What is a Bible translation?

Answer 1

As with a translation of any book or other written work, a translation of The Bible is a book in which the text in the original language(s) are converted to text in another language for the purpose of increasing the number of people that can read it without having to spend the time to learn the original languages.

Missionaries want translations of the Bible in the languages of the people they are trying to convert.

The original text of the Bible was written in three different languages: Hebrew, Chaldean, and Greek.

The first known translation of the Bible is called the Septuagint: it translated the Jewish scriptures (i.e. the Old Testament) from Hebrew and Chaldean to Greek so that Greek speaking Jews could read the Bible.

The Christian New Testament was written in the same Greek as was used in the Septuagint (a few of the books may have originally been written in Aramaic, but were soon translated into Greek)

Since then many Bible translations have been produced, now it is available in almost every language used on Earth.