בְּרִית

be.rit · covenant

Hebrew · Strong's H1285 · Noun · Sounds like: ber-eeth' · 284 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

from בָּרָה (in the sense of cutting (like בָּרָא)); a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh); confederacy, (con-) feder(-ate), covenant, league.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
בְּרִית 285 n.f. covenant
I. between men.
1. treaty, alliance, league
2. constitution, ordinance, between monarch and subjects
3. agreement, pledge
4. alliance of friendship between David and Jonathan
5. alliance of marriage
II. between God and man.
1. alliance of friendship
2. covenant, as a divine constitution or ordinance with signs or pledges
III. Phrases.
1. covenant making
2. covenant keeping
3. covenant violation

Every occurrence

  1. Joshua 23:16 בְּרִ֨ית be.Rit · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    When ye transgress the covenant of Jehovah your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them; then will the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.

  2. Joshua 24:25 בְּרִ֛ית be.Rit · A person, place or thing

    So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

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