H1293 - בְּרָכָה (Bᵉrâkâh)

H1293 בְּרָכָה (Bᵉrâkâh) ber-aw-kaw'

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

from 1288; benediction; by implication prosperity

KJV Usage: blessing, liberal, pool, present

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

בְּרָכָה (be.ra.khah) — blessing. 1) blessing 2) (source of) blessing 3) blessing, prosperity 4) blessing, praise of God 5) a gift, present 6) treaty of peace

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

בְּרָכָה (H1293 · H1294)

noun f · ברך

Bless | ≈ תְּהִלָּה | ≠ קְלָלָה

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

GEN 12:2 · GEN 27:12 · GEN 27:35 · GEN 27:36 · GEN 27:36 · GEN 27:38 · GEN 27:41 · GEN 28:4 · GEN 39:5 · GEN 49:25 · GEN 49:25 · GEN 49:25 · GEN 49:26 · GEN 49:26 · GEN 49:28 · EXO 32:29 · LEV 25:21 · DEU 11:26 · DEU 11:27 · DEU 11:29 · DEU 12:15 · DEU 16:17 · DEU 23:6 · DEU 28:2 · DEU 28:8 · DEU 30:1 · DEU 30:19 · DEU 33:1 · DEU 33:23 · JOS 8:34 · 2SA 7:29 · NEH 9:5 · NEH 13:2 · JOB 29:13 · PSA 3:9 · PSA 21:4 · PSA 21:7 · PSA 24:5 · PSA 37:26 · PSA 84:7 · PSA 109:17 · PSA 129:8 · PSA 133:3 · PRO 10:6 · PRO 10:7 · PRO 10:22 · PRO 11:11 · PRO 11:26 · PRO 24:25 · PRO 28:20 · ISA 19:24 · ISA 44:3 · ISA 65:8 · EZK 34:26 · EZK 34:26 · EZK 44:30 · JOL 2:14 · ZEC 8:13 · MAL 2:2 · MAL 3:10

Objects

gift, present = objects, ◄ presented as gift by one person to another

GEN 33:11 · JOS 15:19 · JDG 1:15 · 1SA 25:27 · 1SA 30:26 · 2KI 5:15 · PRO 11:25

Vow | verb qal

Collocation: עשׂה בְּרָכָה

to make (one's) peace (with someone else) literally: to make a blessing (with someone); hence probably: = to make a peace treaty with another party

2KI 18:31 · ISA 36:16

noun f

Names of People

Beracah = man; ◄ tribe of Benjamin; ► one of the ambidextrous warriors related to king Saul

1CH 12:3

Names of Locations

Collocation: עֵמֶק בְּרָכָה

Valley of Beracah, Valley of Blessing = valley ◄ near Tekoa► where king Jehoshaphat and his people gathered to bless YHWH for their victory over a coalition of invading Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, and Meunites (ABD)

2CH 20:26 · 2CH 20:26

¹ PSA 84:7 "blessing" (NJPS Kraus | Tate | Hossfeld-Zenger) | NRSV NIV REB Dahood "pools" (reading בְּרֵכָה ) ² PRO 11:11 This could refer two things: (a) God's blessing on certain people which reflects on the entire town, or (b) a blessing pronounced by the upright on a town ³ EZK 44:30 It is not clear whether this refers to a blessing from God as recompense or to a priestly blessing

Enio R. Mueller

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

בְּרָכָה n.f. blessing blessing

source of blessing

blessing, prosperity

blessing, praise of God

a gift, present

treaty of peace

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