אֶת [Updated: 2011.11.24]

ët; accusative particle, denotes object of the verb; no counterpart in English.

הָאָדָם [Updated: 2011.11.24]

הָאָדָם

The clause, מִבְּנֵי הָאָדָם, translates to "[more] than [any of the rest of] humanity."

52.14 – "Just as the masses were made desolate over you, so משחתי his image more than any man, and his persona more than anyone of mankind."

הִתְבּוֹנָנוּ [Updated: 2011.11.24]

hit•bo•nân•uꞋ ; understand, caused to understand, be enabled to understand, come to understand; hit•pa•leilꞋ  past 3^rd pers. pl. of בין. "They were enabled to understand" or "they came to understand."

52.15 – "So, He shall spatter many goy•imꞋ  because of him and kings shall shut their mouths; him who wasn't reckoned to them they saw, and that which they didn't hear they were enabled to understand."

וְאֶת [Updated: 2011.11.24]

וְ + אֶת.

אֶת [Updated: 2012.01.05]

ët; accusative particle, denotes object of the verb; no counterpart in English.

Note that this instance in 1QIs^a Y^әsha•yâhꞋ u 52.15 (between כיא and אשר) was lost by the time of Masoretic Text

The earlier wording, את אשר, dictated that אשר be the object of the verb; i.e., him ["who wasn't reckoned to them"]), not the subject (who; a person rather than a neuter object). A priori, the subject must be who rather than it ("wasn't reckoned to them").

וַאֶת [Updated: 2012.01.05]

wa-ët; accusative particle, denotes object of the verb; no counterpart in English.

Note that this instance in 1QIs^a Y^әsha•yâhꞋ u 52.15 (between וַ and אשר) was lost by the time of Masoretic Text

וַ + אֶת

The earlier wording, ואת אשר, made it clearer that אשר be the object of the verb; i.e., and that which ["they had not heard"; neuter]), not the subject (they; a person rather than a neuter object). A priori, the subject must be they rather than which ("they had not heard").

וְגָבַהּ [Updated: 2011.11.24]

w^ә-gâv•ahꞋ ; and he will have become {lofty, high} (pa•alꞋ  past 3^rd pers. m.s.)

וְ + גָבַהּ

וְיָרְוּם [Updated: 2011.11.24]

w^ә-yâ•rumꞋ ; and he will {become high, be exalted, rise} (pa•alꞋ  fu. 3^rd pers. m.s. of רום). The hi-lited text was lost in the later Masoretic Text.

וְ + יָרְוּם

וְנִשָּׂא [Updated: 2011.11.24]

w^ә-nis•âꞋ ; and [he/it] shall have been borne aloft, carried (niph•alꞋ  past 3^rd pers. m.s. of נשא; see also סבלם).

וְ + נִשָּׂא .

"Bearing" transgressions against Tor•âhꞋ  "aloft" referred to the sacrificial offerings, in which the transgressions "went up in smoke."

Modern Christianity applies the phrase "borne aloft" of transgressions to their Hellenist syncretized idol-on-the-cross, supposedly "bearing" the sin of the world (read goy•imꞋ  displacing Yi•s^ә•râ•eilꞋ ) "aloft" on the cross.

However, the Hebrew- (and Aramaic-) speaking N^әtzâr•imꞋ  and their fellow P^әrush•imꞋ  loathed, and didn't adopt anything Hellenist or Greek, from their Hellenist-Greek Tz^әdoq•imꞋ  "Wicked Priests" — much less from the Hellenist-Greek Roman goy•imꞋ  (!) occupiers (who, by the way, executed RibꞋ i Y^әho•shuꞋ a).

Moreover, even the earliest (post-135 C.E.) Hellenist Christians – Roman goy•imꞋ  – loathed the sign of the gruesome Roman execution and used only the sign of the fish: Greek Ιχθυς (Hellenist acronym for ιησους χριστος θεου υιος σωτηρ).

Not even goy•imꞋ  Roman Christians adopted the cross as "the sign" of their Hellenized "κθριος" until the 3^rd–4^th centuries C.E. The Christian perversion of this phrase to their Hellenist Zeus-on-a-stick idol is exclusively post-135 C.E., Hellenist Roman goy•imꞋ , has no legitimate pre-135 C.E. or Judaic origins and is, therefore, a•vod•âhꞋ  zâr•âhꞋ .

וְתוֹאֲרוֹ [Updated: 2011.11.24]

w^ә-to•ar•oꞋ ; and his persona. וְ + תוֹאֲר + וֹ

יַזֶּה [Updated: 2011.11.24]

yaz•ëhꞋ ; he or it [viz., My worker, identified by the Tar•gumꞋ  as the Mâ•shiꞋ akh] shall {spatter, splash, sprinkle} (used especially of blood, oil or water) – hiph•ilꞋ  fu. 3^rd pers. m.s. of נזה.

The אבן שושן (A New Concordance) notes that this single instance is understood in the sense of spattering (flinging or squirting a liquid in a certain direction) or as a cook tosses (flips) a pancake or salad or flings sauce into a pot.

The only other instance of this word in Ta•na"khꞋ  – where it is given no anomalous meaning – is at wa-Yi•q^әr•âꞋ  16.14: "He shall {spatter, fling, flip} seven times from the blood with his forefinger… (at the front of the Ka•porꞋ ët)"

The reasoning that "The goy•imꞋ  were appalled at Yi•s^әr•â•eilꞋ , so Yi•s^әr•â•eilꞋ  smeared the Mâ•shiꞋ akh [huh?!?], therefore, the Mâ•shiꞋ akh will spatter many goy•imꞋ " [huh?!?] is non sequitur. For the correct reasoning, see משחתי.

יִקְפְּצוּ [Updated: 2011.11.24]

yi•q^әp^әtz•uꞋ ; they shall shut (pa•alꞋ  fu. 3^rd pers. m.s. of קָפַץ).

