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The Hebrew and Greek that is translated in many English versions as “Day of the Lord” was rendered in Bengali as “Day of Judgement” in order to avoid confusion with the Lord’s day in the sense of Sunday. (Source: David Clark)
In Atatláhuca Mixtec it is translated as “the day when our owner comes back.” (Source: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
See also day of judgment.
The Hebrew that is translated as “Pleiades and Orion” is translated in Tibetan with the local names “the Sextet and the Hermit.” (Source: David Clark in Clark / Desnitsky 2009 , p. 23)
See also Orion.
The phrase in Galatians 4:19 that is translated in English versions as “in travail” or “in the pain of childbirth” is rendered in Kahua as “like a woman whose back is cracking.”
The Ghari translation uses different terms for “fishing”: with nets when fishing for fish and with a line when fishing for men. (Source: David Clark)
The translation for “fishing” (when referring to catching fish) in Ojitlán Chinantec is “catching water animals” and in Aguaruna “killing fish.” (Source: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
See also cast a net.
Learn more on Bible Odyssey: Fishing Economy in the Sea of Galilee .
The Greek that is transliterated as “Antioch” in English means “driven against.” (Source: Cornwall / Smith 1997)
In Western Lawa it is given the prefix weīyng (เวียง) to denote it as a larger settlement.
David Clark (in The Bible Translator 2013, p. 54ff. ) explains: “Place names often present difficulties in minority languages in Thailand, where it is normal to prefix unfamiliar names with a ‘classifier’ to show whether the name refers to a town, village, river, mountain, island, and so on. The problem in many such languages is that whereas English has numerous terms for human settlements of different size and importance (metropolis, conurbation, city, town, village, hamlet, etc.), they have only two terms. Generally, one refers to a metropolis like Bangkok, and the other to virtually all other settlements. This kind of contrast does not transfer well into the historical and cultural setting of the Bible, where even quite large towns were relatively small by modern standards. Especially in the Old Testament, what the Hebrew text calls ‘cities’ (because they had a wall) would often be classed as no more than villages in Thai minority languages. What many translators have done is to apply the term for a larger settlement to places of importance in the narrative, even if they were not very large in absolute terms. Thus in Lawa, Antioch, which is of considerable significance in Acts, is given the label for the larger size of settlement (weīyng).”
Learn more on Bible Odyssey: Antioch .
The phrase in Jude 1:19 that is translated as “worldly people” or “people who are controlled by their natural desires” in English versions is translated into Kahua with the idiom that says “people who follow their noses.”
See also worldly passions.
The phrase that is translated in English as “fattened calf” is translated in Fuyug as “the calf full of grease” and in Yakut it is specified as a “two-year-old.” (Source: David Clark)
In some Hindi translations it is translated as mota pashu (मोटा पशु) or “fattened animal” to avoid the traditionally negative association with slaughtering cows. (In the case of पवित्र बाइबिल, the Common Language Hindi Bible, a footnote is added that says “In the original text: ‘calf.'”)
See also fatted cattle and kill the fatted calf.
In Chechen there is no word for the term that is translated with “hate” in English that is appropriate to the context in Luke 14:26 so the sentence has to be restructured to say, “if anyone does not esteem me more than…”.
This is also the case in Kalmyk where the sentence has to be restructured to say, “if anyone does not love me more than…”.
In the German New Testament translation by Berger / Nord (publ. 1999) it is translated with gleichsam hassen or “hate, so to speak.”
See also who hate us.