Core Glossary
Core Glossary — 1 Thessalonians
This glossary consolidates every load-bearing theological term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md, covering all five chapters of 1 Thessalonians. Terms marked [BASELINE] are already recorded in the Romans translation_memory.json / bible_term_registry.json and must be reused exactly as recorded there — no new entry is created for them in translation_memory.json; they are listed here only for cross-reference completeness. Terms marked [NEW] are introduced by this curriculum and require new translation_memory.json entries before Phase 2 translation begins.
Risk tiers follow the baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json definitions (Critical / High / Medium / Low).
A. Baseline Terms Reused Exactly (from Romans Language Package)
| Term | Azerbaijani | Risk | Chapters occurring | Note for this curriculum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gospel | Müjdə | High | 1, 2 | Same collision (İncil-as-disputed-book) applies. |
| Grace | Lütf | High | 1, 5 | Opening/closing greeting formula. |
| Faith | İman | High | 1, 3, 5 | Object (Christ) must remain explicit; forms the “faith, love, hope” triad. |
| Church | Kilsə | Medium | 1 | ”Church of God” (1:1). |
| Peace | Sülh | Medium | 1, 5 | Greeting formula and closing blessing. |
| Thanksgiving | Şükran | Low | 1, 5 | ”Give thanks in everything” (5:18). |
| Election | Seçilmə | High | 1 | ”Your election” (1:4). |
| Power of God | Allahın qüdrəti | High | 1 | Gospel came “in power.” |
| Holy Spirit | Müqəddəs Ruh | Critical | 1, 4, 5 | ”Do not quench the Spirit” (5:19) requires the full phrase, never bare “Ruh.” |
| Apostle | Həvari | Medium | 2 | Paul’s team’s ministry pattern. |
| Kingdom of God | Allahın Padşahlığı | Medium | 2 | ”Calls you into his own kingdom and glory” (2:12). |
| Glory | Ehtişam | High | 2 | Paired with kingdom in 2:12. |
| Calling / Called | Çağırış / Çağırılmış | High | 2, 5 | ”He who calls you is faithful” (5:24). |
| Prophet | Peyğəmbər | High | 2 | ”Killed…the prophets” (2:15). |
| Lord | Rəbb | Critical | 2, 3, 4 (core), 5 | ”The Lord himself” (4:16) — emphatic personal presence must be preserved. |
| Salvation | Xilas | Critical | 2, 5 | ”That they might be saved” (2:16); “to obtain salvation” (5:9). |
| Sonship / Son of God | Allahın Oğlu | Critical | 1 | ”Wait for his Son from heaven” (1:10). |
| Resurrection (of Christ) | Diriliş | Critical | 1, 4 (core) | Foundation for the resurrection-of-believers argument in 4:14-16. |
| Sanctification | Təqdisetmə | High | 4, 5 | Central doctrine of this curriculum; extended by ch. 5’s “wholly” language. |
| Saints | Müqəddəslər | High | 3 | ”With all his saints” (3:13). |
| Gentiles (Nations) | Millətlər | Medium | 4 | Ethical contrast context (4:5). |
| Prophecy | Peyğəmbərlik sözü | Medium | 5 | ”Do not despise prophecies” (5:20). |
| Spiritual Gifts | Ruhani hədiyyələr | Medium | 5 | Regulatory framework for prophecy in the gathered church. |
| Exhort | Nəsihət vermək | Low | 3, 5 | See extended context-sensitivity note in section B for grief-comfort contexts. |
B. New Terms Introduced by This Curriculum
| # | Term (English) | Original (Greek) | Transliteration | Azerbaijani rendering | Risk | Category / Doctrine | Chapters | Rejected alternative(s) | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coming / Return (of Christ) | παρουσία | parousia | Gəliş (Rəbbin gəlişi) | Critical | The Return of Christ | 2, 3, 4 (core), 5 | Zühur | Zühur is the settled Azerbaijani Shia term for the awaited reappearance of the Twelfth (Hidden) Imam; using it for Christ’s parousia would import the entire occultation/Mahdi framework and confuse the identity of the returning figure. |
| 2 | Caught up (rapture) | ἁρπάζω (fut. pass. ἁρπαγησόμεθα) | harpagēsometha | Götürülmə / yuxarı aparılacağıq | Critical | Resurrection of Believers / Return of Christ | 4 (core) | Göyə qaldırılma (bare) | This exact phrase is the Romans-package forbidden substitution for Christ’s own resurrection (used of the Qur’anic no-death-ascension reading, Qur’an 4:157). Reusing it here for believers’ rapture would conflate two entirely different theological claims; must render distinctly and add a translator’s note at every occurrence. |
| 3 | Hope | ἐλπίς | elpis | Ümid | High | Hope in Grief | 1, 4 (core), 5 | (none rejected; term itself retained, sense clarified) | Everyday/devotional Azerbaijani usage often treats ümid as a wished-for, uncertain outcome; this curriculum’s doctrine requires teaching it as a settled, guaranteed expectation grounded in Christ’s resurrection, not wishful uncertainty. |
| 4 | Sleep (as death euphemism) | κοιμάομαι | koimaomai | Yatanlar / vəfat edənlər | High | Hope in Grief / Resurrection of Believers | 4 (core) | Bare literal “sleep” without qualification | Must be visibly distinguished from literal sleep and from the separate spiritual-carelessness “sleep” metaphor (καθεύδω) in 5:6-7, to avoid confusion with a “soul sleep” doctrine or the Islamic barzakh intermediate-state framework. |
