The Meaning of Psalms 144:13 Explained

Psalms 144:13

KJV: That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:

YLT: Our garners are full, bringing out from kind to kind, Our flocks are bringing forth thousands, Ten thousands in our out-places,

Darby: Our granaries full, affording all manner of store; our sheep bringing forth thousands, ten thousands in our pastures;

ASV: When our garners are full, affording all manner of store, And our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields;

KJV Reverse Interlinear

[That] our garners  [may be] full,  affording  all manner of store:  [that] our sheep  may bring forth thousands  and ten thousands  in our streets: 

What does Psalms 144:13 Mean?

Context Summary

Psalms 144:1-15 - God's People Are Happy
This psalm savors of the rocky caverns from which David and his men emerged to fight. Each day the chieftain asked God to teach him to fight, and realized that all his need would be met. The names he gives to God indicate that all-sidedness which becomes the complement of every conceivable necessity on our part.
What a striking conception opens in Psalms 144:4! Saul was but a "breath"! r.v., margin. The persecuting bands were as the shadows that pass across the hills! From them all he appealed to God to bow the heavens and come, to touch the mountains, and to rescue him from the rising waters. And when the storm has passed he sings his new glad song, Psalms 144:9. Psalms 144:12-15 were probably added at a later time, when David was established in his kingdom. They describe a summer afternoon of prosperity, when sons have grown from plants to trees, and daughters resemble the carved figures which support the beams of a palace. No breaking in of the foe, no need to go forth to fight, no outcry of oppression or want; but the halcyon sunset of a well-spent life. [source]

Chapter Summary: Psalms 144

1  David blesses God for his mercy both to him and to man
5  He prays that God would powerfully deliver him from his enemies
9  He promises to praise God
11  He prays for the happy state of the kingdom

What do the individual words in Psalms 144:13 mean?

our barns [That may be] full Supplying every to [all kinds] of produce our sheep [That] may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields
מְזָוֵ֣ינוּ מְלֵאִים֮ מְפִיקִ֥ים מִזַּ֗ן אֶ֫ל־ זַ֥ן צֹאונֵ֣נוּ מַ֭אֲלִיפוֹת מְרֻבָּב֗וֹת בְּחוּצוֹתֵֽינוּ

מְזָוֵ֣ינוּ  our  barns 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, first person common plural
Root: מָזוּ  
Sense: garner, granary.
מְלֵאִים֮  [That  may  be]  full 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine plural
Root: מָלֵא  
Sense: full, fullness, that which fills.
מְפִיקִ֥ים  Supplying 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Participle, masculine plural
Root: פּוּק 
Sense: to bring out, furnish, promote, go out, issue.
מִזַּ֗ן  every 
Parse: Preposition-m, Noun, masculine singular
Root: זַן  
Sense: kind, sort.
זַ֥ן  [all  kinds]  of  produce 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: זַן  
Sense: kind, sort.
צֹאונֵ֣נוּ  our  sheep 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural construct, first person common plural
Root: צֹאן  
Sense: small cattle, sheep, sheep and goats, flock, flocks.
מַ֭אֲלִיפוֹת  [That]  may  bring  forth  thousands 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Participle, feminine plural
Root: אָלַף  
Sense: (CLBL) to make thousand-fold, bring forth thousands.
מְרֻבָּב֗וֹת  and  ten  thousands 
Parse: Verb, Pual, Participle, feminine plural
Root: רָבַב  
Sense: to be or become many, be or become much, be or become great.
בְּחוּצוֹתֵֽינוּ  in  our  fields 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine plural construct, first person common plural
Root: חוּץ  
Sense: outside, outward, street, the outside.