G5387

• {"n":"Romans 12:10","s":"Two Greek words for love welded into one, and English has to pick a phrase.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=romans-12-10","r":"Romans 12:10","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Modern versions read be devoted to one another in brotherly love, or love one another with brotherly affection."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"English glues words together too. **Homesick** is not a home and a sickness, it is one idea that needed two words to build. When you meet a glued word, take it apart and ask why those two."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Kindly affectioned is philostorgos, a compound of philos and storge. Brotherly love is philadelphia. The verse stacks the love you pick on top of the love you are born into and tells a congregation to treat each other as both."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English has no compound for this and no word for storge at all, so every version has to build a phrase. Kindly affectioned, devoted, affection: all of them are attempts to say family-feeling-toward-people-you-chose in words English does not have."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"Compound words are where a language shows you what it thinks goes together. When your translation reaches for a two-word phrase and a footnote, check whether the Greek was one word."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Nothing textual is in question. The renderings differ in how much of the family sense they try to carry, and devoted carries the least of it."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03c6\u03b9\u03bb\u03cc\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c1\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2 philostorgos \u00b7 G5387"}],"src":["The only occurrence of philostorgos in the New Testament","Compare philadelphia in the same verse, and at Hebrews 13:1; 1 Thessalonians 4:9"]}