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Word Study · Strong's H1285 · Hebrew

בְּרִית

berith

ber-eeth'

Strong's 1890 spelling: bᵉrîyth

a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh)

Rendered in the KJV as

confederacy, (con-) feder(-ate), covenant, league.

  • 284
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 27 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 103
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 284 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 103

  • בְּרִ֣ית27
  • בְּרִית־27
  • בְּרִ֥ית15
  • הַבְּרִ֔ית14
  • בְּרִ֖ית9
  • בְּרִיתִ֖י9
  • הַבְּרִית֙8
  • הַבְּרִ֣ית8
  • בְּרִ֔ית7
  • בְרִ֖ית6
  • בְּרִ֑ית6
  • בְּרִית֙5

and 91 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 37

  • [the] covenant of55
  • a covenant55
  • the covenant45
  • covenant my39
  • covenant his15
  • a covenant of14
  • covenant your11
  • covenant of my6
  • [the] covenant4
  • in the covenant4
  • to a covenant of3
  • [is] covenant my2

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 22

  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)72
  • noun · feminine singular59
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular48
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular46
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular17
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular9
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)8
  • preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular7
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)3
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcfsc · 72
  • HNcfsa · 59
  • HNcfsc/Sp1bs · 48
  • HTd/Ncfsa · 46
  • HNcfsc/Sp3ms · 17
  • HNcfsc/Sp2ms · 9
  • HR/Ncfsc · 8
  • HRd/Ncfsa · 7
  • HC/Ncfsc · 3
  • HC/Ncfsc/Sp1bs · 2
  • HR/Ncfsc/Sp1bs · 2
  • HC/Ncfsa · 1

All 284, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Genesis carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis27 occurrences
Exodus13 occurrences
Leviticus10 occurrences
Numbers5 occurrences
Deuteronomy27 occurrences
Joshua22 occurrences
Judges4 occurrences
1 Samuel8 occurrences
2 Samuel6 occurrences
1 Kings14 occurrences
2 Kings12 occurrences
1 Chronicles13 occurrences
2 Chronicles17 occurrences
Ezra1 occurrence
Nehemiah4 occurrences
Job3 occurrences
Psalms21 occurrences
Proverbs1 occurrence
Isaiah12 occurrences
Jeremiah24 occurrences
Ezekiel18 occurrences
Daniel7 occurrences
Hosea5 occurrences
Amos1 occurrence
Obadiah1 occurrence
Zechariah2 occurrences
Malachi6 occurrences

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled בְּרִית

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Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).