וַיִּשְׂאוּ֙ (way·yiś·’ū) in Jonah 1:15: Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
וַיִּשְׂאוּ֙ (way·yiś·’ū) in Jonah 1:15
Source Word
At Jonah 1:15, the source token וַיִּשְׂאוּ֙ is H5375, Conj-w | V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3mp. The BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
Then they picked up captures the waw-linked sequence, plural subject, and literal lifting required by the following action. Only after trying to reach land and appealing to the Lord do the sailors lift Jonah and cast him into the sea, whereupon the storm stops.
How To Communicate It
Explain picked up as literal lifting by the plural crew and keep their prior compassion and prayer in view.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not import the Servant song's burden-bearing sense into this H5375 occurrence or present throwing a person overboard as a general moral remedy.
- The verb has broad lifting and carrying senses, but Jonah as object and cast into the sea establish physical lifting here.
- Read Then they picked up within Jonah 1:15 as this H5375 occurrence; broader theology requires the passage.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Qal
ConsecImperf
Third
Masculine
Plural
Not applicable
Conjunction w
None
The consecutive-imperfect presents the lifting as a completed narrative step after their prayer for mercy.
The third masculine plural Qal form makes the sailors the actors and Jonah the person they lift, with waw advancing to the casting action.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The sailors as they lift Jonah before casting him overboard
Their final response after prayer, reluctance, and failed rowing
The plural waw-consecutive verb reports the crew lifting Jonah as the first step in the action that immediately calms the sea.
This occurrence does not carry the sin-bearing sense found in other contexts or portray the sailors as eager executioners.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: Only after trying to reach land and appealing to the Lord do the sailors lift Jonah and cast him into the sea, whereupon the storm stops.
The third masculine plural Qal form makes the sailors the actors and Jonah the person they lift, with waw advancing to the casting action.. The plural waw-consecutive verb reports the crew lifting Jonah as the first step in the action that immediately calms the sea.. Attached to the sailors as they lift Jonah before casting him overboard. Governed by their final response after prayer, reluctance, and failed rowing. This occurrence does not carry the sin-bearing sense found in other contexts or portray the sailors as eager executioners.
What does Then they picked up emphasize about the sailors' action? The plural form shows the crew jointly carrying out the step they had resisted, immediately before casting Jonah into the sea.
Direct: Then they picked up captures the waw-linked sequence, plural subject, and literal lifting required by the following action.
The verb has broad lifting and carrying senses, but Jonah as object and cast into the sea establish physical lifting here. The narrative reports the act within an extraordinary divine storm; it does not create a repeatable procedure for communal crises.
Same lexeme means same theology everywhere: H5375 can bear sin in Isaiah and lift a person here; objects and clauses determine the occurrence sense. narrative resolution authorizes imitation: The storm's miraculous context and the sailors' prayer make this a unique event, not a general ethical rule.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
At Jonah 1:15, the source token וַיִּשְׂאוּ֙ is H5375, Conj-w | V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3mp. The BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
נָשָׂא is the lemma behind Then they picked up here. Within Jonah 1:15, H5375 retains this exact lexical identity.
The third masculine plural Qal form makes the sailors the actors and Jonah the person they lift, with waw advancing to the casting action.
Only after trying to reach land and appealing to the Lord do the sailors lift Jonah and cast him into the sea, whereupon the storm stops.
The scene displays both human reluctance and divine sovereignty, while later typological readings must respect this occurrence's ordinary physical action.
Explain picked up as literal lifting by the plural crew and keep their prior compassion and prayer in view.
Do not import the Servant song's burden-bearing sense into this H5375 occurrence or present throwing a person overboard as a general moral remedy.