ˈblɛsɪŋ
The act of invoking divine favor or consecration; a favor or gift bestowed by God.
And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy: And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.
Luke 24:52-53, KJV
For in this blessing, I conceive You to have granted us a power and a faculty, both to express several ways what we understand but one; and to understand several ways, what we read to be obscurely delivered but in one.
Augustine, Confessions
How can I sufficiently express my grateful sense of this blessing, that I possess not the means of injuring my fellow-creatures?
Saadi, Gulistan
Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
Shakespeare, Richard III, Act 1, Scene 2
ברכה /berakah/
Biblical Hebrew, Ancient Israel
blessynge /blessynge/
Middle English, England
bletsunge /bletsunge/
Old English, England