G4611

• {"n":"John 9:7","s":"Siloam, which is by interpretation, Sent. John stops to translate again.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=john-9-7","r":"John 9:7","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version keeps the gloss, since it is in the text."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"A writer who stops to translate a place name is telling you two things: what it means, and that he expects you not to know."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Siloam is from Hebrew shiloach, from the root to send. John glosses it apestalmenos, sent, which is the perfect participle of the verb he uses of Jesus being sent by the Father over forty times in this Gospel."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"Nothing is lost. The connection between the gloss and John's vocabulary elsewhere is the part that has to be noticed rather than translated."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When a writer glosses a name, check whether the gloss uses vocabulary he uses elsewhere. The translation may be doing double duty."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"The gloss is printed in every version."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03a3\u03b9\u03bb\u03c9\u03ac\u03bc Siloam \u00b7 G4611"}],"src":["apostello of Jesus throughout John: 3:17, 34; 5:36; 17:3","shiloach from shalach, to send","Isaiah 8:6 on the waters of Shiloah"]}