| 5 | Day of the Lord | ἡμέρα Κυρίου | hēmera Kyriou | Rəbbin günü | High | The Day of the Lord | 5 | Generic Qiyamət günü (as a full substitution) | Conceptually overlapping with the Islamic Day of Resurrection/Judgment, but this term is specifically anchored to Christ’s identity and return; must not be flattened into the generic Islamic Judgment Day framework administered without reference to Christ. |
| 6 | Wrath (of God) | ὀργή | orgē | Qəzəb | High | The Day of the Lord / Judgment | 1, 5 | Conflation with Allahın qüdrəti (power) | The Romans baseline already warned that folk usage sometimes conflates divine power and wrath/fate; here wrath is a genuine, distinct target term requiring care that it read as personal, moral judgment against sin, not impersonal fate. |
| 7 | Imitators | μιμηταί | mimētai | Nümunə götürənlər | High | Sanctification / Discipleship | 1 | Təqlidçilər / təqlid edənlər | Taqlid is the Shia jurisprudential term for a lay believer’s obligatory following of a marja/mujtahid’s legal rulings; using it here would recast Paul or the Lord as a legal authority to be juridically obeyed rather than a life-example to be relationally followed. |
| 8 | Archangel | ἀρχάγγελος | archangelos | Baş mələk | Medium-High | Return of Christ | 4 (core) | (none rejected; risk is resonance, not forbidden substitution) | Strong structural resonance with named Islamic archangels (esp. İsrafil and the trumpet at Qiyamət); leverage for comprehension but clarify Christ, not the angel, is the acting Lord. |
| 9 | Trumpet (of God) | σάλπιγξ | salpinx | Şeypur / Boru (Allahın şeypuru) | Medium-High | Return of Christ | 4 (core) | (none rejected; resonance risk) | Parallels the Islamic Sur trumpet of İsrafil; clarify agent (Christ) and outcome (resurrection unto life for believers) to avoid full doctrinal conflation despite the useful structural resonance. |
| 10 | Affliction / Tribulation | θλῖψις | thlipsis | Sıxıntı (also: zülm) | Medium-High | Suffering / Sanctification | 1, 3 | Əzab | Əzab is strongly associated in Azerbaijani religious vocabulary with divine/hellfire punishment; using it for believers’ persecution-suffering would wrongly imply punitive judgment rather than gospel-related persecution. |
| 11 | Uncleanness | ἀκαθαρσία | akatharsia | Murdarlıq / əxlaqsızlıq | Medium-High | Sanctification | 4 | Natəmizlik | Natəmizlik leans toward ceremonial/ritual impurity (a wudu-adjacent category), already flagged as a risk for “holy” in the Romans baseline; the Pauline contrast here (vs. ἁγιασμός) is moral, not ceremonial. |
| 12 | Quench the Spirit | σβέννυμι + τὸ Πνεῦμα | sbennymi | (Müqəddəs) Ruhu söndürməyin | High | Sanctification / Holy Spirit | 5 | Bare “Ruhu söndürməyin” | A bare “Ruh” risks losing the unambiguous Trinitarian referent already Critical in the baseline (Holy Spirit ≠ Cəbrail); the qualifier Müqəddəs must always be retained here. |
| 13 | Sanctify wholly / entirely | ἁγιάζω + ὁλοτελής | hagiazō, holotelēs | Tam / bütünlüklə təqdis etmək | High | Sanctification | 5 | (extends baseline Təqdisetmə; no rejected alternative) | Must preserve totalizing scope (“wholly”) without implying works-based, self-effort perfection (a risk given comparison to Islamic tazkiyah/self-purification frameworks); sanctification here remains grace-grounded, per the baseline’s Sanctification doctrine notes. |
| 14 | Spirit, soul, and body | πνεῦμα, ψυχή, σῶμα | pneuma, psychē, sōma | Ruh, can, bədən | Medium-High | Sanctification | 5 | (qualify rather than reject) | Bare lowercase “ruh” (human spirit) sits close to repeated Müqəddəs Ruh references; recommend a qualifying phrase (“insanın ruhu”) or footnote at first occurrence to prevent blurring the Trinitarian-Person/human-faculty distinction. |
| 15 | Encourage / Comfort (grief sense) | παρακαλέω | parakaleō | Təsəlli vermək | High | Hope in Grief | 4 (core), 5 | (extends baseline “exhort” = Nəsihət vermək) | Baseline rendering was calibrated for advisory/edifying contexts (Romans); 4:18’s sense is bereavement-comfort, requiring the softer təsəlli vermək. Track both senses of this one Greek verb across the curriculum: nəsihət vermək (advisory, e.g. 5:14 re: the idle) vs. təsəlli vermək (grief-comfort, 4:18; 5:11). |
| 16 | Love | ἀγάπη | agapē | Məhəbbət | Low-Medium | Faith/Love/Hope triad | 1, 3, 5 | (none rejected) | Standard, resonant term; note Islamic devotional love-of-God vocabulary is often mystically/Sufi-inflected — keep the NT sense anchored to self-giving, cross-shaped love rather than devotional ecstasy. |
| 17 | Joy | χαρά | chara | Sevinc | Low | Sanctification / Faith | 1, 5 | (none rejected) | Low risk; pair with Müqəddəs Ruh in 1:6 to keep the Spirit’s personal agency in view. |
| 18 | Idols | εἴδωλα | eidōla | Bütlər | Medium | Conversion background | 1 | (none rejected) | Largely a point of resonance (shared anti-idolatry stance); clarify referent is Greco-Roman polytheistic images, and that the deeper distinctive taught is Trinity/Christ, not idol-rejection per se. |
