Strong’s Dictionary
בָּרַךְ
barak
primary root; kneel down; by implication to bless God (as an act of worship), and (vice versa) man (as a benefit); also (by euf.) to curse (to God, or to the king, as treason): kneel, bless abundantly, give blessing, blessed, blaspheme, praise, curse, happy, utter, salute.
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Chavez Dictionary
(I) ברך QAL:
Kneel down, kneel down (Ps 95:6). — Impf. נִבְרְכָה; Vaif. וַיִּבְרַךְ.
HIFIL:
Make kneel (Gen 24:11). — Impf.vaif. וַיַּבְרֵךְ.
— (II) ברך QAL:
Only the Part.pas.:
1) Be blessed (Gen 27:29).
2) To be blessed or praised (Ps 72:18; only to refer to God). — Part.pas. בָּרוּךְ; Const. בְּרוּךְ; Fem. בְּרוּכָה; Pl.const. בְּרוּכֵי.
NIPHAL:
Be blessed (Gen 12:3). — Perf. נִבְרְכוּ.
SKIN:
1) Bless, confer capacity to fully exist (Gen 1:28).
2) To bless, to declare a person as having the ability to live fully (Gen 27:27).
3) Bless:
With respect to God it is equivalent to the verb “to praise” (Gen 24:48).
4) Euphemism for “cursing” (Job 2:9; 1Ki 21:10, 1Ki 21:13). — Perf. בֵּרַךְ, בֵּרֵךְ; Vep. וּבֵרַכְתִּי; Suf. בֵּרַכְךָ; Impf. תְּבָרֵךְ; Suf. יְבָרֶכְךָ; Vaif. וַיְבָרֶךְ; Inf. בָּרֵךְ, בָּרוֹךְ; Suf. בָּֽרְכוֹ; Impv. בָרֲכִי; Part. מְבָֽרְכֶיךָ.
PUAL:
To be blessed or praised (2Sa 7:29) — Impf. יְבֹרַךְ; Part. מְבֹרָךְ.
HIT PAEL:
1) Being blessed with respect to one another (Gen 26:4).
2) Be blessed (Deu 29:19). — Perf. הִתְבָּרֵךְ; Impf. יִתְבָּרֵךְ; Part. מִתְבָרֵךְ.
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Vine AT Dictionary
barak (בָּרַךְ, H1288), “kneel, bless, be blessed, curse”. The root of this word is found in other Semitic languages, which, like Hebrew, most often use it in reference to a god. There are also parallels of the word in Egyptian.
Barak appears some 330 times in the Bible, beginning with Gen 1:22: “And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply.” God’s first words to man begin in the same way: “And God blessed them, and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply” (v. 28). In this way it is shown that all of creation depends on God for its continued existence and multiplication (cf. Ps 104:27-30). Barak is used again of mankind in Gen 5:2, early in the history of the men of faith, and again after the flood in Gen 9:1: “God blessed Noah and his children” . The central element of God’s covenant with Abram is: “I will bless you…and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you… and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you” (Gen 12:2-3). This “blessing” on the nations is repeated in Gen 18:18; Gen 22:18; and Gen 28:14 (cf. Gen 26:4; Jer 4:2). In all of these cases, God’s blessing is directed to the nations through Abraham or his seed. The Septuagint renders all these cases of barak in the passive, as do some modern translations as well. Paul cites the Septuagint translation of Gen 22:18 in Gal 3:8.
The covenant promise summoned the nations to seek the “blessing” (cf. Isa 2:2-4), but made it clear that the initiative for the blessing came from God, and that Abraham and his seed were to be instruments of blessing. blessing. God, either directly or through his representatives, appears more than 100 times as the subject of this verb. The Levitical blessing is based on this command: “Thus you shall bless the children of Israel…The Lord bless you…and they will put my name on the children of Israel, and I will bless them” (Num 6:23-27).
The passive form of barak is used when Melchizedek pronounces the “blessing of God upon mankind”: “Blessed be Abram of God Most High” (Gen 14:19). “Blessed by the LORD my God be Shem” (Gen 9:26) is an expression of praise. “Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand” (Gen 14:20) is praise with thanksgiving.
A common form of greeting was: “Blessed are you of the Lord” (1Sa 15:13; cf. Ruth 2:4). Saul “went out to greet him” (1Sa 13:10).
In 2Ch 6:13 the simple form of the verb is used: “He knelt.” Six times the word is used to indicate the act of cursing, as in Job 1:5: “Perhaps my children have sinned, and have blasphemed God in their hearts.”
Source: Various Authors