Language: Berik

The Greek that is translated in English as “eternal life” is translated in various ways:

• Berik: “good living forever” (source: Kroneman 2004, p. 536)
• Asháninka: “keep on living”
• Aguaruna: “will always live”
• Yanesha’: “immortal state forever”
• North Alaskan Inupiatun: “endless life”
• Colorado: “live forever with God”
• Lalana Chinantec: “heart will be alive forever,” (source for this and five above: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125)
• Tagalog: buhay na walang hanggan: “life which has no boundary”
• Iloko: biagna nga agnanayon: “continuing life” (source for this and one above: G. Henry Waterman in The Bible Translator 1960, p. 24ff.)
• Kele: loiko: “survival: enduring through crisis, catastrophe and death” (source: William Ford in The Bible Translator 1957, p. 203ff.).
• Mairasi as “life fruit” (source: Enggavoter 2004).

Lloyd Peckham explains the Mairasi translation: “In secret stories, not knowable to women nor children, there was a magical fruit of life. If referred to vaguely, without specifying the specific ‘fruit,’ it can be an expression for eternity.”

See also eternity / forever and salvation.