The Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Latin that is translated as a form of “save” in English is translated in Shipibo-Conibo with a phrase that means literally “make to live,” which combines the meaning of “to rescue” and “to deliver from danger,” but also the concept of “to heal” or “restore to health.”
In San Blas Kuna it is rendered as “help the heart,” in Laka, it is “take by the hand” in the meaning of “rescue” or “deliver,” in Huautla Mazatec the back-translation of the employed term is “lift out on behalf of,” in Anuak, it is “have life because of,” in Central Mazahua “be healed in the heart,” in Baoulé “save one’s head” (meaning to rescue a person in the fullest sense), in Guerrero Amuzgo “come out well,” in Northwestern Dinka “be helped as to his breath” (or “life”) (source: Bratcher / Nida), and in Noongar barrang-ngandabat or “hold life” (source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang).
In South Bolivian Quechua it is “make to escape” and in Highland Puebla Nahuatl, it is “cause people to come out with the aid of the hand.” (Source: Nida 1947, p. 222.)
See also salvation and save (Japanese honorifics).
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 10:33:
- Uma: “Like I myself, in every way I always do what is good in the sight of all people. I don’t do just what is useful for myself. I do what is useful for others so that they will be lifted from the punishment of their sins.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Imitate me. Whatever I do, I try hard/strive to please them all because I don’t think about my own good but about the good of all the people so that they might be saved from the judgment of their sins.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for me, I’m always looking for a way so that everybody might be helped through what I do. I’m not really looking for my own betterment, but rather I’m looking for the betterment of all other people. The reason I do this is so that they might believe and be freed from punishment.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Follow-my -example in my trying to adapt my way-of-life to all people. Because what I think-about, it is not my own betterment but rather the betterment of my companions so that they will be saved.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Copy my nature/ways, for as for me, what I strive-hard-at is, that all people be given joy in their mind/inner-being by all that I do. I don’t seek what is for my own benefit but rather what is for the benefit of the-many, so that hopefully they will be saved from God’s punishment because of their sins.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “For my part, I earnestly seek to do what is looked well upon. Because it is not my own good that I seek, rather I seek what is good for other people in order that they might have their souls saved.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)