Barakh בָּרַךְ

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Barakh
בָּרַךְ
Transliterationbarakh
Strong's numberH1288
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechverb
Glossto bless
Occurrences330 in 289 verses
Most frequent inPsalms (68)

Barakh (Hebrew בָּרַךְ, Strong's H1288) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to bless”. It occurs 330 times in 289 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

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
Aramaic equivalent: be.rakh (בְּרַךְ "to bless" H1289)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVblessed (174), bless (114), blesseth (8), salute (4), blessest (3), curse (3), blessing (2), down (2), blaspheme (2), made (1), him (1), altogether (1), and 13 other renderings
BSBblessed (68), bless (43), will be blessed (12), blessed be (12), be blessed (10), bless you (8), he blessed (7), i will bless (6), has blessed (6), they blessed (5), he will bless (5), will bless (5), and 94 other renderings

Topics

Verses

Every verse with Barakh, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

Ruth

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Haggai

Zechariah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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