Core Glossary
Core Glossary — 1 Thessalonians (English → Assamese)
Section A — Reused from Romans Baseline (enforce exactly; no changes)
| English term | Assamese (exact) | Transliteration | Risk (baseline) | Occurs in 1 Thessalonians |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gospel | সুসমাচাৰ | xusomacar | High | 1:5; 2:2,4,8-9; 3:6 |
| grace | অনুগ্ৰহ | anugrôh | High | 1:1; 5:28 |
| faith | বিশ্বাস | biswax | High | 1:3,8; 3:2,5-7,10; 5:8 |
| called / calling | মতা / মতনি | matā / motoni | High | 1:4; 2:12; 4:7; 5:24 |
| holy | পবিত্ৰ | pobitrô | High | 3:13; 4:7-8; 5:23 |
| saints | পবিত্ৰ লোক | pobitrô lok | High | 3:13 |
| sanctification | পবিত্ৰীকৰণ | pobitrikoron | High | 4:3-4,7; 5:23 |
| church | মণ্ডলী | môndoli | Medium | 1:1; 2:14 |
| kingdom of God | ঈশ্বৰৰ ৰাজ্য | Iswôror rajyo | Medium | 2:12 |
| glory | মহিমা | môhima | High | 2:12,20 |
| gentiles | অনযাতি | onyojati | Medium | 4:5 |
| resurrection | পুনৰুত্থান | punoruththan | Critical | 1:10; 4:14,16; 5:10 |
| lord | প্ৰভু | prôbhu | Critical | throughout |
| jesus | যীচু | Yisu | Critical | throughout |
| god | ঈশ্বৰ | Iswôr | Critical | throughout |
| holy_spirit | পবিত্ৰ আত্মা | pobitrô atma | Critical | 1:5-6; 4:8; 5:19 |
| father | পিতা | pita | Critical | 1:1,3; 3:11,13 |
| election | ঈশ্বৰৰ মনোনয়ন | Iswôror monônoyon | High | 1:4 |
| thanksgiving | ধন্যবাদ | dhonyôbad | Low | 1:2; 5:18 |
| exhort | উৎসাহিত কৰা | utxahitô kôra | Low | 2:12; 4:1,10,18; 5:11,14 |
| power_of_god | ঈশ্বৰৰ শক্তি | Iswôror xôkti | High | 1:5 |
| peace | শান্তি | xanti | Medium | 1:1; 5:3,13,23 |
| salvation | পৰিত্ৰাণ | poritran | Critical | 5:8-9 |
| prophecy | ভাববাণী | bhabôbani | Low | 5:20 |
| christian_identity_in_christ | (in Christ) | — | High | 4:16 (“dead in Christ”); reused conceptually |
Section B — New Terms for 1 Thessalonians (proposed additions)
| English term | Assamese | Transliteration | Doctrine risk | Doctrine | Alternatives rejected | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| coming / return of Christ (parousia) | আগমন (general); খ্ৰীষ্টৰ পুনৰাগমন (doctrine name) | agômôn; Khristor punoragomon | Critical | The Return of Christ | দেহধাৰণ (would collapse the return into a fresh incarnation), অৱতাৰ-চক্ৰ framing (cyclical avatar-descent) | Highest-risk new term in this curriculum. Direct structural collision with the Vaishnavite/Puranic expectation of Kalki, Vishnu’s awaited final avatar who ends the current Kali Yuga. Mandatory translator note at every first occurrence per document: Christ’s return is a single, final, linear, unrepeated event, not one arrival within a cyclical succession of cosmic ages. |
| caught up / rapture (harpazō) | তুলি লৈ যোৱা | tuli lôi zuwa | Critical | Resurrection of Believers | মুক্তি/মোক্ষ-style liberation-from-body language; a purely spiritual “ascension of the soul” rendering | Must convey a sudden, bodily, personal removal-and-gathering to be with Christ — not disembodied spiritual release or yogic ascension. Always paired with the resurrection of the dead in the same event (v.16-17). |
| resurrection of believers (extended sense of ἀνάστασις) | পুনৰুত্থান (reuse verb forms) | punoruththan | Critical | Resurrection of Believers | পুনৰ্জন্ম (rebirth) | Baseline Romans note covers Christ’s own resurrection; this document extends the same forbidden-substitution rule explicitly to believers’ future bodily resurrection as a single corporate event, never individual rebirth within সংসাৰ. |
| hope | আশা | aša | High | Hope in Grief | নিশ্চয়তা alone (too abstract, loses future-orientation); কপাল/ভাগ্য-adjacent fatalistic hope | Generic Assamese “hope” carries no inherent certainty and can default to karma/rebirth-oriented wishing. Must always be anchored explicitly to its object: Christ’s resurrection and return. |
| grief / sorrow | শোক | xôk | Medium | Hope in Grief | — | Must preserve Paul’s distinction between grief itself (permitted) and hopeless grief (forbidden); avoid implying Christians should suppress mourning. |
| sleep (euphemism for death) | নিদ্ৰাত থকা / নিদ্ৰিত | nidrat thôka / nidritô | High | Resurrection of Believers; Hope in Grief | পুনৰ্জন্মৰ আগৰ নিদ্রা (rebirth-antecedent sleep framing) | Mandatory translator note at first occurrence distinguishing this temporary “sleep” (ended once by resurrection) from (a) a soul-sleep/unconsciousness doctrine and (b) a rebirth-antecedent rest state. Keep clearly distinct from the unrelated moral “watchfulness vs. sleep” imagery in 5:6-8. |
