The Hebrew morat describes something plucked clean, made smooth, or polished — bare of covering or hair. It derives from the verb marat, meaning to pull out, pluck, or make bare.
The Suffering Servant passage in Isaiah uses the related verb marat powerfully: 'I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting' (Isaiah 50:6). This prophetic description of humiliation and voluntary submission to suffering finds its ultimate fulfillment in the passion of Jesus Christ. What begins as a description of exposed, undefended flesh becomes the portrait of the Messiah willingly bearing the shame and suffering that accomplishes redemption. The plucked, bare, polished state represents total vulnerability taken on for others.