יַשְׂכִּיל [Updated: 2011.11.24]

ya•s^әkil′; he shall be judicious (explicitly in the legal sense), prudent, shrewd (hiph•ilꞋ  fu. 3^rd pers. m.s. of שכל).

כַּאֲשֶׁר [Updated: 2011.11.24]

ka-a•shërꞋ ; Just as, when (idiomatic)

כַּ + אֲשֶׁר

כֵּן [Updated: 2011.11.24]

kein; yes, so, such

לָהֶמָה [Updated: 2011.11.24]

לָ + הֶמָה; to them (archaic pronominal suffix). Modern spelling: להם.

לוֹא [Updated: 2011.11.24]

lo; no, not (archaic spelling of לֹא)

מֵאִישׁ [Updated: 2011.11.24]

mei-ishꞋ ; [more] than [any] man; מֵ + אִישׁ

מִבְּנֵי [Updated: 2011.11.24]

מִ + בְּנֵי

מוֹאְדָה [Updated: 2011.11.24]

mo^әd•âhꞋ ; very (transposition of two letters + archaic ending); compare to מְאוֹד (m^Əod).

52.13 – "Behold, My worker shall be judicious; he will become high, he shall have been borne aloft and he will have become very lofty."

מַרְאֵהוּ [Updated: 2011.11.24]

ma•r^әeiꞋ hu; lit. the {image, sight, view, appearance} of him; i.e., the way he is viewed; his image. מַרְאֵה + וּ

משחתי [Updated: 2011.11.24]

can be read in three ways, encoding the theme elaborated, just two decades later, by Z^әkhar•yâhꞋ :

1. מְשַׁחֵתִי (m^Əsha•kheit•iyꞋ ); from my {disfiguring, defacing, wrecking, deforming} of … [referring to the perverted idol-image of him]; prepositional prefix מְ + gerund of שַׁחֵתִ ‭ ‬ + 1^st pers. pronominal suffix י.

2. מָשַׁחְתִּי (mâ•shakhꞋ ^әt•iy; I smeared [with olive-oil, ointment, salve, some kind of goop], smeared-over, anointed [the idol-image of him]; pa•alꞋ  past 1^st pers. of מָשַׁח, to smear on, anoint – cf. Sh^әmu•eilꞋ  ÂlꞋ ëph 9.16 & T^әhil•imꞋ  89.21.

3. מִשְׁחַתִי (mi•sh^Əkhat•iyꞋ ; "my goop" (ointment, cream); the substance smeared-on him, his anointing ointment), from מִשְׁחָה (mish•khâhꞋ ; a neutral term describing a viscous substance smeared on [comparable to English "goop," which ranges from salve to ointment to paste to muck], usually requiring further specification, such as oil or olive-oil), derived from מָשַׁח, to smear-on, anoint. This noun must be ruled out because it would leave the sentence lacking a verb.

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The unvowelled original text presents a double entendre play on words, lost in the later vowelized Masoretic Text, inherent in the word משחתי:

1. כַּאֲשֶׁר שָׁמְמוּ מֵאִישׁ עָלֶיכָה רַבִּים (Just as the many were made desolate over you) to כֵּן מְשַׁחֵתִי מֵאִישׁ מַרְאֵהוּ וְתוֹאֲרוֹ מִבְּנֵי הָאָדָם (so from my defacing of his image and his appearance more than any man) vs

2. כֵּן מָשַׁחְתִּי מֵאִישׁ מַרְאֵהוּ וְתוֹאֲרוֹ מִבְּנֵי הָאָדָם (I smeared-over his image and his appearance more than any man) to כֵּן יַזֶּה גּוֹאִים רַבִּים עָלָיו (he will spatter many goy•imꞋ  over him)

This is the key to decrypt the encoded message of Z^әkhar•yâhꞋ  3.3.

סוּפַּר [Updated: 2011.11.24]

su•parꞋ ; had been recounted (pu•alꞋ  past 3^rd pers. m.s. of ספר)

עַבְדִי [Updated: 2011.11.24]

av^әd•iyꞋ ; My worker.

עַבְדִ + י

עָלֶיכָה [Updated: 2011.11.24]

âl•ëyꞋ khâꞋ ; {on, upon, over, about, concerning} you ^masc. sing. [Beit Yis•râ•eilꞋ ].

Because the כ is not a final letter, it appears as כ rather than a final ך. The ה ending is archaic.

עַל + לֶי + כָה

There is no masc. noun in the immediate context for this masc. sing. "you" to refer. The Tar•gumꞋ  (correctly) understood "you" to be Beit Yis•râ•eilꞋ .

פִּיהֶמָה [Updated: 2011.11.24]

פִּי + הֶמָה; their mouths (archaic ending). The normal ending is ם (namely, פיהם)

רָאוּ [Updated: 2011.11.24]

râ•uꞋ ; they saw, they have seen.

רַבִּים [Updated: 2011.11.24]

rab•imꞋ ; [the] many, masses, great-ones (pl. of רַב).

For the correct translation of this phrase, see משחתי.

שָׁמְמוּ [Updated: 2011.11.24]

shâ•m^әm•uꞋ ; they were made desolate [over you] (pa•alꞋ  past 3^rd pers. pl. of שמם, which, according to Klein's (p. 666), is intransitive.

Being intransitive rules out the popular, agenda-driven non-sensical transitive renderings: "they desolated … over you…" or "he desolated him over you…" The oft-rendered "they desolated you," motivated entirely by the translators' agenda, defiantly contradicts both the preposition over you] and the intransitive nature of שמם.

While שמם is popularly translated as "astonished" (over you), this betrays linguistic laziness; failing to research the meaning of the term. שמם is used in Scripture of mountains and land as well as people. Relative to land, it describes desolation – a devastated or barren wasteland, deserted, lonely and forlorn. This theme of שמם transfers perfectly from land to people as desolate – devastated, forlorn, disconsolate, hopeless, inconsolable, emotionally and spiritually barren; a deserted human wasteland, disconsolate and inconsolable people drowning in hopelessness – desolate people.

