Confederate, Confederacy
Confederate, Confederacy
kon-feder-at, kon-feder-a-si: Confederate as an adjective in the sense of united or leagued is twice the translation of , berth covenant, in several instances translated league (Gen 14:13, , baal berth, lord or master of a covenant, an ally, these were confederate with Abram; compare Psa 83:5; once of , nuah, to rest, Syria is confederate with Ephraim (Isa 7:2, the Revised Version, margin resteth on Ephraim; also 1 Macc 10:47).
As a noun confederate occurs in 1 Macc 10:16, summachos, confederates (1 Macc 8:20, 24, 31; 14:40; 15:17).
Confederacy, as a league, occurs as the translation of berth, the men of thy confederacy (Oba 1:7); as a conspiracy it occurs in Isa 8:12 twice, as translation of kesher from kashar, to bind: Say ye not, a confederate. Compare 2Sa 15:12; 2Ki 12:20, etc.