Jeremiah

The name that is transliterated as “Jeremiah” in English is translated in American Sign Language with the sign signifying “prophet (seeing into the future)” and “crying.” (Source: Phil King in Journal of Translation 16/2 2020, p. 33ff.)


“Jeremiah” in American Sign Language (source )

In Swiss-German Sign Language it is translated with a sign that depicts to lament often.


“Jeremiah” in Swiss-German Sign Language, source: DSGS-Lexikon biblischer Begriffe , © CGG Schweiz

Learn more on Bible Odyssey: Jeremiah .

For more information on translations of proper names with sign language see Sign Language Bible Translations Have Something to Say to Hearing Christians .

chariot

The Hebrew, Latin, Ge’ez, and Greek that is translated into English as “chariot” is translated into Anuak as “canoe pulled by horse.” “Canoe” is the general term for “vehicle” (source: Loren Bliese). Similarly it is translated in Lokạạ as ukwaa wạ nyanyang ntuuli or “canoe that is driven by horses.” (Source: J.A. Naudé, C.L. Miller Naudé, J.O. Obono in Acta Theologica 43/2, 2023, p. 129ff. )
Other translations include:

  • Eastern Highland Otomi: “cart pulled by horses” (source: Larson 1998, p. 98)
  • Chichicapan Zapotec: “ox cart” (in Acts 8) (ox carts are common vehicles for travel) (source: Loren Bliese)
  • Chichimeca-Jonaz, it is translated as “little house with two feet pulled by two horses” (source: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
  • Hausa Common Language Bible as keken-doki or “cart of donkey” (source: Andy Warren-Rothlin)
  • Mairasi: “going-thing [vehicle]” (source: Enggavoter 2004)

It is illustrated for use in Bible translations in East Africa by Pioneer Bible Translators like this:

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See also cart.

Translation commentary on 1 Esdras 1:26

And the king of Egypt sent word to him saying means the Egyptian king sent a message to Josiah. The message is in verses 26b-27. The conjunction And may be omitted (so Contemporary English Version). However, it may be rendered “but” (Good News Bible) since it marks the contrast between Josiah’s hostile action and the fact that Neco had done nothing to provoke it.

What have we to do with each other, king of Judea?: With this rhetorical question the king of Egypt is telling Josiah that he has no quarrel with him, and intends no harm to him or his country. He simply wants to be allowed to pass through. Good News Bible renders this question as a statement, which other languages may find helpful. The address king of Judea presents a problem in English, since it sounds quite odd, translated literally. Some translators may have no problem with this phrase, but those who do may consider the following translation of this verse, which presents the address not as a greeting to the king, but as the heading on a letter:

• The king of Egypt sent this message to Josiah: “To the king of Judah. I do not intend to attack you.

Quoted with permission from Bullard, Roger A. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on 1-2 Esdras. (UBS Helps for Translators). Miami: UBS, 2019. For this and other handbooks for translators see here.