Translator Notes
Our volunteer translators have written many notes about difficult passages. Here are all the notes in alphabetical order.
1
- 1 Chronicles 20:3 – sawed in half?
- 1 Corinthians 14:22 – Why the wrong way around?
- 1 Corinthians 14:33-35 — Women, Be Silent
- 1 Corinthians 15:33 – ‘bad company’ or ‘evil communications?’
- 1 Corinthians 6:9 – ‘the perverted’
- 1 Corinthians 8:6 – everything made through Jesus, or everything in Jesus’ hand?
- 1 John 5:7-8 – ‘these three are one’
- 1 Kings 6:1 – How many years?
- 1 Maccabees 7:1 – In the 51st year?
- 1 Peter 2:8 Quoting Isaiah 8:14
- 1 Samuel 24:3 – Was Saul preparing himself, having a sleep, or having a poo?
- 1 Thessalonians 4:17 – Meeting in Heaven or in the Air?
- 1 Thessalonians 5:3 – ‘Peace and Security’?
- 1 Timothy 1:10 – fornicators, the sexually immoral, or whoremongers?
- 1 Timothy 1:18 – ‘fight in a good war’
- 1 Timothy 2:9-15 – verses about women
- 1 Timothy 3:16 – ‘he’ or ‘God’?
- 1,265 Days or 1,260 Days?
2
- 2 Corinthians 2:12 – ‘in the Lord’ or ‘by the Lord’?
- 2 Corinthians 2:17 – Peddlers of God’s word?
- 2 Peter 3:13 – New or Empty?
- 2 Peter 3:13 – New or Fresh?
- 2 Samuel 21:19 – Who killed GoliAth?
- 2 Samuel 6:14 – David dancing naked?
- 2 Thessalonians 1:9 – ‘with age-long ruin’
- 2 Timothy 2:19 – The mystery quote
3
A
- A ‘thousand’ years, or ‘thousands’ of years?
- Acts 3:20 – ‘proclaimed’ or ‘appointed’?
- Advocate, Helper, Comforter, or Savior?
- Age-long fire
- Age, Eternal, Perpetual, Everlasting, Immortal, or Forever?
- Amen
- Amos 1:6 and 1:9 – Captives of Solomon?
- Amos 7:1 – ‘Gog the Grasshopper King’
- Ancient Coins
- Ancient Measurements
- ‘Anointed’ or ‘Christ’?
- Antichrist or false anointed one?
- Ark of the Covenant = Chest of Proofs, Chest of the Sacred Agreement
- ‘Ark’ or ‘Chest’?
- Armageddon
- ArtaXerxes or ArthaSastha?
- Astin
B
- BaAl, BeEl, Bel, and El
- Baptism or Immersion?
- Bel or Marduk?
- Bless or Praise?
- Blest or Happy?
- Breath or Spirit?
- Breath or Wind?
- Brotherly love, brotherly affection, or brotherly kindness?
C
- ‘Chief,’ ‘head,’ or ‘foundation’ cornerstone?
- Colossians 2:9-10 – ‘Bodily Divinity’
- Consecrated = Perfect
- Cosmos, Era, Eternity, Arrangement, or World?
- Crowns, Garlands, Turbans, and Diadems
D
- Daniel 10:6 (Old Greek) — Turned away my sides?
- Daniel 8:13 - Who is Phelmouni?
- Daniel 9:1 – Darius the Mede, ‘of Xerxes’
- Daniel 9:24 – Anoint the ‘Most Holy’ or the ‘Holiest of the Holy?’
- Daniel Old Greek 9:26: 7, 70, 62
- Darius the Mede in Daniel
- Death – literal or figurative?
- Death or Plague?
- Denarius
- Destruction, loss, perdition, or ruin?
- Deuteronomy 10:22 – 70 or 75 persons?
- Deuteronomy 18:22 – ‘have nothing to do with him’
- Did an Angel Want to Kill Moses?
- Downpour
- Dragons
E
- Ecclesiastes 11:1 – ‘Bread on water’
- Ekklesias - Assembly, Congregation, or the Called Ones?
- Empowering the Priests
- Ephesians 4:8 quoting Psalm 68:18 – Gifts to, from, or in men?
- Ephesians 4:8 quoting Psalm 68:18 – Taking captivity itself captive?
- Eroticism in the Bible
- Esther / HadasShah
- Eue, Euan, or Eve?
- Eunuchs
- ‘Executed’ or ‘raised up’ or ‘crucifed’?
- Exodus 20:13 – ‘kill’ or ‘murder’?
- Ezekiel 1:1 – ‘30th year’
F
- Fear and Respect
- Fool, Foolish, or Uncaring?
