NIV
Eres used 2503 times
land -- 1150 45.9%
earth -- 524 20.9%
----- Original Message -----
From: gordon brown <gbrown@euclid.colorado.edu>
To: Dale K. Stalnaker <dks@en.com>
Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: Seely's response to AIG
> Dale,
>
> Several years ago I used Strong's Concordance to count the number of times
> that the KJV used each of the various translations of the word 'erets. My
> recollection was that it was translated `land' 62% of the time and `earth'
> 29% of the time, which leaves about 9% for other renderings. More modern
> translations probably render it as `earth' even fewer times than the KJV.
> Even when the KJV does say `earth', it is often obvious that the entire
> planet cannot be the intended meaning. (For example, in the Flood story
> itself read Gen. 8:9 in light of Gen. 8:5.)
>
> Gordon Brown
> Department of Mathematics
> University of Colorado
> Boulder, CO 80309-0395
>
>
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