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title: בְּרַךְ — kneel · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: בְּרַךְ (lemma:בְּרַךְ), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 6 times: kneel. BDB 1906: vb. kneel, bless. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בְּרַךְ

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«בְּרַךְ» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **kneel** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 6 times · **Key:** lemma:בְּרַךְ · **BDB:** בִּרַךְ

### Glosses

\[be\].blessed (2); I.blessed (1); \[was\].kneeling (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b7_5da_5b0/#m3)

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בְּרַךְ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b7_5da_5b0/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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;

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