- Fornication or Sexual Immorality?
- Fountains or Springs?
- Freshly New
- Funeral
G
- Gadflies or Stable Flies?
- Garbage Dump
- Genesis 11:2 – ‘from the east’ or ‘eastward?’
- Genesis 2:12 – Coal or red gemstone?
- Genesis 2:4 – ‘this was the scroll’
- Genesis 21:22, 32 – ‘Ochozath’
- Genesis 4:7
- Genesis 5:1– ‘this was the scroll’
- Gentiles, Nations, Other races, or Ethnics?
- Gnats or Fleas?
- God’s Name – incorrectly restored to the Hebrew text?
- God’s Name in Christian Texts: Categories A and B
- God’s Name in Christian Texts: Categories A and C
- God’s Name in Christian Texts: Categories A and D
- God’s Name in Christian Texts: Categories A and E
- God’s Name in Christian Texts: Categories A and F
- God’s Name in Christian Texts: Categories A, B, and C
- God’s Name in Christian Texts: Categories A, B, and D
- God’s Name in Christian Texts: Categories A, B, and E
- God’s Name in Christian Texts: Categories A, B, and F
- God’s Name in Christian Texts: Categories A, B, E, and F
- God’s Name in Christian Texts: Categories A, C, and E
- God’s Name in Christian Texts: Categories B and D
- God’s Name in Christian Texts: Categories B and E
- God’s Name in Christian Texts: Categories B and F
- God’s Name in Christian Texts: Categories B, and C
- God’s Name in Christian Texts: Categories B, E, and F
- God’s Name in Christian Texts: Categories C and F
- God’s Name in Christian Texts: Categories D, and E
- God’s Name in Christian Texts: Categories D, E, and F
- God’s Name in Christian Texts: Category A
- God’s Name in Christian Texts: Category B
- God’s Name in Christian Texts: Category C
- God’s Name in Christian Texts: Category D
- God’s Name in Christian Texts: Category E
- God’s Name in Christian Texts: Category F
- ‘Great shakings’ or ‘earthquakes?’
- Grieve the spirit?
H
- Hades
- Hate, Dislike, or Care Less for?
- ‘Head’, ‘chief’, or ‘origin?’
- Heart or intellect?
- Heavens or Sky, Earth or Land?
- Hebrews 13:17– ‘have confidence in’
- Hebrews, IsraElites, Jews, and Semites
- His mouth was like the sea?
- 'His' Breath - Whose is it?
- Horeb or Sinai?
- ‘House to house’ or ‘in [private] homes’?
- House, Temple, or Palace?
- Hypocrite
I
- ‘In’ and ‘One’
- Interpolations
- Isaiah 14:12 – Bright or Howl?
- Isaiah 23:1 – ‘Carthage’ or ‘Tarshish?’
- Isaiah 28:16 quote in Romans 9:33 — The ‘stone of stumbling’ double quote
- Isaiah 45:7 – Did God create evil?
- Isaiah 7:16 - possible spurious words in LXX source
- Isaiah 7:8 – ‘six plus five years,’ or ’sixty-five years?’
J
- Jeremiah 31:37
- Jeremiah 37:5
- ‘Jew’
- John 1:1 – Why ‘a god?’
- John 7:38 – The non-quote
- John 8:51 – ‘never see death at all’?
- Jude 1:18: At the end of the season
K
- Kainan – did he exist?
- Kidneys or Emotions?
- 'Kill in Death?'
- ‘Kingdom of the heavens’ or ‘Kingdom of God’?
L
- Lamb or Little Lamb?
- Land of Ramesse or Gesem/Goshen?
- Land or Earth?
- Last Lamb/Ram
- Literal or figurative?
- Lost text in 1 Chronicles 11
- Luke 14:5 – ‘son’ or ‘donkey’?
- Luke 22:15 — ‘this passover’
- Luke 23:43 – today in paradise?
- Luke 4:44 – Galilee or Judea?
M
- Mandrakes
- Mark 16:8 – ‘because’
- Matthew 1:17 – The missing ancestor of Jesus
- Matthew 19:24 – ‘Camel’ or ‘Rope’?
- Matthew 2:23 – Quoting who?
- Matthew 24:34 – “this generation”?
- Matthew 25:1 – ‘and the bride’
- Matthew 27:9 – JeremiAh or ZechariAh?
- Matthew 28:19 - The baptism formula
- Matthew 5:3 – ‘humble’ or ‘poor in spirit?’
- Measure
- ‘Men That Have Sex with Men’
- ‘Messengers’ or ‘angels?’
