To bless
בְּרַךְStrong’s H1289berakh (be-rakh)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Berakh is the Aramaic word usually translated “blessed” and “kneeling”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.”
Meaning
- To bless, kneel(P'al) · (Pael) to bless, praise
How it's translated
- blessed 2
- he blessed 1
- i blessed 1
- kneeling 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 5
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:20In contextDaniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:
- Daniel 3:28In contextThen Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
- Daniel 4:34In contextAnd at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
- Daniel 6:10In contextNow when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
Aramaic dictionary
בְּרַךְ berakh · to bless
1) to bless, kneel 1a) (P'al) 1a1) kneeling (participle) 1a2) to be blessed 1b) (Pael) to bless, praise
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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.
- 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
- 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
- To make happy in a future life.“BLESSed are the dead who die in the Lord” Revelation 14:13
- 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
- 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
- To praise; to glorify, for benefits received.“BLESS the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me” Psalms 103:1
- To praise; to magnify; to extol, for excellencies. Psalms 104:1
- To esteem or account happy; with the reciprocal pronoun.“The nations shall bless themselves in him” Jeremiah 4:2
- To pronounce a solemn prophetical benediction upon. 7. Genesis 2:3Deuteronomy 33:11
- 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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.