Changes

The rate of [[devolution of language]] may be increasing as communications increase.  If a word inevitably alters its meaning after an approximate number of uses, then the time period for the change in meaning will shorten due to improved technology, just as the length of a [[sound bite]] likewise shortens.  In the [[internet]] era, combating the effect of language degradation on the understanding of the [[Bible]] becomes more important.

The rate of [[devolution of language]] may be increasing as communications increase.  If a word inevitably alters its meaning after an approximate number of uses, then the time period for the change in meaning will shorten due to improved technology, just as the length of a [[sound bite]] likewise shortens.  In the [[internet]] era, combating the effect of language degradation on the understanding of the [[Bible]] becomes more important.

As a first step to the Bible Retranslation Project, it is useful to identify modern terms having changing, unclear or altered meaning, which appear in important passages in translations of the Bible into the corresponding modern language:

As a first step to the Bible Retranslation Project, it is useful to identify modern terms having changing, unclear or altered meaning, which appear in important passages in translations of the Bible into the corresponding modern language. This will help avoid cliché and the repetition of culturally-familiar but suboptimal passages while producing a superior rendition from the original Hebrew and Greek into idiomatic modern English.

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|The man/person/human being

|The man/person/human being

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|χάρις

|"grace"

|"grace"

|"From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another." John 1:16 ([[NIV]])

|"From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another." John 1:16 ([[NIV]])