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You can compare the different translations, even through the centuries, here: Vulgate, cc 4th century CE: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges+
by acqq 7y ago
You can compare the different translations, even through the centuries, here:
Vulgate, cc 4th century CE:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges+12%3A5-6&version=VULGATE https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges+12%3A5-6...
Luther, 1545:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges+12%3A6&version=LUTH1545 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges+12%3A6&v...
King James Bible (1611):
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges+12%3A6&version=KJV https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges+12%3A6&v...
Septuagint (the Greek translation, older than all above, around 3rd century BCE) didn't keep that word as is:
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/shibboleth-in-the-septuagint.2391146/ https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/shibboleth-in-the-se...
"the LXX scholars had difficulties translating the Hebrew word שבלת Shibboleth into Greek, for the simple reason, Greek lacks the phoneme [ʃ]"