G2540

• {"n":"kairos","s":"Time. The right moment, as against time on a clock.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=kairos","r":"Mark 1:15","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads time, season, or occasion."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**Timing is everything.** **What time is it?** English uses one word for both and you never confuse them, because the sentence around it does the work."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Kairos is an opportune or decisive moment. Chronos is duration, clock and calendar time. Mark 1:15 is about a moment having arrived, not about a date."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English has one noun and supplies the distinction with adjectives, so a word that means the decisive moment reads as a neutral word for time."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"Where a language has two words and yours has one, the choice between them is information you will never see in translation."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Time is the majority rendering; season and appointed time appear where the decisive sense is unmistakable."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03ba\u03b1\u03b9\u03c1\u03cc\u03c2 kairos \u00b7 G2540"}],"src":["kairos at Mark 1:15; Romans 5:6; Galatians 6:9","chronos at Acts 1:7 alongside kairos","Both nouns together at 1 Thessalonians 5:1"]}