G3598

• {"n":"hodos","s":"Way. A road, and the first name the movement had for itself.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=hodos","r":"Acts 9:2","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads way, and the Way with a capital where the movement is meant."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**He is in the trade.** **She is in the Church.** Groups name themselves with ordinary nouns all the time, and the ordinariness is why the name sticks."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Hodos is a road or a journey, and by extension a manner of life. Acts calls the movement the Way six times, against two uses of Christian in the whole book (11:26; 26:28)."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English way is so general that a capital letter is the only signal, and the metaphor of a road being walked disappears."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"Capitalisation in an English New Testament marks a translator's judgment that a common noun is being used as a name."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Way is universal; the capitalised Way in Acts is standard across versions."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u1f41\u03b4\u03cc\u03c2 hodos \u00b7 G3598"}],"src":["the Way at Acts 9:2; 19:9, 23; 22:4; 24:14, 22","hodos as a road: Matthew 7:13-14","Christian first at Acts 11:26"]}