Core Glossary
Core Glossary — 2 Thessalonians
English → Azerbaijani Language Package Extension (built on the Romans baseline)
This glossary extends translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json from the Romans Language Package. Section A lists terms reused exactly from the Romans baseline with their 2 Thessalonians-specific occurrence notes. Section B lists new terms introduced by 2 Thessalonians, to be added to translation memory before Phase 2 begins.
Section A — Reused Baseline Terms (Romans Translation Memory — No Change)
| English Term | Azerbaijani Term | Risk (Baseline) | 2 Thessalonians Occurrences | Notes for This Curriculum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grace | Lütf | High | 1:2, 1:12, 2:16 | Standard greeting/benediction use; no new nuance. |
| Peace | Sülh | Medium | 1:2, 3:16 | 3:16 “Lord of peace” — reuse exactly. |
| Faith | İman | High | 1:3, 1:4, 1:11, 2:13, 3:2 | 3:2 notes “not all have faith” — object of faith must remain clear (in Christ), consistent with baseline requirement. |
| Gospel | Müjdə | High | 1:8, 2:14 | 1:8 “obey the gospel” — pair with new term for obedience; see Section B. |
| Thanksgiving | Şükran | Low | 1:3, 2:13 | Standard use. |
| Lord | Rəbb | Critical | throughout (1:1-9,12; 2:1,2,8,13,14,16; 3:1,3,4,5,6,12,16,18) | Highest-frequency term in the book; absolute consistency required, especially at 2:1 (parousia of the Lord) and 2:8 (the Lord Jesus destroys the lawless one). |
| Jesus | İsa | Critical | throughout | Always paired with Məsih per baseline rule; note 2:8 has a textual variant with/without “Ἰησοῦς” — render consistently as İsa Məsih regardless. |
| Christ | Məsih | Critical | throughout | Paired with İsa; see above. |
| God | Allah | Critical | throughout | Note especially 2:4’s blasphemous self-deification claim (“that he is God” = “ki, Allahdır”) — reuse exactly, no softening. |
| Holy Spirit | Müqəddəs Ruh | Critical | 2:13 | ”sanctification of the Spirit” — reuse exactly; teach the Spirit’s personal, divine agency in this verse per baseline rule. |
| Sanctification | Təqdisetmə | High | 2:13 | Combined with Holy Spirit and truth/faith in one dense doctrinal clause; reuse exactly. |
| Salvation | Xilas | Critical | 2:10, 2:13 | 2:10 “that they might be saved” — reuse exactly; must read as a presently-receivable reality, per baseline forbidden-substitution rule against nicat-style deferred hope. |
| Saints | Müqəddəslər | High | 1:10 | ”glorified among his saints” — corporate sense, reuse exactly. |
| Kingdom of God | Allahın Padşahlığı | Medium | 1:5 | ”worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering” — reuse exactly. |
| Calling | Çağırış | High | 1:11 | ”worthy of your calling” — reuse exactly. |
| Election | Seçilmə | High | 2:13 | ”God chose you” — reuse exactly; ties directly to baseline “effectual calling” doctrine and its anti-fatalism framing. |
| Faithful (God’s faithfulness) | — | — | 3:3 | New term required; see Section B (“Sadiq”). Not previously in Romans baseline as a standalone entry. |
Section B — New Terms Introduced by 2 Thessalonians
| English Term | Azerbaijani Term | Transliteration | Doctrine Risk | Doctrine Category | Primary Passages | Alternatives Rejected | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day of the Lord | Rəbbin günü | RAHBB-in goo-NOO | Critical | The Day of the Lord | 1:7-10; 2:1-2 | Qiyamət günü (the standard Islamic “Day of Resurrection,” loaded with mizan/scale-weighing and intercession-hope apparatus) | Reuses baseline “Rəbb.” Must be taught as Christ’s specific return and judgment, not conflated with the generic Islamic eschatological day. |
| Coming / Parousia (of Christ) | Gəliş | gah-LEESH | Critical | The Day of the Lord | 2:1, 2:8, 2:9 | Zühur (the Shia Occultation/Reappearance term for the Twelfth Imam’s return) | Same word must render both Christ’s true parousia (2:1, 2:8) AND the lawless one’s counterfeit parousia (2:9), preserving Paul’s deliberate literary parody; teaching material must distinguish true from counterfeit even though the same word is used. |
