What Does Psalm 147:14 Mean?
He sets wholeness in your borders, and fills you with the fat of the wheat.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.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.
“fills you” in this verse is yasbi'ek. 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 cords fall to me in sweet places; indeed, my inheritance is beautiful.You will keep in wholeness upon wholeness the one whose shaped mind rests upon you, for in you he leans his full weight.Give us today our bread for the coming day.THE THREAD
When a person's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies whole 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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