Definition of "mistranslated" [mistranslated]

• Present participle of mistranslate. (verb)

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• "(The word Easter appears only once in the King James Version of the Bible-in Acts 12: 4-where it is flagrantly mistranslated from the Greek word pascha, which should be translated "Passover," as most versions render it.)"
• "The word mistranslated as “day” is a generic word meaning “period of time”, which can more properly be translated as “Age” or “Epoch”."
• "Two terms in the vice list have been mistranslated from the Greek in all modern versions, and this has caused needless pain in the church: malos ( "soft," that is, lacking self-control) and arsenokoites"