[B-Greek] Was SKUBALON a swear/vulgar word?

Eric Weiss papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Sun May 22 23:35:34 EDT 2005


I think the question - at least the question for me - is whether or not SKUBALON / SKUBALA 
has the same rhetorical / social effect as our word "sh!t," which has been proposed in the past 
here as a modern-day equivalent of SKUBALON - as opposed to the milder "refuse," "dung," or 
even "crap" (which, like "sucks," has lost much of its original vulgarness or shock value). I.e., 
would a modern-English Bible that translated SKUBALA in Phil. 3:8 as "sh!t" be a correct and 
proper equivalent translation - or would it be a case of the translator pushing the envelope and 
in fact be more shocking to our ears and eyes than SKUBALA would have been to Paul's 
audience?
 
 


Eric S. Weiss


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