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Definition: Bowl |
BowlNoun1. A round vessel that is open at the top; used for holding fruit or liquids or for serving food. 2. A concave shape with an open top. 3. A dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods. 4. The quantity contained in a bowl. 5. A large structure for open-air sports or entertainments. 6. A wooden ball (with flattened sides) used in the game of bowls. 7. A small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco. Verb1. Roll (a ball), as in bowling. 2. Go bowling. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bowl" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references) |
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Bible | Bowl The sockets of the lamps of the golden candlestick of the tabernacle are called bowls (Ex. 25:31, 33, 34; 37:17, 19, 20); the same word so rendered being elsewhere rendered "cup" (Gen. 44:2, 12, 16), and wine "pot" (Jer. 35:5). The reservoir for oil, from which pipes led to each lamp in Zechariah's vision of the candlestick, is called also by this name (Zech. 4:2, 3); so also are the vessels used for libations (Ex. 25:29; 37:16). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Electrical Engineering | A diffuser, refractor or reflector in the form of a bowl, intended to be placed below the lamp. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Part of the feeder containing an opening in which orifice rings of appropriate sizes can be fitted, and forming the end of the forehearth. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Small metal fitting or wire wrapping used to prevent loosening of wire terminal. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A bowl-shaped piece, which fits on the lower end of a fish tool, to guide the fishing tool to be used for different sizes of holes. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | Tubular element used to guide a fishing tool in a borehole. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A. The bucket or body of a carrying scraper b. The moldboard or blade of a dozer c. Stationary part of a Symons crusher, which surrounds the cone (the grating member). (references) | |
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Synonyms: BowlSynonyms: arena (n), bowlful (n), pipe bowl (n), stadium (n), trough (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concavity | Cup, basin, crater, punch bowl; cell; (receptacle); socket. |
Drunkenness | Drink; alcoholic drinks; blue ruin, grog, port wine; punch, punch bowl; cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl; drop, drop too much; dram; beer; (beverage); aguardiente; apple brandy, applejack; brandy, brandy smash; chain lightning, champagne, gin, ginsling; highball, peg, rum, rye, schnapps, sherry, sling, uisquebaugh, usquebaugh, whisky, xeres. |
Journey | Walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare; promenade; trudge, tramp; stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, hoof it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle; paddle; tread a path. |
Receptacle | Compote, gravy boat, creamer, sugar bowl, butter dish, mug, pitcher, punch bowl, chafing dish. |
Cistern; (store); vat, caldron, barrel, cask, drum, puncheon, keg, rundlet, tun, butt, cag, firkin, kilderkin, carboy, amphora, bottle, jar, decanter, ewer, cruse, caraffe, crock, kit, canteen, flagon; demijohn; flask, flasket; stoup, noggin, vial, phial, cruet, caster; urn, epergne, salver, patella, tazza, patera; pig gin, big gin; tyg, nipperkin, pocket pistol; tub, bucket, pail, skeel, pot, tankard, jug, pitcher, mug, pipkin; galipot, gallipot; matrass, receiver, retort, alembic, bolthead, capsule, can, kettle; bowl, basin, jorum, punch bowl, cup, goblet, chalice, tumbler, glass, rummer, horn, saucepan, skillet, posnet, tureen. | |
Rotation | Verb: rotate; roll along; revolve, spin; turn round; circumvolve; circulate; gyre, gyrate, wheel, whirl, pirouette; twirl, trundle, troll, bowl. |
