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:
1 Chronicles 15:26: "the Levites that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered seven bullocks"
1 Chronicles 15:28: "brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet,"
1 Chronicles 15:29: "And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant came to the city of David,"
1 Chronicles 16:6: "continually before the ark of the covenant of God."
1 Chronicles 16:15: "Be ye mindful always of his covenant; which he commanded to a thousand generations;"
1 Chronicles 16:17: "for a law, for an everlasting covenant,"
1 Chronicles 16:37: "there before of the covenant of the LORD Asaph and his brethren, to minister"
1 Chronicles 17:1: "in a house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains."
1 Chronicles 22:19: "to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God,"
1 Chronicles 28:2: "a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God,"
1 Chronicles 28:18: "that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 5:2: "to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David,"
2 Chronicles 5:7: "brought in of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, to"
2 Chronicles 6:11: "wherein is the covenant of the LORD, that he made"
2 Chronicles 6:14: "in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and showest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before"
2 Chronicles 13:5: "to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?"
2 Chronicles 15:12: "And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all"
2 Chronicles 16:3: " There is a league between me and thee, as there was between and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver"
2 Chronicles 16:3: "and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel,"
2 Chronicles 21:7: "the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as"
2 Chronicles 23:1: "and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with"
2 Chronicles 23:3: "And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God."
2 Chronicles 23:16: "And Jehoiada made a covenant him, and between all the people, and between"
2 Chronicles 29:10: "it is in mine heart a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce"
2 Chronicles 34:30: "all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 34:31: "and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after"
2 Chronicles 34:31: "to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book."
2 Chronicles 34:32: "to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers."
Ezra 10:3: "Now therefore let us make a covenant to put away all the wives, and such as are born"
Nehemiah 1:5: "and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:"
Nehemiah 9:8: "before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land"
Nehemiah 9:32: "and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all"
Nehemiah 13:29: "because the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites."
Job 5:23: "For thou shalt be in league with of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace"
Job 31:1: "I made a covenant with mine eyes; then should I think upon a maid?"
Job 41:4: "Will he make a covenant with him for a servant forever?"
Psalms 25:10: "and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies."
Psalms 25:14: "of the LORD is with them that fear them his covenant."
Psalms 44:17: "forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant."
Psalms 50:5: "Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant sacrifice."
Psalms 50:16: "hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?"
Psalms 55:20: "his hands against such as be at peace his covenant."
Psalms 74:20: "Have respect unto the covenant: for of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty."
Psalms 78:10: "They kept not the covenant and refused to walk in his law;"
Psalms 78:37: "was not right with were they steadfast in his covenant."
Psalms 83:5: "For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against"
Psalms 89:3: "I have made a covenant with my chosen, unto David my servant,"
Psalms 89:28: "My mercy will I keep for him forevermore, and my covenant shall stand fast"
Psalms 89:34: " My covenant will I not break, alter the thing that is gone out of my lips."
Psalms 89:39: "Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: his crown by casting it to the ground."
