בְּרָכָה
Bᵉrâkâh · H1293 · Hebrew · 69 occurrences
Place
Meanings
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blessing, praise
Action by which deities grant a special favor to humans, objects, and events, or by which humans invoke a deity to do the same
ExamplesGenesis 12:2 And I will make you into a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing;
Genesis 27:12 “Perhaps my father will touch me, then I will be like a deceiver in his sight, and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing.”
Genesis 27:35 And he said, “Your brother came deceitfully and has taken away your blessing.”
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gift, present
Objects, presented as gift by one person to another
ExamplesGenesis 33:11 “Please accept my gift which has been brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me and because I have plenty.” So he urged him, and he accepted it.
Joshua 15:19 Then she said, “Give me a blessing; since you have given me the land of the Negev, give me springs of water also.” So he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
Judges 1:15 She said to him, “Give me a blessing: since you have given me the land of the Negev, give me springs of water also.” So Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
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Literally: to make a blessing (with someone); hence probably: to make a peace treaty with another party (to make (one's) peace (with someone else))
Examples2 Kings 18:31 ‘Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: “Make your peace with me and come out to me, and eat, each one, from his vine and each from his fig tree, and drink, each one, the waters of his own cistern,
How it’s used In 10 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
25 occurrences in 15 groups
- יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 6
- יmy 4
- ךָyour 3
- Other words · 12 groups that occur once or twice (13) 13
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
9 occurrences in 6 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 3
- בָרַךְto bless 2
- בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 2
- זֹאתthis 1
- אֶחָדone 1
- אֵלֶּהthese 1
Named alongside itApposition
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- דָּבָרword, thing, matter 2
- חַיalive, living 1
What it doesIt is the subject
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 3
- גָּבַרto become powerful 1
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What is done to itIt is the object
24 occurrences in 13 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 5
- לָקַחto take, to receive 4
- צָוָהto give orders 3
- Other words · 10 groups that occur once or twice (12) 12
Second object ofSecond object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
- שִׁיתto set, to put, to make 1
What it is said to bePredicate
7 occurrences in 5 groups
- רֹאשׁhead, top, chief 2
- כֶםyou 2
- זֹאתthis 1
- עַםpeople 1
- וֹhim 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- זֵכֶרremembrance 1
- זֶרַעoffspring, seed 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
13 occurrences in 5 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 6
- לto/for 6
- בin/on/with 4
- כlike/as 4
- מִןfrom 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- גֶּשֶׁםrain 1
- נֶפֶשׁsoul, life 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- εὐλογία eulogía · G2129 · to praise, to speak well of, flattery
- Greek εὐλογία is the standard Septuagint rendering of Hebrew בְּרָכָה across its full semantic range — divine blessing, human benediction, and a gift or present given as a blessing — reflecting a systematic translation equivalence rather than mere register variation.
Semantic domains 5 entries
- Bless002003002003
- בְּרָכָה denotes a blessing, as in Genesis 12:2's "I will bless you... and you shall be a blessing" (בְרָכָה), naming the favor bestowed and passed on.
- Objects001
- בְּרָכָה denotes a blessing as a concrete object or benefit conferred, as at Genesis 27:35 — "Your brother came deceitfully and has taken away your blessing" — and Genesis 33:11 — "Please accept my gift which has been brought to you."
- Vow002004001009013
- This Vow code is inherited from the shared root listing with the related noun בְּרִית (bᵉrîyth, H1285) ("covenant"); the blessing sense attested throughout Genesis does not independently carry a covenantal/oath nuance of its own.
- Names of People003001007
- This Names of People code is inherited from the shared root listing with the place/personal name Berachah (בְּרָכָה (Bᵉrâkâh, H1294), its neighboring entry); the common noun "blessing" itself does not independently name a person.
- Names of Locations003001010
- This Names of Locations code is likewise inherited from the shared root listing with Berachah (בְּרָכָה (Bᵉrâkâh, H1294)) and is not an independent feature of the common noun "blessing."
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1293. berakah I. בְּרָכָה noun feminine blessing (Arabic ; Ethiopic Aramaic בִּרְכָּא ;…
I. בְּרָכָה noun feminine blessing (Arabic ; Ethiopic Aramaic בִּרְכָּא ; Late Hebrew as Hebrew) — ׳ב Gen 12:2 39t.; construct בִּרְכַּת Gen 28:4 Gen 28:9t.; suffix בִּרְכָתוֺ Gen 49:28 Gen 49:7t.; plural בְּרָכוֺת Psa 21:7 Psa 21:4t.; construct בִּרְכֹת בִּרְכוֺת, Gen 49:25 Gen 49:5t.; suffix בִּרְכוֺתֵיכֶם Mal 2:2; —
1 blessing:
a. of parent Gen 27:12, Gen 27:41; Gen 49:28 (JE), of Moses Deu 33:1.
b. of God Exo 32:29 (E) Lev 25:21 (P) Deu 11:26-27, Deu 11:29; Deu 23:6 (= Neh 13:2) Deu 28:2; Deu 28:8; Deu 30:1; Deu 30:19; Jos 8:34 (D) 2Sa 7:29; Psalm 3:9; Psa 21:4; Psa 133:3; Isa 44:3; Eze 34:26; Eze 44:30; Joe 2:14; Mal 3:10; יהוה ברכת Gen 39:5 (J) Deu 12:15; Deu 16:17; Deu 33:23; Psa 129:8; Pro 10:22; י מאת ׳ברכה Psa 24:5; אברהם ברכת Gen 28:4 (P), the blessing given to Abraham.
c. of the people, in recognition of good men Psa 109:17; Pro 10:6; Pro 11:26; Pro 24:25; Pro 28:20.
d. of a poor man, in recognition of benefits Job 29:13.
2 source of blessing: Abraham Gen 12:2 (J); Israel Isa 19:24; Eze 34:26; Zec 8:13; seed of the righteous Psa 37:26; the king Psa 21:7; memory of the righteous Pro 10:7; new wine Isa 65:8.
3 blessing, prosperity: ישׁרים בברכת by the prosperity of the upright (the city is exalted) Pro 11:11; מורה יעטה ברכות גם yea, the early rain covereth with blessings Psa 84:7 compare Gen 49:25-26, ברכותיכם את וארותי and I will curse your prosperity Mal 2:2.
4 blessing, praise of God Neh 9:5.
5 a gift, present Gen 33:11 (E) Jos 15:19 (J) Jdg 1:15; 1Sa 25:27; 1Sa 30:26; 2Ki 5:15; בְּרָכָה נֶפֶשׁ a liberal person Pro 11:25 (compare Syriac , Ethiopic ).
6 treaty of peace 2Ki 18:31 = Isa 36:16.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 5 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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