Genesis 27:29
Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
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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 shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.
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בָּרַךְ
bârak · baw-rak'
8 times translated as this KJV form331 total Strong's occurrences
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)
Strong's KJV usage: × abundantly, × altogether, × at all, blaspheme, bless, congratulate, curse, × greatly, × indeed, kneel (down), praise, salute, × still, thank.
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Strong's first: Genesis 27:29Strong's last: Isaiah 65:16
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He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
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bless
BLESS, verb transitive preterit tense and participle present tense blessed or blest.
1. To pronounce a wish of happiness to one; to express a wish or desire of happiness.
And Isaac called Jacob and blessed him. Genesis 28:3.
2. To make happy; to make successful; to prosper in temporal concerns; as, we are blest with peace and plenty.
The Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thou doest. Deuteronomy 15:4.
3. To make happy in a future life.
BLESSed are the dead who die in the Lord. Revelation 14:13.
4. To set apart or consecrate to holy purposes; to make and pronounce holy.
And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. Genesis 2:3
5. To consecrate by prayer; to invoke a blessing upon.
And Jesus took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven he blessed them. Luke 9:16.
6. To praise; to glorify, for benefits received.
BLESS the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me. Psalms 103:1.
7. To praise; to magnify; to extol, for excellencies. Psalms 104:1.
8. To esteem or account happy; with the reciprocal pronoun.
The nations shall bless themselves in him. Jeremiah 4:2.
9. To pronounce a solemn prophetical benediction upon. Genesis 2:37. Deuteronomy 33:11.
10. In this line of Spenser, it may signify to throw, for this is nearly the primary sense.
His sparkling blade about his head he blest.
Johnson supposes the word to signify to wave or brandish, and to have received this sense from the old rite of blessing a field, by directing the hands to all parts of it.
BLESS in Spenser for bliss, may be so written, not for rhyme merely, but because bless and bliss are from the same root.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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