What Does Psalm 132:15 Mean in the King James?
I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.
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 needy are not merely included in the blessing; they are the ones the verse says will reach fullness.
THE MEANING
The verse holds abundance and need in the same promise: provision is blessed, and the poor are satisfied with bread. Its fullness is concrete and shared; those most exposed to lack are named as its recipients.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that poverty must remain the defining condition of the poor, untouched by abundance.
THE ROOT
אַשְׂבִּיעַ
ʾaśbîaʿ
GROWS FROM
שׂבע
שׂבע (ś-b-ʿ): to be sated, become full.
“satisfy” in this verse is ʾaśbîaʿ. This root names the state of having eaten to fullness, and the verse says the needy reach that state. The promised fullness is not distant or abstract: it arrives as bread.
ALSO GROWS
śāvēaʿ: sated, full
שָׂבֵעַ
It shares the root שׂבע and names the condition the verse promises to the needy.
śōvaʿ: satiety, fullness
שֹׂבַע
It shares the root שׂבע and makes explicit that the promise reaches beyond food provided to the fullness it brings.
אֲבָרֵךְ
ʾavārēkh
GROWS FROM
ברך
ברך (b-r-kh): to bless.
The Hebrew repeats this root in בָּרֵךְ אֲבָרֵךְ, an emphatic construction rendered “abundantly bless.” The repetition places blessing over the provision itself before the verse names who receives its fullness.
ALSO GROWS
berākhāh: blessing
בְּרָכָה
It shares the root ברך and shows blessing as the same action named over her provision.
bārūkh: blessed
בָּרוּךְ
It shares the root ברך and describes the state of what has received blessing.
THE PATTERN
Provision reaches its purpose when the hungry and needy are brought to fullness.
For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.THE THREAD
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.Psalm 17:15 uses the same Hebrew root שׂבע (ś-b-ʿ), meaning to be sated or full, translated there as “satisfied.” Together, the verses show fullness meeting the reader in bread and in beholding God’s likeness.
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