It ought to be rendered, just as the word berith of the Old Testament, "covenant." ❋ M.G. Easton (1897)
Testament the Hebrew word berith is always thus translated. ❋ M.G. Easton (1897)
How he got money from them to bear the charges of his pretensions (v. 4): They gave him seventy pieces of silver; it is not said what the value of these pieces was; so many shekels are less, and so many talents more, than we can well imagine; therefore it is supposed they were each a pound weight: but they gave this money out of the house of Baal-berith, that is, out of the public treasury, which, out of respect to their idol, they deposited in his temple to be protected by him; or out of the offerings that had been made to that idol, which they hoped would prosper the better in his hands for its having been consecrated to their god. ❋ Unknown (1721)
The same Jews, after the death of Gideon, adore Baal-berith, which means precisely the same as Adonai — the lord, the protector; they change their protector. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The word “berith” is sometimes used for a single promise without a condition, Gen.vi. 18, ix. 9; whence the apostle, handling this very promise, changeth the terms and calleth it a “testament.” ❋ 1616-1683 (1966)
Baal-berith or El-berith of Shechem (Judg.ix. 4, 46) is usually interpreted to be the Baal or God of the covenant, but whether of covenants in general or of a particular covenant concluded at Shechem is disputed. ❋ Various (N/A)
A covenant (berith) is the most solemn and binding form of divine promise, given for man's double assurance and because of man's carnal weakness, but quite unnecessary when God's part of the agreement is concerned. ❋ 1892-1972 (1942)
The "covenant." (berith) is somewhat puzzling from one point of view. ❋ 1892-1972 (1942)
Consequently, nathan berith cannot here mean "to set up a covenant," but rather to put into force, or to make operative, the one that is in force. ❋ 1892-1972 (1942)
For these men were "bound by a covenant" to Abram, an expression for which the Hebrew uses the terms "masters of a covenant" -- ba'aley berith -- ba'al being used in that familiar, broad sense of merely expressing some type of relation, (K.S. 306 g). ❋ 1892-1972 (1942)
But the new thing unfolded is that the covenant is to continue in force graciously also for his descendants "for generations" -- literally "for their generations" -- as a berith ` olam. ❋ 1892-1972 (1942)
Alexandrian translators of the Scripture, known as the Septuagint, employed the word as the equivalent of the Hebrew berith, which means ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
One Inkepenne, a gentilman that berith in his shield a scheker sylver and sables, was founder of it. ❋ Philip Walsingham Sergeant (1912)
At the temple of Baal-berith in Shechem apparently both Canaanites and Israelites worshipped during the days of the settlement. ❋ Charles Foster Kent (1896)
And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, which followed him. ❋ Richard Green Moulton (1886)
The Heb. berith means primarily "a cutting," with reference to the custom of cutting or dividing animals in two and passing between the parts in ratifying a covenant. ❋ Unknown (1884)
Israel turned again, and went astray after Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god. ❋ Anonymous (1833)
Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and light persons, who followed him. ❋ Anonymous (1833)
They have worshipped the creatures of their own fancy, the work of their own hands, according to the tradition received from their fathers: They have walked after Baalim: the word is plural; they had many Baals, Baal-peor and Baal-berith, the Baal of this place and the ❋ Unknown (1721)
Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him. ❋ Unknown (1721)
[Oh crap] there's [berith] ❋ LAN Is (2016)
