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 6 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.
Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.
Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Tyre, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they delivered up a whole congregation of exiles to Edom and broke a covenant of brotherhood.
All the men allied with you will drive you to the border; the men at peace with you will deceive and overpower you. Those who eat your bread will set a trap for you without your awareness of it.
Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
“Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple—the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight—see, He is coming,” says the LORD of Hosts.
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