Psalms 128:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine 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 I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust{H8804)} in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
• Ezek 19:10 : 10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
• 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:
• Prov 5:15-18 : 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. 16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. 17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. 18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
• Ps 127:5 : 5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the 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 corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
• Gen 49:22 : 22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
• Rom 11:24 : 24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
• Jer 11:16 : 16 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.