| Man of Lawlessness | Qanunsuzluq adamı | kah-noon-SOOZ-look ah-dah-MUH | Critical | The Man of Lawlessness | 2:3, 2:8-10 | Dəccal (the Islamic Antichrist/False Messiah figure, central to both Sunni and especially Shia end-times expectation tied to the Twelfth Imam’s return) | THE highest-risk term in this curriculum. Must never be rendered or glossed as “Dəccal.” Explicit teaching contrast required. |
| Son of Destruction / Son of Perdition | Həlak oğlu | hah-LAHK oh-loo | Critical | The Man of Lawlessness | 2:3 | (literal “son of God” contamination risk if mishandled) | Semitic idiom for “one destined for/characterized by destruction,” not literal sonship; must be explicitly distinguished in teaching from “Allahın Oğlu.” |
| The Restrainer | Saxlayan / Maneə | sakh-lah-YAHN / mah-neh-AH | High | The Man of Lawlessness | 2:6-7 | — | Exegetical-ambiguity risk, not a cultural-collision risk. Azerbaijani’s gender-neutral pronoun “o” cannot preserve the Greek’s neuter-to-masculine shift between the two occurrences; recommend a translator’s footnote. |
| Mystery of Lawlessness | Qanunsuzluğun sirri | kah-noon-sooz-loo-OON seer-REE | High | The Man of Lawlessness | 2:7 | — | Built on new term “Qanunsuzluq” (below). |
| Lawlessness | Qanunsuzluq | kah-noon-SOOZ-look | Medium | The Man of Lawlessness | 2:3, 2:7, 2:8 | şəriətsizlik (would wrongly imply the absence specifically of Islamic religious law) | Deliberately built on baseline “Qanun” (Law = Mosaic Law) so the negation reads as “against God’s moral order,” consistent with the baseline’s exclusion of şəriət from this semantic field. |
| Apostasy / The Rebellion | Üsyan | oos-YAHN | High | The Day of the Lord / The Man of Lawlessness | 2:3 | irtidad (the specific, legally severe Islamic term for apostasy from Islam) | Avoid irtidad’s juridical/capital-punishment associations; “üsyan” (rebellion/revolt) keeps the general end-times-uprising sense. |
| Object of Worship | İbadət obyekti | ee-bah-DAHT ob-yek-TEE | Medium | The Man of Lawlessness | 2:4 | — | |
| Temple of God | Allahın məbədi | ahl-lah-HUHN mah-bah-DEE | High | The Man of Lawlessness | 2:4 | — | Interpretive ambiguity (literal Jerusalem Temple vs. church-as-temple) should be flagged for theologian review; also a potential apologetic bridge point (false self-deification condemned by both traditions). |
| Working/Power of Satan | Şeytanın fəaliyyəti / gücü | shey-tah-NUHN fah-ah-lee-yeh-TEE | High | The Man of Lawlessness | 2:9 | — | |
| False Signs and Wonders | Yalan əlamətlər və möcüzələr | yah-LAHN ah-lah-mat-LAIR vah mo-joo-zah-LAIR | High | The Man of Lawlessness | 2:9 | — | Warns that not all miraculous displays are from God. |
| Love of the Truth | Həqiqətin sevgisi | hah-kee-kah-TEEN sev-gee-SEE | High | The Man of Lawlessness / Salvation | 2:10 | — | Built on new term “Həqiqət” (below). |
| Truth | Həqiqət | hah-kee-KAHT | Medium | Multiple | 2:10, 2:12, 2:13 | — | Must always be contextually anchored to gospel truth, not generic factual accuracy. |
| The Lie | Yalan | yah-LAHN | High | The Man of Lawlessness | 2:11 | — | The definite article marks a specific lie (the lawless one’s self-deification claim), not lying generally. |
| Working of Delusion | Aldanışın təsiri | al-dah-nuh-SHUHN tah-see-REE | Critical | God’s Righteous Judgment | 2:11 | — | Judicial hardening in response to prior willful rejection of truth (2:10); must not be taught as arbitrary predetermination, distinguishing it from qismət-style fatalism per baseline’s providence/election notes. |
| God’s Righteous Judgment | Allahın ədalətli hökmü | ahl-lah-HUHN ah-dah-lat-LEE hook-MOO | Critical | God’s Righteous Judgment | 1:5, 2:12 | — | Forensic vindication/condemnation, not a deeds-weighing (mizan) framework; consistent with baseline Salehlik/justification treatment. |
| Vengeance / Retribution | Cəza | jah-ZAH | High | God’s Righteous Judgment | 1:8 | qisas (the specific Islamic sharia lex talionis legal category) | God’s own eschatological retribution, distinct from human legal retaliation categories. |
