Core Glossary
Core Glossary — 1 Peter (English → Bavarian)
This glossary consolidates every load-bearing theological term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md, drawn from the entire book of 1 Peter (chapters 1–5). Terms already established in the baseline Romans translation_memory.json / bible_term_registry.json are marked [TM — reused exactly] and must never be re-rendered differently for this curriculum. Terms new to the 1 Peter curriculum are marked [NEW] and are proposed here for addition to translation memory in Phase 2, pending the review routing indicated.
Risk tiers follow the baseline’s definitions exactly:
- Critical — mandatory human theologian review, every occurrence.
- High — mandatory human theologian review.
- Medium — native speaker review recommended.
- Low — automated review sufficient (native-speaker orthography spot-check still applies to all tiers per baseline policy).
A. Terms Reused Exactly from the Romans Baseline
| English Term | Bavarian Rendering | Risk (baseline) | Doctrine (1 Peter context) | Occurrences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| grace | Gnad | High | Grace threading through submission, elders, humility, closing benediction | 1:2, 1:10, 1:13, 2:19-20, 3:7, 4:10, 5:5, 5:10, 5:12 |
| faith | Glaam | Medium | Faith tested by trials; ground of salvation and endurance | 1:5, 1:7, 1:9, 1:21, 5:9 |
| salvation | Erlesung | High | Eschatological salvation, ready to be revealed | 1:5, 1:9, 1:10 |
| resurrection | Aufersteh’ng | Critical | Bodily resurrection of Christ, ground of living hope | 1:3, 1:21, 3:21 |
| holy | heilig | Medium | Holiness in conduct; corporate holy nation; sanctifying Christ as Lord | 1:15-16, 2:5, 2:9, 3:5, 3:15 |
| sanctification | Heiligung | Medium | The Spirit’s setting-apart work | 1:2 |
| called / calling | beruafa / Beruafung | Medium/High | Called to a living hope, to holy conduct, to bless instead of revile, to suffering that follows Christ’s pattern | 1:15, 2:9, 2:21, 3:9, 5:10 |
| election | Erwählung | High | Elect exiles; chosen and precious stone | 1:1, 2:4, 2:6, 2:9 |
| gospel | Evangelium | Low/Critical (context-dependent) | Gospel preached to believers and (disputedly) to the dead | 1:12, 1:25, 4:6, 4:17 |
| lord | Herr | Critical | The Lord Jesus Christ; sanctifying Christ as Lord in the heart | 1:3, 1:25, 2:3, 2:13, 3:6, 3:15 |
| father | Voda | Medium | God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ | 1:2, 1:3, 1:17 |
| god | Gott | Critical | Throughout | passim |
| holy_spirit | Heiliger Geist | Critical | Sanctification of the Spirit; Spirit of Christ in the prophets | 1:2, 1:11, 1:12 |
| jesus | Jesus | Low | Throughout | passim |
| sin | Sünd | High | Christ committed no sin; ceasing from sin | 2:22, 2:24, 4:1, 4:8 |
| glory | Herrlichkeit | Medium | Future glory; joy filled with glory; crown of glory | 1:7-8, 1:11, 4:13, 5:1, 5:4, 5:10 |
| prophet / prophecy | Prophet / Weissogung | Low | OT prophets foretold Christ’s sufferings and glories | 1:10-12 |
| covenant | Bund | Medium | Background to sprinkling-of-blood, priesthood, chosen-people imagery | 1:2 (implicit), 2:9-10 |
| exhort | ermahna | Low | General letter-purpose framing (5:12, “exhorting”) | 5:12 |
| spiritual_gifts | Gnodngob’n | Medium | Every believer has received a gift to serve others | 4:10 |
| thanksgiving | Dank | Low | Implicit doxological framing | 1:3, 4:11, 5:11 |
| fellowship | Gmoaschaft | Medium | Sharing/participating in Christ’s sufferings | 4:13 |
| power_of_god | Kraft vo Gott | Medium | God’s power guarding believers through faith | 1:5 |
| church | Kirch | High | Corporate identity underlying “holy priesthood” / “spiritual house” imagery — see new-term entries below for the specific ch.2 vocabulary | 2:5, 2:9-10 (conceptual) |
| abba/father filial intimacy pattern | Voda [TM] | Medium | God as Father, source of the new birth | 1:3, 1:17 |
B. New Terms Introduced by the 1 Peter Curriculum
