and more frequently as a neonata routine, they mounted an attack on the Jewish rite of Berith Milah or Bris as primitive, unsanitary, and potentially dangerous.
Rebekah Ladan Sturdey, 56, admitted preventing the "lawful and decent burial" of her husband Geoffrey at the farm, Beth Berith in Tregaron, Ceredigion, after he died of natural causes there in October 2008 aged 60.
"Overgangen till personalkooperativ tandvard i Kronoberg." In: Alex, Peder, Peter Normark, Inger Schorling, Yohanan Stryjan and Berith Wikstrom.
Lewis, "The Identity and Function of El/Baal Berith," JBL 115 (1996): 418-22.