בָרַךְbârak
בָּרַךְ: kneel, bless
Pronunciation: baw-rak' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1288
Meanings
Qal
1. kneel down (2 Chronicles 6:13; Psalms 95:6)
2. bless, (only passive participle)
a. of God, blessed be (Exodus 18:10; Genesis 9:26; Genesis 24:27)
b. of men, blessed be the one blessing thee (Genesis 27:33; Numbers 22:12; Deuteronomy 7:14)
c. things, blessed be the fruit of thy womb (Deuteronomy 28:4; Deuteronomy 28:5; 1 Samuel 25:33)
Niph`al: bless oneself (Genesis 12:3; Genesis 18:18; Genesis 28:14)
Pi`el
1. bless God, adore with bended knees (Genesis 24:48; Deuteronomy 8:10; Judges 5:2)
2. God blesses
a. men (Numbers 23:20; Psalms 109:28; Genesis 32:30)
b. things (Genesis 2:3; Exodus 20:11; Genesis 27:27)
3. men bless men (Deuteronomy 10:8; Deuteronomy 21:5; 2 Samuel 6:18)
4. salute, greet, with an invocation of blessing (stronger than שׁלום) (Genesis 48:20)
a. in meeting (Genesis 47:7; 2 Kings 4:29; 2 Kings 10:15)
b. in departing (Genesis 24:60; Genesis 47:10; 1 Kings 8:66)
c. by messengers (1 Samuel 25:14; 2 Samuel 8:10; 1 Chronicles 18:10)
d. in gratitude (Job 31:20; Proverbs 30:11; Nehemiah 11:2)
e. morning salutation (Proverbs 27:14)
f. congratulations (Genesis 12:3; Genesis 27:29; Numbers 24:9)
g. in homage (2 Samuel 14:22; Psalms 72:15)
h. in friendliness (2 Samuel 21:3)
5. bless, with the antithetical meaning curse (1 Kings 21:10; 1 Kings 21:13; Job 1:5)
Pu`al
1. to be blessed, adored, passive (Job 1:21; Psalms 113:2)
2. prospered by God
3. have prosperity invoked (Numbers 22:6)
4. in gratitude (Proverbs 22:9; Judges 5:24)
Hiph`il: and he made, kneel (Genesis 24:11)
Hithpa`el: thy seed, bless oneself (Deuteronomy 29:18; Isaiah 65:16; Psalms 72:17)
: kneel, bless
Pe
1. kneeling (Daniel 6:11)
2. blessed (Daniel 3:28)
Pa`el: bless, praise (Daniel 2:19; Daniel 4:31; Daniel 2:20)
Same root
- בָּרוּךְBârûwk · H1263Baruk, the name of three Israelites
- בְּרַךְbᵉrak · H1289{to kneel; by implication to bless God (as an act of adoration), and (vice-versa) man (as a benefit); also (by euphemism) to curse (God or the king, as treason)}
- בֶּרֶךְberek · H1290a knee
- בָּרַכְאֵלBârakʼêl · H1292Barakel, the father of one of Job's friends
- בְּרָכָהBᵉrâkâh · H1293benediction; by implication prosperity
- בְּרֵכָהbᵉrêkâh · H1295a reservoir (at which camels kneel as a resting-place)
- חָסַדchâçad · H2616properly, perhaps to bow (the neck only in courtesy to an equal), i.e. to be kind; also (by euphemistically, but rarely) to reprove
- יְבֶרֶכְיָהוּYᵉberekyâhûw · H3000Jeberekjah, an Israelite
Where it appears
Appears 330 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 1:22 Then God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply. Let the fish fill the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”
- Genesis 1:28 Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.”
- Genesis 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because it was the day when he rested from all his work of creation.
- Genesis 5:2 He created them male and female, and he blessed them and called them “human.”
- Genesis 9:1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons and told them, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth.
- Genesis 9:26 Then Noah said, “May the Lord, the God of Shem, be blessed, and may Canaan be his servant!
