The Aramaic in Daniel 4:37 that is often translated as “all his works are truth (or: right)” in English is translated into Pass Valley Yali as “as God walks along he builds garden.”
pledge
The Hebrew in Genesis 38:18 that is translated as “pledge” in English is translated in Irarutu as “the ring that has your mark on the cord around your neck.” (Source: Daud Soesilio)
See also pledge (Japanese honorifics).
dishonorable passions, shameful acts
The Greek in Romans 1:26 that is translated as “dishonorable passions” or “shameful acts” in English is translated in Manikion as “actions that make people spit.” (Source: Daud Soesilo)
In Sierra de Juárez Zapotec it is translated as “their own filthy cravings” and in Yatzachi Zapotec as “doing shameful things and unclean things as their head-hearts desired.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
adulteress
The Hebrew and Greek that is translated as “adulteress” in English is translated in Manikion as “light body” (easy to go out and commit adultery) and in Yagaria as “theft-woman” (source: Renck 1990, p. 139) .
See also adulterer, The woman caught in adultery (image), and adultery.
by your sword you shall live
The Hebrew in Genesis 27:40 that is often translated as “by your sword you shall live” in English is translated into Pass Valley Yali as “you will live by using your big knife to rob.”
made a great feast
The Aramaic in Daniel 5:1 that is often translated as “(King Belshazzar) made a great feast” in English is translated into Pass Valley Yali as “heated up stones (so as to have a feast).”
very angry
The Hebrew that is translated as “became very angry” or “burned with anger” in English is translated in Irarutu as “his stomach was boiling.”
See also anger, fury / furious, and Seat of the Mind for traditional views of “ways of knowing, thinking, and feeling.”
perplexed, puzzled
The Aramaic in Daniel 5:9 that is translated as “perplexed” or “puzzled” in English is translated into Pass Valley Yali as “swollen heart.”