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Example sentences for: mistranslation

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It remains unclear to me on whom Mr. Orbaum would pin the blame for what he calls “the original mistranslation.”
The “horns” on his head continue a traditional medieval mistranslation of the Hebrew for halo-like rays of light.
The adoption of the term virgin was not a mistranslation: it was a judgment of the translators based on the texts which they had before them and the audience for which the translation was intended.
But, is the passage in Matthew a “mistranslation?”
Now I feel compelled to respond to Jack Orbaum's interesting letter [EPISTOLAE, XVII, 4] about the “mistranslation” of the Hebrew word ` almah in Isaiah 7:14, which Mr. Orbaum says ought not be translated `virgin' but `young woman.