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The concept of blessing pervades the everyday life of Christians—from testimonies recounting God’s provision, to praise songs, to wishing someone well. In fact, the term has been so integrated into Christian language that it is rarely considered thoughtfully. In the pages of Scripture, blessing seems to be either physical or spiritual, but a fuller biblical-theological approach reveals that God’s...

English word eulogy, when rendering texts that use the forms of brk we have identified. To be clear, there is a noticeable shift from the place of prominence blessing plays in the Old Testament Scriptures and the New Testament. The Greek verb eulogeō, “to bless,” occurs only forty-one times in the New Testament, and is found primarily in Hebrews, Luke, Matthew, and Mark.19 The noun “blessing” (eulogia) and the adjective “blessed” (eulogētos) occur less often: sixteen times for the former and eight
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