Core Glossary
Core Glossary — 1 Timothy | English → Assamese
This glossary consolidates every load-bearing term identified in analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md, drawn from all six chapters of 1 Timothy. Terms already fixed in the baseline Romans translation_memory.json are marked Baseline reuse and must be rendered exactly as recorded there; no deviation is permitted. New terms proposed for this curriculum are marked New and should be added to translation memory (with version increment) before Phase 2 processing begins, per the 12_ai_translation_requirements.md protocol.
| English term | Greek (translit.) | Assamese rendering (translit.) | Risk | Doctrine | Baseline status | Key chapters | Collision / rationale notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Law | νόμος (nomos) | বিধান (bidhan) | High | Sound Doctrine | Baseline reuse | 1 | Never ধৰ্ম. |
| Sound doctrine | ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία (hygiainousa didaskalia) | সুস্থ শিক্ষা (xustho xikha) | High | Sound Doctrine vs. False Teaching | New | 1, 4, 6 | Fixed technical phrase; keep the health/disease metaphor consistent across every occurrence. |
| Myths | μῦθοι (mythoi) | কাল্পনিক কাহিনী (kalpônik kahini) | Critical | Sound Doctrine vs. False Teaching | New | 1 | NEVER পুৰাণ — would name the Hindu Puranic scripture corpus. |
| Genealogies | γενεαλογίαι (genealogiai) | বংশ তালিকা (bôngxô talika) | Low | Sound Doctrine | New | 1 | — |
| Mercy | ἔλεος (eleos) | কৃপা (kripa) | Medium | Sound Doctrine / Guarding the Deposit | Baseline reuse (as non-salvific term; extended here) | 1 | Baseline reserves কৃপা for non-salvific compassion; 1:2/13/16 use it salvifically alongside grace — keep distinct from অনুগ্ৰহ. |
| Grace | χάρις (charis) | অনুগ্ৰহ (anugrôh) | High | Sound Doctrine / Godliness | Baseline reuse | 1, 6 | Never কৃপা, দয়া, বৰ. |
| Faith | πίστις (pistis) | বিশ্বাস (biswax) | High | Sound Doctrine / all doctrines | Baseline reuse | 1–6 | Never ভক্তি as glossary term. |
| Gospel | εὐαγγέλιον (euangelion) | সুসমাচাৰ (xusomacar) | High | Sound Doctrine | Baseline reuse | 1 | — |
| Glory | δόξα (doxa) | মহিমা (môhima) | High | Christ as Mediator / Deity of Christ | Baseline reuse | 1, 3 | Avoid tej/prabha light imagery. |
| Only God / immortal / invisible | μόνος θεός, ἄφθαρτος, ἀόρατος | একমাত্ৰ ঈশ্বৰ, অক্ষয়, অদৃশ্য | High | Sound Doctrine | New | 1 | Monotheistic exclusivity; not henotheistic supremacy among many deities. |
| Satan / the devil | σατανᾶς / διάβολος (satanas / diabolos) | শয়তান (xoytan) | Medium | Qualifications for Church Leadership | New | 1, 3 | Personal singular adversary; distinct from folk ভূত-প্ৰেত plural spirits. |
| Prayers / petitions / intercessions / thanksgivings | προσευχή, δέησις, ἔντευξις, εὐχαριστία | প্ৰাৰ্থনা, মিনতি, মধ্যস্থতা, ধন্যবাদ | Medium | Public Worship and Prayer | মধ্যস্থতা and ধন্যবাদ Baseline reuse; others New | 2 | Keep all four visibly distinct; do not collapse into one generic prayer-word. |
| Godliness | εὐσέβεια (eusebeia) | ঈশ্বৰভক্তি (Iswôrbhôkti) | High | Godliness and Contentment | New | 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 | Bare ভক্তি collides with Ekasarana Dharma devotional-practice system; qualify with ঈশ্বৰ every time; mandatory note at first use. |
| Dignity | σεμνότης (semnotēs) | গম্ভীৰতা (gômbhirôta) | Low | Church Leadership / Worship | New | 2, 3 | — |
| Savior | σωτήρ (sōtēr) | পৰিত্ৰাণকৰ্তা (poritrankôrta) | High | Christ as the One Mediator / Salvation | New (built on baseline পৰিত্ৰাণ root) | 2 | Avoid assimilation to repeatedly-descending deity-rescuer figures. |
| Mediator | μεσίτης (mesitēs) | মধ্যস্থ (moddhôstho) | Critical | Christ as the One Mediator | New (related to baseline মধ্যস্থতা) | 2 | Exclusively Christ; never one intermediary among several (guru, deity, saint). Mandatory theologian review. |
| Ransom | ἀντίλυτρον (antilytron) | মুক্তিমূল্য (muktimulyô) | High | Christ as the One Mediator | New | 2 | মুক্তি root forbidden alone (baseline); always compound with মূল্য (price). |
| Testimony | μαρτύριον (martyrion) | সাক্ষ্য (xakkho) | Low | Christ as the One Mediator | New | 2 | — |
| Holy hands | ὅσιαι χεῖρες (hosiai cheires) | পবিত্ৰ হাত (pobitrô hat) | Low | Public Worship and Prayer | পবিত্ৰ Baseline reuse | 2 | — |
| Modesty / self-control | αἰδώς, σωφροσύνη | শালীনতা, সংযম (xalinôta, xônjôm) | Medium | Public Worship | New | 2 | Cultural dress-norm sensitivity; inward character, not dress code alone. |
| Quietness / submission | ἡσυχία, ὑποταγή | শান্তভাব, বশ্যতা (xantobhabô, bôxyôta) | High | Public Worship / Church Leadership | New | 2, 3 | Contested gender-role passage; render literally, resolve via commentary not translation choice. |
| Transgression | παράβασις (parabasis) | অপৰাধ (oporadh) | Low | Sound Doctrine | New | 2 | Pairs with baseline পাপ. |
| Childbearing | τεκνογονία (teknogonia) | সন্তান জন্ম দিয়া (xôntan jônmô dia) | High | Public Worship | New | 2 | Exegetically difficult; must not contradict faith-alone soteriology. |
| Overseer / bishop | ἐπίσκοπος (episkopos) | অধ্যক্ষ (odhyoksho) | High | Qualifications for Church Leadership | New | 3 | Not the hereditary/guru-lineage Satradhikar office. |
| Husband of one wife | μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἄνδρα (mias gynaikos andra) | একজন স্ত্ৰীৰ স্বামী (ekjôn striyor swami) | Medium | Church Leadership | New | 3 | Positive faithfulness standard, not bare numerical count; historical polygamy sensitivity. |
| Able to teach | διδακτικός (didaktikos) | শিক্ষা দিয়াত পটু (xikha dial pôtu) | Medium | Church Leadership / Sound Doctrine | New | 3 | Authority anchored to gospel content, not guru-lineage charisma. |
