Milton Watt has been with SIM in West Africa for 27 years. He currently works full-time remotely from Siloam Springs, Arkansas as a Translation Consultant with the Seed Company for translation projects in Africa and India. He is also a contributor to the OT Key Terms project. He has a Ph.D. in Biblical Languages from Stellenbosch University.
How to Translate YHWH Tsebaot (LORD of Hosts)
Abstract
YHWH Tsebaot is used 283 times in the OT and twice in the NT. This paper discusses grammatical arguments, military metaphor arguments, and ancient text usage to arrive at five different translation recommendations depending on whether the translator uses LORD or Yahweh and how meaning-based the translation aims to be.