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The N.J.B. leaves it untranslated as "Shaddai", and makes footnote suggestions that it should perhaps be understood as "God of the Mountain" from the Akkadian "shadu", or "God of the open wastes" from the Hebrew "sadeh" and the secondary meaning of the Akkadian word. [40] The translation in the Concordant Old Testament is 'El Who-Suffices ...
The English translation in The Koren Jerusalem Bible, which is Koren's Hebrew/English edition, is by Professor Harold Fisch, a Biblical and literary scholar, and is based on Friedländer's 1881 Jewish Family Bible, but it has been "thoroughly corrected, modernized, and revised". [18] The Koren Jerusalem Bible incorporates some unique features:
God's Word is the first English Bible in which English reviewers were actively involved with scholars at every stage of the translation process. Because of the involvement of English experts, God's Word looks and reads like contemporary American literature. It uses clear, natural English; follows standard punctuation and capitalization rules ...
This translation is available in book form and is freely available online for use with the e-Sword software program. [3] Some also refer to it as the "KJ3" or "KJV3" (KJ = King James). [4] [failed verification] The translation was integrated into the 1986 edition of Green's Hebrew-English-Greek Interlinear Bible. [citation needed]
For example, the English word trumpet has been replaced by the Hebrew word "shofar" (שופר, literally, ram's horn) in reference to the wind instrument used to announce the fiftieth year. [4] Other words that are transliterated include Torah instead of Law, Shaliaḥ instead of apostle, and Ruaḥ instead of spirit.
Smith's insistence on complete literalness, plus an effort to translate each original word with the same English word, combined with an uncompromising translation of Hebrew tenses (often translating the Hebrew imperfect tense with the English future tense) resulted in a translation that some regard as mechanical. An example of this is Genesis 4:1:
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Book titles are in both English and Hebrew, [12] and several Hebrew words such as shalom, Torah, kohen, Sheol, Gehinnom, etc. have been transliterated. [13] The publisher states the New Jerusalem Version distinguishes itself from most English Bibles by restoring the: Personal unutterable Hebrew name of God: יהוה; Hebrew name of the Messiah ...