Ixcatlán Mazatec: “with your best/biggest thinking” (source: Robert Bascom)
Noongar: dwangka-boola, lit. “ear much” (source: Portions of the Holy Bible in the Nyunga language of Australia, 2018 — see also remember)
Kwere “to know how to live well” (source: Pioneer Bible Translators, project-specific translation notes in Paratext)
Dobel: “their ear holes are long-lasting” (in Acts 6:3) (source: Jock Hughes)
Gbaya: iŋa-mgbara-mɔ or “knowing-about-things” (note that in comparison to that, “knowledge” is translated as iŋa-mɔ or “knowing things”) (source: Philip Noss in The Bible Translator 2001, p. 114ff. )
Chichewa: nzeru, meaning both “knowledge” and “wisdom” (source: Mawu a Mulungu mu Chichewa Chalero Back Translation)
Kako: “heart thinking” (source: Reyburn 2002, p. 190)
In Hungarian Sign Language it is translated with a hand gesture referring to God to indicate a human quality to communicate that wisdom does not originate from man but is linked to and connected with the fear of God (source: Jenjelvi Biblia and HSL Bible Translation Group):
The following is a stained glass window from the Three choir windows in the Marienkirche, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, of the 14th century, depicting Solomon and the Queen of Sheba:
Source: Der gläserne Schatz: Die Bilderbibel der St. Marienkirche in Frankfurt (Oder), Neuer Berlin Verlag, 2005, copyright for this image: Brandenburgisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologisches Landesmuseum
Stained glass is not just highly decorative, it’s a medium which has been used to express important religious messages for centuries. Literacy was not widespread in the medieval and Renaissance periods and the Church used stained glass and other artworks to teach the central beliefs of Christianity. In Gothic churches, the windows were filled with extensive narrative scenes in stained glass — like huge and colorful picture storybooks — in which worshipers could ‘read’ the stories of Christ and the saints and learn what was required for their religious salvation. (Source: Victoria and Albert Museum )
Stained glass is not just highly decorative, it’s a medium which has been used to express important religious messages for centuries. Literacy was not widespread in the medieval and Renaissance periods and the Church used stained glass and other artworks to teach the central beliefs of Christianity. In Gothic churches, the windows were filled with extensive narrative scenes in stained glass — like huge and colorful picture storybooks — in which worshipers could ‘read’ the stories of Christ and the saints and learn what was required for their religious salvation. (Source: Victoria and Albert Museum )
The Hebrew, Latin and Greek that is transliterated as “Solomon” in English is translated in Spanish Sign Language with the sign for “wise” referring to 1 Kings 3:12. (Source: Steve Parkhurst)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Kings 10:4:
Kupsabiny: “It caught the mouth/made speechless/surprised that ruler of Sheba when (she) saw the greatness of Solomon’s wisdom and the way his home was.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Newari: “The Queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon and the palace he built.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “When the queen of Sheba had-proven the wisdom of Solomon, and when she saw the beauty of the palace that he had-built,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “The queen realized that Solomon was very wise. She saw his palace;” (Source: Translation for Translators)
The queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon: Revised Standard Version follows the Hebrew by saying that the queen “saw” Solomon’s wisdom. But a literal rendering of this verb will sound strange in some languages. Good News Translation says that she “heard.” Translators will need to consider the most natural way to express this concept in the receptor language. New Century Version provides a possible model when it says that “The queen of Sheba learned that Solomon was very wise.”
The house that he had built: In this context the Hebrew word for house refers to the royal palace and not to the Temple.
Quoted with permission from Omanson, Roger L. and Ellington, John E. A Handbook on 1-2 Kings, Volume 1. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2008. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .
10:4 When the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, the palace he had built,
The queen of Sheba heard all the wise words/sayings of Solomon and saw the palace he had built, -or-
The queen of Sheba realized how wise Solomon was. She saw the ⌊great⌋ house he had built for himself,
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