| Eternal Destruction | Əbədi həlak | ah-bah-DEE hah-LAHK | Critical | God’s Righteous Judgment | 1:9 | — | Shares root with “Həlak oğlu” (son of destruction, 2:3); note relational-exile nuance (“away from the Lord’s presence”) distinct from more physically-descriptive Islamic hell depictions. |
| Away from the Presence of the Lord | Rəbbin hüzurundan | RAHBB-in hoo-zoo-roon-DAHN | High | God’s Righteous Judgment | 1:9 | — | |
| Endurance / Perseverance | Dözüm | do-ZEWM | High | Perseverance under Persecution | 1:4, 3:5 | Səbir (the major Islamic devotional virtue of patient submission to divine decree) | Preferred to preserve the future-hope-grounded, active character of Pauline hypomonē distinct from more resignation-oriented sabr; teaching material may note the resonance while marking the distinction. |
| Persecutions | Təqiblər | tah-geeb-LAIR | Medium | Perseverance under Persecution | 1:4 | — | |
| Afflictions / Tribulations | Əziyyətlər / Sıxıntılar | ah-zee-yat-LAIR / suh-huhn-tuh-LAHR | Medium | Perseverance under Persecution | 1:4, 1:6 | — | |
| Love (agapē) | Məhəbbət | mah-hab-BAHT | Medium | Perseverance under Persecution / General | 1:3, 2:13, 3:5 | eşq (Sufi mystical/romantic divine-love connotation) | Sober, relational sense preferred over devotional-mystical alternatives. |
| Faithful (of God/the Lord) | Sadiq | sah-DEEG | Medium | Perseverance under Persecution | 3:3 | — | “The Lord is faithful” — God’s own reliability grounding the church’s security. |
| Standing Firm | Möhkəm dayanmaq | mohk-KAM dah-yan-MAKH | Medium | Standing Firm in the Traditions | 2:15 | — | |
| Traditions | Ənənə(lər) | ah-nah-nah-LAIR | High | Standing Firm in the Traditions | 2:15, 3:6 | Sünnə/Hədis (the Islamic Prophetic-tradition corpus with its own transmission-chain science and independent legal authority) | Must be qualified in teaching material as Paul’s own apostolic, Scripture-level teaching to this specific church, not an open-ended parallel tradition-corpus; consider “həvarilərin təlimləri” (apostles’ teachings) as supplementary gloss. |
| Disorderly / Idle Conduct | Nizamsız həyat | nee-zahm-SUZ hah-yaht | Medium | Standing Firm in the Traditions | 3:6, 3:11 | — | Congregational problem directly connected to the eschatological confusion of 2:1-12. |
| Busybodies | Boş işlərlə məşğul olanlar | bosh eesh-lair-LAY mash-GOOL oh-lan-LAHR | Low | Standing Firm in the Traditions | 3:11 | — | |
| “If anyone will not work, let him not eat” | İşləmək istəməyən yeməsin | eesh-lah-MAKH ees-tah-mah-YAN yeh-mah-SEEN | Medium | Standing Firm in the Traditions | 3:10 | — | Pastoral misapplication risk (unwillingness vs. inability) must be flagged in teaching notes, not a translation-fidelity risk. |
| Withdraw Social Contact (Church Discipline) | Əlaqə saxlamamaq | ah-lah-KAH sakh-lah-mah-MAKH | Medium | Standing Firm in the Traditions | 3:14 | Ünsiyyət (baseline “fellowship” term — deliberately NOT reused here) | Keep distinct from the positive baseline fellowship doctrine to avoid confusing withdrawal-of-social-contact with the corporate koinōnia concept. |
| Hope | Ümid | oo-MEED | Low | General | 2:16 | — | |
| Comfort | Təsəlli | tah-sal-LEE | Low | General | 2:16, 2:17 | — |
Doctrine Risk Summary for 2 Thessalonians (extends baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json)
| Doctrine | Risk | New Terms Contributing |
|---|---|---|
| The Day of the Lord | Critical | Rəbbin günü, Gəliş |
| The Man of Lawlessness | Critical | Qanunsuzluq adamı, Həlak oğlu, Saxlayan/Maneə, Qanunsuzluğun sirri, Üsyan, Allahın məbədi |
| Perseverance under Persecution | High | Dözüm, Təqiblər, Sıxıntılar, Sadiq |
| God’s Righteous Judgment | Critical | Allahın ədalətli hökmü, Cəza, Əbədi həlak, Aldanışın təsiri |
| Standing Firm in the Traditions | High | Ənənə(lər), Möhkəm dayanmaq, Nizamsız həyat |
Total new Critical-risk terms: 7. Total new High-risk terms: 9. All require human theologian review per the routing conventions established in the Romans baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json.
End of 08 Core Glossary. This glossary must be merged into an updated translation_memory.json (version increment required) and bible_term_registry.json before Phase 2 translation of 2 Thessalonians segments begins.
