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Word study · Hebrew

בְּרִית

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covenant

Used 284 times in the tagged text.

What it means

  • covenant, alliance, pledge
  • (phrases)
Full dictionary entry (technical)
  • 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

Same idea, other words · Covenant

A covenant is a binding relationship God initiates. The Greek Old Testament's diatheke carries the idea into the New Testament, including the new covenant in Christ's blood.

Where it appears

  • Genesis27
  • Exodus13
  • Leviticus10
  • Numbers5
  • Deuteronomy27
  • Joshua22
  • Judges4
  • 1 Samuel8
  • 2 Samuel6
  • 1 Kings14
  • 2 Kings12
  • 1 Chronicles13
  • 2 Chronicles17
  • Ezra1
  • Nehemiah4
  • Job3
  • Psalms21
  • Proverbs1
  • Isaiah12
  • Jeremiah24
  • Ezekiel18
  • Daniel7
  • Hosea5
  • Amos1
  • Obadiah1
  • Zechariah2
  • Malachi6

Every use · 201–250 of 284 · BSB

  1. Psalms 103:18בְרִית֑וֹ<of> covenant his

    to those who keep His covenant and remember to obey His precepts.

  2. Psalms 105:8בְּרִית֑וֹcovenant his

    He remembers His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations—

  3. Psalms 105:10בְּרִ֣יתa covenant of

    He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:

  4. Psalms 106:45בְּרִית֑וֹcovenant his

    And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

  5. Psalms 111:5בְּרִיתֽוֹcovenant his

    He provides food for those who fear Him; He remembers His covenant forever.

  6. Psalms 111:9בְּרִית֑וֹcovenant his

    He has sent redemption to His people; He has ordained His covenant forever; holy and awesome is His name.

  7. Psalms 132:12בְּרִיתִי֮covenant my

    If your sons keep My covenant and the testimony I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever and ever.”

  8. Proverbs 2:17בְּרִ֖ית[the] covenant of

    who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

  9. Isaiah 24:5בְּרִ֥ית[the] covenant of

    The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.

  10. Isaiah 28:15בְרִית֙a covenant

    For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”

  11. Isaiah 28:18בְּרִֽיתְכֶם֙covenant your

    Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.

  12. Isaiah 33:8בְּרִית֙a covenant

    The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.

  13. Isaiah 42:6לִבְרִ֥ית<into> a covenant of

    “I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,

  14. Isaiah 49:8לִבְרִ֣ית<into> a covenant of

    This is what the LORD says: “In the time of favor I will answer You, and in the day of salvation I will help You; I will keep You and appoint You to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to apportion its desolate inheritances,

  15. Isaiah 54:10וּבְרִ֤יתand [the] covenant of

    Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

  16. Isaiah 55:3בְּרִ֣יתa covenant of

    Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant— My loving devotion promised to David.

  17. Isaiah 56:4בִּבְרִיתִֽיon covenant my

    For this is what the LORD says: “To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, who choose what pleases Me and hold fast to My covenant—

  18. Isaiah 56:6בִּבְרִיתִֽיon covenant my

    And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants— all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold fast to My covenant—

  19. Isaiah 59:21בְּרִיתִ֤י[is] covenant my

    “As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.

  20. Isaiah 61:8וּבְרִ֥יתand a covenant of

    For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.

  21. Jeremiah 3:16בְּרִית־[the] covenant of

    “In those days, when you multiply and increase in the land,” declares the LORD, “they will no longer discuss the ark of the covenant of the LORD. It will never come to mind, and no one will remember it or miss it, nor will another one be made.

  22. Jeremiah 11:2הַבְּרִ֣יתthe covenant

    “Listen to the words of this covenant and tell them to the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.

  23. Jeremiah 11:3הַבְּרִ֥יתthe covenant

    You must tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,

  24. Jeremiah 11:6הַבְּרִ֣יתthe covenant

    Then the LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear the words of this covenant and carry them out.

  25. Jeremiah 11:8הַבְּרִית־the covenant

    Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”

  26. Jeremiah 11:10בְּרִיתִ֕יcovenant my

    They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.

  27. Jeremiah 14:21בְּרִֽיתְךָ֖covenant your

    For the sake of Your name do not despise us; do not disgrace Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.

  28. Jeremiah 22:9בְּרִ֥ית[the] covenant of

    Then people will reply, ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.’”

  29. Jeremiah 31:31בְּרִ֥יתa covenant

    Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

  30. Jeremiah 31:32כַבְּרִ֗יתlike the covenant

    It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt— a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.

  31. Jeremiah 31:32בְּרִיתִ֗יcovenant my

    It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt— a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.

  32. Jeremiah 31:33הַבְּרִ֡ית[is] the covenant

    “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

  33. Jeremiah 32:40בְּרִ֣יתa covenant of

    I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.

  34. Jeremiah 33:20בְּרִיתִ֣יcovenant of my

    “This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,

  35. Jeremiah 33:20בְּרִיתִ֖יcovenant of my

    “This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,

  36. Jeremiah 33:21בְּרִיתִ֤יcovenant my

    then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne.

  37. Jeremiah 33:25בְרִיתִ֖יcovenant of my

    This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,

  38. Jeremiah 34:8בְּרִ֗יתa covenant

    After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD

  39. Jeremiah 34:10בַבְּרִ֗יתin the covenant

    So all the officials and all the people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their menservants and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. They obeyed and released them,

  40. Jeremiah 34:13בְרִית֙a covenant

    “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying:

  41. Jeremiah 34:15בְרִית֙a covenant

    Recently you repented and did what pleased Me; each of you proclaimed freedom for his neighbor. You made a covenant before Me in the house that bears My Name.

  42. Jeremiah 34:18בְּרִתִ֔יcovenant my

    And those who have transgressed My covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before Me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two in order to pass between its pieces.

  43. Jeremiah 34:18הַבְּרִ֔יתthe covenant

    And those who have transgressed My covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before Me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two in order to pass between its pieces.

  44. Jeremiah 50:5בְּרִ֥יתa covenant of

    They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

  45. Ezekiel 16:8בִבְרִ֜יתin a covenant

    Then I passed by and saw you, and you were indeed old enough for love. So I spread My cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares the Lord GOD.

  46. Ezekiel 16:59בְּרִֽיתa covenant

    For this is what the Lord GOD says: I will deal with you according to your deeds, since you have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.

  47. Ezekiel 16:60בְּרִיתִ֛יcovenant my

    But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

  48. Ezekiel 16:60בְּרִ֥יתa covenant of

    But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

  49. Ezekiel 16:61מִבְּרִיתֵֽךְfrom covenant your

    Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your older and younger sisters. I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of My covenant with you.

  50. Ezekiel 16:62בְּרִיתִ֖יcovenant my

    So I will establish My covenant with you, and you will know that I am the LORD,

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