| English Term | Original (Translit.) | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Doctrine | Grounded Reason for Risk Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| living hope | ἐλπὶς ζῶσα (elpis zōsa) | lebendige Hoffnung | High | The Living Hope of the Resurrection | Core named doctrine of this curriculum; “Hoffnung” alone is a register-gap borrowing indistinguishable from everyday low-stakes hoping (“i hoff scho”) unless the “lebendige” modifier — echoing the letter’s living-word/living-stone pattern — is retained every time |
| inheritance | κληρονομία (klēronomia) | Erbschaft | High | Living Hope of the Resurrection (v.4) | Bavarian rural culture’s strong, emotionally loaded tradition of literal farm/land inheritance (Hoferbe) risks a literal-property reading of the imperishable heavenly inheritance |
| imperishable | ἄφθαρτον (aphtharton) | unvergänglich | Medium | Living Hope; Holiness in Conduct (3:4) | Register-gap borrowing, transparent meaning, no native coinage |
| undefiled / unstained | ἀμίαντον (amianton) | unbefleckt | High | Living Hope of the Resurrection | Identical to the Bavarian Catholic Marian devotional term for the Unbefleckte Empfängnis (Immaculate Conception); risks an unintended Marian association |
| unfading | ἀμάραντον (amaranton) | unverwelklich | Medium | Living Hope of the Resurrection | Transparent botanical image, well-suited to agrarian dialect culture |
| guarded / kept | φρουρέω (phroureō) | behüat | Low | Living Hope of the Resurrection | Well-grounded native term (cf. the folk-blessing “Behüt di Gott”) |
| trial / test (suffering sense) | πειρασμός (peirasmos) | Prüfung | High | Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake | Shares its Greek root with “temptation to sin”; must be lexically distinguished (“Prüfung” vs. “Versuchung”) to keep suffering-trials distinct from moral temptation |
| tested genuineness / proof (of faith) | δοκίμιον (dokimion) | s’Ächte an eurem Glaam | High | Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake | No single native lexeme; requires a descriptive phrase distinct from “Glaam” [TM] alone to preserve the “tested/proven” nuance |
| revelation / appearing (of Christ) | ἀποκάλυψις (apokalypsis) | Offenbarung | Medium | Living Hope of the Resurrection | Register-gap borrowing, transparent |
| outcome / goal (of faith) | τέλος (telos) | Ziel | Medium | Living Hope of the Resurrection | Risk that “Ziel” is heard as achieved by striving rather than received as a result of faith |
| soul(s) | ψυχή (psychē) | Seel | High | Living Hope of the Resurrection; church-wide | Bavarian Catholic folk piety’s developed devotional tradition around “die armen Seelen” (poor souls in purgatory, All Souls’ Day) risks a purgatorial/afterlife-only reading rather than 1 Peter’s holistic “whole self” sense |
| sojourners / exiles / pilgrims | παρεπίδημοι, πάροικοι (parepidēmoi, paroikoi) | Fremdling und Pilger | High | Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance (identity backdrop) | “Pilger” carries strong, positive Bavarian devotional resonance (Wallfahrt, Altötting) that risks softening “alien/outsider in a hostile culture” into “pious walking pilgrim” |
| foreknowledge (of God) | πρόγνωσις (prognōsis) | Vorherwissen | Medium | Providence/election background | Register-gap noun distinct from, but related to, “Vorsehung” [TM] |
| sprinkling of blood | ῥαντισμὸς αἵματος (rhantismos haimatos) | Besprengung mit’m Bluat | Medium-High | New Covenant ratification | Requires OT sacrificial background (Exodus 24) that low-catechesis audiences may lack without teaching support |
| conduct / way of life | ἀναστροφή (anastrophē) | Lebenswandel | Medium | Holiness in Conduct | Register-gap compound with no native coinage; must be rendered identically at every occurrence (six times across the letter) |
