What Does Psalm 115:15 Mean in the King James?
Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The blessing over you comes from the same hands that made heaven and earth, holding your life within the Creator’s work.
THE MEANING
You are blessed by the LORD, the one who makes heaven and earth. The verse places the source of that blessing in the maker of the whole created expanse. Your life is held within the reach of that making.
THE ROOT
בְּרוּכִים
berukhim
GROWS FROM
ב־ר־ך
To bless; the same consonants appear in a Hebrew word for knee.
The word translated “blessed” comes from בָּרַךְ (barak), to bless. Its consonants also appear in בֶּרֶךְ (berekh), knee, linking blessing with the image of a bent knee and favor received rather than manufactured.
ALSO GROWS
berakhah: blessing
בְּרָכָה
Genesis uses this noun from the same root for what a blessed person can become, connecting received blessing with its expression.
berekh: knee
בֶּרֶךְ
The shared consonants preserve the image of a bent knee within the Hebrew family of blessing words.
עֹשֵׂה
ʿoseh
GROWS FROM
ע־ש־ה
To do or make.
“made” in this verse is ʿoseh. The verse calls the LORD עֹשֵׂה (ʿoseh), the one making or doing. The same root names both the maker and the work itself, so heaven and earth are not detached scenery: they are the work of the one named as the source of your blessing.
ALSO GROWS
maʿaseh: work, deed
מַעֲשֶׂה
This noun from the same root names what is done or made; the heavens and earth are the maker’s work.
asiyyah: action, making
עֲשִׂיָּה
This form keeps the sense of doing visible in the root, showing that “made” names an act of making.
THE PATTERN
The Creator’s reach joins the making of the world with the source of help and blessing.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:THE THREAD
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:Psalm 115 names you as blessed with a form of בָּרַךְ (barak), and Genesis uses the same root for both “bless” and “a blessing.” The shared root links receiving blessing with becoming its expression, while both verses locate its source in God.
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