complete verse (Luke 8:30)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:30:

  • Noongar: “Jesus asked him, ‘What is your name?’ ‘My name is ‘Many’,’ he said, ‘Because many evil spirits live inside me.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “Yesus asked him: ‘What is your (sing.) name?’ He answered: ‘Legion.’ (That ‘Legion’ means ‘thousands’because there were many demons possessing him.)” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Then Isa asked him, he said, ‘What is your name?’ He answered, he said, ‘My name is Thousands’, for many demons hep had entered that person.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus asked this demon, ‘What is your name?’ And he answered, ‘My name is thousands upon thousands.’ The reason he said this was because these demons who had controlled this man were very many.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Then Jesus inquired of him, ‘What is your (sing.) name?’ ‘By-the-thousands,’ he said, because many were the evil-spirits who had possessed him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Jesus asked him, ‘Well what is your name?”Multitude,’ replied that one possesssing, because there were many evil spirits possessing that person.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)