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Actually, Bibles nearly always translate names

by Julia_Gabrielle

4/20/2005, 10:48 PM

Here's a link to a Spanish version of the Bible where Lydia is spelled Lidia:

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=51&chapter=16&version=61&context=chapter

(Look at the 14th verse: "Entonces una mujer llamada Lidia, vendedora de púrpura, de la ciudad de Tiatira . . .")

On edit: I found the same verse from an Italian Bible. It also uses Lidia: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=51&chapter=16&verse=14&version=34&context=verse (This is Acts 16:14, by the way.)

For the record, I prefer the spelling Lydia, but Lidia is the legitimate Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian form.

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- Miranda (Randee15) +1

4/21/2005, 11:01 AM

That sounds logical, though

I meant all English Bibles. Lídia is the Portuguese form of Lydia, and Lidia's the Italian, Spanish, and Polish form. Logically, Bibles in those languages would translate the names accordingly, I would think.

Miranda
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- Julia_Gabrielle

4/21/2005, 12:58 PM

Okay then. But since the question ADT asked was whether all Bibles used Lydia, or just all English translations, and you answered all versions, the only logical assumption I could make was that you believed Spanish and Italian Bibles also used Lydia, which is simply not true.

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