Biblical Hebrew Forum

["K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Bruce:

On 6/28/07, Bruce Meltzer <bmeltzer1243 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> The term "mi pesha ami nega lamo" in Isaiah 53:8 is usually translated as: "from the 
> transgressions of my people, a plague befell them (lamo)."  The "them" is usually understood 
> to be the servant i.e. Israel.
"Usually translated"? Not being a connoisseur of translations, I
cannot say that I have sampled all, nor even a large number, but of
those I have seen into different languages, only one is so translated,
which in my limited sample makes it an exception to the rule, not
"usually".

Karl W. Randolph.