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Example sentences for: mistranslation

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Another mistranslation which has probably had a much greater influence on the Western world is that of the Hebrew word almah , which means `young woman' but was translated as `virgin.
Milton Horowitz wrote about a mistranslation of a word in the Bible which was ostensibly responsible for Michelangelo's putting horns on his sculpture of Moses [XVI,2].
He calls these “corrections of the original mistranslation.”
Matthew's gospel was certainly not influenced by an “original mistranslation” from the King James Bible!
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.