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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 9, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 38.

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The S. F. Call contains the following question and answer:—
“Please explain what B’nai B’rith (referring to a location in this city) means.”
“B’nai B’rith is the name of a Hebrew society, and the large building known by that name contains halls wherein the different Lodges of the Order meet.”
Which is to say that it refers to that to which it refers; but what it means was unanswered. Berith, pronounced exactly as our English word, beneath, means a covenant. Ben, is son; benai is the plural construct, or genitive plural, definite article understood. This is largely translated in the common version, children. The meaning of the phrase is sons or children of the covenant.