Brit

/bɹɪt/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To break in pieces; divide..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To break in pieces; divide.
2. (transitive) To bruise; indent.
3. (intransitive) To fall out or shatter (as overripe hops or grain).
4. (intransitive, dialectal) To fade away; alter.
5. One of the young of herrings, sprats, etc.
6. One of the tiny crustaceans, of the genus Calanus, that are part of the diet of right whales.
7. brit milah
8. A covenant, specifically that between God and the Jewish people.

Example Sentences

The edges of these bones are fringed with hairy fibres, through which the Right Whale strains the water, and in whose intricacies he retains the small fish, when openmouthed he goes through the seas of brit in feeding time.

The second theocentric approach to observance stresses the partnership of God and man. The Torah and the mitzvot express the eternal brit or covenant made between God and the Jewish people.

There is a special brit between God and the Families-of-Israel. The Torah is the story of that brit

When the Jews were expelled from Eretz Yisrael into galus, and were punished for their sins with the destruction of the first and second Temples, the bris between G-d and Yisrael is not ended.

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Word Forms

• brits
• britting
• britted
• britt
• brite
• brit
• bris

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