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New Korean Revised Version (Gaeyeok Gaejeong)
[Bible]The New Korean Revised Version (Gaeyeok Gaejeong) is a Korean translation of the Bible published by the Korean Bible Society in 1998 as a revision of the Korean Revised Version (Gaeyeok Hangeul). Today most Korean Protestant denominations use it as their Bible for worship.
Korean Revised Version
[Bible]The Korean Revised Version (Gaeyeok Hangeul) is the common short name for the Holy Bible, Korean Revised Version, published by the Korean Bible Society in 1961. Until the New Korean Revised Version appeared in 1998, it was the standard Korean-language Bible used by most Protestant denominations in Korea.
Bible Translation Debate
[Controversies]The Bible translation debate, as discussed among Korean Protestants, concerns which Korean translation of the Bible should be used in worship and personal Bible reading, and how the original texts should be rendered. Views on the New Korean Revised Version, the Revised New Korean Standard Version, and the Saehangeul Bible differ by denomination and by generation.
Bible Translations
[Bible]A Bible translation renders the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts of Scripture into another language. Translations differ in how closely they follow the wording of the original or render its meaning in natural modern language. Korean churches use several Korean translations, including the New Korean Revised Version, the New Korean Standard Version, the Common Translation, and the Easy Bible.
Korean Bible Translation
[History]Korean Bible translation is the history of rendering the Bible into Korean, a work that began in Manchuria and Japan in the late nineteenth century. The first complete translation of both the Old and New Testaments, the Syeonggyeong Jeonseo, appeared in 1911. This translation was carried forward in the Revised Version, the Korean Revised Version, and the New Korean Revised Version.
Gehenna
[Bible]Gehenna is a term derived from the "Valley of Hinnom" beside Jerusalem. In the New Testament it refers to the place where the wicked are punished after the final judgment. The New Korean Revised Version renders it as "hell."
Peace Offering and Propitiation
[Bible]The peace offering of the Old Testament book of Leviticus and the New Testament presentation of Christ as the offering that deals with sin are distinct biblical concepts. The New Korean Revised Version of the Bible renders both with a single term, although the original-language words behind the two uses differ.
Hesed
[Bible]Hesed (חֶסֶד) is a Hebrew word used in the Old Testament for the steadfast love and faithful kindness that God shows to his covenant people and that people show to one another. English Bibles render it variously as "mercy," "lovingkindness," and "steadfast love"; the Korean New Korean Revised Version usually renders it as *inja* or *inae*.
Works of the Flesh
[Bible]The works of the flesh are a catalog of sins that the apostle Paul lists in Galatians 5:19–21 in contrast to the fruit of the Spirit. The list includes sexual immorality, idolatry, strife, and drunkenness, among other items, and closes with "and such like." The New Korean Revised Version renders it as fifteen items.
Tetragrammaton
[Bible]The Tetragrammaton is the term for the four Hebrew consonants (יהוה, YHWH) that spell the proper name of God in the Old Testament. Among Korean Bible translations, the New Korean Revised Version renders this name as "Yeohowa" (Jehovah).
Wilderness of Sin and Wilderness of Zin
[Bible]The Old Testament mentions two distinct wildernesses whose Hebrew names differ: the Wilderness of Sin (Hebrew *Sin*) near Mount Sinai, where the manna fell, and the Wilderness of Zin (Hebrew *Tsin*) near Kadesh on the southern border of Canaan. The Korean New Korean Revised Version renders both with the same name.
Shofar
[Bible]The shofar is an ancient Israelite trumpet made from the horn of an animal such as a ram. In the Old Testament it was used to proclaim feasts and the Jubilee, to signal in war, to mark the enthronement of kings, and in worship. The New Korean Revised Version usually renders it as "trumpet."
New Moon
[Bible]The new moon was an ancient Israelite observance held on the first day of each month, when sacrifices were offered and trumpets were blown.
Abyss
[Bible]The Abyss, or "bottomless pit," is a New Testament term for a deep place in which demons and evil powers are confined or from which they ascend, or for the realm of the dead.
Breastplate
[Bible]A breastplate is a piece of armor that protects the chest in battle. In the New Testament, the term renders the Greek *thōrax*; representative uses include "the breastplate of righteousness" in Ephesians and "the breastplate of faith and love" in 1 Thessalonians.
Rhema
[Bible]Rhema (ῥῆμα) is a Greek word used in the New Testament meaning "word" or "saying." Some churches, including many in Korea, distinguish it from logos and use it in the sense of "a word God gives to an individual." This distinction is disputed.
Third John
[Bible]Third John is the twenty-fifth book of the New Testament. A brief personal letter from "the elder" to a believer named Gaius, it urges hospitality toward itinerant evangelists and rebukes the conduct of Diotrephes.
Middle Wall of Partition
[Bible]The "middle wall of partition" is an expression from Ephesians 2:14 for the barrier between Jews and Gentiles that Christ broke down through the cross. In Korean churches the phrase is frequently cited in connection with reconciliation and unity.
Morning Star
[Bible]The morning star is the star that heralds the dawn in the eastern sky before sunrise. In the Bible it serves as a symbol of the coming of a new day and of Christ, and it is also used figuratively of the king of Babylon, who fell because of his pride.
Ransom
[Bible]Ransom is an Old Testament term for a price paid in place of a life or a person. The half shekel paid at the census in Exodus 30 is a representative example, and the concept is linked to the New Testament idea of Christ's life given as a ransom.