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Look,הִנֵּהthusכִי כֵןwill be blessedיְבֹרַךְthe manגָּבֶרwho fearsיְרֵאYHWH.יְהוָה
Psalms 128:4
Study it in the app“Look, thus will be blessed the man who fears YHWH.”
Children like olive shoots around the tableParents and Children
With the Hebrew beneath
Psalms 128:4, word by word
- will be blessedיְבֹרַךְyevorach
bless
God gives good things: life, children, harvests.
Where else “yevorach” appears- the manגָּבֶרgaver
man
Man, a grown man in his strength.
Where else “gaver” appears- who fearsיְרֵאyere
God-fearing
Who reveres God and so obeys him.
Where else “yere” appears- YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears
The context
3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner parts of your house; your children like shoots of olive trees around your table.
4 · This verse (above)
5May YHWH bless you from Zion, and see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life;