| Not a lover of money | ἀφιλάργυρος (aphilargyros) | ধনলোভী নহয় (dhonolobhi nôhôy) | Medium | Church Leadership / Godliness and Contentment | New | 3, 6 | Links to 6:5, 6:10 “love of money” warnings. |
| Household management | προϊστάμενον τοῦ οἴκου | পৰিয়াল চাল-জাল কৰা (pôriyal cal-jal kôra) | Medium | Church Leadership | New | 3 | Functions as proof-of-fitness logic in the passage; keep that argument visible. |
| Submission (children) | ὑποταγή (hypotagē) | বশ্যতা (bôxyôta) | Medium | Church Leadership | New | 3 | Keep distinct from the ch.2 women’s-submission unit. |
| Church of God | ἐκκλησία θεοῦ (ekklēsia theou) | ঈশ্বৰৰ মণ্ডলী (Iswôror môndoli) | Medium | Church as Pillar of Truth | Baseline reuse (মণ্ডলী) | 3 | Never নামঘৰ, মন্দিৰ. |
| Recent convert | νεόφυτος (neophytos) | নতুন বিশ্বাসী (notun biswaxi) | Medium | Church Leadership | New | 3 | Spiritual maturity, not calendar time or initiation-rite completion. |
| Devil’s condemnation / snare | κρίμα / παγὶς τοῦ διαβόλου | শয়তানৰ দণ্ড / ফান্দ (xoytanor dondô/phandô) | Medium | Church Leadership | New | 3 | See Satan entry above. |
| Deacon | διάκονος (diakonos) | পৰিচাৰক (poricarôk) | Medium | Church Leadership | New | 3, 4 | Recognized office, formally tested; distinct from Satra bhakat attendant role. |
| Double-tongued | δίλογος (dilogos) | দুমুখী (dumukhi) | Low | Church Leadership | New | 3 | — |
| Greedy for dishonest gain | αἰσχροκερδής (aischrokerdēs) | অসৎ লাভৰ প্ৰতি লোভী (ôxôt labhor prôti lobhi) | Medium | Church Leadership / Godliness and Contentment | New | 3 | Echoes 6:5 gain-warning. |
| Mystery of the faith | μυστήριον τῆς πίστεως (mystērion tēs pisteōs) | বিশ্বাসৰ ৰহস্য (biswaxor rôhôsyô) | High | Guarding the Deposit of Faith | New (πίστις baseline reuse) | 3 | ৰহস্য collides with Tantric/initiation-gated esoteric doctrine; note the opposite movement — fully disclosed, not secret. |
| Conscience | συνείδησις (syneidēsis) | বিবেক (bibek) | Medium | Guarding the Deposit / Sound Doctrine | New | 3, 4 | Reinforce answerability to a holy God, not generic ethics or karmic self-accounting. |
| Women / wives (ambiguous) | γυναῖκας (gynaikas) | মহিলাসকল (môhilaxôkôl) | High | Qualifications for Church Leadership | New | 3 | Genuine Greek ambiguity (wives vs. deaconesses); preserve, do not silently resolve. Human theologian review required. |
| Good standing | βαθμὸς καλός (bathmos kalos) | উত্তম সন্মান (uttôm xonman) | Medium | Church Leadership | New | 3 | Not a status-promotion ladder. |
| Living God | ζῶν θεός (zōn theos) | জীৱন্ত ঈশ্বৰ (jibôntô Iswôr) | High | Church as Pillar of Truth | New | 3 | Contrast with ritually-installed life in image/murti consecration. |
| Pillar and foundation of truth | στῦλος καὶ ἑδραίωμα τῆς ἀληθείας | সত্যৰ স্তম্ভ আৰু আধাৰ (xôtyor stômbhô aru adhar) | High | Church as Pillar of Truth | New | 3 | Bears revealed truth; does not generate or own it. |
| Mystery of godliness | μυστήριον τῆς εὐσεβείας | ঈশ্বৰভক্তিৰ ৰহস্য (Iswôrbhôktir rôhôsyô) | Critical | Church as Pillar of Truth / Godliness | New (built on two High-risk roots) | 3 | Introduces the incarnation hymn; carries combined ৰহস্য + ভক্তি risk. |
| Manifested in the flesh (Incarnation) | ἐφανερώθη ἐν σαρκί | মাংসত প্ৰকাশিত হ’ল (দেহধাৰণ) | Critical | The Church as Pillar of Truth (christological hymn) | Baseline reuse (দেহধাৰণ) | 3 | Never অৱতাৰ; mandatory note every occurrence. |
| Vindicated in the Spirit | ἐδικαιώθη ἐν πνεύματι | আত্মাৰে সত্যপ্ৰমাণিত হ’ল (atmare xôtyôpromanitô hôlô) | High | Church as Pillar of Truth | New (shares root with baseline justification term) | 3 | Distinct sense from believer’s justification; flag for consistency. |
| Seen by angels | ὤφθη ἀγγέλοις | স্বৰ্গৰ দূত…দেখিলে (swôrgor dut) | Medium | Church as Pillar of Truth | New | 3 | Created spirit-being, not deva-deity figure. |
| Taken up in glory (Ascension) | ἀνελήμφθη ἐν δόξῃ | মহিমাত তোলা হ’ল (môhimat tola hôlô) | High | Church as Pillar of Truth | New (মহিমা baseline reuse) | 3 | Unique bodily ascension; not mythic deity-departure or moksha-ascent. |
| Latter times | ὕστεροι καιροί (hysteroi kairoi) | পাছৰ কাল (pasor kal) | High | Sound Doctrine vs. False Teaching | New | 4 | Linear eschatology, not cyclical Yuga-decline cosmology. |
| Demons / deceitful spirits | δαιμόνια, πνεύματα πλάνα | দুষ্ট আত্মা, ভ্ৰমকাৰী আত্মা | High | Sound Doctrine vs. False Teaching | New | 4 | Personal, God-opposing; avoid folk ভূত-প্ৰেত appeasement associations. |
| Seared conscience | κεκαυστηριασμένη συνείδησις | দগ্ধ বিবেক (dôgdhô bibek) | Low | Sound Doctrine | New | 4 | Reuses conscience term. |
| Train for godliness | γύμναζε πρὸς εὐσέβειαν | ঈশ্বৰভক্তিৰ বাবে অনুশীলন কৰা | Medium | Godliness and Contentment | New | 4 | Distinguish from merit-earning ascetic tapasya. |
| Gift (spiritual) | χάρισμα (charisma) | আত্মিক বৰ (atmik bôr) | Medium | Qualifications for Church Leadership | Baseline reuse | 4 | Never বৰ alone. |
| Prophecy | προφητεία (prophēteia) | ভাববাণী (bhabôbani) | Low | Church Leadership | Baseline reuse | 4 | — |
| Laying on of hands | ἐπίθεσις τῶν χειρῶν | হাত দিয়া (hat dia) | Medium | Church Leadership | New | 4 | Distinct from Satra ordination/consecration rites. |
| Council of elders | πρεσβυτέριον (presbyterion) | প্ৰাচীনসকলৰ সভা | Medium | Church Leadership | New | 4 | See elder entry below. |
| Elder | πρεσβύτερος (presbyteros) | প্ৰাচীন (pracin) | Medium | Qualifications for Church Leadership | New | 5 | Not mere village-elder social status nor guru-lineage. |
| Widow | χήρα (chēra) | বিধ্বা (bidhôba) | Medium | Care for Widows and Household of Faith | New | 5 | Contrast with restrictive Assamese Hindu widowhood custom. |
