נָשָׂ֔א (nā·śā) in Isaiah 53:12: Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
נָשָׂ֔א (nā·śā) in Isaiah 53:12
Source Word
At Isaiah 53:12, the source token נָשָׂ֔א is H5375, V-Qal-Perf-3ms. The BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
Bore retains the verb's burden-carrying image and the perfect form's whole-event perspective. The one numbered with transgressors is distinguished from them by pouring out his life, bearing the many's sin, and interceding for transgressors.
How To Communicate It
Keep the concrete image of carrying weight while showing that the stated burden is the sin of many, not merely their hardship.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not make Qal perfect by itself prove an exhaustive atonement model or detach bore from the Servant's death and intercession.
- The verb has a broad range that includes lifting and carrying; the explicit object sin directs the sense toward representative burden-bearing.
- Read bore within Isaiah 53:12 as this H5375 occurrence; broader theology requires the passage.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Qal
Perf
Third
Masculine
Singular
Not applicable
None
The perfect views the bearing as a whole, fitting the poem's retrospective account of the Servant's self-offering.
The third masculine singular Qal perfect has the Servant as subject and the sin of many as its direct burden.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The Servant as the bearer of the many's sin
The final explanation of why he receives a victorious portion
The Qal perfect presents his bearing of sin as a completed, weight-bearing act within the grounds for his exaltation.
The verb does not mean that he merely noticed sin, nor does the form alone explain every mechanism of atonement.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The one numbered with transgressors is distinguished from them by pouring out his life, bearing the many's sin, and interceding for transgressors.
The third masculine singular Qal perfect has the Servant as subject and the sin of many as its direct burden.. The Qal perfect presents his bearing of sin as a completed, weight-bearing act within the grounds for his exaltation.. Attached to the Servant as the bearer of the many's sin. Governed by the final explanation of why he receives a victorious portion. The verb does not mean that he merely noticed sin, nor does the form alone explain every mechanism of atonement.
What is the force of bore in the statement that he bore the sin of many? It portrays the Servant taking the many's sin as a real burden in the completed self-giving described by the poem.
Direct: Bore retains the verb's burden-carrying image and the perfect form's whole-event perspective.
The verb has a broad range that includes lifting and carrying; the explicit object sin directs the sense toward representative burden-bearing. Perfect aspect presents the act as complete from the poem's viewpoint without alone fixing its date relative to the prophet.
Lexical image supplies a complete atonement theory: Bearing sin is central here, but the poem and wider Scripture must explain the full theological account. perfect means merely past tense: The form views the act as a whole within prophetic discourse; English past time is a contextual rendering.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
At Isaiah 53:12, the source token נָשָׂ֔א is H5375, V-Qal-Perf-3ms. The BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
נָשָׂא is the lemma behind bore here. Within Isaiah 53:12, H5375 retains this exact lexical identity.
The third masculine singular Qal perfect has the Servant as subject and the sin of many as its direct burden.
The one numbered with transgressors is distinguished from them by pouring out his life, bearing the many's sin, and interceding for transgressors.
The Servant's exaltation is inseparable from representative burden-bearing, though a full theology of atonement must draw on the entire song and canon.
Keep the concrete image of carrying weight while showing that the stated burden is the sin of many, not merely their hardship.
Do not make Qal perfect by itself prove an exhaustive atonement model or detach bore from the Servant's death and intercession.