KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: A binding agreement, promise, pledge, or appointed order. Sense 2: The stated words, terms, testimony, or written record of such an agreement or promise.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 6:18
Complete exact-word concordance
Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
Thus they made a couenant at Beeer-sheba: then Abimelech rose vp, and Phichol the chiefe captaine of his hoste, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
And they said, we saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and wee said, Let there be now an othe betwixt vs, euen betwixt vs and thee, and let vs make a couenant with thee,
1611 marginal noteHeb. seeing we saw.
Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
Now therefore come thou, let vs make a couenant, I and thou: and let it be for a witnesse betweene me and thee.
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
And God heard their groning, and God remembred his Couenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Iacob.
1611 marginal noteGene. 15.14. and 46.4.
And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
And I haue also established my Couenant with them, to giue them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
And I haue also heard the groning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keepe in bondage: and I haue remembred my Couenant.
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
Now therfore if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keepe my couenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure vnto me aboue all people: for all the earth is mine.
1611 marginal noteDeut. 5.2.
1611 marginal noteDeut. 10.14. psal. 24.1.
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
Thou shalt make no couenant with them, nor with their gods.
1611 marginal noteChap. 34.15. deut. 7.2.
And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient.
And he tooke the booke of the couenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they saide, All that the LORD hath said, will we doe, and be obedient.
1611 marginal noteVerse 3.
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.
And Moses tooke the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the Couenant which the LORD hath made with you, concerning all these words.
1611 marginal note1.Pet. 1.2. Hebr.9.20.
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Source order
1 · Direct Scripture definition
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
2 · KJV context and cross-references
Historical English dictionary sources
An agreement ... to do or to forbear some act or thing; a contract; stipulation. A writing containing the terms of agreement or contract between parties.
