Psalm 128
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Psalms 128— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, which is the key every lexicon and concordance uses (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets name a word that does a grammatical job rather than carrying a meaning, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
1Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!
Rashi on Psalms 128:1
A song of ascents. Praiseworthy is every man who fears the Lord All of these are admonitions and disciplines. Because it is written, “Praiseworthy is the man,” “Praiseworthy is a man,” it therefore says here “every,” to include a woman.
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2For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.
Rashi on Psalms 128:2
If..the toil of your hands He who benefits from the toil of his hands inherits two worlds. In Tractate Berachoth (8a).
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3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
Rashi on Psalms 128:3
as a fruitful vine Every woman whose blood is abundant will have many children.
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4In this way indeed shall blessing come to the man who fears the LORD.
5May the LORD bless you from Zion, that you may see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life,
Rashi on Psalms 128:5
from Zion which is the gate of heaven. Moreover, in the merit of Zion they would be fruitful and multiply, as it is written (I Kings:20): “Judah and Israel [were] many.”
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6that you may see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!
Rashi on Psalms 128:6
And may you see children [born] to your children and they shall not come to quarrel about halitzah, [since that is performed only if there are no children,] and then there will be peace upon Israel (addendum).
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