Concordant Literal New Testament

The Concordant Literal New Testament is distinguished by a translation method that seeks to render each Greek term with a tightly controlled English equivalent, so that a single Greek word is consistently matched to a single English one wherever it occurs. Issued by the Concordant Publishing Concern, its scope is the New Testament, with Old Testament portions following later. It is translated from Greek, drawing on the Concordant Greek textual apparatus as its base text, and its guiding philosophy is concordant, highly systematic literalism; it is classed as a fresh translation rather than a revision of an earlier English version. Among its distinctive features, natural English is deliberately subordinated to lexical concordance, producing renderings that can read unusually to those accustomed to more idiomatic versions. It belongs to the tradition of study-oriented literal translations intended for close comparison of word usage across the biblical text.