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Hebrew and Greek Without Learning Either
A walk through Genesis, the Psalms, and John, plus the key Hebrew and Greek words worth knowing. Each card is a place the English Bibles part company, and what in the Hebrew or Greek made them.
John 12:32
I will draw all men unto me. The same verb as the drawing in chapter six.
John 12:32, in every translation this tool compares.
He pulled them in. Said of a fisherman and of a preacher, and the force differs entirely with the object.
Because the two verses use one verb about two different subjects, and reading them together is how you find out how forceful the word is.
Versions read draw all people, or draw everyone. All men in the King James; all people in most modern versions.
ἑλκύω helkuo · G1670
Helkuo again, as at 6:44. Here the subject is Christ lifted up and the object is all. Whether all means all without exception or all without distinction is the argument, and the verb does not settle it.
English draw carries the same range, so the question is preserved rather than created.
Read every occurrence of a verb across a book before deciding how strong it is. One verse is not a sample.
Draw all people is what most modern versions print; all men is the King James.
- helkuo at John 6:44; 12:32; 18:10; 21:6, 11
- Acts 16:19; 21:30; James 2:6
- The absence of an object noun after all
