G1651

• {"n":"John 16:8","s":"Reprove the world of sin. One verb, three objects, and no agreed rendering.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=john-16-8","r":"John 16:8","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"The King James reads reprove. Modern versions read convict, prove the world to be in the wrong, or convince."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**He showed them up.** **He talked them round.** Two different operations, and English keeps them apart."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Elencho covers exposing a fault, convicting in a legal sense, and convincing someone of the truth. All three senses are attested and the verse gives no decisive context, which is why the versions scatter."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English has separate words for each sense and no word that covers all three, so the translator must choose."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When four versions give four different verbs, the Greek word covers all four and none of them is wrong."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Convict is the modern reading; reprove is the King James; prove the world to be in the wrong is the NIV's expansion."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u1f10\u03bb\u03ad\u03b3\u03c7\u03c9 elencho \u00b7 G1651"}],"src":["elencho at Matthew 18:15; Ephesians 5:11; 1 Timothy 5:20","The three senses set out in BDAG","The three objects at John 16:9-11"]}