| 19 | Living and true God | ζῶν καὶ ἀληθινὸς Θεός | zōn kai alēthinos Theos | Diri və həqiqi Allah | Low | God | 1 | (none rejected) | Genuine common ground; low doctrinal risk. |
| 20 | Satan / Tempter | Σατανᾶς / ὁ πειράζων | Satanas / ho peirazōn | Şeytan | Low-Medium | Spiritual opposition | 2, 3 | (none rejected) | Established shared term; note differing origin-story/role details across traditions in teaching material, not a translation risk. |
| 21 | Word of God (proclaimed) | λόγος Θεοῦ | logos Theou | Allahın sözü | Medium-High | Inspiration of Scripture (extended to oral proclamation) | 2 | (none rejected) | Consistent with baseline handling of “gospel”/“prophecy”: must preserve divine authority, not human opinion, in the message received. |
| 22 | Full conviction / assurance | πληροφορία | plērophoria | Tam əminlik | Medium | Assurance of Salvation (extended) | 1 | (none rejected) | Must convey settled certainty, not mere strong opinion; link pastorally to baseline’s Critical “Assurance of Salvation” doctrine. |
| 23 | Holiness (state) | ἁγιωσύνη | hagiōsynē | Müqəddəslik | High | Sanctification | 3 | (extends baseline Müqəddəs; no rejected alternative) | Distinguish from ritual blamelessness; moral-relational integrity produced by grace, consistent with baseline’s caution on “holy” vs. “təmiz.” |
| 24 | Blameless | ἄμεμπτος | amemptos | Qüsursuz / nöqsansız | Medium | Sanctification / Return of Christ | 3, 5 | (none rejected) | Straightforward; paired with holiness and with preservation “until the coming.” |
| 25 | Brotherly love | φιλαδελφία | philadelphia | Qardaşlıq məhəbbəti (full phrase: imanlılar arasında qardaşlıq məhəbbəti) | Medium | Church community | 4 | Bare qardaşlıq | Bare qardaşlıq carries civic/pan-Turkic-nationalist resonance per the Romans baseline’s “fellowship” entry; the fuller phrase anchors the referent to the family of faith. |
| 26 | Taught by God | θεοδίδακτος | theodidaktos | Allah tərəfindən öyrədilmiş | Low-Medium | Sanctification | 4 | (none rejected) | Rare NT compound; plain literal rendering adequate, footnote on first use recommended. |
| 27 | Sexual immorality | πορνεία | porneia | Zina | Medium | Sanctification | 4 | (none rejected; framing caution noted) | Established shared moral-legal term; keep NT’s grace/sanctification framing distinct from a punitive legal (hadd) lens in teaching material. |
| 28 | Vessel (body/spouse, debated) | σκεῦος | skeuos | (öz) bədən [contextual, ambiguity flagged] | Medium | Sanctification | 4 | Literal qab | Literal “vessel” is obscure to modern readers; recommend contextual “own body” reading pending native speaker review, per exegetical ambiguity noted in 07_semantic_analysis.md. |
| 29 | Times and seasons | χρόνοι καὶ καιροί | chronoi kai kairoi | Vaxtlar və zamanlar | Medium | The Day of the Lord | 5 | (none rejected; resonance noted) | Resonates with the Islamic teaching that only Allah knows the exact “Hour”; leverage for comprehension while distinguishing agent and outcome. |
| 30 | Sons of light / darkness | υἱοὶ φωτός / σκότος | huioi phōtos / skotos | İşıq övladları / zülmət (qaranlıq) | Medium | The Day of the Lord / Sanctification | 5 | (none rejected) | Semitic “sons of X” idiom needs a brief gloss on first use to avoid a genealogical (mis)reading. |
| 31 | Destruction (sudden) | ὄλεθρος | olethros | Məhv / həlak | Medium | The Day of the Lord | 5 | (none rejected) | Standard judgment vocabulary; low-medium risk, mainly idiomatic naturalness. |
| 32 | Faithful (of God) | πιστός | pistos | Sadiq | Low-Medium | Sanctification / Calling | 5 | (none rejected) | Describes God’s reliable character; distinct from but related to İman (human faith/trust). |
| 33 | Holy kiss | ἅγιον φίλημα | hagion philēma | Müqəddəs öpüş | Low-Medium | Church practice | 5 | (none rejected; practice-adaptation note only) | Cultural greeting practice; Azerbaijani church practice may substitute handshake/embrace while preserving the underlying meaning — a pastoral-practice note, not a translation substitution. |
| 34 | Pray (general) | προσεύχομαι | proseuchomai | Dua etmək | Low | Christian devotion | 5 | (none rejected) | General personal/communal prayer; kept distinct from baseline’s Critical Vasitəçilik (intercession specifically on another’s behalf). |
| 35 | Test (discernment) | δοκιμάζω | dokimazō | Sınaqdan keçirmək / yoxlamaq | Low | Spiritual Gifts | 5 | (none rejected) | Discernment of prophetic speech; low doctrinal risk. |
| 36 | Idle / fainthearted / weak | ἄτακτος / ὀλιγόψυχος / ἀσθενής | ataktos / oligopsychos / asthenēs | İntizamsız / ürəyi düşkün / zəif | Low-Medium | Church community care | 5 | (none rejected) | Three distinct pastoral registers requiring matched Azerbaijani terms; no doctrinal collision. |
C. Terms Requiring Mandatory Theologian Review (Critical / High Tier Summary)
