with you/whom I am well pleased

The Greek that is translated as “with you (or: whom) I am well pleased” in English is often translated in other languages with figurative expressions

  • “you are the heart of my eye” (Huastec)
  • “you arrive at my gall” (with the gall being the seat of the emotions and intelligence) (Mossi)
  • “I see you very well” (Tzotzil)
  • “my bowels are sweet with you” (Shilluk) (source for this and all above: Bratcher / Nida)
  • “you pull at my heart” (Central Pame)
  • “my thoughts are arranged” (Mashco Piro)
  • “my heart rests in you” (Wè Southern) (source for this and two above: Nida 1952, p. 127).

In Nepali translations, Jesus is referred to in this expression by God the Father with the medium honorific third person pronoun yinī (यिनी) whereas Jesus addresses God the Father with the high honorific pronoun tapā’ī (तपाई) (see for instance John 17), “so that the subordination of Jesus to God the Father is rightly maintained in Nepali.” (Source: Chitra Chhetri in The Bible Translator 2009, p. 73ff. )

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