G1042

• {"n":"John 19:13","s":"The Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha. Another gloss, in the other direction.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=john-19-13","r":"John 19:13","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version keeps both names."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"Writing **the Underground, or as Americans say the subway** tells a reader where you think they live."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Lithostrotos is Greek for a stone pavement. Gabbatha is Aramaic, probably meaning a ridge or height, and it is not a translation of the Greek but a different name for the same place. John calls it Hebrew, which in this period regularly means Aramaic."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"Nothing is lost. The reversal of order and the fact that the two names are not equivalents are the details worth noticing."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When a writer gives two names for one place, check whether the second translates the first or merely renames it. Often it renames."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Both names are printed in every version; Aramaic appears in modern footnotes where the text says Hebrew."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u0393\u03b1\u03b2\u03b2\u03b1\u03b8\u03ac Gabbatha \u00b7 G1042"}],"src":["John's other glosses: 1:38, 41-42; 9:7; 19:17; 20:16","Hebraisti used of Aramaic in this period","Gabbatha not a translation of lithostrotos"]}