יְנַשְּׂא֙וּהוּ֙ (yə·naś·śə·’ū·hū) in Ezra 1:4: Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine singular
יְנַשְּׂא֙וּהוּ֙ (yə·naś·śə·’ū·hū) in Ezra 1:4
Source Word
Ezra 1:4 row 9 aligns the H5375 Piel form with be assisted, marking plural local agents and a singular survivor as object.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
Be assisted foregrounds each survivor in English, while the Hebrew form preserves plural local supporters acting toward that singular representative returnee. The English passive be assisted centers the survivor, but the Hebrew morphology marks plural agents and an attached singular object within the decree's volitional instruction.
How To Communicate It
Reverse the English passive to expose the Hebrew roles, then distinguish the goods supporting the returnee from the accompanying freewill offering for God's house.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not import Isaiah 53's burden-bearing theology into this support verb or collapse the returnee's aid and the temple offering into one object.
- The singular suffix represents each survivor distributively after every survivor.
- The form does not make the survivor passive in every respect, erase the distinction between personal support and the freewill offering, or establish a universal economic policy.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine singular
Piel
Imperf
Third
Masculine
Plural
Not applicable
Third person masculine singular
The Piel imperfect has a masculine plural agent supplied by the men of each survivor's locality, while the attached masculine singular suffix represents each survivor who is to receive support. The decree gives the form its let-them force.
The form assigns the local men responsibility to support each survivor with resources for the return, while the following offering is directed to the temple.
What The Form Does In This Verse
Cyrus's instruction concerning each surviving Judean who remains in a locality outside Jerusalem
The royal decree directing local neighbors to supply returnees with material help and a freewill offering for God's house
The form assigns the local men responsibility to support each survivor with resources for the return, while the following offering is directed to the temple.
The form does not make the survivor passive in every respect, erase the distinction between personal support and the freewill offering, or establish a universal economic policy.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The form reveals active plural supporters behind an English passive and clarifies how the decree equips each returnee.
The Piel imperfect has a masculine plural agent supplied by the men of each survivor's locality, while the attached masculine singular suffix represents each survivor who is to receive support. The decree gives the form its let-them force.. The form assigns the local men responsibility to support each survivor with resources for the return, while the following offering is directed to the temple.. Attached to Cyrus's instruction concerning each surviving Judean who remains in a locality outside Jerusalem. Governed by the royal decree directing local neighbors to supply returnees with material help and a freewill offering for God's house. The form does not make the survivor passive in every respect, erase the distinction between personal support and the freewill offering, or establish a universal economic policy.
Who assists whom in Ezra 1:4 despite the English passive wording? The men of each locality are to support each surviving Judean returnee with material resources, alongside a freewill offering for the temple.
Direct: The English passive be assisted centers the survivor, but the Hebrew morphology marks plural agents and an attached singular object within the decree's volitional instruction.
The singular suffix represents each survivor distributively after every survivor. The decree supplies the volitional sense; the imperfect label alone does not create an English command.
V-Piel-Imperf-3mp | 3ms at Ezra 1:4 treated as the whole interpretation: Do not import Isaiah 53's burden-bearing theology into this support verb or collapse the returnee's aid and the temple offering into one object. the passive be assisted used to hide the neighbors' active responsibility or merge all listed gifts into the temple offering: Keep "be assisted" connected to יְנַשְּׂא֙וּהוּ֙, row 9, and the full Ezra 1:4 clause.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
Ezra 1:4 row 9 aligns the H5375 Piel form with be assisted, marking plural local agents and a singular survivor as object.
The row 9 H5375 witness extends the lifting lemma into material support for a returnee and must not be confused with the Servant's burden-bearing uses in Isaiah 53.
The Piel imperfect has a masculine plural agent supplied by the men of each survivor's locality, while the attached masculine singular suffix represents each survivor who is to receive support. The decree gives the form its let-them force.
Ezra 1:4 calls communities to materially assist Judean survivors who will participate in the return and to contribute voluntarily toward the house of God in Jerusalem.
This support belongs to Cyrus's specific return decree after exile; broader generosity principles require their own textual grounding rather than direct transfer from the morphology.
Reverse the English passive to expose the Hebrew roles, then distinguish the goods supporting the returnee from the accompanying freewill offering for God's house.
Do not import Isaiah 53's burden-bearing theology into this support verb or collapse the returnee's aid and the temple offering into one object.