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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

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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

Page 2 of 6. 264 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Deuteronomy 4:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.

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  2. Deuteronomy 4:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Be careful that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that He made with you; do not make an idol for yourselves in the form of anything He has forbidden you.

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  3. Deuteronomy 4:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath.

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  4. Deuteronomy 5:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

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  5. Deuteronomy 5:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.

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  6. Deuteronomy 7:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.

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  7. Deuteronomy 7:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.

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  8. Deuteronomy 7:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If you listen to these ordinances and keep them carefully, then the LORD your God will keep His covenant and the loving devotion that He swore to your fathers.

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  9. Deuteronomy 8:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day.

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  10. Deuteronomy 9:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

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  11. Deuteronomy 9:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And at the end of forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

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  12. Deuteronomy 9:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.

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  13. Deuteronomy 10:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to serve Him, and to pronounce blessings in His name, as they do to this day.

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  14. Deuteronomy 17:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If a man or woman among you in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant

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  15. Deuteronomy 29:1 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb.

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    Source alternate reference: 28.69

  16. Deuteronomy 29:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So keep and follow the words of this covenant, that you may prosper in all you do.

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    Source alternate reference: 29.8

  17. Deuteronomy 29:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,

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    Source alternate reference: 29.11

  18. Deuteronomy 29:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you,

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    Source alternate reference: 29.13

  19. Deuteronomy 29:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

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    Source alternate reference: 29.20

  20. Deuteronomy 29:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And the people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

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    Source alternate reference: 29.24

  21. Deuteronomy 31:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.

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  22. Deuteronomy 31:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.

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  23. Deuteronomy 31:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will reject Me and break My covenant.

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  24. Deuteronomy 31:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    he gave this command to the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD:

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  25. Deuteronomy 31:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, so that it may remain there as a witness against you.

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  26. Deuteronomy 33:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He said of his father and mother, ‘I do not consider them.’ He disregarded his brothers and did not know his own sons, for he kept Your word and maintained Your covenant.

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  27. Joshua 3:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and commanded the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God being carried by the Levitical priests, you are to set out from your positions and follow it.

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  28. Joshua 3:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And he said to the priests, “Take the ark of the covenant and go on ahead of the people.” So they carried the ark of the covenant and went ahead of them.

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  29. Joshua 3:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Command the priests carrying the ark of the covenant: ‘When you reach the edge of the waters, stand in the Jordan.’”

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  30. Joshua 3:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth will go ahead of you into the Jordan.

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  31. Joshua 3:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant ahead of them.

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  32. Joshua 3:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed over the dry ground, until the entire nation had crossed the Jordan.

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  33. Joshua 4:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    you are to tell them, ‘The waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters were cut off.’ Therefore these stones will be a memorial to the Israelites forever.”

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  34. Joshua 4:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant stood. And the stones are there to this day.

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  35. Joshua 4:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When the priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up out of the Jordan and their feet touched the dry land, the waters of the Jordan returned to their course and overflowed all the banks as before.

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  36. Joshua 6:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said, “Take up the ark of the covenant and have seven priests carry seven rams’ horns in front of the ark of the LORD.”

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  37. Joshua 6:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    After Joshua had spoken to the people, seven priests carrying seven rams’ horns before the LORD advanced and blew the horns, and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them.

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  38. Joshua 7:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Israel has sinned; they have transgressed My covenant that I commanded them, and they have taken some of what was devoted to destruction. Indeed, they have stolen and lied, and they have put these things with their own possessions.

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  39. Joshua 7:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The one who is caught with the things devoted to destruction must be burned, along with all that belongs to him, because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD and committed an outrage in Israel.’”

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  40. Joshua 8:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    All Israel, foreigners and citizens alike, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark of the covenant of the LORD facing the Levitical priests who carried it. Half of the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded earlier, to bless the people of Israel.

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  41. Joshua 9:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land; please make a treaty with us.”

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  42. Joshua 9:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you dwell near us. How can we make a treaty with you?”

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  43. Joshua 9:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So the elders and inhabitants of our land told us, ‘Take provisions for your journey; go to meet them and say to them: We are your servants. Please make a treaty with us.’

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  44. Joshua 9:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.

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  45. Joshua 9:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Three days after they had made the treaty with the Gibeonites, the Israelites learned that they were neighbors, living among them.

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  46. Joshua 23:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from this good land He has given you.”

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  47. Joshua 24:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he established for them a statute and ordinance.

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  48. Judges 2:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,

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  49. Judges 2:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?

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  50. Judges 2:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this nation has transgressed the covenant I laid down for their fathers and has not heeded My voice,

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