Glossary Term
Risk: High- Approved rendering
- covenant
- Transliteration
- covenant
- Rejected alternatives
- a restrictive covenant (the dominant contemporary legal sense: a binding clause in a property deed, employment contract, or loan agreement)
Covenant
Most contemporary English speakers now encounter ‘covenant’ chiefly in real estate law (‘restrictive covenants’ in property deeds) or contract law (‘a covenant not to compete’), a technical legal-document sense that crowds out the relational, promissory, personal bond Romans and the wider Old Testament narrative intend. This should be actively distinguished, not assumed understood.