Velocity | Verb: move quickly, trip, fisk; speed, hie, hasten, post, spank, scuttle; scud, scuddle; scour, scour the plain; scamper; run like mad, beat it; fly, race, run a race, cut away, shot, tear, whisk, zoom, swoosh, sweep, skim, brush; cut along, bowl along, barrel along, barrel; scorch, burn up the track; rush; (be violent); dash on, dash off, dash forward; bolt; trot, gallop, amble, troll, bound, flit, spring, dart, boom; march in quick time, march in double time; ride hard, get over the ground. |
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Screenplays | Yeah, or a bowl of snot (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) Two mice fell into a bowl of cream (Catch Me If You Can; writing credit: Frank Abagnale Jr.; Stan Redding) A hot bowl of mulligatawny would hit the spot (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Life is just a bowl of cherries (A Hole in the Head; writing credit: Arnold Schulman;) C'Mon! You gonna kill him with a pastry? I've seen this man eat a bowl of change (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Lyrics | Oh but don't bowl me over (Push; performing artist: Matchbox 20) Can you top the Super Bowl (#1; performing artist: Nelly) Like a goldfish in a bowl (Imitation of Life; performing artist: R.E.M.) Mo' punch than your bowl of juice (Take it to Da House; performing artist: Trick Daddy) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Golden Bowl (1972) Bowl Brummel (1967) The General Electric College Bowl (1959) Rose Bowl (1936) A Night at the Biltmore Bowl (1935) | |
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 | A hot pink plate on a light pink-checkered tablecloth. On the plate is a tall, conical glass of a yellow liquid, garnished with a lemon slice, some purple grapes and a straw. In front of the glass is a long stirring spoon. Behind it are a whole pineapple and a green bowl with 2 whole lemons. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | A typed manuscript lies open on a purple tablecloth. Various types of grain, either loose or in a bowl and a ladle, are on top. There is also a basket with a round loaf of brown bread cut in half. See also AV-3906. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas Dust bowl surveying in Texas. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | South Pole Station on a day without a horizon, near "white out" conditions. Flags mark path. One would literally feel like walking in a bowl of milk. There was no surface definition and one had to walk with bent knees because impossible to determine if surface was uneven. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Wind erosion carries topsoil from farmland during the Dust Bowl. Credit: Unknown. |  | Sever water erosion on a farm during the Dust Bowl. Credit: Unknown. |
 | The Dust Bowl days in Oklahoma. Credit: Unknown. |  | Flooding of North Main Street in Fort Worth, Texas during the Dust Bowl. Credit: Unknown. |
 | A bowl of berries is a treat for the eye as well as a delight for the palate. But these tasty little morsels happen to be quite tricky to grow, harvest, and handle. These crops tend to have brief growing seasons and are vulnerable to insects, disease, and even birds, so ARS scientists have given them lots of attention. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Great Rift in Kings Bowl FlowCraters of the MoonShoshone Field OfficeUSRDUpper Snake River District. Credit: Duane Reynolds. |
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| "Bowl" by Brandon Hogan Commentary: "Picture taken on my bed." | "Fruit and veggie bowl" by John Manning Commentary: "Mixture of fresh fruit and vegetables in a bowl, on a wooden table." |
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 | Pouring coins into a bowl. | | Coin dropping into a bowl with other coins in it. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The young herdsboy stood near him, handing him a bowl of milk |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | While he smoked the brim of his tall hat and the bowl of his pipe were just visible beyond the jambs of the outhouse door |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Exit CATESBY Fill me a bowl of wine |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ma waved the flies away from the bowl of gravy |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | She gave me a large bowl full, of which I drank very heartily, and found myself well refreshed |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | His pipe lay broken on the hearth, instead of a bowl broken at the fountain |
