'Bless' in the Bible

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, And bless ye Jehovah.

Jehovah doth bless thee out of Zion, The maker of the heavens and earth!

O house of Israel, bless ye Jehovah, O house of Aaron, bless ye Jehovah,

O house of Levi, bless ye Jehovah, Those fearing Jehovah, bless ye Jehovah.

Praise by David. I exalt Thee, my God, O king, And bless Thy name to the age and for ever.

Every day do I bless Thee, And praise Thy name to the age and for ever.

Confess Thee O Jehovah, do all Thy works, And Thy saints do bless Thee.

The praise of Jehovah my mouth speaketh, And all flesh doth bless His holy name, To the age and for ever!

A generation is, that lightly esteemeth their father, And their mother doth not bless.

In that Jehovah of Hosts did bless it, saying, 'Blessed is My people -- Egypt, And the work of My hands -- Asshur, And Mine inheritance -- Israel!'

Look attentively unto Abraham your father, And unto Sarah -- she bringeth you forth, For -- one -- I have called him, And I bless him, and multiply him.

So that he who is blessing himself in the earth, Doth bless himself In the God of faithfulness, And he who is swearing in the earth, Doth swear by the God of faithfulness, Because the former distresses have been forgotten, And because they have been hid from Mine eyes.

Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Still they say this word in the land of Judah, And in its cities, In My turning back to their captivity, Jehovah doth bless thee, habitation of righteousness, Mountain of holiness.

Is the seed yet in the barn? And hitherto the vine and the fig, And the pomegranate, and the olive-tree, Have not borne -- from this day I bless.'

but I -- I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you,

And having commanded the multitudes to recline upon the grass, and having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, having looked up to the heaven, he did bless, and having broken, he gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes,

bless those cursing you, and pray for those accusing you falsely;

And he led them forth without -- unto Bethany, and having lifted up his hands he did bless them,

Bless those persecuting you; bless, and curse not;

and labour, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;

The cup of the blessing that we bless -- is it not the fellowship of the blood of the Christ? the bread that we break -- is it not the fellowship of the body of the Christ?

since, if thou mayest bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what thou dost say he hath not known?

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

saying, 'Blessing indeed I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;'

For this Melchisedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who did meet Abraham turning back from the smiting of the kings, and did bless him,

By faith, concerning coming things, Isaac did bless Jacob and Esau;

by faith Jacob dying -- each of the sons of Joseph did bless, and did bow down upon the top of his staff;

with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude of God;