David Beckham’s new Hebrew tattoo

Posted by Scott on December 29th, 2008 .

David Beckham had a new tattoo done a couple of day before Christmas, at the time I couldn’t say anything but now it’s public knowledge I can reveal we did to translation for the tattoo.

It’s a biblical quote in Hebrew which says “My son do not forget my teachings, but keep my commands in your heart” doing any translation for a tattoo demands accuracy but doing one for a celebrity brings a certain amount of attention & scrutiny. If your looking for a Hebrew translation then we can help you out as we use a professional human translator, don’t make the mistake of trusting lists online or computer programs, people still do for some reason.

Just a little anecdote on that subject

For the translation page I needed a sample to show potential customers what it would look like, I asked the translator to send me anything in Hebrew. I then listed some common question that I get asked like “Can you do I am my beloveds and my beloved is mine” – this was a famous tattoo Victoria Beckham had and often requested.

Using the power of the internet someone Googled “I am my beloveds and my beloved is mine” and found my translation page, they then took the huge leap of presuming the example image on the page was “I am my beloveds and my beloved is mine”  and without contacting me at all printed it and had it tattooed. It was only a year later they contacted me to ask what it said and confessed their stupidity and wanted to know what they had on their arm, I didn’t know so asked the transaltor…. “my name” replied the translator. When I told the person they took it well and emailed me back to say “Could be worse I guess”

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Comment by Amit Bhawani from Tech Blog
2008-12-29 14:37:55

The tattoo’s at your website are all original? If not can you share the source of the same?

Comment by Scott
2008-12-30 10:42:53

All images in the library area are submitted by their creators, all images in the rate my tattoo area are user submitted.

 
 
Comment by eyeliner
2008-12-29 20:08:09

Cool, did you get lot of media attention. Did you traffic go or the ranking?

“Could be worse I guess” ahahah

Comment by Scott
2008-12-30 10:42:17

Oh yes there have been some benefits for sure.

 
 
Comment by Nesa Subscribed to comments via email
2008-12-30 10:41:28

Who cares about Beckham? I wish people would stop caring about these so-called ‘celebrities’ and look at their their own lives and bring up their children right because this country (UK) is going down the pan wuih teens going on the rampage with bing drinking and no moral fibre in their bones and idolising idiots like Beckham.

 
Comment by StephenB Subscribed to comments via email
2008-12-30 12:13:45

Sure you didn’t translate it to… ‘He shoots, he scores!’ ;)

S

 
Comment by Deano Subscribed to comments via email
2008-12-30 15:37:09

What a missed oppurtunity!

The artist could have written ‘I’m with skinny’ in hebrew :)

oh yeah, merry christmas; happy new year, Deano

Deano’s last blog post..Something in the air

 
Comment by David Jones from iHouseShare.com Subscribed to comments via email
2008-12-30 23:25:34

or alternatively “I love curvy women!”.

It would have made my century for Beckham to have goofed up one of his tattoos!

 
Comment by Justin Cook from SEO Toronto Subscribed to comments via email
2008-12-31 19:09:02

Beckham’s tattoo is from Proverbs 2 I think. I’m expecting my first child (a son), so it’s especially meaningful to me.

How did you know before it was public knowledge?

Justin Cook’s last blog post..What is Google’s new SearchWiki?

Comment by Scott
2009-01-01 09:44:29

The tattooist told me and said I’ll get the credit for the translation, no pressure then I thought :)

 
 
Comment by Zath from Hi-Tech Gadgets Subscribed to comments via email
2009-01-01 15:30:43

Beckham is really collecting up the tattoos now isn’t he – haven’t seen this latest one yet, but some of his I like, some I don’t – as long as he likes em though would be the main thing!

 
Comment by Jesse from SoLinkable
2009-01-02 20:22:45

Wow that’s impressive! A Hebrew translation is a great idea, but I feel as though it’s just a trend (as was the Chinese symbol tattoo).

I’m sure with a name like Beckham using your services, hopefully this will be a good boost. I’m also interested in eyeliner’s question regarding traffic/media attention.

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Comment by Russel from West Sounds Subscribed to comments via email
2009-01-04 06:28:25

Some kind of a da vinci’s code stuff:)

 
Comment by John from Juicy Maternity
2009-01-04 15:49:13

It is good to see that Beckham is going outside the box here instead of the typical Chinese symbol or barbed wire look.

 
Comment by Dawn from Good idea Subscribed to comments via email
2009-02-08 04:29:08

I’m glad to read about this: finally a tatoo design that’s sometwhat original, and also somewhat inspiring, instead of being something simple like a dragon or heart.

 
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