I want to share a simple blessing: God's blessing.

The word "bless" in Bible is translated from the Hebrew word barak. As I have shown in other hubs, the Hebrew language is derived from an ancient alphabet made up of a series of pictographs that represented letters, numbers and symbolic meanings.

If we look at biblical words in their original language (pictographs), we can see a new richness and depth to the text of the Bible. The Hebrew word for "bless", barak, is comprised of the Hebrew letters BET (the equivalent of our letter "B"), represented in the ancient pictographs as a house or tent, meaning house, as in lineage - e.g. "the house of David". RESH (R), pictured as the head of a man, and meaning the first or highest person. KAPH (K), pictured as the palm of a hand, meaning to bow or bless.

As I have written in other hubs, the Hebrew/Aramaic word bar (spelled BET-RESH) is the word for "son". So, the ancient Hebrew pictographs show that "to bless" is for the SON (Jesus) to extend the PALM OF HIS HAND to you, or to lay his hand on you...TO BLESS YOU.

I have given a visual representation of barak (to bless) below in the first picture.

Moreover, the first time God blesses anyone or anything in the Bible is in Gen. 1:28: "God blessed them and said to them, 'Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.'"

The Hebrew word translated "blessed" is v'ibarak, which is more appropriately translated "He will bless" or "He is blessing", actually suggests an ongoing, continual and future blessing, rather than a past blessing.

To form v'ibarak, two letters are added to the word barak above, the letter VAV (similar to our letters "V" or "W"), pictured as a tent peg or nail, and meaning a nail or hook, and YOD (Y), pictured as the arm from the fist to the elbow, meaning my hand or my works.

Therefore, v'ibarak, or God's first blessing to humanity is prophetic of God's ultimate blessing to humanity: the NAIL in the HAND of the SON is God's BLESSING. Here it is.

For more about the Bible and ancient Hebrew, check out my blog, Beauty of the Bible.