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Bless may refer to:

• Blessing, a religious pronouncement
• Bless (rapper), a hip-hop artist from Montreal
• BLESS, another name for the Swedish group Bubbles (band)

See also

• Blessing (disambiguation)

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Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

English

Etymology

From Middle English blessen, from Old English blētsian, blēdsian (“‘to consecrate (with blood)’”).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɛs

Verb

to bless (third-person singular simple present blesses, present participle blessing, simple past and past participle blest or blessed)

1. To make something blessed, to confer blessing upon.
2. (Perl programming, transitive) (past tense only blessed) To turn (a reference) into an object.

Antonyms

• curse
• condemn

Translations

Related terms

• blessed
• blessing

Icelandic

Interjection

bless

1. good-bye, bye

From BibleWiki

1. God blesses his people when he bestows on them some gift temporal or spiritual (Gen 1:22; 24:35; Job 42:12; Ps 45²; 104:24, 35).
2. We bless God when we thank him for his mercies (Ps 103¹, 2; 145:1, 2).
3. A man blesses himself when he invokes God's blessing (Isa 65:16), or rejoices in God's goodness to him (Deut 29:19; Ps 49¹⁸).
4. One blesses another when he expresses good wishes or offers prayer to God for his welfare (Gen 24:60; 31:55; 1Sam 2:20). Sometimes blessings were uttered under divine inspiration, as in the case of Noah, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses (Gen 9:26, 27; 27:28, 29, 40; 48:15-20; 49:1-28; Deut. 33). The priests were divinely authorized to bless the people (Deut 10:8; Num 6:22-27). We have many examples of apostolic benediction (2Cor 13:14; Eph 6:23, 24; 2 Thes 3:16, 18; Heb 13:20, 21; 1 Pet 5:10, 11).
5. Among the Jews in their thank-offerings the master of the feast took a cup of wine in his hand, and after having blessed God for it and for other mercies then enjoyed, handed it to his guests, who all partook of it. Ps 116¹³ refers to this custom. It is also alluded to in 1Cor 10:16, where the apostle speaks of the "cup of blessing."

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