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בְּרִית H1285

bᵉrîyth

ber-eeth'

from בָּרָה (in the sense of cutting (like בָּרָא)); a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh); confederacy, (con-) feder(-ate), covenant, league.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

בְּרִית 285 n.f. covenant
I between men.
1 treaty, alliance, league
2 constitution, ordinance, between monarch and subjects
3 agreement, pledge
4 alliance of friendship between David and Jonathan
5 alliance of marriage
II between God and man.
1 alliance of friendship
2 covenant, as a divine constitution or ordinance with signs or pledges
III Phrases.
1 covenant making
2 covenant keeping
3 covenant violation

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


264 occurrences

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  • Psalms 78:37
    For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
  • Psalms 83:5
    For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
  • Psalms 89:3
    I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
  • Psalms 89:28
    My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
  • Psalms 89:34
    My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
  • Psalms 89:39
    Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
  • Psalms 103:18
    To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
  • Psalms 105:8
    He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
  • Psalms 105:10
    And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:
  • Psalms 106:45
    And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.