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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Temporal Blessings
• Spiritual Blessings
• Blessing
Thompson Chain Reference
• Faith's Blessing
• Delayed Blessings
• Blessings-Afflictions
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The Topic Concordance
• Blessings
Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Kingdom; Blessings
• Jews a Blessing
• Blessing God, the Lord
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Blessed, the
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Mary, the Blessed Virgin
• Blessing of Peace, the
• Blessed Virgin Mary
American Tract Society
• Blessing
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Blessing
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Blessing
Chabad Knowledge Base
• Blessing
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Bless
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Blessing
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• Doing Good: a Blessing to Ourselves
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Blessing and Cursing
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Blessing
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Blessing (2)
• Blessing
King James Dictionary
• Blessing
• Blessed
• Bless
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Blessing
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Whiting, Richard, Blessed
• Webster, Augustine, Blessed
• Walworth, James, Blessed
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Bless
People's Bible Dictionary
• Blessing
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Bless, Blessed, Blessedness, Blessing
• Blessed
• Bless
Webster Dictionary
• Blessing
• Blessed Thistle
• Blessed
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Bless
Encyclopedias
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Bless
• Blessed
• Blessing
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Blessing
• Blessing Valley of
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Anthony the Blessed
• Atto, the Blesse
• Bless
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Islands of the Blessed
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Apostolic Blessing
• Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
• Blessed Albert
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Blessing and Cursing
• Blessing of Children
• Blessing, Jacob's
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Lexicons
• ܒ݁ܽܘܪܟ݁ܬ݂ܳܐ
• ܒ݁ܪܺܝܟ݂ܳܐ
• ܒ݁ܰܪܶܟ݂
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• Benedictio; or Blessing
Girdleston's OT Synonyms
• Praise, Blessing
• ἐνευλογέω
• εὐλογέω , κατευλογέω
• εὐλογητός
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• אָשַׁר , אָשַׁר
• אֶשֶׁר , אַשְׁרֵי
• בָּרַךְ , בָּרַךְ
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Referring both to God and to man. When God blesses, he bestows that efficacy which renders his blessing effectual. His blessings are either temporal or spiritual, bodily or mental; but in every thing they really convey the good which they import, Numbers 6:23-27 . The blessings of men to other men, unless they be inspired prophecies, as in Genesis 32:32 Deuteronomy 33:1 1:1-29 , are only good wishes, personal or official, and as it were a peculiar kind of prayer to the Author of all good for the welfare of the subject of them. Blessing, on the part of man towards God, is an act of thanks-giving for his mercies, Psalm 103:1; or rather, for that special mercy which at the time occasions the act of blessing: as for food, for which thanks are rendered to God, or for any other good, Psalm 116:13 1 Corinthians 10:16 .