Critical Risk Terms
Lord
Approved rendering: Rəbb
Transliteration: RAHBB
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ağa (master, non-divine)
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Highest-frequency title in 2 Thessalonians. Absolute consistency required at 2:1 (the Lord’s parousia) and 2:8 (the Lord Jesus destroys the lawless one) so the Christ-vs-lawless-one contrast the passage depends on is not blurred. Watch for JW New World Translation drift toward a reduced, non-exclusive ‘lord’ sense; escalate any such back-translation.
Jesus
Approved rendering: İsa
Transliteration: ee-SAH
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: bare ‘İsa Peyğəmbər’ (Prophet Jesus, without Məsih)
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Always paired with Məsih. 2:8 contains a manuscript variant (‘the Lord [Jesus]’); render İsa Məsih consistently regardless of the variant.
Messiah
Approved rendering: Məsih
Transliteration: mah-SEEKH
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Rejected alternatives: sadəcə bir peyğəmbər (merely a prophet)
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. The parousia-parody structure of 2:1 vs 2:9 makes it especially important that Məsih’s full Davidic/atoning-savior content is not diluted into a bare familiar title.
God
Approved rendering: Allah
Transliteration: ahl-LAHKH
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Tanrı (Turkish convention, not settled Azerbaijani IBT usage)
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. 2 Thessalonians 2:4 contains the most direct self-deification claim in the letter (‘ki, Allahdır’ — that he is God). Render without softening; Paul’s argument depends on the claim’s shocking directness.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: Müqəddəs Ruh
Transliteration: myoo-kad-DASS ROOKH
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: Cəbrail (the archangel Gabriel)
Original: πνεῦμα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs at 2:13 (‘sanctification of the Spirit’) within a dense four-term doctrinal clause. Teaching material must again affirm the Spirit’s personal, divine agency, guarding also against JW force-like framing.
Salvation
Approved rendering: Xilas
Transliteration: khee-LAHS
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: nicat (Imamate-intercession-tied deferred hope), cənnətə girmək (entering paradise)
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs at 2:10 (‘love of the truth … so as to be saved’) and 2:13 (God’s electing purpose). Must be taught as a present, securable reality, never a deferred nicat-style hope.
Day Of The Lord
Approved rendering: Rəbbin günü
Transliteration: RAHBB-in goo-NOO
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: Qiyamət günü (Islamic Day of Resurrection, with mizan/sirat/şəfaət apparatus), Axırzaman (generic ‘end times’, too broad and imprecise)
Original: ἡμέρα τοῦ κυρίου / ἐνέστηκεν
Category: Eschatology
New term. Primary passages 1:7-10; 2:1-2. Christ’s specific day of return and judgment, deliberately built compositionally from baseline Rəbb rather than adopting the existing Islamic eschatological noun. The false teachers’ claim in 2:2 that the day ‘has already come’ (ἐνέστηκεν) must be rendered as a specific over-realized-eschatology correction, not merely ‘is near.‘
Parousia
Approved rendering: Gəliş
Transliteration: gah-LEESH
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: Zühur (Shia Occultation/Reappearance of the Twelfth Imam), parusiya (opaque Greek transliteration)
Original: παρουσία
Category: Eschatology
New term. Occurs at 2:1, 2:8 (Christ’s true coming) and 2:9 (the lawless one’s deliberate counterfeit coming). The SAME Azerbaijani word must render all three occurrences to preserve Paul’s literary parody; teaching material, not lexical substitution, carries the true-vs-counterfeit distinction. Guard against Jehovah’s Witness ‘invisible presence’ framing of this term.
Man Of Lawlessness
Approved rendering: Qanunsuzluq adamı
Transliteration: kah-noon-SOOZ-look ah-dah-MUH
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: Dəccal (Islamic Antichrist/False Messiah figure, tied to Twelfth Imam eschatology), Zalım/Fitnəkar (generic ‘oppressor/troublemaker’, too weak), günah adamı (‘man of sin’, TR/Synodal textual-variant tradition)
Original: ὁ ἄνθρωπος τῆς ἀνομίας / ὁ ἄνομος
Category: Eschatology
New term. THE single highest cultural-collision-risk term in this curriculum. Occurs at 2:3-4, 2:8-10. NEVER render or gloss as Dəccal under any circumstance, including in teaching-material comparisons; explicit contrastive teaching is mandatory at every occurrence, not just first use.
Lawless One
Approved rendering: Qanunsuz olan
Transliteration: kah-noon-SOOZ oh-LAHN
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: Dəccal
New term. Occurs at 2:8, the shortened title-form of ‘man of lawlessness.’ Must be kept terminologically identical in sense to man_of_lawlessness for referential consistency across 2:3 and 2:8.
