The Greek that is often translates as “glutton” in English is translated with figurative expressions or descriptive phrases such as “one who has just stomach” (Navajo), “a stomach-for food” (Pohnpeian), “one who eats-much” (Chuukese), or “one who thinks only of eating” (Ekari).
See also glutton (Titus).
The Greek that is often translates as “glutton” in English is translated as “a very otter” in Isthmus Mixe.
See also glutton.
The Greek that is translated as “lay hands on (someone)” in English is translated in Tae’ with “‘He-pressed-down,’ a verb that in former times was used with the specific meaning of ‘to press down one’s hand on a person’s head,’ in order to fortify his soul after a dangerous experience, but in Christian usage came to refer to the gesture made when blessing a person.”
The Greek that is translated as “reprimanded” or “reproached” is translated in Batak Toba as “to hit-with words.”
The Greek that is translated as “(his) own city” in English is translated in Batak Toba as “his clan-origin” or literally “the trunk of his nangka-tree” (the strong, but slow growing nangka, or Jack-fruit, tree is being used metaphorically of the compound of a well-to-do family which remained in the same village for generations).
The Greek that is often translated as “become (or: became) strong in spirit” in English is translated as “was-made-strong as to his soul” in Sundanese. In the English Gospel translation of E.V. Rieu (1952) it is translated as “gathered spiritual strength.”
In Mairasi, it is translated as “increasing in strength of throat (= spirit; will; mind)” (source , Enggavoter 2004).
The Greek and Hebrew that is translated as “praise (God)” in English is translated in a nuymber of ways:
In Dan a figurative expression for praising God is used: “push God’s horse.” “In the distant past people closely followed the horses ridden by chiefs, so ‘pushing’ them.” (Source: Don Slager)
The Greek that is translated as “peace” in English, and like the English can refer to a mental state as well as a lack of strife or absence or cessation of war, needs to be expressed with distinguished terms in other languages. For the meaning of peace when referring to absence of strife, Northern Grebo renders “the palaver has passed,” Highland Totonac “well arranged” (implying reconciliation), Tae’ and Toraja-Sa’dan “being-good-with-each-other” (in Luke 12:51, the 1933 edition of Tae’ has “land and water are well”) or Sranan Tongo “free” (in the sense of “to conclude peace”).
See also peace (absence of conflict).