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Answer #1
Etymology of a word is its historical meaning, traced through the various languages, all the way back to its original language.
This can be done only for bibles which are language translations from the original Hebrew, Chaldee and Greek texts, such as the King James Bible.
Other versions of biblical text such as the NIV etc are not directly translated from the original text and therefore the etymology of the words used are difficult to ascertain. They are simply modern English redefinition of the KJV old english words, and the link to the original text is therefore lost.
Consider the word troubles in Mark 13:8 of KJV which is converted in the New Life version to much trouble. Using the KJV to find the etymology we discover the Greek word translated in the KJV to be 5016 (Strong's Concordance). When we look up 5016 we see the Greek word is tarache which is a feminine version of 5015, it means: disturbance (like that of rolling water or a mob), sedition which is street mobs against the established government currently in power. Notice how the New Life version did not allow The Bible student to obtain the meaning of the Greek word used, therefore the New Life reader simply looks for "much trouble" but does not understand the trouble is specifically Sedition, as can be ascertained using the KJV version.
To obtain the etymology of words its more suitable for bible students to stick with the King James Version and a Strong's concordance dictionary. This is perhaps the best ability to understand the etymology of a word used in biblical text, because its directly traceable to the original texts.
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