What Does Psalm 118:26 Mean in the King James?
Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.
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 one who arrives in the LORD’s nature is welcomed with a blessing that the community speaks from the LORD’s house.
THE MEANING
You are welcomed as one who comes in the LORD’s nature, and the blessing reaches you through a shared voice. The repeated blessing-root links the one who arrives with the “you” addressed from the LORD’s house.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Blessing is not presented as a private status or self-made achievement: the community speaks it, and the verse locates it in the LORD’s house.
THE ROOT
בָּרוּךְ
barukh
GROWS FROM
ברך
barakh
To bless; the same root is also found in the word for knee.
“Blessed / have blessed” in this verse is barukh. The Hebrew repeats ברך (barakh, bless) in “blessed” and “we have blessed you,” binding the arrival and the community’s welcome in one root. Its branch בֶּרֶךְ (berekh, knee) preserves a bodily image within the word family, while the verse itself uses the established sense “bless.”
ALSO GROWS
berakh: To bless
בֵּרַךְ
This verb appears in the second clause as “we have blessed you,” repeating the root used for the arriving one.
berakhah: Blessing
בְּרָכָה
This noun names the blessing as something that can be spoken and shared.
berekh: Knee
בֶּרֶךְ
This related word carries the root’s bodily image without replacing the verse’s meaning of blessing.
THE PATTERN
The LORD’s nature is carried into the arrival, and blessing is spoken outward from the gathered house.
And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.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:Genesis uses the same ברך (barakh, bless) root in “bless” and “blessing,” and places it beside “name.” Psalm 118:26 brings that pairing into a welcome: one arrives in the LORD’s nature, and the community speaks blessing from the LORD’s house.
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