G5550

• {"n":"chronos","s":"Time as duration. The other half of the pair, and the one English defaults to.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=chronos","r":"Acts 1:7","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads time."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**Chronic.** **Chronology.** English borrowed this root for exactly the duration sense and left the other one behind."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Chronos is extent of time, the ticking kind. Acts 1:7 uses both nouns in one sentence, times and seasons, which is the clearest place to see the pair."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English has no second noun, so the pairing at Acts 1:7 reads as an idiom rather than as two distinct ideas."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"Learn the pair, not the word. Half of what a Greek word means is which other word it was chosen over."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Time is universal."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03c7\u03c1\u03cc\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2 chronos \u00b7 G5550"}],"src":["chronos and kairos together at Acts 1:7 and 1 Thessalonians 5:1","English chronic, chronology, chronicle from this root"]}