Per the escalation rules established in the Romans 12_ai_translation_requirements.md, the following new terms from this curriculum must be automatically routed to human theologian review whenever they occur in a Phase 2 segment:
- Gəliş (parousia / Return of Christ) — every occurrence
- Götürülmə (rapture / caught up) — every occurrence, with mandatory translator’s note distinguishing it from the forbidden “göyə qaldırılma”
- Ümid (hope) — in passages framed against grief or the Day of the Lord (1:3; 4:13; 5:8)
- Yatanlar / vəfat edənlər (sleep as death-euphemism) — 4:13-15
- Rəbbin günü (Day of the Lord) — 5:2-4
- Qəzəb (wrath) — 1:10; 5:9
- Nümunə götürənlər (imitators) — 1:6, to guard against a taqlid-adjacent rendering
- Müqəddəs Ruhu söndürməyin (quench the Spirit) — 5:19
- Tam/bütünlüklə təqdis etmək (sanctify wholly) — 5:23
All other new terms in section B carry Medium or Low risk and follow the standard native-speaker or automated review routing per the baseline’s risk-tier conventions.
This glossary extends, and must never contradict, the Romans translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json. All baseline term renderings listed in section A are reused verbatim. All new terms in section B must be added to translation_memory.json (with incremented version number) before any Phase 2 segment translation of 1 Thessalonians begins.
Critical Risk Terms
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: Müqəddəs Ruh
Transliteration: myoo-kad-DASS ROOKH
Doctrine: Sanctification / Deity of the Spirit
Rejected alternatives: Cəbrail (the archangel Gabriel)
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:5-6, 4:8, and 5:19 (‘do not quench the Spirit’). The qualifier Müqəddəs must never be dropped, especially at 5:19, where a bare ‘Ruh’ risks the Cəbrail-adjacent misreading the baseline already flags as Critical.
Lord
Approved rendering: Rəbb
Transliteration: RAHBB
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ / The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ağa (master, non-divine)
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. At 4:16 the emphatic ‘the Lord himself’ (Rəbbin özü) must be preserved to rule out any reading where a delegate or angel descends in Christ’s place.
Salvation
Approved rendering: Xilas
Transliteration: khee-LAHS
Doctrine: Assurance of Salvation from Wrath
Rejected alternatives: nicat (Imamate-intercession framing), cənnətə girmək (entering paradise)
Original: σωτηρία / σῴζω
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. ‘That they might be saved’ (2:16) and ‘to obtain salvation’ (5:9) both present salvation as a settled, present-tense reality, not a nicat-style deferred hope.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: Allahın Oğlu
Transliteration: ahl-lah-HUHN oh-loo
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Allahın sevimli qulu (God’s beloved servant)
Original: υἱὸς αὐτοῦ (τοῦ Θεοῦ)
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. ‘Wait for his Son from heaven’ (1:10) is this letter’s first mention of the Return-of-Christ theme, tied directly to Sonship.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: Diriliş
Transliteration: dee-ree-LEESH
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ / Resurrection of Believers
Rejected alternatives: göyə qaldırılma (no-death ascension), Qiyamət (generic Islamic Day of Resurrection/Judgment)
Original: ἀνίστημι / ἐγείρω
Category: Eschatology
Inherited from Romans package. Grounds both Christ’s own resurrection (1:10; 4:14) and the future resurrection of deceased believers (4:16), which this curriculum’s core passage argues from a fortiori. NEVER substitute Qiyamət, which would re-import the entire Islamic eschatological scene as the interpretive frame.
Parousia Return Of Christ
Approved rendering: Gəliş
Transliteration: gah-LEESH
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Zühur (the settled Shia term for the Twelfth/Hidden Imam’s awaited reappearance from occultation), Qayıtma (bare ‘returning’, under-communicates the technical dignitary-arrival sense), Gəlmə (too generic/ambiguous)
Original: παρουσία
Category: Eschatology
New term for this curriculum. Occurs at 2:19, 3:13, 4:15, 5:23; render consistently as Gəliş (Rəbbin gəlişi) at every occurrence. NEVER use Zühur — doing so would fuse Christ’s unique, already-identified, historically-anchored return with an entirely different eschatological agent and framework.
Caught Up Rapture
Approved rendering: Götürülmə
Transliteration: gyo-tyu-ryul-MAH
Doctrine: Rapture and Reunion with Christ
Rejected alternatives: Göyə qaldırılma (Romans-package forbidden phrase for the Qur’an 4:157 no-death-ascension reading of Christ)
Original: ἁρπάζω (fut. pass. ἁρπαγησόμεθα)
Category: Eschatology
New term for this curriculum (4:17). Render with an unambiguous ‘seized/taken up’ verb (Götürüləcəyik / yuxarı aparılacağıq). The two claims are structurally opposite (here death and resurrection have already occurred for one group before the catching-up). A mandatory translator’s note distinguishing the two claims must accompany every occurrence.
