H1285: בְּרִית
bᵉrîyth · pronounced ber-eeth' · “covenant”
Definition
a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh)
KJV translates it as: confederacy, (con-) feder(-ate), covenant, league.
Word origin: from H1262 (בָּרָה) (in the sense of cutting (like H1254 (בָּרָא)));
Extended definition
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
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H1285 is translated
- the covenant of ×60
- a covenant ×57
- covenant ×55
- my ×52
- a covenant of ×20
- his ×19
- your ×14
- the covenant ×4
- is a covenant of ×1
- covenant of ×1
- of the covenant of ×1
Bible verses with H1285 (bᵉrîyth)
Bᵉrîyth appears in 264 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 6:18
But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
- Genesis 9:9
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
- Genesis 9:11
And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
- Genesis 9:12
And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
- Genesis 9:13
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
- Genesis 9:15
And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
- Genesis 9:16
And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
- Genesis 9:17
And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
- Genesis 14:13
And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.
- Genesis 15:18
In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
- Genesis 17:2
And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
- Genesis 17:4
As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
- Genesis 17:7
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
- Genesis 17:9
And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
- Genesis 17:10
This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
- Genesis 17:11
And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
- Genesis 17:13
He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
- Genesis 17:14
And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
- Genesis 17:19
And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
- Genesis 17:21
But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
- Genesis 21:27
And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
- Genesis 21:32
Thus they made a covenant at Beer–sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
- Genesis 26:28
And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
- Genesis 31:44
Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
- Exodus 2:24
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
All 264 references
- Exodus 6:4
- Exodus 6:5
- Exodus 19:5
- Exodus 23:32
- Exodus 24:7
- Exodus 24:8
- Exodus 31:16
- Exodus 34:10
- Exodus 34:12
- Exodus 34:15
- Exodus 34:27
- Exodus 34:28
- Leviticus 2:13
- Leviticus 24:8
- Leviticus 26:9
- Leviticus 26:15
- Leviticus 26:25
- Leviticus 26:42
- Leviticus 26:44
- Leviticus 26:45
- Numbers 10:33
- Numbers 14:44
- Numbers 18:19
- Numbers 25:12
- Numbers 25:13
- Deuteronomy 4:13
- Deuteronomy 4:23
- Deuteronomy 4:31
- Deuteronomy 5:2
- Deuteronomy 5:3
- Deuteronomy 7:2
- Deuteronomy 7:9
- Deuteronomy 7:12
- Deuteronomy 8:18
- Deuteronomy 9:9
- Deuteronomy 9:11
- Deuteronomy 9:15
- Deuteronomy 10:8
- Deuteronomy 17:2