| day of the lord | প্ৰভুৰ দিন | prôbhur din | High | The Day of the Lord | গণনা-based astrological date; Yuga-ending framing | Distinguish from astrologically calculable auspicious/inauspicious days (panjika tradition) and from the cyclical end-and-restart of a cosmic Yuga; this is a single, sovereignly fixed, terminal day. |
| love (agapē) | প্ৰেম | prem | High | Sanctification; Hope in Grief (triad) | মৰম (too weak, merely affectionate) | Collision risk: প্ৰেম is the central term of Sankardev/Madhavdev Vaishnavite bhakti poetry for the romantic-mystical Radha-Krishna prema tradition. Translator note recommended distinguishing self-giving, others-directed agápē from erotic-devotional prema. |
| wrath (of God) | ক্ৰোধ | krôdh | High | (undergirds Day of the Lord / Salvation) | কৰ্মফল (impersonal karmic consequence) | Righteous, personal, judicial wrath against sin, resolved only through Christ — not impersonal karma or a capricious deity’s mythological anger. |
| idols | মূৰ্তি | murti | High | (undergirds Sanctification / conversion narrative) | প্ৰতিমা (near-synonym; মূৰ্তি preferred as the more common ABS-tradition-adjacent term) | Direct-naming collision with central Hindu/Vaishnavite devotional images. Frame testimonially/historically in teaching notes, not as a present-tense blanket judgment on neighbors’ practice. |
| satan | শয়তান | xôitan | High | (undergirds Sanctification / spiritual conflict) | ভূত/প্ৰেত (folk-spirit categories); অসুৰ/ৰাক্ষস (Puranic antagonist figures) | The single, personal, defeated-but-active chief adversary of God — not one of many spirits or demon-classes, nor a mythic antagonist within a larger cosmic-cycle narrative. |
| spirit, soul, body (tripartite anthropology) | আত্মা, প্ৰাণ, শৰীৰ | atma, pran, xôrir | High | Sanctification; Resurrection of Believers | reducing to আত্মা (ātman) alone with শৰীৰ as discardable container | Contrast with a Vedantic-influenced view of the body as illusory/instrumental and the true self (ātman) as separable and eternal; Paul prays for the sanctified preservation of the whole person, consistent with bodily resurrection. |
| holiness (state) — ἁγιωσύνη | পবিত্ৰতা | pobitrôta | Medium | Sanctification | conflating with পবিত্ৰীকৰণ (the ongoing process term) | Keep distinct from পবিত্ৰীকৰণ: this names the resulting settled state/quality of holiness, useful for teaching sanctification as both process and state. |
| meeting (apantēsis) | সাক্ষাৎ | xakkhat | Medium | The Return of Christ | generic “সৈতে দেখা হোৱা” (loses the technical royal-welcome background) | Technical Hellenistic term for a delegation’s formal welcome of an arriving dignitary; avoid teaching this verse as simple “evacuation” language — the image implies believers going out to welcome the King and returning with him. |
| sexual immorality (porneia) | ব্যভিচাৰ | bebhicar | Medium | Sanctification | — | Teach as sin against God and one’s sanctified body, not merely a social-honor/caste-propriety matter. |
| vessel / body (skeuos) | শৰীৰ | xôrir | Medium (ambiguous) | Sanctification | পত্নী/স্ত্ৰী (“wife,” alternative interpretation) | Genuinely disputed idiom; “body” recommended as primary rendering consistent with majority modern versions; flag “wife” as alternative considered per ambiguity-handling protocol. |
| lust / passion (epithymia) | কামনা | kamona | Medium | Sanctification | — | Uniformly negative in this context (Gentile-like uncontrolled desire); do not conflate with positively-marked devotional-longing vocabulary elsewhere in Assamese religious poetry. |
| impurity (akatharsia) | অশুচিতা | ôxucita | Medium | Sanctification | — | Context-specific correct use of a term the Romans baseline rejected for “sin” generally; note the deliberate distinction for translators. |
| sons of light / sons of darkness | পোহৰৰ সন্তান / আন্ধাৰৰ সন্তান | pohôror xontan / andharor xontan | Medium | The Day of the Lord | — | Distinguish from sattva/tamas guna dualism (impersonal, fluctuating qualities); this is relational belonging to God through faith, decisive and not a matter of degree. |
