blhowes
Puritan Board Professor
(KJV) 6Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
I've been trying to understand what the above phrase means. I figured maybe robbery meant something different when the KJV was written, so I looked it up in Webster's dictionary:
The Greek word used for robbery (in both Byzantine and WH) is:
Again, not much different from what I'd expected robbery to mean.
Why would Jesus think it robbery to be equal with God?
Also, why do most other versions translate it "to be grasped'?
(NIV) 6Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
(NASB) 6who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,
(ESV) 6who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
I've been trying to understand what the above phrase means. I figured maybe robbery meant something different when the KJV was written, so I looked it up in Webster's dictionary:
: the act or practice of robbing; specifically : larceny from the person or presence of another by violence or threat
Not much different from what I'd expected robbery to mean.The Greek word used for robbery (in both Byzantine and WH) is:
G725
harpagmos
From G726; plunder (properly concrete): - robbery.
harpagmos
From G726; plunder (properly concrete): - robbery.
Again, not much different from what I'd expected robbery to mean.
Why would Jesus think it robbery to be equal with God?
Also, why do most other versions translate it "to be grasped'?
(NIV) 6Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
(NASB) 6who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,
(ESV) 6who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,