Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Rolf Furuli" <furuli AT online.no>]

Dear Peter,

I have said that translators of a literal translation choose one English 
word for each Hebrew word whenever possible, and that this is possible in 
less than 10 percent of the Hebrew words.


Best regards

Rolf Furuli

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Kirk" <peter AT qaya.org>
To: "Robert Newman" <rob AT designceramics.co.uk>
Cc: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 12:38 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] NIV v' NWT translation policy


> 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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