| Real/genuine widow | ὄντως χήρα (ontōs chēra) | সঁচা বিধ্বা (xãsa bidhôba) | Low | Care for Widows | New | 5 | Passage’s key support-eligibility category. |
| Honor / double honor | τιμή / διπλῆ τιμή | সন্মান / দ্বিগুণ সন্মান | Medium | Care for Widows / Church Leadership | New | 5 | Carries both respect and material-support senses; keep both. |
| Slave / bondservant | δοῦλος (doulos) | দাস (das) | Medium | (Household ethics) | New | 6 | Not endorsement of caste-based servitude; addresses existing social structure. |
| Yoke | ζυγός (zygos) | যুটা (juta) | Medium | (Household ethics) | New | 6 | Near-homophone caution vs. যুগ (yuga/era). |
| Means of gain | πορισμός (porismos) | লাভৰ উপায় (labhor upay) | High | Godliness and Contentment | New | 6 | Godliness must not be instrumentalized for profit. |
| Godliness with contentment | εὐσέβεια μετὰ αὐταρκείας | ঈশ্বৰভক্তি সন্তুষ্টিৰে (Iswôrbhôkti xontuxtire) | High | Godliness and Contentment | New | 6 | Doctrine-naming phrase; keep both halves visible. |
| Contentment | αὐτάρκεια (autarkeia) | সন্তুষ্টি (xontuxti) | Medium | Godliness and Contentment | New | 6 | Active gospel-trust, not fatalistic karmic resignation. |
| Love of money | φιλαργυρία (philargyria) | ধনলোভ (dhonolobh) | Medium | Godliness and Contentment | New | 6 | Echoes ἀφιλάργυρος at 3:3. |
| Good fight of faith | καλὸς ἀγὼν τῆς πίστεως | বিশ্বাসৰ উত্তম যুদ্ধ | Low | Guarding the Deposit of Faith | New (বিশ্বাস baseline reuse) | 6 | — |
| Eternal life | ζωὴ αἰώνιος (zōē aiōnios) | অনন্ত জীৱন (ônôntô jibôn) | High | Godliness and Contentment / Salvation | New | 1, 6 | Personal relational life with God, not moksha-absorption into Brahman. |
| Good confession | καλὴ ὁμολογία (kalē homologia) | উত্তম স্বীকাৰোক্তি (uttôm swikarukti) | High | Christ as the One Mediator / Lordship | New | 6 | Keep vocabulary consistent with Romans 10:9’s fixed confession rendering. |
| King of kings and Lord of lords | βασιλεὺς τῶν βασιλευόντων καὶ κύριος τῶν κυριευόντων | ৰজাসকলৰ ৰজা আৰু প্ৰভুসকলৰ প্ৰভু | Critical | Lordship of Christ | New (প্ৰভু baseline reuse, Critical) | 6 | Absolute exclusive supremacy; not primacy among legitimate lesser gods. Mandatory theologian review. |
| Unapproachable light | φῶς ἀπρόσιτον (phōs aprositon) | নিগম্য পোহৰ (nigômyô pohôr) | Medium | (God’s nature) | New | 6 | Avoid tej/prabha light-radiance imagery, per baseline glory caution. |
| The deposit | παραθήκη (parathēkē) | গচ্ছিত সম্পদ (gôsotchito xompod) | High | Guarding the Deposit of Faith | New | 6 | Fixed, unalterable trust; connect to “mystery of the faith” and “sound doctrine.” |
| False knowledge | ψευδώνυμος γνῶσις (pseudōnymos gnōsis) | ভুৱা জ্ঞান বুলি কোৱা তত্ত্ব | High | Sound Doctrine vs. False Teaching | New | 6 | Critiques a specific false teaching, not the wider Hindu jnana-yoga tradition generally; preserve polemical force carefully. |
Risk Tier Summary (this curriculum’s new terms)
| Risk | Count (new terms) | Review routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 4 (myths→never Purana; mediator; mystery of godliness; King of kings/Lord of lords) | Human theologian, mandatory, every occurrence |
| High | 19 | Human theologian |
| Medium | 20 | Native speaker review |
| Low | 12 | Automated review |
Cross-Reference to Baseline Terms Reused Without Modification
গ্ৰেস (grace), বিশ্বাস (faith), সুসমাচাৰ (gospel), মহিমা (glory), মণ্ডলী (church), বিধান (law), পাপ (sin, implicit throughout), পবিত্ৰ (holy, implicit in holy hands/pillar passages), পবিত্ৰ আত্মা (implicit), প্ৰভু (Lord, implicit in King of kings), আত্মিক বৰ (spiritual gifts), ভাববাণী (prophecy), মধ্যস্থতা (intercession, root for new “mediator” entry), ধন্যবাদ (thanksgiving), দেহধাৰণ (incarnation), পৰিত্ৰাণ (salvation, root for new “Savior” entry). All must be enforced exactly per translation_memory.json v1; no alternate renderings are permitted for this curriculum.
See analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md for full verse-by-verse and chapter-by-chapter argumentation supporting every entry in this table.
Critical Risk Terms
Righteousness
Approved rendering: ধাৰ্মিকতা
Transliteration: dharmikôta
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: ধৰ্ম, পুণ্য, ন্যায়
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Occurs in the 6:11 virtue list (‘pursue righteousness, godliness, faith…’). CRITICAL: never ধৰ্ম.
Salvation
Approved rendering: পৰিত্ৰাণ
Transliteration: poritran
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: মুক্তি, মোক্ষ, নিস্তাৰ
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Presupposed throughout 1 Timothy (1:15; 2:4) and is the root for the new ‘Savior’ entry below. CRITICAL: never মুক্তি or মোক্ষ.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: পবিত্ৰ আত্মা
Transliteration: pobitrô atma
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: ব্ৰহ্ম, পৰমাত্মা
Original: πνεῦμα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Implied in the vindication/manifestation language of the christological hymn (3:16) and named explicitly in the warning of 4:1. Never ব্ৰহ্ম or পৰমাত্মা.
Lord
Approved rendering: প্ৰভু
Transliteration: prôbhu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: স্বামী, ঈশ্বৰ
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Present as Christ’s title throughout 1 Timothy (1:2, 1:12, 1:14; 6:3, 6:14) and climaxes in the compound ‘Lord of lords’ (6:15). Must convey exclusive, supreme Lordship.
Incarnation
Approved rendering: দেহধাৰণ
Transliteration: dehôdharon
Doctrine: Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: অৱতাৰ, প্ৰকাশ
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Root term for the christological hymn’s ‘manifested in the flesh’ (3:16), see the more specific manifested_in_flesh entry below. CRITICAL: never অৱতাৰ.
