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Psalm 147

Psa. 147:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For he hath strengthened
chazaq (Hebrew #2388)
to fasten upon; hence, to seize, be strong (figuratively, courageous, causatively strengthen, cure, help, repair, fortify), obstinate; to bind, restrain, conquer
KJV usage: aid, amend, X calker, catch, cleave, confirm, be constant, constrain, continue, be of good (take) courage(-ous, -ly), encourage (self), be established, fasten, force, fortify, make hard, harden, help, (lay) hold (fast), lean, maintain, play the man, mend, become (wax) mighty, prevail, be recovered, repair, retain, seize, be (wax) sore, strengthen (self), be stout, be (make, shew, wax) strong(-er), be sure, take (hold), be urgent, behave self valiantly, withstand.
Pronounce: khaw-zak'
Origin: a primitive root
the bars
briyach (Hebrew #1280)
a bolt
KJV usage: bar, fugitive.
Pronounce: ber-ee'-akh
Origin: from 1272
of thy gates
sha`ar (Hebrew #8179)
an opening, i.e. door or gate
KJV usage: city, door, gate, port (X -er).
Pronounce: shah'-ar
Origin: from 8176 in its original sense
; he hath blessed
barak (Hebrew #1288)
to kneel; by implication to bless God (as an act of adoration), and (vice-versa) man (as a benefit); also (by euphemism) to curse (God or the king, as treason)
KJV usage: X abundantly, X altogether, X at all, blaspheme, bless, congratulate, curse, X greatly, X indeed, kneel (down), praise, salute, X still, thank.
Pronounce: baw-rak'
Origin: a primitive root
thy children
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
d within
qereb (Hebrew #7130)
properly, the nearest part, i.e. the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition)
KJV usage: X among, X before, bowels, X unto charge, + eat (up), X heart, X him, X in, inward (X -ly, part, -s, thought), midst, + out of, purtenance, X therein, X through, X within self.
Pronounce: keh'-reb
Origin: from 7126
thee.
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Psa. 115:14• 14Jehovah will add unto you more, unto you and unto your children. (Psa. 115:14)

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Psa. 48:11‑14• 11Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
 12Walk about Zion, and go round about her: count the towers thereof;
 13Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces: that ye may tell it to the generation following.
 14For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide until death. (Psa. 48:11‑14)
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Psa. 51:18• 18Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem. (Psa. 51:18)
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Psa. 125:2• 2Jerusalem!--mountains are round about her, and Jehovah is round about his people, from henceforth and for evermore. (Psa. 125:2)
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Neh. 3:1‑16• 1And Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they built the sheep-gate. They hallowed it, and set up its doors; and they hallowed it even to the tower of Meah, to the tower of Hananeel.
 2And next to them built the men of Jericho. And next to them built Zaccur the son of Imri.
 3And the fish-gate did the sons of Senaah build: they laid its beams, and set up its doors, its locks and its bars.
 4And next to them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz. And next to them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And next to them repaired Zadok the son of Baana.
 5And next to them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their Lord.
 6And the gate of the old wall repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodiah; they laid its beams, and set up its doors, and its locks, and its bars.
 7And next to them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, to the seat of the governor on this side the river.
 8Next to them repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths; and next to him repaired Hananiah of the perfumers, and they left Jerusalem in its state as far as the broad wall.
 9And next to them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem.
 10And next to them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even over against his house. And next to him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabniah.
 11Malchijah the son of Harim and Hasshub the son of Pahath-Moab repaired a second piece, and the tower of the furnaces.
 12And next to them repaired Shallum the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.
 13The valley-gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up its doors, its locks and its bars, and a thousand cubits of the wall as far as the dung-gate.
 14And the dung-gate repaired Malchijah the son of Rechab, the chief of the district of Beth-haccerem; he built it, and set up its doors, its locks and its bars.
 15And the fountain-gate repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the chief of the district of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up its doors, its locks and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, and to the stairs that go down from the city of David.
 16After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the chief of the half district of Beth-zur, even over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and to the house of the mighty men. (Neh. 3:1‑16)
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Neh. 6:1• 1And it came to pass when Sanballat, and Tobijah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it (though at that time I had not set up the doors in the gates), (Neh. 6:1)
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Neh. 7:1• 1And it came to pass when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, that the doorkeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed. (Neh. 7:1)
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Neh. 12:30• 30And the priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates and the wall. (Neh. 12:30)
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Lam. 2:8‑9• 8Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying; and he hath made the rampart and the wall to lament: they languish together.
 9Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from Jehovah. (Lam. 2:8‑9)
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Lam. 4:12• 12The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should enter into the gates of Jerusalem. (Lam. 4:12)
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Dan. 9:25• 25Know therefore and understand: From the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah, the Prince, are seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. The street and the moat shall be built again, even in troublous times. (Dan. 9:25)
blessed.
Psa. 115:14‑15• 14Jehovah will add unto you more, unto you and unto your children.
 15Ye are blessed of Jehovah, who made the heavens and the earth. (Psa. 115:14‑15)
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Psa. 128:3‑6• 3Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine in the inner part of thy house; thy children like olive-plants round about thy table.
 4Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that feareth Jehovah.
 5Jehovah will bless thee out of Zion; and mayest thou see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life,
 6And see thy children's children. Peace be upon Israel! (Psa. 128:3‑6)
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Psa. 144:12• 12That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; our daughters as corner-columns, sculptured after the fashion of a palace: (Psa. 144:12)
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Isa. 44:3‑5• 3For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring.
 4And they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the water-courses.
 5One shall say, I am Jehovah's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall write with his hand: I am Jehovah's, and surname himself by the name of Israel. (Isa. 44:3‑5)
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Jer. 30:19‑20• 19And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving, and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be diminished; and I will honour them, and they shall not be small.
 20And their sons shall be as aforetime; and their assembly shall be established before me; and I will punish all that oppress them. (Jer. 30:19‑20)
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Zech. 8:3‑5• 3Thus saith Jehovah: I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem shall be called, The city of truth; and the mountain of Jehovah of hosts, The holy mountain.
 4Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each one with his staff in his hand for multitude of days.
 5And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof. (Zech. 8:3‑5)
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Luke 19:42‑44• 42saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, even at least in this thy day, the things that are for thy peace: but now they are hid from thine eyes;
 43for days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall make a palisaded mound about thee, and shall close thee around, and keep thee in on every side,
 44and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children in thee; and shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou knewest not the season of thy visitation. (Luke 19:42‑44)
• He establishes securely, strengthens the bars of the city of God, and blesses His children in her. Thus we have a richer and fuller unfolding of mercy in this psalm. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 146-150” by J.N. Darby)
• Already they had praised the Lord for His restoring grace that had gathered the outcasts and rebuilt Jerusalem; now He is praised for His preserving care, that keeps the gates of the city, maintains peace, satisfies the needs of His people (vv. 13-14). (“Psalms 147” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee;