פֹּשְׁעִ֖ים (pō·šə·‘îm) in Isaiah 53:12: Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
פֹּשְׁעִ֖ים (pō·šə·‘îm) in Isaiah 53:12
Source Word
At Isaiah 53:12, the Isaiah 53:12 source token פֹּשְׁעִ֖ים is H6586, V-Qal-Prtcpl-mp. The H6586 Isaiah 53:12 BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
The transgressors naturally renders the participle as a group label for people characterized by rebellion. The innocent Servant accepts the public place assigned to offenders, even as the verse distinguishes Him as the one who bears their sin and intercedes.
How To Communicate It
Contrast numbered with with being one of: the syntax locates the Servant among transgressors, while the song's testimony keeps His own innocence clear.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not infer the Servant's guilt from social classification, and do not let the participle's label erase the distinct actions of bearing sin and interceding.
- A substantival participle can identify a class without describing the timing or frequency of every person's acts.
- Read the transgressors within Isaiah 53:12 as the H6586 occurrence; broader theology requires the passage.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Qal
Prtcpl
Not applicable
Masculine
Plural
Not applicable
None
Participial form characterizes the group by conduct or status rather than locating one discrete transgression on a timeline.
The active participle is used as a plural noun, turning those who transgress into the designation the transgressors.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The prepositional phrase with the transgressors in the statement that the Servant was numbered among them
The Lord's explanation of the Servant's allotted victory because He poured out His life, bore sin, and interceded
The masculine plural Qal participle functions substantivally, naming people characterized by transgression as the group with whom the Servant was counted.
Being numbered with this group does not grammatically classify the Servant as a transgressor, and the participle does not define every member's individual offense.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The innocent Servant accepts the public place assigned to offenders, even as the verse distinguishes Him as the one who bears their sin and intercedes.
The active participle is used as a plural noun, turning those who transgress into the designation the transgressors.. The masculine plural Qal participle functions substantivally, naming people characterized by transgression as the group with whom the Servant was counted.. Attached to the prepositional phrase with the transgressors in the statement that the Servant was numbered among them. Governed by the Lord's explanation of the Servant's allotted victory because He poured out His life, bore sin, and interceded. Being numbered with this group does not grammatically classify the Servant as a transgressor, and the participle does not define every member's individual offense.
Does being numbered with the transgressors make the Servant one by grammar? No. The phrase describes the company in which He is counted, while the song distinguishes His innocence and representative action.
Direct: The transgressors naturally renders the participle as a group label for people characterized by rebellion.
A substantival participle can identify a class without describing the timing or frequency of every person's acts. Association through numbering concerns public treatment and placement, not necessarily shared moral character.
Numbered with means guilty like: The prepositional association places the Servant among offenders but does not assign their transgression to His character. participle exhausts each person's identity: The form names the group relevant to this line without reducing every person to a complete moral biography. morphology replaces literary context: The H6586 form clarifies the the transgressors relation in Isaiah 53:12; the surrounding passage establishes its scope.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
At Isaiah 53:12, the Isaiah 53:12 source token פֹּשְׁעִ֖ים is H6586, V-Qal-Prtcpl-mp. The H6586 Isaiah 53:12 BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
פָּשַׁע is the lemma behind the transgressors here. Within Isaiah 53:12, H6586 retains this exact lexical identity.
The active participle is used as a plural noun, turning those who transgress into the designation the transgressors.
The innocent Servant accepts the public place assigned to offenders, even as the verse distinguishes Him as the one who bears their sin and intercedes.
Isaiah 53 holds identification with sinners together with the Servant's innocence and representative work, preventing association from becoming moral equivalence.
Contrast numbered with with being one of: the syntax locates the Servant among transgressors, while the song's testimony keeps His own innocence clear.
Do not infer the Servant's guilt from social classification, and do not let the participle's label erase the distinct actions of bearing sin and interceding.