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Health | The most common symptom of internal hemorrhoids is bright red blood covering the stool, on toilet paper, or in the toilet bowl. However, an internal hemorrhoid may protrude through the anus outside the body, becoming irritated and painful. (references) | |
Economic History | Japan | The growth in import demand in 1999 was largely driven by continued strong HRI/HMR demand, particularly from fast food beef bowl chains, hamburger steaks at family restaurants, `yakiniku - Korean style barbecue' at Korean style barbecue chains and beef barbecue lunch box sold at takeout lunch box chains and convenience store chains, including inexpensive frozen beef parts like short plate, brisket and clod. (references) |
Human Rights | Vietnam | They are given one small bowl of rice for lunch and dinner and a single bucket of water each day. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Rod Steiger | Well, I'll put it as politely as I can. It's like being in a bowl of yellow Jell-O made out of excrement and you're in the middle of it and it's shimmering all around you. And nothing comes in and nothing goes out and you don't care. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Bowl" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.70% of the time. "Bowl" is used about 2,128 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90.7% | 1,930 | 4,435 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 6.29% | 134 | 27,488 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.83% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.13% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Noun (common) | 0.05% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,128 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bowl" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bowl | Last name | 170 | 41,269 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Bowl America Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "bowl": automatic drinking bowl ♦ automatic fill bowl ♦ bowl along ♦ bowl off ♦ bowl or glass ♦ bowl out ♦ bowl over ♦ bowl smb. out ♦ bowl up ♦ cereal bowl ♦ drinking bowl ♦ dust bowl ♦ feeder bowl ♦ finger bowl ♦ fish bowl ♦ fruit bowl ♦ goldfish bowl ♦ hemispherical power bowl ♦ lavatory bowl ♦ mixing bowl ♦ pipe bowl ♦ power bowl ♦ punch bowl ♦ rice bowl ♦ salad bowl ♦ shaving bowl ♦ slop bowl ♦ soup bowl ♦ sugar bowl ♦ tin bowl ♦ To bowl ♦ To burn a bowl ♦ toilet bowl ♦ wassail bowl ♦ wine bowl ♦ wooden bowl. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bowl": bowl-back, bowl-head, bowl-headed, bowl-heads, Bowl-legged, bowl-like, bowl-room, bowl-shaped, bowl-sterilizer, bowl-type, bowl-winning. | |
Ending with "bowl": fruit-bowl, pudding-bowl, sugar-bowl. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
dog bowl | 3,696 | orange bowl | 130 |
hollywood bowl | 2,167 | irritable bowl syndrome | 128 |
super bowl | 1,093 | blood bowl | 121 |
bowl | 592 | super bowl ring | 111 |
bowl lunch | 579 | super bowl 2003 | 111 |
bowl breakfast | 579 | arena bowl | 110 |
punch bowl | 556 | milton keynes bowl | 109 |
super bowl ticket | 348 | bowl super xxxviii | 104 |
rose bowl | 333 | fiesta bowl | 100 |
water bowl | 283 | bowl elf | 99 |
dust bowl | 267 | sugar bowl | 99 |
santa barbara bowl | 254 | fish bowl | 98 |
super bowl commercial | 221 | super bowl odds | 88 |
2004 bowl super | 214 | bowl america | 88 |
bowl lingerie | 176 | super bowl winner | 87 |
bowl gay super | 166 | punch bowl cake | 81 |
2004 bowl lingerie | 146 | rose bowl flea market | 81 |
bowl ca donner ski tahoe | 144 | nfl super bowl | 78 |
