THE LITERAL IDIOMATIC TRANSLATION (LIT)
Last LIT (Literal Idiomatic Translation) update: 2023.02.16
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The LIT is no longer in its first rough draft form, at least I think so, but has undergone several editing processes which processes may never end. From here occasional ongoing editing will continue, for punctuation, spelling, use of correct inflected forms, in-verse alerts to biblical authors' use of ellipsis, zero copulas, indefinite articles, foot notes, passage links and references, and other miscellaneous editing, throughout the life of the work.
Please note: The LITAGL is now available here in Excel spreadsheet form, and can be downloaded and used by anyone to verify the accuracy and quality of the LIT, or any Bible translation, and for use in translating any of the other related ancient biblical Greek texts, such as certain biblically-related texts which were ignored for inclusion with the "accepted" 66 biblical texts.
The very valuable and unique functionality of the LITAGL is that, for each of the about 19,381 individual inflected Greek word forms in the UBS4 text(s), I show exactly how I translated each one of those Greek words into the LIT, using specific English words and phrases based upon a Greek root word's specific inflected form, which form could be made up of any combination of a Greek word's following grammatical components; type, mood, tense, voice, case, gender, person and number. These eight points of inflection, or any combination of them, are built directly into a biblical authors' deliberate choice of verbs they chose to use to convey their meanings to their readers. No assumption should be made that any of the biblical writers were writing accidentally or unconsciously.
By showing a reader of the LIT exactly how I translated each and every word out of the UBS4 text(s) into English, a reader can see how a word's root meaning can, and should be, applied across all of its inflected forms (with the possible exception of inflected forms used as figures of speech), which makes it more than abundantly obvious why paraphrases should not be used. When a reader can see all of the specific English translations for each and all of a Greek root word's inflected forms, then it's much easier for a reader to see and determine, if and how, any biblical passage, in any Bible translations, has been theologically altered from what is written in the UBS4 text(s).
I have witnessed first-hand, intimately, the various speaking and writing styles of Jesus and his apostles (Jesus didn't actually write any biblical books himself), and how each biblical writer has used a few of his own pet words and phrases to witness to us those vital Truths of the Evangelism of Jesus Christ. The biblical texts make no mention of them using musicians and others as festive sales props, to accost and draw people's attention. The gossip, rumors and lore of the God working in and through Christ Jesus to heal people, of doing signs, miracles and wonders, worked just fine as Jesus and his apostles and disciples "fished" for people's attention and hearts. According to the biblical texts, when people believed in their hearts upon the name of Jesus, believing about who he was and what he was sent into the cosmos to do, they received healing. That's the repeated pattern in the biblical texts which draws our attention to the veracity of our own beliefs.
Because the LIT literally quotes the new covenant writers, all of the grammatical, colloquial and idiomatic "flavors" and "colors" of the Greek language used by each of the biblical writers comes through into English for readers to "see" and learn for themselves. Jesus' pet words and phrases, Paul's, Peter's, John's and those of the others, all come through into English now with the absence of any triune godhead-related paraphrasing and creative "synonyming", as is heavily used in virtually all other theologically-sculpted/fudged Bible translations.
While reading the LIT try using the LIT Glossary (LITG) of terms and idioms. You'll discover a vast amount of ancillary information about cultural customs and practices, and explanations about Greek language colloquialisms and idioms used by the Judeans and other ethnic groups. While you're reading the LIT you may wish to survey the LIT Analytical Greek Lexicon (LITAGL), so if when you may have a question about any Greek word's translation you can look it up in the lexicon and so how all of that word's other related inflected forms were translated as well, to see if there may be some unwarranted deviation from an inflected form's essential root word meaning, given its inflected form and context.
I hope you can learn from and enjoy the LIT, which presents an exact quote using popular concordant definitions of the biblical new testament Greek texts (UBS4).
Brother Hal Dekker
MATTHEW
Chapter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
MARK
Chapter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
LUKE
Chapter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
JOHN
Chapter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
ACTS
Chapter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
ROMANS
Chapter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
1 CORINTHIANS
Chapter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
2 CORINTHIANS
Chapter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
GALATIANS
EPHESIANS
PHILIPPIANS
COLOSSIANS
1 THESSALONIANS
2 THESSALONIANS
1 TIMOTHY
2 TIMOTHY
TITUS
PHILEMON
Chapter 1
HEBREWS
Chapter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
JAMES
1 PETER
2 PETER
1 JOHN
2 JOHN
Chapter 1
3 JOHN
Chapter 1
JUDE
Chapter 1
REVELATION
Chapter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22