| ransomed / redeemed (ransom-price sense) | λυτρόω / ἐλυτρώθητε (lytroō / elytrōthēte) | ausglöst / erlöst | Medium-High | Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering | Genuine everyday Bavarian usage (“auslösn” = redeem a pawned item) gives unusually good resonance, but risks flattening the costliness of the ransom unless “not with silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ” is rendered with full force |
| lamb without blemish or spot | ἀμνὸς ἄμωμος καὶ ἄσπιλος (amnos amōmos kai aspilos) | Lamm Gottes ohne Fehl und Tadel | Low | Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering | Unusually well-grounded via the Agnus Dei sung at every Mass |
| living word of God | λόγος ζῶν θεοῦ (logos zōn theou) | s’lebendige Wort vo Gott | High | Living Hope pattern; Inspiration of Scripture | Must echo “lebendige Hoffnung” and “lebendiger Stoa” as part of the letter’s deliberate “living ___” triad |
| brotherly love | φιλαδελφία (philadelphia) | brüaderliche Liab | Low | Holiness in Conduct | Warm, native compound, consistent with existing Romans-curriculum AI-instruction usage |
| pure spiritual milk of the word | λογικὸν ἄδολον γάλα (logikon adolon gala) | reine Milli vom Wort | Medium | Holiness in Conduct | Naturally at home in Bavarian dairy-farming culture; must stay tied to Scripture, not literal infant nutrition |
| living stone | λίθος ζῶν (lithos zōn) | lebendiger Stoa | High | The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood | Part of the “living ___” triad; risks reinforcing (rather than correcting) the baseline’s documented “Kirch = literal building” default, since 2:4-8 is sustained architecture imagery |
| holy priesthood | ἱεράτευμα ἅγιον (hierateuma hagion) | heiligs Priestertum | Critical | The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood | Direct collision with the concrete, currently-functioning Catholic ordained priesthood; risks excluding the “every believer” sense entirely |
| royal priesthood | βασίλειον ἱεράτευμα (basileion hierateuma) | königlichs Priestertum | Critical | The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood | Same collision as above, compounded by royal/political overtone |
| spiritual sacrifices | θυσίαι πνευματικαί (thysiai pneumatikai) | geistliche Opfer | High | The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood | Must be distinguished from the Eucharistic sacrifice of the Mass without minimizing either concept |
| chosen race / holy nation / people for God’s possession | γένος ἐκλεκτόν, ἔθνος ἅγιον, λαὸς εἰς περιποίησιν | auserwähltes Gschlecht, heilige Nation, Gottes Eigentumsvolk | Critical | The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood | ”Nation/Volk” carries ethnic-nationalist risk in modern German-language discourse, acute given 20th-century history; must be read as a faith-people, not an ethnic-national entity |
| submit / submission | ὑποτάσσω (hypotassō) | si unterordna | High | Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance | Register-gap borrowing; sensitive given German/Bavarian 20th-century history with abused civil submission; must always retain “for the Lord’s sake” qualifiers |
| king | βασιλεύς (basileus) | Kini | Medium | Submission to Authority | Genuine Bavarian dialect word (cf. “der Kini,” King Ludwig II), but risks importing Bavarian-monarchist nostalgia foreign to the Roman-imperial referent |
| household servants | οἰκέται (oiketai) | Knecht | Medium | Submission to Authority | Concretely grounded in historic Bavarian farmhand social structure; needs a historical-context note |
| suffering unjustly / for righteousness’ sake | πάσχειν ἀδίκως / διὰ δικαιοσύνην | leidn wegn da Gerechtigkeit / ohne dass ma’s verdiant hätt | Critical | Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake | Uses the ethical sense of δικαιοσύνη/Gerechtigkeit, not Romans’ forensic sense — both share the one Bavarian word “Gerechtigkeit” [TM], so translators must track which sense is active per occurrence to avoid conflating suffering-reward ethics with forensic justification |
