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Strong's G1242 διαθήκη (diatheke)

Diatheke means “covenant” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H1242 — boqer (“morning”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G1242
Language Greek
Linked Usages 346
Books 45

Strong's G1242 Quick Answer

Strong's G1242 διαθήκη (diatheke) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. diatheke (dee-ath-ay'-kay) n. 1. (properly) a disposition 2. (specially) a contract (especially a devisory will) It has 346 linked Bible usages across 45 books. Visible English usage signals include covenant, lord, thee, god, and ark. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
diatheke (dee-ath-ay'-kay) n. 1. (properly) a disposition 2. (specially) a contract (especially a devisory will)
Usage
346 linked usages
Books
45 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
covenant, lord, thee, god, and ark

Meaning and Definition

diatheke (dee-ath-ay'-kay) n. 1. (properly) a disposition 2. (specially) a contract (especially a devisory will) [from G1303] KJV: covenant, testament Root(s): G1303

Original Word
διαθήκη
Transliteration
diatheke
Derivation
Root: διατίθεμαι R1: 1303
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1242. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

covenant

Usage: διαθήκη, -ης, ἡ (διατίθημι), [frequently in LXX, and nearly always for בְּרִית ;] __1. as usually in cl., a disposition, testament, will (Plat., al.): Gal.3:15 (R, mg., but see Lft., in l.), Heb.9:16, 17 (R, txt.; MM, Exp., xi; Milligan, NTD, 75; Abbott, Essays, 107; Deiss., LAE, 341; but see infr.). __2. As in LXX (for בְּרִית) = cl. συνθήκη, a convention, arrangement, covenant (exc.

in the disputed cases mentioned above, always between God and man, "perhaps with the feeling that the δια- compound was more suitable than the συν- for a covenant with God---συνθ. might suggest equal terms," MM, Exp., l.with): Gal.3:15 (R, txt., but see supr., and cf. Thayer, see word), Heb.9:16, 17 (R, mg., Westc., in l.; Hatch, Essays, 47; but see supr.), Mat.26:28, Mrk.14:24, Luk.1:72, Act.3:25 7:8, Rom.11:27" (LXX), 2Co.3:14, Gal.3:17, Heb.7:22 8:6, ib.

9, 10" (LXX) 9:4, 15-17 20" (LXX) 10:16 (LXX), 29 12:24 13:20, Rev.11:19; καινὴ δ., Mat.26:28, and Mrk.14:24 (R, mg.), Luk.22:20, 1Co.11:25, 2Co.3:6, Heb.8:8" (LXX) 9:15; pl. Rom.9:4, Gal.4:24, Eph.2:12.† (AS)

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English Usage Signals

Frequent English words from the visible usage excerpts. These are not a replacement for the original-language definition, but they make the usage pattern easier to scan.

covenant lord thee god ark before said made israel land people priests

How Strong's G1242 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 277 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G1242 (διαθήκη) appears 336 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G1242 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G1242 in the New Testament

30 indexed usages in New Testament.

Strong's G1242 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

277 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 6:18 Septuagint / Brenton

And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter into the ark, and thy sons and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

Genesis 9:9 Septuagint / Brenton

And behold I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you,

Genesis 9:11 Septuagint / Brenton

And I will establish my covenant with you and all flesh shall not anymore die by the water of the flood, and there shall no more be a flood of water to destroy all the earth.

Strong's G1242 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

38 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Strong's G1242 in 1 Enoch

1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1242.

