Psalms 115:13

Bishops' Bible (1568)

He wyll blesse those that feare God: the small with the great.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְ֭בָרֵךְ יִרְאֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה הַ֝קְּטַנִּ֗ים עִם־הַגְּדֹלִֽים׃

Transliteration

Yĕḇārēḵ yirʾê YHWH, the-qĕṭannim with-the-gĕḏōlîm.

Grammar Details

• *Yĕḇārēḵ*: verb, piel imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular, 'he will bless'
• *yirʾê*: adjective, masculine plural construct, 'fearers of'
• *YHWH*: divine name
• הַקְּטַנִּים: definite article + adjective, masculine plural, 'the small ones'
• עִם: preposition, 'with'
• הַגְּדֹלִים: definite article + adjective, masculine plural, 'the great ones'

Word Meanings

• *Yĕḇārēḵ*: will bless/will cause to prosper
• *yirʾê*: fearers of/those who fear
• *YHWH*: divine name
• *qĕṭannim*: small ones/little ones/young
• *gĕḏōlîm*: great ones/important ones/elders

Referenced Verses

• Ps 112:1 : 1 Prayse ye the Lorde. Blessed is the man that feareth God: he hath great delight in his commaundementes.
• Ps 128:1 : 1 A song of high degrees. He is blessed whatsoeuer he be that feareth God: walking in his waies.
• Rev 11:18 : 18 And the nations were angrie, and thy wrath is come, and the tyme of the dead that they shoulde be iudged, and that thou shouldest geue rewarde vnto thy seruauntes the prophetes and saintes, and to them that feare thy name, small and great, and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
• Rev 19:5 : 5 And a voyce came out of the throne, saying: Praise our Lord God all ye that are his seruauntes, & ye that feare hym both small and great.
• Luke 1:50 : 50 And his mercy is on them that feare him, from generation to generation.
• Acts 13:26 : 26 Ye men and brethren, chyldren of the generation of Abraham, and whosoeuer among you feareth God, to you is the worde of this saluation sent.
• Acts 26:22 : 22 Seyng therefore, that I haue obtayned helpe of God, I continue vnto this day, witnessyng both to small and to great, saying none other thynges, then those which the prophetes and Moyses dyd say shoulde come:
• Col 3:11 : 11 Where is neither Greke nor Iewe, circumcision nor vncircumcision, Barbarian, Sythian, bonde, free: but Christe is all, and in all.
• Ps 128:4-5 : 4 Beholde, for thus shall the man be blessed: that feareth God. 5 God wyll blesse thee out of Sion: and thou shalt see Hierusalem in prosperitie all the dayes of thy lyfe.
• Mal 3:16-17 : 16 Then they that feared God, saide euery one to his neighbour: and the Lorde considered and hearde, and there was written a booke of remebraunce before him for them that feared the Lorde, and for them that thinke vpon his name. 17 And they shalbe to me, saith the Lorde of hoastes, in that day wherein I shall do iudgement, a stocke: and I wyl spare them as a man spareth his owne sonne which serueth him.
• Mal 4:2 : 2 But to you that feare my name shall that sunne of righteousnesse aryse, and health shalbe vnder his winges: and ye shall go foorth and skippe lyke fatte calues.
• Ps 29:11 : 11 God wyll geue strength vnto his people: God wyll blesse his people in peace.
• Rev 20:12 : 12 And I sawe the dead both great and small stand before God, and the bookes were opened: and another booke was opened, which is the booke of lyfe, and the dead were iudged of those thynges whiche were written in the bookes, accordyng to their deedes.