עַמִּ֖י (‘am·mî) in Isaiah 53:8: Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
עַמִּ֖י (‘am·mî) in Isaiah 53:8
Source Word
At Isaiah 53:8, the Isaiah 53:8 source token עַמִּ֖י is H5971, N-msc | 1cs. The H5971 Isaiah 53:8 BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
Of My people preserves the construct relationship to transgression and makes the suffix's personal relation explicit. The song states that the Servant's fatal striking concerns the rebellion of a people whom the divine speaker claims as His own.
How To Communicate It
Ask what the suffix modifies before discussing theology: it says My people, while the construct chain places that people inside the phrase about transgression.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not attach My to transgression instead of people, and do not force the suffix to answer all later debates about the reach of the Servant's work.
- The suffix clearly identifies My people, but the poem and its discourse are needed to identify the speaker fully.
- Read of My people within Isaiah 53:8 as the H5971 occurrence; broader theology requires the passage.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-nominal
Noun
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
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Masculine
Singular
Construct
First person Common Singular
This nominal form carries no verbal aspect; its contribution is the relational identification of the people whose transgression is named.
The masculine singular construct form receives a first common singular suffix, yielding My people as the dependent term after transgression.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The construct phrase transgression of My people that gives the stated relation for the Servant's being stricken
The explanation following His removal by oppression and judgment and His being cut off from the land of the living
The construct noun people and first common singular suffix identify the people as belonging to the speaker within the phrase naming their transgression.
The suffix marks the speaker's relation to the people, not possession of their transgression, and morphology alone does not settle every question about the speaker or the people's full identity.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The song states that the Servant's fatal striking concerns the rebellion of a people whom the divine speaker claims as His own.
The masculine singular construct form receives a first common singular suffix, yielding My people as the dependent term after transgression.. The construct noun people and first common singular suffix identify the people as belonging to the speaker within the phrase naming their transgression.. Attached to the construct phrase transgression of My people that gives the stated relation for the Servant's being stricken. Governed by the explanation following His removal by oppression and judgment and His being cut off from the land of the living. The suffix marks the speaker's relation to the people, not possession of their transgression, and morphology alone does not settle every question about the speaker or the people's full identity.
What relationship does the first singular suffix express in My people? It presents the people as belonging to the speaker, while the larger phrase identifies their transgression in relation to the Servant's striking.
Direct: Of My people preserves the construct relationship to transgression and makes the suffix's personal relation explicit.
The suffix clearly identifies My people, but the poem and its discourse are needed to identify the speaker fully. Construct syntax links people to transgression without making the people themselves the grammatical cause in every possible sense.
Suffix attaches to transgression: The first singular suffix is carried by people; transgression stands as the head of the larger relationship. one possessive settles the atonement's extent: The phrase names the people in this line, while the whole song and canon are required for broader doctrinal conclusions. morphology replaces literary context: The H5971 form clarifies the of My people relation in Isaiah 53:8; the surrounding passage establishes its scope.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
At Isaiah 53:8, the Isaiah 53:8 source token עַמִּ֖י is H5971, N-msc | 1cs. The H5971 Isaiah 53:8 BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
עַם is the lemma behind of My people here. Within Isaiah 53:8, H5971 retains this exact lexical identity.
The masculine singular construct form receives a first common singular suffix, yielding My people as the dependent term after transgression.
The song states that the Servant's fatal striking concerns the rebellion of a people whom the divine speaker claims as His own.
Isaiah's Servant Song joins covenant belonging, human transgression, and the Servant's representative suffering without collapsing those claims into the suffix alone.
Ask what the suffix modifies before discussing theology: it says My people, while the construct chain places that people inside the phrase about transgression.
Do not attach My to transgression instead of people, and do not force the suffix to answer all later debates about the reach of the Servant's work.