- MordecAi
- Mystery
N
O
- OG Daniel 11:20 - Striking the king's glory?
- OG Daniel 11:21 – Take over in inheritance
- OG Daniel 11:22 – leader of the covenant?
- OG Daniel 11:24 — Strongholds and Plans
- OG Daniel 11:26 — Wounded and Slain
- OG Daniel 11:30 — 'Ships of Kittim' or 'Romans'?
- OG Daniel 11:30: 'He' or 'They'?
- OG Daniel 11:33: Worn Out by It
- OG Daniel 11:34 – Join with them by intrigue?
- OG Daniel 11:37 – Mighty nations subject to him?
- OG Daniel 11:37 – The desire of a woman/women?
- OG Daniel 12:12: Reach or Gather?
- OG Daniel 7:27-28 – ‘until the end of the matter’
- OG Daniel 8:10 – ‘who trampled who’
P
- P.S. and P.P.S.
- Parvaim or Pharaoh Aim?
- Paul’s letters
- People or Men?
- Perfect or unspotted?
- Philippians 2:6 - Equal to God? Seizing equality with God?
- Playing, or Playfully Making Fun
- Poetry in the Bible
- Pole, Tree, Stake, Upright, or Cross?
- Possible spurious text: Acts 7:16
- Possible spurious text: Matthew 24:3 – ‘the sign of your coming/presence and the end of the age’
- Priests or Rainbow?
- Pronunciation of ‘c’ and ‘ch’ in Greek, Aramaic, and Hebrew words
- Propitiatory
- Psalm 110:3 – ‘morning star’ or ‘womb of the dawn’?
- Psalm 119:120 (118:120 LXX) – Nail down my body?
R
- Reign? Or Reign as Kings?
- Reptiles and Birds
- Resurrection
- Revelation 11:15 – ‘our God’ or ‘our Lord’
- Revelation 11:18 — Ruin those ruining
- Revelation 12:13 — Persecuted, Chased, or Drove Away?
- Revelation 14:15 – has dried up?
- Revelation 2:22 – Bed, sickbed, mortuary couch, or coffin?
- Revelation 4:6-8: Cherubs, Animals, or Creatures?
- Revelation 6:5 — Scales or Yoke or Beam?
- Revelation 6:6 – Harm, Injure, Damage, Use, or Waste?
- Revelation 7:4-8 – The List of Tribes
- Revelation 8:4 – Ambiguous wording
- ‘Rhinoceros’ or ‘unicorn?’
- Romans 14:10 – Judgment seat of whom?
- Romans 16:7 – A woman named Junia or a man named Junias?
S
- ‘Signal of Release,’ or ‘Jubilee Year?’
- 'Son of Man' or 'Human Being'?
- Song of Solomon 5:10 – ‘white and red’
- Sons of the Bride Chamber
- Sop
- ‘Sor’ or ‘Tyre?’
- Soul
- Spanking
- Spiritism
- Spurious text: Matthew 27:52-53
- Spurious text: Revelation 20:5
- Stereoma – firmament, space, or expanse?
- Strike down the Shepherd
- ‘Stumble’ or ‘Trap?’
- Swearing an oath
- Synagogue
T
- ‘Tar pits’ or ‘slime pits?’
- Tartarus
- Tent
- Tent of Proofs
- Terah’s age when he begot Abram
- The ‘days’ in Genesis
- The ‘Opposer,’ ‘Evil One,’ ‘Slanderer,’ and ‘BeElZebub’
- The Book of Life
- The confusing lists of David’s mighty men
- The God
- The Gospel of Matthew
- The Great Sea
- The Lord's Day, is it Sunday?
- The Lord’s Prayer
- The Paradise of Delights, or the ‘Garden of Eden?’
- The prices in 1 Kings 10 and 2 Chronicles 1
- The Revelation and Truth, or Umim and Thummim?
- The Root or Origin of David/JesSe?
- The seven stars
- Translating ‘grace’ (caris and tayb’uwt’ah)
- Translating ‘wish him well’ (chairein)
- Translator bias: Literal or figurative flesh and blood?
- Tribulation
U
V
W
- Were David and Jonathan lovers?
- Who is ‘he’?
- Who was talking?
- Who Wrote the Book of Judges?
- Why 'Servants' Instead of 'Slaves'?
- Why do the Gospels report different last words of Jesus?
- Why Don't You Use the Word 'Leprosy'?
- ‘Why have you abandoned me?’ – Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34
- Why use the term ‘Christian?’
- Will stand up or stood against?
- Will teach others these things?
- Word of Judgment
- Worshiped, did obeisance, or bowed down?
- Wrong chapter separation between Matthew 27 and 28