Son Of Destruction
Approved rendering: Həlak oğlu
Transliteration: hah-LAHK oh-loo
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: ὁ υἱὸς τῆς ἀπωλείας
Category: Eschatology
New term. Occurs at 2:3. A Semitic idiom (‘son of X’ = characterized by/destined for X), not literal sonship. Must be explicitly taught as idiom to prevent accidental echo of, or confusion with, the Critical-risk term ‘Allahın Oğlu’ (Son of God); the deliberate literary antithesis (eternal/glorious/saving vs. temporal/doomed/destroying) should be surfaced in teaching notes.
Self Deification
Approved rendering: Özünün Allah olduğunu göstərməyə çalışması
Transliteration: ur-zoo-NOON ahl-LAHKH ohl-doo-oo-NOO gus-tur-mah-YAH chal-uh-shmah-SUH
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: ὑπεραιρόμενος … ἀποδεικνύντα ἑαυτὸν ὅτι ἔστιν θεός
Category: Eschatology
New term. Occurs at 2:4: the lawless one exalts himself and stages evidence that he himself is God. Reuses baseline ‘Allah’ exactly, without softening. Pastoral bridge point: tawhid condemns false self-deification as forcefully as biblical theology — a genuine apologetic bridge worth surfacing, not only a collision risk.
Working Of Delusion
Approved rendering: Aldanışın təsiri
Transliteration: al-dah-nuh-SHUHN tah-see-REE
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: ἐνέργεια πλάνης
Category: Judgment
New term. Occurs at 2:11-12. A judicial hardening God actively sends upon those who already rejected the truth (2:10). Some readers may hear an echo of Qur’anic ‘leading astray’ language (e.g. Q4:88, 6:39); teaching material must present this as God’s righteous response to prior, willful rejection, not an arbitrary prior decree, and must always present 2:10 (rejection) before 2:11-12 (hardening) as cause and effect.
Gods Righteous Judgment
Approved rendering: Allahın ədalətli hökmü
Transliteration: ahl-lah-HUHN ah-dah-lat-LEE hook-MOO
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Rejected alternatives: mizan-style deeds-weighing framework
Original: ἡ δικαία κρίσις τοῦ θεοῦ / κριθῶσιν
Category: Judgment
New term. Occurs at 1:5, 2:12. Forensic vindication/condemnation, not a deeds-tally; consistent with baseline Salehlik/justification treatment. Built from the secular-legal register noun ‘hökm’ rather than devotional/eschatological vocabulary.
Eternal Destruction
Approved rendering: Əbədi həlak
Transliteration: ah-bah-DEE hah-LAHK
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Rejected alternatives: annihilationist (‘ceases to exist’) framing associated with Jehovah’s Witness doctrine
Original: ὄλεθρος αἰώνιος
Category: Judgment
New term. Occurs at 1:9. Shares its root with ‘son of destruction’ (2:3). Emphasize the relational-exile nuance (paired with ‘away from the Lord’s presence’), distinct from more physically-descriptive Azerbaijani depictions of Cəhənnəm, and distinct from any cessation-of-existence framing.
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, unchanged. In 2 Thessalonians 1:8, Müjdə is paired with itaət (obedience) in the negative framing ‘those who do not obey the gospel’; see obedience_of_faith entry below. Also appears at 2:14 as the means by which believers were called to glory.
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, unchanged. Standard epistolary greeting (1:2) and benediction (2:16, 3:18) use; no new nuance introduced by this book.
Faith
Approved rendering: İman
Transliteration: ee-MAHN
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: etiqad (doctrinal conviction/creed)
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. At 3:2 (‘not all have faith’) the object of faith (Christ) must remain contextually recoverable so the statement is not misread as a claim about general intellectual capacity.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: Təqdisetmə
Transliteration: tag-dees-et-MAY
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: paklanma (ritual purification)
Original: ἁγιασμός
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Part of the dense 2:13 clause (election, sanctification, Holy Spirit, faith in the truth) requiring exact, consistent reuse of all four terms together.
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, unchanged. Occurs at 1:10, ‘glorified among his saints’ — corporate sense, not an elite venerated class.
Calling
Approved rendering: Çağırış
Transliteration: chah-guh-RUHSH
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: dəvət (invitation)
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs at 1:11, prayer that the Thessalonians be ‘worthy of his calling’; sovereign summons, not an optional invitation.
