Consort
חֲבֶ֫רֶתStrong’s H2278chaveret (cha-ve-ret)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Chaveret is the Hebrew word usually translated “companion your”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.”
Meaning
- Companion, wife, consort
How it's translated
- companion your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Malachi 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
חֲבֶ֫רֶת chaveret · consort
companion, wife, consort
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “consort” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CONSORT, noun
[Latin, sort, state, kind.]
- A companion; a partner; an intimate associate; particularly, a partner of the bed; a wife or husband.
- An assembly or association of persons, convened for consultation.
- Union; conjunction; concurrence.
- A number of instruments played together; a symphony; a concert.
All definitions and other forms of “consort”
- In navigation, any vessel keeping company with another.
CONSORT, verb intransitive
To associate; to unite in company; to keep company; followed by with.
CONSORT, verb transitive
- To join; to marry.
- To unite in company.
- To accompany. [Not used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.