יִשְׂבָּ֔ע (yiś·bā‘) in Isaiah 53:11: Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
יִשְׂבָּ֔ע (yiś·bā‘) in Isaiah 53:11
Source Word
At Isaiah 53:11, the source token יִשְׂבָּ֔ע is H7646, V-Qal-Imperf-3ms. The BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
Be satisfied captures the verb's sense of reaching fullness or contentment, with and joining it to the preceding sight. Anguish does not have the final word: the Servant sees life, is satisfied, justifies many, and bears their iniquities.
How To Communicate It
Describe satisfaction as fulfilled purpose within the verse rather than as relief isolated from the many whom the Servant justifies.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not reduce satisfied to physical fullness or claim that the imperfect itself proves a detailed resurrection chronology.
- Some textual questions surround the phrase light of life, but the satisfaction verb still belongs to the positive outcome after anguish.
- Read and be satisfied within Isaiah 53:11 as this H7646 occurrence; broader theology requires the passage.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Qal
Imperf
Third
Masculine
Singular
Not applicable
None
The imperfect looks ahead to the Servant's fulfilled satisfaction beyond the anguish already named.
The third masculine singular Qal imperfect shares the Servant as subject and coordinates his future satisfaction with his seeing.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The Servant who sees light after the anguish of his soul
The sequence moving from anguish through sight to satisfaction
The Qal imperfect presents the Servant reaching satisfaction as the outcome paired with seeing the light of life.
The verb does not depict bodily appetite or imply that the suffering itself is emotionally pleasant.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: Anguish does not have the final word: the Servant sees life, is satisfied, justifies many, and bears their iniquities.
The third masculine singular Qal imperfect shares the Servant as subject and coordinates his future satisfaction with his seeing.. The Qal imperfect presents the Servant reaching satisfaction as the outcome paired with seeing the light of life.. Attached to the Servant who sees light after the anguish of his soul. Governed by the sequence moving from anguish through sight to satisfaction. The verb does not depict bodily appetite or imply that the suffering itself is emotionally pleasant.
What satisfies the Servant after the anguish of his soul? The clause presents him seeing the fruitful outcome of his work and reaching satisfaction within that promised result.
Direct: Be satisfied captures the verb's sense of reaching fullness or contentment, with and joining it to the preceding sight.
Some textual questions surround the phrase light of life, but the satisfaction verb still belongs to the positive outcome after anguish. The object of satisfaction is not stated directly; the following justification of many clarifies the fruitful setting without becoming a grammatical object.
Satisfaction means enjoyment of pain: The satisfaction follows anguish and concerns its accomplished outcome, not delight in suffering as suffering. imperfect form proves every event detail: The form points forward in the prophecy; it does not establish the full sequence apart from the passage.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
At Isaiah 53:11, the source token יִשְׂבָּ֔ע is H7646, V-Qal-Imperf-3ms. The BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
שָׂבַע is the lemma behind and be satisfied here. Within Isaiah 53:11, H7646 retains this exact lexical identity.
The third masculine singular Qal imperfect shares the Servant as subject and coordinates his future satisfaction with his seeing.
Anguish does not have the final word: the Servant sees life, is satisfied, justifies many, and bears their iniquities.
The Servant's suffering reaches a divinely purposed outcome, while the exact nature of his satisfaction is supplied by the surrounding work and reward.
Describe satisfaction as fulfilled purpose within the verse rather than as relief isolated from the many whom the Servant justifies.
Do not reduce satisfied to physical fullness or claim that the imperfect itself proves a detailed resurrection chronology.