diathēkē · covenant

What it means

diathēkē (διαθήκη) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “covenant”.

Also will, testament.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The agreement with promises and obligations that God makes with his people.
2. A will, which takes effect when someone dies.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• covenant ×30
• covenants ×3

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×1
• Luke×2
• Acts×2
• Romans×2
• 1 Corinthians×1
• 2 Corinthians×2
• Galatians×3
• Ephesians×1
• Hebrews×17
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 26:28

  for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

• Mark 14:24

  And he said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.

• Luke 1:72

  to show mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant,

• Luke 22:20

  And the cup likewise after they had eaten, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

• Acts 3:25

  You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’

• Acts 7:8

  And he gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so Abraham fathered Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac fathered Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

• Romans 9:4

  who are Israelites; to them belong the adoption as sons, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the promises;

• Romans 11:27

  and this will be my covenant with them, when I take away their sins.

• 1 Corinthians 11:25

  In the same way he took also the cup, after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.

• 2 Corinthians 3:6

  who also made us sufficient to be servants of a new covenant, not of letter but of Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

• 2 Corinthians 3:14

  But their minds were hardened. For until the present day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant, not being lifted, because in the Messiah it is set aside.

• Galatians 3:15

  Brothers, I speak in human terms: even a man’s covenant, once ratified, no one annuls or adds to it.

• Galatians 3:17

  Now this I say: a covenant previously ratified by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does not annul, so as to nullify the promise.

• Galatians 4:24

  These things are an allegory; for these women are two covenants: one from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery, which is Hagar.

• Ephesians 2:12

  that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

• Hebrews 7:22

  to that extent Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant.

• Hebrews 8:6

  But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, as much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.

• Hebrews 8:8

  For finding fault with them, he says: Look, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will establish with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant,

• Hebrews 8:9

  not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord.

• Hebrews 8:10

  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: putting my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their hearts; and I will be God to them, and they will be a people to me.

• Hebrews 9:4

  having a golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which were a golden jar holding the manna, and Aaron’s staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;

• Hebrews 9:15

  And for this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

• Hebrews 9:16

  For where there is a covenant, the death of the one who made it must be established.

• Hebrews 9:17

  For a covenant is firm at death, since it is never in force while the one who made it is alive.

• Hebrews 9:20

  saying: This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.

• Hebrews 10:16

  This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: putting my laws on their hearts, I will also write them on their mind,

• Hebrews 10:29

  How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by the one who has trampled on the Son of God, and has regarded as common the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

• Hebrews 12:24

  and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks better than the blood of Abel.

• Hebrews 13:20

  Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep by the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

• Revelation 11:19

  And the sanctuary of God that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen in his sanctuary; and there were lightnings and voices and thunders and an earthquake and great hail.

And 3 more times.