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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

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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  1. 2 Chronicles 5:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.

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  2. 2 Chronicles 6:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And there I have placed the ark, which contains the covenant of the LORD that He made with the children of Israel.”

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  3. 2 Chronicles 6:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven or on earth, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.

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  4. 2 Chronicles 13:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do you not know that the LORD, the God of Israel, has given the kingship of Israel to David and his descendants forever by a covenant of salt?

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  5. 2 Chronicles 15:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul.

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  6. 2 Chronicles 16:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    “Let there be a treaty between me and you as there was between my father and your father. See, I have sent you silver and gold. Now go and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me.”

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  7. 2 Chronicles 21:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Yet the LORD was unwilling to destroy the house of David, because of the covenant He had made with David, and since He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.

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  8. 2 Chronicles 23:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then in the seventh year, Jehoiada strengthened himself and made a covenant with the commanders of hundreds—with Azariah son of Jeroham, Ishmael son of Jehohanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zichri.

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  9. 2 Chronicles 23:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    the whole assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. “Behold, the king’s son!” said Jehoiada. “He must reign, just as the LORD promised concerning the descendants of David.

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  10. 2 Chronicles 23:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and the king and the people that they would be the LORD’s people.

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  11. 2 Chronicles 29:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that His fierce anger will turn away from us.

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  12. 2 Chronicles 34:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the Levites—all the people great and small—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.

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  13. 2 Chronicles 34:31 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

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  14. 2 Chronicles 34:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then he had everyone in Jerusalem and Benjamin take a stand in agreement to it. So all the people of Jerusalem carried out the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

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  15. Ezra 10:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done according to the Law.

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  16. Nehemiah 1:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then I said: “O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion with those who love Him and keep His commandments,

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  17. Nehemiah 9:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.

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  18. Nehemiah 9:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.

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  19. Nehemiah 13:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

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  20. Job 5:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

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  21. Job 31:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

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  22. Job 41:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?

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    Source alternate reference: 40.28

  23. Psalms 25:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    All the LORD’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.

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  24. Psalms 25:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The LORD confides in those who fear Him, and reveals His covenant to them.

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  25. Psalms 44:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.

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    Source alternate reference: 44.18

  26. Psalms 50:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”

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  27. Psalms 50:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?

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  28. Psalms 55:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant.

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    Source alternate reference: 55.21

  29. Psalms 74:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.

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  30. Psalms 78:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.

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  31. Psalms 78:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.

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  32. Psalms 83:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For with one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against You—

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    Source alternate reference: 83.6

  33. Psalms 89:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:

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    Source alternate reference: 89.4

  34. Psalms 89:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.

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    Source alternate reference: 89.29

  35. Psalms 89:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.

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    Source alternate reference: 89.35

  36. Psalms 89:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.

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    Source alternate reference: 89.40

  37. Psalms 103:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    to those who keep His covenant and remember to obey His precepts.

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  38. Psalms 105:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He remembers His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations—

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  39. Psalms 105:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:

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  40. Psalms 106:45 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

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  41. Psalms 111:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He provides food for those who fear Him; He remembers His covenant forever.

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  42. Psalms 111:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He has sent redemption to His people; He has ordained His covenant forever; holy and awesome is His name.

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  43. Psalms 132:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If your sons keep My covenant and the testimony I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever and ever.”

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  44. Proverbs 2:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

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  45. Isaiah 24:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.

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  46. Isaiah 28:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”

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  47. Isaiah 28:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.

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  48. Isaiah 33:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.

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  49. Isaiah 42:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,

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  50. Isaiah 49:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is what the LORD says: “In the time of favor I will answer You, and in the day of salvation I will help You; I will keep You and appoint You to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to apportion its desolate inheritances,

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