Help needed to translate English to Hebrew

Geneloh · Post by **Geneloh** » 26 Apr 2005 04:56

Hi,

I need help to translate the below phrase from English to Hebrew:

"Jesus, the center of my marriage"

You may reply directly to my PM.
Thank you very much for your help....

Cheers
Eugene

Cãlin · Post by **Cãlin** » 26 Apr 2005 05:54

Hello there!

This is a mere attempt. Do not rely on my reply. I'm not very sure about this, I'm a beginner in Hebrew...

ישוע, מרכז הנישואין שלי - without dots

יֵשׁוּעַ, מֶרְכָּז הַנִּישּׂוּאִין שֶׁלִי - with dots

pronunciation: [yeshuá' merkáz hannissu'ín shelí]

Gilen will come up with the correct version.

Gilen · Post by **Gilen** » 26 Apr 2005 20:10

zcalin wrote:Hello there!

This is a mere attempt. Do not rely on my reply. I'm not very sure about this, I'm a beginner in Hebrew...

ישוע, מרכז הנישואין שלי - without dots

יֵשׁוּעַ, מֶרְכָּז הַנִּישּׂוּאִין שֶׁלִי - with dots

pronunciation: [yeshuá' merkáz hannissu'ín shelí]

Gilen will come up with the correct version.

Well, it is almost good...

First, Jesus is not ישוע, it is יֵשׁוּ (Yeshu)

Concerning the word מרכז , if you really want to write it with vowels, be careful: when you make a "constructed state" of the noun, the final qamats in מֶרְכָּז is changed to pata'h : מֶרְכַּז.

The word "marriage" is נִשּׂוּאִים ! The word נישואין is Aramaic !

And to say "my marriage", it is נִשּׂוּאַי.

Finally, you should say :

יֵשׁוּ, מֶרְכַּז נִשּׂוּאַי (Yeshu, merkaz nissu'ai)

Cãlin · Post by **Cãlin** » 27 Apr 2005 09:11

Thanks for your correction and explanations, Gilen!

I still have one tiny question: What's wrong with יֵשׁוּעַ? I found it like this in all my dicos...

Olivier · Post by **Olivier** » 27 Apr 2005 11:01

zcalin wrote:What's wrong with יֵשׁוּעַ?

indeed that is the original Biblical form (from יהושוע/Joshuah "Y. is salvation") Yeshuah/Yéchoua' which is how (Christian) "messianic Jews" call Jesus, so it is perhaps correct in a Christian context like in that request?
-- Olivier

Cãlin · Post by **Cãlin** » 28 Apr 2005 01:08

Gilen wrote: Well, it is almost good...

[...]

Finally, you should say :

יֵשׁוּ, מֶרְכַּז נִשּׂוּאַי (Yeshu, merkaz nissu'ai)

Very polite, in theory.
In practice, you proved that my translation was faaaar away from good.

Gilen · Post by **Gilen** » 28 Apr 2005 11:31

You just have to practice !