The Greek that is often rendered in English as «to be converted» or «to turn around» is (back-) translated in a number of ways:
- North Alaskan Inupiatun: «change completely»
- Purepecha: «turn around»
- Highland Totonac: «have one’s life changed»
- Huautla Mazatec: «make pass over bounds within»
- San Blas Kuna: «turn the heart toward God»
- Chol: «the heart turns itself back»
- Highland Puebla Nahuatl: «self-heart change»
- Pamona: «turn away from, unlearn something»
- Tepeuxila Cuicatec: «turn around from the breast»
- Luvale: «return»
- Balinese: «put on a new behavior» (compare «repentance«: «to put on a new mind»)
- Tzeltal: «cause one’s heart to return to God» (compare «repentance»: «to cause one’s heart to return because of one’s sin»)
- Pedi: «retrace one’s step» (compare «repentance»: «to become untwisted»)
- Uab Meto: «return» (compare «repentance»: «to turn the heart upside down»)
- Northwestern Dinka: «turn oneself» (compare «repentance»: «to turn the heart») (source for this and all above: Bratcher / Nida)
- Central Mazahua: «change the heart» (compare «repentance»: «turn back the heart») (source: Nida 1952, p. 40)
- In Elhomwe, the same term is used for «conversion» and «repentance» (source: project-specific translation notes in Paratext)
- Western Kanjobal: «molt» (like a butterfly) (source: Nida 1952, p. 136)
- Latvian: atgriezties (verb) / atgriešanās (noun) («turn around / return») which is also the same term being used for «repentance» (source: Katie Roth)
- Isthmus Mixe: «look away from the teaching of one’s ancestors and follow the teachings of God»
- Highland Popoluca: «leave one’s old beliefs to believe in Jesus» (source for this and above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
- German: bekehren, lit. «turn around»