Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H1289
בְּרַךְ
berakber-ak'
to bless
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bᵉrak
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1289is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1289
{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)}
The King James renders it: bless, kneel.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
berak is rendered "to bless". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Five of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 2:19During the night, the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision, and he blessed the God of heaven
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
During the night, the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision, and he blessed the God of heaven
Daniel 2:19בָּרִ֖ךְ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's five uses are in Daniel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- blessed2
- he blessed1
- I blessed1
- kneeling1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּרִית | berith | covenant | Uses284 |
| בְּרָכָה | Berakah | blessing | Uses69 |
| בְּרִיחַ | beriach | bar | Uses40 |
| בְּרוֹשׁ | berosh | cypress | Uses20 |
| בְּרֵכָה | berekah | (Shelah) Pool | Uses17 |
| בְּרַם | beram | nevertheless | Uses5 |
| בְּרִי | beri | fat | Uses1 |
| בְּרוֹם | berom | rich apparel | Uses1 |
| בְּרוֹת | beroth | cypress | Uses1 |
| בְּרִית | Berith | (Baal)-berith | Uses1 |
| בְּרִיאָה | beriah | creation | Uses1 |
| בְּרִיעִי | Berii | Beriite | Uses1 |
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בְּרִ֤יךְ1
- בָּרִ֖ךְ1
- בָּרֵ֣ךְ1
- בָּרְכֵ֔ת1
- מְבָרַ֔ךְ1
The grammar of each form
- verb · passive (qal passive), participle · masculine singular2AVQrmsa
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1AVpp1cs
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1AVpp3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular1AVprmsa
Daniel
five uses
During the night, the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision, and he blessed the God of heaven
- בָּרִ֖ךְbarikhverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he blessed
and declared: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and power belong to Him.
- מְבָרַ֔ךְmevarakhverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: blessed
Nebuchadnezzar declared, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him. They violated the king’s command and risked their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.
- בְּרִ֤יךְberikhverb · passive (qal passive), participle · masculine singulartagged: blessed
But at the end of those days I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity was restored to me. Then I praised the Most High, and I honored and glorified Him who lives forever: “For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation.
- בָּרְכֵ֔תbarekhetverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I blessed
Now when Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house, where the windows of his upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, just as he had done before.
- בָּרֵ֣ךְbarekhverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: kneeling
The letters
Gematria 222· 702 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.