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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

Page 5 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. Isaiah 54:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

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  2. Isaiah 55:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.

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  3. Isaiah 56:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For this is what the LORD says: “To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, who choose what pleases Me and hold fast to My covenant—

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  4. Isaiah 56:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants—all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold fast to My covenant—

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  5. Isaiah 59:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.

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  6. Isaiah 61:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.

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  7. Jeremiah 3:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “In those days, when you multiply and increase in the land,” declares the LORD, “they will no longer discuss the ark of the covenant of the LORD. It will never come to mind, and no one will remember it or miss it, nor will another one be made.

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  8. Jeremiah 11:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Listen to the words of this covenant and tell them to the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.

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  9. Jeremiah 11:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You must tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,

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  10. Jeremiah 11:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear the words of this covenant and carry them out.

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  11. Jeremiah 11:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”

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  12. Jeremiah 11:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.

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  13. Jeremiah 14:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For the sake of Your name do not despise us; do not disgrace Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.

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  14. Jeremiah 22:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then people will reply, ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.’”

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  15. Jeremiah 31:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

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  16. Jeremiah 31:32 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.

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  17. Jeremiah 31:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

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  18. Jeremiah 32:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.

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  19. Jeremiah 33:20 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    “This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,

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  20. Jeremiah 33:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne.

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  21. Jeremiah 33:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,

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  22. Jeremiah 34:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD

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  23. Jeremiah 34:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So all the officials and all the people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their menservants and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. They obeyed and released them,

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  24. Jeremiah 34:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying:

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  25. Jeremiah 34:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Recently you repented and did what pleased Me; each of you proclaimed freedom for his neighbor. You made a covenant before Me in the house that bears My Name.

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  26. Jeremiah 34:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And those who have transgressed My covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before Me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two in order to pass between its pieces.

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  27. Jeremiah 50:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

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  28. Ezekiel 16:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then I passed by and saw you, and you were indeed old enough for love. So I spread My cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares the Lord GOD.

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  29. Ezekiel 16:59 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For this is what the Lord GOD says: I will deal with you according to your deeds, since you have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.

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  30. Ezekiel 16:60 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

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  31. Ezekiel 16:61 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your older and younger sisters. I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of My covenant with you.

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  32. Ezekiel 16:62 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So I will establish My covenant with you, and you will know that I am the LORD,

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  33. Ezekiel 17:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He took a member of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. Then he carried away the leading men of the land,

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  34. Ezekiel 17:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    so that the kingdom would be brought low, unable to lift itself up, surviving only by keeping his covenant.

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  35. Ezekiel 17:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But this king rebelled against Babylon by sending his envoys to Egypt to ask for horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and yet escape?’

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  36. Ezekiel 17:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    ‘As surely as I live,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘he will die in Babylon, in the land of the king who enthroned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke.

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  37. Ezekiel 17:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Seeing that he gave his hand in pledge yet did all these things, he will not escape!’

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  38. Ezekiel 17:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, I will bring down upon his head My oath that he despised and My covenant that he broke.

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  39. Ezekiel 20:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I will make you pass under the rod and will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

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  40. Ezekiel 30:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Cush, Put, and Lud, and all the various peoples, as well as Libya and the men of the covenant land, will fall with Egypt by the sword.

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  41. Ezekiel 34:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I will make with them a covenant of peace and rid the land of wild animals, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.

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  42. Ezekiel 37:26 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary among them forever.

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  43. Ezekiel 44:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In addition to all your other abominations, you brought in foreigners uncircumcised in both heart and flesh to occupy My sanctuary; you defiled My temple when you offered My food—the fat and the blood; you broke My covenant.

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  44. Daniel 9:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments,

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  45. Daniel 9:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”

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  46. Daniel 11:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then a flood of forces will be swept away before him and destroyed, along with a prince of the covenant.

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  47. Daniel 11:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The king of the North will return to his land with great wealth, but his heart will be set against the holy covenant; so he will do damage and return to his own land.

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  48. Daniel 11:30 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Ships of Kittim will come against him, and he will lose heart. Then he will turn back and rage against the holy covenant and do damage. So he will return and show favor to those who forsake the holy covenant.

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  49. Daniel 11:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    With flattery he will corrupt those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God will firmly resist him.

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  50. Hosea 2:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish bow and sword and battle in the land, and will make them lie down in safety.

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    Source alternate reference: 2.20

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