Genesis 6:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter into the ark, and thy sons and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
Genesis 9:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And behold I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you,
Genesis 9:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will establish my covenant with you and all flesh shall not anymore die by the water of the flood, and there shall no more be a flood of water to destroy all the earth.
Genesis 9:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I set between me and you, and between every living creature which is with you for perpetual generations.
Genesis 9:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of covenant between me and the earth.
Genesis 9:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you, and between every living soul in all flesh, and there shall no longer be water for a deluge, so as to blot out all flesh.
Genesis 9:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And my bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look to remember the everlasting covenant between me and the earth, and between every living soul in all flesh, which is upon the earth.
Genesis 9:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant, which I have made between me and all flesh, which is upon the earth.
Genesis 15:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates.
Genesis 17:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and I will multiply thee exceedingly.
Genesis 17:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I, behold! my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of a multitude of nations.
Genesis 17:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will establish my covenant between thee and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be thy God, and the God of thy seed after thee.
Genesis 17:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God said to Abraham, Thou also shalt fully keep my covenant, thou and thy seed after thee for their generations.
Genesis 17:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And this is the covenant which thou shalt fully keep between me and you, and between thy seed after thee for their generations; every male of you shall be circumcised.
Genesis 17:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and you.
Genesis 17:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with money shall be surely circumcised, and my covenant shall be on your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
Genesis 17:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the uncircumcised male, who shall not be circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin on the eighth day, that soul shall be utterly destroyed from its family, for he has broken my covenant.
Genesis 17:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God said to Abraham, Yea, behold, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to him and to his seed after him.
Genesis 17:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this time, in the next year.
Genesis 21:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abraham took sheep and calves, and gave them to Abimelech, and both made a covenant.
Genesis 21:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they made a covenant at the well of the oath. And there rose up Abimelech, Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the commander-in-chief of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines.
Genesis 26:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they said, We have surely seen that the Lord was with thee, and we said, Let there be an oath between us and thee, and we will make a covenant with thee,
Genesis 31:44 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now then come, let me make a covenant, both I and thou, and it shall be for a witness between me and thee; and he said to him, Behold, there is no one with us; behold, God is witness between me and thee.
Exodus 2:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God heard their groanings, and God remembered his covenant made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.
Exodus 6:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I established my covenant with them, to give them the land of the Canaanites, the land wherein they sojourned, in which also they dwelt as strangers.
Exodus 6:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I hearkened to the groaning of the children of Israel (the affliction with which the Egyptians enslave them) and I remembered the covenant with you.
Exodus 19:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now if ye will indeed hear my voice, and keep my covenant, ye shall be to me a peculiar people above all nations; for the whole earth is mine.
Exodus 23:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If ye will indeed hear my voice, and if thou wilt do all the things I shall charge thee with, and keep my covenant, ye shall be to me a peculiar people above all nations, for the whole earth is mine; and ye shall be to me a royal priesthood, and a holy nation: these words shall ye speak to the children of Israel, If ye shall indeed hear my voice, and do all the things I shall tell thee, I will be an enemy to thine enemies, and an adversary to thine adversaries.
Exodus 23:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt make no covenant with them and their gods.
Exodus 24:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he took the book of the covenant and read it in the ears of the people, and they said, All things whatsoever the Lord has spoken we will do and hearken therein.
Exodus 24:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord has made with you concerning all these words.
Exodus 27:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
in the tabernacle of the testimony, without the veil that is before the ark of the covenant, shall Aaron and his sons burn it from evening until morning, before the Lord: it is a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations of the children of Israel.
Exodus 31:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
the tabernacle of witness, and the ark of the covenant, and the propitiatory that is upon it, and the furniture of the tabernacle,
Exodus 31:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbaths, to observe them throughout their generations.
Exodus 34:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I establish a covenant for thee in the presence of all thy people; I will do glorious things, which have not been done in all the earth, or in any nation; and all the people among whom thou art shall see the works of the Lord, that they are wonderful, which I will do for thee.
Exodus 34:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
take heed to thyself, lest at any time thou make a covenant with the dwellers on the land, into which thou art entering, lest it be to thee a stumbling block among you.