| quench (the Spirit) | নুমাই নিদিয়া | numai nidiya | Medium | Sanctification | — | Distinguish from ritual lamp-tending devotional imagery (aroti); refers to resisting the personal Holy Spirit’s active work and gifts in the congregation. |
| imitators (mimētai) | অনুকাৰী | ônukari | Medium | (Sanctification / apostolic example) | — | Distinguish from disciple-imitates-guru patterning within Satradhikar succession; this is imitation of Christ’s character mediated through apostolic example. |
| affliction (thlipsis) | ক্লেশ | kles | Low-Medium | (Hope in Grief background) | সংকট | Standard term for persecution/distress; low independent risk. |
| holy kiss (philēma hagion) | পবিত্ৰ চুমা | pobitrô cuma | Medium (cultural) | (Church fellowship) | — | Cultural-adaptation risk rather than doctrinal: literal public kissing is culturally atypical in Assamese greeting custom; consider rendering the function (warm, holy familial greeting) in teaching materials. |
| full assurance (plērophoria) | সম্পূর্ণ নিশ্চয়তা | sompurnô nixcôyôta | Low | Gospel | — | Standard vocabulary; low risk. |
| boldness (parrēsia) | নিৰ্ভীকতা | nirbhikôta | Low | Gospel proclamation | — | Standard vocabulary; low risk. |
| avenger (ekdikos) | প্ৰতিফলদাতা | protiphôl-data | Low | (Sanctification background) | — | Standard forensic image; low risk. |
| thief (kleptēs) | চোৰ | sôr | Low | The Day of the Lord | — | Standard image for suddenness; low risk. |
| sober / watch (nēphō / grēgoreō) | সজাগ/সচেতন থকা / জাগ্ৰত থকা | xôxetôn thôka / jagrôtô thôka | Low-Medium | The Day of the Lord | — | Keep distinct in translator notes from the unrelated death-euphemism “sleep” (κοιμάομαι) in 4:13-15. |
| crown of boasting (stephanos kauchēseōs) | গৌৰৱৰ কিৰীটি | gôurôbor kiriti | Low | The Return of Christ | — | Athletic/civic honor-wreath image; low risk. |
| labor pains (ōdin) | প্ৰসৱ বেদনা | prôsôb bedona | Low | The Day of the Lord | — | Standard suddenness image; low risk. |
| sanctify wholly / entire (holoteleis / holoklēron) | সম্পূর্ণৰূপে পবিত্ৰ কৰক / অখণ্ড | sompurnôrupe pobitrô kôrôk / ôkhondô | High | Sanctification | — | See tripartite anthropology entry above; the two are taught together. |
Doctrine Risk Summary (this curriculum, new terms only)
| Risk | Count | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 3 | parousia/return of Christ, rapture (harpazō), resurrection of believers (extended sense) |
| High | 8 | hope, sleep (death euphemism), day of the Lord, love (agapē), wrath, idols, satan, spirit/soul/body anthropology; sanctify wholly |
| Medium | 11 | grief, meeting (apantēsis), sexual immorality, vessel/body, lust/passion, impurity, sons of light/darkness, quench the Spirit, imitators, holy kiss, holiness (state) |
| Low | 8 | full assurance, boldness, avenger, thief, sober/watch, crown of boasting, labor pains, affliction |
All terms in Section A must be enforced exactly as recorded in the Romans baseline translation_memory.json; no deviation is permitted. All terms in Section B are proposed for formal addition to translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json in the subsequent Phase 1 registry-update step, each carrying the risk tier and translator-note requirements recorded above.
Critical Risk Terms
Resurrection
Approved rendering: পুনৰুত্থান
Transliteration: punoruththan
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Rejected alternatives: পুনৰ্জন্ম, পুনৰ্জীৱন
Original: ἀνάστασις / ἀνίστημι
Category: Eschatology
Inherited from Romans package; enforce exactly as recorded there. EXTENDED SENSE in this curriculum: 1:10, 4:14 name Christ’s own resurrection; 4:16 extends the identical pattern corporately to deceased believers (‘the dead in Christ will rise’) as one guaranteed future event. Never পুনৰ্জন্ম — this is not individual rebirth within সংসাৰ.
Lord
Approved rendering: প্ৰভু
Transliteration: prôbhu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: স্বামী, ঈশ্বৰ
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package; enforce exactly as recorded there. Occurs throughout, especially the eschatological climax of 4:16-17 (‘the Lord himself will descend… to be with the Lord’). Must convey exclusive, supreme Lordship, not one devotionally-addressed figure among many.