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: Müjdə
Transliteration: myuzh-DAH
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: İncil (bare, unqualified), yaxşı xəbər (generic good news)
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. In 1 Thessalonians 1:5 and 2:2-9 the gospel is specifically Spirit-empowered oral proclamation received ‘not as the word of men’ — reinforce the İncil-as-disputed-book distinction whenever this term appears in this curriculum.
Grace
Approved rendering: Lütf
Transliteration: LYUTF
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: mərhəmət (mercy), kərəm (Persian-influenced ‘divine generosity’)
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs in the letter’s opening greeting (1:1) alongside Sülh (peace).
Faith
Approved rendering: İman
Transliteration: ee-MAHN
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: etiqad (doctrinal conviction/creed)
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Forms the recurring ‘faith, love, hope’ triad (1:3; 3:6; 5:8) central to this curriculum; the object of faith (Christ) must remain explicit at every occurrence.
Election
Approved rendering: Seçilmə
Transliteration: say-cheel-MAY
Doctrine: Election and Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: qismət (fate/fortune), yazı (what is ‘written’, fatalistic decree)
Original: ἐκλογή
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. ‘Your election’ (1:4) grounds the Thessalonians’ conversion in God’s prior sovereign choice, not qismət-style fate.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: Allahın qüdrəti
Transliteration: ahl-lah-HUHN kewd-rah-TEE
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Rejected alternatives: Allahın qəzəbi (wrath, a distinct term in this curriculum)
Original: δύναμις
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. In 1:5 the gospel came ‘in power, in the Holy Spirit’; must be kept structurally distinct from this curriculum’s new term Qəzəb (wrath).
Glory
Approved rendering: Ehtişam
Transliteration: eh-htee-SHAHM
Doctrine: Kingdom and Glory Calling
Rejected alternatives: nur (Shia ‘Light of the Imams’ associations)
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Paired with kingdom-calling in 2:12.
Called
Approved rendering: Çağırılmış
Transliteration: chah-guh-ruhl-MUSH
Doctrine: Election and Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: dəvət olunmuş (invited)
Original: κλητός / καλέω
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. ‘He who calls you is faithful’ (5:24) ties God’s own reliable character to the certainty of the sanctifying work described in 5:23.
Calling
Approved rendering: Çağırış
Transliteration: chah-guh-RUHSH
Doctrine: Election and Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: dəvət
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Underlies 2:12’s ‘calls you into his own kingdom and glory.‘
Prophet
Approved rendering: Peyğəmbər
Transliteration: pay-gam-BAIR
Doctrine: Inspiration of the Proclaimed Word
Rejected alternatives: falçı (fortune-teller)
Original: προφήτης
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. ‘Killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets’ (2:15) reinforces the historical-death premise required by 4:14.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: Təqdisetmə
Transliteration: tag-dees-et-MAY
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: paklanma (ritual purification)
Original: ἁγιασμός
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. This letter’s most sustained doctrine (4:3-8), applied concretely to sexual purity, and extended to the whole person in 5:23 (‘spirit and soul and body’).
Saints
Approved rendering: Müqəddəslər
Transliteration: myoo-kad-dass-LAIR
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: övliyalar (venerated shrine figures)
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. ‘With all his saints’ (3:13) accompanies Christ’s parousia; exegetically debated (glorified believers vs. angelic hosts), but the established rendering covers either reading.
Hope
Approved rendering: Ümid
Transliteration: ew-MEED
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Original: ἐλπίς
Category: Faith
New term for this curriculum. Occurs at 1:3, 4:13, 5:8. Everyday/devotional Azerbaijani usage typically conveys a wished-for but uncertain outcome; teaching material must clarify this is a settled, guaranteed expectation grounded in Christ’s own resurrection, distinguishing believers from ‘those who have no hope’ (4:13).
Sleep Death Euphemism
Approved rendering: Yatanlar
Transliteration: yah-tahn-LAR
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers / Hope in Grief
Rejected alternatives: bare literal ‘yuxuya gedənlər’ without contextual qualification
Original: κοιμάομαι
Category: Eschatology
New term for this curriculum. Occurs at 4:13-15 (also rendered vəfat edənlər). Must be visibly distinct from literal sleep and from the separate spiritual-carelessness ‘sleep’ metaphor (καθεύδω) in 5:6-7, and must not be read as a ‘soul sleep’ doctrine competing with the Islamic barzakh intermediate-state framework.
Day Of The Lord
Approved rendering: Rəbbin günü
Transliteration: RAHB-bin gew-NEW
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: Qiyamət günü (generic Islamic Day of Resurrection/Judgment, as a full substitution), Axirət (too broad/diffuse)
Original: ἡμέρα Κυρίου
Category: Eschatology
New term for this curriculum (5:2-4). Must be kept visibly distinct from the generic Islamic Qiyamət günü; this term is specifically anchored to Christ’s identity and return.
Wrath
Approved rendering: Qəzəb
Transliteration: kah-ZAHB
Doctrine: Divine Wrath and Judgment
Rejected alternatives: Bəla (impersonal calamity/fate), conflation with Allahın qüdrəti (power of God)
Original: ὀργή
Category: Eschatology
New term for this curriculum. Occurs at 1:10 (‘wrath to come’) and 5:9 (‘not destined us for wrath’). Kept distinct from Allahın qüdrəti; must read as personal, moral judgment, not impersonal fated calamity.
