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:
Joshua 9:15: "made peace a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation swore"
Joshua 9:16: "of three after they had made a league with them, that they heard that"
Joshua 23:16: "When ye have transgressed the covenant your God, which he commanded you, and have gone"
Joshua 24:25: "So Joshua made a covenant that day, and set them a statute"
Judges 2:1: "I swore unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with"
Judges 2:2: "And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down"
Judges 2:20: "people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers,"
Judges 20:27: "inquired (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,"
1 Samuel 4:3: "Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto"
1 Samuel 4:4: "from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth"
1 Samuel 4:4: "and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God."
1 Samuel 4:5: "And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD into the camp, all Israel"
1 Samuel 11:1: "said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve"
1 Samuel 18:3: "Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul."
1 Samuel 20:8: "thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be"
1 Samuel 23:18: "And they two made a covenant the LORD: and David abode in the wood,"
2 Samuel 3:12: "is the land? saying also, Make thy league with me, and, behold, my hand shall be with"
2 Samuel 3:13: "Well; I a league with thee: but one thing"
2 Samuel 3:21: "my lord the king, that they may make a league with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that"
2 Samuel 5:3: "and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed"
2 Samuel 15:24: "him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark"
2 Samuel 23:5: "yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for"
1 Kings 3:15: "and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered"
1 Kings 5:12: "Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together. made a league together."
1 Kings 6:19: "to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD."
1 Kings 8:1: "that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David,"
1 Kings 8:6: "brought in of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into"
1 Kings 8:21: "a place wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which he made"
1 Kings 8:23: "or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants"
1 Kings 11:11: "done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded"
1 Kings 15:19: " There is a league between me and thee, and between and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present"
1 Kings 15:19: "come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel,"
1 Kings 19:10: "for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars,"
1 Kings 19:14: "because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars,"
1 Kings 20:34: "made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away."
1 Kings 20:34: "Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away."
2 Kings 11:4: "him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and showed"
2 Kings 11:17: "And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people,"
2 Kings 13:23: "unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,"
2 Kings 17:15: "And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers,"
2 Kings 17:35: "With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear"
2 Kings 17:38: " And the covenant that I have made you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear"
2 Kings 18:12: "of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that"
2 Kings 23:2: "all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD."
2 Kings 23:3: "and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after"
2 Kings 23:3: "the words of this covenant that were written in this book."
2 Kings 23:3: "And all the people stood to the covenant."
2 Kings 23:21: "in the book of this covenant."
1 Chronicles 11:3: "to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed"
1 Chronicles 15:25: "to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the house of Obed-edom"
