See also:

• COVENANT
• COVENANT (an O. Fr. form, later convenant, from convenir, to agree, Lat. convenire)

COVENANT (an O. Fr. See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form, later convenant, from convenir, to agree, See also:

• LAT

Lat. convenire)  , a mutual agreement of two or more parties, or an undertaking made by one of the parties . In the See also:

• BIBLE
• BIBLE, ENGLISH

Bible the See also:

• HEBREW

Hebrew word ;'i., With, is used widely for many kinds of agreements; it is then applied to a See also:

• CONTRACT
• CONTRACT (Lat. contract us, from contrahere, to draw together, to bind)

contract between two persons or to a treaty between two nations, such as the See also:

• COVENANT
• COVENANT (an O. Fr. form, later convenant, from convenir, to agree, Lat. convenire)

covenant made between See also:

• ABIMELECH (Hebrew for "father of [or is] the king ")

Abimelech and See also:

• ISAAC (Hebrew for " he laughs," on explanatory references to the name, see ABRAHAM)

Isaac, representing treaty between the Israelites and the See also:

• PHILISTINES

Philistines (Gen. See also:

• XXVI

xxvi, 26 seq.); more particularly to an engagement made between See also:

• GOD

God and men, or such agreements as, by the observance of a religious rite, regarded God as a party to the engagement . Two suggestions have been made for the derivation of With: (I) tracing the word from a See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root "to cut," and the reference is to the See also:

• PRIMITIVE

primitive rite of cutting victims into parts, between which the parties to an agreement passed, cf. the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek 8pK1a T4u/6w, and the See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account (Gen. xv . 17) of the covenant between God and See also:

• ABRAHAM, or ABRAM (Hebrew for " father is high ")

Abraham, where "a smoking See also:

• FURNACE

furnace and burning See also:

• LAMP (from Gr. Xag ras, a torch, Xaµaav, to shine)

lamp passed between the pieces" of the victims Abraham had sacrificed; (2) connecting it with an Assyrio-Babylonian biritu, fetter, See also:

• ALLIANCE

alliance . Beath was translated in the See also:

• SEPTUAGINT, THE (Gr. of 0', Lat. LXX.)

Septuagint by Sta9ijarl, which in classical Greek had the meaning of "will"; hence the See also:

• VULGATE (from Lat. vulgus, the common people)

Vulgate, in the See also:

• PSALMS, BOOK
• PSALMS, BOOK OF, or PSALTER

Psalms and the New Testament, translates the word by testamentum, but elsewhere in the Old Testament by foedus or pactum; similarly Wycliffe's version gives "testament" and "covenant" respectively . The books of Scripture dealing with the old or See also:

• MOSAIC (corresponding to Lat. opus musivum, from Gr. µovoeiov, an artificial grotto often decorated with mosaics; the word is only found in the sense of mosaic in late Greek, which generally uses k oXI yrlµa)

Mosaic, and new or See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian See also:

• DISPENSATION

dispensation are sometimes known as the Books of the Old and the New Covenant . The word appears in the See also:

• SYSTEM

system of See also:

• THEOLOGY

theology See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed by Johannes See also:

• COCCEIUS [strictly KocH], JOHANNES (1603-1669)

Cocceius (q.v.), and known as the " Covenant " or " Federal " Theology, based on the two Covenants of See also:

• WORKS

Works or See also:

• LIFE

Life made by God with See also:

• ADAM
• ADAM (or ADAN) DE LE HALE (died c. 1288)
• ADAM, ALEXANDER (1741–1809)
• ADAM, JULIETTE (1836– )
• ADAM, LAMBERT SIGISBERT (1700-1759)
• ADAM, MELCHIOR (d. 1622)
• ADAM, PAUL (1862– )
• ADAM, ROBERT (1728—1792)
• ADAM, SIR FREDERICK (1781-1853)
• ADAM, WILLIAM (1751-1839)

Adam, on See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition of obedience, and of See also:

• GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
• GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )

grace or redemption, made with See also:

• CHRIST (Gr. X pLQTOS, Anointed)
• CHRIST, WILHELM VON (1831-1906)

Christ . In Scottish ecclesiastical See also:

• HISTORY

history, covenant appears in the two agreements signed by the members of the Scottish See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church in See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

defence of their religious and ecclesiastical systems (see See also:

• COVENANTERS

COVENANTERS) .