What Does Isaiah 53:12 Mean in the King James?
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The living self poured out to death becomes the one who receives a portion and shares the spoil.
THE MEANING
This verse places before you a servant whose living self is poured out to death, counted among rebels, and carrying the missing of many. The same servant receives a portion with the great, shares the spoil with the strong, and intercedes for those named rebels.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that rebellion places a person beyond intercession: the verse names intercession for the very people it names rebels.
THE ROOT
נַפְשׁוֹ
nafsho
GROWS FROM
נפש
The verbal root means to refresh or be refreshed; the noun names the living self, the living soul.
The word translated “soul” names the living self, not a detachable part of a person. When that self is poured out to death, the verse describes a life given in its fullness.
ALSO GROWS
nephesh: Living soul; the self as a living being.
נֶפֶשׁ
This noun names the very self the verse says is poured out.
naphash: To refresh oneself or be refreshed.
נָפַשׁ
The verbal branch carries the sense of restored vitality, sharpening the cost of the living self poured out here.
פֹּשְׁעִים
poshe'im
GROWS FROM
פשע
To break away; to rebel.
“transgressors” in this verse is poshe'im. The Hebrew names these people by rebellion, and repeats the same word for those among whom the servant is counted and those for whom he intercedes. The verse holds identification with rebels and intercession for rebels together.
ALSO GROWS
pesha: Rebellion; breaking away.
פֶּשַׁע
This noun gives the nature of the transgressors named in the verse.
poshea: A rebel; one who breaks away.
פֹּשֵׁעַ
The person formed by this root is both included in the servant’s count and met by his intercession.
נָשָׂא
nasa
GROWS FROM
נשא
To lift, carry, or bear.
The word translated “bare” carries the sense of lifting and bearing. The verse presents the many’s missing as something the servant carries, not as an abstraction left untouched.
ALSO GROWS
nasa: To lift, carry, or bear.
נָשָׂא
This is the verb used for bearing the many’s missing in the verse.
massa: A burden or load.
מַשָּׂא
The related noun makes the carrying tangible: what is borne is a load.
THE PATTERN
A life poured into suffering and death becomes the source of fruit, alignment, and shared honor for many.
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.THE THREAD
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.נֶפֶשׁ (nephesh), meaning living soul, appears in both verses: in verse 11 it is in travail, and in verse 12 it is poured out to death. The shared word links the many’s alignment to the servant’s whole living self given.
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