33Just before daybreak, Paul urged all of them to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have been in suspense and remaining without food, having eaten nothing.
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The term that is transliterated as “Paul” in English is translated in American Sign Language with a sign that signifies the many letters he wrote. (Source: Ruth Anna Spooner, Ron Lawer)
“Paul” in American Sign Language, source: Deaf Harbor
In Spanish Sign Language it is translated with a sign depicting putting away a sword, referring to his conversion from a persecutor of Christians to a Christian leader. (Source: Steve Parkhurst)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 27:33:
Uma: “When it was almost sunrise, Paulus said to them: ‘You all must eat! For fourteen days you have just been waiting to see what will happen. You didn’t eat.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “When it was almost day, Paul begged all of them telling them to eat. He said, ‘For fourteen days now you have worried/has been your trouble. You have not eaten anything.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when it was almost morning, Paul begged all of them that they should eat. He said, ‘It’s been fourteen days that we have had to endure being afraid and nothing has entered our stomachs.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “When it was dawning, Pablo insisted that they eat saying, ‘Here it has been two weeks with you not eating properly, because you have been sidetracked/distracted by your fear.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “When it was getting toward dawn now, Pablo tried-to-persuade that crowd that hopefully they would now eat. He said, ‘It would be good if you would eat now, for look here, this is the fourteenth day that you haven’t eaten. You have been bothered/preoccupied by this bad weather.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
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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 formal plural suffix to the second person pronoun (“you” and its various forms) as shown here in the widely-used Japanese Shinkaiyaku (新改訳) Bible of 2017. In these verses, anata-gata (あなたがた) is used, combining the second person pronoun anata and the plural suffix -gata to create a formal plural pronoun (“you” [plural] in English).
This verse begins with an unusual construction (literally “until when”), rendered in most translations by “when.” The Good News Translation has made this subordinate temporal clause into a coordinate clause: day was about to come. The equivalent of this clause in some languages is “it was just beginning to be light” or “the day was not far away.”
On the phrase eat some food see verse 21.
Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Nida, Eugene A. A Handbook on The Acts of the Apostles. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1972. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .
Right up to daybreak: This refers to the time when there is light in the sky but the sun has not yet come up. Other ways to translate this phrase are:
As day was about to dawn (Revised Standard Version) -or-
When it was almost sunrise
Paul kept urging: The Greek tense on the verb probably indicates that Paul continued doing this for some time. Other ways to translate this are:
Paul was encouraging (New American Standard Bible) -or-
Paul began persuading (New Century Version)
27:33b–34c is what Paul said when he urged them.
27:33b
“Today is your fourteenth day: The Greek words begin with the word “saying.” It indicates that the words in 27:33b–34c are what Paul spoke to urge the people to eat. For example:
saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that (Revised Standard Version)
Today is your fourteenth day: The Greek words are literally “Today (is) the fourteenth day.” It indicates that the people were in constant suspense for the whole time of the storm and that day was the fourteenth day of the storm. Other ways to translate this phrase are:
Today is the fourteenth day that (Revised Standard Version) -or-
for fourteen days now (Good News Translation)
27:33c
in constant suspense: This clause in Greek is literally “you continue waiting.” Paul implied that they have waited all this time to see if they would die in the storm or not. Other ways to translate this clause are:
You have been waiting (Good News Translation) -or-
you have been waiting and watching (New Century Version) -or-
you have been in constant suspense (New International Version) -or-
you have lived in suspense (Revised English Bible)
without taking any food: This phrase in Greek is literally “with a loss of appetite.” During the storm they had little desire to eat, because of seasickness or worry. Other ways to translate this Greek word are:
not desiring to eat -or-
not wanting to eat
See how you translated this clause in 27:21 (“had gone…without food”).
27:33d
without taking any food: This clause in Greek is literally “having taken nothing.” It explains 27:33c and emphasizes they have not eaten at all. They had no desire to eat, and they did not force themselves to eat either. Other ways to translate this clause are:
having eaten nothing (New Revised Standard Version) -or-
you haven’t eaten a thing (Contemporary English Version)
Living Water is produced for the Bible translation movement in association with Lutheran Bible Translators. Lyrics derived from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®).
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