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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 9:7
Siloam, which is by interpretation, Sent. John stops to translate again.
John 9:7, in every translation this tool compares.
A writer who stops to translate a place name is telling you two things: what it means, and that he expects you not to know.
Because John supplies the meaning of the pool's name in the middle of the narrative, and the word he gives it is the word he has used of Jesus throughout the Gospel.
Every version keeps the gloss, since it is in the text.
Σιλωάμ Siloam · G4611
Siloam is from Hebrew shiloach, from the root to send. John glosses it apestalmenos, sent, which is the perfect participle of the verb he uses of Jesus being sent by the Father over forty times in this Gospel.
Nothing is lost. The connection between the gloss and John's vocabulary elsewhere is the part that has to be noticed rather than translated.
When a writer glosses a name, check whether the gloss uses vocabulary he uses elsewhere. The translation may be doing double duty.
The gloss is printed in every version.
- apostello of Jesus throughout John: 3:17, 34; 5:36; 17:3
- shiloach from shalach, to send
- Isaiah 8:6 on the waters of Shiloah
