Blessing
בְּרָכָהStrong’s H1293berakhah (be-ra-khah)
Appears in 64 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Berakhah is the Hebrew word usually translated “blessing”, “blessing of” and “blessings of”. It appears in 64 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong.”
Meaning
- Blessing
- (source of) blessing
- Blessing, prosperity
- Blessing, praise of God
- A gift, present
- Treaty of peace
How it's translated
- a blessing 17
- the blessing 9
- blessing 8
- blessing of 7
- blessings of 6
- blessings 4
- blessing my 3
- blessing your 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 12
- Deuteronomy 12
- Psalms 9
- Proverbs 8
- Isaiah 4
- Joshua 2
18 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 12:2And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
- Genesis 27:12My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
- Genesis 27:35And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.
- Genesis 27:36And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?
- Genesis 27:38And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
- Genesis 27:41And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
All 64 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
בְּרָכָה berakhah · blessing
1) blessing 2) (source of) blessing 3) blessing, prosperity 4) blessing, praise of God 5) a gift, present 6) treaty of peace
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “blessing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BLESS'ING, participle present
tense Making happy; wishing happiness to; praising or extolling; consecrating by prayer.
All definitions and other forms of “blessing”
BLESS'ING,noun
Benediction; a wish of happiness pronounced; a prayer imploring happiness upon another.
- A solemn prophetic benediction, in which happiness is desired, invoked or foretold.“This is the blessing wherewith Moses--blessed the children of Israel” Deuteronomy 33:1
- Any means of happiness; a gift, benefit or advantage; that which promotes temporal prosperity and welfare, or secures immortal felicity.
- Among the Jews, a present; a gift; either because it was attended with kind wishes for the welfare of the giver, or because it was the means of increasing happiness.“Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee” Genesis 33:11
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.