בְּמֹתָ֑יו (bə·mō·ṯāw) in Isaiah 53:9: Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular

Hebrew-nominal

Noun

Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular

Prep-b

Third person masculine singular

Masculine

Plural

Construct

The source form is morphologically plural and carries a suffix referring to the servant, yet the translation renders the expression as singular death. The plural form should be reported, not multiplied into several literal deaths or treated as a secret doctrinal code.

The phrase relates the rich man to the servant's death within the burial statement and before the affirmation of his innocence.

The bet-prefixed construct follows the rich man phrase and carries a suffix referring to the servant whose grave and innocence frame the verse.

The burial statement contrasting association with the wicked and rich with the servant's lack of violence and deceit.

It locates the rich-man association at the servant's death and preserves the source's plural morphology without multiplying the event.

It does not teach that the servant died repeatedly, encode a hidden doctrine in number alone, or settle every syntactic question in Isaiah 53:9.

High: The source's plural death noun and singular English rendering create a genuine translation question in a central servant-song verse.

Bet-prefixed plural construct noun with servant suffix. situates the association at the servant's death. Attached to the rich-man phrase within the burial assignment. Governed by the grave statement and innocence contrast. Plural morphology is real, but one servant and one burial context govern the singular translation.

Does the plural noun mean that the servant died more than once? No such multiplication follows from the form; the clause speaks of the servant's death and burial, and English responsibly renders the phrase in the singular.

Interpretive: The BSB represents the source plural with idiomatic singular death while rendering the possessive suffix as His.

The reason for the plural form can be discussed cautiously without pretending the verse explains it fully. Capitalized His is an English convention and not encoded in the suffix. The compact Hebrew line allows syntactic discussion that morphology alone cannot settle.

Plural means multiple literal deaths: The servant and burial context are singular; do not turn morphology into arithmetic. the plural secretly proves a doctrine: Build doctrine from the whole passage and canon, not an unexplained ending. translation hides the Hebrew: State the plural transparently and explain why singular English fits the clause.

Isaiah 53:9 token 7 is בְּמֹתָ֑יו, H4194, parsed Prep-b | N-mpc | 3ms and aligned with in His death.

מָוֶת names death, a deadly state, or ruin in varied contexts. Here grave, innocence, and the servant's preceding cutting off establish literal death as the controlling sense.

The source plural is joined to a singular possessive suffix and belongs to a line narrating one servant's burial circumstances, so singular English is contextually responsible.

The servant is assigned a dishonorable grave association despite having committed neither violence nor deceit, yet the rich-man phrase complicates that expected shame.

The wider servant song and later canonical reception matter for Christian interpretation, but plural morphology is not an independent doctrinal cipher.

Tell readers exactly what the source marks, why English says death, and what remains an interpretive question rather than an arithmetic conclusion.

Do not infer repeated deaths, graded kinds of death, or a full atonement theory from the plural ending.