Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

At 01:29 PM 12/22/2004, you wrote:

> Jim,
>
> That's not the technical sense of "paraphrase" to which Peter refers.  In
> the technical sense a translation begins with the text in the original
> language while a paraphrase begins from an existing translation of the
> text.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=paraphrase

Amazon.com also has some good dictionary's.  I recommend everyone have 
one.  Especially those who discuss words and their meanings.



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