Since the words for “flock” and “girl friend” are homonyms in Khakas, the translators decided to translate the occurrence in Luke 12:32 as “you little lambs” rather than “flock” to avoid misunderstandings.

In Chechen, “little flock” sounds scornful and insulting, so it needed to be restructured as, “though you are few and weak, above you is a shepherd,” “with the implication that the shepherd is the heavenly father already mentioned in the wider context.“ (Source: David Clark in The Bible Translator 2015, p. 117ff. )

See also flock.