H6588

• {"n":"pesha","s":"Transgression. A relational breach, closer to rebellion than to a slip.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=pesha","r":"Isaiah 53:5","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Versions read transgression or rebellion."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**He broke with them.** That is not a mistake. It is a decision about a relationship."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Pesha is used of political revolt as well as of sin against God, which is what fixes its flavour. Where chatta't is failure and avon is crookedness, pesha is deliberate breach."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English transgression sounds like crossing a line in a rulebook rather than breaking with a person."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"Where a language has three words for one English idea, the three are a set. Learn them together or you will flatten all three."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Transgression is the majority rendering; rebellion appears where the political sense is clear."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u05e4\u05b6\u05bc\u05e9\u05b7\u05c1\u05e2 pesha \u00b7 H6588"}],"src":["pesha of political revolt: 1 Kings 12:19; 2 Kings 8:20","The three nouns together: Exodus 34:7; Psalm 51:1-2","Isaiah 53:5, 8"]}