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Isaiah 53:4

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

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אָכֵ֤ןakhenbutאָכֵןadverb — “but”H403firmly; figuratively, surely; also (advers.) butbut, certainly, nevertheless, surely, truly, verily.חֳלָיֵ֨נוּ֙cholayenvdiseaseחֳלִיnoun, common, masculine, plural, construct, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, plural — “disease”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH2483malady, anxiety, calamitydisease, grief, (is) sick(-ness).ה֣וּאhuas for herהוּאpronoun, personal, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “as for her”H1931he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or arehe, as for her, him(-self), it, the same, she (herself), such, that (...it), these, they, this, those, which (is), who.נָשָׂ֔אnasalift upנָשָׂאverb, qal, perfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “lift up”, a completed actionH5375to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relativeaccept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable…וּמַכְאֹבֵ֖ינוּumakhoveynvand griefמַכְאֹבconjunction, noun, common, masculine, plural, construct, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, plural — “and grief”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH4341anguish or (figuratively) afflictiongrief, pain, sorrow.סְבָלָ֑םsevalambe a burdenסָבַלverb, qal, perfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “be a burden”, a completed actionH5445to carry (literally or figuratively), or (reflexively) be burdensome; specifically, to be gravidbear, be a burden, carry, strong to labour.וַאֲנַ֣חְנוּvaanachnvand weאֲנַחְנוּconjunction, pronoun, personal, 1st person, common, plural — “and we”H587weourselves, us, we.חֲשַׁבְנֻ֔הוּchashavnuhvregardחָשַׁבverb, qal, perfect, 1st person, common, plural, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “regard”, a completed actionH2803properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute(make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.נָג֛וּעַnaguareachנָגַעverb, qal, passive participle, absolute — “reach”, a verb used as a describing wordH5060properly, to touch, i.e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphemistically, to lie with a woman); by implication, to reach (figuratively, to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.)beat, ([idiom] be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch.מֻכֵּ֥הmukehstrikeנָכָהverb, hophal, passive participle, construct — “strike”, a verb used as a describing wordH5221to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), [idiom] go forward, [idiom] indeed, kill, make (slaughter), murderer, punish, slaughter, slay(-er, -ing), smite(-r, -ing), strike, be stricken, (give) stripes, [idiom] surely, wound.אֱלֹהִ֖יםelohimGodאֱלֹהִיםnoun, common, masculine, plural, absolute — “God”, the ordinary formH430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlativeangels, [idiom] exceeding, God (gods) (-dess, -ly), [idiom] (very) great, judges, [idiom] mighty.וּמְעֻנֶּֽהumeunehand abase selfעָנָהconjunction, verb, pual, passive participle, absolute — “and abase self”, a verb used as a describing wordH6031to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)abase self, afflict(-ion, self), answer (by mistake for H6030 (עָנָה)), chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, exercise, force, gentleness, humble (self), hurt, ravish, sing (by mistake for H6030 (עָנָה)), speak (by mistake for H6030 (עָנ…

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

Surely our diseases he did bear, and our pains he carried; whereas we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

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American Standard Version (1901)

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Young’s Literal Translation

Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, And our pains — he hath carried them, And we — we have esteemed him plagued, Smitten of God, and afflicted.

World English Bible

Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

Darby Translation

Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; and we, we did regard him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Douay-Rheims

Surely he hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows: and we have thought him as it were a leper, and as one struck by God and afflicted.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

Surely our diseases he did bear, and our pains he carried; whereas we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

He bears our sins, and is pained for us: yet we accounted him to be in trouble, and in suffering, and in affliction.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Οὗτος τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἡμῶν φέρει, καὶ περὶ ἡμῶν ὀδυνᾶται, καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐλογισάμεθα αὐτὸν εἶναι ἐν πόνῳ, καὶ ἐν πληγῇ, καὶ ἐν κακώσει.

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Matthew 8:17 Matthew 8:17 · King James VersionThat it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.Matthew 8:17 · King James VersionOpen the Source
That it might be fulfilled · suffering servant: bore our sicknesses · NT explicit
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.