G4637

• {"n":"John 1:14a","s":"Dwelt among us. The verb is built on the word for tent, and the whole Old Testament is inside it.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=john-1-14a","r":"John 1:14","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Modern versions read dwelt, or lived, or made his dwelling. Some add a footnote reading tabernacled."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**He stayed with us** against **he pitched his tent with us.** The second one is a picture, not just a fact. If your family has camped in the same spot for forty years, the second sentence means something to you that the first does not. That is the difference here."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Eskenosen is from skene, tent. The related noun is what the Septuagint uses for the tabernacle, the tent where God's presence settled among Israel. The verse is not saying the Word moved into the neighbourhood. It is saying the tabernacle happened again, in a body."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English dwelt is a plain word with no architecture in it. There is no English verb meaning to pitch a tent and take up residence as the presence of God, so the allusion has to be carried by a footnote or lost."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"Greek words built on concrete nouns often carry the noun with them. When a verb looks abstract in English, check what object it was built from, because the Septuagint may have been using that object for four hundred years already."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"No dispute about meaning. The dispute is whether to write tabernacled, which is precise and archaic, or dwelt, which is readable and flat. Every major version has chosen readable."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03c3\u03ba\u03b7\u03bd\u03cc\u03c9 skenoo \u00b7 G4637"}],"src":["Skene in the Septuagint for the tabernacle: Exodus 25-40 throughout","Revelation 21:3 uses the same verb of the final dwelling of God with humanity"]}