GAR

Ethan Metsger ethanm at ccil.org
Mon Jun 24 00:43:59 EDT 2002


B-Greekers,

	In a few of my studies recently, I've done some version
comparisons and noted that the NIV seems to rarely translate GAR.  I'm not
an expert on the program, but my father ran a cross-linked search on the
NIV and the UBS GNT and found that the NIV didn't translate GAR 948
times.  (Without actually knowing how to run the queries, as simple as
they seemed, I don't want to say that for sure.)  In contrast, the KJV
translated GAR as "for" 990 times.

	Instead, it seems as though the translators of the NIV took GAR to
suggest paragraph or thought breaks.

	This led me to wonder a little bit about the force of GAR.  In
reading a few of the archived articles, I gained a little bit of
understanding about how it's used, but I was hoping for something a little
more comprehensive and cohesive.  I know there's no
"one-translation-fits-all" option, really, but I'm curious mainly about
the force of GAR and how it fits pieces together.

	(I figure this should be pretty easy to answer.  ;)


-Ethan Metsger (ethanm at ccil.org) (http://www.ccil.org/~ethanm/)




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