Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Acts 18:27)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 18:27:

  • Uma: “After that, there was an intention of Apolos wanting to go to the province of Akhaya. And his one-faith relatives in Efesus helped him: they sent letters to their fellow believers in Akhaya so that they would receive Apolos well. So, Apolos did arrive in Akhaya, and his teaching brought much blessing to all the people who believed in the Lord Yesus because of God’s white insides [grace]. love to the point that they believed in the Lord Yesus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Then Apollos planned to go to the place Akaya. He was helped by the ones trusting in Isa in Epesus, and they sent a letter to the ones trusting in Isa in the place Akaya asking them to attend-to/take-care-of Apollos. When Apollos arrived there, he greatly helped the people who trusted. They trusted because of God’s love to them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then Apollos decided that he would go to Achaia. The belivers there in Ephesus helped him because they wrote to the believers in Achaia and they begged them to receive him. And when Apollos arrived in Achaia, all of those who believed in Jesus through the grace of our Lord, his teaching to them was a great help.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “When Apollos then wanted to go to the province Akaya, the believers in Efeso gave-him -their-approval, and they wrote to the believers in Akaya so that they would receive him. When he arrived there, much was his help to them who believed by-means-of God’s grace/mercy.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Well, when Apolos wanted to move on to Acaya, the believers in Efeso encouraged him. They wrote to the believers there where he intended to go, so that they would welcome him when he arrived there. Therefore Apolos then set out. When he was now there in Corinto in the district of Acaya, his help to those who had already believed was far-from-ordinary, through the grace of God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Mark 15:34)

Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 15:34:

  • Uma: “At three o’clock in the afternoon, Yesus cried loudly, he said: ‘My God! My God! Why have you (sing.) left me?’ In the Yahudi language it sounds like this: ‘Eloi, Eloi, lama sabakhtani?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “When it was three o’clock, Isa shouted loudly, he said, ‘Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?’ It means, ‘O my God, why have you abandoned me?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when the sun was half-way down from the zenith, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, ‘Eli, Eli lama sabachthani,’ which is to say, ‘My God, why have you turned your back on me?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “At three o’clock then, Jesus raised his voice (lit. made-strong his speech) shouting, ‘Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?’ meaning to say, ‘My God, my God, why have you abandoned-me?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “When it was now mid afternoon, Jesus shouted loudly saying, ‘Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?’ which means, ‘My God, My God, why are you leaving me alone?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (James 4:4)

Following are a number of back-translations of James 4:4:

  • Uma: “You, you aren’t faithfully [lit., remaining] following the Lore! You know, don’t you, relatives, if we follow the evil actions in this world, we become God’s enemies? Once more I say: whoever likes evil actions in this world, he is God’s enemy.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “You are not trustworthy! Don’t you know that if you like/are-fond-of the different-kinds of bad in this world, you are already the enemies of God? For whoever likes the bad works/deeds in this world, he is already God’s enemy.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “You are not faithful to your promise to God. Don’t you know that if what you want is the evil behaviour of the enemies of God here on the earth, then you also are the enemies of God? Anyone who wants evil behaviour here on the earth is an enemy of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Oh confound (frustration/anger particle) you who are not trustworthy to follow God! Don’t you know that if you love what is on this earth, you are opposing God? So whoever is intentionally following the kind-of-behavior that is opposed to what God wants, he makes himself his enemy.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “As for you people, you are like a married woman who is immoral, who doesn’t really value marriage, for like that is what you are doing to God. Don’t you know that as long as what you give preference to are things here in this world, you are opposing God? It’s true, whoever determines that it isn’t the will of God but rather the desires here in the world which he will give preference to, he is doing none other than getting himself secured/established as an opponent of God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Why do you want to depart from God? Don’t you know that the people who do as the people who live here on earth do are the enemies of God? Therefore whoever wants to do the evil done by the people here on earth ends up as the enemy of God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Acts 19:31)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 19:31:

  • Uma: “Thus also some noblemen of the province of Asia who befriended Paulus sent people to tell him not to go to the meeting-place.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Even the officials in that land Asiya who were his friends, sent word to him ngamey-ngamey (verbalized intensifier) telling him not to enter that large meeting house.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There were also some friends of his who were officials of the province of Asia. They sent someone to Paul to beg him that he must not go into the gathering house.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “There were also rulers of the province who were Pablo’s friends who sent a person to go tell him, ‘Please we-beg-you don’t show-yourself (sing.) in the spectating-place of the people.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “And not only them, but on the contrary there were some of the officials of that province of Asia who, because their fellowship/friendship with Pablo was good, also told him not to. They sent some to go to him and tell him emphatically not to deliver his life/breath there to that trouble.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Mark 16:19)

Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 16:19:

  • Uma: “After the Lord Yesus spoke to them, he was lifted up to heaven, and he sat on the right side of God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “So-then after the Lord Isa had spoken to his disciples, he was lifted up towards heaven and he sat down at the right-hand-side of God, the most prominent/important place.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when Jesus finished saying that, he ascended up to heaven and he sat down on the right side of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “When it was finished that Jesus spoke-with them, he was raised to heaven and sat-down to the right of God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “After the Lord Jesus had ended that which he was saying to his disciples, he went-up to the sky/heavens and sat down on the right of God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (James 5:19)

Following are a number of back-translations of James 5:19:

  • Uma: “All my relatives! If there is a companion of ours who has circumvented/wandered-from from the true teaching, and there is one who guides him back to the Lord, he has done a good deed.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “So-then, my brothers, remember this, if there is someone among you who no longer follows/obeys the true teaching and one of you can influence/bring him back again to follow/obey the true teaching, (that is) good.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Brothers, if any one of you departs from and forgets about the true doctrine and someone helps him so that he might return,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Think-about this brothers. If there is someone among you who goes-far from the correct teaching or behavior that God wants and there is someone among you who advises him to cause-him-to-return to what is right,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “The final thing I have to say to you, my siblings in believing, is that if one of you will get led astray from the path of truth and there is also one who can cause him to return, that is really good.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Listen, my dear brethren, if there is anyone who has departed from the word which is true, let another person cause that he return again.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Acts 20:22)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 20:22:

  • Uma: “‘Now I go to Yerusalem, following the command of the Holy Spirit to me. Yet I don’t know just what will happen to myself there.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Na now, I am going to Awrusalam because this is what the Holy Spirit has commanded. I do not know what will happen to me there.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And now since I am carrying out the command that the Holy Spirit has given me, I am going to Jerusalem. And I do not know what is going to happen to me there.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “‘Now though, I am going to Jerusalem, because that’s what the Holy Spirit instructed/commanded me, and I don’t know what will happen to me there.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Well now, I am now as it were being led along by the Espiritu Santo to go to Jerusalem. I don’t know what things will happen to me there.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 1:31)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 1:31:

  • Noongar: “You will become pregnant and bear a son, and you will name him ‘Jesus’.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “You (sing.) will become pregnant, and you (sing.) will give birth to a male child. You (sing.) must name that child Yesus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “You will soon become pregnant and will give birth to a boy. Call him Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “You will become pregnant and you will give birth to a male, and you must name him Jesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “You (sing.) will become pregnant, and you (sing.) will give-birth to a male and you (sing.) will name him Jesus.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Listen to what I will tell you. You will conceive. A male will be born. Jesus is what you are to name him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)