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Yacob/(James) Intro C1 C2 C3 C4 C5

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OET (OET-RV)

JAS - Open English Translation—Readers’ Version (OET-RV) v0.1.51

ESFM v0.6 JAM

WORDTABLE OET-LV_NT_word_table.tsv

Yacob (James)

Introduction

Author

The author of this letter is commonly known as ‘James’ in English translations, but most people don’t realise that his English name should be Jacob (or Yakōbos if you wanted to be closer to the Koine Greek spelling). This translation error can be traced all the way back to John Wycliffe’s English translation from the Latin in the 1300’s as he didn’t have access to Greek New Testament manuscripts (although he did use Yacob in some parts of his New Testament when it referred to the son of Isaac). The confusion was probably due to changes in the way Latin was spoken over the centuries, and then translating the name from the historically-altered Latin instead of from the original Greek—see https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/bible-versions-and-translations/james-or-jacob-in-the-bible for more details.

Note from the first sentence in the letter that Yacob addressed the letter to the twelve tribes who originated from the twelve sons of his namesake.

This letter

This Letter from Yacob is Yacob’s collection of advice to those who believe there is a god in heaven. He wrote this to all people scattered all around the world. Yacob used examples in order to explain his advice, so that their behaviour would improve and also their daily work. He also taught on various topics like: faith, testing, suffering, showing, respect, good behaviour, watching what you say, true wisdom from God, and prayer.

He said that our faith is deficient if we don’t also demonstrate it by our actions.

Main components of Yacob’s letter

Introduction 1:1

The faith and the wisdom/knowledge 1:2-8

The poor and the rich man 1:9-11

The testing and the temptation 1:12-18

The listening and the making 1:19-27

Respecting all people 2:1-13

The faith and the good work 2:14-26

The tongue 3:1-12

The wisdom/knowledge from heaven 3:13-18

The Christian and the things/objects 4:1-5:6

Various teachings 5:7-20

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OET-LV

JAS

ESFM v0.6 JAM

WORDTABLE OET-LV_NT_word_table.tsv

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ESFM file originally created 2026-10-06 11:55 by Extract_VLT_NT_to_ESFM v1.0.1

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GHT

JAS

[James]

ULT

JAS EN_ULT en_English_ltr Thu Aug 18 2022 11:49:46 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) tc

James

UST

JAS EN_UST en_English_ltr Mon Jul 19 2021 08:48:32 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) tc

James

BSB & MSB

Jas

ESFM v0.6 JAM

WORDTABLE OET-LV_NT_word_table.tsv

James

BLB 

Jas

AICNT

JAS EN_AICNT_20250713

James

OEB

JAS

ORIGINAL BASE TEXT

Twentieth Century New Testament

TAGS

us cth (spelling)

masc neut (gender)

pit gehenna (gehenna)

ioudaioi jew (ioudaioi)

STATUS

IN RELEASE

Complete

Checked x 1

US Cth spelling OK

NSRV versification only

Gender OK

The Letter from

James

WEBBE

JAS 59-JAS-web.sfm World English Bible British Edition (WEBBE)

The Letter from James

WMBB

JAS 59-JAS-web.sfm World Messianic Bible British Edition (WMBB)

The Letter from Jacob

NET

JAS

James

LSV

JAS - Literal Standard Version

James

FBV

JAS -- Free Bible

James

TCNT

JAS - The Text-Critical English New Testament

THE LETTER OF

JAMES

T4T

JAS - Translation 4 Translators 1

This book is a letter that James, the brother of Jesus, wrote to Jewish believers. We call this book

James

LEB 

Jas

BBE

JAS

The Letter from James

Moff

JAS

James

Wymth

JAS — BibleOrgSys USFM3 export v0.96

JAMES

ASV

JAS - American Standard Version

THE EPISTLE OF

JAMES

DRA

JAS

The Letter from James

YLT

JAS The Letter from James

THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF JAMES

Drby

JAS

The General Epistle of James

RV

JAS

THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF

JAMES.

SLT 

Jas

Wbstr

JAS The Letter from James

THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF JAMES

KJB-1769

JAS The Letter from James

THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF JAMES


  (

JAS The Letter from Yames/Yacob

THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF JAMES

)

KJB-1611

JAS

THE GENERAL

Epistle of Iames.


  (

YAS

THE GENERAL

Epistle of Yames/Yacob.

)

Bshps 

Jas


  (

Yas

)

Gnva

JAS

THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF JAMES


  (

YAS

THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF YAMES

)

Cvdl 

Jas


  (

Yas

)

TNT

JAS The Letter from James

THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF JAMES


  (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

ClVg

JAS

INCIPIT EPISTULA IACOBI

SR-GNT

JAS Statistical Restoration (SR) Greek New Testament

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Released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

You must give credit to Alan Bunning and the Center for New Testament Restoration, and any derivative work must likewise require that this attribution be included.

Generated on 7/16/2024.

Ἰακώβου

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UGNT

JAS unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament

James

TC-GNT

JAS - The Text-Critical Greek New Testament

ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ

ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΗ

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