H1320

• {"n":"Genesis 2:24","s":"One flesh. A kinship word, not only a body word.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=genesis-2-24","r":"Genesis 2:24","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads one flesh, and the physical union is certainly included. What is harder to see in English is that basar for kinship is ordinary Hebrew usage on its own, not a special sense invented for this verse."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**He's my flesh and blood.** English keeps this sense alive for family, but only as a fixed idiom, sitting beside the ordinary meaning of flesh as tissue. Hebrew basar carries the kinship sense as one of its normal, everyday meanings, not as a leftover expression."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Basar, flesh, is used of blood relatives at Genesis 29:14, Judges 9:2, and 2 Samuel 5:1, where 'your bone and your flesh' means your relative, with no reference to sex or the body. One flesh at 2:24 draws on that same kinship vocabulary: the man and woman become each other's next of kin, a new family unit, with the physical union as the sign of that bond rather than its entire content."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English flesh has narrowed mostly to the physical body, with flesh and blood surviving only as a fixed idiom for family. Hebrew basar keeps both senses live at once, so a single English reading tends to collapse the verse into the physical union alone."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When a body-part or body-substance word appears in a covenant or family context, check whether the same word carries a kinship sense elsewhere before assuming only the physical meaning is in view."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"One flesh is not in dispute as a translation. The question is emphasis: whether the phrase is chiefly about sexual union, chiefly about kinship status, or, as the parallel usage suggests, both at once by design."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u05d1\u05b8\u05bc\u05e9\u05b8\u05c2\u05e8 \u05d0\u05b6\u05d7\u05b8\u05d3 basar echad \u00b7 H1320 + H259"}],"src":["Kinship sense of basar: Genesis 29:14; Judges 9:2; 2 Samuel 5:1, 'your bone and your flesh'","Same phrase quoted at Matthew 19:5 and Ephesians 5:31"]}
• {"n":"basar","s":"Flesh, body, meat, and by extension kinship and human frailty.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=basar","r":"Genesis 2:24","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Versions read flesh, body, meat, or people according to context."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**My own flesh and blood.** English does the kinship sense already and nobody hears anatomy in it."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Basar is meat, the body, and all living creatures collectively, as in all flesh. The kinship sense at Genesis 2:24 and 29:14 is ordinary. Weakness rather than sinfulness is the moral edge it carries."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English flesh keeps the physical and the kinship senses, so most of the range survives; what does not survive is the collective sense of all living things."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"A New Testament word with a Hebrew word standing behind it deserves a look at that Hebrew range before you credit the Greek writer with inventing the usage."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Flesh is the majority rendering."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u05d1\u05b8\u05bc\u05e9\u05b8\u05c2\u05e8 basar \u00b7 H1320"}],"src":["basar as kinship: Genesis 29:14; 2 Samuel 5:1","all flesh: Genesis 6:12; Isaiah 40:5","Septuagint sarx for basar throughout"]}