Psalms 144:12

“so that our sons may be like plants grown up in their youth, our daughters like corners carved in the pattern of a palace;”

Psalms 144:12 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Psalms 144:12, word by word

our sonsבָּנֵיbane

son

The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.

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may be like plantsנְטִעִיםnetiim

plant

A plant, a planted shoot.

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grown upמְגֻדָּלִיםmegudalim

grow up

To get bigger, become an adult; to bring up a child.

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in their youthנְעוּרֵיneure

youth

Youth: the time of being young.

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our daughtersבְּנוֹתֵיbenote

daughter

A girl or woman born of her parents, who belongs to her father's house.

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like cornersזָוִיֹּתzaviyot

corner pillar

Corner, a carved column or stone at the corner of a building.

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carvedמְחֻטָּבוֹתmechutavot

carve

Skillfully shaped, like the corners of a palace.

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in the patternתַּבְנִיתtavnit

pattern

The pattern for building something.

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of a palaceהֵיכָלhechal

palace

A king's palace.

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The context

11Set me free and deliver me from the hand of the sons of the foreigner, whose mouth speaks falsehood, and their right hand is a right hand of lies;

12 · This verse (above)

13our granaries full, supplying from kind to kind; our sheep increasing by thousands, by tens of thousands in our fields;

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