If covenant retains its literal meaning in “they break God’s covenant,” what rhetorical question remains?

Al-Sakkaki on Derivative Metaphor, Implicit Metaphor, and the Role of Imaginative Clues

• Is the literal sense of covenant prohibited?
• Has the verb changed its root?
• Does “break” shift meaning, or signal a covert bond-image?
• Is the word God the grammatical agent?