Isthmus Mixe: “don’t want people to have what is good”
Eastern Highland Otomi: “dissuade people from all that’s good” (source for this and above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
“God will cause his Holy Spirit to possess you” in Teutila Cuicatec
“the Holy Spirit will come into your souls with his power” in Desano
“you will receive the Holy Spirit, Father God will give you that” in San Mateo del Mar Huave
“God will send the Holy Spirit to live with you” Mezquital Otomi (source for this and above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
“you guys will receive Great Above Ones Spirit as a gift from right where Great Above One lives” in Mairasi (source: Enggavoter 2004)
“you will receive the Straight Spirit as a gift to you” in Bariai (source: Bariai Back Translation)
The Greek and Latin that is translated as “resurrection” in English is translated in Chicahuaxtla Triqui and Pohnpeian as “live-up” (i.e. return to life) (source: Reiling / Swellengrebel) and in Iloko as panagungar: a term that stems “from the word ‘agungar,’ an agricultural term used to describe the coming back to life of a plant which was wilting but which has been watered by the farmer, or of a bulb which was apparently dead but grows again.” (Source: G. Henry Waterman in The Bible Translator 1960, p. 24ff. )
Likewise, in Matumbiyu’ya carries the meaning of “raise from the dead, resuscitate, come back from near death” and is used for dry plants that come back to life when you water them or sick children who revive after being healed. (Source: Pioneer Bible Translators, project-specific notes in Paratext)
In Estado de México Otomi, it is translated as “people will be raised from the dead,” in Teutila Cuicatec as “the dead having to come to life again,” in San Mateo del Mar Huave as “arose from the grave” (source: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.), and in Kriol as gidap laibala brom dedbala or “get up alive from the dead” (source: Sam Freney in this article .)
The Hebrew and Greek that is translated as “desolating sacrilege” or similar in English is translated in Newari as “a fearful and repulsive image” (source: Newari Back Translation), in Yucateco as “the hated (thing) which does terrible destruction,” in Chicahuaxtla Triqui as “the foul object which desolates the town,” and in San Mateo del Mar Huave as “loathsome thing which destroys” (source for the last three: Bratcher / Nida).
