Genesis 12:2
Footnote:
| 469 | Strong’s #1293, berakah. A kneeling or blessed-one? This feminine noun is literally neither. Berek is knee (#1290), barak is to kneel (#1288). Berakah is a kneeling or a kneeled-one. It is hard to render a noun as a noun-verb like this however, i.e. a kneeling, especially in a primitive language. The idea of kneeling makes us think, “Come in, we are bowing ourselves down, and we are bending-the-knee, we are kneeling [barak] to the faces of Yahweh.” Psalm 95:6 literal In Isaiah 36:16 it has been interpreted as a “peace-treaty”: “Don’t listen toward Hezekiah for thus the King of Asshur has said, Make אֶת-me a kneeled-one [barakah], and go out toward me and eat, a man his vine, and a man his fig-tree, and drink a man dual-waters of his cistern.” Isa. 36:16 literal |