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To bless

μακαρίζωStrong’s G3106

makarizō

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Makarizō is the Greek word usually translated “count blessed” and “we count blessed”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.”
Luke 1:48 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “count blessed” and “we count blessed”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • will count blessed 1
  • we count blessed 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Luke 1
  • James 1

2 books in all.

Related words
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Greek dictionary

μακαρίζω makarizō · to bless

μακαρζω (μακάριος), [in LXX for אָשַׁר pi., pu. ;] to bless, pronounce blessed or happy: with accusative of person(s), Luk.1:48, Jas.5:11.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “bless” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

BLESS, verb transitive

preterit tense and participle present tense blessed or blest.

  1. To pronounce a wish of happiness to one; to express a wish or desire of happiness.“And Isaac called Jacob and blessed him” Genesis 28:1
  2. To make happy; to make successful; to prosper in temporal concerns; as, we are blest with peace and plenty.“The Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thou doest” Deuteronomy 14:29
  3. To make happy in a future life.“BLESSed are the dead who die in the Lord” Revelation 14:13
  4. To set apart or consecrate to holy purposes; to make and pronounce holy.“And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it” Genesis 2:3
All definitions
  1. To consecrate by prayer; to invoke a blessing upon.“And Jesus took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven he blessed them” Luke 9:16
  2. To praise; to glorify, for benefits received.“BLESS the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me” Psalms 103:1
  3. To praise; to magnify; to extol, for excellencies. Psalms 104:1
  4. To esteem or account happy; with the reciprocal pronoun.“The nations shall bless themselves in him” Jeremiah 4:2
  5. To pronounce a solemn prophetical benediction upon. 7. Genesis 2:3Deuteronomy 33:11
  6. In this line of Spenser, it may signify to throw, for this is nearly the primary sense.

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 Greek, not from any one translation.