soldier

The Hebrew, Ge’ez, and Greek that is translated as “soldier” in English didn’t have a direct equivalent in Enlhet so it was translated with “those that bind us” (source: Jacob Loewen in The Bible Translator 1969, p. 24ff. ) and in Noongar it is mammarapa-bakadjiny or “men of fighting” (source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang).

Translation commentary on 1 Maccabees 14:32

Then Simon rose up and fought for his nation: Good News Bible has a good model here.

He spent great sums of his own money; he armed the men of his nations’s forces and paid them wages: Great sums may be rendered “a large amount” (Good News Bible) or “a lot of” (Contemporary English Version). We have not been told before in 1Maccabees that Simon paid his men (paid them wages) and provided their weapons (armed the men of his nation’s forces) out of his own resources, but in proclamations honoring heroes in Hellenistic times, this was something often said of the hero. The monument that Simon had erected at Modein (1Macc 13.25-30) would indicate that he was wealthy.

Quoted with permission from Bullard, Roger A. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on 1-2 Maccabees. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2011. For this and other handbooks for translators see here.