COVENANT; DEFINITION OF

OT:1285 "beriythe"—

1) covenant, alliance, pledge

a) between men

1) a treaty, an alliance, a league (man to man)

2) a constitution, an ordinance (monarch to subjects)

3) an agreement, a pledge (man to man)

4) an alliance (used of friendship)

5) an alliance (used of marriage)

b) between God and man

1) an alliance (used of friendship)

2) a covenant (divine ordinance with signs or pledges)

2) (phrases)

a) covenant making

b) covenant keeping

c) covenant violation

(from The Online Bible Thayer's Greek Lexicon and Brown Driver & Briggs

OT:1285

beriyth (ber-eeth'); from OT:1262 (in the sense of cutting [like OT:1254]); a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh): -confederacy, [con-] feder [-ate], covenant, league.

(Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded

NT:1242

diatheekee, diatheekees, hee

1. a disposition, arrangement, Gal 3:15 a testament,

2. a compact, covenant

(from Thayer's Greek Lexicon, Electronic Database.

NT:1242

diatheke (dee-ath-ay'-kay); from NT:1303; properly, a disposition, i.e. (specially) a contract (especially a devisory will):

(Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary.

The word 33 times; translated 20 times as "covenant" 13 times as testament.

Covenant first in Luke 1: 72 last Hebrews 13: 20.See also Heb. 8:6-, 9: 1-4, and Heb. 10:

Testament; Matt 26: 28, Mark 16: 14, Luke 22: 20.