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Luke 1
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luke.1.lk1Seed
Ἀβραὰμ καὶ τῷ σπέρματι αὐτοῦ
TRANSLATIONhigh confidence
How should Abraham's sperma be rendered?
Sperma is seed collectively and, by extension, offspring or descendants.
Why this default
‘Offspring’ communicates the collective referent in current English while leaving ‘seed’ available where the ancestral metaphor matters most.
Evidence
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InternalThe decision record relies on the stated lexical, grammatical, or translation rationale.
Project defaultAbraham and his offspring
Project default · collective sense
AlternativeAbraham and his seed
Metaphor retained
AlternativeAbraham and his descendants
Referent explicit
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