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Strong's #1285: briyth (pronounced ber-eeth')

from 1262 (in the sense of cutting (like 1254)); a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh):--confederacy, (con-)feder(-ate), covenant, league.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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berı̂yth

1) covenant, alliance, pledge

1a) between men

1a1) treaty, alliance, league (man to man)

1a2) constitution, ordinance (monarch to subjects)

1a3) agreement, pledge (man to man)

1a4) alliance (of friendship)

1a5) alliance (of marriage)

1b) between God and man

1b1) alliance (of friendship)

1b2) covenant (divine ordinance with signs or pledges)

2) (phrases)

2a) covenant making

2b) covenant keeping

2c) covenant violation

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H1262 (in the sense of cutting [like 1254])



Usage:

This word is used 284 times:

Genesis 6:18: "But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou,"
Genesis 9:9: "behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after"
Genesis 9:11: "And I will establish my covenant you; neither shall all flesh be cut off"
Genesis 9:12: "said, This of the covenant which I make between"
Genesis 9:13: "and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth."
Genesis 9:15: "And I will remember my covenant, is between me and you and every living creature"
Genesis 9:16: "it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living"
Genesis 9:17: "This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all"
Genesis 14:13: "and brother of Aner: and these were confederate were confederate with Abram."
Genesis 15:18: "day the LORD a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed"
Genesis 17:2: "And I will make my covenant between thee exceedingly."
Genesis 17:4: "As for me, behold, my covenant thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations."
Genesis 17:7: "And I will establish my covenant me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting"
Genesis 17:7: "after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after"
Genesis 17:9: "Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations."
Genesis 17:10: "This is my covenant, which between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every"
Genesis 17:11: "and it shall be a token of the covenant between"
Genesis 17:13: "and he that is bought must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting"
Genesis 17:13: "and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant."
Genesis 17:14: "from his people; he hath broken my covenant."
Genesis 17:19: "Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed"
Genesis 17:19: "my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after"
Genesis 17:21: " But my covenant will I establish with which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this"
Genesis 21:27: "them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant."
Genesis 21:32: "Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host,"
Genesis 26:28: "an oath between us, even between us and thee, and let us make a covenant with"
Genesis 31:44: "Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness"
Exodus 2:24: "and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac,"
Exodus 6:4: "And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land"
Exodus 6:5: "the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant."
Exodus 19:5: "ye will obey my voice indeed, my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure"
Exodus 23:32: "Thou shalt make no covenant"
Exodus 24:7: "And he took the book of the covenant, in the audience of the people: and they said, All"
Exodus 24:8: "and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with"
Exodus 31:16: "the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant."
Exodus 34:10: "Behold, I a covenant: before all thy people I will do"
Exodus 34:12: "Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither"
Exodus 34:15: "Lest thou make a covenant of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods,"
Exodus 34:27: "of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel."
Exodus 34:28: "the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments."
Leviticus 2:13: "with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from"
Leviticus 24:8: "continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant."
Leviticus 26:9: "you, and make you fruitful, you, and establish my covenant with"
Leviticus 26:15: "my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:"
Leviticus 26:25: "upon the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send"
Leviticus 26:42: "Then will I remember my covenant and also my covenant with Isaac,"
Leviticus 26:42: "and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant"
Leviticus 26:42: "with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land."
Leviticus 26:44: "neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I"
Leviticus 26:45: "But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, I brought forth out of the land"









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