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More Q & A Why are there marks around certain words?
More Q & A Why are there marks around certain words?
Why are there marks around certain words?
The double bars || in the Ancient Roots Translinear Bible (ARTB) mean that the word is stated and stated again in Hebrew. This peculiarity of Hebrew will be seen over 800 times in the Old Testament. Other Bible translations don't show two words. They either drop the second word or use another adjective to describe the main word. In Genesis 2:16,17 God says
"||Eat|| of any tree of the garden, 17but never eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The day you eat from it, you will ||die||!"
"||Eat|| of any tree in the garden" means the word eat appears twice in the text. In other translations it is usually translated as two words: freely eat. For verse 17, other translations have something like surely die, instead of showing die repeated. Neither freely or surely are in the original text.
This is the third feature which the ARTB uses to improve bible accuracy.