See every passage
- Genesis 1:22, 1:28, 2:3, 5:2, 9:1, 9:26, 12:2, 12:3, 14:19, 14:20, 17:16, 17:20, 18:18, 22:17, 22:18, 24:1, 24:11, 24:27, 24:31, 24:35, 24:48, 24:60, 25:11, 26:3, 26:4, 26:12, 26:24, 26:29, 27:4, 27:7, 27:10, 27:19, 27:23, 27:25, 27:27, 27:29, 27:30, 27:31, 27:33, 27:34, 27:38, 27:41, 28:1, 28:3, 28:6, 28:14, 30:27, 30:30, 31:55, 32:26, 32:29, 35:9, 39:5, 47:7, 47:10, 48:3, 48:9, 48:15, 48:16, 48:20, 49:25, 49:28
- Exodus 12:32, 18:10, 20:11, 20:24, 23:25, 39:43
- Leviticus 9:22, 9:23
- Numbers 6:23, 6:24, 6:27, 22:6, 22:12, 23:11, 23:20, 23:25, 24:1, 24:9, 24:10
- Deuteronomy 1:11, 2:7, 7:13, 7:14, 8:10, 10:8, 12:7, 14:24, 14:29, 15:4, 15:6, 15:10, 15:14, 15:18, 16:10, 16:15, 21:5, 23:20, 24:13, 24:19, 26:15, 27:12, 28:3, 28:4, 28:5, 28:6, 28:8, 28:12, 29:19, 30:16, 33:1, 33:11, 33:13, 33:20, 33:24
- Joshua 8:33, 14:13, 17:14, 22:6, 22:7, 22:33, 24:10
- Judges 5:2, 5:9, 5:24, 13:24, 17:2
- Ruth 2:4, 2:19, 2:20, 3:10, 4:14
- 1 Samuel 2:20, 9:13, 13:10, 15:13, 23:21, 25:14, 25:32, 25:33, 25:39, 26:25
- 2 Samuel 2:5, 6:11, 6:12, 6:18, 6:20, 7:29, 8:10, 13:25, 14:22, 18:28, 19:39, 21:3, 22:47
- 1 Kings 1:47, 1:48, 2:45, 5:7, 8:14, 8:15, 8:55, 8:56, 8:66, 10:9, 21:10, 21:13
- 2 Kings 4:29, 10:15
- 1 Chronicles 4:10, 13:14, 16:2, 16:36, 16:43, 17:27, 18:10, 23:13, 26:5, 29:10, 29:20
- 2 Chronicles 2:12, 6:3, 6:4, 6:13, 9:8, 20:26, 30:27, 31:8, 31:10
- Ezra 7:27
- Nehemiah 8:6, 9:5, 11:2
- Job 1:5, 1:10, 1:11, 1:21, 2:5, 2:9, 31:20, 42:12
- Psalms 5:12, 10:3, 16:7, 18:46, 26:12, 28:6, 28:9, 29:11, 31:21, 34:1, 37:22, 41:13, 45:2, 49:18, 62:4, 63:4, 65:10, 66:8, 66:20, 67:1, 67:6, 67:7, 68:19, 68:26, 68:35, 72:15, 72:17, 72:18, 72:19, 89:52, 95:6, 96:2, 100:4, 103:1, 103:2, 103:20, 103:21, 103:22, 104:1, 104:35, 106:48, 107:38, 109:28, 112:2, 113:2, 115:12, 115:13, 115:15, 115:18, 118:26, 119:12, 124:6, 128:4, 128:5, 129:8, 132:15, 134:1, 134:2, 134:3, 135:19, 135:20, 135:21, 144:1, 145:1, 145:2, 145:10, 145:21, 147:13
- Proverbs 3:33, 5:18, 20:21, 22:9, 27:14, 30:11
- Isaiah 19:25, 51:2, 61:9, 65:16, 65:23, 66:3
- Jeremiah 4:2, 17:7, 20:14, 31:23
- Ezekiel 3:12
- Haggai 2:19
- Zechariah 11:5
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