Berit בְּרִית

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Berit
בְּרִית
Transliterationberit
Strong's numberH1285
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechfeminine noun
Glosscovenant
Occurrences284 in 264 verses
Most frequent inDeuteronomy (26)

Berit (Hebrew בְּרִית, Strong's H1285) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “covenant”. It occurs 284 times in 264 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

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

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVcovenant (264), league (17), confederate (1), confederacy (1)
BSBcovenant (173), my covenant (44), his covenant (20), treaty (13), your covenant (8), into a covenant (3), is my covenant (2), into the covenant (2), your treaty (2), be a covenant (2), treaty with you (1), this treaty (1), and 9 other renderings

Topics

Verses

Every verse with Berit, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Daniel

Hosea

Amos

Obadiah

Zechariah

Malachi

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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