Word study
Agreement
7 Hebrew and 2 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “agreement”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “agreement” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- עָמַד âmadtake one's stand, standtranslated this way 1 time of its 508 uses · Strong’s H5975Verb · Translated: stood 99, stand 95, standing 50, stands 12Full study and all 485 verses →
2 Chronicles 34:32 Then he had everyone in Jerusalem and Benjamin take a stand in agreement to it. So all the people of Jerusalem carried out the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
- אֲמָנָה ămânâhfaith, supporttranslated this way 1 time of its 2 uses · Strong’s H548Noun · Translated: binding agreement 1, ordinance 1Full study and all 2 verses →
Nehemiah 9:38 In view of all this, we make a binding agreement, putting it in writing and sealing it with the names of our leaders, Levites, and priests.”
- חֹזֶה chôzehseertranslated this way 1 time of its 17 uses · Strong’s H2374Noun · Translated: seer 11, seers 4, agreement 1, prophets 1Full study and all 17 verses →
Isaiah 28:15 For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”
- חָזוּת châzûthvision, conspicuousnesstranslated this way 1 time of its 5 uses · Strong’s H2380Noun · Translated: vision 2, prominent 2, agreement 1Full study and all 5 verses →
Isaiah 28:18 Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.
- סֵפֶר sêphermissive, document, writing, booktranslated this way 1 time of its 174 uses · Strong’s H5612Noun · Translated: Book 107, scroll 19, letter 14, letters 13Full study and all 168 verses →
Jeremiah 32:12 and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement and all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.
- מֵישָׁר mêshârevenness, uprightness, equitytranslated this way 1 time of its 18 uses · Strong’s H4339Noun · Translated: equity 6, right 5Full study and all 18 verses →
Daniel 11:6 After some years they will form an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the South will go to the king of the North to seal the agreement. But his daughter will not retain her position of power, nor will his strength endure. At that time she will be given up, along with her royal escort and her father and the one who supported her.
- יָשָׁר yâshârstraight, righttranslated this way 1 time of its 119 uses · Strong’s H3477Adjective · Translated: upright 54, right 41, seems right 4, Jashar 2Full study and all 119 verses →
Daniel 11:17 He will resolve to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and will reach an agreement with the king of the South. He will give him a daughter in marriage in order to overthrow the kingdom, but his plan will not succeed or help him.
Greek words (New Testament)
- συγκατάθεσις synkatáthesisassent, agreementtranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s G4783Noun · Translated: agreement 1Full study and its 1 verse →
2 Corinthians 6:16 What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
- εἷς heîsonetranslated this way 1 time of its 312 uses · Strong’s G1520Adjective · Translated: one 223, a 16, single 13, first 9Full study and all 267 verses →
1 John 5:8 the Spirit, the water, and the blood — and these three are in agreement.
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.