Imitators
Approved rendering: Nümunə götürənlər
Transliteration: new-mu-NAH gyo-tyu-rahn-LAIR
Doctrine: Apostolic Ministry Integrity / Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: Təqlidçilər / təqlid edənlər (Shia jurisprudential taqlid — obligatory legal deference to a marja/mujtahid)
Original: μιμηταί
Category: Sanctification
New term for this curriculum (1:6). NEVER use təqlid-root vocabulary, which would recast Paul or the Lord as a legal authority to be juridically obeyed rather than a relational life-example to follow.
Archangel
Approved rendering: Baş mələk
Transliteration: BASH mah-LAK
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Arxangel (Russian/Church-Slavonic loanword tied to Russian Orthodox iconography), İsrafil (named Islamic angel, never used directly in translated text)
Original: ἀρχάγγελος
Category: Eschatology
New term for this curriculum (4:16). Strong structural resonance with named Islamic archangels, especially İsrafil, who blows the trumpet at Qiyamət; leverage for comprehension but clarify Christ, not the angel, is the acting Lord — the angel is herald, not agent.
Trumpet Of God
Approved rendering: Allahın şeypuru
Transliteration: ahl-lah-HUHN shay-poo-ROO
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: bare ‘boru’ without qualification
Original: σάλπιγξ Θεοῦ
Category: Eschatology
New term for this curriculum (4:16). Parallels the Islamic Sur trumpet of İsrafil at Qiyamət; clarify agent (Christ) and outcome (resurrection unto life for believers) to avoid full doctrinal conflation.
Quench The Spirit
Approved rendering: Müqəddəs Ruhu söndürməyin
Transliteration: myoo-kad-DASS roo-HOO sun-dewr-mah-YEEN
Doctrine: Quenching the Holy Spirit
Rejected alternatives: bare ‘Ruhu söndürməyin’ (unqualified)
Original: τὸ Πνεῦμα μὴ σβέννυτε
Category: God
New term for this curriculum (5:19). Must always render with the full phrase, never a bare ‘Ruhu söndürməyin,’ to keep the referent unmistakably the third Person of the Trinity.
Sanctify Wholly
Approved rendering: Tam təqdis etmə
Transliteration: TAHM tag-dees et-MAH
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: unqualified Təqdisetmə without totalizing scope
Original: ἁγιάσαι ὑμᾶς ὁλοτελεῖς
Category: Sanctification
New term for this curriculum (5:23). Reuses baseline Təqdisetmə verb form (təqdis etsin) with bütünlüklə/tam added to preserve totalizing scope. Must not be read through an Islamic tazkiyah-style self-purification works framework; sanctification here remains grace-grounded and God-initiated.
Comfort In Grief
Approved rendering: Təsəlli vermək
Transliteration: tah-sal-LEE ver-MAKH
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Rejected alternatives: Matam / matam mərasimi (specifically the Shia Muharram mourning ritual complex — never use for Christian bereavement comfort)
Original: παρακαλέω (grief-comfort sense)
Category: Faith
New contextual sense for this curriculum. Occurs at 4:18 and 5:11. Reserved for bereavement-comfort contexts; Nəsihət vermək (baseline) is reserved for advisory/behavioral contexts such as 5:14. Track both senses of this one Greek verb across the curriculum.
Holiness State
Approved rendering: Müqəddəslik
Transliteration: myoo-kad-dass-LEEK
Doctrine: Perseverance and Blamelessness at Christ’s Coming
Original: ἁγιωσύνη
Category: Sanctification
New term for this curriculum (3:13). Distinguish from ritual blamelessness (the wudu-adjacent category the baseline warns against for ‘holy’); this is moral-relational integrity produced by grace.
Medium Risk Terms
Church
Approved rendering: Kilsə
Transliteration: keel-SAY
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: məscid-vari icma (mosque-like religious community)
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. ‘The church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ’ (1:1).
Peace
Approved rendering: Sülh
Transliteration: SYULKH
Doctrine: Peace with God
Rejected alternatives: rahatlıq (inner calm/comfort)
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Appears in the opening greeting (1:1) and the closing benediction (5:23), ‘the God of peace himself.‘
Apostle
Approved rendering: Həvari
Transliteration: heh-vah-REE
Doctrine: Apostleship
Rejected alternatives: peyğəmbər (prophet-messenger), imam (Shia infallible successor sense)
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Describes Paul, Silas, and Timothy’s ministry pattern in chapter 2.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: Allahın Padşahlığı
Transliteration: ahl-lah-HUHN pahd-shah-luh-UH
Doctrine: Kingdom and Glory Calling
Rejected alternatives: Allahın dövləti (God’s state/nation)
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ Θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom
Inherited from Romans package. ‘Calls you into his own kingdom and glory’ (2:12); not a literal political state (dövlət).
Gentiles
Approved rendering: Millətlər
Transliteration: mil-lat-LAIR
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Rejected alternatives: kafirlər (unbelievers/infidels), bütpərəstlər (idolaters, archaic)
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Used in an ethical-contrast context at 4:5 (‘like the Gentiles who do not know God’).
Prophecy
Approved rendering: Peyğəmbərlik sözü
Transliteration: pay-gam-bair-LEEK suh-ZEW
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: falçılıq (divination/fortune-telling)
Original: προφητεία
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. ‘Do not despise prophecies’ (5:20) regulates this gift within the gathered church.
