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- verb Present participle of
mistranslate .
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(The word Easter appears only once in the King James Version of the Bible-in Acts 12: 4-where it is flagrantly mistranslated from the Greek word pascha, which should be translated "Passover," as most versions render it.)
Latest Articles 2009
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The word mistranslated as “day” is a generic word meaning “period of time”, which can more properly be translated as “Age” or “Epoch”.
Think Progress » Congressman: ‘I Fear…We Will Have Many More Muslims In The United States’ 2006
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Two terms in the vice list have been mistranslated from the Greek in all modern versions, and this has caused needless pain in the church: malos ( "soft," that is, lacking self-control) and arsenokoites
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It is … regretful for me to have this book, an honest testimony of gay Muslim life, have its title mistranslated with the use of a pejorative term that demeans gays.
Global Voices in English » Arab World: Trouble for Gay Travels in the Muslim World 2009
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The Bush administration immediately said well, that can't be right, this statement was out of context, that was mistranslated, that isn't what he meant blah, blah, blah.
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The Bush administration immediately said that can't be right: the statement was out of context, it was mistranslated, that isn't what he meant blah blah blah.
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The Bush administration immediately said that can't be right: the statement was out of context, it was mistranslated, that isn't what he meant blah blah blah.
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The Bush administration immediately said that can't be right: the statement was out of context, it was mistranslated, that isn't what he meant blah blah blah.
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The Bush administration immediately said that can't be right: the statement was out of context, it was mistranslated, that isn't what he meant blah blah blah.
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The Bush administration immediately said that can't be right: the statement was out of context, it was mistranslated, that isn't what he meant blah blah blah.
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