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Word study · Hebrew

בְּרִית

be.ritH1285

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 · 251–284 of 284 · BSB

  1. Ezekiel 17:13בְּרִ֑יתa covenant

    He took a member of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. Then he carried away the leading men of the land,

  2. Ezekiel 17:14בְּרִית֖וֹcovenant his

    so that the kingdom would be brought low, unable to lift itself up, surviving only by keeping his covenant.

  3. Ezekiel 17:15בְּרִ֖יתa covenant

    But this king rebelled against Babylon by sending his envoys to Egypt to ask for horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and yet escape?’

  4. Ezekiel 17:16בְּרִית֑וֹcovenant his

    ‘As surely as I live,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘he will die in Babylon, in the land of the king who enthroned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke.

  5. Ezekiel 17:18בְּרִ֑ית[the] covenant

    He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Seeing that he gave his hand in pledge yet did all these things, he will not escape!’

  6. Ezekiel 17:19וּבְרִיתִ֖יand covenant my

    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, I will bring down upon his head My oath that he despised and My covenant that he broke.

  7. Ezekiel 20:37הַבְּרִֽיתthe covenant

    I will make you pass under the rod and will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

  8. Ezekiel 30:5הַבְּרִ֑יתthe covenant

    Cush, Put, and Lud, and all the various peoples, as well as Libya and the men of the covenant land, will fall with Egypt by the sword.

  9. Ezekiel 34:25בְּרִ֣יתa covenant of

    I will make with them a covenant of peace and rid the land of wild animals, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.

  10. Ezekiel 37:26בְּרִ֣יתa covenant of

    And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary among them forever.

  11. Ezekiel 37:26בְּרִ֥יתa covenant of

    And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary among them forever.

  12. Ezekiel 44:7בְּרִיתִ֔יcovenant my

    In addition to all your other abominations, you brought in foreigners uncircumcised in both heart and flesh to occupy My sanctuary; you defiled My temple when you offered My food—the fat and the blood; you broke My covenant.

  13. Daniel 9:4הַבְּרִית֙the covenant

    And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments,

  14. Daniel 9:27בְּרִ֛יתa covenant

    And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”

  15. Daniel 11:22בְּרִֽיתa covenant

    Then a flood of forces will be swept away before him and destroyed, along with a prince of the covenant.

  16. Daniel 11:28בְּרִ֣ית[the] covenant of

    The king of the North will return to his land with great wealth, but his heart will be set against the holy covenant; so he will do damage and return to his own land.

  17. Daniel 11:30בְּרִֽית־[the] covenant of

    Ships of Kittim will come against him, and he will lose heart. Then he will turn back and rage against the holy covenant and do damage. So he will return and show favor to those who forsake the holy covenant.

  18. Daniel 11:30בְּרִ֥ית<of> [the] covenant of

    Ships of Kittim will come against him, and he will lose heart. Then he will turn back and rage against the holy covenant and do damage. So he will return and show favor to those who forsake the holy covenant.

  19. Daniel 11:32בְרִ֔ית[the] covenant

    With flattery he will corrupt those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God will firmly resist him.

  20. Hosea 2:18בְּרִית֙a covenant

    On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish bow and sword and weapons of war in the land, and will make them lie down in safety.

  21. Hosea 6:7בְרִ֑ית[the] covenant

    But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.

  22. Hosea 8:1בְרִיתִ֔יcovenant my

    Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.

  23. Hosea 10:4בְּרִ֑יתa covenant

    They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.

  24. Hosea 12:1וּבְרִית֙and a covenant

    Ephraim chases the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.

  25. Amos 1:9בְּרִ֥ית[the] covenant of

    This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Tyre, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they delivered up a whole congregation of exiles to Edom and broke a covenant of brotherhood.

  26. Obadiah 1:7בְרִיתֶ֔ךָcovenant your

    All the men allied with you will drive you to the border; the men at peace with you will deceive and overpower you. Those who eat your bread will set a trap for you without your awareness of it.

  27. Zechariah 9:11בְּרִיתֵ֗ךְcovenant your

    As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.

  28. Zechariah 11:10בְּרִיתִ֔יcovenant my

    Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.

  29. Malachi 2:4בְּרִיתִי֙covenant my

    Then you will know that I have sent you this commandment so that My covenant with Levi may continue,” says the LORD of Hosts.

  30. Malachi 2:5בְּרִיתִ֣יcovenant my

    “My covenant with him was one of life and peace, which I gave to him; it called for reverence, and he revered Me and stood in awe of My name.

  31. Malachi 2:8בְּרִ֣ית[the] covenant of

    But you have departed from the way, and your instruction has caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant of Levi,” says the LORD of Hosts.

  32. Malachi 2:10בְּרִ֥ית[the] covenant of

    Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?

  33. Malachi 2:14בְּרִיתֶֽךָcovenant your

    Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

  34. Malachi 3:1הַבְּרִ֜יתthe covenant

    “Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple—the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight—see, He is coming,” says the LORD of Hosts.

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