# 将 Fronts the Object in 2,166 Bible Clauses

> 将 fronts the object before its verb in 2,166 clauses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified) — the literary form of the 把 construction, and the one this translation prefers.

**Pattern:** subject + 将 + object + verb
**HSK level:** 5 — the highest HSK level of the point's own function words, as data/dict.json grades them; a word the HSK lists do not grade sends the point to 'beyond'
**Rule used to find it:** 将 read jiāng, then one to five words, then a word with a verb sense — the same shape as 把, in a literary register.
**Confidence:** counted — 30 of 2,166 matches checked, 100% correct, by Claude Opus 5, reading each sampled clause in context; not a native speaker

将 does exactly what 把 does: it moves the object in front of the verb so the clause is about what is done to it. 将他交给我们, delivered him to us. The difference is register, not grammar — 将 is the literary form, and the 1919 translators reached for it first.

The Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified) uses 将 2,588 times. 422 of those occurrences are the same words doing something else.

This is the single most useful thing on this page for a student. 把 is taught at HSK 3 and 将 at HSK 5, so by the ordinary order of study a reader meets the Bible's preferred construction two levels after the one it mostly does not use.

It is commonest in Jeremiah, with 172 of them, and 88% of all of them fall in the Old Testament — which is mostly a statement about length, since the Old Testament is the longer part of the book.

## Examples

- **John 8:45** — 我将真理告诉你们，你们就因此不信我。
  - wǒ jiāng zhēn lǐ gào sù nǐ men ， nǐ men jiù yīn cǐ bú xìn wǒ 。
  - But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.
  - construction: 将真理告诉
- **Psalms 74:13** — 你曾用能力将海分开， 将水中大鱼的头打破。
  - nǐ céng yòng néng lì jiāng hǎi fēn kāi ，  jiāng shuǐ zhōng dà yú de tóu dǎ pò 。
  - You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
  - construction: 将海分开
- **2 Kings 4:4** — 回到家里，关上门，你和你儿子在里面将油倒在所有的器皿里，倒满了的放在一边。」
  - huí dào jiā lǐ ， guān shàng mén ， nǐ hé nǐ ér zi zài lǐ miàn jiāng yóu dào zài suǒ yǒu de qì mǐn lǐ ， dào mǎn le de fàng zài yì biān 。」
  - Go in and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour oil into all those containers; and set aside those which are full.”
  - construction: 将油倒
- **Deuteronomy 10:2** — 你先前摔碎的那版，其上的字我要写在这版上；你要将这版放在柜中。』
  - nǐ xiān qián shuāi suì de nà bǎn ， qí shàng de zì wǒ yào xiě zài zhè bǎn shàng ； nǐ yào jiāng zhè bǎn fàng zài guì zhōng 。』
  - I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.”
  - construction: 将这版放
- **Habakkuk 2:2** — 他对我说：将这默示明明地写在版上， 使读的人容易读 。
  - tā duì wǒ shuō ： jiāng zhè mò shì míng míng de xiě zài bǎn shàng ，  shǐ dú de rén róng yì dú  。
  - The LORD answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.
  - construction: 将这默示
- **1 Kings 17:23** — 以利亚将孩子从楼上抱下来，进屋子交给他母亲，说：「看哪，你的儿子活了！」
  - yǐ lì yà jiāng hái zi cóng lóu shàng bào xià lai ， jìn wū zi jiāo gěi tā mǔ qīn ， shuō ：「 kàn nǎ ， nǐ de ér zi huó le ！」
  - Elijah took the child and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, “Behold, your son lives.”
  - construction: 将孩子从楼上抱

## The words this point is built on

| Word | Reading | HSK | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 将 | jiāng | 5 | 2,557 |
| 将 | jiàng | 5 | 31 |

The HSK column is the level data/dict.json gives the word, and it is what puts this point at level 5.

## What those occurrences are doing

|  | Occurrences | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| the construction | 2,166 | 84% |
| the same words doing something else | 422 | 16% |

## Where it occurs most

| Book | Clauses |
| --- | --- |
| Jeremiah | 172 |
| Ezekiel | 156 |
| Deuteronomy | 146 |
| Psalms | 130 |
| 1 Samuel | 111 |

Counted from what the rule matched, before the audit — a ranking, not a published total.

## Questions

**Is 将 here the same as 将 meaning about to?**

Same character, different job. 将要 — about to — is an adverb of time before the verb; this 将 takes a noun after it and hands it to the verb. The pinyin is the same, so only the shape of the clause tells them apart.

**How often does it occur in the Chinese Bible?**

2,166 clauses in the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified), out of 2,588 occurrences of the words that mark it.

**Which book of the Bible uses it most?**

Jeremiah, with 172 — followed by Ezekiel (156), Deuteronomy (146), Psalms (130).

**How do you know the count is right?**

The rule is: 将 read jiāng, then one to five words, then a word with a verb sense — the same shape as 把, in a literary register. 30 of its 2,166 matches were drawn at random and checked one by one; 100% were right. Recall is not measured, so the figure is what this rule finds, not everything the translation contains.

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