Bible Question: What does (sic) mean? |
Bible Answer: Hi, fmp... It is Latin for the word thus. It indicates that a quotation was reproduced verbatim. In other words, just as the author wrote it. It eliminates any question, ahead of time, that a quote may be altered. For example let's say that I quoted Psalm 22:1 from the Geneva translation: “My, God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, and art so farre from mine health, and from the wordes of my roaring.” (sic) The sic informs you, as a reader, that I have reproduced the quote (along with its wording and punctuation, etc.) faithfully. I apologize if you misconstrued it as signifying or implying anything else. In Him, Doc |