What Does Psalm 144:13 Mean in the King James?

That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:

Psalm 144:13 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

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THE KEY

The verse measures abundance by what a full storehouse can bring forth, not simply by what it contains.

THE MEANING

The verse imagines a community with provision stored and yielding, while its flocks multiply in the open places where people live. Fullness is both held and productive; its reach extends into shared life.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that being full means merely possessing more: here, fullness is seen in what the storehouse can yield.

THE ROOT

מְפִיקִים

mefiqim

GROWS FROM

פוק

puq

To bring out or yield; in some forms, to obtain.

The word rendered “affording” comes from a root that can describe both bringing something out and obtaining something. A full storehouse is not inert stock: its fullness shows in what it yields, while the same root elsewhere describes obtaining understanding.

ALSO GROWS

get: Obtain understanding.

In Proverbs 3:13, this root is translated “getteth”: the storehouse yields provision here, while a person obtains understanding there.

obtain: Obtain favor.

Proverbs 8:35 uses the same root for obtaining favor, linking the idea of what is yielded with what is received.

THE PATTERN

Abundance is expressed as provision that fills and yields beyond itself.

The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Deuteronomy 28:8 · KJVProvision reaches the storehouses and the work of the hands, showing fullness across the places where life is sustained.

So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.

Proverbs 3:10 · KJVThe full barns and bursting presses picture stored provision overflowing into yield.

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

2 Corinthians 9:8 · KJVSufficiency becomes abundance that extends outward into every good work.

THE THREAD

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.

Proverbs 3:13 · KJV

The verb rendered “affording” here and “getteth” in Proverbs 3:13 share the root ⁨פוק⁩ (puq), meaning to bring out or obtain. One verse pictures storehouse provision being yielded; the other describes obtaining understanding, joining material and inward abundance through the same root.

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