Jul 2, 2015 00:00
8 yrs ago
Hebrew term

אלוהים יודעת

Hebrew to English Other General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters General newspaper article
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?

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God in her wisdom knows

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.
Peer comment(s):

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.
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God knows

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.
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