KJV King James Version
Thy wife [shall be] as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Psalm 128:3
Thy wife [shall be] as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
WEB World English Bible
Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.
ASV American Standard Version
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, Round about thy table.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Thy wife is as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around thy table.
Surrounding context — Psalm 128
1 A Song of degrees. Blessed [is] every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.
2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy [shalt] thou [be], and [it shall be] well with thee.
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.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
אֶשְׁתְּךָ֤׀H802 · ish.shahwomanכְּגֶ֥פֶןH1612 · ge.phenvineפֹּרִיָּה֮H6509 · pa.rahbe fruitfulבְּיַרְכְּתֵ֪יH3411 · ye.re.khahflankבֵ֫יתֶ֥ךָH1004 · betplaceבָּ֭נֶיךָH1121 · benson: childכִּשְׁתִלֵ֣יH8363 · she.tilshootזֵיתִ֑יםH2132 · za.yit(Mount of) Olivesסָ֝בִ֗יבH5439 · sa.vivaroundלְשֻׁלְחָנֶֽךָ׃H7979 · shul.chantable
Cross-references
Ezekiel 19:10Thy mother [is] like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.Psalm 52:8But I [am] like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.Genesis 49:22Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, [even] a fruitful bough by a well; [whose] branches run over the wall:Proverbs 5:15-18Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.Romans 11:24For 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?Jeremiah 11:16The 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.Hosea 14:6-7His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.Psalm 144:12That 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:Psalm 127:5Happy [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.
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