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:
Ezekiel 17:13: "of the king's seed, a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath"
Ezekiel 17:14: "lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand."
Ezekiel 17:15: "that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?"
Ezekiel 17:16: "oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with"
Ezekiel 17:18: "Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done"
Ezekiel 17:19: "surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense"
Ezekiel 20:37: "the rod, you into the bond of the covenant:"
Ezekiel 30:5: "and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword."
Ezekiel 34:25: "And I will make with them a covenant of peace, beasts to cease out of the land:"
Ezekiel 37:26: "Moreover I will make a covenant of peace an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place"
Ezekiel 37:26: "of peace an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set"
Ezekiel 44:7: "the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations."
Daniel 9:4: "and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;"
Daniel 9:27: "And he shall confirm the covenant with many week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice"
Daniel 11:22: "him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant."
Daniel 11:28: "and his heart shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall do exploits, and return to his own land."
Daniel 11:30: "and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with"
Daniel 11:30: "with them that forsake the holy covenant."
Daniel 11:32: "And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt but the people that do know their God shall be strong,"
Hosea 2:18: "And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with"
Hosea 6:7: "But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously"
Hosea 8:1: "of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law."
Hosea 10:4: "swearing in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in"
Hosea 12:1: "increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil"
Amos 1:9: "and remembered not the brotherly covenant:"
Obadiah 1:7: "All the men of thy confederacy thee even to the border: the men that were at peace"
Zechariah 9:11: "As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit"
Zechariah 11:10: "and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with"
Malachi 2:4: "commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith"
Malachi 2:5: " My covenant was with and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared"
Malachi 2:8: "ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD"
Malachi 2:10: "every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?"
Malachi 2:14: "thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant."
Malachi 3:1: "to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold,"