Jesus
Approved rendering: যীচু
Transliteration: Yisu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ঈছা
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package; enforce exactly as recorded there. Established Assamese Bible Society form used throughout.
God
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বৰ
Transliteration: Iswôr
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ভগৱান, পৰমেশ্বৰ
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package; enforce exactly as recorded there. 1:9 explicitly contrasts ‘idols’ with ‘the living and true God’ — reinforcing ঈশ্বৰ as the one living God, never ভগৱান.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: পবিত্ৰ আত্মা
Transliteration: pobitrô atma
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: ব্ৰহ্ম, পৰমাত্মা
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package; enforce exactly as recorded there. Occurs at 1:5-6, 4:8, 5:19 (‘do not quench the Spirit’). Must remain personal; 5:19’s fire-quenching image must not be read as an aroti lamp-tending ritual metaphor.
Father
Approved rendering: পিতা
Transliteration: pita
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Rejected alternatives: ব্ৰহ্মা, সৃষ্টিকৰ্তা
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package; enforce exactly as recorded there. Occurs at 1:1,3 and 3:11,13.
Salvation
Approved rendering: পৰিত্ৰাণ
Transliteration: poritran
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: মুক্তি, মোক্ষ, নিস্তাৰ
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; enforce exactly as recorded there. Occurs at 5:8-9 (‘helmet, the hope of salvation… God has not destined us for wrath but… salvation’). Never মুক্তি or মোক্ষ.
Return Of Christ
Approved rendering: আগমন / খ্ৰীষ্টৰ পুনৰাগমন
Transliteration: agômôn / Khristor punoragomon
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: দেহধাৰণ (would recast the return as a fresh incarnation), অৱতাৰ-চক্ৰ framing (cyclical avatar-descent)
Original: παρουσία
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. The single highest-risk term in this curriculum. Assamese Vaishnavite/Puranic eschatology — rooted in the Bhagavata Purana tradition central to Sankardev’s Ekasarana Dharma — includes the widely known expectation of Kalki, the awaited tenth and final avatar of Vishnu, who descends at the end of the current Kali Yuga to restore dharma before a new cosmic cycle begins. Occurs at 2:19; 3:13; 4:15,17; 5:23. Mandatory translator note at every first occurrence per document: a single, final, linear, unrepeated event, not one arrival within a repeating cycle of cosmic ages.
Rapture
Approved rendering: তুলি লৈ যোৱা
Transliteration: tuli lôi zuwa
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers
Rejected alternatives: মুক্তি/মোক্ষ-style liberation-from-body language, যোগিক আত্মিক আৰোহণ (yogic ascension of the soul)
Original: ἁρπάζω
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Occurs at 4:17. Two collision risks: (1) a yogic/ascetic saint or sadhu’s spirit ‘ascending’ at death, divorced from the physical body; (2) মুক্তি/মোক্ষ-style liberation from the body into an impersonal absolute. The text describes bodily believers gathered with their bodies to be with the Lord — a personal, relational, bodily reunion, never an escape from embodiment.
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: সুসমাচাৰ
Transliteration: xusomacar
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: ভাল খবৰ, শুভবাৰ্তা
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; enforce exactly as recorded there. Established Assamese Bible Society (ABS) term. In 1 Thessalonians 1:5; 2:2,4,8-9,13; 3:6 the gospel comes ‘not in word only, but also in power’ amid affliction — must convey an authoritative, Spirit-empowered proclamation, not one devotional teaching among several valid paths (a live risk against Ekasarana Dharma’s own naam-proclamation tradition).
Grace
Approved rendering: অনুগ্ৰহ
Transliteration: anugrôh
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: কৃপা, দয়া, বৰ, সৌভাগ্য, পুণ্য
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; enforce exactly as recorded there. Occurs in the epistolary greeting (1:1) and closing benediction (5:28); avoid any boon-for-devotion (বৰ) reading.
Faith
Approved rendering: বিশ্বাস
Transliteration: biswax
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: শ্ৰদ্ধা, ভক্তি
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package; enforce exactly as recorded there. Anchors the letter’s recurring ‘faith, love, hope’ triad (1:3; 5:8) and Paul’s anxious concern/relief over the Thessalonians’ faith (3:2-10); object (Christ) must remain explicit against a bhakti-devotion reading.
Called
Approved rendering: মতা
Transliteration: matā
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: আমন্ত্ৰিত, নিমন্ত্ৰণ কৰা
Original: κλητός / καλέω
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; enforce exactly as recorded there. In 1 Thessalonians 2:12 and 4:7 the calling is to God’s kingdom/glory and to holiness; 5:24 grounds assurance in ‘he who calls you is faithful.’ Never a devotee’s own naam-initiative.
