H1285 בְּרִית
bᵉrîyth — a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh)
KJV: confederacy, (con-) feder(-ate), covenant, league.
Built from בָּרָה bârâh (to select) + בָּרָא bârâʼ (choose)
Occurs 284 times. Every verse with this word
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
Where it occurs
- Genesis 6:18 — But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’…
- Genesis 9:9 — “As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
- Genesis 9:11 — I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will…
- Genesis 9:12 — God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with…
- Genesis 9:13 — I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
- Genesis 9:15 — I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no…
- Genesis 9:16 — The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every…
- Genesis 9:17 — God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the…
- Genesis 14:13 — One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. At that time, he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother…
- Genesis 15:18 — In that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of…