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Originally Posted by mangum  Holy Child? Servant? As best I can recall, all Critical text versions, such as the Nearly Inspired Version, (NIV) translate "child" as "servant". |
I'm a little confused. I thought the "critical text" and the "Textus Receptus" were manuscripts in original language - not the translations of them. The question then should be what is the correct
translation of the TR text - holy child or servant? "Child"
is a translation. What is the original word from the TR and then what might be the correct translation.
I did a check and there the same word in Greek is translated child and servant. This is the KJV Concordance:
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παῖς
pais
Total KJV Occurrences: 24
servant, 8
Mat_8:6, Mat_8:8, Mat_8:13, Mat_12:18, Luk_1:54, Luk_1:69, Luk_7:7, Act_4:25
child, 5
Mat_17:18, Luk_2:43, Luk_9:42, Act_4:27, Act_4:30
son, 3
Joh_4:51, Act_3:13, Act_3:26
children, 2
Mat_2:16, Mat_21:15
servants, 2
Mat_14:2, Luk_15:26
maid, 1
Luk_8:54
maiden, 1
Luk_8:51
menservants, 1
Luk_12:45
young, 1
Act_20:12
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So more times than not, the translation in the KJV itself has it as "servant". So there is no indication that the NKJV was using anything but the TR when it translated the word as "servant" instead of "child".