Biblical Hebrew Forum

[peter_kirk AT sil.org]

"Sojourner" may be good for your interlinear because almost no-one 
knows at all accurately what it means, and where its original English 
meaning does not fit with Hebrew "ger". On the other hand, if you 
expect "the user... to have to look up the Hebrew dictionary to 
understand the meaning", then what's the point of doing the 
interlinear?

Meanwhile, if NIV is going to replace modern English words by obsolete 
ones used only by KJV and those who read it, then they will find 
themselves losing at least one reader, myself. Bruce Waltke may be a 
fine Hebrew scholar, but please let decisions like this be made by 
good English stylists.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re: b-hebrew digest: July 08, 1999
Author:  manstey AT portal.ca at internet
Date:    10/07/1999 11:19


Gday all,

Thanks for your your input on ger. Just to clarify, the interlinear is not 
one-word-per-stem or computer generated, so we will use a range of words 
whenever necessary, but we like to try to find the word that covers the 
largest single block of the total semantic domain of each term. So ger will 
obviously have a few different translations in the interlinear, it is trying 
to find the base English word that will serve in the majority of cases that 
is difficult.

I spoke to Bruce Waltke today about the work htey are doing on the NIV and 
he said they haven't tackled this particular problem yet, only that they 
have decided to drop "alien" due to E.T. etc. He personally likes 
"sojourner" as several others on this list have suggested. The problem is of 
course that for many people this word is fairly opaque. Which may also make 
it useful since the user will tend to have to look up the Hebrew dictionary 
to understand the meaning.

With regards,
Matthew Anstey
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