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lamo לָמוֹ lamo

A poetic pronoun meaning 'to THEM' — normally plural. It sits at the centre of a crux at Isaiah 53:8: 'from my people's transgression, a stroke lamo.' Read as a plural it points toward the servant being a people; read as one of the rare poetic singulars it points to an individual, and every English Bible on the shelf supplies a singular pronoun the Hebrew does not have there. The form CAN be singular, which is why this is a genuine crux and not a mistranslation — but the plainest reading of the word is plural. → first discussed at Isaiah 53:8