{"id":15654,"date":"2025-05-03T10:42:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T15:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15654"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T15:45:15","slug":"philippians-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15654\/philippians-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippians 3:8"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey John,<\/span><\/p>\n

In Philippians 3:8,\u00a0there is a certain word that in the King James Version (KJV) was translated “dung”. And in our translation it is translated “garbage”. I was wondering if that particular word could be translated either way and the choice was made to have it say “garbage” instead of “dung”? Or was the KJV simply a bad translation and in our translation it was translated correctly?<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you!<\/span><\/p>\n

Billy H.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thanks, Billy, for the question.\u00a0 Here are the possible definitions of the Greek\u00a0word\u00a0\u03c3\u03ba\u03c5\u0301\u03b2\u03b1\u03bb\u03bf\u03bd:\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“dung, sweepings, refuse, rubbish”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

So, it could be either one.\u00a0 It has been a long time, but I would guess that we chose “garbage” because it encompasses more types of junk than “dung” does.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Tell us what you think:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1919417938735501359<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Hey John, In Philippians 3:8,\u00a0there is a certain word that in the King James Version (KJV) was translated “dung”. And in our translation it is translated “garbage”. I was wondering if that particular word could be translated either way and the choice was made to have it say “garbage” instead of “dung”? Or was the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15656,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15654\/revisions\/15656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}