Spiritual Gifts
Approved rendering: Ruhani hədiyyələr
Transliteration: roo-hah-NEE hah-dee-YAY-lair
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: kəramət (saint/Imam miraculous endowment)
Original: χαρίσματα (implied; πνευματικά context)
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Provides the regulatory framework surrounding 5:19-20’s treatment of prophecy.
Affliction Tribulation
Approved rendering: Sıxıntı
Transliteration: suh-khuhn-TUH
Doctrine: Sanctification / Suffering
Rejected alternatives: Əzab (heavily associated with divine/hellfire punishment, cəhənnəm əzabı)
Original: θλῖψις
Category: Sanctification
New term for this curriculum. Occurs at 1:6 and 3:3-7. NEVER use Əzab, which would wrongly suggest believers’ suffering is itself a punishment rather than persecution endured for the gospel.
Uncleanness
Approved rendering: Murdarlıq
Transliteration: moor-dahr-LUHK
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: Natəmizlik (leans toward ceremonial/ritual impurity, a wudu-adjacent category)
Original: ἀκαθαρσία
Category: Sanctification
New term for this curriculum (4:7). Paul’s contrast with ἁγιασμός here is moral, not ceremonial.
Spirit Soul Body
Approved rendering: Ruh, can, bədən
Transliteration: ROOKH, JAHN, bah-DAN
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: unqualified bare ‘ruh’ with no distinguishing phrase
Original: τὸ πνεῦμα καὶ ἡ ψυχὴ καὶ τὸ σῶμα
Category: Sanctification
New term for this curriculum (5:23). A bare lowercase ‘ruh’ (human spirit) sits close to the letter’s repeated Müqəddəs Ruh references; recommend a qualifying phrase such as insanın ruhu at first occurrence, or a translator’s footnote, to prevent blurring the Trinitarian-Person/human-faculty distinction.
Idols
Approved rendering: Bütlər
Transliteration: bewt-LAIR
Doctrine: Turning from Idols to the Living and True God
Original: εἴδωλα
Category: Church
New term for this curriculum (1:9). Largely a point of resonance given Islamic theology’s own anti-idolatry (shirk) stance; clarify the referent is specifically Greco-Roman polytheistic images, and that the deeper distinctive taught is the Trinity and Christ’s person, not idol-rejection per se.
Satan Tempter
Approved rendering: Şeytan
Transliteration: shay-TAHN
Doctrine: Satanic Opposition to Ministry
Original: Σατανᾶς / ὁ πειράζων
Category: Church
New term for this curriculum. Occurs at 2:18 and 3:5. Established shared term across Islamic and Christian Azerbaijani vocabulary; note origin-story/role differences in teaching material only, not translation.
Word Of God Proclaimed
Approved rendering: Allahın sözü
Transliteration: ahl-lah-HUHN suh-ZEW
Doctrine: Inspiration of the Proclaimed Word
Original: λόγος Θεοῦ
Category: Covenant
New term for this curriculum (2:13). Extends the baseline’s handling of ‘gospel’/‘prophecy’: must preserve divine authority, not human opinion, in the message received; relevant given tahrif (scriptural-corruption) assumptions in the destination culture.
Full Conviction
Approved rendering: Tam əminlik
Transliteration: TAHM ah-meen-LEEK
Doctrine: Gospel Power and Conversion
Original: πληροφορία
Category: Salvation
New term for this curriculum (1:5). Must convey settled certainty, not mere strong opinion; link pastorally to the baseline’s Critical ‘Assurance of Salvation’ doctrine.
Blameless
Approved rendering: Qüsursuz
Transliteration: kew-soor-SOOZ
Doctrine: Perseverance and Blamelessness at Christ’s Coming
Original: ἄμεμπτος
Category: Sanctification
New term for this curriculum. Occurs at 3:13 and 5:23, paired with holiness and preservation ‘until the coming.‘
Brotherly Love
Approved rendering: İmanlılar arasında qardaşlıq məhəbbəti
Transliteration: ee-mahn-luh-LAR ah-rah-suhn-DAH gahr-dahsh-LUHK mah-hab-bah-TEE
Doctrine: Brotherly Love and Church Community
Rejected alternatives: bare Qardaşlıq (civic/pan-Turkic-nationalist resonance)
Original: φιλαδελφία
Category: Church
New term for this curriculum (4:9). The fuller phrase anchors the referent to the family of faith rather than ethnic or national kinship.
Sexual Immorality
Approved rendering: Zina
Transliteration: zee-NAH
Doctrine: Sexual Purity as Sanctification
Original: πορνεία
Category: Sanctification
New term for this curriculum (4:3). Established shared Azerbaijani/Islamic legal-moral term; keep the NT’s pastoral, Spirit-empowered sanctification framing distinct from a punitive legal (hadd) lens.
Vessel Body Or Spouse
Approved rendering: Öz bədəni
Transliteration: UZ bah-dah-NEE
Doctrine: Sexual Purity as Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: literal Qab (vessel/container, obscure to modern readers)
Original: σκεῦος
Category: Sanctification
New term for this curriculum (4:4). Recommend the contextual ‘own body’ reading pending native speaker review of the exegetically debated referent (body vs. wife).
