G932

• {"n":"basileia","s":"Kingdom. Closer to kingship or reign than to a territory.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=basileia","r":"Mark 1:15","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads kingdom. A minority of study notes offer reign or rule."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**During the reign of Elizabeth.** **Across the kingdom.** English has both a rule word and a place word. Greek leans on the first."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Basileia can be a realm, but its primary force is the exercise of kingship. The Aramaic and Hebrew behind the Gospel phrase point the same way."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English kingdom is overwhelmingly territorial, so a phrase about God's reign arriving reads as a phrase about a place being established."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When an abstract noun in English sounds like a location, check whether the original was an activity. Rule words and place words drift into each other in every language."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Kingdom is the majority rendering by a wide margin and no major version has replaced it."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03b2\u03b1\u03c3\u03b9\u03bb\u03b5\u03af\u03b1 basileia \u00b7 G932"}],"src":["basileia as reign: Luke 19:12; Revelation 17:12","malkut in Hebrew and Aramaic carries the same emphasis","Matthew's kingdom of heaven is a reverent substitution for the same phrase"]}