The Greek in Mark 8:2 that is translated as I have compassion” or similar in English is translated in the German New Testament translation by Berger / Nord (publ. 1999) with mir tut es weh or “it pains me.”
moved with compassion
The Greek that is translated with “moved with compassion (or: pity)” in English is translated as “to see someone with sorrow” in Piro, “to suffer with someone” in Huastec, or “one’s mind to be as it were out of one” in Balinese (source: Bratcher / Nida).
The English translation by Michael Pakaluk (2019) uses “was keenly affected” in Mark 1:41.
See also compassion.
compassion
The Hebrew, Greek, Ge’ez, and Latin that is typically as “compassion” in English (“compassion” comes from the Latin compatior and means suffering with) is translated in various ways:
- Shilluk´: “cries in the soul” (source: Nida, 1952, p. 132)
- Q’anjob’al: “crying in one’s stomach” (source: Newberry and Kittie Cox in The Bible Translator 1950, p. 91ff. )
- Aari: “has a good stomach” (=”sympathetic”) (source: Loren Bliese)
- Una: “has a big liver” (source: Kroneman 2004, p. 471)
- Uma: “heart is moved (lit., far-away)” (source: Uma Back Translation)
- Chitonga: “to have the intestines twisting in compassion/sorrow for someone” (kumyongwa) (source: Wendland 1987, p. 128f.)
See also pain-love, moved with compassion (pity), and Seat of the Mind for traditional views of “ways of knowing, thinking, and feeling.”
Mark 8:1-10 in Russian Sign Language
Following is the translation of Mark 8:1-10 into Russian Sign Language with a back-translation underneath:
Source: Russian Bible Society / Российское Библейское Общество
Many people had gathered to listen to Jesus. Jesus was teaching the people. But the people did not have any food with them. Jesus said to his disciples:
— I feel sorry for these people! They have been here with me for three days, but they have no food. If I let the people go hungry, some will become weak on the long journey.
The disciples began to say:
— It’s a desert here! Where are we going to get so much bread to feed such a crowd? We won’t be able to.
Jesus said:
— Maybe some of you have some bread. Look and see if you can find some. The disciples looked and found seven loaves.
Jesus asked all the people to sit down on the ground. He took the bread in his hands and began to pray to God by saying, “Thank you, God!” Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to distribute to the people. And the disciples went to distribute the bread to the people. There were also a few fish.
Jesus took the fish, looked up to heaven, said the prayer, “Thank you, God” and gave the disciples to distribute the fish to all the people.
There were about four thousand people in all who ate and had enough to eat.
Jesus said to the disciples:
— Gather the leftover pieces of food into baskets.
The disciples went to gather the leftovers, and there were seven baskets full of leftovers. When the people had eaten, Jesus let the people go, and he and his disciples got on a boat and sailed to the region of Dalmanutha.
Original Russian back-translation (click or tap here):
Собралось множество людей, чтобы послушать Иисуса. Иисус учил народ. Но у людей не было с собой еды. Иисус сказал своим ученикам:
— Мне жаль этих людей! Они уже со мной тут три дня, но у них нет еды. Если я отпущу народ голодным, кто-то ослабеет в дальней дороге.
Ученики стали говорить:
— Тут пустыня! Где мы возьмем столько хлеба, чтобы накормить такую толпу? Мы не сможем.
Иисус сказал:
— Может быть, у кого-то из вас есть хлеб. Посмотрите, поищите. Ученики поискали и нашли семь хлебов.
Иисус попросил весь народ сесть на землю. Он взял хлеб в руки и стал молиться Богу со словами «Благодарю тебя, Боже!» Затем он разломил хлеба и дал ученикам, чтобы они раздали народу. И ученики пошли раздавать народу хлеб. Также было еще несколько рыб.
Иисус взял рыбу, посмотрел на небо, произнес молитву «Благодарю тебя, Боже…» и дал ученикам, чтобы те раздали рыбу все людям.
Всего людей, которые ели и наелись досыта, было около четырех тысяч.
Иисус сказал ученикам:
— Соберите оставшиеся куски еды в корзины.
Ученики пошли собирать остатки еды, и остатков набралось полных семь корзин. Когда народ наелся, Иисус отпустил людей, а сам с учениками сел на лодку и поплыл область Далманута.
