Strong's H1285

בְּרִית

Transliteration

bᵉrîyth

Pronunciation

ber-eeth'

Definition

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

KJV usage

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

Derivation

from H1262 (בָּרָה) (in the sense of cutting (like H1254 (בָּרָא)));

From Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890), Hebrew dictionary. Data: Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA.