fire is never quenched

The Greek, Hebrew, and Ge’ez that is translated as “fire is never quenched” in English is translated in Shor as “wildfire is never quenched.” Andrei S. Desnitsky explains (in: The Bible Translator 2018, p. 233ff. ): “Hell is described as a place where ‘the fire is never quenched.’ This is easy to render in probably any language but the translators into Shor (a Turkic language spoken in south-western Siberia) noticed that the direct rendering creates a rather positive image: what a nice place it must be, warm and full of light! This connotation disappeared as soon as they replaced the word ot (fire, light) with ört (wildfire).”

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