שָׁמְעוּ [Updated: 2011.11.24]

shâm^Ə•uꞋ ; they had [not] heard (from the same root as שְׁמַע).

הֶאֱמִין [Updated: 2011.12.11]

hë•ë•minꞋ ; {he or who} {trusted or believed}; hiph•ilꞋ  past 3^rd pers. m.s. of אמן (root also of אָמֵן – â•meinꞋ ).

לִשְׁמוּעָתֵנוּ [Updated: 2011.12.11]

li-sh^Əmu•â•teiꞋ nu; our hearing (passive participle of שמע); perhaps even referring to a legal hearing of a Beit Din. Ignoring PBH and later connotations, Klein's defines this as:

1. heard things, report, news.
2. rumor [which is ruled out by the context]
3. revelation

לִ + שְׁמוּעָ + תֵנוּ

וּזְרוֹעַ [Updated: 2011.12.11]

u-z^ƏroꞋ a; and [the] arm.

וּ + זְרוֹעַ

אֶל [Updated: 2011.12.11]

ël; toward, to (prep.). Note that the later Masoretic Text reads על.

נִגְלָתָה [Updated: 2011.12.11]

ni•g^ƏlâꞋ tâh; have you ^m.s. been unveiled, uncovered, disclosed, revealed (niph•alꞋ  past 2^nd pers. m.s. of גלה).

53.1 – "Who believed our hearing? And the arm of י--ה, to whom have you been revealed?"

וַיַעֲלוֹ [Updated: 2011.12.11]

wa-ya•al•oꞋ ; then He [י--ה] brought him [the suckling or root; i.e., the Mâ•shiꞋ akh] up, raised him [the suckling or root; i.e., the Mâ•shiꞋ akh] up (see also Z^әkhar•yâhꞋ  3).

See the Tar•gumꞋ  translation, identifying the suckling and root as the great "צַדִיקַיָא" (Tza•diq•a•yâꞋ ) – the TzëdꞋ ëq (metonym for the Mâ•shiꞋ akh)!

וַ + יַעֲל + וֹ

כַּיּוֹנֵק [Updated: 2011.12.11]

ka-yo•neiqꞋ ; like a suckling / sprout.

כַּ + יּוֹנֵק

לְפָנָיו [Updated: 2011.12.11]

l^Əphân•âyvꞋ ; before him (note: lit. "toward his face").

לְ + פָנָי + ו

וְכַשׁוֹרֶשׁ [Updated: 2011.12.11]

w^Ə-kha-shoꞋ rësh; and like a root.

וְ + כַ + שׁוֹרֶשׁ

מֵאֶרֶץ [Updated: 2011.12.11]

mei-ërꞋ ëtz; from the land.

מֵ + אֶרֶץ

צִיָּאה [Updated: 2011.12.11]

tzi•yâhꞋ ; dryness, arid-wasteland, waterless-badland, parched-wilderness, desert.

תֵּאוּר [Updated: 2011.12.13]

tei•urꞋ ; how something appears, appearance, that which is seen, persona (pi•eilꞋ  verbal n. of תאר; "description" is NH usage – Klein, p. 688).

לוֹ [Updated: 2011.12.13]

lo; {toward, to, for} him.

וְלוֹא [Updated: 2011.12.13]

w^Ə-lo; {and, or, but} {no, not}.

וְ + לוֹא (no, not)

הָדָר [Updated: 2011.12.13]

hâ•dârꞋ ; ornament, adornment, splendor, glory, majesty.

וְנִרְאִנוּ [Updated: 2011.12.13]

w^ә-ni•r^әiꞋ nu; [nor] were we {seen, visible}; [neither] did we {appear, show ourselves}; niph•alꞋ  past 1^st pers. pl. of ראה.

וְ + נִרְאִנוּ

Note that the later Masoretic Text reads וְ + נִרְאֵ + הוּ

מַרְאֶה [Updated: 2011.12.13]

ma•r^әëhꞋ ; [nor] sight, view, appearance, vision, image.

וְנֶחְמַדְנוּ [Updated: 2011.12.13]

w^Ə-në•kh^әmad^ƏnuꞋ ; [nor] were we desired, desirable (niph•alꞋ  past 3^rd pers. pl. of חמד).

וְ + נֶחְמַדְנוּ

53.2 – "Then He brought him up; and [he was] like a root in an arid-wasteland, having neither persona nor majesty; we weren't visible [in the arid-wasteland], and there was no vision, [nor] were we desired."

נִבְזֶה [Updated: 2011.12.14]

ni•v^ƏzëhꞋ ; he was disdained, scorned (niph•alꞋ  of בזה).

וַחֲדַל [Updated: 2011.12.14]

wa-kha•dalꞋ ; and {left-behind, ignored, left-alone, avoided} by…, m.s. adj. from the verb חָדַל (khâ•dalꞋ ; he ceased, left off, desisted). Combines with אִישִׁים to form an idiom.

וַ + חֲדַל

אִישִׁים [Updated: 2011.12.14]

ish•imꞋ ; VIPs.

The phrase חֲדַל אִישִׁים is an idiom meaning "considered worthless" (left behind, ignored or avoided by VIPs and celebrities, unappreciated). A better description in English is "a nobody."

וְאִישׁ [Updated: 2011.12.14]

w^Ə-ish; and a man.

וְ + אִישׁ

מַכְאוֹבוֹת [Updated: 2011.12.14]

ma•kh^Əov•otꞋ ; pains (pl. of מַכְאוֹב).

וִיוֹדֵעַ [Updated: 2011.12.14]

wi-yo•deiꞋ a; and he knows.

וִ + יוֹדֵעַ

חוֹלִי [Updated: 2011.12.14]

kholꞋ i; illness, sickness.

וּכְמַסְתֵּר [Updated: 2011.12.14]

u-kh^Əma•s^ƏteirꞋ ; and as hiding [something], concealing [something] (transitive).

