KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

Hell or Hades and Sheol

NIV editor R. Laird Harris concedes regarding hell:

Its translation brings up a number of theological. . . matters. [T]here is discussion as to what it means. . .a number of modern versions simply do not translate the word. . .They. . .leave each reader to decide for himself. . .9 Consequently the NASB, and frequently the NKJV, join the Jehovah Witness New World Bible and leave the Hebrew Sheol untranslated. The NIV and NKJV join them both in not translating the Greek hades.

NIV, NASB, NKJV, Jehovah Witness New World Translation

KJV

hell hell hell hell hell hell hell hell hell hell

Matt. 11:23 Matt. 16:18 Luke 10:15 Luke 16:23 Acts 2:27 Acts 2:31 Rev. 1:18 Rev. 6:8 Rev. 20:13 Rev. 20:14

hades hades hades hades hades hades hades hades hades

hades (NIV 5 times)

NASB & JEHOVAH WITNESS TRANSLATION

KJV

hell

Sheol

entire O.T. (67 times)

Historical Hades

A 'Revised' and 'Amplified' version of hell has been 'Standard' and quite 'International' since the Assyrio-Chaldean