Strong's Definition
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)
KJV Usage: X abundantly, X altogether, X at all, blaspheme, bless, congratulate, curse, X greatly, X indeed, kneel (down), praise, salute, X still, thank
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
בָּרַךְ (ba.rakh) — to bless. 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)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · בֶּרֶךְ
Stance | verb hif
to cause to kneel down = causative action by which humans cause animals to fall on their knees
verb · בְּרָכָה · בָּרוּךְ · בַּרַכְאֵל · בֶּרֶכְיָה · בֶּרֶכְיָהוּ · יְבֶרֶכְיָהוּ
Bless | verb nif, verb hit
to consider oneself blessed = state in which humans consider themselves favored by a deity
GEN 12:3 · GEN 18:18 · GEN 22:18 · GEN 26:4 · GEN 28:14 · DEU 29:18 · PSA 72:17 · ISA 65:16 · ISA 65:16 · JER 4:2
Bless | verb pi, verb qal sg, verb pu'al
to bless, to praise, to greet, to congratulate, to commend = causative action by which deities grant a special favor to humans, objects, or events, or by which humans invoke a deity to do the same
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[בָּרַךְ] 329 vb. kneel, bless Qal kneel down
bless
Niph. bless oneself
Pi. bless God, adore with bended knees
God blesses
men bless men
salute, greet, with an invocation of blessing
bless, with the antithetical meaning curse from the greeting in departing, saying adieu to, taking leave of; but rather a blessing overdone and so really a curse as in vulgar English as well as in the Shemitic cognates
Pu. pass. to be blessed, adored
prospered by God
have prosperity invoked, by Balaam
in gratitude
Hiph. and he made his camel kneel
Hithp. bless oneself, congratulate oneself in his heart
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