What Does Psalm 134:3 Mean in the King James?
The LORD that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.
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 made heaven and earth sends personal blessing from Zion to you.
THE MEANING
The LORD, maker of heaven and earth, blesses you from Zion. The blessing comes from the one whose making holds both sky and soil, and it reaches you personally in “thee.” Zion is named as the place from which that blessing comes.
THE ROOT
יְבָרֶכְךָ
yevarekhekha
GROWS FROM
ברך
b-r-k
To kneel; to bless.
“bless” in this verse is yevarekhekha. The word for blessing shares its root with the word for knee: blessing carries the shape of kneeling. Here the maker of heaven and earth blesses you from Zion, joining divine giving with a posture of reverence.
ALSO GROWS
berekh: Knee
בֶּרֶךְ
This branch reveals the kneeling shape carried in the root of “bless.”
berakhah: Blessing
בְּרָכָה
This noun shares the root and names the blessing that reaches you from Zion.
THE PATTERN
The maker of all creation is the one from whom personal blessing flows.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:THE THREAD
The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:The verb translated “bless” shares the root ברך (b-r-k) with Psalm 134:3. Numbers joins that blessing with keeping, opening the blessing from Zion as both gift and sustaining care.
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