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אלוהים יודעת

English translation: God in her wisdom knows

00:00 Jul 2, 2015
Hebrew to English translations [PRO]
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / General newspaper article
Hebrew term or phrase: אלוהים יודעת
זה המינימום שמגיע לנו. אם היינו פחות סלחניות היינו דורשות לפחות עוד 100 שנה של 100% נשים. אלוהים יודעת שגם זה היה מגיע לנו.

This is an article about discrimination of women.
How to refer to God as female in English?
Ruth Rubina
United States
Local time: 11:20
English translation:God in her wisdom knows
Explanation:
This is a common enough phrase in English and the first option I thought of that I liked for inserting the gender into the English.
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Tim Friese
United States
Local time: 10:20
Grading comment
Thank you!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +3God in her wisdom knows
Tim Friese
5God knows
David Greenberg


  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
God in her wisdom knows


Explanation:
This is a common enough phrase in English and the first option I thought of that I liked for inserting the gender into the English.

Tim Friese
United States
Local time: 10:20
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Vere Barzilai: God, Lady Wisdom
5 hrs
agree  Dena Bugel-Shunra: Agreed, with a suggestion: capitalize the pronoun to indicate divinity. God, in Her wisdom.
6 hrs
agree  Sandra & Kenneth Grossman: That's the whole point. In Her wisdom.
7 hrs
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
God knows


Explanation:
I would use the simplest translation possible, even though the gender gets lost, because the only alternative is to make the gender of the phrase stand out far more than intended in the original.

David Greenberg
Israel
Local time: 18:20
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 49
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