Discordant examples

Examples of how Greek words are rendered in the Authorised Version.

One of the most disturbing example of extreem discordant renderings are of the Greek word aiOn. In the following table show the renderings of aiOn and some other Greek words which have similar renderings.

Why use words (ever, world, age, eternal) which have very different meanings, but are a translation of only one word (aiOn) in the Greek? Why translate very different Greek words (aiOn, kosmos, oikoumene) with only one word in english (world)?

 

 

The introduction of the "Concordant Greek Text" gives an interesting example :
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Let us take an example from the so called Authorized Version. It translates twenty-one words depart. We will give the CONCORDANT standard of each and a passage, if possible, where they agree:

an-agO	UP-LEAD	they render led up (Mt.4:1) and departed (Ac.28:10).
par-agO	BESIDE-LEAD	pass by (Mk.2:14) is once departed (Mt.9:27).
hup-agO	UNDER-LEAD	go away (Jn.14:28) is rendered depart (Mk.6:33).
ana-luO	UP-LOOSE	is both return (Lu.12:36) and depart (Phil.1:23).
apo-luO	FROM-LOOSE	meaning release (Mt.27:26) or dismiss (Ac.15:30) is sometimes depart (Ac.28:25).
ana-chOreO	UP-SPACE	meaning retire, they render departed (Mt.2:12).
apo-chOreO	FROM-SPACE	is always correctly depart (Mt.7:23 Lu.9:39 Ac.13:13) as also in the CONCORDANT VERSION.
apo-chOrizO	FROM-SPACEize	they have tried to distinguish on one occasion by adding asunder (Ac.15:39), but in its other occurrences departed (Re.6:14). It means recoil.
chOrizO	SPACEize	separate (Ro.8:35) they have, on good grounds, rendered depart when it refers to a place (Ac.1:4; 18:1,2), and the English seems to have no nearer term, and the Greek word differs but slightly from FROM-SPACE.
dia-chOrizO-mai	THRU-SPACEize	sever, they make depart also (Lu.9:33)
ap-erchomai	FROM-COME	meaning pass away (Re.21:4) is depart (Mt.8:18).
di-erchomai	THRU-COME	pass through (Lu.4:30) is once depart (Ac.13:14).
ex-erchomai	OUT-COME	come out, (Mt.5:26) is depart (Mt.9:31) a few times.
kat-erchomai	DOWN-COME	come down (Lu.4:31) is once depart (Ac.13:4).
poreuomai	GO	(Mt.2:8) is occasionally varied to depart (Mt.2:9).
ek-poreuomai	OUT-GO	go out, is depart (Mt. 20:29).
ek-eise	OUT-BE	be off, is twice depart (Ac.17:15).
apallassO	FROM-CHANGE	meaning clear, is departed (Ac.19:12).
meta-baninO	WITH-(after)-STEP	proceed, is usually depart.
aphistEmi	FROM-STAND	withdraw (1Ti.6:5) is usually rendered departed (Lu.2:37)
metairO	WITH-LIFT	withdraw, is also depart (Mt.13:53)

Is it not very evident that the translation of twenty words depart, when English has an abundant supply of synonyms, is in itself a departure from the dictates of reason and real reverence? How is it possible for the English reader to grasp twenty-one different ideas through the medium of one word? But the confusion is worse confounded by the fact that twenty different sets of contexts are throwing a false flood of light upon the word, and the light is darkness.
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