preach

The Greek terms that are translated into English as «preach» or «proclaim» are regularly rendered into Aari as «speaking the word of salvation.» (Source: Loren Bliese)

Other languages (back-) translate it in the following manner:

  • Mandarin Chinese: chuándào/傳道 or «hand down the Way [or: the Logos]»)
  • Kekchí: «declare the word»
  • Kpelle: «speak God’s word»
  • Tzeltal: «he explains, they hear» («the goal of all preachers»)
  • Copainalá Zoque: «a preacher is ‘one who speaks-scatters'» (a figure based on the scattering of seed in the process of sowing) (source for this and above: Bratcher / Nida)
  • Shilluk: «declare the word of of God» (source: Nida 1964, p. 237)

In Luang it is translated with different shades of meaning:

  • For Acts 9:20, 10:42: nakotnohora: «talk about» («The generic term for preaching.»)
  • For Acts 8:4, 8:5, 8:25: rodkiota-ralde’etnohora — «bring words, give news about.» («This term is used when the preacher is moving from place to place to preach.»)

Source: Kathy Taber in Notes on Translation 1/1999, p. 9-16.

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