To all Geeks I mean people who know Greek!

[elohimrules]

Jesus said he goes to “prepare a mansion for us.” What does this word really mean? I mean does it mean mansion in the sense that we understand or a dwelling, one bedroom condo? Anyone know what that word mansion really means? I’m looking forward to mine

 

[bradleesargent]

blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G3438&t=KJV

μονή

monē

Even though this is the KJV, the Greek is the textus receptus from a Catholic Desiderious Erasumus.

a staying, abiding, dwelling, abode
to make an (one’s) abode
metaph. of the God the Holy Spirit indwelling believers

 

[Roseeurekacross]

In revelation ,

biblehub.com/revelation/21-21.htm

Revelation 21:21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.

So you can just imagine everything else!

 

[Bob_Crowley]

I lifted this explanation from the Bible Hub site - biblehub.com/commentaries/john/14-2.htm. The explanation comes from “Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers” and I have absolutely no idea who or what he was, but I suspect his explanation is as good as any.

Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers

(2) In my Father’s house are many mansions.—The Greek word used for “house” here is slightly different from that used of the material temple on earth in John 2:16. The exact meaning will be at once seen from a comparison of 2Corinthians 5:1, the only other passage in the New Testament where it is used metaphorically. The Jews were accustomed to the thought of heaven as the habitation of God; and the disciples had been taught to pray, “Our Father, which art in heaven.” (Comp. Psalm 23:6; Isaiah 63:15; Matthew 6:9; Acts 7:49; and especially Hebrews 9)

The Greek word for “mansions” occurs again in the New Testament only in John 14:23, where it is rendered abode.” Wiclif and the Geneva version read “dwellings.” It is found in the Greek of the Old Testament only in 1 Maccabees 7:38 (“Suffer them not to continue any longer”—“give them not an abode”). Our translators here followed the Vulgate, which has “mansiones “with the exact meaning of the Greek, that is; “resting-places,” “dwellings.” In Elizabethan English the word meant no more than this, and it now means no more in French or in the English of the North. A maison or a manse, is not necessarily a modern English mansion. It should also be noted that the Greek word is the substantive answering to the verb which is rendered “dwelleth” in John 14:10, and “abide” in John 15:4-10. (see Note there).

The original Greek text meant no more than a house or dwelling place. The Latin Vulgate translated as ‘mansiones’ with the exact meaning of the Greek. I suspect it’s our modern understanding that is awry, with the term “mansion” meaning an enormous house usually only purchased by multi millionaires or belonging to the landed gentry.

The translation is probably correct or as near to the original sense of the word as possible in English. The problem arises in our understanding of the word “mansions” in modern usage.

What Christ was saying that in His Father’s house, there are many dwelling places, and He was going to prepare them for us.

As an aside, when i was a Presbyterian, the pastor’s house on the church property was called a “Manse”, but when I became a Catholic, the priest’s house was called a “Presbytery”. Huh?