וּ + כְ + מַסְתֵּר

פָּנִים [Updated: 2011.12.14]

pân•imꞋ ; face, countenance.

מִמֶּנוּ [Updated: 2011.12.14]

mi-mëꞋ nu; from us.

מִ + מֶּנוּ

וְנָבוֹזֵהוּ [Updated: 2011.12.14]

w^Ə-nâ•voz•eiꞋ hu; pa•alꞋ  fu. 1^st pers. pl. of בזז; and we despoiled him.

וַ + נָבוֹזֵ + הוּ

Modern interpreters have been driven by agenda, "we can't have robbed the Mâ•shiꞋ akh!," rather than the inexorable grammatical constraints: the combination of the initial נ plus the conspicuous ו in the middle of this verb dictates that it is the pa•alꞋ  fu. 1st pers. pl. of בזז (to despoil, plunder, pillage, rob), and cannot be derived from בזה (to despise).

After having exposed the correct verb, only then does the astonishing message come into focus, uncovering the חֲדַל ("leaving behind" or "leaving alone" as a "nobody") of the Mâ•shiꞋ akh in verse 2 – by which (the idol-image counterfeit, the צוֹאִים-smeared garments of Z^әkhar•yâhꞋ  3) וְנָבוֹזֵהוּ (we robbed him) of his rightful personage as a Tor•âhꞋ -teaching RibꞋ i – and Mâ•shiꞋ akh.

חֲשַׁבְנוּהוּ [Updated: 2011.12.15]

kha•shav•nuꞋ hu; we did [not] {reckon, tally, sum up, figure out, evaluate, assess; Klein p. 235} him); pa•alꞋ  past 1^st pers. pl. of חשב ‭ ‬ + הוּ.

53.3 – "He was a disdained nobody; just a man of pains who knows sickness; and as He conceals [his] face from us, we despoiled him and didn't reckon [properly] with him."

חֲשַׁבְנוּהוּ [Updated: 2011.12.15]

kha•shav•nuꞋ hu; we did [not] {reckon, tally, sum up, figure out, evaluate, assess; Klein p. 235} him); pa•alꞋ  past 1^st pers. pl. of חשב ‭ ‬ + הוּ.

אָכֵן [Updated: 2011.12.15]

â•kheinꞋ ; indeed (adv.).

חוֹלָיֵינוּ [Updated: 2011.12.15]

khol•â•yeiyꞋ nu; our illnesses.

חוֹלָיֵ + י + נוּ

הואה [Updated: 2011.12.15]

hu; he (ancient spelling).

נָשָׂא [Updated: 2011.12.15 ]

nâs•âꞋ ; he bore (aloft), carried.

וּמַכְאוֹבֵינוּ [Updated: 2011.12.15]

u-ma•kh^Əov•eiꞋ nu; and our pains.

וּ + מַכְאוֹבֵ + י+ נוּ

סְבָלָם [Updated: 2011.12.15]

s^Əvâl•âmꞋ ; he carried them

סְבָלָ + ם

וַאֲנַחְנוּ [Updated: 2011.12.14]

; .

וַ + אֲנַחְנוּ

נָגוּעַ [Updated: 2011.12.14]

nâ•guꞋ a; touched, smitten, afflicted (by extension, "plagued"); adj., passive participle of נגע.

וּמוּכֵּה [Updated: 2011.12.14]

u-mu•keihꞋ ; and hit or struck by.

וּ + מוּכֵּה

וּמְעוּנֶּה [Updated: 2011.12.14]

u-m^Əun•ëhꞋ ; and held answerable.

וּ + מְעוּנֶּה; pu•alꞋ  pres. m.s. of ענה ({I ^m.s. am, you ^m.s. are, he ^m.s. is, it ^m.s. is} answerable {to, for} or held accountable, caused to reply to; by extension, afflicted, oppressed or fasting).

53.4 – "Indeed, our illnesses he bore and our pains he carried, while we reckoned him plagued, struck by Ël•oh•imꞋ  and held answerable."

וְהוּאה [Updated: 2011.12.14]

w^Ə-hu; and he.

וְ + הוּאה

מְחוּלָל [Updated: 2011.12.14]

m^әkho•lâlꞋ ; is being made unholy (cf. חוֹל or חֹל), being profaned, defiled, violated, emptied or hollowed out, especially of QoꞋ dësh); pu•alꞋ  pres. m.s. participle of חלל (ËvꞋ ën Sho•shanꞋ , p. 373; Klein, p. 219).

Klein gives 4 meanings for this verb:

1. to lose, profane (i.e., emptying of holiness) or defile
2. to begin
3. to be(come) hollow (e.g., of holiness), to hollow out, bore, pierce
4. to play [a musical instrument; emptying music out of an instrument]

Contrast with דֻּקַּר (du•qarꞋ ; he was pierced, stabbed), Klein 131.

מִפְּשָׁעֵינוּ [Updated: 2011.12.15]

mi-p^әshâ•eiꞋ nu; from our rebellious-felonies.

מִ + פְּשָׁעֵ + י + נוּ (derived from פשע).

In Scripture, a פֶּשַׁע is a rebellious-felony, against Tor•âhꞋ . A פֶּשַׁע is a worse offense than a חַטָּאת {khat•âtꞋ ; misstep {against Tor•âhꞋ }, popularly sin, in that the former is committed in a spirit of rebellion while the latter denotes an inadvertent tresspass {against Tor•âhꞋ } (Artscroll Beresheis, 1b.1363).

Ha•lâkh•âhꞋ  equates destroying one's reputation to murder and, therefore, remaining silent in the face of slander to standing idly by the blood of one's brother (wa-Yi•q^әr•âꞋ  19.16). The rebellious felony is remaining silent after having learned that Christians have cloaked the Mâ•shiꞋ akh in the feculent garb of their Christian idol-image (Z^әkhar•yâhꞋ  chap. 3), deceiving countless generations of the entire world into the idolatry of Hellenist-Christianity and their Jzeus

וּמְדוּכָּא [Updated: 2011.12.15]

u-m^әdu•kâꞋ ; and is being crushed, oppressed, suppressed, depressed).