Exodus 34:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
lest at any time thou make a covenant with the dwellers on the land, and they go a-whoring after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and they call thee, and thou shouldest eat of their feasts,
Exodus 34:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses, Write these words for thyself, for on these words I have established a covenant with thee and with Israel.
Exodus 34:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses was there before the Lord forty days, and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water; and he wrote upon the tables these words of the covenant, the ten sayings.
Exodus 39:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and they brought the garments to Moses, and the tabernacle, and its furniture, its bases and its bars and the posts;
Leviticus 2:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And every gift of your sacrifice shall be seasoned with salt; omit not the salt of the covenant of the Lord from your sacrifices: on every gift of yours ye shall offer salt to the Lord your God.
Leviticus 24:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
On the Sabbath day they shall be set forth before the Lord continually before the children of Israel, for an everlasting covenant.
Leviticus 26:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will look upon you, and increase you, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
Leviticus 26:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will set my tabernacle among you, and my soul shall not abhor you;
Leviticus 26:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
but disobey them, and your soul should loathe my judgments, so that ye should not keep all my commands, so as to break my covenant,
Leviticus 26:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will bring upon you a sword avenging the cause of my covenant, and ye shall flee for refuge to your cities; and I will send out death against you, and ye shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies.
Leviticus 26:42 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will remember the covenant of Jacob, and the covenant of Isaac, and the covenant of Abraham will I remember.
Leviticus 26:44 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And yet not even thus, while they were in the land of their enemies, did I overlook them, nor did I loathe them so as to consume them, to break my covenant made with them; for I am the Lord their God.
Leviticus 26:45 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will remember their former covenant, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage before the nations, to be their God; I am the Lord.
Numbers 10:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they departed from the mount of the Lord a three days’ journey; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them a three days’ journey to provide rest for them.
Numbers 14:44 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And having forced their passage, they went up to the top of the mountain; but the ark of the covenant of the Lord and Moses stirred not out of the camp.
Numbers 18:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Every special offering of the holy things, whatsoever the children of Israel shall specially offer to the Lord, I have given to thee and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, a perpetual ordinance: it is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord, for thee and thy seed after thee.
Numbers 25:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus do thou say to him, Behold, I give him a covenant of peace:
Numbers 25:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and he and his seed after him shall have a perpetual covenant of priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 4:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he announced to you his covenant, which he commanded you to keep, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.
Deuteronomy 4:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Take heed to yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord our God, which he made with you, and ye transgress, and make to yourselves a graven image of any of the things concerning which the Lord thy God commanded thee.
Deuteronomy 4:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Because the Lord thy God is a God of pity: he will not forsake thee, nor destroy thee; he will not forget the covenant of thy fathers, which the Lord swore to them.
Deuteronomy 5:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord your God made a covenant with you in Horeb.
Deuteronomy 5:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord did not make this covenant with your fathers, but with you: ye are all here alive this day.
Deuteronomy 7:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and the Lord thy God shall deliver them into thy hands, then thou shalt smite them: thou shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt not make a covenant with them, neither shall ye pity them:
Deuteronomy 7:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt know therefore, that the Lord thy God, he is God, a faithful God, who keeps covenant and mercy for them that love him, and for those that keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
Deuteronomy 7:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass when ye shall have heard these ordinances, and shall have kept and done them, that the Lord thy God shall keep for thee the covenant and the mercy, which he swore to your fathers.
Deuteronomy 8:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, that he gives thee strength to get wealth; even that he may establish his covenant, which the Lord swore to thy fathers, as at this day.
Deuteronomy 9:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Not for thy righteousness, nor for the holiness of thy heart, dost thou go in to inherit their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord will destroy them from before thee, and that he may establish the covenant, which the Lord swore to our fathers, to Abraham, and to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deuteronomy 9:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
when I went up into the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant, which the Lord made with you, and I was in the mountain forty days and forty nights, I ate no bread and drank no water.
Deuteronomy 9:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass after forty days and forty nights, the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant.
Deuteronomy 10:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand near before the Lord, to minister and bless in his name to this day.
