G5416

• {"n":"John 2:15","s":"A scourge of small cords. The noun occurs once in the New Testament and is a Latin word in Greek dress.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=john-2-15","r":"John 2:15","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Versions read whip or scourge of cords."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"English is full of borrowed words you never notice. **Restaurant**, **algebra**, **ketchup**. A borrowed word is a fingerprint of contact between two cultures."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Phragellion is the Greek spelling of Latin flagellum. It occurs only here in the New Testament. The related verb appears at Matthew 27:26 and Mark 15:15 of the scourging."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English doesn't lose anything here. The point is what the loan word shows about a Greek text written inside a Roman world."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"Loan words in a text date and place it. They are evidence about the writer's setting rather than about his meaning."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Whip is what most modern versions print; the King James reads scourge."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03c6\u03c1\u03b1\u03b3\u03ad\u03bb\u03bb\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd phragellion \u00b7 G5416"}],"src":["Only occurrence in the New Testament","Latin flagellum","The verb phragelloo at Matthew 27:26; Mark 15:15"]}