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. Malachi 2:8 בְּרִ֣ית be.Rit · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    But ye are turned aside out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts.

  2. Malachi 2:10 בְּרִ֥ית be.Rit · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

  3. Malachi 2:14 בְּרִיתֶֽךָ׃ be.ri.Te.kha · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

  4. Malachi 3:1 הַבְּרִ֜ית ha.be.Rit · A person, place or thing

    Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom ye desire, behold, he cometh, saith Jehovah of hosts.

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