big bowl | 134 | santa barbara county bowl | 74 |
super bowl history | 133 | bayou bowl | 72 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bowl"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | bak (bake, basin, box, container, fry, jug, pelvis, tub, vat, vessel), bekken (basin, cymbal, pelvis). (various references) | |
Albanian | vazo (container, flower vase, flowerpot, pot, receptacle, vase), top druri për lojë, teatër i hapur, tas (basin), sahan (basin, pannikin), rruzull (ball, globe, nodule, orb, sphere), legeni (basin, pelvis), amfiteatër (amphitheatre, circus). (various references) | |
Arabic | كرة البولنغ, كرة (ball, globe, orb), مزهرية (vase), نزل بخفة, لعبة البولنغ, لعب البولنغ, تجويف (bore, cavity, chamber, concavity, dent, excavation, hole, hollow, pit, pocket, recess, scoop, sinus, socket), سلطانية, زبدية, طاس الخمر, ضرب بشئ, دحرج الكرة. (various references) | |
Asturian | conca. (various references) | |
Bemba | mbale iyafonka. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | ko's. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | топка за боулинг, купа (cup, heart, mow, pewter, plate, pot), огнище на лула, боулинг (bowling), бокал (chalice, goblet, stoup), паница (dish). (various references) | |
Cebuano | yahong. (various references) | |
Chamorro | tasón. (various references) | |
Chinese | 碗 (cup). (various references) | |
Cornish | scala. (various references) | |
Czech | mísa (basin, basinful, dish, tureen). (various references) | |
Danish | kumme (basin, pelvis). (various references) | |
Dutch | kom (basin, get, pelvis, reservoir), vont (basin, pelvis), bekken (basin, cymbal, pelvis). (various references) | |
Esperanto | pelvo (basin, pelvis). (various references) | |
Faeroese | skál, koka (basin, pelvis), kerald (basin, pelvis). (various references) | |
Farsi | مسابقه وجشن بازی بولینگ , کاسه رهنماƒدستگاه ابزارگیری , کاسه (Chalice, Cupule, Socket), قدح , جام (Beaker, Chalice, Cup, Cupule, Envelope, Glass, Goblet), باتوپ بازی کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | malja (chalice, cup, goblet, toast). (various references) | |
French | bol (bolus), cuvette (bottom), jatte. (various references) | |
Frisian | skûtel. (various references) | |
German | schale (bark, basin, capsule, carapace, champagne glass, course, cup, dish, hull, husk, pan, peel, peeling, pelvis, plate, platter, pod, rind, scarves, shell, shuck, skin), Schüssel (basin, basinful, course, dish, plate, platter, tureen), napf (jacket), becken (basin, basins, cymbal, cymbals, pan, pelves, pelvic, pelvis, pond, pool, reservoir, sink, tank), kugel (ball, ball-bearing, bullet, globe, marble, orb, pellet, scoop, shot, slug, sphere), kelch (bell, calyx, chalice, cup, goblet). (various references) | |
Greek | λεκάνη (basin, boiler, pelvis). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | legeni (basin, pelvis). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקדה, לשחק בכדורת, קערית (dish), קערה (basin, dish), אגן (basin, pan), אגרטל (vase), גביע (calix, chalice, cone, cup, goblet, tankard), צלחה (dish). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tál (basin, charger, dish, platter, vessel), tekegolyó (cheese), stadion (ballpark, coliseum, stadium), pipafej, medence (basin, cove, Covey, hearth, hollow, lobe, pelvis, recess), mélytányér (deep plate, soup bowl, soup plate), kupa (chalice, cup, plate, pot), ivás (boozing, drink, drinking, soak, wet), fagolyó. (various references) | |
Indonesian | biola (violin), basi (fusty, reduction, spoiled, stale, trivial), wadah (basin), mangkok (cup), kepala mangkuk, cupak. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | qajuqtuut. (various references) | |
Irish | babhal. (various references) | |
