What Does Psalm 147:14 Mean in the King James?
He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.
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 verse joins wholeness at your borders with nourishment at your table: care reaches from the edges of your life to what sustains you.
THE MEANING
The peace here is wholeness holding at the edges of your life, while provision reaches you as food enough to satisfy. You are met both in the space you inhabit and in the hunger that needs filling.
THE ROOT
שָׁלוֹם
shalom
GROWS FROM
שלם
To be whole, complete, or intact.
English “peace” can sound like a quiet feeling, but שלם carries the sense of wholeness and completeness. Here that wholeness holds at the borders of the life you inhabit.
ALSO GROWS
shalem: Whole, complete.
שָׁלֵם
This branch shows the kind of peace named here: a life held intact at its edges.
shillem: Repaid, made good, or restored.
שִׁלֵּם
The root’s restorative sense suggests that wholeness can include what is made good again.
יַשְׂבִּיעֵךְ
yasbi'ek
GROWS FROM
שׂבע
To be sated or satisfied.
The verb translated “filleth” comes from the root for being satisfied or sated. The wheat is provision that reaches the point where hunger is answered.
ALSO GROWS
śāvēaʿ: Satisfied, sated.
שָׂבֵעַ
This describes the state the verse says its provision brings.
śōvaʿ: Satiety, satisfaction, abundance.
שֹׂבַע
This noun makes the fullness concrete: provision that is enough to satisfy.
THE PATTERN
Care takes concrete shape as wholeness holding at life’s edges and enough provision sustaining life within them.
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.Give us this day our daily bread.THE THREAD
When a man’s ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.The verb יַשְׁלִם (yashlim, makes peace) shares the root שלם with שָׁלוֹם (shalom, wholeness). Psalm 147 places wholeness at your borders; Proverbs shows that same root extending peace across the boundary between you and your enemies.
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