Hebrew Collective Singular is used frequently in the Hebrew text. Sometimes the word is translated with the plural and sometimes it is not, but the singular is used to point out the Collective Singular. In Isaiah 53:5, the word translated Wounds is a Collective Singular. When you see a singular in the One New Man Bible that obviously should be plural, know that the singular is there to show the Hebrew idiom.

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