[Lexicog] an English idiom

[Wayne Leman]

>
> I see what you mean, Wayne.  I didn't quite get it before.  You're
> wondering where that phrase came from, because it does not come from the
> Greek.  Yesterday I tried googling for the phrase "my soul is swallowed up
> in sorrow", and found some mis-information about it here:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/bible_translation/idioms.txt

Thank you for that link, Allan. As it turns out, I am the author of that
webpage at that link, and I will immediately repair the mis-information.

Crawling back to my doghouse with my tail between my legs   :-)
Wayne
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Wayne Leman
Cheyenne website: http://www.geocities.com/cheyenne_language

>
> Under Mark 14:34, this phrase from HCSB is marked as "translated so
> literally that its meaning will likely not be understood by average
> English
> readers,"  while 12 other translations are evaluated as translating it "in
> a way that its meaning can be understood by average native English
> speakers".  But today I checked an interlinear Greek NT and found that
> just
> as you said, this actually is not a literal translation at all.
>
> Allan J.



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