Is Satan Bruised or Crushed?
While reading Genesis I discovered an interesting translation on the part of the NIV Bible:
The words crush and strike are familiar wording to me since the Nearly Irrelevant Version has been the main bible of my past. So I found it very interesting when I read the same passage from the NASB:
I wonder if the NIV translators spiced up this passage because they believed it was a prophesy about Jesus? (We can't have Jesus merely striking or bruising Satan's head, we must have him C-R-U-S-H-I-N-G it!)
15 And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
he will crush your head,
and you will strike his heel (Genesis 3:15, emphasis mine).
The words crush and strike are familiar wording to me since the Nearly Irrelevant Version has been the main bible of my past. So I found it very interesting when I read the same passage from the NASB:
15And I will put enmityI looked it up in the Zondervan Hebrew Dictionary and the words crush and strike are actually the same Hebrew word (Shuph: to bruise).
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;
He shall bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the heel (Genesis 3:15, emphasis mine).
I wonder if the NIV translators spiced up this passage because they believed it was a prophesy about Jesus? (We can't have Jesus merely striking or bruising Satan's head, we must have him C-R-U-S-H-I-N-G it!)