Bible word study

Berakah (Strong’s H1293): Meaning in the Bible

Berakah (בְּרָכָה) is the Hebrew word numbered H1293 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as benediction; by implication prosperity. In the King James Bible it is translated blessing, liberal, pool, present..

• Original wordבְּרָכָה
• TransliterationBᵉrâkâh
• Pronunciationber-aw-kaw'
• Part of speechnoun (feminine) (n-f)
• Strong’s numberH1293
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H1288;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Berakah appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Berakah (H1293) stands behind 69 English renderings in 64 verses across 18 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Genesis (16), Deuteronomy (12), Psalms (9).

How the King James Bible renders Berakah, by count

• blessing50 of 69 (72 percent)
• blessings11 of 69 (16 percent)
• blessed3 of 69 (4 percent)
• present3 of 69 (4 percent)
• liberal1 of 69 (1 percent)
• pools1 of 69 (1 percent)

Three places to read Berakah

• Genesis 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
• Deuteronomy 28:8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
• Psalms 84:6 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Berakah in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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