God
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বৰ
Transliteration: Iswôr
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ভগৱান, পৰমেশ্বৰ
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Named throughout 1 Timothy (1:1, 1:17; 2:5; 3:15-16). Never ভগৱান.
Father
Approved rendering: পিতা
Transliteration: pita
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Rejected alternatives: ব্ৰহ্মা, সৃষ্টিকৰ্তা
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Occurs in the greeting formula (1 Timothy 1:2, ‘grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord’).
Jesus
Approved rendering: যীচু
Transliteration: Yisu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ঈছা
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Used throughout 1 Timothy (e.g., 1:1, 1:15; 6:13-14). Never ঈছা.
Christ
Approved rendering: খ্ৰীষ্ট
Transliteration: Khristo
Doctrine: Deity and Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: মচীহ (reserved for explicit OT-fulfillment Messianic contexts), গুৰু
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
New for this curriculum, following the established transliteration standard already used in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md. Used extensively throughout 1 Timothy in the phrase ‘Christ Jesus’ (e.g., 1:1, 2, 12, 14-16). Distinct from মচীহ, which names the fulfilled Old Testament Messianic office when that theological point is directly in view; the two must never be treated as competing renderings.
Messiah
Approved rendering: মচীহ
Transliteration: mosih
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Rejected alternatives: অভিষিক্ত ব্যক্তি, অৱতাৰ পুৰুষ
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Retained for consistency though not a frequent headword in 1 Timothy’s core doctrines; reserved for explicit OT-fulfillment contexts, distinct from the ordinary compound খ্ৰীষ্ট যীচু.
Myths
Approved rendering: কাল্পনিক কাহিনী
Transliteration: kalpônik kahini
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Rejected alternatives: পুৰাণ, গালগল্প (too colloquial/dismissive)
Original: μῦθοι
Category: Sound Doctrine
1:4. CRITICAL: NEVER পুৰাণ, which names the Hindu Puranic scripture corpus foundational to Sankardev’s own Assamese Bhagavata. Use only generic, non-scripture-naming vocabulary.
Mediator
Approved rendering: মধ্যস্থ
Transliteration: moddhôstho
Doctrine: Christ as the One Mediator
Rejected alternatives: সহায়ক (too weak, generic ‘helper’), পৈৰবীকৰ্তা
Original: μεσίτης
Category: Christology
2:5. CRITICAL: exclusively and singularly Christ. Assamese devotional practice regularly channels petitions through intermediary figures (Satradhikar, guru, deity’s consort, saint); the numeral এক/একমাত্ৰ (‘one’/‘sole’) from the source text must always be rendered forcefully. Mandatory human theologian review at every occurrence.
Mystery Of Godliness
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বৰভক্তিৰ ৰহস্য
Transliteration: Iswôrbhôktir rôhôsyô
Doctrine: Incarnation: The Mystery of Godliness
Rejected alternatives: ভক্তিৰ ৰহস্য (bare ভক্তি forbidden)
Original: μυστήριον τῆς εὐσεβείας
Category: Christology
3:16. CRITICAL: compounds two collision-prone terms — ৰহস্য (initiation-gated esoteric knowledge) and ভক্তি (Ekasarana devotional-practice system) — around the very incarnation claim the christological hymn states directly. This is the single densest concentration of risk in the letter.
Manifested In Flesh
Approved rendering: মাংসত প্ৰকাশিত হ’ল
Transliteration: mangsôt prôkaxitô hôlô
Doctrine: Incarnation: The Mystery of Godliness
Rejected alternatives: অৱতাৰ হ’ল
Original: ἐφανερώθη ἐν σαρκί
Category: Christology
3:16. Built on the baseline দেহধাৰণ term (see incarnation entry above). CRITICAL: never অৱতাৰ; mandatory distinguishing note at every occurrence given Ekasarana Dharma’s own periodic avatar-descent theology.
King Of Kings Lord Of Lords
Approved rendering: ৰজাসকলৰ ৰজা আৰু প্ৰভুসকলৰ প্ৰভু
Transliteration: rôjaxôkôlor rôja aru prôbhuxôkôlor prôbhu
Doctrine: Deity and Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: দেবাধিদেব (would echo Hindu ‘god of gods’ epithets)
Original: βασιλεὺς τῶν βασιλευόντων καὶ κύριος τῶν κυριευόντων
Category: Christology
6:15. CRITICAL: risks conflation with supreme-deity epithets ranking one god above others (e.g., Vishnu/Shiva supremacy within the Trimurti). Must convey absolute, singular, exclusive supremacy over literally all rulers, not primacy among otherwise-legitimate lesser lords. Mandatory human theologian review; note also the Jehovah’s Witness collision risk (this title must remain applicable to Christ, cross-referenced with Revelation 19:16).
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: সুসমাচাৰ
Transliteration: xusomacar
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: ভাল খবৰ, শুভবাৰ্তা
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. In 1 Timothy occurs at 1:11 (‘the glorious gospel of the blessed God’ entrusted to Paul) and underlies 1:15’s trustworthy-saying framework.
Grace
Approved rendering: অনুগ্ৰহ
Transliteration: anugrôh
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: কৃপা, দয়া, বৰ, সৌভাগ্য, পুণ্য
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Occurs at 1:2, 1:14, 6:21. Must remain visibly distinct from কৃপা (mercy, see below) in 1:2’s greeting formula, where both terms appear together.
Faith
Approved rendering: বিশ্বাস
Transliteration: biswax
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: শ্ৰদ্ধা, ভক্তি
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Occurs throughout 1 Timothy (1:2, 4, 5, 14, 19; 3:9; 3:13; 4:1, 6; 5:8; 6:10-12, 21). Never ভক্তি, which carries the Ekasarana naam-tradition devotional-practice framework.
Holy
Approved rendering: পবিত্ৰ
Transliteration: pobitrô
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: শুচি, নিৰ্মল
Original: ὅσιος / ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Occurs at 2:8 (‘holy hands’ lifted in prayer). Keep পবিত্ৰ consistent for the theological sense rather than শুচি’s ritual-purity connotation.
Glory
Approved rendering: মহিমা
Transliteration: môhima
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: দেৱজ্যোতি, তেজ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Occurs at 1:17 (doxology) and 3:16 (‘taken up in glory’). Avoid light-imagery terms conflating with tej/prabha divine-luster imagery.
Law
Approved rendering: বিধান
Transliteration: bidhan
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: ধৰ্ম, নিয়ম
Original: νόμος
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Occurs at 1:8-9, discussion of the law’s lawful use. Never ধৰ্ম.
Sin
Approved rendering: পাপ
Transliteration: pap
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: অধৰ্ম, অশুচিতা
Original: ἁμαρτία / ἁμαρτωλός
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Occurs at 1:9, 1:15 (Paul as ‘foremost of sinners’) and in the elders’ discipline instructions (5:20, 22, 24).
