וִֽירַחֲמֵ֔הוּ (wî·ra·ḥă·mê·hū) in Isaiah 55:7: Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
וִֽירַחֲמֵ֔הוּ (wî·ra·ḥă·mê·hū) in Isaiah 55:7
Source Word
Isaiah 55:7 row 10 aligns H7355 with that He may have compassion between return to the Lord and freely pardon.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
That He may have compassion keeps the returning sinner as the suffix-marked recipient while making the Lord's merciful response the ground of hope. He represents the Lord as third-person subject, and the implicit him in have compassion on him is carried by the attached masculine singular suffix.
How To Communicate It
Follow the singular person through forsake, return, and the object suffix, then let compassion and free pardon explain why the invitation is hopeful.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not present divine compassion as an earned exchange or isolate it from seeking, forsaking, returning, and the Lord's free pardon.
- The conjunctive form participates in the appeal's purpose and result flow; its English force is set by the surrounding imperatives.
- The form does not make compassion a wage earned by reform, promise pardon without the return described in the verse, or let morphology define the full doctrine of repentance.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Piel
ConjImperf
Third
Masculine
Singular
Not applicable
Waw conjunction
Third person masculine singular
The waw-linked Piel conjunctive imperfect presents the Lord as masculine singular subject and attaches a masculine singular suffix for the wicked or unrighteous person who returns. The BSB's that He may follows the appeal's purpose and result movement.
The form directs hope away from the returner's abandoned way and toward the Lord who receives him with compassion.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The call for the wicked to forsake his way and return to the Lord
The invitation to seek and call on the near Lord, whose compassion is paired with God's abundant pardon
The form directs hope away from the returner's abandoned way and toward the Lord who receives him with compassion.
The form does not make compassion a wage earned by reform, promise pardon without the return described in the verse, or let morphology define the full doctrine of repentance.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The form puts the returning sinner directly within the reach of the Lord's compassion and anchors the invitation in mercy.
The waw-linked Piel conjunctive imperfect presents the Lord as masculine singular subject and attaches a masculine singular suffix for the wicked or unrighteous person who returns. The BSB's that He may follows the appeal's purpose and result movement.. The form directs hope away from the returner's abandoned way and toward the Lord who receives him with compassion.. Attached to the call for the wicked to forsake his way and return to the Lord. Governed by the invitation to seek and call on the near Lord, whose compassion is paired with God's abundant pardon. The form does not make compassion a wage earned by reform, promise pardon without the return described in the verse, or let morphology define the full doctrine of repentance.
On whom does the Lord have compassion in Isaiah 55:7? He has compassion on the wicked or unrighteous person who forsakes his way and returns, and the verse joins that compassion to abundant pardon.
Direct: He represents the Lord as third-person subject, and the implicit him in have compassion on him is carried by the attached masculine singular suffix.
The conjunctive form participates in the appeal's purpose and result flow; its English force is set by the surrounding imperatives. The suffix refers to the returning person, while our God in the parallel line broadens the statement of pardon.
The suffix detached from the returning person or the conjunctive imperfect made to carry the entire theology of pardon: Do not present divine compassion as an earned exchange or isolate it from seeking, forsaking, returning, and the Lord's free pardon. that He may have compassion read as uncertainty about the Lord's mercy or as payment earned by moral improvement: Keep "that He may have compassion" connected to וִֽירַחֲמֵ֔הוּ, row 10, and the full Isaiah 55:7 clause.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
Isaiah 55:7 row 10 aligns H7355 with that He may have compassion between return to the Lord and freely pardon.
This row 10 H7355 witness concerns the Lord's compassionate reception of a returning individual, distinct from Micah 7:19's communal confession and promise.
The waw-linked Piel conjunctive imperfect presents the Lord as masculine singular subject and attaches a masculine singular suffix for the wicked or unrighteous person who returns. The BSB's that He may follows the appeal's purpose and result movement.
Isaiah 55:6-7 calls the wicked and unrighteous to seek the Lord, abandon their ways and thoughts, and return because the Lord is compassionate and freely pardons.
This invitation belongs to Isaiah's proclamation of the Lord's generous mercy and higher ways; fuller accounts of repentance and forgiveness should honor the whole passage.
Follow the singular person through forsake, return, and the object suffix, then let compassion and free pardon explain why the invitation is hopeful.
Do not present divine compassion as an earned exchange or isolate it from seeking, forsaking, returning, and the Lord's free pardon.