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1 Samuel 18

1 Sam. 18:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Then Jonathan
Yhownathan (Hebrew #3083)
Jehovah-given; Jehonathan, the name of four Israelites
KJV usage: Jonathan. Compare 3129.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-naw-thawn'
Origin: from 3068 and 5414
and David
David (Hebrew #1732)
Daviyd {daw-veed'}; from the same as 1730; loving; David, the youngest son of Jesse
KJV usage: David.
Pronounce: daw-veed'
Origin: rarely (fully)
made
karath (Hebrew #3772)
to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces)
KJV usage: be chewed, be con-(feder-)ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league ((covenant)), X lose, perish, X utterly, X want.
Pronounce: kaw-rath'
Origin: a primitive root
a covenant
briyth (Hebrew #1285)
a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh)
KJV usage: confederacy, (con-)feder(-ate), covenant, league.
Pronounce: ber-eeth'
Origin: from 1262 (in the sense of cutting (like 1254))
, because he loved
'ahabah (Hebrew #160)
feminine of 158 and meaning the same
KJV usage: love.
Pronounce: a-hab-aw
him as his own soul
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
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Covenant,
David,
Jonathan,
Soul; Spirit

Cross References

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made a covenant.
1 Sam. 20:8‑17,42• 8Deal kindly then with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of Jehovah with thee; but if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?
 9And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee; for, if I knew with certainty that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, would I not tell it thee?
 10Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly?
 11And Jonathan said to David, Come and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field.
 12And Jonathan said to David, Jehovah, God of Israel, when I sound my father about this time to-morrow, or the next day, and behold, there be good toward David, and I then send not to thee, and apprise thee of it,
 13Jehovah do so and much more to Jonathan. Should it please my father to do thee evil, then I will apprise thee of it, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace; and Jehovah be with thee, as he has been with my father.
 14And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of Jehovah, that I die not,
 15but thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever, no, not when Jehovah cuts off the enemies of David, every one from the face of the earth.
 16And Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let Jehovah even require it at the hand of David's enemies!
 17And Jonathan caused David to swear again, by the love he had for him, for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
 42And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have both of us sworn in the name of Jehovah, saying, Jehovah be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever! And he arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city. (1 Sam. 20:8‑17,42)
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1 Sam. 23:18• 18And they two made a covenant before Jehovah; and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house. (1 Sam. 23:18)
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2 Sam. 9:1‑3• 1And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
 2And there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba; and they called him to David. And the king said to him, Art thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant!
 3And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God to him? And Ziba said to the king, Jonathan has yet a son, who is lame on his feet. (2 Sam. 9:1‑3)
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2 Sam. 21:7• 7But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Jehovah's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. (2 Sam. 21:7)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.