Sound Doctrine
Approved rendering: সুস্থ শিক্ষা
Transliteration: xustho xikha
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Rejected alternatives: ধৰ্মীয় শিক্ষা (generic, loses the health/disease metaphor), ভাল শিক্ষা (too weak)
Original: ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία
Category: Sound Doctrine
Central, recurring technical phrase (1:10; 4:6; 6:3). Must be rendered identically at every occurrence to preserve Paul’s medical health/disease metaphor against teaching that spreads like gangrene.
Only God
Approved rendering: একমাত্ৰ ঈশ্বৰ
Transliteration: ekmatrô Iswôr
Doctrine: Monotheism: The Only God
Rejected alternatives: সৰ্বশ্রেষ্ঠ ঈশ্বৰ (implies supremacy among many, henotheistic)
Original: μόνος θεός
Category: God
1:17. Must not soften into a henotheistic ‘supreme among many deities’ framing common in devotional address to a chosen ista-devata in Assamese Hindu bhakti.
Godliness
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বৰভক্তি
Transliteration: Iswôrbhôkti
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Rejected alternatives: ভক্তি (bare), ধৰ্ম, ধর্মপরায়ণতা
Original: εὐσέβεια
Category: Godliness
This letter’s defining term, occurring more often here (2:2; 3:16; 4:7-8; 6:3, 5, 6, 11) than in any other NT book. Bare ভক্তি collides with Sankardev’s Ekasarana Dharma devotional-practice system; the ঈশ্বৰ qualifier is mandatory at every occurrence, never dropped. Mandatory translator note at first occurrence in every document.
Savior
Approved rendering: পৰিত্ৰাণকৰ্তা
Transliteration: poritrankôrta
Doctrine: Salvation through Christ the Savior
Rejected alternatives: ৰক্ষাকৰ্তা (too generic rescue sense)
Original: σωτήρ
Category: Salvation
2:3; 4:10. Built on the baseline পৰিত্ৰাণ root; must not be assimilated to Hindu deity-savior figures who ‘descend’ repeatedly to rescue the righteous (cf. Krishna’s periodic-appearance promise in the Bhagavad Gita).
Ransom
Approved rendering: মুক্তিমূল্য
Transliteration: muktimulyô
Doctrine: Christ as the One Mediator
Rejected alternatives: মুক্তি (forbidden standing alone), দণ্ড
Original: ἀντίλυτρον
Category: Salvation
2:6. The root মুক্তি is baseline-forbidden alone for ‘salvation’ (moksha association); here it must always appear compounded with মূল্য (price), never standing alone as a synonym for salvation.
Quietness Submission
Approved rendering: শান্তভাব, বশ্যতা
Transliteration: xantobhabô, bôxyôta
Doctrine: Gender Roles in Public Worship
Original: ἡσυχία, ὑποταγή
Category: Worship
2:11-12. Among the most contested passages in the letter for gender-role application; render literally per source syntax and let interpretive application be handled in accompanying study material, not resolved by translation choice.
Childbearing
Approved rendering: সন্তান জন্ম দিয়া
Transliteration: xôntan jônmô dia
Doctrine: Gender Roles in Public Worship
Original: τεκνογονία
Category: Worship
2:15, the exegetically difficult ‘saved through childbearing’ clause. Must avoid any reading that contradicts the letter’s own faith-alone soteriology; mandatory translator/commentary note.
Overseer
Approved rendering: অধ্যক্ষ
Transliteration: odhyoksho
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership (Elders and Deacons)
Rejected alternatives: বিশপ (imports a hierarchical monarchical-episcopal office), গুৰু
Original: ἐπίσκοπος
Category: Church Leadership
3:1-7 (core passage). Assamese readers from an Ekasarana Dharma background may map this office onto the Satradhikar, whose authority is transmitted through lineage rather than character-based qualification. Translator note required at first occurrence. Never বিশপ or গুৰু.
Mystery Of The Faith
Approved rendering: বিশ্বাসৰ ৰহস্য
Transliteration: biswaxor rôhôsyô
Doctrine: Guarding the Deposit of Faith
Rejected alternatives: গুপ্ত বিদ্যা (too explicitly Tantric)
Original: μυστήριον τῆς πίστεως
Category: Guarding the Deposit
3:9 (core passage). ৰহস্য is a live term in Assamese Hindu/Tantric vocabulary for esoteric, initiation-gated mystical knowledge transmitted guru-to-disciple. Mandatory translator note: the biblical ‘mystery’ is now openly and fully disclosed to all believers through the gospel, the opposite movement of a rahasya that remains secret.
Women Wives Ambiguous
Approved rendering: মহিলাসকল
Transliteration: môhilaxôkôl
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership (Elders and Deacons)
Rejected alternatives: স্ত্ৰীসকল (forecloses the deaconess reading), মহিলা পৰিচাৰক (forecloses the wives reading)
Original: γυναῖκας
Category: Church Leadership
3:11 (core passage). Genuine Greek lexical ambiguity (wives of deacons vs. women deacons) with real ecclesiological consequences. The Assamese rendering must preserve the same openness present in the Greek rather than silently resolving it. Mandatory human theologian review.
Living God
Approved rendering: জীৱন্ত ঈশ্বৰ
Transliteration: jibôntô Iswôr
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Original: ζῶν θεός
Category: God
3:15. Contrasts with images/murtis ritually installed with life through consecration rites (prāṇa-pratiṣṭhā); the biblical claim is the reverse movement — God possesses life inherently and eternally. Translator note required at first occurrence.
Pillar And Foundation Of Truth
Approved rendering: সত্যৰ স্তম্ভ আৰু আধাৰ
Transliteration: xôtyor stômbhô aru adhar
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Original: στῦλος καὶ ἑδραίωμα τῆς ἀληθείας
Category: Church
3:15. Must be read as the church upholding already-revealed apostolic truth, not generating or owning independent authority to define truth; must not be assimilated to a Satra’s self-understanding as guardian/transmitter of Sankardev’s teaching lineage.
Vindicated In Spirit
Approved rendering: আত্মাৰে সত্যপ্ৰমাণিত হ’ল
Transliteration: atmare xôtyôpromanitô hôlô
Doctrine: Incarnation: The Mystery of Godliness
Rejected alternatives: ধাৰ্মিক বুলি গণ্য কৰা হ’ল (would confuse with believer’s justification)
Original: ἐδικαιώθη ἐν πνεύματι
Category: Christology
3:16. Shares the δικαιόω root with the baseline justification doctrine but names Christ’s own vindication (likely via the resurrection), a distinct sense from the believer’s forensic justification. Flag for consistency review.
Taken Up In Glory
Approved rendering: মহিমাত তোলা হ’ল
Transliteration: môhimat tola hôlô
Doctrine: Incarnation: The Mystery of Godliness
Original: ἀνελήμφθη ἐν δόξῃ
Category: Christology
3:16. Names Christ’s unique bodily ascension; must not be assimilated to mythological deity-departure narratives (e.g., Krishna’s departure to Vaikuntha) or a moksha-attainment framework.