Calling
Approved rendering: মতনি
Transliteration: motoni
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: আমন্ত্ৰণ
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; enforce exactly as recorded there. Noun form retained for completeness of the registry; no distinct new occurrence beyond the adjectival/participial forms in this letter.
Holy
Approved rendering: পবিত্ৰ
Transliteration: pobitrô
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: শুচি, নিৰ্মল
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package; enforce exactly as recorded there. Occurs at 3:13, 4:7-8, 5:23. Keep distinct from ritual/physical cleanliness customs.
Saints
Approved rendering: পবিত্ৰ লোক
Transliteration: pobitrô lok
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: সন্ত, ভক্ত
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package; enforce exactly as recorded there. Occurs at 3:13 (‘with all his saints’ at Christ’s coming) — must not be narrowed to an especially devoted bhakta class.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: পবিত্ৰীকৰণ
Transliteration: pobitrikoron
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: শুচিকৰণ, সংস্কাৰ
Original: ἁγιασμός
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package; enforce exactly as recorded there. Central to 4:3-4,7 (God’s will is your sanctification) and 5:23; distinguish from সংস্কাৰ ritual purification and Satra ascetic self-discipline.
Glory
Approved rendering: মহিমা
Transliteration: môhima
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: দেৱজ্যোতি, তেজ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package; enforce exactly as recorded there. Occurs at 2:12 and 2:20 (the Thessalonians as Paul’s ‘glory’ at Christ’s coming). Avoid light-imagery terms conflating with Puranic divine-luster (tej/prabha) descriptions.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বৰৰ শক্তি
Transliteration: Iswôror xôkti
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Rejected alternatives: বল
Original: δύναμις
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package; enforce exactly as recorded there. Occurs at 1:5 (‘our gospel came to you… in power’). Always paired with ঈশ্বৰৰ to anchor it to God’s own power.
Election
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বৰৰ মনোনয়ন
Transliteration: Iswôror monônoyon
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: ভাগ্য, নিয়তি, কপাল
Original: ἐκλογή
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; enforce exactly as recorded there. Occurs at 1:4 (‘knowing… your election’).
Hope
Approved rendering: আশা
Transliteration: aša
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Rejected alternatives: নিশ্চয়তা alone (too abstract, loses future-orientation), কপাল/ভাগ্য-adjacent fatalistic hope
Original: ἐλπίς
Category: Faith
NEW TERM. Occurs at 1:3; 4:13; 5:8. Ordinary Assamese আশা is a generic hope/wish word carrying no inherent certainty and is the natural term for hope of a favorable rebirth or karma-improved outcome. Every occurrence must be anchored explicitly to its object — Christ’s resurrection and his promised return.
Sleep Death Euphemism
Approved rendering: নিদ্ৰাত থকা / নিদ্ৰিত
Transliteration: nidrat thôka / nidritô
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers
Rejected alternatives: পুনৰ্জন্মৰ আগৰ নিদ্রা (rebirth-antecedent sleep framing)
Original: κοιμάομαι
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Occurs at 4:13,14,15. Assamese Hindu/Vaishnavite hearers readily map ‘sleep’ onto (a) soul-unconsciousness between lives, or (b) rest before punarjanma. Mandatory translator note at first occurrence: ended once, by resurrection, never by rebirth. Keep clearly distinct from the unrelated moral ‘wakefulness vs. sleep’ imagery of 5:6-8.
Day Of The Lord
Approved rendering: প্ৰভুৰ দিন
Transliteration: prôbhur din
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: গণনা-based astrological date, Yuga-ending framing
Original: ἡμέρα Κυρίου
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Occurs throughout 5:1-11. Distinguish from an astrologically calculable date in the Assamese panjika almanac tradition and from the cyclical Yuga-ending framework in which the present cosmic age ends only to restart. This is a single, sovereignly-timed, terminal event within a linear divine plan.
Love
Approved rendering: প্ৰেম
Transliteration: prem
Doctrine: Brotherly Love
Rejected alternatives: মৰম (too weak, merely affectionate)
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Occurs at 1:3; 3:6,12; 4:9-10; 5:8,13. Collision risk: প্ৰেম is the central term of Sankardev/Madhavdev Vaishnavite bhakti poetry for the mystical, romantic-devotional Radha-Krishna prema tradition. Translator note required at first occurrence distinguishing self-giving, others-directed agápē (‘labor of love,’ 1:3) from erotic-mystical prema devotion.
