Hades, Tartarus, Gehenna all rendered "hell"--Loyal translation?

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Thu Dec 30 14:59:20 EST 1999


Sounds logical and reasonable enough, as you suggest, to just transliterate those
words and footnote them.  As for TARTAROW, why not something like "thrust them down
into Tartarus," as Kenneth Wuest translates it?  (Again, with a footnote, probably
citing the LXX of Job 40:15,  where the substantive form EN TWi TARTARWi  ("in the
deep," Brenton)  is found.

Solomon Landers
Memra Institute for Biblical Research
http://www.memrain.org

Steven Craig Miller wrote:

> To: Grant Polle, Dr. Theodore "Ted" H. Mann, et al.
>
> GP: << I have noticed for many years that some bible translators render
> Hades, Tartarus, and Gehenna all by the one word "hell." Despite
> theological meanings that we each may assign, doesn't it seem logical that
> a difference should be illustrated? >>
>
> THM: << If distinctions of meaning exist between terms in Greek, those
> distinctions should be reflected in English (or any other receptor
> language).  >>
>
> How does one determine (for example) if the author of 2 Peter was using the
> Greek verb TARTAROW (which is only used once at 2 Peter 2:4) with a meaning
> significantly different from similar terms?
> <snip>




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