Election
Approved rendering: Seçilmə
Transliteration: say-cheel-MAY
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: qismət (fate/fortune), yazı (fatalistic decree)
Original: αἱρέομαι (εἵλατο)
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs at 2:13 (‘God chose you’), offered explicitly as pastoral comfort against end-times fear and confusion (2:1-2), not an abstract predestination puzzle.
Glory
Approved rendering: Ehtişam
Transliteration: eh-htee-SHAHM
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: nur (Shia devotional ‘Light of the Imams’)
Original: δόξα (ἐνδοξασθῆναι)
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs at 1:10 (glorified among his saints) and 2:14 (the goal of the Thessalonians’ calling).
Obedience Of Faith
Approved rendering: İmanın gətirdiyi itaət
Transliteration: ee-mah-NUHN gah-teer-dee-YEE ee-tah-AHT
Doctrine: Obedience of Faith
Rejected alternatives: dini vəzifələrə əməl etmə (performing religious duties)
Original: ὑπακούω (τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ)
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Used negatively at 1:8 (‘do not obey the gospel’) as the standard against which judgment falls, and positively in the background of 2:14. Obedience is the fruit of a grace-secured faith relationship, not a separate duty that itself earns standing.
Law
Approved rendering: Qanun
Transliteration: kah-NOON
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: şəriət (Islamic religious law)
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Not directly quoted in 2 Thessalonians but retained here because the new term ‘Qanunsuzluq’ (lawlessness) is deliberately built on this baseline root rather than on a şəriət-based compound, so the negation resonates with ‘law’ generally without importing the Islamic legal-religious system already excluded in the Romans baseline.
Providence
Approved rendering: Allahın tədbiri
Transliteration: ahl-lah-HUHN tad-bee-REE
Doctrine: Providence
Rejected alternatives: qismət, alın yazısı (fate written on the forehead)
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Not itself quoted in 2 Thessalonians but retained as the standing anti-fatalism anchor referenced repeatedly in this book’s notes for ‘working of delusion’ (2:11) and ‘election’ (2:13), both of which must be distinguished from qismət-style fatalism.
Apostasy Rebellion
Approved rendering: Üsyan
Transliteration: oos-YAHN
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: irtidad (specific Islamic legal-theological apostasy-from-Islam category, severe juridical connotations)
Original: ἀποστασία
Category: Eschatology
New term. Occurs at 2:3, the end-times ‘rebellion’ that must precede the Day of the Lord. Üsyan keeps the general end-times-uprising sense without triggering İrtidad’s Islamic legal apparatus.
Temple Of God
Approved rendering: Allahın məbədi
Transliteration: ahl-lah-HUHN mah-bah-DEE
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: ναὸς τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Eschatology
New term. Occurs at 2:4. Reuses baseline ‘Allah.’ Interpretive ambiguity (literal Jerusalem Temple vs. church-as-temple) must be flagged for human theologian review and left interpretively open in the translation, with the discussion carried in surrounding teaching material.
Restrainer
Approved rendering: Saxlayan / Maneə
Transliteration: sakh-lah-YAHN / mah-neh-AH
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: τὸ κατέχον / ὁ κατέχων
Category: Eschatology
New term. Occurs at 2:6 (neuter τὸ κατέχον, render Maneə/impersonal) and 2:7 (masculine ὁ κατέχων, render Saxlayan/personal). Azerbaijani’s single gender-neutral pronoun ‘o’ cannot preserve the Greek’s grammatical shift; a translator’s footnote explaining this source-text feature is mandatory. Exegetical-ambiguity risk, not a cultural-collision risk.
Mystery Of Lawlessness
Approved rendering: Qanunsuzluğun sirri
Transliteration: kah-noon-sooz-loo-OON seer-REE
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: μυστήριον τῆς ἀνομίας
Category: Eschatology
New term. Occurs at 2:7. Built on the new term ‘Qanunsuzluq’ to preserve the same root resonance as the Greek.
Working Of Satan
Approved rendering: Şeytanın fəaliyyəti
Transliteration: shey-tah-NUHN fah-ah-lee-yeh-TEE
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: ἐνέργεια τοῦ Σατανᾶ
Category: Eschatology
New term. Occurs at 2:9. The lawless one’s power is Satan-empowered, not self-generated — the passage’s clearest statement of a personal, malicious spiritual agent behind human rebellion.
False Signs And Wonders
Approved rendering: Yalan əlamətlər və möcüzələr
Transliteration: yah-LAHN ah-lah-mat-LAIR vah mo-joo-zah-LAIR
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: kəramət-style framing (Shia/Sufi saint-or-Imam miraculous-endowment vocabulary already excluded from spiritual_gifts in the Romans baseline)
Original: σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα ψεύδους
Category: Eschatology
New term. Occurs at 2:9. Real but deceptive miraculous phenomena; warns that not all displays of power are divine — reapplies the baseline’s exclusion of kəramət vocabulary.
