- supreme blessedness; exalted happiness.
- any of the declarations of blessedness pronounced by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.
- supreme blessedness or happiness
- an honorific title of the Eastern Christian Church, applied to those of patriarchal rank
- any of eight distinctive sayings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:3–11) in which he declares that the poor, the meek, those that mourn, the merciful, the peacemakers, the pure of heart, those that thirst for justice, and those that are persecuted will, in various ways, receive the blessings of heaven