Times And Seasons
Approved rendering: Vaxtlar və zamanlar
Transliteration: vahkht-LAR vah zah-mahn-LAR
Doctrine: Watchfulness and Readiness
Original: χρόνοι καὶ καιροί
Category: Eschatology
New term for this curriculum (5:1). Resonates with the Islamic teaching that only Allah knows the exact ‘Hour’; leverage as common ground while distinguishing the specific agent (Christ’s return) and outcome (resurrection and rapture of believers).
Sons Of Light
Approved rendering: İşıq övladları
Transliteration: ee-SHUHKH uv-lahd-lah-RUH
Doctrine: Watchfulness and Readiness
Original: υἱοὶ φωτός
Category: Eschatology
New term for this curriculum (5:5). Semitic ‘sons of X’ idiom needs a brief explanatory gloss on first use, since a literal rendering may otherwise sound like a genealogical claim.
Sudden Destruction
Approved rendering: Məhv
Transliteration: MAHV
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: ὄλεθρος
Category: Eschatology
New term for this curriculum (5:3). Standard judgment vocabulary; risk is mainly idiomatic naturalness, not doctrinal collision.
Low Risk Terms
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: Şükran
Transliteration: shook-RAHN
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία / εὐχαριστέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Frames Paul’s habitual prayer (1:2) and the imperative ‘give thanks in everything’ (5:18).
Exhort
Approved rendering: Nəsihət vermək
Transliteration: nah-see-HAHT ver-MAKH
Doctrine: Mutual Edification and Pastoral Care
Original: παρακαλέω (advisory sense)
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, reserved for advisory/behavioral contexts (e.g. 5:14, admonishing the idle). See the new term comfort_in_grief below for this same Greek verb’s distinct bereavement-comfort sense in 4:18 and 5:11.
Love
Approved rendering: Məhəbbət
Transliteration: mah-hab-BAT
Doctrine: Faith/Love/Hope Triad
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Faith
New term for this curriculum. Forms the ‘faith, love, hope’ triad (1:3; 3:6; 5:8) and ‘brotherly love’ (4:9). Islamic devotional love-of-God vocabulary is often mystically/Sufi-inflected; keep the NT sense anchored to self-giving, cross-shaped love.
Joy
Approved rendering: Sevinc
Transliteration: seh-VEENJ
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: χαρά
Category: Sanctification
New term for this curriculum. Pair with Müqəddəs Ruh in 1:6 (‘joy of the Holy Spirit’) to keep the Spirit’s personal agency in view, and again at 5:16 (‘rejoice always’).
Living And True God
Approved rendering: Diri və həqiqi Allah
Transliteration: dee-REE vah hah-kee-KEE ahl-LAHKH
Doctrine: Turning from Idols to the Living and True God
Original: ζῶν καὶ ἀληθινὸς Θεός
Category: God
New term for this curriculum (1:9). Genuine common ground with the destination culture’s dominant tradition; low doctrinal risk.
Taught By God
Approved rendering: Allah tərəfindən öyrədilmiş
Transliteration: ahl-LAHKH tah-rah-feen-DAHN oy-rah-deel-MEESH
Doctrine: Brotherly Love and Church Community
Original: θεοδίδακτοι
Category: Sanctification
New term for this curriculum (4:9). Plain literal calque of a rare NT compound; a footnote on first use is recommended given the term’s uniqueness.
Thief In The Night
Approved rendering: Gecə oğrusu kimi
Transliteration: geh-JAH oh-roo-SOO kee-MEE
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: κλέπτης ἐν νυκτί
Category: Eschatology
New term for this curriculum (5:2). A widely intelligible cross-cultural idiom; not a claim that Christ himself is thief-like in character.
Faithful Of God
Approved rendering: Sadiq
Transliteration: sah-DEEK
Doctrine: Election and Effectual Calling
Original: πιστός
Category: God
New term for this curriculum (5:24). Describes God’s own reliable character, distinct from but related to İman (human trust).
Holy Kiss
Approved rendering: Müqəddəs öpüş
Transliteration: myoo-kad-DASS oh-PYOOSH
Doctrine: Church Greeting Practice
Original: ἅγιον φίλημα
Category: Church
New term for this curriculum (5:26). Azerbaijani church practice may substitute a culturally appropriate greeting (handshake, embrace) while preserving the underlying meaning — a practice-adaptation note, not a translation substitution.
Pray General
Approved rendering: Dua etmək
Transliteration: doo-AH et-MAKH
Doctrine: Prayer and Thanksgiving
Original: προσεύχομαι
Category: Faith
New term for this curriculum (5:17). Kept distinct from the baseline’s Critical Vasitəçilik (intercession specifically on another’s behalf).
Test Discern
Approved rendering: Sınaqdan keçirmək
Transliteration: suh-nahk-DAHN keh-cheer-MAKH
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and Prophecy
Original: δοκιμάζω
Category: Church
New term for this curriculum (5:21). No significant doctrinal collision.
Idle Fainthearted Weak
Approved rendering: İntizamsız / ürəyi düşkün / zəif
Transliteration: een-tee-zahm-SUHZ / ew-rah-YEE dewsh-KEWN / zah-EEF
Doctrine: Mutual Edification and Pastoral Care
Original: ἄτακτοι / ὀλιγόψυχοι / ἀσθενεῖς
Category: Church
New term for this curriculum (5:14). Three distinct pastoral registers requiring matched Azerbaijani terms; no doctrinal collision.
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