Love Of The Truth
Approved rendering: Həqiqətin sevgisi
Transliteration: hah-kee-kah-TEEN sev-gee-SEE
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: ἡ ἀγάπη τῆς ἀληθείας
Category: Judgment
New term. Occurs at 2:10. Refusing the gospel is a moral failure to love truth, not neutral ignorance; built on the new term ‘Həqiqət.‘
The Lie
Approved rendering: Yalan
Transliteration: yah-LAHN
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: τὸ ψεῦδος
Category: Judgment
New term. Occurs at 2:11. The definite article marks a specific lie (most likely the self-deification claim of 2:4), not lying in general.
Vengeance Retribution
Approved rendering: Cəza
Transliteration: jah-ZAH
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Rejected alternatives: qisas (Islamic sharia lex talionis legal category, Qur’an 2:178)
Original: ἐκδίκησις
Category: Judgment
New term. Occurs at 1:8. God’s own eschatological retribution, executed by God alone, not a human legal category.
Away From Presence Of Lord
Approved rendering: Rəbbin hüzurundan
Transliteration: RAHBB-in hoo-zoo-roon-DAHN
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ κυρίου
Category: Judgment
New term. Occurs at 1:9. Reuses baseline ‘Rəbb.’ The essence of judgment is relational exile from God’s personal presence, not primarily physical torment.
Endurance Perseverance
Approved rendering: Dözüm
Transliteration: do-ZEWM
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Rejected alternatives: Səbir (Islamic devotional virtue of patient submission to divine decree)
Original: ὑπομονή
Category: Perseverance
New term. Occurs at 1:4 and 3:5 (of Christ himself). Deliberately preferred over Səbir since Pauline hypomonē is actively hope-grounded in Christ’s specific future return and vindication (1:7,10), not general resignation to an unknowable will. Teaching notes should acknowledge the resonance with Səbir while distinguishing the two.
Traditions
Approved rendering: Ənənə(lər)
Transliteration: ah-nah-nah-LAIR
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Rejected alternatives: Sünnə/Hədis (Islamic Prophetic-tradition corpus with its own isnad transmission-chain science and independent legal authority)
Original: παράδοσις (κρατεῖτε τὰς παραδόσεις)
Category: Church
New term. Occurs at 2:15, 3:6. Major cultural-collision risk: must be qualified in teaching material as Paul’s own apostolic, Scripture-level, closed-era teaching to this specific church, not an open-ended parallel tradition-corpus. Supplement with ‘həvarilərin təlimləri’ (the apostles’ teachings) in surrounding explanatory text at every occurrence, not only first use.
Medium Risk Terms
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: Allahın Padşahlığı
Transliteration: ahl-lah-HUHN pahd-shah-luh-UH
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Rejected alternatives: Allahın dövləti (God’s state/nation)
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs at 1:5: the Thessalonians’ suffering counts them worthy of God’s kingdom, not a literal political state.
Peace
Approved rendering: Sülh
Transliteration: SYULKH
Doctrine: Peace with God
Rejected alternatives: rahatlıq (inner calm/comfort)
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs in the greeting (1:2) and in the title ‘the Lord of peace’ (3:16).
Gathering
Approved rendering: Toplanma
Transliteration: top-lan-MAH
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: bir yerə yığılma (more verbose variant, acceptable as stylistic alternate only)
Original: ἐπισυναγωγή
Category: Eschatology
New term. Occurs at 2:1, the future gathering of believers to Christ, linked to the parousia. Primarily an exegetical-clarity risk (relationship to ‘day of the Lord’ in 2:2), not a cultural-collision risk.
Object Of Worship
Approved rendering: İbadət obyekti
Transliteration: ee-bah-DAHT ob-yek-TEE
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: σέβασμα
Category: Eschatology
New term. Occurs at 2:4: everything humanity considers sacred, which the lawless one claims to surpass. No specific Islamic-doctrinal collision identified.
Lawlessness
Approved rendering: Qanunsuzluq
Transliteration: kah-noon-SOOZ-look
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: şəriətsizlik (would wrongly imply absence specifically of Islamic religious law)
Original: ἀνομία
Category: Eschatology
New term. Occurs at 2:3, 2:7, 2:8. Deliberately built on baseline ‘Qanun’ (Mosaic Law in Romans) so the negation reads as rebellion against God’s moral order generally, not against a specific legal code.
