AMP
Word-for-WordTranslation profile
Amplified Bible
AMP
How it translates, how hard it is to read, where it came from, and what makes it distinctive.
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The short version
AMP stays closer to the wording and structure of the original languages.
These sentences use the listed method, reading-grade, lineage, and notable-facts fields. They are not a ranking.
Translation approach
AMP stays closer to the wording and structure of the original languages. This guide lists this as Word-for-Word, plus amplification of meaning.
Reading difficulty
More complex sentence structure. This guide lists grade 11.
What makes it distinctive
Unique system of punctuation, typefaces, and synonyms to more fully explain words.
Lineage / history
This guide lists earlier English work: American Standard Version.
How it translates
Translation approach: . AMP stays closer to the wording and structure of the original languages.
Scholars translate each word based upon the word usage at the time of the writing. No translation is actually “word for word,” but the intent is to come as close as possible. This method is also called formal equivalence.
Reading level
More complex sentence structure. This guide lists grade 11. Reading level does not measure accuracy.
Where it came from
: American Standard Version
First listed 1965, revised in 2015.
Text and source listings
Old Testament: Rudolf Kittel's , ,
New Testament: Westcott-Hort , Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece
What makes it distinctive
A translation’s story
Why this translation exists
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Before it
American Standard Version → AMP
American Standard Version
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Why it was created
To allow the reader to better understand the meaning of words as they were used in their original context.
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How it translates
Word-for-Word, plus amplification of meaning. Scholars translate each word based upon the word usage at the time of the writing. No translation is actually “word for word,” but the intent is to come as close as possible. This method is also called formal equivalence.
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Where it sits
Word-for-Word, plus amplification of meaning · Grade 11 · First released 1965 (Historical English).
See it in action
Compare with translations that offer a useful contrast — not a ranking.
ASV
Related English lineage
GNT
Different translation approach
NIrV
Different reading grade
Sample verses
And He said to them, “Follow Me [as My disciples, accepting Me as your Master and Teacher and walking the same path of life that I walk], and I will make you fishers of men.”
16 For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His [One and] only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him [as Savior] shall not perish, but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send the Son into the world to judge and condemn the world [that is, to initiate the final judgment of the world], but that the world might be saved through Him.