וּ + מְדוּכָּא (pu•alꞋ  pres. m.s. (1^st-3^rd pers.) of דכא).

מֵעֲוֹונוֹתֵינוּ [Updated: 2011.12.15]

mei-a•won•ot•eiꞋ nu; out of our deliberate-misdemeanors {against Tor•âhꞋ }.

מֵ + עֲווֹנוֹתֵ + ינוּ

וּמוּסַר [Updated: 2011.12.16]

u-mu•sarꞋ ; and the chastening, correction, punishment

וּ + מוּסַר

שְׁלוֹמֵנוּ [Updated: 2011.12.16]

sh^әlom•eiꞋ nu; for our well-being, betterment; for our "own good" (lit., "of our peace").

שְׁלוֹמֵ + נוּ

This is a Hebrew idiom meaning "our well-being." "How are you?" (lit., "How is your peace?") is typically written in Hebrew as: ?מה שלומך

וּבַחֲבוּרָתָיו [Updated: 2011.12.16]

u-va-kha•vur•â•tâyvꞋ ; and in his bruise.

וּ + בַ + חֲבוּרָ + תָ + יו

נִרְפָּא [Updated: 2011.12.21]

ni•r^Əpâ; {he, it ^m.s.} was healed, cured, remedied, treated (niph•alꞋ  past 3^rd pers. m.s. of רָפָא). The Masoretic Text vowelization precludes the popular but incorrect translation "we were healed." While this is a possible translation in 1QIs^a, it is followed by "for us." The phrase "we were healed for us" is clearly nonsensical and wrong.

Possible translations of 1QIs^a נרפא לנו

(Masoretic vowelization in red)

פעל (pa•alꞋ )
נִרְפֶּא	(fu. 1st pers. pl.)	we shall heal/cure/recover/mend	לָנוּ
נפעל (niph•alꞋ )
נִרְפָּא	(past 3rd pers. m.s.)	he/it was healed/cured, he/it recovered/recuperated	לָנוּ
נִרְפֶּא	(pres. 1st pers. m.s.)	{I am, you are, he/it is} being healed/cured	לָנוּ
נֵרָפֶּא	(fu. 1st pers. pl.)	we shall be healed/cured	לָנוּ
פיעל (pi•eilꞋ )
נְרַפֶּא	(fu. 1st pers. pl.)	we shall cause [obj.] to heal/cure [obj.]	לָנוּ
פועל (pu•alꞋ )
נְרֻפֶּא	(fu. 1st pers. pl.)	we shall cause [obj.] to be healed/cured	לָנוּ

{He, it} – 3^rd pers. m.s. – can only be a m.s. n. cited in the context. The obvious, and correct, proximate m.s. n. is מוּסַר.

Therefore, the niph•alꞋ  (and Masoretic Text) should be read as: "In his bruise, [the chastening] was remedied for us."

There is no conversive ו. This is past tense. This conclusion agrees with Masoretic Text.

All of the future instances can be ruled out since they all speak of "we shall heal ourselves" or "we shall be healed for ourselves"; making no sense. Two of the pres. tense possibilities are similarly ruled out: "I am being healed for ourselves" and "You are being healed for ourselves."

A priori, it must be read as the niph•alꞋ .

While ruled out for Masoretic Text vowelization, the third pres. tense possibility remains viable for 1QIs^a: "In his bruise, [the chastening] is being remedied for us."

There is an interesting incrementing pattern in this pericope:

he (עַבְדִי) bore aloft or carried	our illnesses	our pains
we considered him (עַבְדִי)	plagued	struck by Ël•oh•imꞋ	held himself answerable
result to him (עַבְדִי)	he was made-unholy as a result of our rebellious-felonies against Tor•âhꞋ	he was crushed as a result of our deliberate-misdemeanors against Tor•âhꞋ	the chastening for our well-being is upon him	in his bruise it was remedied for us

לָנוּ [Updated: 2011.11.09]

lâꞋ nu; compound word: prepositional prefix לָ (lâ; toward, to, for) + 3^rd pers. pl. pronominal suffix נוּ (nu; our, of us); i.e., to / for us.

53.5 – "And he is being made unholy from our rebellious-felonies [against Torah] and is being suppressed out of our deliberate-misdemeanors [against Torah]; and the chastening for our welfare is upon him and in his bruise [the chastening] was remedied for us."

כּוּלָּנוּ [Updated: 2011.12.21 ]

kul•ânꞋ u; all of us.

כַּצּוֹאן [Updated: 2011.12.21 ]

ka-tzonꞋ ; like a צּוֹאן.

כַּ + צּוֹאן

תָּעִינוּ [Updated: 2011.12.21 ]

tâ•iꞋ nu; we have strayed, erred (pa•alꞋ  past 3^rd pers. pl. of תעה).

אִישׁ [Updated: 2011.12.21 ]

ish; a man.

לְדַרְכּוֹ [Updated: 2011.12.21]

lë-da•r^әkh•oꞋ ; to his [own] way.

לְ + דַרְכּ + וֹ

פָּנִינוּ [Updated: 2011.12.21]

pân•iꞋ nu; we faced, turned our faces (pa•alꞋ  past 3^rd pers. pl.).

וַי--ה [Updated: 2011.12.21]

wa-ha-Sheim; and (the ineffable Name).

וַ + י--ה

הִפְגִּיעַ [Updated: 2011.12.21]

hi•ph^әgiyꞋ a; he has caused to alight upon, caused to entreat, interceded, interposed} (hiph•ilꞋ  past 3^rd pers. m.s. of פגע, Klein 493); "has, through intercession, imputed …"

בּוֹ [Updated: 2011.12.21]

bo; in(to) him.

בּ + וֹ

עָווֹן [Updated: 2011.12.21]

â•wonꞋ ; deliberate misdemeanor (against Tor•âhꞋ ). Contrast with kheit and pëshꞋ a.

