G4101

• {"n":"John 12:3","s":"Ointment of spikenard, very costly. The adjective is a word nobody has settled.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=john-12-3","r":"John 12:3","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Versions read pure nard, genuine nard, or expensive perfume made of pure nard."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"A recipe with one ingredient nobody can identify. You can still cook it. You just cannot say what it was."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Pistikes qualifies the nard. Proposals include faithful hence genuine, from pistis; liquid, from a different root; a place of origin; and a trade term. All are guesses and the lexicons say so."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English has to print something, and pure is the usual guess with no marker that it is one."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When a lexicon entry lists four unrelated possibilities, the word is undetermined and your translation has quietly chosen one."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Pure nard is the majority modern rendering."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c2 pistikos \u00b7 G4101"}],"src":["pistikos at John 12:3 and Mark 14:3 only","The competing proposals set out in BDAG","No secure attestation outside these two verses"]}