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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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The terms 'blessing' and 'to bless' occur very often in the Scriptures, and in applications too obvious to require explanation or comment. The patriarchal blessings of sons form the exception, these being, in fact, prophecies rather than blessings, or blessings only in so far as they for the most part involved the invocation and the promise of good things to come upon the parties concerned. The most remarkable instances are those of Isaac 'blessing' Jacob and Esau (Genesis 27); of Jacob 'blessing' his twelve sons (Genesis 49); and of Moses 'blessing the twelve tribes' (Deuteronomy 32).