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• {"n":"hamartia","s":"Sin. The word carries an image of a shot that misses.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=hamartia","r":"Romans 3:23","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads sin. No dispute exists about the rendering."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**He missed.** That tells you the arrow went somewhere else. It does not tell you why, or whether he was aiming."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"The root sense involves failing to hit, and Greek used it of an archer and of a traveller losing a road. Whether that image was live for New Testament writers is a separate question from whether it is the word's origin, and mostly it was not."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English sin is a purely moral and religious word with no physical picture in it at all."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"An origin is not a definition. Missing the mark is where the word came from, not what Paul means by it, and preaching the etymology as the meaning is the commonest word-study error there is."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Every English version reads sin, and no translator has proposed an alternative."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u1f01\u03bc\u03b1\u03c1\u03c4\u03af\u03b1 hamartia \u00b7 G266"}],"src":["The etymological fallacy described in Carson, Exegetical Fallacies","Judges 20:16 in the Septuagint uses the verb of slingers who do not miss","Romans 5-7 defines the word by what it does, not by its root"]}