[Lexicog] an English idiom

[David Tuggy]

"Overwhelmed by/with sorrow" is more routinized/clichéified/idiomatized.

--David T

John Roberts wrote:

> Wayne Leman asked:
>
> > Does anyone on this list know if the following is an extant English
> idiom:
> >
> > "My soul is swallowed up in sorrow."
> >
> > I have never heard it, but that doesn't, of course, mean that it hasn't
> > been
> > used by some English speakers.
>
> Wayne,
>
> This is a literal translation of the Greek idiom PERILUPOS ESTIN hH PSUCH
> MOU 'deeply grieved is the soul of me' in Mk 14.34 and Mt 26.38 as
> translated in the Holman Christian Study Bible. The rendering in NIV
> is very
> similar, i.e. 'my soul is overwhelmed with sorrow'.
>
> Why would you think "My soul is swallowed up in sorrow" is an English
> idiom?
>
> John Roberts
>
>
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