G1145

• {"n":"John 11:35","s":"Jesus wept. A different verb from the weeping of everyone else in the scene.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=john-11-35","r":"John 11:35","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads Jesus wept."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**She was wailing.** **He shed tears.** Two different sounds, and English has words for both."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Dakruo, to shed tears, occurs only here in the New Testament. The mourners at verse 33 klaio, which is loud lamentation. The contrast between the professional wailing and the quiet tears is in the vocabulary."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English wept covers both, so the contrast is invisible and the verse reads as the same activity as everyone else's."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When a narrative uses two different verbs for what looks like the same action, the difference is usually the description."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Wept is universal."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03b4\u03b1\u03ba\u03c1\u03cd\u03c9 dakruo \u00b7 G1145"}],"src":["Only occurrence of dakruo in the New Testament","klaio at John 11:31, 33; 20:11","The professional mourners at John 11:19, 31"]}