pride

The Hebrew, Greek, and Latin that is translated as “pride” in English is translated as “continually boasting” (Amganad Ifugao), “lifting oneself up” (Tzeltal), “answering haughtily” (Yucateco) (source: Bratcher / Nida), “unbent neck” (like llamas) (Kaqchikel) (source: Nida 1952, p. 151), or “praising oneself, saying: I am better” (Shipibo-Conibo) (source: Nida 1964, p. 237).

In the Hausa Common Language Ajami Bible it is idiomatically translated as girman kai or “bigness of head.” (Source: Andy Warren-Rothlin)

Translation commentary on Jeremiah 50:32

The proud one: See verse 31. If this is retained as a name, translators can say, for example, “You [who are named] ‘Proud One.’ ”

I will kindle a fire in his cities is better rendered “I will set the cities of Babylonia [or, your cities] on fire.”

Devour; that is, “destroy.” See 8.16.

Round about him; that is, “around the proud one, that proud nation.”

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on Jeremiah. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2003. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .