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The intent of the TNIV translators was to produce an accurate and readable translation in contemporary English. The Committee on Bible Translation wanted to build a new version on the heritage of the NIV and, like its predecessor, create a balanced mediating version–one that would fall in-between the most literal translation and the most free ...
[2] The word "arirang" itself is nonsensical and does not have a precise meaning in Korean. [25] While the other lyrics vary from version to version, the themes of sorrow, separation, reunion, and love appear in most versions. [4] [26] The table below includes the lyrics of "Standard Arirang" from Seoul. The first two lines are the refrain.
Bespoke is derived from the verb bespeak, meaning to "speak for something". [2] The particular meaning of the verb form is first cited from 1583 [3] and given in the Oxford English Dictionary: "to speak for, to arrange for, engage beforehand: to 'order' (goods)." The adjective "bespoken" means "ordered, commissioned, arranged for" and is first ...
Socrates (/ ˈ s ɒ k r ə t iː z /; [2] Greek: Σωκράτης; c. 470 – 399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and as among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought.
We also go on record as being opposed to the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, The Living Bible, the New English Translation of the Bible, the Reader's Digest Condensed Version, the New International Version and the public use of other modern versions."
In the 10th century an Old English translation of the Gospels was made in the Lindisfarne Gospels: a word-for-word gloss inserted between the lines of the Latin text by Aldred, Provost of Chester-le-Street. [6] This is the oldest extant translation of the Gospels into the English language. [6]
The Holy Qur'an: Arabic Text and English Translation (1990) was the first translation by a Muslim woman, Amatul Rahman Omar. The Noble Quran: Meaning With Explanatory Notes (2007) by Taqi Usmani is the first English translation of the Quran ever written by a traditionalist Deobandi scholar.
Modern dictionaries agree on prick as a euphemism for penis. But they offer some slight variations in the use of prick as an insult. The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang says a prick is: "a despicable man, a fool, used as a general term of offence or contempt.