TR: berakah → eulogia (Blessing)

The Chain

Hebrew OT              LXX (Greek OT)           Greek NT
───────────           ───────────────           ────────
בְּרָכָה (berakah)  →  εὐλογία (eulogia)     →  εὐλογία (eulogia)
H1293, 64x             56x as translation        14x in NT
"blessing"             of berakah                "blessing, bounty"

OT Usage (Hebrew)

Strong's	Word	Occurrences	Primary Meaning
H1293	בְּרָכָה (berakah)	64	blessing, benediction, prosperity, gift
H1288	בָּרַךְ (barak)	289	to kneel, to bless (cognate verb)

Key OT passages: - Gen 12:2 — "thou shalt be a blessing" — foundational Abrahamic promise - Deu 11:26 — "I set before you this day a blessing and a curse" — covenant choice - Mal 3:10 — "I will pour you out a blessing" — eschatological abundance

Library: H1293-brakah.md

LXX Bridge

Hebrew	Greek Translation	Co-occ	PMI	Notes
berakah (H1293)	εὐλογία (G2129)	56x	33.55	Primary — covers 88% of LXX renderings
berakah (H1293)	εὐλογέω (G2127)	15x	12.15	Verb used when LXX restructures
barak (H1288)	εὐλογέω (G2127)	230x	33.44	Verb-to-verb, strongest bridge
barak (H1288)	εὐλογία (G2129)	14x	11.17	Occasional noun swap

Reverse bridge — G2129 eulogia ← Hebrew sources:

Hebrew Source	Co-occ	PMI	Notes
H1293 berakah	56x	33.55	Dominant source
H7045 qelalah ("curse")	10x	16.23	Appears in same verses as antonym
H1288 barak (verb)	14x	11.17	Occasional noun rendering of verb

Semantic shift in translation: Minimal. The εὐλογία/berakah mapping is near one-to-one. Both cover the full range: divine benediction, material gift, praise, prosperity. The one notable difference is that berakah once means "pool" (Psa 84:6), a homograph unrelated to the blessing sense, which LXX does not render with eulogia.

NT Usage (Greek)

Strong's	Word	Occurrences	Primary Meaning
G2129	εὐλογία (eulogia)	14	blessing, bounty, fine speech
G2127	εὐλογέω (eulogeo)	41	to bless, speak well of
G2128	εὐλογητός (eulogetos)	8	blessed, adorable (of God)

Key NT passages: - Gal 3:14 — "That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ" - Eph 1:3 — "who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places" - 1 Cor 10:16 — "The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ?" - Heb 6:7 — "the earth... receiveth blessing from God" - Jas 3:10 — "Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing"

Library: TODO(need G2129 study)

Direct OT→NT Quotations

NT Verse	Quotes/Echoes OT	Shared Word	Significance
Gal 3:14	Gen 12:2–3	berakah → eulogia	Abrahamic blessing extended to Gentiles via Christ
Heb 6:7, 14	Gen 22:17	barak → eulogeo	"in blessing I will bless thee" — divine oath
Heb 12:17	Gen 27:35–38	berakah → eulogia	Esau who "found no place of repentance" for the blessing
1 Pet 3:9	Psa 133:3	berakah → eulogia	"ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing"

Word Families

Hebrew family: - H1288 בָּרַךְ (barak) — verb: to bless, to kneel - H1289 בְּרַךְ (berak) — Aramaic: to bless

Greek family: - G2127 εὐλογέω (eulogeo) — verb: to bless, speak well of - G2128 εὐλογητός (eulogetos) — adjective: blessed (used exclusively of God)

Continuity and Shifts

What stays the same across testaments: - The blessing-as-divine-favor sense carries unchanged from berakah through eulogia - The antithetic pairing with cursing persists: Deu 11:26 berakah/qelalah → Jas 3:10 eulogia/katara - The Abrahamic blessing as covenantal promise is explicitly traced (Gal 3:14)

What shifts: - NT eulogia develops a "generosity/bounty" sense (2 Cor 9:5–6 "bountifully") that, while present in OT berakah-as-gift (Gen 33:11), becomes more prominent - The material-gift/present sense of berakah (1 Sam 25:27, 2 Ki 5:15) does not appear in NT eulogia - NT adds "cup of blessing" (1 Cor 10:16) as a eucharistic technical term with no direct OT parallel

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