Synonym: agreement, alliance, bargain, concord, contract, pact, treaty, understanding. Similar words: cove, cover, penance, covert, recover, uncover, cover up, coverage. Meaning: ['kʌvənənt] 
n. 1. a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action 2. (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return. v. 1. enter into a covenant 2. enter into a covenant or formal agreement.
n. 1. a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action 2. (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return. v. 1. enter into a covenant 2. enter into a covenant or formal agreement. 
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181. There was only one conceivable reason this lone Covenant destroyer would turn tail.
182. There is a sense in which the entire Decalogue was limited to the covenant community only.
183. For the Jewish communities who first compiled these writings in the pre-Christian era, the Bible was perhaps first and foremost a record of God's eternal covenant with the Jewish people.
184. Perhaps most importantly, if intangibly, there is that other fractured covenant, between government and the people.
185. My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant stand fast with him.
186. The agreement, or covenant, was drawn up after the ordination of an openly gay bishop in the United States threatened the Anglican Communion with disintegration.
187. They do not believe in the promise of the new covenant (Ezek. xxxvi. 27): "I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments."
188. I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl.
189. The Sabbath is included in the Decalogue precisely in order to signal that this is the covenant of works, and that Israel is now on probation in the land ("My rest" – Psalm 95).
More similar words: cove, cover, penance, covert, recover, uncover, cover up, coverage, recovery, sustenance, maintenance, in any event, oven, proven, pregnant, stagnant, dominant, resonant, malignant, indignant, dissonant, indignantly, predominant, economic recovery, over and over, arena, enact, menace, enable, Senate.