G2222

• {"n":"zoe","s":"Life. Greek has a second word for life as a span, and John never uses it.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=zoe","r":"John 10:10","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads life for both Greek words. Nothing distinguishes them."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**He lived a long life.** **He is full of life.** Two different ideas in one English noun, and you sort them by context without noticing."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Zoe is life as animating principle. Bios is life as a span or a livelihood, and it is the word behind biography and biology. John uses zoe around thirty-six times in his Gospel and bios not once."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English collapsed the two, so a statement about a kind of life reads as a statement about a length of time."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When a writer consistently uses one of two available words, the avoidance is as informative as the choice."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Life is the majority and only rendering for both. The distinction lives in commentaries and footnotes."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03b6\u03c9\u03ae zoe \u00b7 G2222"}],"src":["bios at Luke 8:14; 1 John 2:16; 1 Timothy 2:2","zoe aionios at John 3:16; 17:3","John 17:3 defines the life by knowing God rather than by duration"]}