The Hebrew and Greek that is translated by some English translations with the euphemism “to know someone” and by others as “be intimate with someone” or “have sexual relations with someone” is translated in Cherokee as “becoming wise” or “becoming experienced.” (source: Bender / Belt 2025, p. 30)

In Tongan, it is translated as fe’iloaki which “is generally reserved for sexual intimacy bearing the traditional cultural notion of “meeting to make a home.” Source: Ma’afu Palu in The Bible Translator 2022, p. 240ff.)