"The phrase וְנָשָׂא עֲוֹנוֹ [w^ә-nâ•sâꞋ  a•won•oꞋ ], he shall bear his [deliberate-misdemeanor], always refers to [כָּרֵת {kâ•reitꞋ ; excision}]" (Artscroll Vayikra III.b.318; popularly "iniquity").

כּוּלָּנוּ [Updated: 2011.12.21 ]

kul•ânꞋ u; all of us.

53.6 – "All of us, like a tzon, have strayed – each turning to his own way; and He has, via intercession, imputed to him the â•won•otꞋ  of us all."

נִגַּשׂ [Updated: 2011.12.21]

ni•gasꞋ ; he was hard pressed (Klein, p. 404); niph•alꞋ  past 3^rd pers. m.s.

נַעֲנֶה [Updated: 2011.12.21]

na•an•ëhꞋ ; humbled himself, held himself answerable (niph•alꞋ  3rd pers. m.s. of ענה).

יִפְתַּח [Updated: 2011.12.21]

yi•ph^әtakhꞋ ; shall he open.

פִּיהוּ [Updated: 2011.12.21]

piꞋ hu; his mouth of… (combinative form of פֶּה).

פִּיה + וּ

כַּשֶּׂה [Updated: 2011.12.21]

ka-sëhꞋ ; like a kâ•sheirꞋ  member of Family: Bovidae (includes sheep, goats, small cattle).

כַּ + שֶּׂה

לַטֶּבוּחַ [Updated: 2011.12.21]

la-të•vuꞋ akh; to slaughter.

לַ + טֶּבוּחַ

יוּבָל [Updated: 2011.12.21]

yu•valꞋ ; he will be the bellwether, he will be brought or led (huph•alꞋ  fu. 3^rd pers. m.s. of יבל).

כְּרָחֵל [Updated: 2011.12.21]

k^ә-râ•kheilꞋ ; like a ewe.

כְּ + רָחֵל. Note that 1QIs^a lacks the prefix וּ.

לִפְנֵי [Updated: 2011.12.22]

li-ph^әneiyꞋ ; before.

גוֹזְזֶיהָ [Updated: 2011.12.22]

go•z^әz•ëy•âhꞋ ; its (lit. "her") shearer.

גוּזְזֶי + הָ

נֶאֱלָמָה [Updated: 2011.12.22]

në•ë•lâm•âhꞋ ; is silent (niph•alꞋ  pres. f.s. of אלם)

פָתַּח [Updated: 2011.12.22]

pâ•takhꞋ ; he did [not] open; he [not] opened. Note that 1QIs^a reads פתח, unlike the later Masoretic Text, which prefixes a י to make it future (יפתח).

פִּיהוּ [Updated: 2011.12.21]

piꞋ hu; his mouth of… (combinative form of פֶּה).

פִּיה + וּ

53.7 – "He was hard-pressed but he held himself answerable and he would not open his mouth; like a sëh to slaughter, he is a bellwether; like a ewe before her shearers is silent, he didn't open his mouth."

מֵעוֹצֶר [Updated: 2011.12.22]

mei-o•tzeirꞋ ; From [the] arrest.

מֵ + עוֹצֶר

וּמִמִּשְׁפָּט [Updated: 2011.12.22]

u-mi-mish•pâtꞋ ; and from mish•pâtꞋ .

וּ + מִ + מִּשְׁפָּט

לוּקָּח [Updated: 2011.12.22]

lu•qâkhꞋ ; he was taken (pu•alꞋ  past 3^rd pers. m.s.).

In English, this phrase reads: "He was taken [stemming or issuing] {out of, from} [the] arrest and [stemming or issuing] {out of, from} [the] mish•pâtꞋ …" In other words, he was taken by arrest and mish•pâtꞋ  or, more simply, he was arrested based on the mish•pâtꞋ .

דּוֹרוֹ [Updated: 2011.12.22]

dor•oꞋ ; his generation.

דּוֹר + וֹ

מִיא [Updated: 2011.12.22]

mi; who.

יְשׂוֹחֵחַ [Updated: 2011.12.22]

y^әso•kheiꞋ akh; {he, it, who} will converse (pi•eilꞋ  fu. 3^rd pers. m.s. of שִׂיַח).

נִגְזַר [Updated: 2011.12.22]

ni•g^әzarꞋ ; he was sliced off, cut (niph•alꞋ  3^rd pers. m.s. of גזר).

חַיִּים [Updated: 2011.12.22]

khai•yimꞋ ; life, the living (the noun is always in the plural).

מִפֶּשַׁע [Updated: 2011.12.22]

mi-pëshꞋ a; out of the pëshꞋ a.

מִ + פֶּשַׁע

עַמּוֹ [Updated: 2011.12.22]

am•oꞋ ; his kindred.

עַמּ + וֹ

נוּגַע [Updated: 2011.12.22]

nug•aꞋ ; he was stricken (pu•alꞋ  past 3^rd pers. m.s. of נגע). Note that the וּ was lost by the time of Masoretic Text, changing the meaning from the past tense pu•alꞋ  verb, "he was stricken," to m.s. n. נֶגַע (nëgꞋ a; a hit, blow or stroke).

לָמוֹ [Updated: 2011.11.20]

lâ•moꞋ ; {to, toward, for} them; i.e., "have they".

53.8 – "He was taken [stemming] from [the] arrest and from [the] mish•pâtꞋ . Who, then, will converse with his generation? Because he was sliced-off from the land of the living. [Stemming] from [the] posh•imꞋ  of his am he was stricken for them."

וַיִּתֵּנוּ [Updated: 2011.12.22]

wa-yi•teinꞋ u; And they allowed…

וַ + יִּתֵּנוּ

רְשָׁעִים [Updated: 2011.12.22]

r^әshâ•imꞋ ; wicked-ones (pl. of רשע), the wicked.

"They gave to the r^әshâ•imꞋ  his tomb"; i.e., they granted the r^әshâ•imꞋ  his death warrant.

