cry- bring into a particular state by crying; "The little boy cried himself to sleep" etiolate- make pale or sickly; "alcohol etiolates your skin" shade- vary slightly; "shade the meaning" animalise,animalize,brutalise,brutalize- make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman; "Life in the camps had...
In some languages the meaning of a word changes when the tone is altered. Na bandinga yankaka, ntendula ya ngogo mosi kesobaka kana nge soba mungungu. jw2019 Now, if that same scene was altered—the stream clogged with garbage, the trees and rocks defaced with graffiti, the air ...
First, in order to translate the Bible, in contrast to, say, translating Camus, you have to do philological spade work. That is sort of like detective work. When I suddenly realized, for example, that a particular biblical expression had a meaning that no one before had realized, I had ...
In the mid-1970s, scholar and critic Robert Alter began writing about the literary techniques of the Bible. In the mid-1990s, he began to translate it, beginning with Genesis, then moving forward to the story of King David in the two books of Samuel and the beginning of Kings, before t...
a According to the Bible, the holy book of Christians, God decided to allow his only son, Jesus Christ, to be born to a human mother and live on earth so that people could understand God better and learn to love God and each other more. \"Christmas\"- meaning \"celebration of Christ...
religions Article Online and Offline Religion in China: A Protestant WeChat "Alter-Public" through the Bible Handcopying Movement Carsten Vala 1,* and Jianbo Huang 2 1 Department of Political Science, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA 2 Institute of Anthropology, East China ...