Latter Times
Approved rendering: পাছৰ কাল
Transliteration: pasor kal
Doctrine: Eschatology: The Latter Times
Rejected alternatives: কলি যুগ (would import the Hindu Yuga-cycle framework)
Original: ὕστεροι καιροί
Category: Eschatology
4:1. Risk of assimilation to the cyclical four-Yuga cosmology, particularly the present Kali Yuga awaiting renewal into a new Satya Yuga. 1 Timothy’s ‘latter times’ is linear and unrepeatable. Distinguishing note warranted at first occurrence.
Demons Deceitful Spirits
Approved rendering: দুষ্ট আত্মাৰ শিক্ষা / ভ্ৰমকাৰী আত্মা
Transliteration: dustô atmar xikha / bhrômôkari atma
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare: False Spirits and the Devil
Rejected alternatives: ভূত-প্ৰেত (folk-appeasement register)
Original: πνεύματα πλάνα, διδασκαλίαι δαιμονίων
Category: Spiritual Warfare
4:1. Assamese folk religion includes a rich taxonomy of spirit-beings that are morally ambiguous or locally propitiated; ‘demons’ must communicate personal, God-opposing malevolence specifically, not an unfamiliar spirit to be appeased.
Means Of Gain
Approved rendering: লাভৰ উপায়
Transliteration: labhor upay
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Original: πορισμός
Category: Godliness
6:5. A live risk in any guru-donation economy context where religious devotion and material support are closely linked; the text’s own answer (6:6) redefines true gain.
Godliness With Contentment
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বৰভক্তি সন্তুষ্টিৰে
Transliteration: Iswôrbhôkti xontuxtire
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Original: εὐσέβεια μετὰ αὐταρκείας
Category: Godliness
6:6, the doctrine-naming phrase for this curriculum. Both halves must remain visible; must never be quotable in isolation as a prosperity-gospel proof-text detached from 6:5’s condemning context.
Eternal Life
Approved rendering: অনন্ত জীৱন
Transliteration: ônôntô jibôn
Doctrine: Eternal Life and Assurance
Rejected alternatives: মোক্ষ, মুক্তি
Original: ζωὴ αἰώνιος
Category: Salvation
1:16; 6:12, 19. Must be kept distinct from moksha — the individual soul’s absorption into or realization of identity with impersonal Brahman, which dissolves rather than fulfills individual personal existence. Distinguishing note recommended at first occurrence.
Good Confession
Approved rendering: উত্তম স্বীকাৰোক্তি
Transliteration: uttôm swikarukti
Doctrine: Deity and Lordship of Christ
Original: ἡ καλὴ ὁμολογία
Category: Christology
6:12-13. Directly parallel to Romans 10:9’s fixed rendering of the Lordship confession (যীচু প্ৰভু হয়); ensure vocabulary consistency so ‘confession’ reads across both curricula as the same theological act.
The Deposit
Approved rendering: গচ্ছিত সম্পদ
Transliteration: gôsotchito xompod
Doctrine: Guarding the Deposit of Faith
Rejected alternatives: ব্যক্তিগত সম্পত্তি (would imply private possession)
Original: παραθήκη
Category: Guarding the Deposit
6:20, the letter’s climactic charge. Must be rendered as a fixed, unalterable trust received from another, not a private spiritual possession or an evolving personal realization; keep visibly linked to ‘the mystery of the faith’ (3:9) and ‘sound doctrine’ (1:10).
False Knowledge
Approved rendering: ভুৱা জ্ঞান বুলি কোৱা তত্ত্ব
Transliteration: bhua gyan buli kowa tôttwo
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Rejected alternatives: জ্ঞান (bare, would condemn Hindu philosophy wholesale), বিজ্ঞান (would echo the Christian Science ‘science’ mis-citation collision)
Original: ψευδώνυμος γνῶσις
Category: Sound Doctrine
6:20. জ্ঞান is a major, positively-valued term across Hindu philosophical traditions (jnana-yoga). Must make unmistakably clear this critiques a specific, historically-situated false teaching, not the wider Hindu jnana tradition. Never বিজ্ঞান (would echo the 19th-century ‘science falsely so called’ mis-citation associated with Christian Science’s self-naming).
Medium Risk Terms
Mercy
Approved rendering: কৃপা
Transliteration: kripa
Doctrine: Mercy and Grace toward Sinners
Rejected alternatives: দয়া (too generic secular pity), অনুগ্ৰহ (reserved exclusively for grace)
Original: ἔλεος
Category: Salvation
Baseline Romans reserves কৃপা for ordinary non-salvific compassion, distinguished from অনুগ্ৰহ (grace). 1 Timothy 1:2, 1:13, and 1:16 use mercy salvifically alongside grace (‘the foremost of sinners’ shown mercy); surrounding material must make clear this compassion operates within God’s larger saving grace, not a lesser secular pity.
Apostle
Approved rendering: প্ৰেৰিত
Transliteration: prerito
Doctrine: Apostleship
Rejected alternatives: দূত, গুৰু
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Occurs at 1:1 and 2:7, Paul’s self-identification. Never গুৰু, which would collapse apostolic authority into the Ekasarana tradition’s guru-lineage/Satradhikar succession role.
Church
Approved rendering: মণ্ডলী
Transliteration: môndoli
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: মন্দিৰ, নামঘৰ
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. General congregational term underlying the specific phrase ‘church of God’ (3:5, 3:15; see church_of_god entry below). Never নামঘৰ or মন্দিৰ.
Peace
Approved rendering: শান্তি
Transliteration: xanti
Doctrine: Peace with God
Rejected alternatives: সুখ, প্ৰশান্তি
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Occurs in the greeting formula (1:2).
Spiritual Gifts
Approved rendering: আত্মিক বৰ
Transliteration: atmik bôr
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts
Rejected alternatives: বৰ, দৈৱী শক্তি
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly as the general concept underlying the singular occurrence at 4:14 (see spiritual_gift entry below for the specific verse rendering).
Intercession
Approved rendering: মধ্যস্থতা
Transliteration: môddhôsthôta
Doctrine: Prayer and Intercession
Rejected alternatives: পৈৰবী
Original: ἔντευξις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Third term in the 2:1 fourfold prayer list, and the root from which the new Critical-risk mediator entry (মধ্যস্থ) is built.
Immortal
Approved rendering: অক্ষয়
Transliteration: ôkkhôy
Doctrine: Monotheism: The Only God
Rejected alternatives: অমৰ (too closely tied to a deathless-being folk register)
Original: ἄφθαρτος
Category: God
1:17. Must not be confused with the impersonal imperishable-soul (ātman) doctrine of Vedantic philosophy; describes the personal Creator’s own eternal nature.
Satan Devil
Approved rendering: শয়তান
Transliteration: xoytan
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare: False Spirits and the Devil
Rejected alternatives: ভূত, প্ৰেত
Original: σατανᾶς / ὁ διάβολος
Category: Spiritual Warfare
1:20; 3:6-7. Personal, singular, chief adversary of God; keep distinct from Assamese folk-belief plural/impersonal evil-spirit vocabulary (ভূত-প্ৰেত), which is locally propitiated.
