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# בְּרַךְ

Biblical Aramaic

**kneel** — used 6 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

kneel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b7_5da_5b0/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּרַךְ: vb. kneel, bless [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b7_5da_5b0/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. kneel, bless (so BH);— Pt. act. בָּרֵךְ עַל־בִּרְכוֹ֫הי Dn 6:11 kneeling on his knees (in prayer). pass. בְּרִיךְ Dn 3:28 blessed (be) the God, etc. bless, praise: Pf. 3 ms. בָּרִךְ 2:19, 1 s. בָּֽרְכֵת (K § 39. 3) 4:31, both c. ל of God; Pt. pass. מְבָרַךְ 2:20 the name of God (be) blessed.

### Jastrow 1903

בְּרַךְ: blessed to bless to say grace after meal to blaspheme [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b7_5da_5b0/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** Part. Peil בְּרִיךְ blessed. Targ. Gen. IX, 26; a. fr.—Sabb. 67ᵃ, a. fr. קודשא ב׳ הוא the Holiness (Holy One), blessed be He. Cant. R. to. IV, 4; Gen. R. s. 32 הדין טורא בְּרִיכָא this blessed mount (Gerizim, revered by the Samaritans; Deut. R. s. 3 קדיש). as preced. Pi. to bless &c. Targ. Deut. VIII, 10; a. fr.—Esp. to say grace after meal. Ber. 46ᵃ כי מטי לְבָרוּכֵי וכ׳ when it was time to say grace, he said, Will you please, say grace for us. Y. ib. VI, 10ᵇ מהו למיבָרְכָה בסופה what benediction must be said after it? Ib. bot. לא אנא חכים מברכא I do not know how to say grace after it.—Part. pass. מְבָרַךְ. Targ. Y. II, Gen. XLIX, 2. to blaspheme. Targ. Job II, 9.—Snh. 56ᵃ לישנא דברוכי in the sense of blaspheming. as preced. Hithpa. Targ. Gen. XII, 3; a. fr.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[be\] blessed (2); I blessed (1); \[was\] kneeling (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 2:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.19/#tree)

אֱדַ֗יִן לְדָנִיֵּ֛אל בְּחֶזְוָ֥א דִֽי־לֵילְיָ֖א רָזָ֣ה גֲלִ֑י אֱדַ֙יִן֙ דָּֽנִיֵּ֔אל בָּרִ֖ךְ לֶאֱלָ֥הּ שְׁמַיָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* then to Daniel in the vision (diy).of the night the secret it.was.revealed then Daniel he.blessed (et).the God of the.heavens

*JPS 1917:* Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

[Daniel 2:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.20/#tree)

עָנֵ֤ה דָֽנִיֵּאל֙ וְאָמַ֔ר לֶהֱוֵ֨א שְׁמֵ֤הּ דִּֽי־אֱלָהָא֙ מְבָרַ֔ךְ מִן־עָלְמָ֖א וְעַ֣ד־עָלְמָ֑א דִּ֧י חָכְמְתָ֛א וּגְבוּרְתָ֖א דִּ֥י לֵֽהּ־הִֽיא׃

*Word for word:* \[was\].replying Daniel and.\[was\] saying let.it.be name his (diy).of the.true God \[be\].blessed from (the) antiquity and to (the) perpetuity that (the) wisdom and (the) power that \[is\].to him it

*JPS 1917:* Daniel spoke and said: Blessed be the name of God from everlasting even unto everlasting; for wisdom and might are His;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b7_5da_5b0.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b7_5da_5b0/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).