Deuteronomy 17:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if there should be found in any one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God gives thee, a man or a woman who shall do that which is evil before the Lord thy God, so as to transgress his covenant,
Deuteronomy 29:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And we smote them and took their land, and I gave it for an inheritance to Reuben and Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh.
Deuteronomy 29:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
your wives, and your children, and the stranger who is in the midst of your camp, from your hewer of wood even to your drawer of water,
Deuteronomy 29:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that he may appoint thee to himself for a people, and he shall be thy God, as he said to thee, and as he swore to thy fathers, Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob.
Deuteronomy 29:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall be if one shall hear the words of this curse, and shall flatter himself in his heart, saying, Let good happen to me, for I will walk in the error of my heart, lest the sinner destroy the guiltless with him:
Deuteronomy 29:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
God shall by no means be willing to pardon him, but then the wrath of the Lord and his jealousy shall flame out against that man; and all the curses of this covenant shall attach themselves to him, which are written in this book, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.
Deuteronomy 29:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? what is this great fierceness of anger?
Deuteronomy 31:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses wrote the words of this law in a book, and gave it to the priests the sons of Levi who bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to the elders of the sons of Israel.
Deuteronomy 31:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people will arise and go a-whoring after the strange gods of the land, into which they are entering: and they will forsake me, and break my covenant, which I made with them.
Deuteronomy 31:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For I will bring them into the good land, which I swore to their fathers, to give to them a land flowing with milk and honey: and they shall eat and be filled and satisfy themselves; then will they turn aside after other gods, and serve them, and they will provoke me, and break my covenant.
Deuteronomy 31:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then he charged the Levites who bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying,
Deuteronomy 31:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Take the book of this law, and ye shall put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God; and it shall be there among you for a testimony.
Deuteronomy 33:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who says to his father and mother, I have not seen thee; And he knew not his brethren, And he refused to know his sons: He kept thine oracles, And observed thy covenant.
Joshua 3:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and they charged the people, saying, When ye shall see the ark of the covenant of the Lord our God, and our priests and the Levites bearing it, ye shall depart from your places, and ye shall go after it.
Joshua 3:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joshua said to the priests, Take up the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and go before the people: and the priests took up the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and went before the people.
Joshua 3:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now charge the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, As soon as ye shall enter on a part of the water of Jordan, then ye shall stand in Jordan.
Joshua 3:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over Jordan.
Joshua 3:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass, when the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord of the whole earth rest in the water of Jordan, the water of Jordan below shall fail, and the water coming down from above shall stop.
Joshua 3:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the people removed from their tents to cross over Jordan, and the priests bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord before the people.
Joshua 3:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord entered upon Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord were dipped in part of the water of Jordan (now Jordan overflowed all its banks about the time of wheat harvest):
Joshua 3:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood on dry land in the midst of Jordan; and all the children of Israel went through on dry land, until all the people had completely gone over Jordan.
Joshua 4:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then thou mayest explain to thy son, saying, The river Jordan was dried up from before the ark of the covenant of the Lord of the whole earth, when it passed it: and these stones shall be for a memorial for you for the children of Israel forever.
Joshua 4:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joshua set also other twelve stones in Jordan itself, in the place that was under the feet of the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord; and there they are to this day.
Joshua 4:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priests that bore the ark of the covenant stood in Jordan, until Joshua had finished all that the Lord commanded him to report to the people; and the people hastened and passed over.
Joshua 4:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass when all the people had passed over, that the ark of the covenant of the Lord passed over, and the stones before them.
Joshua 4:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Charge the priests that bear the ark of the covenant of the testimony of the Lord, to go up out of Jordan.
Joshua 4:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord were gone up out of Jordan, and set their feet upon the land, that the water of Jordan returned impetuously to its place, and went as before over all its banks.
Joshua 6:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And let seven priests having seven sacred trumpets proceed thus before the Lord, and let them sound loudly; and let the ark of the covenant of the Lord follow.
Joshua 6:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And let the men of war proceed before, and the priests bringing up the rear behind the ark of the covenant of the Lord proceed sounding the trumpets.
Joshua 6:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the ark of the covenant of God having gone round immediately returned into the camp, and lodged there.
Joshua 6:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And on the second day Joshua rose up in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