Wrath Of God
Approved rendering: ক্ৰোধ
Transliteration: krôdh
Doctrine: God’s Wrath and Judgment
Rejected alternatives: কৰ্মফল (impersonal karmic consequence)
Original: ὀργή
Category: God
NEW TERM. Occurs at 1:10 and 5:9 (ঈশ্বৰৰ ক্ৰোধ). Righteous, personal, judicial wrath resolved only through Christ’s atoning work, never through impersonal karma or a capricious, ritually-appeasable Puranic deity’s mythological anger.
Idols
Approved rendering: মূৰ্তি
Transliteration: murti
Doctrine: Conversion from Idolatry
Rejected alternatives: প্ৰতিমা (near-synonym; মূৰ্তি preferred)
Original: εἴδωλα
Category: Church
NEW TERM. Occurs only at 1:9. Direct-naming collision: মূৰ্তি is the standard Assamese word for images/icons central to daily Hindu/Vaishnavite household and Namghar worship. Must be framed historically/testimonially about the Thessalonians’ own past conversion, never as a present-tense blanket judgment on neighbors’ current practice.
Satan
Approved rendering: শয়তান
Transliteration: xôitan
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and Satan
Rejected alternatives: ভূত/প্ৰেত (folk-spirit categories), অসুৰ/ৰাক্ষস (Puranic antagonist figures)
Original: Σατανᾶς
Category: God
NEW TERM. Occurs at 2:18 and 3:5. Must be distinguished from Assamese folk-religious ভূত-প্ৰেত categories or Puranic asura/rakshasa figures, morally ambiguous or defeatable cosmic antagonists within a larger mythic cycle. Satan is the single, personal, defeated-but-still-active adversary named consistently across Scripture.
Spirit Soul Body
Approved rendering: আত্মা, প্ৰাণ, শৰীৰ
Transliteration: atma, pran, xôrir
Doctrine: Wholeness of Sanctification (Spirit, Soul, Body)
Rejected alternatives: reducing to আত্মা (ātman) alone with শৰীৰ as a discardable container
Original: πνεῦμα καὶ ψυχὴ καὶ σῶμα
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Occurs only at 5:23. This threefold, unified naming of the human person, destined for bodily resurrection, stands against widespread Vedantic-influenced Assamese assumptions that the true self (আত্মা) is eternal and separable from an illusory or instrumental body (māyā/deha) the soul eventually sheds. Mandatory translator note required.
Sanctify Wholly
Approved rendering: সম্পূর্ণৰূপে পবিত্ৰ কৰক
Transliteration: sompurnôrupe pobitrô kôrôk
Doctrine: Wholeness of Sanctification (Spirit, Soul, Body)
Original: ἁγιάσαι ὁλοτελεῖς / ὁλόκληρον
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM, taught together with spirit_soul_body. Occurs only at 5:23; shares the same risk rationale.
Medium Risk Terms
Peace
Approved rendering: শান্তি
Transliteration: xanti
Doctrine: Peace with God
Rejected alternatives: সুখ, প্ৰশান্তি
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; enforce exactly as recorded there. Occurs at 1:1, 5:3 (false peace before the Day of the Lord — do not soften this warning), 5:13, 5:23.
Church
Approved rendering: মণ্ডলী
Transliteration: môndoli
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: মন্দিৰ, নামঘৰ
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package; enforce exactly as recorded there. Occurs at 1:1 (‘the church of the Thessalonians’) and 2:14. Never নামঘৰ.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বৰৰ ৰাজ্য
Transliteration: Iswôror rajyo
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Rejected alternatives: ঈশ্বৰৰ ৰাষ্ট্ৰ
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom
Inherited from Romans package; enforce exactly as recorded there. Occurs at 2:12, believers called to ‘walk worthily’ of God’s kingdom and glory.
Gentiles
Approved rendering: অনযাতি
Transliteration: onyojati
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Rejected alternatives: বিদেশী
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package; enforce exactly as recorded there. Occurs at 4:5, contrasting sanctified sexual conduct with ‘the Gentiles who do not know God.‘
Grief
Approved rendering: শোক
Transliteration: xôk
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Original: λύπη / λυπέω
Category: Faith
NEW TERM. Occurs at 4:13. Assamese শ্ৰাদ্ধ mourning custom carries its own rebirth/ancestral-peace-oriented grief-management logic; render to affirm genuine grief while contrasting its hopeless form with the believer’s hope-shaped grief, not to imply grief must be suppressed.
Holiness State
Approved rendering: পবিত্ৰতা
Transliteration: pobitrôta
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: conflating with পবিত্ৰীকৰণ (the ongoing process term)
Original: ἁγιωσύνη
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Occurs only at 3:13. Keep distinct from পবিত্ৰীকৰণ; this names the resulting settled condition of the heart, not the ongoing Spirit-driven process.
