Isa 53:4 in Hebrew

[Andrew]

Hi, Does anyone here read Hebrew and have a Hebrew Bible?

What I need to know is what Isa 53:4 really says in the Hebrew:

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

Is it really "griefs" and "sorrows" or should it be "sicknesses" and "pains" (as in YLT translation).

How does the Hebrew Bible write/translate it?

tks!

 

[Y’VA–REKH’KHA ADONAI]

This is the translation from the Jewish Publishing Society, might help you.

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

 

[Y’VA–REKH’KHA ADONAI]

And by his stripes we WERE healed! Isaiah 53:5

 

[Andrew]

So is it wrong or misleading to translate it as "griefs" and "sorrows" (as do most English translations), instead of "sicknesses" and "pains" as it originally means?

 

[Andrew]

btw, anyone here from Israel?

My wife and I plan to visit Israel in end Dec early Jan with my church. Its a big church so we'll be leaving every Sat from the month of November to Jan in batches of 120.

It'll be exciting!

 

[sojeru]

no, see thing is most English translations are done from the septuagint (greek version of the hebrew) and it was never considered Holy by us Jews.
Yet it was made to keep the jews in alexandria egypt in accordance.
So its always better to learn the biblical hebrew and read and learn bible as that.

shalom u'bracha