What Does Psalm 84:11 Mean in the King James?
For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
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
“Uprightly” names a whole way of walking, so the one who is sun and shield surrounds integrity with favor, weight, and unwithheld good.
THE MEANING
The LORD is your sun, the light by which you see, and your shield, the one who guards you. He gives favor and weight. As you walk in wholeness, no good thing is held back from you.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the fear that walking in integrity leaves you exposed or deprived; the verse joins the whole walk with protection and unwithheld good.
THE ROOT
בְּתָמִים
betamim
GROWS FROM
תמם
t-m-m
To be complete, whole, or brought to completion.
“uprightly” in this verse is betamim. The root gathers uprightness, integrity, and completeness into one image. The walker moves with a whole direction, and the promise meets that integrated way of life.
ALSO GROWS
tam: Whole, complete, blameless.
תָּם
This branch carries the same sense of wholeness beneath the verse’s “uprightly.”
tom: Integrity, completeness.
תֹּם
It shows uprightness as integrity within the person’s way of walking.
tamam: To be complete or come to completion.
תָּמַם
The verb holds the movement toward completeness beneath the quality named here.
כָּבוֹד
kavod
GROWS FROM
כבד
k-b-d
To be heavy or carry weight, with an extension to honor.
The KJV’s “glory” translates כָּבוֹד (kavod, “weight”). This root gathers honor and substantial weight, so the gift named here carries substance.
ALSO GROWS
kaved: Heavy, weighty.
כָּבֵד
This branch makes the sense of weight inside “glory” concrete.
kibbed: To honor or treat as weighty.
כִּבֵּד
It connects honor with recognizing the weight someone carries.
חֵן
chen
GROWS FROM
חנן
ḥ-n-n
To show favor or regard with favor.
The KJV word “grace” is חֵן (chen, “favor”). Here favor and weight arrive together in what the LORD gives.
ALSO GROWS
ḥanan: To show favor.
חָנַן
This verb makes clear that favor is something actively given.
ḥannun: Favor-giving, gracious.
חַנּוּן
This branch describes the character of one who gives favor.
THE PATTERN
God’s provision and protection accompany a whole life directed toward him.
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?THE THREAD
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.Genesis 17:1 calls the whole walk תָּמִים (tamim, “complete, whole”), from תמם (tamam, “to be complete”), the same root carried by בְּתָמִים (betamim, “in wholeness”) here. That shared root opens “uprightly” into integrity and completeness, the shape of a walk before God.
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