- Deuteronomy 29:1
- Deuteronomy 29:9
- Deuteronomy 29:12
- Deuteronomy 29:14
- Deuteronomy 29:21
- Deuteronomy 29:25
- Deuteronomy 31:9
- Deuteronomy 31:16
- Deuteronomy 31:20
- Deuteronomy 31:25
- Deuteronomy 31:26
- Deuteronomy 33:9
- Joshua 3:3
- Joshua 3:6
- Joshua 3:8
- Joshua 3:11
- Joshua 3:14
- Joshua 3:17
- Joshua 4:7
- Joshua 4:9
- Joshua 4:18
- Joshua 6:6
- Joshua 6:8
- Joshua 7:11
- Joshua 7:15
- Joshua 8:33
- Joshua 9:6
- Joshua 9:7
- Joshua 9:11
- Joshua 9:15
- Joshua 9:16
- Joshua 23:16
- Joshua 24:25
- Judges 2:1
- Judges 2:2
- Judges 2:20
- Judges 20:27
- 1 Samuel 4:3
- 1 Samuel 4:4
- 1 Samuel 4:5
- 1 Samuel 11:1
- 1 Samuel 18:3
- 1 Samuel 20:8
- 1 Samuel 23:18
- 2 Samuel 3:12
- 2 Samuel 3:13
- 2 Samuel 3:21
- 2 Samuel 5:3
- 2 Samuel 15:24
- 2 Samuel 23:5
- 1 Kings 3:15
- 1 Kings 5:12
- 1 Kings 6:19
- 1 Kings 8:1
- 1 Kings 8:6
- 1 Kings 8:21
- 1 Kings 8:23
- 1 Kings 11:11
- 1 Kings 15:19
- 1 Kings 19:10
- 1 Kings 19:14
- 1 Kings 20:34
- 2 Kings 11:4
- 2 Kings 11:17
- 2 Kings 13:23
- 2 Kings 17:15
- 2 Kings 17:35
- 2 Kings 17:38
- 2 Kings 18:12
- 2 Kings 23:2
- 2 Kings 23:3
- 2 Kings 23:21
- 1 Chronicles 11:3
- 1 Chronicles 15:25
- 1 Chronicles 15:26
- 1 Chronicles 15:28
- 1 Chronicles 15:29
- 1 Chronicles 16:6
- 1 Chronicles 16:15
- 1 Chronicles 16:17
- 1 Chronicles 16:37
- 1 Chronicles 17:1
- 1 Chronicles 22:19
- 1 Chronicles 28:2
- 1 Chronicles 28:18
- 2 Chronicles 5:2
- 2 Chronicles 5:7
- 2 Chronicles 6:11
- 2 Chronicles 6:14
- 2 Chronicles 13:5
- 2 Chronicles 15:12
- 2 Chronicles 16:3
- 2 Chronicles 21:7
- 2 Chronicles 23:1
- 2 Chronicles 23:3
- 2 Chronicles 23:16
- 2 Chronicles 29:10
- 2 Chronicles 34:30
- 2 Chronicles 34:31
- 2 Chronicles 34:32
- Ezra 10:3
- Nehemiah 1:5
- Nehemiah 9:8
- Nehemiah 9:32
- Nehemiah 13:29
- Job 5:23
- Job 31:1
- Job 41:4
- Psalms 25:10
- Psalms 25:14
- Psalms 44:17
- Psalms 50:5
- Psalms 50:16
- Psalms 55:20
- Psalms 74:20
- Psalms 78:10
- Psalms 78:37
- Psalms 83:5
- Psalms 89:3
- Psalms 89:28
- Psalms 89:34
- Psalms 89:39
- Psalms 103:18
- Psalms 105:8
- Psalms 105:10
- Psalms 106:45
- Psalms 111:5
- Psalms 111:9
- Psalms 132:12
- Proverbs 2:17
- Isaiah 24:5
- Isaiah 28:15
- Isaiah 28:18
- Isaiah 33:8
- Isaiah 42:6
- Isaiah 49:8
- Isaiah 54:10
- Isaiah 55:3
- Isaiah 56:4
- Isaiah 56:6
- Isaiah 59:21
- Isaiah 61:8
- Jeremiah 3:16
- Jeremiah 11:2
- Jeremiah 11:3
- Jeremiah 11:6
- Jeremiah 11:8
- Jeremiah 11:10
- Jeremiah 14:21
- Jeremiah 22:9
- Jeremiah 31:31
- Jeremiah 31:32
- Jeremiah 31:33
- Jeremiah 32:40
- Jeremiah 33:20
- Jeremiah 33:21
- Jeremiah 33:25
- Jeremiah 34:8
- Jeremiah 34:10
- Jeremiah 34:13
- Jeremiah 34:15
- Jeremiah 34:18
- Jeremiah 50:5
- Ezekiel 16:8
- Ezekiel 16:59
- Ezekiel 16:60
- Ezekiel 16:61
- Ezekiel 16:62
- Ezekiel 17:13
- Ezekiel 17:14
- Ezekiel 17:15
- Ezekiel 17:16
- Ezekiel 17:18
- Ezekiel 17:19
- Ezekiel 20:37
- Ezekiel 30:5
- Ezekiel 34:25
- Ezekiel 37:26
- Ezekiel 44:7
- Daniel 9:4
- Daniel 9:27
- Daniel 11:22
- Daniel 11:28
- Daniel 11:30
- Daniel 11:32
- Hosea 2:18
- Hosea 6:7
- Hosea 8:1
- Hosea 10:4
- Hosea 12:1
- Amos 1:9
- Obadiah 1:7
- Zechariah 9:11
- Zechariah 11:10
- Malachi 2:4
- Malachi 2:5
- Malachi 2:8
- Malachi 2:10
- Malachi 2:14
- Malachi 3:1