Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H1285

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Original: בּרית

Transliteration: beriyth (berı̂yth)

Phonetic: ber-eeth'

BDB Definition:

covenant, alliance, pledge
1. between men
  1. treaty, alliance, league (man to man)
  2. constitution, ordinance (monarch to subjects)
  3. agreement, pledge (man to man)
  4. alliance (of friendship)
  5. alliance (of marriage)
2. between God and man
  1. alliance (of friendship)
  2. covenant (divine ordinance with signs or pledges)
(phrases)
1. covenant making
2. covenant keeping
3. covenant violation

Origin: from H1262 (in the sense of cutting [like H1254])

TWOT entry: 282a

Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine

Strong's Definition: From H1262 (in the sense of cutting (like H1254)); a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh): - confederacy, [con-]feder[-ate], covenant, league.

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (283x)

A Covenant (40x)

A League (9x)

According To The Covenant (1x)

Against The Covenant (1x)

And Also My Covenant (2x)

And His Covenant (1x)

And My Covenant (4x)

And The Covenant (2x)

And Whose Covenant (1x)

And Your Covenant (1x)

Because Of The Covenant (1x)

Behold, My Covenant (1x)

Beside The Covenant (1x)

But My Covenant (1x)

But Not By Thy Covenant (1x)

By A Covenant (1x)

Confederate (1x)

Covenant (27x)

For Them His Covenant (1x)

For Thou Shalt Be In League (1x)

From Thee, Neither Shall The Covenant (1x)

His Covenant (10x)

If My Covenant (1x)

In His Covenant (1x)

In Thy Covenant (1x)

Into A Covenant (3x)

Into Covenant (2x)

Into The Covenant (1x)

May Also My Covenant (1x)

My Covenant (36x)

No Covenant (2x)

No League (1x)

Not According To The Covenant (1x)

Not The Covenant (1x)

Not This Covenant (1x)

Not Thy Covenant (1x)

Of A Covenant (1x)

Of His Covenant (3x)

Of My Covenant (2x)

Of The Covenant (61x)

Of This Covenant (7x)

Of Thy Confederacy (1x)

Of Thy Covenant (2x)

That Is In League (1x)

The Covenant (22x)

Thee For A Covenant (2x)

Them His Covenant (1x)

This Covenant (1x)

Thy Covenant (3x)

Thy League (3x)

To The Covenant (1x)

Unto Him My Covenant (1x)

Unto The Covenant (1x)

Unto Thee The Covenant (1x)

Unto You His Covenant (1x)

Unto You, That My Covenant (1x)

Which My Covenant (1x)

With Them A Covenant (1x)

With This Covenant (1x)

Ye A League (2x)

All Occurrences

Isaiah 49:8

Thus saith the Lord , In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;(f)

Isaiah 54:10

For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.

Isaiah 55:3

Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Isaiah 56:4

For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;

Isaiah 56:6

Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord , to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord , to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;

Isaiah 59:21

As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord ; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the Lord , from henceforth and for ever.

Isaiah 61:8

For I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Jeremiah 3:16

And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the Lord , they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the Lord : neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.(d)

(e)

Jeremiah 11:2

Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

Jeremiah 11:3

And say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,

Jeremiah 11:6

Then the Lord said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.

Jeremiah 11:8

Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not.(b)

Jeremiah 11:10

They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

Jeremiah 14:21

Do not abhor us, for thy name’s sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.

Jeremiah 22:9

Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.

Jeremiah 31:31

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord , that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

Jeremiah 31:32

Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord :(g)

Jeremiah 31:33

But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord , I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Jeremiah 32:40

And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.(j)

Jeremiah 33:20

Thus saith the Lord ; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;

Jeremiah 33:21

Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

Jeremiah 33:25

Thus saith the Lord ; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

Jeremiah 34:8

This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the Lord , after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;

Jeremiah 34:10

Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.

Jeremiah 34:13

Thus saith the Lord , the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,

Jeremiah 34:15

And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:(d)

(e)

Jeremiah 34:18

And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,

Jeremiah 50:5

They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.

Ezekiel 16:8

Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God , and thou becamest mine.

Ezekiel 16:59

For thus saith the Lord God ; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

Ezekiel 16:60

Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.

Ezekiel 16:61

Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.

Ezekiel 16:62

And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord :

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Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

Strong's Concor­dance

Hebrew-Aramaic H1285

Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

Thayers Information

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H1285