מֵאֶ֣רֶץ (mê·’e·reṣ) in Isaiah 53:2: Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct
מֵאֶ֣רֶץ (mê·’e·reṣ) in Isaiah 53:2
Source Word
At Isaiah 53:2, the source token מֵאֶ֣רֶץ is H776, Prep-m | N-fsc. The BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
Ground is a natural contextual rendering of the noun, while from represents the attached min preposition. The dry-ground image makes the Servant's growth appear unlikely and unimpressive before the onlookers who find no outward majesty in him.
How To Communicate It
Explain from ground as part of the root comparison before drawing attention to the contrast between divine purpose and human evaluation.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not turn dry ground into a coded claim about the Servant's ancestry, sinlessness, or historical geography.
- The preposition can mark source or separation; in the plant image both senses converge on emergence from an inhospitable setting.
- Read ground within Isaiah 53:2 as this H776 occurrence; broader theology requires the passage.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-nominal
Noun
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct
Not applicable
Not applicable
Not applicable
Feminine
Singular
Construct
Preposition m
None
As a prepositional noun phrase, the form locates the root image; it carries no verbal tense or aspect.
The preposition min is attached to a feminine singular construct noun, linking ground closely with the following description dry.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The root image that describes the Servant's unpromising appearance
The comparison of his growth to a root emerging from dry ground
The prefixed preposition marks the dry ground as the setting or source from which the pictured root emerges.
The phrase does not identify the Servant with the ground or make the noun a statement about his moral character.
How Much The Form Matters Here
Moderate: The dry-ground image makes the Servant's growth appear unlikely and unimpressive before the onlookers who find no outward majesty in him.
The preposition min is attached to a feminine singular construct noun, linking ground closely with the following description dry.. The prefixed preposition marks the dry ground as the setting or source from which the pictured root emerges.. Attached to the root image that describes the Servant's unpromising appearance. Governed by the comparison of his growth to a root emerging from dry ground. The phrase does not identify the Servant with the ground or make the noun a statement about his moral character.
Why does the phrase say the root grows from dry ground? The prepositional phrase intensifies the unlikely, unpromising appearance of the Servant's emergence.
Direct: Ground is a natural contextual rendering of the noun, while from represents the attached min preposition.
The preposition can mark source or separation; in the plant image both senses converge on emergence from an inhospitable setting. The construct analysis binds the noun to its dry description without making the two words a technical title.
Preposition supplies hidden biography: The min phrase serves the root simile; it does not independently encode the Servant's parentage or birthplace. lexical range overrides the image: Although the noun can mean earth or land, the root and dryness context supports ground here.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
At Isaiah 53:2, the source token מֵאֶ֣רֶץ is H776, Prep-m | N-fsc. The BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
אֶרֶץ is the lemma behind ground here. Within Isaiah 53:2, H776 retains this exact lexical identity.
The preposition min is attached to a feminine singular construct noun, linking ground closely with the following description dry.
The dry-ground image makes the Servant's growth appear unlikely and unimpressive before the onlookers who find no outward majesty in him.
God's saving purpose can arrive without the visible grandeur people expect, but this image should remain anchored to the Servant portrait.
Explain from ground as part of the root comparison before drawing attention to the contrast between divine purpose and human evaluation.
Do not turn dry ground into a coded claim about the Servant's ancestry, sinlessness, or historical geography.