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. Leviticus 2:13 בְּרִ֣ית be.Rit · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And every oblation of thy meal-offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meal-offering: with all thine oblations thou shalt offer salt.

  2. Leviticus 24:8 בְּרִ֥ית be.Rit · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before Jehovah continually; it is on the behalf of the children of Israel, an everlasting covenant.

  3. Leviticus 26:9 בְּרִיתִ֖י be.ri.Ti · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.

  4. Leviticus 26:15 בְּרִיתִֽי׃ be.ri.Ti · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhor mine ordinances, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;

  5. Leviticus 26:25 בְּרִ֔ית be.Rit · A person, place or thing

    And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute the vengeance of the covenant; and ye shall be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

  6. Leviticus 26:42 בְּרִיתִ֣י be.ri.Ti · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    then will I remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

  7. Leviticus 26:42 בְּרִיתִ֨י be.ri.Ti · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    then will I remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

  8. Leviticus 26:42 בְּרִיתִ֧י be.ri.Ti · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    then will I remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

  9. Leviticus 26:44 בְּרִיתִ֖י be.ri.Ti · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am Jehovah their God;

  10. Leviticus 26:45 בְּרִ֣ית be.Rit · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    but I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am Jehovah.

  11. Numbers 10:33 בְּרִית־ be.rit- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And they set forward from the mount of Jehovah three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting-place for them.

  12. Numbers 14:44 בְּרִית־ be.rit- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.

  13. Numbers 18:19 בְּרִית֩ be.Rit · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    All the heave-offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto Jehovah, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, as a portion for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before Jehovah unto thee and to thy seed with thee.

  14. Numbers 25:12 בְּרִיתִ֖י be.ri.Ti · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:

  15. Numbers 25:13 בְּרִ֖ית be.Rit · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and it shall be unto him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.

  16. Deuteronomy 4:13 בְּרִית֗וֹ be.ri.To · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

  17. Deuteronomy 4:23 בְּרִ֤ית be.Rit · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image in the form of anything which Jehovah thy God hath forbidden thee.

  18. Deuteronomy 4:31 בְּרִ֣ית be.Rit · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    for Jehovah thy God is a merciful God; he will not fail thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.

  19. Deuteronomy 5:2 בְּרִ֖ית be.Rit · A person, place or thing

    Jehovah our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

  20. Deuteronomy 5:3 הַבְּרִ֣ית ha.be.Rit · A person, place or thing

    Jehovah made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

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