דַּכְּאוֹ֙ (dak·kə·’ōw) in Isaiah 53:10: Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular
דַּכְּאוֹ֙ (dak·kə·’ōw) in Isaiah 53:10
Source Word
At Isaiah 53:10, the source token דַּכְּאוֹ֙ is H1792, V-Piel-Inf | 3ms. The BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
To crush Him directly represents the Piel infinitive and its third masculine singular object suffix. The Servant's devastating suffering belongs to a purpose that moves through guilt offering to offspring, prolonged days, and the Lord's prospering pleasure.
How To Communicate It
Name both the severity of crush and the infinitive's dependence on the will clause, then read forward to the promised fruitful outcome.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not use the Piel stem to depict God as delighting in pain or derive a complete Trinitarian account from the object suffix.
- The opening clause is theologically weighty and syntactically compact; the positive outcome later in the verse governs how will and pleasure are heard.
- Read to crush Him within Isaiah 53:10 as this H1792 occurrence; broader theology requires the passage.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular
Piel
Inf
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3Ms
Infinitive form presents the crushing as the content of the will statement rather than locating it independently in time.
The Piel infinitive depends on the statement of the Lord's will, while its attached suffix points back to the masculine singular Servant.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The Servant as the pronominal object of crushing
The difficult declaration that the Lord willed the crushing within a purpose leading to life and prosperity
The Piel infinitive names the intensive crushing action, and the third masculine singular suffix identifies the Servant as its object.
The form does not portray suffering as good in itself or make divine pleasure equivalent to cruelty.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The Servant's devastating suffering belongs to a purpose that moves through guilt offering to offspring, prolonged days, and the Lord's prospering pleasure.
The Piel infinitive depends on the statement of the Lord's will, while its attached suffix points back to the masculine singular Servant.. The Piel infinitive names the intensive crushing action, and the third masculine singular suffix identifies the Servant as its object.. Attached to the Servant as the pronominal object of crushing. Governed by the difficult declaration that the Lord willed the crushing within a purpose leading to life and prosperity. The form does not portray suffering as good in itself or make divine pleasure equivalent to cruelty.
How can the verse connect the Lord's will with crushing the Servant? The infinitive places the crushing within a saving purpose whose stated outcome is offering, life, offspring, and prospering divine pleasure.
Direct: To crush Him directly represents the Piel infinitive and its third masculine singular object suffix.
The opening clause is theologically weighty and syntactically compact; the positive outcome later in the verse governs how will and pleasure are heard. Piel can intensify or factitively shape a verb, but stem labels alone do not measure the degree of physical suffering.
Divine purpose equals delight in pain: The verse's pleasure prospers through the Servant's fruitful work, not through suffering treated as an end in itself. object suffix resolves Trinitarian relations: The suffix identifies the Servant as object; the wider canon is required for a full account of Father and Son.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
At Isaiah 53:10, the source token דַּכְּאוֹ֙ is H1792, V-Piel-Inf | 3ms. The BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
דָּכָא is the lemma behind to crush Him here. Within Isaiah 53:10, H1792 retains this exact lexical identity.
The Piel infinitive depends on the statement of the Lord's will, while its attached suffix points back to the masculine singular Servant.
The Servant's devastating suffering belongs to a purpose that moves through guilt offering to offspring, prolonged days, and the Lord's prospering pleasure.
God's saving purpose works through the Servant's willing self-offering, but readers must hold that purpose with the song's condemnation of human injustice.
Name both the severity of crush and the infinitive's dependence on the will clause, then read forward to the promised fruitful outcome.
Do not use the Piel stem to depict God as delighting in pain or derive a complete Trinitarian account from the object suffix.