Converse of object

• bestow: She may find comfort in taking an inventory of her years, counting all the blessings bestowed upon her.

• pronounce: The same mouth can pronounce a blessing or a curse.

• invoke: He appears in television programs to invoke blessings upon his mother.

• recite: Aliyah is calling him or her up before the Torah to recite the blessings before the reading of the Torah portion.

• confer: For the same power that can forge weapons of mass destruction can also confer blessings beyond all our dreams.

Adjective modifier

• mixed: The last day of any season is always a mixed blessing.

• unmixed: Greater participation in the outside labor market is not necessarily an unmixed blessing for women.

• promised: We are told that if we do we go to heaven, we live forever, we receive the promised blessings.

• Pentecostal: But scores of city merchants and professional men were then meeting daily at that hour to plead for Pentecostal blessings.

• heavenly: A life of wisdom will ensure me heavenly blessings.

Modifies a noun

• same-sex: Larry Stammer of the Los Angeles Times reports that Bishop Jon Bruno has said he will observe a personal moratorium on blessing same-sex unions.

• after: If you want to do the blessing AFTER the best man's toast, then it is your choice.

Noun used with modifier

• covenant: He must pass on his blessing, and with his blessing God's covenant blessing to his son.

Preposition: in

• heavenlies: Ephesians 1:3, " You've been blessed with all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies.

• disguise: However, the true crime this game commits ( or is it a blessing in disguise ) is in its miniscule length.

Preposition: of

• salvation: Through her rejection the Gentiles have had the blessing of salvation.

• covenant: The blessing of the covenant be upon you, so fare you well.

• liberty: All of us are called to share the blessings of liberty and to be strong and steady in freedom's defense.

Preposition: upon

• offspring: I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring " ( xliv.