I&#x27;d think that the advantage of machine translation is on corpora that are not known up front (i.e. user-supplied text) or corpora that are exceptionally large.<p>If you have a small (ish), well-known text, I don&#x27;t think you will get much insight from machine translation. Certainly there are plenty of uses for computer text analysis&#x2F;mining in biblical studies, but I doubt translation is one of them. And for obscure idioms or hapax legomena, machine translation definitely can&#x27;t help you because by definition there are no other sources to rely on.