G2646

• {"n":"Luke 2:7","s":"No room at the inn. The word is not the word for inn, and Luke uses the right one two chapters later.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=luke-2-7","r":"Luke 2:7","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Most versions still read inn. The CSB and NET read guest room, and the NIV now reads guest room with a note."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**There was no room at the hotel.** **There was no room in the spare bedroom.** One word swap, and you have changed who was there, who turned them away, and whether anyone was unkind. Nouns carry scenery."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"The word is kataluma, a place to unloose or lodge, used of the upper guest room where Jesus eats the Passover in Luke 22:11. When Luke means a commercial inn, in the parable of the Good Samaritan, he uses a different word, pandocheion."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English inn drags in an innkeeper, a no-vacancy sign and a family turned away in the cold, none of which is in the Greek. The picture is closer to a village house whose guest space was full, with the family moved in among the animals under the same roof."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When a translation gives you a scene, check whether the scene is in the words. The innkeeper of every nativity play does not appear in any Gospel. He is an inference from one English noun."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Inn has four hundred years of tradition and the Latin diversorium behind it. Guest room has Luke's own usage two chapters later, and the absence of the word he uses elsewhere for an inn. The lexical argument is fairly one-sided."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03ac\u03bb\u03c5\u03bc\u03b1 kataluma \u00b7 G2646"}],"src":["Kenneth E. Bailey, Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes, ch. 1","Luke 22:11 and Mark 14:14 use kataluma of the upper room; Luke 10:34 uses pandocheion of an inn","Published: jayms.com\/the-birth-of-jesus-kataluma"]}