unleavened bread

The Hebrew and Greek that is translated as “unleavened bread” in English is translated in various ways:

  • Chichimeca-Jonaz: “bread that doesn’t have its medicine that makes it puff up”
  • Teutila Cuicatec: “bread without its sour”
  • Tepeuxila Cuicatec: “bread that has no mother” (source for this and above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
  • Mairasi: “bread without other ingredient” (source: Enggavoter 2004)
  • Chichewa: “non-puffed-up bread”
  • Chitonga: “bread without fermented grain” (source for this and above: de Regt / Wendland 2016)
  • Hiligaynon: “bread that has-none of that-which-causes-to-expand” (source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Tatar: “unleavened flat cakes” (source: Lénart de Regt in The Bible Translator 2017, p. 131ff. )
  • Nkumbi / Mbangala / Songo: “bread that has gone no yeast” — “this is an application of a common construction in Angolan Bantu languages for speaking about the ingredients in some foods: ‘there is salt in the soup’ is rendered literally, ‘the soup has gone salt.’ (Source: Riikka Halme-Berneking in The Bible Translator 2014, p. 353ff. )

Jerusalem

The name that is transliterated as “Jerusalem” in English is signed in French Sign Language with a sign that depicts worshiping at the Western Wall in Jerusalem:


“Jerusalem” in French Sign Language (source: La Bible en langue des signes française )

While a similar sign is also used in British Sign Language, another, more neutral sign that combines the sign “J” and the signs for “place” is used as well. (Source: Anna Smith)


“Jerusalem” in British Sign Language (source: Christian BSL, used with permission)

Learn more on Bible Odyssey: Jerusalem .

complete verse (2 Chronicles 30:13)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Chronicles 30:13:

  • Kupsabiny: “And in the second month, many people gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the Festival of bread hat had not risen.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “In the 2nd month many people gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “So on the second month, very large-crowd of people gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Bread which Has-None of Which-causes-to-Expand-(Ingredient).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “So a huge crowd of people gathered in Jerusalem in May, to celebrate the Festival of Eating Unleavened Bread.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

SIL Translator’s Notes on 2 Chronicles 30:13

30:13a In the second month, a very great assembly gathered in Jerusalem

In the second month, a large number of people gathered in Jerusalem.
-or-
In mont two (2) {of that year}, very many people came to Jerusalem

30:13b to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

⌊They gathered there⌋ to celebrate the Feast of Bread without Yeast.
-or-
to observe the Flat Bread celebration together.

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