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Strong's #1288: barak (pronounced baw-rak')

a primitive root; 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):--X abundantly, X altogether, X at all, blaspheme, bless, congratulate, curse, X greatly, X indeed, kneel (down), praise, salute, X still, thank.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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bârak

1) to bless, kneel

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to kneel

1a2) to bless

1b) (Niphal) to be blessed, bless oneself

1c) (Piel) to bless

1d) (Pual) to be blessed, be adored

1e) (Hiphil) to cause to kneel

1f) (Hithpael) to bless oneself

2) (TWOT) to praise, salute, curse

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 330 times:

Psalms 135:20: " Bless the LORD, O house of Levi: ye that fear the LORD, bless"
Psalms 135:20: "of Levi: ye that fear the LORD, bless the LORD."
Psalms 135:21: " Blessed out of Zion, which dwelleth at Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD."
Psalms 144:1: "A Psalm of David. Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers"
Psalms 145:1: "I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name forever and ever."
Psalms 145:2: "Every will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name forever and ever."
Psalms 145:10: "shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless"
Psalms 145:21: "of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever."
Psalms 147:13: "the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within"
Proverbs 3:33: "is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just."
Proverbs 5:18: "Let thy fountain blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth."
Proverbs 20:21: "at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed."
Proverbs 22:9: "He eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread"
Proverbs 27:14: " He that blesseth with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse"
Proverbs 30:11: "their father, and doth not bless their mother."
Isaiah 19:25: "Whom of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people,"
Isaiah 19:25: "of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work"
Isaiah 51:2: "you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased"
Isaiah 61:9: "they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed."
Isaiah 65:16: "That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth"
Isaiah 65:16: "That he who in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth"
Isaiah 65:23: "for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with"
Isaiah 66:3: "as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they"
Jeremiah 4:2: "in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
Jeremiah 17:7: " Blessed that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is."
Jeremiah 20:14: "my mother bore me be blessed."
Jeremiah 31:23: "their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness."
Ezekiel 3:12: "me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place."
Haggai 2:19: "from this day will I bless"
Zechariah 11:5: "them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds"









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