Meeting Apantesis
Approved rendering: সাক্ষাৎ
Transliteration: xakkhat
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: generic সৈতে দেখা হোৱা (loses the technical royal-welcome background)
Original: ἀπάντησις
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Occurs only at 4:17. Technical Hellenistic term for a delegation’s formal welcome of an arriving dignitary; a translator note explaining this background is recommended so the verse is not taught as simple evacuation language.
Sexual Immorality
Approved rendering: ব্যভিচাৰ
Transliteration: bebhicar
Doctrine: Sexual Purity
Original: πορνεία
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Occurs at 4:3. Teach as sin against a personal God and one’s own sanctified body, not merely a social-honor/caste-propriety matter, a common framing in Assamese social discourse around sexual conduct.
Vessel Body
Approved rendering: শৰীৰ
Transliteration: xôrir
Doctrine: Sexual Purity
Rejected alternatives: পত্নী/স্ত্ৰী (wife, alternative interpretation)
Original: σκεῦος
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM, genuinely ambiguous idiom (σκεῦος). Occurs only at 4:4. ‘Body’ recommended as primary rendering, consistent with the majority of modern versions; ‘wife/spouse’ flagged as an alternative considered per the ambiguity-handling protocol, pending native-speaker/theologian adjudication before Phase 2 finalization.
Lust Passion
Approved rendering: কামনা
Transliteration: kamona
Doctrine: Sexual Purity
Original: πάθος ἐπιθυμίας
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Occurs at 4:5. Uniformly negative here (Gentile-like uncontrolled desire); do not conflate with positively-marked devotional-longing vocabulary elsewhere in Assamese religious poetry.
Impurity
Approved rendering: অশুচিতা
Transliteration: ôxucita
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἀκαθαρσία
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM in this specific context. Occurs at 4:7. This is the correct, appropriate rendering here even though the Romans baseline rejected অশুচিতা as a rendering for ‘sin’ generally (ritual/physical impurity sense); a translator note should clarify this deliberate, context-specific use.
Sons Of Light Darkness
Approved rendering: পোহৰৰ সন্তান / আন্ধাৰৰ সন্তান
Transliteration: pohôror xontan / andharor xontan
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: υἱοὶ φωτός / υἱοὶ σκότους
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Occurs at 5:5. Distinguish from the sattva/tamas guna dualism of Samkhya-influenced Hindu thought (impersonal, fluctuating qualities present in every person); this is decisive relational belonging to God through faith, not a matter of degree.
Quench Spirit
Approved rendering: নুমাই নিদিয়া
Transliteration: numai nidiya
Doctrine: Testing Spiritual Gifts and Prophecy
Original: σβέννυμι
Category: God
NEW TERM. Occurs at 5:19. The fire/lamp image resonates with Assamese Vaishnavite lamp-tending devotional practice (aroti); must be taught as resisting the personal পবিত্ৰ আত্মা’s active work and gifts, not a ritual-lamp maintenance metaphor.
Imitators
Approved rendering: অনুকাৰী
Transliteration: ônukari
Doctrine: Imitation of Apostolic Example
Original: μιμηταί
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Occurs at 1:6. Note the Ekasarana Dharma tradition’s disciple-imitates-guru patterning within Satradhikar succession; clarify Christian imitation is of Christ’s character mediated through apostolic example, not entry into a guru-lineage.
Holy Kiss
Approved rendering: পবিত্ৰ চুমা
Transliteration: pobitrô cuma
Doctrine: Church Order and Mutual Care
Original: φίλημα ἅγιον
Category: Church
NEW TERM. Occurs at 5:26. Cultural-adaptation risk rather than doctrinal: literal public kissing is atypical Assamese greeting custom; consider rendering the function (a warm, holy familial greeting) in teaching materials rather than insisting on the literal act.
Sober Watch
Approved rendering: সজাগ/সচেতন থকা / জাগ্ৰত থকা
Transliteration: xôxetôn thôka / jagrôtô thôka
Doctrine: Spiritual Alertness and Sobriety
Original: νήφω / γρηγορέω
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Occurs at 5:6,8. Keep clearly distinct from the unrelated death-euphemism sleep_death_euphemism (4:13-15); this is spiritual alertness, a morally culpable state to avoid dullness in, not the neutral state of death.
Word Of The Lord
Approved rendering: প্ৰভুৰ বাক্য
Transliteration: prôbhur bakyô
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: গণনা-based prediction
Original: λόγος Κυρίου
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Occurs at 4:15. Must be distinguished from astrological/oracular prediction; this is revealed apostolic teaching, not calculation.
Descend
Approved rendering: স্বৰ্গৰ পৰা নামি আহিব
Transliteration: sworgor pora nami ahibô
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Original: καταβαίνω
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Occurs at 4:16. Must be read alongside the Romans-established দেহধাৰণ (incarnation) note: this is the same eternal Son who once permanently took human nature returning bodily — not a fresh incarnation and not a repeatable avatar-descent (অৱতাৰ).
