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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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  • 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.
  • Exodus 34:12
    Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
  • Exodus 34:15
    Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
  • Exodus 34:27
    And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
  • Exodus 34:28
    And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
  • Leviticus 2:13
    And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
  • Leviticus 24:8
    Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
  • Leviticus 26:9
    For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.