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:
Psalms 103:18: "To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember to do"
Psalms 105:8: "He hath remembered his covenant forever, which he commanded to a thousand generations."
Psalms 105:10: "for a law, for an everlasting covenant:"
Psalms 106:45: "And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented of his mercies."
Psalms 111:5: "unto them that fear be mindful of his covenant."
Psalms 111:9: "redemption unto his people: his covenant forever: holy and reverend is his name."
Psalms 132:12: "If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children"
Proverbs 2:17: "the guide of her youth, the covenant of her God."
Isaiah 24:5: "the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant."
Isaiah 28:15: "Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell"
Isaiah 28:18: " And your covenant with death and your agreement with hell shall not"
Isaiah 33:8: "the wayfaring man he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth"
Isaiah 42:6: "thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;"
Isaiah 49:8: "have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit"
Isaiah 54:10: "depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith"
Isaiah 55:3: "shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David."
Isaiah 56:4: "the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;"
Isaiah 56:6: "the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;"
Isaiah 59:21: "As for me, this is my covenant them, saith the LORD; My spirit that"
Isaiah 61:8: "in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant"
Jeremiah 3:16: "no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to"
Jeremiah 11:2: "ye the words covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah,"
Jeremiah 11:3: "the words of this covenant,"
Jeremiah 11:6: "ye the words of this covenant, and do"
Jeremiah 11:8: "all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did"
Jeremiah 11:10: "and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with"
Jeremiah 14:21: "of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with"
Jeremiah 22:9: "Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshiped"
Jeremiah 31:31: "the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with"
Jeremiah 31:32: "Not according to the covenant that with their fathers in the day that I took"
Jeremiah 31:32: "them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I"
Jeremiah 31:33: "But this shall be the covenant I will make with the house of Israel;"
Jeremiah 32:40: "And I will make an everlasting covenant I will not turn away from"
Jeremiah 33:20: "ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not"
Jeremiah 33:20: "my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day"
Jeremiah 33:21: "Then may also my covenant be broken David my servant, that he should not have"
Jeremiah 33:25: "saith the LORD; my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not"
Jeremiah 34:8: "after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people"
Jeremiah 34:10: "which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant,"
Jeremiah 34:13: "of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth"
Jeremiah 34:15: "every man to his neighbor; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called"
Jeremiah 34:18: "the men my covenant, which have not performed"
Jeremiah 34:18: "performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when"
Jeremiah 50:5: "to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten."
Ezekiel 16:8: "thy nakedness: yea, I swore unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD,"
Ezekiel 16:59: "hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant."
Ezekiel 16:60: "Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish"
Ezekiel 16:60: "of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant."
Ezekiel 16:61: "and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant. by thy covenant."
Ezekiel 16:62: "And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I"