Joshua 6:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets went on before the Lord; and afterward the men of war went on, and the remainder of the multitude went after the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
Joshua 7:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The people has sinned, and transgressed the covenant which I made with them; they have stolen from the cursed thing, and put it into their store.
Joshua 7:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the man who shall be pointed out, shall be burned with fire, and all that he has; because he has transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and has wrought wickedness in Israel.
Joshua 9:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us.
Joshua 9:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?
Joshua 9:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We are your servants: therefore now make ye a league with us.
Joshua 9:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.
Joshua 9:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.
Joshua 23:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
when ye transgress the covenant of the Lord our God, which he has charged us, and go and serve other gods, and bow down to them.
Joshua 24:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So Joshua made a covenant with the people on that day, and gave them a law and an ordinance in Shiloh before the tabernacle of the God of Israel.
Judges 2:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And an angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to the place of weeping, and to Bethel, and to the house of Israel, and said to them, Thus says the Lord, I brought you up out of Egypt, and I brought you into the land which I swore to your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant that I have made with you.
Judges 2:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall make no covenant with them that dwell in this land, neither shall ye worship their gods; but ye shall destroy their graven images, ye shall pull down their altars: but ye hearkened not to my voice, for ye did these things.
Judges 2:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and said, Forasmuch as this nation has forsaken my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not hearkened to my voice,
Judges 8:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass when Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned, and went a-whoring after Baalim, and made for themselves a covenant with Baal that he should be their god.
Judges 20:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
for the ark of the Lord God was there in those days,
1 Kingdoms 5:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass when they rose early in the morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off each before the threshold, and both the wrists of his hands had fallen on the floor of the porch; only the stump of Dagon was left.
1 Kingdoms 6:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they said, If ye send away the ark of the covenant of the Lord God of Israel, do not on any account send it away empty, but by all means render to it an offering for the plague; and then shall ye be healed, and an atonement shall be made for you: should not his hand be thus stayed from off you?
1 Kingdoms 6:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the golden mice according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines, belonging to the five lords, from the fenced city to the village of the Perizzite, and to the great stone, on which they placed the ark of the covenant of the Lord, that was in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemeshite.
1 Kingdoms 7:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the men of Kiriath-jearim come, and bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord: and they bring it into the house of Abinadab in the hill; and they sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
1 Kingdoms 11:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass about a month after this, that Nahash the Ammonite went up, and encamped against Jabesh-gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash the Ammonite, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.
1 Kingdoms 11:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Nahash the Ammonite said to them, On these terms will I make a covenant with you, that I should put out all your right eyes, and I will lay a reproach upon Israel.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1242, grouped by book.

Genesis 23 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 17 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 27 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 28 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 11 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 15 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 15 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 21 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 13 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 17 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 16 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Obadiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Malachi 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 1 usage, New Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
Luke 2 usages, New Testament
Acts 2 usages, New Testament
Romans 2 usages, New Testament
1 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
2 Corinthians 2 usages, New Testament
Galatians 3 usages, New Testament
Ephesians 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 14 usages, New Testament
Revelation 1 usage, New Testament
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 10 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 22 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Baruch 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 1 usage, 1 Enoch

Strong's G1242 FAQ

What does diatheke (διαθήκη) mean?

Diatheke (Strong's G1242) is a Greek word most simply glossed "covenant". diatheke (dee-ath-ay'-kay) n. 1. (properly) a disposition 2. (specially) a contract (especially a devisory will)

How many times is diatheke (διαθήκη) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 346 linked usages for Strong's G1242 across 45 books.

Where can I study diatheke (διαθήκη) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1242 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate diatheke (διαθήκη)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as covenant, lord, thee, god, ark, and before. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G1242 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 277 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 38 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G1242, with linked reader references where each row is available.