Chaldean

The name that is transliterated as “Chaldean” in English is translated in Libras (Brazilian Sign Language) with the sign that combines “Mesopotamia” (see here) and “spreading out,” since the Chaldeans originated in southern Mesopotamia and spread out from there. (Source: Missão Kophós )


“Chaldean” in Libras (source )

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complete verse (Jeremiah 50:8)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 50:8:

  • Kupsabiny: “Stomach of Israel, flee from Babylon!
    Get up/leave from the land of the Babylonians.
    Hurry up so that you go ahead like a goat
    so that all the other goats/sheep follow.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘You (plur.) flee from Babilonia! You (plur.) leave that nation! You (plur.) go-first to flee!” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)

Translation commentary on Jeremiah 50:8

Good News Translation (“People of Israel”) and Die Bibel im heutigen Deutsch (“All you foreigners”) each attempt to identify the persons addressed. The persons the LORD is speaking to are surely not the Babylonians, and on the basis of verses 6-7, it is logical to assume that they are the people of God, as in Good News Translation.

Babylon … Chaldeans: See verse 1 and 21.4. The first part of the verse may be rendered, for example, “Run away from Babylon! Get away from that land.”

Be as he-goats before the flock is a way of telling the persons addressed to run ahead of everyone else, so that they can be the first ones to leave the country. This is the basis for the rendering of Good News Translation “Be the first to leave!”

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 .