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What was the original text word in language?. Mote. Plank. Log. Something else?
 
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What was the original text word in language?. Mote. Plank. Log. Something else?
Brother Dan, the following list is Strong’s explanation of the words you ask of.
Here is the URL link to Strong’s Concordance.
http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G2595&t=KJV&ss=1

Greek 2595
Mote
= a dry twig or straw appears six times in the following five verses.
Mat 7:3, Mat 7:4, Mat 7:5, Lk 6:41 & Lk 6:42.

These same five verses have the Greek word interpreted as Beam.
Greek 1385
Beam = from G1209 (through the idea of holding up); a stick of timber: - beam.
The relationship of the two is that we have beam of timber in our eye, and they have but a twig in their eye.

The manner different translations interpret this is as follows, and the following URL shows that.
http://biblehub.com/matthew/7-3.htm

NIV - Speck of sawdust & plank.
NLT - Speck & log.
ESV -Speck & log.
AMS - Speck & log.
KJV -Mote & beam.
HCS - Speck & log.
ISV - Speck & beam.
NET - Speck & beam.
Aramaic Bible - Chip & plank.
God’s Word - Sawdust & beam.
Jubilee Bible 2000 – Speck & beam.
American KJV - Mote & beam.
ASV – Mote & beam.
Douay-Rheims - Mote & beam.
Darby - Mote & beam.
English Revised - Mote & beam.
Webster’s - Mote & beam.
Weymouth - Splinter & beam.
World English Bible - Speck & beam.
Young’s Literal - Mote & beam.

Parallel Commentaries
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:1-6 We must judge ourselves, and judge of our own acts, but not make our word a law to everybody. We must not judge rashly, nor pass judgment upon our brother without any ground. We must not make the worst of people. Here is a just reproof to those who quarrel with their brethren for small faults, while they allow themselves in greater ones. Some sins are as motes, while others are as beams; some as a gnat, others as a camel. Not that there is any sin little; if it be a mote, or splinter, it is in the eye; if a gnat, it is in the throat; both are painful and dangerous, and we cannot be easy or well till they are got out. That which charity teaches us to call but a splinter in our brother's eye, true repentance and godly sorrow will teach us to call a beam in our own. It is as strange that a man can be in a sinful, miserable condition, and not be aware of it, as that a man should have a beam in his eye, and not consider it; but the god of this world blinds their minds. Here is a good rule for reprovers; first reform thyself.

I hope this clears up any misunderstanding. :wave2
 
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