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Strictly speaking, there is no Greek meaning of the word 'blessed'. The word 'blessed' comes from a German word 'bletsian' meaning 'blood' - the reference being back to Old Testament sacrifices.

The English-speaking church chose to use the word 'bless' as a translation for the Greek 'eulogeitos', the meaning of which is explained below. This Greek word actually provides the English word 'eulogy'. 'eu' means 'good' and 'logy' means word - hence the meaning of eulogy is literally 'a good word'.

This Greek word 'eulogeitos' was the chosen by the New Testament writers as the nearest equivalent word they had for the contextual meaning for the Old Testament Hebrew word 'barak', which literally means 'to kneel'.

eujlogevw Eulogeo (yoo-log-eh'-o);

Word Origin: Greek, Verb, Strong #: 2127

  1. to praise, celebrate with praises
  2. to invoke blessings
  3. to consecrate a thing with solemn prayers
    1. to ask God's blessing on a thing
    2. pray God to bless it to one's use
    3. pronounce a consecratory blessing on
  4. of God
    1. to cause to prosper, to make happy, to bestow blessings on
    2. favoured of God, blessed

KJV Word Usage and Count bless 43 praise makavrioßMakarios (mak-ar'-ee-os); Adjective, Strong #: 3107

  1. blessed, happy

KJV Word Usage and Count blessed 44 happy 5 happier

makavrioß Makarios (mak-ar'-ee-os); Adjective, Strong #: 3107

I looked it up and this is what they all said when I checked strong and lexicon

Answerευλογημένος - Evlogimenos means blessed. Makarios does too.

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the corect translation is ευλογημένος (evlogimenos). Makarios is sometimes used (in The Bible) but it means more ''happy, having a peaceful soul'' rather than ''blessed''.

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The translation of blessing into Greek:

ευλογία, ευτύχημα, ευχαριστία (πριν από γεύμα)

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Its ευλογημένος (evlogimenos).

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So I can pronounce it In English sg

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eulogies

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