Italian | vaschetta (bosh, cuvette, egg shell, kettle, recess, water bosh), scodella (dish), coppa (beaker, cup, glass, goblet, jorum), ciotola, bacino (basin, dock, field, hipbone, hollow, pelvis). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 碗 , 器 (container, vessel), 器 (container, vessel), ボーデの法則 (ball, ball bearing, ball-point pen, baudon, bawling, board, board-level, boardsailing, boat neck, boat people, Bode's law, bold, bonus, Borden, boring, Boulder, bowling, count of balls and strikes, rowing boat, vaudeville, vaudevillian), ボイル油 (boiled oil, bowl game, bowler, bowling, vocabulary), 丼鉢 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ボール (ball), ボウル , うつわ (container, vessel), どんぶりばち, わん (bay, gulf, inlet, Japanese soup bowl, wooden bowl). (various references) | |
Kongo | longa. (various references) | |
Korean | 사발 (Bowls). (various references) | |
Macedonian | dlaboka chinija. (various references) | |
Malay | mangkuk (basin, pelvis). (various references) | |
Manx | skaaley, juist, bowl, boulleragh, boull. (various references) | |
Maori | kumete. (various references) | |
Mohawk | yetsikhe'tarahkwa (sugar bowl), yenon'tararahkwa (soup bowl). (various references) | |
Norwegian | skål (basin, pelvis). (various references) | |
Papago | bihkud. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owlbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bacia (basin, drainage-basin, draw, pelvis, reservoir, washbasin), tigela, taça (beaker, chalice, cup, cupful, goblet). (various references) | |
Provencal | bòl. (various references) | |
Romanian | bilã (ball, bile, chump, gall, pellet), juca bile, castron (tureen), cupã (beaker, cup, goblet, heart, hearts, ladle, pot, trophy, tumbler), face sã meargã repede, farfurie de supã, glob (earth, globe, orb, sphere), arunca (cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, chuck, cob, dart, dash, deliver, discard, drop, fling, huddle on, hurl, jet, jettison, launch, peg, pelt at, pitch, pluck, plump, plunge into, precipitate, project, put, reject, rush, send, shoot, slam, sling, throw, throw away, throw off, throw out, toss, tumble), joc de popice, vazã (authority, esteem, flower vase, note, prestige, vase), juca popice, potir (calyx, chalice, cup, grail, rummer), rostogoli (roll, somersault, topple, tumble), se rostogoli (roll, sprawl, trundle, tumble), sferã (branch, circle, direction, domain, extension, field, globe, kingdom, line, orb, parish, pill, province, purview, range, sphere), strachinã (basin, dish, porringer, tureen), vas (argosy, jar, receptacle, ship, vessel), joc de bile. (various references) | |
Romansch | cuppa. (various references) | |
Romany | tàsos (copper bowl). (various references) | |
Ruanda | isahani ifutse. (various references) | |
Russian | чашка;кубок;унитаз, чаша (beaker, chalice, cup, jorum, mazer, pan, winebowl), шар (ball, bowling ball, globe, orb, sphere), кубок (beaker, brimmer, chalice, cup, goblet, pot, rummer), кегли (bowling, duckpins, ninepins, skittles, tenpins), ваза (vase, vessel), игра в шары (bowling). (various references) | |
Samoan | pesini. (various references) | |
Scottish | cuach (a cup, cog, curl, dish, quaich). (various references) | |
Sepedi | moruswi. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zdela (basin, dish, jorum, porringer), stadion (park, stadium), pehar (beaker, cup, goblet, loving-cup, rummer), kuglati se, doza (dosage, dose), činija (dish, tureen). (various references) | |
Spanish | tazón (basin, cootie, mug, pan, pelvis), platillo (basin, cymbal, dish, pan, pot, saucer, scale, scoop, tray), pelvis (basin, pelvis), fuente (basin, chalybeate, deodorant, dish, font, fount, fountain, headpiece, pelvis, platter, pool, quarter, source, spring, Springhead, well, wellspring), escudilla (basin), cuenco (basin). (various references) | |
Swazi | sí-tja. (various references) | |
Swedish | skål (basin, box, cheerio, cheers, container, dish, good health, health, here's to you, jug, pan, patella, pelvis, pledge, toast, vessel). (various references) | |
Thai | เวที (stage), ชาม, ลูกโบว์ลิ่ง. (various references) | |
