is basically “happy” (Robertson). In its use here in the Sermon on the Mount, it is not “happy” in the sense of happenstance or luck or chance as per dictionary meaning, but “happy” in the the sense of the highest form of happiness, joy, and blessing that one can have. This word translated “blessed” in the Sermon on the Mount is, in fact, translated “happy” in five other passages in the King James Version of the Bible. The meaning of the word also involves prosperity—not material prosperity here