The Meaning of Psalms 18:50 Explained

Psalms 18:50

KJV: Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.

YLT: Magnifying the salvation of His king, And doing kindness to His anointed, To David, and to his seed -- unto the age!

Darby: It is he who giveth great deliverances to his king, and sheweth loving-kindness to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.

ASV: Great deliverance giveth he to his king, And showeth lovingkindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, for evermore.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Great  deliverance  giveth he to his king;  and sheweth  mercy  to his anointed,  to David,  and to his seed  for  evermore. 

What does Psalms 18:50 Mean?

Context Summary

Psalms 18:27-50 - Girded With Strength For Service
God's way is perfect, and if only we will walk with Him He will make ours perfect also. Walls and troops cannot stop a man when God leads him through them. We must follow on the line of His purpose, and then the very mountains are a way and our enemies subserve the program, Acts 2:23.
Swift and sure-footed, when the path is slippery, Psalms 18:33; strong in battle, Psalms 18:34; great through God's gentle kindness, or, as the English Book of Common Prayer renders it, "thy loving correction," Psalms 18:35. Severity would never have done for the Apostles what Jesus did by His patience and long-suffering.
The closing hallelujah of Psalms 18:46-50 is very fine. It is the living Savior that we need. We must stint our words when we speak of men; but mortal lips, however eloquent, have never exhausted the worth of our King. [source]

Chapter Summary: Psalms 18

1  David praises God for his manifold and marvelous blessings

What do the individual words in Psalms 18:50 mean?

- Great He gives deliverance to his king and shows mercy to His anointed to David and His descendants even to forevermore
[מגדל] (מַגְדִּיל֮) יְשׁוּע֪וֹת מַ֫לְכּ֥וֹ וְעֹ֤שֶׂה חֶ֨סֶד ׀ לִמְשִׁיח֗וֹ לְדָוִ֥ד וּלְזַרְע֗וֹ עַד־ עוֹלָֽם

[מגדל]  - 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Participle, masculine singular
Root: אֲבִישׁוּעַ  
Sense: son of Phinehas, grandson of Aaron.
(מַגְדִּיל֮)  Great  He  gives 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Participle, masculine singular
Root: זָמַר  
Sense: to sing, sing praise, make music.
יְשׁוּע֪וֹת  deliverance  to 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural construct
Root: יְשׁוּעָה  
Sense: salvation, deliverance.
מַ֫לְכּ֥וֹ  his  king 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: מֶלֶךְ 
Sense: king.
וְעֹ֤שֶׂה  and  shows 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine singular
Root: עָשָׂה 
Sense: to do, fashion, accomplish, make.
חֶ֨סֶד ׀  mercy 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: חֶסֶד 
Sense: goodness, kindness, faithfulness.
לִמְשִׁיח֗וֹ  to  His  anointed 
Parse: Preposition-l, Adjective, masculine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: מָשִׁיחַ  
Sense: anointed, anointed one.
לְדָוִ֥ד  to  David 
Parse: Preposition-l, Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: דָּוִד  
Sense: youngest son of Jesse and second king of Israel.
וּלְזַרְע֗וֹ  and  His  descendants 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l, Noun, masculine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: זֶרַע  
Sense: seed, sowing, offspring.
עַד־  even  to 
Parse: Preposition
Root: עַד  
Sense: as far as, even to, until, up to, while, as far as.
עוֹלָֽם  forevermore 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: עֹולָם  
Sense: long duration, antiquity, futurity, for ever, ever, everlasting, evermore, perpetual, old, ancient, world.