Psalms 147:13

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־חִ֭זַּק בְּרִיחֵ֣י שְׁעָרָ֑יִךְ בֵּרַ֖ךְ בָּנַ֣יִךְ בְּקִרְבֵּֽךְ׃

Transliteration

Kî-hizzaq berîhê sheʿārāyikh bērakh bānayikh beqirbēkh

Grammar Details

• *Kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *hizzaq*: perfect, 3rd person masculine singular, Piel - he has strengthened
• *berîhê*: noun, masculine plural construct - bars of
• *sheʿārāyikh*: noun, masculine plural + 2nd person feminine singular suffix - your gates
• *bērakh*: perfect, 3rd person masculine singular, Piel - he has blessed
• *bānayikh*: noun, masculine plural + 2nd person feminine singular suffix - your children/sons
• *beqirbēkh*: preposition + noun, masculine singular + 2nd person feminine singular suffix - within you

Word Meanings

• *hizzaq*: strengthened/made strong/fortified
• *berîhê*: bars/bolts/crossbars
• *bērakh*: blessed/favored/made prosperous
• *bānayikh*: your children/your sons/your inhabitants
• *beqirbēkh*: within you/in your midst/inside you

Referenced Verses

• Ps 115:14-15 : 14 The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children. 15 Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
• Isa 44:3-5 : 3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: 4 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses. 5 One shall say, I am the LORD'S; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
• Ps 128:3-6 : 3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. 4 Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD. 5 The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life. 6 Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.
• Jer 30:19-20 : 19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. 20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.
• Ps 144:12 : 12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
• Ps 125:2 : 2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
• Neh 3:1-9 : 1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hanael. 2 And xt unto him builded the men of Jericho. And xt to them builded Zaccur the son of Imri. 3 But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof. 4 And xt unto them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz. And xt unto them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And xt unto them repaired Zadok the son of Baana. 5 And xt unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their cks to the work of their Lord. 6 Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the bars thereof. 7 And xt unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the thro of the governor on this side the river. 8 xt unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. xt unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of o of the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall. 9 And xt unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem. 10 And xt unto them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even over against his house. And xt unto him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabniah. 11 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahath-moab, repaired the other piece, and the tower of the furnaces. 12 And xt unto him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters. 13 The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung gate. 14 But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Beth-haccerem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof. 15 But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David. 16 After him repaired hemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Beth-zur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.
• Neh 6:1 : 1 Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our emies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)
• Neh 7:1 : 1 Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
• Neh 7:3 : 3 And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be oped until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every o in his watch, and every o to be over against his house.
• Neh 12:30 : 30 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
• Ps 48:11-14 : 11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments. 12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. 13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following. 14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
• Ps 51:18 : 18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
• Lam 2:8-9 : 8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to ment; they nguished together. 9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the w is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
• Lam 4:12 : 12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
• Dan 9:25 : 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
• Zech 8:3-5 : 3 Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain. 4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age. 5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
• Luke 19:42-44 : 42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. 43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, 44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.