Psalms 128:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, Round about thy table.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֶשְׁתְּךָ֤ ׀ כְּגֶ֥פֶן פֹּרִיָּה֮ בְּיַרְכְּתֵ֢י בֵ֫יתֶ֥ךָ בָּ֭נֶיךָ כִּשְׁתִלֵ֣י זֵיתִ֑ים סָ֝בִ֗יב לְשֻׁלְחָנֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

ʾeštəkā kə-gepen pōrîyâ bə-yarkətê bêtekā bānêkā kištilê zêtîm sābîb lə-šulḥānekā

Grammar Details

• *ʾeštəkā*: noun, feminine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your wife
• *kə-gepen*: preposition + noun, feminine singular - like a vine
• *pōrîyâ*: adjective, feminine singular - fruitful/fertile
• *bə-yarkətê*: preposition + noun, plural construct - in the sides/innermost parts of
• *bêtekā*: noun, masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your house
• *bānêkā*: noun, masculine plural with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your sons/children
• *kištilê*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct - like plants/saplings of
• *zêtîm*: noun, masculine plural - olives/olive trees
• *sābîb*: adverb - around/surrounding
• *lə-šulḥānekā*: preposition + noun, masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - to/for your table

Word Meanings

• *yarkətê*: innermost parts/corners/recesses
• *bānêkā*: your sons/your children
• *štilê*: plants/shoots/saplings

Referenced Verses

• Ps 52:8 : 8 But as for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God: I trust in the lovingkindness of God for ever and ever.
• Ezek 19:10 : 10 Thy mother was like a vine, in thy blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
• Ps 144:12 : 12 When our sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth, And our daughters as corner-stones hewn after the fashion of a palace;
• Prov 5:15-18 : 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well. 16 Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets? 17 Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee. 18 Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
• Ps 127:5 : 5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: They shall not be put to shame, When they speak with their enemies in the gate.
• Hos 14:6-7 : 6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon. 7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive [as] the grain, and blossom as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
• Gen 49:22 : 22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a fountain; His branches run over the wall.
• Rom 11:24 : 24 For if thou wast cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and wast grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree; how much more shall these, which are {G2596} the natural [branches], be grafted into their own olive tree?
• Jer 11:16 : 16 Jehovah called thy name, A green olive-tree, fair with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.