Barekh

Barekh = to bless

or Barekah = a blessing

• The word occurs more than 400 times in the Hebrew Bible, most frequently in Genesis (88), Deuteronomy contains the next most.

ברך

Aramaic

1) To kneel or bow down.

2) To bless

Hebrew

1) kneel

2) to bless

3) to curse

• the act of blessing had to do with "to endue with power for success, prosperity, fecundity, longevity, etcetera," as HAW Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament puts it.
• occurs often with the verb ארר ('arar), meaning to curse, or rather to bind or restrict