Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
H1288
H1288 בָּרַךְ kneel , bless . . kneel down . bless . bless oneself . . bless God , adore with bended knees . God blesses . men bless men . salute , greet , with an invocation of blessing . bless , with the antithetical meaning curse from the greeting in departing, saying adieu to, taking leave of; but rather a blessing overdone and so really a curse as in vulgar English as well as in the Shemitic cognates . . pass. to be blessed , adored . prospered by God . have prosperity invoked , by Balaam . in gratitude . and he made his camel kneel . bless oneself , congratulate oneself in his heart
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (BDB), 1906 — public domain