διαθήκη diathēkē

Greek word for “covenant” · Strong’s G1242 · used 33 times in 30 verses

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Meaning

διαθήκη, -ης, ἡ; (διατίθημι);

How it is translated

Glosses given for diathēkē in context, with how often each is used:

• covenant 28
• covenants 3
• there is a will 1
• will 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Hebrews 9 (5), Hebrews 8 (4), 2 Corinthians 3 (2), Galatians 3 (2), Hebrews 10 (2), Matthew 26 (1), Mark 14 (1), Luke 1 (1), Luke 22 (1), Acts 3 (1)

Forms

• διαθήκης 16
• διαθήκη 7
• διαθήκην 5
• διαθῆκαι 2
• διαθήκῃ 2
• διαθηκῶν 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with diathēkē more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• διατίθημι diatithēmi “to make a covenant” 5
• αἷμα ahima “blood” 8
• καινός kainos “new” 5
• ἐπαγγελία epangelia “promise” 5
• μεσίτης mesitēs “mediator” 3
• ἡμέρα hēmera “day” 6
• κρείσσων kreissōn “greater” 3
• μετά meta “with/after” 6
• ἐκχέω ekcheō “to pour out” 3
• δειπνέω deipneō “to dine” 2
• ἐπιγράφω epigraphō “to write on” 2
• κιβωτός kibōtos “ark” 2

Key verses

The verses using diathēkē that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Luke 1:72 — To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
• Acts 3:25 — Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the…
• Romans 9:4 — Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
• 2 Corinthians 3:6 — Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
• 2 Corinthians 3:14 — But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
• Ephesians 2:12 — That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and…
• Hebrews 8:10 — For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in…
• Hebrews 9:15 — And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first…
• Hebrews 10:29 — Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant,…
• Hebrews 12:24 — And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
• Hebrews 13:20 — Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
• Revelation 11:19 — And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings,…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.