wisdom

The Hebrew, Aramaic, Ge’ez, Latin, and Greek that is translated as «wisdom» in English is rendered in various ways:

  • Amganad Ifugao / Tabasco Chontal: «(big) mind»
  • Bulu / Yamba: «heart-thinking»
  • Tae’: «cleverness of heart» (source for this and all above: Reiling / Swellengrebel)
  • Palauan: “bright spirit (innermost)” (source: Bratcher / Hatton)
  • Ixcatlán Mazatec: «with your best/biggest thinking» (source: Robert Bascom)
  • Noongar: dwangka-boola, lit. «ear much» (source: Portions of the Holy Bible in the Nyunga language of Australia, 2018 — see also remember)
  • Kwere «to know how to live well» (source: Pioneer Bible Translators, project-specific translation notes in Paratext)
  • Dobel: «their ear holes are long-lasting» (in Acts 6:3) (source: Jock Hughes)
  • Gbaya: iŋa-mgbara-mɔ or «knowing-about-things» (note that in comparison to that, «knowledge» is translated as iŋa-mɔ or «knowing things») (source: Philip Noss in The Bible Translator 2001, p. 114ff. )
  • Chichewa: nzeru, meaning both «knowledge» and «wisdom» (source: Mawu a Mulungu mu Chichewa Chalero Back Translation)
  • Uma: «clearness» (source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Kako: «heart thinking» (source: Reyburn 2002, p. 190)
  • Isthmus Mixe: «have a lot of mind»
  • Lalana Chinantec: «head is very good»
  • San Mateo Del Mar Huave: «have a great deal of understanding»
  • Morelos Nahuatl: «be alert»
  • Desano: «very intelligent»
  • Highland Popoluca: «understand what God wants» (Source for this and five above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)

In Hungarian Sign Language it is translated with a hand gesture referring to God to indicate a human quality to communicate that wisdom does not originate from man but is linked to and connected with the fear of God (source: Jenjelvi Biblia and HSL Bible Translation Group):


«Wisdom» in Hungarian Sign Language (source )

See also wisdom (Proverbs) and knowledge.

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