Brit

Quick meaning: Brit is a verb meaning (transitive) To break in pieces; divide.

Meaning

(transitive) To break in pieces; divide.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

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

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