be.rit H1285

בְּרִית (be.rit) means “covenant” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

בְּרִית Hebrew · H1285 284 tagged occurrences in 264 verses

Pronunciation guide: ber-eeth' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H1285

בְּרִית · be.rit · covenant

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

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H1262 (בָּרָה) (in the sense of cutting (like H1254 (בָּרָא))); a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh)

KJV glosses: confederacy, (con-) feder(-ate), covenant, league.

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How translators render H1285

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
of the covenant	65
a covenant	45
my covenant	35
covenant	32
the covenant	27
his covenant	19
your covenant	10
a treaty	7
and my covenant	5
into a covenant	3
and the covenant	2
into the covenant	2
is my covenant	2
let there be a treaty	2
the treaty	2
to be a covenant	2
to my covenant	2
your treaty	2
a treaty with you	1
allied with you	1
an alliance	1
be like the covenant	1
by a covenant	1
by covenant	1
by this treaty	1
by treaty	1
covenants	1
his covenant to them	1
into this covenant	1
is the covenant	1
my covenant with you	1
of my covenant	1
so that my covenant	1
then my covenant	1
to his covenant	1
treaty	1
you will have a covenant	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
of the covenant	61
a covenant	40
my covenant	36
covenant	27
the covenant	22
his covenant	10
a league	9
of this covenant	7
and my covenant	4
into a covenant	3
of his covenant	3
thy covenant	3
thy league	3
and also my covenant	2
and the covenant	2
confederate	2
into covenant	2
no covenant	2
of my covenant	2
of thy covenant	2
thee for a covenant	2
ye a league	2
according to the covenant	1
against the covenant	1
and his covenant	1
and whose covenant	1
and your covenant	1
because of the covenant	1
behold my covenant	1
beside the covenant	1
but my covenant	1
but not by thy covenant	1
by a covenant	1
for them his covenant	1
for thou shalt be in league	1
from thee neither shall the covenant	1
if my covenant	1
in his covenant	1
in thy covenant	1
into the covenant	1
may also my covenant	1
no league	1
not according to the covenant	1
not the covenant	1
not this covenant	1
not thy covenant	1
of a covenant	1
of thy confederacy	1
that is in league	1
them his covenant	1
this covenant	1
to the covenant	1
unto him my covenant	1
unto the covenant	1
unto thee the covenant	1
unto you his covenant	1
unto you that my covenant	1
which my covenant	1
with them a covenant	1
with this covenant	1

Verses containing H1285

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Genesis 6:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
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Genesis 9:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,
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Genesis 9:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
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Genesis 9:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
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Genesis 9:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
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Genesis 9:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
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Genesis 9:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth.”
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Genesis 9:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth.”
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Genesis 14:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then an escapee came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the Oaks of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshcol and Aner, all of whom were bound by treaty to Abram.
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Genesis 15:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
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Genesis 17:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly.”
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Genesis 17:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.
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Genesis 17:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
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Genesis 17:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
God also said to Abraham, “You must keep My covenant—you and your descendants in the generations after you.
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Genesis 17:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.
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Genesis 17:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.
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Genesis 17:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant.
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Genesis 17:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”
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Genesis 17:19 · BSB · 2 occurrences
But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
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Genesis 17:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”
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Genesis 21:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.
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Genesis 21:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
After they had made the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.
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Genesis 26:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“We can plainly see that the LORD has been with you,” they replied. “We recommend that there should now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you
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Genesis 31:44 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between you and me.”
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Exodus 2:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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Exodus 6:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.
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Exodus 6:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered My covenant.
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Exodus 19:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
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Exodus 23:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.
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Exodus 24:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people, who replied, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”
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Exodus 24:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Moses took the blood, splattered it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
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Exodus 31:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The Israelites must keep the Sabbath, celebrating it as a permanent covenant for the generations to come.
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Exodus 34:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the LORD said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will perform wonders that have never been done in any nation in all the world. All the people among whom you live will see the LORD’s work, for it is an awesome thing that I am doing with you.
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Exodus 34:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.
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Exodus 34:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.
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Exodus 34:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
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Exodus 34:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
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Leviticus 2:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And you shall season each of your grain offerings with salt. You must not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering; you are to add salt to each of your offerings.
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Leviticus 24:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Every Sabbath day the bread is to be set out before the LORD on behalf of the Israelites as a permanent covenant.
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Leviticus 26:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.
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Leviticus 26:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
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Leviticus 26:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
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Leviticus 26:42 · BSB · 3 occurrences
then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
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Leviticus 26:44 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.
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Leviticus 26:45 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.”
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Numbers 10:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So they set out on a three-day journey from the mountain of the LORD, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them.
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Numbers 14:44 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But they dared to go up to the ridge of the hill country, though neither Moses nor the ark of the covenant of the LORD moved from the camp.
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Numbers 18:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
All the holy offerings that the Israelites present to the LORD I give to you and to your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. It is a permanent covenant of salt before the LORD for you and your offspring.”
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Numbers 25:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Declare, therefore, that I am granting him My covenant of peace.
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Numbers 25:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
It will be a covenant of permanent priesthood for him and his descendants, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites.”
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