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:
Numbers 10:33: "days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before"
Numbers 14:44: "top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not"
Numbers 18:19: "thee, by a statute forever: it is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD"
Numbers 25:12: "Behold, unto him my covenant of peace:"
Numbers 25:13: "And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because"
Deuteronomy 4:13: "And he declared unto you his covenant, he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments;"
Deuteronomy 4:23: "unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made"
Deuteronomy 4:31: "thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he swore"
Deuteronomy 5:2: "The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb."
Deuteronomy 5:3: "not this covenant with our fathers, but with"
Deuteronomy 7:2: "them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy"
Deuteronomy 7:9: "the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments"
Deuteronomy 7:12: "thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he swore unto thy fathers:"
Deuteronomy 8:18: "that he may establish his covenant which he swore unto thy fathers, as it is this"
Deuteronomy 9:9: "of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with"
Deuteronomy 9:11: "me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant."
Deuteronomy 9:15: "with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands."
Deuteronomy 10:8: "to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD"
Deuteronomy 17:2: "of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,"
Deuteronomy 29:1: "These are the words of the covenant, the LORD commanded Moses"
Deuteronomy 29:1: "in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with"
Deuteronomy 29:9: "therefore the words covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper"
Deuteronomy 29:12: "That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD and into his oath, which the LORD thy God"
Deuteronomy 29:14: "make this covenant and this oath;"
Deuteronomy 29:21: "the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book"
Deuteronomy 29:25: "Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers,"
Deuteronomy 31:9: "which bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders"
Deuteronomy 31:16: "to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with"
Deuteronomy 31:20: "them, and provoke me, and break my covenant."
Deuteronomy 31:25: "which bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,"
Deuteronomy 31:26: "and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be"
Deuteronomy 33:9: "they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant."
Joshua 3:3: "When ye see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites"
Joshua 3:6: "Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up"
Joshua 3:6: "And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people."
Joshua 3:8: "that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink"
Joshua 3:11: "Behold, the ark of the covenant of all the earth passeth over before"
Joshua 3:14: "Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;"
Joshua 3:17: "And the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground"
Joshua 4:7: "were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan,"
Joshua 4:9: "where the feet of the priests which bore the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there"
Joshua 4:18: "when the priests that bore of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst"
Joshua 6:6: "unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests"
Joshua 6:8: "and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed"
Joshua 7:11: "and they have also my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken"
Joshua 7:15: "he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly"
Joshua 8:33: "before the priests the Levites, which bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger,"
Joshua 9:6: "from a far country: now therefore make ye a league"
Joshua 9:7: "among us; and how shall we make a league"
Joshua 9:11: "are your servants: therefore now make ye a league"
