G3022

• {"n":"John 4:35","s":"White already to harvest. The colour word points at ripeness, and the verb is a command to look.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=john-4-35","r":"John 4:35","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"The King James reads white already to harvest. Modern versions read ripe for harvest or white for harvest."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**Golden.** English picked a different colour for the same idea. Colour words for ripeness are cultural and rarely transfer."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Leukos is white or bright. Applied to grain it indicates ripeness, since barley and wheat pale as they dry. Theasasthe is an aorist imperative, a command to look now."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English harvest imagery runs on gold rather than white, so the literal colour reads as odd and most versions substitute ripe."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"Colour terms rarely map between languages. When a colour seems wrong, ask what the colour was being used to indicate."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Most modern versions print ripe for harvest; white, the more literal option, is the King James choice."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03bb\u03b5\u03c5\u03ba\u03cc\u03c2 leukos \u00b7 G3022"}],"src":["leukos of clothing: Matthew 17:2; Revelation 3:4","The aorist imperative theasasthe","Compare the harvest imagery at Matthew 9:37"]}