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Covenant names 6 things on this site
- Covenant, a subject the site gathers pages under.The great themes · The binding promises God makes, the Bible's skeleton.
- Covenant, a concept traced across the canon.God binding himself by oath: the legal spine the whole Bible is built on, cut in blood and never revoked.
- Covenant, a theme of Scripture.In Scripture a covenant is not a vague feeling. It is a formal, oath-bound promise between named parties, with a stated promise and usually a visible sign to mark it. (The…
- Covenant, a heading of the topical index.A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- Covenant Theology and Dispensationalism, MannaFest, a featured study.Two systems read the same sixty-six books and draw two different maps of history, seven test passages read both ways, both at full strength.
- Covenant Sign, a concept traced across the canon.Every covenant is given something you can see: a rainbow, a circumcision, a sabbath, a cup: so the oath can be remembered.
Featured studies
35 results- StudyThe Abrahamic Covenant: Genesis 12 · 15 · 17, MannaFestGod binds Himself by oath to Abraham, land, seed, and blessing to all nations, sealed in a faith counted for righteousness.
- StudyThe Covenant Lawsuit: When God Sues His PeopleA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyCovenant Theology and Dispensationalism, MannaFestTwo systems read the same sixty-six books and draw two different maps of history, seven test passages read both ways, both at full strength.
- StudyThe Edenic Covenant, MannaFestA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe Land Covenant, MannaFestA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
Subjects
1 resultVerses
288 results- VersePsalms 55:20My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant.
- VerseExodus 23:32You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.
- Verse1 Chronicles 16:15Remember His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations—
- VerseDeuteronomy 5:2The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
- VerseDeuteronomy 29:14I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you,
People
11 results- PersonSarahAbraham's wife — barren, then bearing Isaac by promise “past age” through faith; Paul's allegory of the covenant of promise (Gal 4; Heb 11:11).
- PersonIshmaelAbraham's son by Hagar — blessed and made a great nation, but not the covenant heir; Paul's figure of the flesh (Gal 4:21–31).
- PersonMosesIsrael's deliverer from Egyptian slavery, covenant mediator, and lawgiver.
- PersonIsaacThe son of promise and of laughter — bound on Moriah, the quiet inheritor of the covenant.
- PersonShemNoah's son through whom the covenant line runs (9:26); father of the Semitic peoples and ancestor of Abraham.
Places
2 results- PlaceBeershebaThe well of the oath at the south of the land, where Abraham made his covenant with Abimelech and planted a tamarisk, where Isaac dug again, and where Elijah lay under the…
- PlaceMount Sinai (Horeb)The mountain of God in the wilderness where the bush burned, the Law was given in fire and cloud, and the covenant was cut; Elijah later heard the still small voice here.
Events
1 resultWords (Strong's)
8 results- WordH3772 כָּרַת · kârath (Hebrew)to cut (off, down or asunder). The Hebrew word stands 288 times in the original text.
- WordH1285 בְּרִית · bᵉrîyth (Hebrew)a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh). The Hebrew word stands 284 times in the original text.
- WordG4934 συντίθεμαι · syntíthemai (Greek)to place jointly, i.e. (figuratively) to consent (bargain, stipulate), concur. The Greek word stands 3 times in the original text.
- WordG2476 ἵστημι · hístēmi (Greek)to stand (transitively or intransitively), used in various applications (literally or figuratively). The Greek word stands 153 times in the original text.
- WordG1242 διαθήκη · diathḗkē (Greek)properly, a disposition, i.e. (specially) a contract (especially a devisory will). The Greek word stands 33 times in the original text.
Concepts
7 results- ConceptCovenant SignEvery covenant is given something you can see: a rainbow, a circumcision, a sabbath, a cup: so the oath can be remembered.
- ConceptCovenantGod binding himself by oath: the legal spine the whole Bible is built on, cut in blood and never revoked.
- ConceptThe Abrahamic CovenantLand, seed, and blessing sworn to one man: unconditional, and the root every later promise grows from.
- ConceptThe Davidic CovenantA house, a kingdom, and a throne established forever: the promise that makes a coming King inevitable.
- ConceptThe New CovenantLaw written on hearts, sins remembered no more: promised to Israel by Jeremiah, ratified in a cup on the night of betrayal.
Themes
2 results- ThemeCovenantIn Scripture a covenant is not a vague feeling. It is a formal, oath-bound promise between named parties, with a stated promise and usually a visible sign to mark it. (The…
- ThemeLoveThe Old Testament's word for it is *chesed* — not a feeling but a covenant posture: steadfast, loyal, obligated love that keeps showing up whether or not it is deserved. God's…
Topics
1 resultProphecies
2 results- ProphecyChrist Rules from JerusalemChrist will rule the world from Jerusalem, fulfilling the Davidic covenant.
- ProphecySon Raised to Eternal ThroneThe Davidic Covenant promised an eternal throne to David's seed. Paul argues in Acts 13 that this eternal kingship required resurrection—a dead king cannot reign forever. The…
Voices
7 results- VoiceAphrahat the Persian SageAphrahat lived and wrote in the Persian Empire, outside Roman territory, in the first half of the fourth century. He wrote in Syriac. He seems never to have read a word of…
- VoiceEphrem the SyrianEphrem was born about 306 at Nisibis, a fortified city on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire, in what is now southeastern Turkey. He spent most of his life there, serving…
- VoiceQuodvultdeusHis name means 'what God wills' — a real African Christian name of the period, not a title. He was born in North Africa around 390 and was a deacon at Carthage while Augustine…
- VoiceMelito of SardisMelito was bishop of Sardis in Asia Minor in the second half of the second century — a city with a wealthy, ancient Jewish community whose enormous synagogue archaeologists…
- VoiceRichard of Saint VictorRichard was a Scot — the tradition is firm on that, though nothing certain is known of his birth or his early years. He came to Paris and entered the abbey of Saint-Victor, a…
Apocrypha (study resources)
63 results- Study resourceSirach 17:12He made an everlasting covenant with them, and shewed them his judgments.
- Study resourceSirach 36:8Make the time short, remember the covenant, and let them declare thy wonderful works.
- Study resourceSirach 11:20Be stedfast in thy covenant, and be conversant therein, and wax old in thy work.
- Study resource2 Esdras 3:15And madest an everlasting covenant with him, promising him that thou wouldest never forsake his seed.
- Study resourceSirach 44:18An everlasting covenant was made with him, that all flesh should perish no more by the flood.
Doorways
Study a word
H3772כָּרַת kârath — to cut (off, down or asunder)H1285בְּרִית bᵉrîyth — a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh)G4934συντίθεμαι syntíthemai — to place jointly, i.e. (figuratively)
to consent (bargain, stipulate), concurG2476ἵστημι hístēmi — to stand (transitively or
intransitively), used in various applications (literally or
figuratively)G1242διαθήκη diathḗkē — properly, a disposition, i.e. (specially) a contract
(especially a devisory will)G3670ὁμολογέω homologéō — to assent, i.e.
covenant, acknowledge