It is not until we lose our health that we recognise its blessing.
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Blessing
//ˈblɛs.ɪŋ//
Synonyms for "blessing" (162 found)
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Closest matches (33)
Strong matches (48)
Related words (81)
good turngood wishesgospelgratulationhallowinghappy fortunehelphonorinterestintroitinvocationjustificationjustification by workskind deedkind officeskindly actkindnesskyrie eleisonlabor of lovelaying on of hands
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loaves and fishesluckluckinesslucky breaklucky strikemannamanna from heavenmassmercymitzvahnodobligationofficeokokaypat on the backpaternosterpermissionprayerprofitpromptitudepromptnesspurificationratificationreadinessrecommendationrespectrun of lucksainthoodsaintingsanctificationsanctionsanctusseal of approvalsectarianservicesetting apartsmiles of fortunestamp of approvalstate of gracestreak of luckstroke of lucksubmissionthanksthanksgivingthe breaksturnungrudgingnessunloathnessunreluctancevaledictionvoicevotewelfarewell-beingwillingnessworld of goodyeayea vote
Noun(2 words)
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Translations
184 translations across 74 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- bekim noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Arabic
4 entries- بَرَكَة noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- نِعْمَة noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- نِعْمَة noun (good fortune)
- نِعْمَة noun (thing one is glad of)
Armenian
1 entries- օրհնություն noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Aromanian
1 entries- urãciuni noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Avestan
1 entries- 𐬀𐬴𐬌 noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- bərəkət noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- xeyir-dua noun (act of declaring, seeking or bestowing favor)
Belarusian
2 entries- благаславе́нне noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- блаславе́нне noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Bengali
4 entries- আশীর্বাদ noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- নেয়ামত noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- নেয়ামত noun (good fortune)
- নেয়ামত noun (thing one is glad of)
Bulgarian
3 entries- благодат noun (good fortune)
- благослови́я noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- благослови́я noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
Catalan
1 entries- benedicció noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- خێر noun (act of declaring, seeking or bestowing favor)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 祝福 noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Czech
4 entries- požehnání noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- požehnání noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
- požehnání noun (good fortune)
- žehnání noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
Danish
2 entries- velsignelse noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- velsignelse noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
Dutch
4 entries- (in)zegening noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
- zegen noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- zegen noun (good fortune)
- zegenen noun (act of declaring, seeking or bestowing favor)
Esperanto
2 entries- beno noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- beno noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
Finnish
4 entries- ilonaihe noun (thing one is glad of)
- onni noun (good fortune)
- siunaus noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- siunaus noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
French
4 entries- bénédiction noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- bénédiction noun (act of declaring, seeking or bestowing favor)
- bénédiction noun (thing one is glad of)
- groupe noun (group of unicorns)
Galician
3 entries- beizón noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- beizón noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
- bendición noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Georgian
1 entries- კურთხევა noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
German
4 entries- Segen noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- Segen noun (good fortune)
- Segen noun (act of declaring, seeking or bestowing favor)
- Segen noun (thing one is glad of)
Gothic
2 entries- 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌵𐌹𐍃𐍃 noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
Greek
1 entries- ευλογία noun (act of declaring, seeking or bestowing favor)
Gujarati
1 entries- આશીર્વાદ noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Hausa
1 entries- albarka noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Hebrew
1 entries- בְּרָכָה noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Hindi
2 entries- आशीर्वाद noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- आशीष noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Hungarian
2 entries- áldás noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- áldás noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
Indonesian
3 entries- anugerah noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- doa restu noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
- karunia noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Irish
4 entries- beannacht noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- beannacht noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
- beannacht noun (good fortune)
- beannacht noun (act of declaring, seeking or bestowing favor)
Italian
2 entries- benedizione noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- benedizione noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
Japanese
2 entries- 恵み noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- 祝福 noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Kapampangan
1 entries- kalam noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Kazakh
2 entries- алғыс noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- бата noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Korean
1 entries- 축복 noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- алкыш noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- бата noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Latin
2 entries- benedictiō noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- benedictiō noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
Lutuv
1 entries- thluechiy noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Macedonian
1 entries- благослов noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Maltese
1 entries- barka noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Manx
2 entries- bannaght noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- bannaght noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
Marathi
1 entries- आशीर्वाद noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Middle English
2 entries- benysoun noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- benysoun noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- ɓaraka noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Norman
3 entries- bénédiction noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- bénédiction noun (act of declaring, seeking or bestowing favor)
- bénédiction noun (thing one is glad of)
Oromo
1 entries- eebba noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- بركت noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- دعا noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- دعا noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
Papiamentu
1 entries- bendishon noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
Persian
3 entries- برکت noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- موهبت noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- نعمت noun (good fortune)
Plautdietsch
3 entries- Säajen noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- Säajen noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
- Säajen noun (good fortune)
Polish
4 entries- błogosławieństwo noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- błogosławieństwo noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
- błogosławieństwo noun (good fortune)
- błogosławieństwo noun (act of declaring, seeking or bestowing favor)
Portuguese
4 entries- bendição noun (act of declaring, seeking or bestowing favor)
- benzimento noun (act of declaring, seeking or bestowing favor)
- bênção noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- bênção noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
Romanian
2 entries- benedicțiune noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- binecuvântare noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Russian
4 entries- благода́ть noun (good fortune)
- благослове́ние noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- благослове́ние noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
- благослове́ние noun (act of declaring, seeking or bestowing favor)
Sanskrit
1 entries- वर noun (good fortune)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- beannachd noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- beannachd noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
- beannachd noun (good fortune)
- beannachd noun ((paganism) modern pagan ceremony)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- blȁgoslōv noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- blȁgoslōv noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
- blȁgoslōv noun (good fortune)
- blȁgoslōv noun (act of declaring, seeking or bestowing favor)
Sidamo
1 entries- maasso noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Slovak
1 entries- požehnanie noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Slovene
1 entries- blagoslov noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Southern Altai
1 entries- алкыш noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Spanish
1 entries- bendición noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Swahili
3 entries- baraka noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- baraka noun (good fortune)
- baraka noun (act of declaring, seeking or bestowing favor)
Swedish
3 entries- hjord noun (group of unicorns)
- välsignelse noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- välsignelse noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
Tagalog
1 entries- biyaya noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Tajik
2 entries- баракат noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- фотиҳа noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Tamil
1 entries- ஆசீர்வாதம் noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Tatar
3 entries- бәрәкәт noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- бәхет noun (good fortune)
- уңыш noun (good fortune)
Turkish
3 entries- baht noun (good fortune)
- bereket noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- talih noun (good fortune)
Ukrainian
4 entries- благослове́ння noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- благослове́нство noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- благослові́ння noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- благослові́ння noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
Urdu
2 entries- برکت noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- نعمت noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Welsh
3 entries- bendith noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
- bendith noun (pronouncement invoking divine aid)
- rhad noun (good fortune)
West-Frisian
1 entries- segen noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Yiddish
1 entries- ברכה noun (divine or supernatural aid or reward)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another.
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Good health is a great blessing.
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People do not know the blessing of good health until they lose it.
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