From: lance w seevers (lws39@juno.com)
Date: Mon Jun 11 2001 - 18:57:10 EDT
The KJV translates PUQANOMAI as "asked" in Luke 15:26 and 18:36,
following wyclifs version. But the websters dictionary does give an
archaic definition for "demand" as "question." The
kjv does translate it as demand in acts 21:33. FWIW
Walt Seevers
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 17:00:44 -0400 "Ted Mann" <theomann@earthlink.net>
writes:
> In Mt. 2:4, whereas the NASB, NIV, etc., translate EPUQAVETO as "he
> asked,"
> or "inquired," I notice the KJV has "demanded," which produces quite
> a
> different sense to me. Is "demanded," a less apt translation or is
> this
> only a matter of changes in the English language over a span of 400
> years?
> Would "demand" have meant "ask" to 17th-century readers? Many
> thanks.
>
> Ted
> Dr. Theodore H. Mann
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