G165

• {"n":"aion","s":"Age. The noun behind the adjective English renders eternal.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=aion","r":"Matthew 12:32","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Versions read age, world, or forever depending on the phrase. One noun behind all three."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**The Victorian age.** **Ages ago.** English uses the word both for a bounded era and for a vague long time, and you sort them instantly."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Aion is an age or era, and the New Testament regularly contrasts this age with the age to come. Rendered world in older English, as in the end of the world, which meant the end of the age."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English has age but uses world and forever in the fixed biblical phrases, so the temporal structure of this-age and the-age-to-come becomes invisible."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When one noun is rendered by three unrelated English words across one book, list them. The list is usually more instructive than the lexicon entry."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Age is the majority rendering in modern versions; the King James reads world in most of these places."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03b1\u1f30\u03ce\u03bd aion \u00b7 G165"}],"src":["this age and the age to come: Matthew 12:32; Ephesians 1:21","aion rendered world in the KJV: Matthew 24:3","aionios built on this noun"]}