Prayer
Approved rendering: প্ৰাৰ্থনা
Transliteration: prathona
Doctrine: Public Worship and Prayer
Original: προσευχή
Category: Worship
2:1, first term in the fourfold prayer list. Must remain visibly distinct from the other three terms (petition, intercession, thanksgiving) so the passage’s comprehensiveness is not flattened into one generic word.
Petition
Approved rendering: মিনতি
Transliteration: minoti
Doctrine: Public Worship and Prayer
Rejected alternatives: আবেদন
Original: δέησις
Category: Worship
2:1, second term in the fourfold prayer list. Distinct nuance from general prayer and from intercession; preserves the fourfold set’s distinctiveness.
Modesty Self Control
Approved rendering: শালীনতা, সংযম
Transliteration: xalinôta, xônjôm
Doctrine: Public Worship and Prayer
Original: αἰδώς, σωφροσύνη
Category: Worship
2:9. Primarily a cultural dress-norm sensitivity flag (mekhela-sador and jewelry customs); must convey inward character, not merely externally imposed dress code.
Husband Of One Wife
Approved rendering: একজন স্ত্ৰীৰ স্বামী
Transliteration: ekjôn striyor swami
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership (Elders and Deacons)
Original: μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἄνδρα
Category: Church Leadership
3:2; 3:12 (core passage). Historically, polygamy was practiced among some Assamese royal/elite households (Ahom court custom); must read as a positive marital-faithfulness standard, not merely a numerical count.
Able To Teach
Approved rendering: শিক্ষা দিয়াত পটু
Transliteration: xikha diyat pôtu
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership (Elders and Deacons)
Original: διδακτικός
Category: Church Leadership
3:2 (core passage). Teaching authority must be anchored to gospel content taught (cf. 3:9), not to guru-style charismatic or lineage authority.
Not Lover Of Money
Approved rendering: ধনলোভী নহয়
Transliteration: dhonolobhi nôhôy
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership (Elders and Deacons)
Original: ἀφιλάργυρος
Category: Godliness
3:3 (core passage). Must be kept distinct from ordinary poverty/wealth status; anticipates 6:10’s warning. Keep the ধন root consistent across 3:3, 3:8, and 6:10.
Household Management
Approved rendering: পৰিয়াল উত্তমভাবে চাল-জাল কৰা
Transliteration: pôriyal uttômbhabe cal-jal kôra
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership (Elders and Deacons)
Original: τοῦ ἴδιου οἴκου καλῶς προϊστάμενον
Category: Church Leadership
3:4-5 (core passage). Functions as observable proof-of-fitness logic for church oversight; must not be flattened into a generic ‘family values’ statement disconnected from its argumentative function.
Submission Children
Approved rendering: বশ্যতা
Transliteration: bôxyôta
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership (Elders and Deacons)
Original: ὑποταγή
Category: Church Leadership
3:4 (core passage). Keep distinct from the 2:11-12 women’s-submission unit so the two are not conflated in teaching material; render as relational order within the family, not coerced subjugation.
Church Of God
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বৰৰ মণ্ডলী
Transliteration: Iswôror môndoli
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Rejected alternatives: নামঘৰ, মন্দিৰ
Original: ἐκκλησία θεοῦ
Category: Church
3:5, 3:15 (core passage and supplement). Baseline reuse of মণ্ডলী in the specific ‘church of God’ phrase. Never নামঘৰ or মন্দিৰ.
Recent Convert
Approved rendering: নতুন বিশ্বাসী
Transliteration: notun biswaxi
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership (Elders and Deacons)
Rejected alternatives: নবীন ভক্ত (echoes Ekasarana initiation vocabulary)
Original: νεόφυτος
Category: Church Leadership
3:6 (core passage). Must be understood as spiritual maturity in Christian discipleship, not calendar time or completion of a naam-initiation rite.
Devils Condemnation Snare
Approved rendering: শয়তানৰ দণ্ড / ফান্দ
Transliteration: xoytanor dondô / phandô
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare: False Spirits and the Devil
Original: κρίμα τοῦ διαβόλου / παγὶς τοῦ διαβόλου
Category: Spiritual Warfare
3:6-7 (core passage). Shares the শয়তান term risk documented above; must stay distinct from folk-belief plural spirit vocabulary.
Deacon
Approved rendering: পৰিচাৰক
Transliteration: poricarôk
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership (Elders and Deacons)
Rejected alternatives: ডীকন (imports a three-tier sacramental ordained office)
Original: διάκονος
Category: Church Leadership
3:8-13 (core passage); also 4:6. Distinguish from a Satra’s bhakat attendant roles and from generic household-servant vocabulary; designates a recognized, formally tested congregational office. Never ডীকন.
Greedy For Dishonest Gain
Approved rendering: অসৎ লাভৰ প্ৰতি লোভী
Transliteration: ôxôt labhor prôti lobhi
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership (Elders and Deacons)
Original: αἰσχροκερδής
Category: Godliness
3:8 (core passage). Echoes the ‘godliness as means of gain’ warning at 6:5.
Conscience
Approved rendering: বিবেক
Transliteration: bibek
Doctrine: Conscience and Christian Integrity
Original: συνείδησις
Category: Guarding the Deposit
3:9 (core passage); also 1:5, 1:19, 4:2. Standard secular-ethical Assamese vocabulary; the theological sense (answerability to a holy, personal God, not karmic self-accounting) must be reinforced in commentary.
Good Standing
Approved rendering: উত্তম সন্মান
Transliteration: uttôm xonman
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership (Elders and Deacons)
Original: βαθμὸς καλός
Category: Church Leadership
3:13 (core passage). Must not be rendered as promotion-track/status-seeking language, given the honor-status dynamics of religious office in Assamese society including Satra hierarchy.
Seen By Angels
Approved rendering: স্বৰ্গৰ দূত
Transliteration: swôrgor dut
Doctrine: Incarnation: The Mystery of Godliness
Rejected alternatives: দেবতা (would imply a lesser deity figure)
Original: ὤφθη ἀγγέλοις
Category: Christology
3:16. Keep distinct both from baseline’s rejection of bare দূত as a rendering for ‘apostle’ and from deva/messenger-deity figures of the wider Hindu pantheon; specifies a created, personal, non-divine spirit-being.
Train For Godliness
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বৰভক্তিৰ বাবে নিজকে অনুশীলন কৰা
Transliteration: Iswôrbhôktir babe nijôke ônuxilôn kôra
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Rejected alternatives: তপস্যা কৰা (would import merit-earning ascetic connotation)
Original: γύμναζε σεαυτὸν πρὸς εὐσέβειαν
Category: Godliness
4:7. Risk of assimilation to ascetic tapasya-discipline practiced to earn spiritual merit or a boon; the training here cultivates what grace has already produced, it does not earn godliness.
