covenant

英 ['k?v(?)n?nt] 美['k?v?n?nt]

TEM8GRE低頻詞暢通詞匯

復數:?covenants;

covenant 合同，協約

co-, 強調。-ven, 來，詞源同venue,convene(開會)。即召集開會后形成的協議，條約。

covenant: covenant: [13] The notion of ‘agreement’ in covenant comes originally from a literal ‘coming together’. It was borrowed from Old French covenant, a noun use of the present participle of the verb covenir ‘agree’, which was descended from Latin convenire ‘come together’ (source also of English convene, convenient, convention, convent, and coven). (Modern French has restored the n, giving convenir.)
=> convenient, convent, convention, coven, venue
covenant (n.): c. 1300, from Old French covenant "agreement," originally present participle of covenir "agree, meet," from Latin convenire "come together" (see convene). Applied in Scripture to God's arrangements with man as a translation of Latin testamentum, Greek diatheke, both rendering Hebrew berith (though testament also is used for the same word in different places).
covenant (v.): c. 1300, from covenant (n.). Related: Covenanted; covenanting. Covenanter (1638) was used especially in reference to Scottish Presbyterians who signed the Solemn League and Covenant (1643) for the defense and furtherance of their cause.

3. When God created man, he entered into a covenant with him.: 當上帝造人的時候, 祂就與他立了一個“約”(covenant).

4. If you make regular gifts through a covenant we can reclaim the income tax which you have already paid on this money.: 如果你簽訂契約定期捐贈，那么我們可以要求返還你這筆錢上交的所得稅。