Back-translation by Luka Manevich
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Mark 8:1 - 10a in Mexican Sign Language
Following is the translation of Mark 8:1-10a into Mexican Sign Language with back-translations into Spanish and English underneath:
© La Biblia en LSM / La Palabra de Dios
Retrotraducciones en español (haga clic o pulse aquí)
Un hombre sordo que no hablaba bien, las personas lo ayudaron (y lo dijeron que) vieniera con ellos. Fueron y dijeron a Jesús: “Él es sordo, por favor, ponle la mano y sanalo.”
Jesús vio a todas las personas y dijo a los discípulos: “Todas las personas ya han estado junto con nosotros por tres días, ellos no tienen comida, se ha acabado.
Sus casas, donde viven, están lejos, y si nos despedimos de ellos, se irán caminando y se caerán por ser mareados de hambre, siento dolor por los pobrecitos.”
Los discípulos dijeron: “Aqui es desierto, no hay comida, ¿Cómo y dónde vamos a encontrar pan para repartir?”
Jesús dijo: “¿Cuánto pan hay?” Los discípulos: “Hay siete panes.”
Jesús dijo a las personas: “Por favor, sientense.” Jesús tomó pan, dio gracias a Dios, rompió el pan y lo puso en una canasta, rompía y lo ponía hasta que se llenó la canasta, y la dio a los discípulos. Ellos la tomaron y lo repartían.
Había unos peces pequeños, muy poquito, y Jesús los bendijo y había un montón. Les dio la canasta (a los discípulos): “Uds repartanlos.” Los discípulos tomaron la canasta y los repartían.
Todas las personas, eran más o menos 4000, estaban comiendo hasta que se llenaron y los discípulos pusieron los peces y el pan que sobró en canastas. Cuando se llenó una canasta la pusieron aparte, tomaron otra canasta y la llenaron y fueron siete canastas de sobras.
Jesús se despidió de ellos y Jesús y los discípulos fueron y entraron un barco y el barco fue navigando.
Jesus looked around at all the people and said to the disciples: “All these people have been with us for three days and they have no food, it’s all gone.
“The houses in which they live are far away and if we say goodbye to them they will go walking and they will fall over being dizzy from hunger, I feel sorry for these poor people.”
The disciples said: “It’s desert here, there is no food. How and where are we going to find bread to hand out?”
Jesus said: “How much bread is there?” The disciples: “There are seven loaves.”
Jesus said to the people: “Please, sit down.” Jesus took bread and gave thanks to God, then he broke the bread and put it in a basket, he kept breaking and putting it there until it was full, then he gave the basket to the disciples and they took it and handed it out.
There were some small fishes, a few, and Jesus blessed them and there was a heap. He gave the basket (to the disciples): “You hand them out.” The disciples took the basket and handed them out.
All the people, there were more or less 4000, ate until they were full and the disciples put the fishes and the bread that were left over in baskets. When a basket was full, they would put it aside and take another one and fill it, and there were seven baskets of leftovers.
Jesus said goodbye and Jesus and the disciples went and got into a boat and the boat left.
Source: La Biblia en LSM / La Palabra de Dios
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complete verse (Mark 8:2)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 8:2:
- Uma: “‘My heart is moved [lit., far-away] seeing these many people. They have been with me for three days, they don’t have any food.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘I have pity on these many people because they have been here now with me for three days and they have nothing to eat anymore.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “‘Pity these people. Three nights they have not gone away from us, and they no longer have food.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘I am feeling-pity-for these many-people, because they have stayed-here -with us for three days and their pack-lunches are already used-up.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘I pity these people, because today is now the third day that they have been with me, and they have no more food.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
1st person pronoun referring to God (Japanese)
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Like a number of other East Asian languages, Japanese uses a complex system of honorifics, i.e. a system where a number of different levels of politeness are expressed in language via words, word forms or grammatical constructs. These can range from addressing someone or referring to someone with contempt (very informal) to expressing the highest level of reference (as used in addressing or referring to God) or any number of levels in-between.
One way Japanese shows different degree of politeness is through the choice of a first person singular and plural pronoun (“I” and “we” and its various forms) as shown here in the widely-used Japanese Shinkaiyaku (新改訳) Bible of 2017. The most commonly used watashi/watakushi (私) is typically used when the speaker is humble and asking for help. In these verses, where God / Jesus is referring to himself, watashi is also used but instead of the kanji writing system (私) the syllabary hiragana (わたし) is used to distinguish God from others.
(Source: S. E. Doi, see also S. E. Doi in Journal of Translation, 18/2022, p. 37ff. )
See also pronoun for “God”.
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