Turkish | bovling oynamak, yuvarlanmak (roll, roll over, roll up, shoot, trickle, trundle, trundle along, tumble, wallow, welter, wheel), yuvarlamak (belt down, elide, roll, slosh down, toss off, trundle), yolunda gitmek (bowl along, go hummingly, go with a swing, prosper, shape up), top (ball, bolt, cannon, fagot, fairy, globe, gun, knob, pellet, pill, poof, pouf, pouffe, queen, rifle, roll), tas (vessel), tıkırında olmak (be well off, bowl along, go hummingly, go with a swing), stadyum (coliseum, stadium), leğen (basin, dolly tub, pelvic, washbasin, washbowl, washtub), kadeh (chalice, glass, goblet), kâse (basin, cup, hollowware), dokuz kuka oyunu (bowling, ninepins, skittles), çevirmek (assemble, avert, change to, commute, convert, decline, deflect, divert, encircle, enclose, exchange, flip, flip over, hedge in, hedge round, inclose, interpret, manage, point, point on, pull, render, revert, roll, roll over, screw, slew, slew round, slue, slue round, spin, surround, switch to, translate, translate into, turn, turn into, turn on, turn over, turn to, twiddle, twirl, upturn, whip, wind, wind up, zone), çanak (calix, calyx, capsule, pot). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tabak (cup, dish), юakдse, jam. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | унітаз, чаша (basin, chalice, cistern, cup), чан (vat), кулька (bead, bolus, globule, pellet), котити (roll, trundle, wheel), грати в кулі, ваза (vase), миска (basin), амфітеатр (amphitheatre, cirque, parterre), балка (balk, beam, girder, joist). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự chè chén. (various references) | |
Welsh | basn (basin), powl, mail (basin), cnapan (ball), cawg (basin, pitcher). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | krater. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | alvei, alveo, alveos, alveum, alveus, crater, pateris, pelvis, scaphium (sciphus, scyphi, scyphos, scyphum, scyphus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Zechariah Chapter 4, Verse 3 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai duo elaiai epanw authV mia ek dexiwn tou lampadiou kai mia ex euwnumwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et duae olivae super illud una a dextris lampadis et una a sinistris eius |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And two olyues thervpon, oon on the riyt half of the laumpe, and an other on the left half therof. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And two olive-trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And two olive-trees by it, one on the right side of the cup and one on the left. |
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| Language | Zechariah Chapter 4, Verse 3 |
| Cebuano | Ug duruha ka mga kahoy-nga-olivo haduol niini, ang usa diha sa too nga panaksan, ug ang usa diha sa wala nga kiliran niini. |
| Croatian | Dvije su masline kraj njega, jedna njemu zdesna, druga slijeva." |
| Danish | desuden to Olietræer ved Siden af den, et til højre, et andet tilvenstre for Oliekarret." |
| Dutch | En twee olijfbomen daarnevens, een ter rechterzijde van het oliekruikje, en een tot deszelfs linkerzijde. |
| Finnish | Ja kaksi öljypuuta sen ääressä, toinen öljyastian oikealla, toinen vasemmalla puolella." |
| French | et il y a près de lui deux oliviers, l`un à la droite du vase, et l`autre à sa gauche. |
| German | und zwei Ölbäume dabei, einer zur Rechten der Schale, der andere zur Linken. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Di sebelah kiri dan kanan kaki lampu itu ada dua pohon zaitun." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dan adalah dua batang pokok zait di atasnya, sebatang pada sebelah kanan tempat minyak itu, dan sebatang pada sebelah kirinya. |
| Italian | Due olivi gli stanno vicino, uno a destra e uno a sinistra». |
| Maori | Na e rua nga oriwa i tona taha, ko tetahi i te taha ki matau o te peihana, ko tetahi i tona taha maui. |
| Norwegian | og to oljetrær står ved siden av den, ett på oljekarets høire side og ett på dets venstre side. |
| Portuguese | e junto a ele há duas oliveiras, uma à direita do vaso de azeite, e outra à sua esquerda. |
| Rumanian | Wi lkngq el sknt doi mqslini, unul la dreapta vasului, wi altul la stknga lui. |
| Russian | Й ДЧЕ НБУМЙОЩ ОБ ОЕН, ПДОБ У РТБЧПК УФПТПОЩ ЮБЫЕЮЛЙ, ДТХЗБС У МЕЧПК УФПТПОЩ ЕЕ. |
| Swedish | Och två olivträd sträcka sig över den, ett på högra sidan om skålen och ett på vänstra." |
