There are many passages that can be translated in more than one way, so do not automatically think any differences are wrong. To judge differences, you need to have good resources. A Bible dictionary is not qualified for the task, but well accepted lexicons are needed. The Hebrew/English lexicon that has wide acceptance is the Brown-Driver-Briggs-Gesenius Lexicon, and there are three widely accepted Greek/English lexicons: New Thayer; Bauer Arndt and Gingrich; and Liddel & Scott. Liddell Scott is the most authoritative, even including Classic Greek words, not just Koine Greek. All those lexicons are available on Amazon and other websites. Brown-Driver-Briggs-Gesenius for Hebrew and New Thayer for Greek have Strong’s numbers so you do not need to know Hebrew or Greek to use either of them. Jay P. Green’s Interlinear Bible has Strong’s numbers so you will need that too, also available from Amazon.
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This article is one of 839 in the four-volume One New Man Bible Companion by Rev. William J. Morford: commentary, word studies, myths corrected, Jewish roots, and maps.
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