on their readers’ part about the meaning of encouragement? Hardly. And we shall see why. From looking into the use of the term in recent versions, you will discover that the words “encouragement” and “to encourage” occur more frequently. How is that? Is it because these newer versions are inaccurate? Have they added something to the Bible that is not really in the original text? No. Then what accounts for the glaring difference? The difference is simply this: the English term