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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 12:41
When he saw his glory. Some manuscripts read when, others read because.
John 12:41, in every translation this tool compares.
He said this when he saw it. He said this because he saw it. One conjunction, two different sentences.
Because the verse identifies whose glory Isaiah saw, and a one-word variant changes it from a statement about timing to a statement about cause.
The King James reads when. Most modern versions read because.
ὅτε hote / ὅτι hoti
Hote, when, appears in the later majority; hoti, because, in P66, P75, Sinaiticus and Vaticanus. The two words differ by one letter. Either way the verse says Isaiah saw his glory and spoke of him, which is a striking identification of the figure in Isaiah 6.
Not a translation question. The conjunction printed follows the Greek text chosen.
Single-letter variants between common conjunctions are among the most frequent in the manuscripts, and they change sentences more than their size suggests.
Because is how most modern versions render it; when is the King James.
- hoti in P66, P75, Sinaiticus, Vaticanus
- hote in the Byzantine majority
- Isaiah 6:1-10 quoted in the preceding verses