In Christ
Approved rendering: খ্ৰীষ্টত
Transliteration: Khristôt
Doctrine: Christian Identity in Christ
Rejected alternatives: generic ‘departed souls’ formula
Original: ἐν Χριστῷ
Category: Salvation
NEW TERM (phrase). Occurs in ‘the dead in Christ’ (4:16, খ্ৰীষ্টত মৃত লোক). Union with Christ, not accumulated personal merit or caste/family status, secures resurrection.
Low Risk Terms
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: ধন্যবাদ
Transliteration: dhonyôbad
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία / εὐχαριστέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package; enforce exactly as recorded there. Occurs at 1:2 and 5:18 (‘give thanks in all circumstances’).
Prophecy
Approved rendering: ভাববাণী
Transliteration: bhabôbani
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: গণনা
Original: προφητεία
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package; enforce exactly as recorded there. Occurs at 5:20 (‘do not despise prophecies’), to be tested per 5:21, not rejected outright.
Exhort
Approved rendering: উৎসাহিত কৰা
Transliteration: utxahitô kôra
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package; enforce exactly as recorded there. In 4:18 the sense leans toward comfort/console (grief context); consider the pairing শান্তনা দি উৎসাহিত কৰা to capture the consolation nuance in that verse while keeping the base rendering elsewhere.
Tempter
Approved rendering: পৰীক্ষা কৰোতা
Transliteration: porikha kôrota
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and Satan
Original: ὁ πειράζων
Category: God
NEW TERM, tied to the satan entry. Occurs at 3:5; low independent risk once Satan’s identity is established consistently.
Affliction
Approved rendering: ক্লেশ
Transliteration: kles
Doctrine: Suffering and Affliction
Rejected alternatives: সংকট
Original: θλῖψις
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Occurs at 1:6; 2:14; 3:3,7. Standard term for persecution/distress; render as expected discipleship, not karmic punishment.
Full Assurance
Approved rendering: সম্পূর্ণ নিশ্চয়তা
Transliteration: sompurnô nixcôyôta
Doctrine: Gospel
Original: πληροφορία
Category: Faith
NEW TERM. Occurs at 1:5. Standard vocabulary; low risk.
Boldness
Approved rendering: নিৰ্ভীকতা
Transliteration: nirbhikôta
Doctrine: Gospel
Original: παρρησία
Category: Faith
NEW TERM. Occurs at 2:2. Standard vocabulary; low risk.
Avenger
Approved rendering: প্ৰতিফলদাতা
Transliteration: protiphôl-data
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἔκδικος
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Occurs at 4:6. Standard forensic image; low risk.
Thief
Approved rendering: চোৰ
Transliteration: sôr
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: κλέπτης
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Occurs at 5:2,4. Standard suddenness image; low risk.
Crown Of Boasting
Approved rendering: গৌৰৱৰ কিৰীটি
Transliteration: gôurôbor kiriti
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Original: στέφανος καυχήσεως
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Occurs at 2:19. Athletic/civic honor-wreath image; low risk.
Labor Pains
Approved rendering: প্ৰসৱ বেদনা
Transliteration: prôsôb bedona
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: ὠδίν
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Occurs at 5:3. Standard suddenness image; low risk.
Cry Of Command
Approved rendering: আজ্ঞাৰ চিঞৰ
Transliteration: agyar cinor
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Original: κέλευσμα
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Occurs at 4:16. Reinforces Christ’s sovereignty at his return; low risk.
Archangel
Approved rendering: প্ৰধান দূত
Transliteration: prôdhan dut
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Original: ἀρχάγγελος
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Occurs at 4:16. Ensure দূত is understood as an angelic being, not a human envoy or a Puranic messenger-deity (e.g. Narada).
Trumpet Of God
Approved rendering: তুৰী
Transliteration: turi
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Original: σάλπιγξ
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Occurs at 4:16. Note the cultural resonance of the conch-shell (শঙ্খ) blown to open Hindu/Vaishnavite worship; a brief cultural-bridge note distinguishing this as a one-time historical victory signal, not a repeated ritual announcement, is recommended.
Precede
Approved rendering: আগৈ যাম
Transliteration: age zam
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Original: φθάνω
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Occurs at 4:15. The pastoral point (no disadvantage to the dead in Christ) should be preserved against karma-based ‘who goes first’ anxieties.
Always With The Lord
Approved rendering: সদায় প্ৰভুৰ সৈতে
Transliteration: xôdai prôbhur xoite
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Rejected alternatives: vague ‘eternal happiness’ without naming the Lord as its object
Original: πάντοτε σὺν Κυρίῳ
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Occurs at 4:17 as the emotional and theological resolution of the core passage; doctrinally load-bearing despite low individual risk.
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