Spiritual Gift
Approved rendering: আত্মিক বৰ
Transliteration: atmik bôr
Doctrine: Ordination and Recognition of Church Office
Rejected alternatives: বৰ (bare, forbidden)
Original: χάρισμα
Category: Church
4:14, the specific singular occurrence confirmed by prophecy and the elders’ laying on of hands. Never বৰ alone, which carries the Puranic sense of a boon granted for austerity or devotion.
Laying On Of Hands
Approved rendering: হাত দিয়া
Transliteration: hat dia
Doctrine: Ordination and Recognition of Church Office
Rejected alternatives: আশীৰ্বাদ (mere blessing gesture, too generic)
Original: ἐπίθεσις τῶν χειρῶν
Category: Church Leadership
4:14; 5:22. Must be distinguished from generic blessing gestures and from Satra ordination/consecration rites for a Satradhikar or bhakat, which confer lineage-based religious status.
Council Of Elders
Approved rendering: প্ৰাচীনসকলৰ সভা
Transliteration: pracinxôkôlor xôbha
Doctrine: Ordination and Recognition of Church Office
Original: πρεσβυτέριον
Category: Church Leadership
4:14. Distinguish from an informal gathering of respected village elders; a formal congregational governing body.
Elder
Approved rendering: প্ৰাচীন
Transliteration: pracin
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership (Elders and Deacons)
Rejected alternatives: গুৰু
Original: πρεσβύτερος
Category: Church Leadership
5:1, 5:17, 5:19. Distinguish from purely social village-elder status by age alone and from the Satradhikar’s guru-lineage authority; a recognized, accountable, correctable office.
Widow
Approved rendering: বিধ্বা
Transliteration: bidhôba
Doctrine: Care for Widows and the Household of Faith
Original: χήρα
Category: Church
5:3-16. Historical Assamese Hindu widowhood customs (restricted remarriage, austere dress/diet, diminished social status) sit in tension with this passage’s active-support-plus-remarriage vision (5:14); translator notes should make this contrast explicit.
Honor Double Honor
Approved rendering: সন্মান / দ্বিগুণ সন্মান
Transliteration: xonman / dwigunô xonman
Doctrine: Care for Widows and the Household of Faith
Original: τιμή, διπλῆ τιμή
Category: Church
5:3, 5:17. Carries a dual sense (respect AND material support); 5:17-18’s argument depends on the material sense remaining present alongside the honorific sense.
Slave Bondservant
Approved rendering: দাস
Transliteration: das
Doctrine: Household Ethics and Bondservice
Original: δοῦλος
Category: Household Ethics
6:1-2. Flagged for cultural sensitivity given India’s own history of caste-based hereditary servitude and bonded labor; must not be read as endorsing servitude as a permanent social order.
Yoke
Approved rendering: যুটা
Transliteration: juta
Doctrine: Household Ethics and Bondservice
Original: ζυγός
Category: Household Ethics
6:1. Near-homophone caution: must be kept clearly distinct in spelling/reading from যুগ (yuga, cosmic age), especially in audio-recorded material.
Contentment
Approved rendering: সন্তুষ্টি
Transliteration: xontuxti
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Original: αὐτάρκεια
Category: Godliness
6:6, 8. Must be distinguished from fatalistic acceptance of unchangeable karmic destiny; an active, faith-based disposition.
Love Of Money
Approved rendering: ধনলোভ
Transliteration: dhonolobh
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Original: φιλαργυρία
Category: Godliness
6:10, ‘the love of money is a root of all evils.’ Echoes ধনলোভী নহয় at 3:3; keep the ধন root consistent.
Unapproachable Light
Approved rendering: নিগম্য পোহৰ
Transliteration: nigômyô pohôr
Doctrine: Deity and Lordship of Christ
Original: φῶς ἀπρόσιτον
Category: God
6:16. Avoid light/radiance vocabulary that could conflate with the tej/prabha divine-luster imagery of Puranic theophany narrative, per baseline’s ‘glory’ caution.
Low Risk Terms
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: ধন্যবাদ
Transliteration: dhonyôbad
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Fourth term in the 2:1 prayer list.
Genealogies
Approved rendering: বংশ তালিকা
Transliteration: bôngxô talika
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Original: γενεαλογίαι
Category: Sound Doctrine
1:4. Standard vocabulary; minimal doctrinal risk.
Invisible
Approved rendering: অদৃশ্য
Transliteration: odrixyô
Doctrine: Monotheism: The Only God
Original: ἀόρατος
Category: God
1:17. Standard term; minimal collision risk.
Dignity
Approved rendering: গম্ভীৰতা
Transliteration: gômbhirôta
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership (Elders and Deacons)
Original: σεμνότης
Category: Church Leadership
2:2; 3:4, 8. Standard term; minimal doctrinal risk.
Testimony
Approved rendering: সাক্ষ্য
Transliteration: xakkho
Doctrine: Christ as the One Mediator
Original: μαρτύριον
Category: Christology
2:6. Standard term.
Transgression
Approved rendering: অপৰাধ
Transliteration: oporadh
Doctrine: Gender Roles in Public Worship
Original: παράβασις
Category: Sin
2:14, used of Eve’s transgression. Pairs naturally with baseline পাপ without replacing it.
Double Tongued
Approved rendering: দুমুখী
Transliteration: dumukhi
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership (Elders and Deacons)
Original: δίλογος
Category: Church Leadership
3:8 (core passage). Standard term.
Seared Conscience
Approved rendering: দগ্ধ বিবেক
Transliteration: dôgdhô bibek
Doctrine: Conscience and Christian Integrity
Original: κεκαυστηριασμένη συνείδησις
Category: Guarding the Deposit
4:2. Reuses the conscience term; theologically significant as the endpoint of persistent false teaching, but low lexical risk.
Prophecy
Approved rendering: ভাববাণী
Transliteration: bhabôbani
Doctrine: Ordination and Recognition of Church Office
Rejected alternatives: গণনা
Original: προφητεία
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. 4:14, accompanying Timothy’s commissioning.
Real Widow
Approved rendering: সঁচা বিধ্বা
Transliteration: xãsa bidhôba
Doctrine: Care for Widows and the Household of Faith
Original: ὄντως χήρα
Category: Church
5:3, 5, 16. The passage’s key support-eligibility category; low lexical risk, doctrinally significant.
Good Fight Of Faith
Approved rendering: বিশ্বাসৰ উত্তম যুদ্ধ
Transliteration: biswaxor uttôm juddhô
Doctrine: Eternal Life and Assurance
Original: καλὸς ἀγὼν τῆς πίστεως
Category: Faith
6:12. বিশ্বাস root is baseline reuse; low additional risk.
Love
Approved rendering: প্ৰেম
Transliteration: prem
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Godliness
6:11 virtue list. Standard term; low collision risk in Assamese.
Steadfastness Endurance
Approved rendering: সহনশীলতা
Transliteration: xohonoxilôta
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Original: ὑπομονή
Category: Godliness
6:11 virtue list. Standard term.
Gentleness
Approved rendering: সৌম্যতা
Transliteration: xoumyôta
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Original: πραϋπαθία
Category: Godliness
6:11 virtue list. Standard term.
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