תֵּדָֽעוּ׃ (tê·ḏā·‘ū) in Isaiah 6:9: Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
תֵּדָֽעוּ׃ (tê·ḏā·‘ū) in Isaiah 6:9
Source Word
The BSB+ row for Isaiah 6:9 links the English rendering "perceiving" with תֵּדָֽעוּ׃, Strong's H3045, and the parsing label V-Qal-Imperf-2mp.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
The form helps carry the warning pattern in Isaiah 6:9: perception is present, yet true understanding is withheld or resisted in the commission context. The whole passage must govern that theological claim.
How To Communicate It
Explain this as an imperfect in a prophetic address to the people. That helps readers hear the warning pattern without treating the imperfect as a simple tense label or an isolated doctrine of hardening.
What Not To Say
- Grammar should serve context, not override it.
- Do not make the imperfect label prove more than the sentence supports.
- Do not use the stem label by itself to settle a theological claim.
- Do not treat this occurrence as a complete word study for the whole Hebrew lemma.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Qal
Imperfect
Second person
Masculine
Plural
The imperfect form presents the action as unfolding, expected, desired, or modal in context; Isaiah 6:9 determines how that force is heard.
This form carries the BSB rendering "perceiving" within Isaiah 6:9. Isaiah 6 shows the prophet before the holy Lord, receiving cleansing and a commission in the presence of divine glory.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The perception phrase rendered "perceiving" in Isaiah 6:9
The form belongs to the commissioned message about hearing and seeing without true understanding.
It names the people's perceiving in the warning pattern of Isaiah's commission.
It does not make the imperfect label by itself settle the theology of hardening, and it does not detach perception language from the whole commission in Isaiah 6.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The form belongs to Isaiah 6's difficult commission language about perception and understanding.
Imperfect verb in prophetic warning address. names the people's perception within the warning pattern. Attached to the warning pattern about perceiving without understanding. Governed by the commissioned message in Isaiah 6:9. The form supports the perception phrase, but the commission context governs the theological force.
What does this form name in Isaiah's commission? It names the people's perceiving within the warning that perception will not become true understanding.
Supporting: The imperfect form supports the perception wording, while the surrounding phrase controls how English expresses the warning pattern.
The imperfect appears inside prophetic commission language and should not be reduced to a bare future tense. The theology of hardening or judgment must be handled from the whole passage, not from this form alone.
Imperfect always means future tense: The imperfect here belongs to a prophetic warning pattern, not a simple tense rule. grammar alone proves the doctrine of hardening: The form supports the line, but the whole commission scene must govern the theological claim.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
The BSB+ row for Isaiah 6:9 links the English rendering "perceiving" with תֵּדָֽעוּ׃, Strong's H3045, and the parsing label V-Qal-Imperf-2mp.
H3045 is represented here by the lemma יָדַע. In this occurrence, the public guide is limited to the BSB rendering "perceiving" rather than every possible gloss of the entry.
The Qal imperfect second masculine plural is addressed to the people within Isaiah's commissioned message. It belongs to the repeated pattern of hearing and seeing without true understanding, so the form should be read inside the prophetic warning context.
Isaiah 6 shows the prophet before the holy Lord, receiving cleansing and a commission in the presence of divine glory.
The form fits Scripture's witness to holiness, cleansing, and commissioned speech before the Lord.
When teaching Isaiah 6:9, connect this form to the warning pattern of perception without understanding, and keep the theological claims tied to the whole commission scene.
Do not derive a full word study, grammar doctrine, or doctrine of hardening from V-Qal-Imperf-2mp alone. The form identifies the occurrence-level perception phrase.