Truth
Approved rendering: Həqiqət
Transliteration: hah-kee-KAHT
Doctrine: Faith
Original: ἀλήθεια
Category: Faith
New term. Occurs at 2:10, 2:12, 2:13. Must always be contextually anchored to gospel truth, not generic factual accuracy.
Persecutions
Approved rendering: Təqiblər
Transliteration: tah-geeb-LAIR
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Original: διωγμοί
Category: Perseverance
New term. Occurs at 1:4. Organized, hostile pursuit on account of faith. Standard vocabulary.
Afflictions
Approved rendering: Əziyyətlər / Sıxıntılar
Transliteration: ah-zee-yat-LAIR / suh-huhn-tuh-LAHR
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Original: θλίψεις
Category: Perseverance
New term. Occurs at 1:4, 1:6. Broader hardship alongside targeted persecution. Standard vocabulary.
Love Agape
Approved rendering: Məhəbbət
Transliteration: mah-hab-BAHT
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Rejected alternatives: eşq (Sufi mystical/romantic divine-love connotation)
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Church
New term. Occurs at 1:3, 2:13, 3:5. Sober, relational register preferred over devotional-mystical alternatives common in Azerbaijani religious poetry.
Faithful
Approved rendering: Sadiq
Transliteration: sah-DEEG
Doctrine: God’s Faithfulness
Original: πιστός
Category: God
New term. Occurs at 3:3, ‘the Lord is faithful.’ Standard vocabulary; may resonate positively with Islamic emphasis on God’s faithfulness — a genuine point of resonance.
Standing Firm
Approved rendering: Möhkəm dayanmaq
Transliteration: mohk-KAM dah-yan-MAKH
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Original: στήκετε
Category: Church
New term. Occurs at 2:15. A firm, unmoving (military-metaphor) posture commanded against the deception and confusion of 2:1-12.
Disorderly Idle Conduct
Approved rendering: Nizamsız həyat
Transliteration: nee-zahm-SUZ hah-yaht
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Original: ἀτάκτως περιπατοῦντος
Category: Church
New term. Occurs at 3:6, 3:11. A military metaphor for walking out of rank; the concrete congregational problem tied back to the eschatological confusion of 2:1-12.
Work Or Not Eat
Approved rendering: İşləmək istəməyən yeməsin
Transliteration: eesh-lah-MAKH ees-tah-mah-YAN yeh-mah-SEEN
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Original: εἴ τις οὐ θέλει ἐργάζεσθαι μηδὲ ἐσθιέτω
Category: Church
New term. Occurs at 3:10. Conditioned on unwillingness (θέλει), not inability. Pastoral misapplication risk (not a translation-fidelity risk) must be flagged in teaching notes to prevent misuse against the genuinely unable.
Withdraw Social Contact
Approved rendering: Əlaqə saxlamamaq
Transliteration: ah-lah-KAH sakh-lah-mah-MAKH
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Disorderly Conduct
Rejected alternatives: Ünsiyyət (baseline ‘fellowship’ term — deliberately NOT reused)
Original: σημειοῦσθε … μὴ συναναμίγνυσθαι
Category: Church
New term. Occurs at 3:14. A church discipline directive to withdraw ordinary social association; deliberately distinct from the positive baseline koinōnia/fellowship doctrine to prevent doctrinal confusion.
Low Risk Terms
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: Şükran
Transliteration: shook-RAHN
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs at 1:3 (growth of faith and love) and 2:13 (election).
Busybodies
Approved rendering: Boş işlərlə məşğul olanlar
Transliteration: bosh eesh-lair-LAY mash-GOOL oh-lan-LAHR
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Original: περιεργαζομένους
Category: Church
New term. Occurs at 3:11. Meddling in others’ affairs instead of one’s own work.
Hope
Approved rendering: Ümid
Transliteration: oo-MEED
Doctrine: Eternal Comfort and Good Hope
Original: ἐλπίς (ἐλπὶς ἀγαθή)
Category: General
New term. Occurs at 2:16, ‘good hope’ grounded in grace.
Comfort
Approved rendering: Təsəlli
Transliteration: tah-sal-LEE
Doctrine: Eternal Comfort and Good Hope
Original: παράκλησις (παράκλησις αἰωνία)
Category: General
New term. Occurs at 2:16-17, ‘eternal comfort’ given by grace.
Brothers
Approved rendering: Qardaşlar
Transliteration: gar-dash-LAHR
Doctrine: Church Fellowship
Original: ἀδελφοί
Category: Church
New term. Occurs at 2:1, 2:13, 3:6, 3:13. Direct vocative address, unaffected by the baseline’s caution against ‘qardaşlıq’ (brotherhood) as a rendering of koinōnia/fellowship, since that concern applies only to the abstract-noun rendering.
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