קִבְרוֹ [Updated: 2011.12.22]

qi•v^әr•oꞋ ; his tomb.

קִבְר + וֹ

וְעִם [Updated: 2011.12.28]

w^Ə-im; and with…

וְ + עִם

Examining the scroll shows that it appears that this phrase was redacted by a later scribe, in a different ink, to add a ד at the end of עם, transforming it to וְעָמַד (w^Ə-â•madꞋ ; then he/it [עשיר; a rich man (m.s. n.)] stood). Trying to make עשירים singular to match also explains the erasure of the plural ending on עשירים. However, this term as a verb renders any resulting phrase grammatically non-sensical, lacking an essential preposition; implying that the redaction was improper and must be rejected.

רְשָׁעִים [Updated: 2011.12.28]

r^әshâ•imꞋ ; the wicked, evil-people (masc. pl. of רָשָׁע).

בִּימֹתוֹ [Updated: 2011.12.28]

bi-mot•oꞋ ; in his death; probably an ancient or local mispronunciation, or misspelling, of בְּמֹתָיו (b^Ə-mot•âvꞋ ).

בִּי + מֹת + וֹ

עָשִׁירִים [Updated: 2011.12.28]

â•shir•imꞋ ; rich (masc. pl., i.e., rich people, the wealthy).

The ים (im) pl. ending has been scratched out, the ancient method of erasure on a scroll. However, the remnants of the letters remain legible. (See also וְעִם.)

חָמָס [Updated: 2011.12.30]

kha•mâsꞋ ; violence.

עָשָׂה [Updated: 2011.12.30]

â•sâhꞋ ; he did/made.

מִרְמָה [Updated: 2011.12.30]

mi•r^әm•âhꞋ ; deceit (fem. n. derived from רִמָּה).

בְּפִיהוּ [Updated: 2011.12.30]

b^ә-piꞋ hu; in his mouth.

בְּ + פִיה + וּ

53.9 – "Then they granted his tomb to the r^әshâ•imꞋ , and his death [to the] wealthy – over no violence that he had done; [there] was not even any deception in his mouth."

חָפֵץ [Updated: 2011.12.30]

khâ•pheitzꞋ ; he [י--ה] desired (pa•alꞋ  past 3^rd pers. m.s.).

דִכְּאוּ [Updated: 2011.12.30]

di-k^ә•uꞋ ; they crushed (pi•eilꞋ  past 3^rd pers. m.pl. of דכא)

וִיְהַלֶלְהוּ [Updated: 2011.12.30]

wi-y^әha•lëlꞋ hu; and He shall praise him.

וַ + יְהַלֶלְ + הוּ

Note that this replaces and precludes the Masoretic Text noun הֶחֱלִי (the sickness, illness, disease), which reads nonsensically: "Then י--ה desired, crushed him the illness…".

אִם [Updated: 2011.12.30]

im; if, whether.

תָּשִׂים [Updated: 2011.12.30]

tâ•simꞋ ; you ^m.s. / she/it ^f.s. {will, shall, should, would} {put, place, set}); pa•alꞋ  fu. 2^nd pers. m.s. or 3^rd pers. f.s.. In this case, the subject of this verb is f.s. (נפש): "… if his nëphꞋ ësh will set [itself to be] a guilt[-sacrifice]."

אָשָׁם [Updated: 2011.12.30]

â•shâmꞋ ; a guilt[-sacrifice] (m.s. n.).

נַפְשׁוֹ [Updated: 2011.12.30]

na•ph^әsh•oꞋ ; his nëphꞋ ësh.

נַפְשׁ + וֹ

וְרָאָה [Updated: 2011.12.30]

w^Ə-râ•âhꞋ ; then he saw… Note that this reads differently, past rather than future tense, in contrast to the later Masoretic Text.

זֶרַע [Updated: 2011.12.30]

zërꞋ a; seed.

וַיְאֱרַךְ [Updated: 2011.12.30]

wa-y^Əë•rakhꞋ ; and he shall be long-lasting, protracted (A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language For Readers of English, p. 55).

The after-effects of his life, on the entire world, over the past two millennia, are beyond measure and unprecedented in the entire history of mankind. Even his human lifespan, to age 30, was considered long. "In ancient Greece and Rome the average life expectancy was about 28 years…" (Ency. Brit. on-line, accessed 2012.01.07)

וַ + יְאֱרַךְ

יָמִים [Updated: 2011.12.30]

yâm•imꞋ ; [of] days

וְחֵפֶץ [Updated: 2011.12.30]

w^ә-kheiꞋ phëtz; and the desire of…

בְּיָדוֹ [Updated: 2011.12.30]

b^ә-yâd•oꞋ ; by his hand

בְּ + יָד + וֹ

יִצְלָח [Updated: 2011.12.30]

yi•tz^әlâkhꞋ ; shall succeed (pa•alꞋ  fu. 3rd pers. m.s. of צלח)

53.10 – "And י--ה desired him. They crushed him, but He shall praise him if he will place his nëphꞋ ësh [to be] a guilt-sacrifice. Then he shall see seed and shall be long-lasting of days; and the desire of י--ה shall succeed by his hand."

מֵעֲמַל [Updated: 2011.12.30]

mei-a•malꞋ ; From the labor

מֵ + עֲמַל

נַפְשׁוֹה [Updated: 2011.12.30]

na•ph^әsh•ohꞋ ; [of] his nëphꞋ ësh.

נַפְשׁ + וֹה

יִרְאֶה [Updated: 2011.12.30]

yi•r^ә•ëhꞋ ; he shall see (pa•alꞋ  fu. 3^rd pers. m.s. of ראה)

אוֹר [Updated: 2011.12.30]

or; light. Note that this word was entirely lost in the later Masoretic Text.

