Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 17/11/2005 23:58, Robert Newman wrote:

> Peter to Rolf
> Well, why did the NWT translators always render nephesh and `olam for 
> example with the same English word, when these Hebrew words have a wide 
> range of meaning?
>
> If I may inteject, this is not correct, NWT uses one word for each concept AS FAR AS THE CONTEXT PERMITS. 
> Olam is NOT always translated "time/s indefinite". ...

Well, thank you for the correction, but Rolf must have misled us because 
I am almost certain that he said that these renderings are entirely 
consistent (one word for each word, NOT one word for each concept!) 
regardless of the context.

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