SEARCH ANALYSIS | Question of the Week from Logos Pro Training
What clues does the New Testament give about how church leadership should be structured? Watch the video, and comment with your own conclusions.
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Study Question:
Why do editors of popular versions sometimes translate the singular Greek word for “elder” as “elders?” Look through the passages mentioned in the video (Luke 22:66, Acts 22:5, and 1 Tim. 4:14) to investigate.
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Search Analysis: Elders
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- Adam Borries, is there any more in regard to my reply above. Am I totally misunderstanding things? It certainly wouldn't be the first time. Could you help me understand why a dot is not used when the article is not translated? And even more confusing to me, why does the untranslated article count as a second part-of-speech result for "elder/s"? Thanks.
- Is it because the Greek word for elder is functioning as an adjective to describe the council?
- Rob Davis, you've got the right idea: we are doing an English search, so that is what is represented by "64 results." However, as you correctly discovered, there are often more than one Greek word represented by the translation. The Parts of Speech data is connected with the original language, not the English translation, so you get a higher total. In the interlinear view, it would make sense to represent the article with a "not translated" dot, but often in cases like this, both Greek words are tied to the English word. You can see this in the context menu: when you right-click on elders in Acts 4:5, both ὁ and πρεσβύτερος are listed.