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

Genesis 6:18

But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

Genesis 9:9

And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

Genesis 9:11

And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

Genesis 9:12

And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

Genesis 9:13

I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

Genesis 9:15

And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

Genesis 9:16

And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

Genesis 9:17

And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

Genesis 14:13

And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.(c)

Genesis 15:18

In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

Genesis 17:2

And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

Genesis 17:4

As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.(b)

Genesis 17:7

And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

Genesis 17:9

And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

Genesis 17:10

This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.

Genesis 17:11

And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.

Genesis 17:13

He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

Genesis 17:14

And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

Genesis 17:19

And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

Genesis 17:21

But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

Genesis 21:27

And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

Genesis 21:32

Thus they made a covenant at Beer–sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

Genesis 26:28

And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;(h)

Genesis 31:44

Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

Exodus 2:24

And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

Exodus 6:4

And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.

Exodus 6:5

And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.

Exodus 19:5

Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

Exodus 23:32

Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

Exodus 24:7

And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient.

Exodus 24:8

And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.

Exodus 31:16

Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

Exodus 34:10

And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the Lord : for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.

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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