וְיִשְׂבָּע [Updated: 2011.12.30]

w^әyi•s^әb•aꞋ ; Then he shall be satisfied

וְ + יִשְׂבָּע

וּבְדַעְתּוֹ [Updated: 2011.12.30]

u-v^ә-da•^әt•oꞋ ; and in his knowledge

וּ + בְ + דַעְתּ + וֹ

יַצְדִּיק [Updated: 2011.12.30]

ya•tz^әdiq'Ꞌ ; {he, it} shall render tza•diqꞋ ; cause or make or become tza•diqꞋ  (hiph•ilꞋ  fu. 3^rd pers. m.s. of צדק.)

עַבְדּוֹ [Updated: 2011.12.30]

a•v^Əd•oꞋ ; His worker

עַבְדּ + וֹ. Contrast this with עַבְדִּ + י (My worker; popularly "My servant"), found in the later Masoretic Text.

Note must be taken here that (opposite to modern Hebrew letters) part of the ancient י could have worn away, leaving it appear to be a ו when it was originally a י. In this ms., however, there appears to be no trace of the necessay line distinguishing the י from the ו. Perhaps physics researchers may be able to answer this question using ultra-violet and other techniques. Until then, however, the available evidence indicates ו.

לָרַבִּים [Updated: 2011.12.30]

la-rab•imꞋ ; for the masses

לָ + רַבִּים

וַעֲווֹנוֹתָם [Updated: 2011.12.30]

wa-a•won•o•tâmꞋ ; and their deliberate-misdemeanors-against-Tor•âhꞋ 

וַ + עֲווֹנוֹתָ + ם

יִסְבּוֹל [Updated: 2011.12.30]

yi•s^әbolꞋ ; he shall port, act as porter, transfer (pa•alꞋ  fu. 3rd pers. m.s. of סבל)

53.11 – "From the labor of his nëphꞋ ësh, he shall see Light and be sated; and by his knowledge he shall render the Tza•diqꞋ  Tza•diqꞋ . His worker [is] for the masses, and he shall port their â•won•otꞋ ."

אֲחַלֶּק [Updated: 2011.12.30]

a•khaꞋ lëq; I will apportion (pi•eilꞋ  fu. 1^st pers. m.s. of חלק)

בָרַבִּים [Updated: 2011.12.30]

vâ-rab•imꞋ ; among the masses (see also v. 11)

בָ + רַבִּים

עֲצוּמִים [Updated: 2011.12.30]

a•tzum•imꞋ ; powers, mighties (pl. of עָצוּם)

יְחַלֵּק [Updated: 2011.12.30]

y^әkh•leiqꞋ ; he will apportion

This is a reversal of the power who boasted to divide the plunder (cf. אֲחַלֵּק שָׁלָל, a•kha•leik′  shâlâl′ , Sh^әm•otꞋ  15.9

שָׁלָל [Updated: 2011.12.30]

shâ•lâlꞋ ; found treasure, booty, plunder, loot – Sh^әm•otꞋ  15.9

תַּחַת אֲשֶׁר [Updated: 2011.12.30]

takhꞋ at a•shërꞋ ; for the reason that (these two words form an idiom, lit. "under which," respectively; אלקלעי, p. 2782)

הֶעֱרָה [Updated: 2011.12.30]

hë•ër•âhꞋ ; he risked, exposed, bared (hiph•ilꞋ  past 3^rd pers. m.s. of ערה)

לַמָּוֶת [Updated: 2011.12.30]

la-mâꞋ wët; to death

לַ + מָּוֶת

פּוֹשְׁעִים [Updated: 2011.12.30]

po•sh^ә•imꞋ ; rebellious-felonies against Tor•âhꞋ  (pl. of פֶּשַׁע).

נִמְנָה [Updated: 2011.12.30]

ni•m^әn•âhꞋ ; he was reckoned, tallied (niph•alꞋ  past 3^rd pers. m.s. of מנה)

חֵטְאֵי [Updated: 2011.12.30]

kheit^әei′ ; misstep[-sacrifice]s of… (combinative pl. form of חטא)

רַבִּים [Updated: 2011.11.24]

rab•imꞋ ; [the] many, masses, great-ones (pl. of רַב).

וְלַפֹּשְׁעִיהֵמָה [Updated: 2011.12.30]

w^ә-la-po•sh^Əiy•heimꞋ âh; and for their rebellious-felonies-against-Tor•âhꞋ . See also Artscroll Beresheis, 1b.1363.

וְ + לַ + פֹּשְׁעִי + הֵמָה

Ha•lâkh•âhꞋ  equates destroying one's reputation to murder. It follows, therefore, that remaining silent in the face of slander constitutes standing idly by the blood of one's brother (wa-Yi•q^әr•âꞋ  19.16). A conspicuous rebellious-felony has been remaining silent while Christians cloaked the an innocent historical RibꞋ i, a Tor•âhꞋ -teacher and Mâ•shiꞋ akh in the feculent garb of Christianity (Z^әkhar•yâhꞋ  chap. 3), deceiving countless generations of the entire world into the idolatry of Hellenist-Christianity and their Jzeus

יַפְגִּיעַ [Updated: 2011.12.30]

ya•ph^әgiꞋ a (hiph•ilꞋ  fu. 3^rd pers. m.s.): "1 he caused to light upon; 2 he caused somebody to entreat; 3 he entreated, interceded, interposed, insisted." (A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language For Readers of English, p. 493).

A better term in English for "caused to light upon" is "imputed." Taking into account the connotations of "intercede" and "interpose," the combined concept is one of "interceding by imputing [something to "light upon"] something or someone else (e.g., upon himself). The context explicitly stipulated earlier (v. 6-11, particularly v. 6) "himself," rather than simply something or someone else. See the paradigm of Mosh•ëhꞋ  at Sh^әm•otꞋ  32.32.

53.12 – "Therefore, I will apportion to him among the masses and with the powers he shall apportion treasure for the reason that he risked his nëphꞋ ësh to the death and with the posh•imꞋ  he was reckoned and the kheit•imꞋ  of the masses he bore and for their posh•imꞋ  he interceded by imputing them upon himself."

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