Gematria of Covenant
2 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “covenant” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 573 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 2
- Occurrences
- 573
- Distinct values
- 2
The 2 Hebrew words rendered “covenant”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces)
First appearance ·Genesis 9:11בראשית ט:יאיִכָּרֵת
a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh)
First appearance ·Genesis 6:18בראשית ו:יחבְּרִיתִי
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What is the gematria of covenant?
The Tanakh renders “covenant” with 2 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: כרת = 620 and ברית = 612.
How do you say covenant in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 2 Hebrew words for “covenant”; the most frequent are כרת (kârath), 289 times; ברית (bᵉrîyth), 284 times. Every one is listed on this page.
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