Covenant Theology: A Christian concept which teaches that God's revelations in the Christian Scriptures (a.k.a. New Testament) possesses a distinctively "new character." Jesus is seen as having changed God's laws as they had been earlier revealed in the Hebrew Scriptures (a.k.a. Old Testament). The laws of Moses are seen as temporary revelations to be superceded with Jesus' disclosures. See also " covenant theology."

other than the former one(s); different; "they now have a new leaders"; "my new car is four years old but has only 15,000 miles on it"; "ready to take a new direction"

used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"

( -- ) This word places MODE_NEWFILE in the user-variable FILEMODE. When the next file is opened using FOPEN, it will now create a NEW file instead of opening an existing one. See the chapter on File I/O. CAUTION: do not set the NEW mode, unless a call to FOPEN, $FOPEN, or 0FOPEN immediately follows. Forgetting that NEW has been executed can result in the next file to be opened being inadvertently lost. The word OLD reverts filemode to MODE_OLDFILE, as do both FOPEN operations. NEW FOPEN EMPTY-FILE Related Words: FOPEN $FOPEN OLD

Israeli shekel (NIS) In September 1985, the new Israeli shekel (NIS) went into circulation, replacing the Israeli shekel that had existed since 1980. (Before 1980 the Israeli currency was called the Israeli pound or lira.) The NIS is equivalent to 1,000 old Israeli shekels and is divided into 100 agorot. The requirement for the NIS stemmed from the very rapid inflation rate of the preceding years, which also resulted in dramatic devaluation of the old shekel against foreign currencies; for example, from 1980 to 1985 the old shekel lost value against the United States dollar by 25,000 percent. As of August 1986, the NIS was no longer pegged to the United States dollar but rather to a trade-weighted basket of foreign currencies: 60 percent United States dollar, 20 percent West German deutschmark, 10 percent British pound, 5 percent French franc, and 5 percent Japanese yen. The currency notes in circulation are 5, 10, 50, and 100 NIS. The approximate exchange rate for the new Israeli shekel and the United States dollar in 1988 was NIS 1.6 = US$1.00.