| Christ suffered for you, leaving an example | Χριστὸς ἔπαθεν ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν, ὑπογραμμόν | da Christus hat für enk glittn und uns a Vorbild higlassn | Critical | Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering | Must hold both substitution (“for you”) and exemplary (“example”) senses together without collapsing into either alone |
| bore our sins on the tree | ἀνήνεγκεν ἐπὶ τὸ ξύλον (anēnegken epi to xylon) | hat unsere Sünd ans Kreuz higtragn | High | Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering | ”ξύλον” (tree/wood) must be rendered unambiguously as the cross |
| healed by his wounds | μώλωψ / ἰάθητε (mōlōps / iathēte) | durch sei Wundn seids heil worn | Medium | Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering | Ordinary, safe verbal use of the “heil-” root (to be healed), distinct from the forbidden noun “Heil” (salvation) flagged in the baseline; note the shared root for translator awareness, but do not avoid this legitimate idiom |
| shepherd and overseer (of Christ, 2:25) / exercising oversight (of elders, 5:2) / chief shepherd (5:4) | ποιμήν καὶ ἐπίσκοπος / ἐπισκοπέω / ἀρχιποίμην | Hirt und Hüata / aufpassn und hüatn / da oberste Hirt | High | Elders and Humility; Christ’s headship | ἐπίσκοπος is the direct root of standard German Bischof; any bishop-cognate rendering for Christ or for lay elders risks conflating these roles with the concrete diocesan-bishop office; avoid “Bischof”/“Oberhirte” vocabulary throughout |
| gentle and quiet spirit | πραΰς καὶ ἡσύχιος (praus kai hēsychios) | sanftmüatigs und stills Gmüat | Medium-High | Holiness in Conduct | Must not be preached as passivity; is inner settled strength, not a doormat character |
| weaker vessel | ἀσθενέστερον σκεῦος (asthenesteron skeuos) | s’schwächere Gfäß | Medium-High | Holiness in Conduct | Risk of chauvinistic misreading unless always taught with the immediately following “fellow heirs of grace” |
| fellow heirs of the grace of life | συγκληρονόμοι χάριτος ζωῆς | Miterbn vo da Gnad vom Lebn | Medium | Holiness in Conduct | Combines Gnad [TM] with the flagged “Erbschaft” (inheritance) vocabulary |
| sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts | ἁγιάσατε τὸν Χριστὸν κύριον ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις | heilig [TM] + Herr [TM] combined | High | Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake | Fresh combination of two independently Critical/High baseline terms; full force of both must be retained |
| put to death in the flesh, made alive in the spirit | θανατωθεὶς σαρκί, ζωοποιηθεὶς πνεύματι | im Fleisch tot, im Geist lebendig gmacht | Critical | Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits | Genuine risk of a docetic/over-spiritualized misreading contradicting the baseline’s Critical bodily-resurrection safeguard |
| spirits in prison | τὰ ἐν φυλακῇ πνεύματα (ta en phylakē pneumata) | de Geister im Gfängnis | High | Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits | Strong existing liturgical anchor (Creed’s descensus clause, “Christi Höllenfahrt”) but risk of folk-tradition overreach (medieval Limbo/Harrowing-of-Hell legend supplying more content than the verse itself) |
| proclaimed (to the spirits) | ἐκήρυξεν (ekēryxen) | hat’s kündt | Medium-High | Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits | Deliberately neutral, distinct from both “predigt” (sermonized) and “Evangelium verkündt” (evangelized), to avoid prejudging the exegetical debate |
| baptism as antitype / saving significance of baptism | ἀντίτυπον… βάπτισμα (antitypon… baptisma) | d’Taufe als s’Gegenbild | High | Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits | Risks a straightforward sacramental-efficacy reading detached from the immediately clarifying next clause |
| not removal of dirt but appeal for a good conscience | οὐ σαρκὸς ἀπόθεσις ῥύπου ἀλλὰ συνειδήσεως ἀγαθῆς ἐπερώτημα | nicht s’Wegwaschn vom Dreck, sondern a Bittn zu Gott um a guads Gwissn | High | Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits | Doctrinally load-bearing qualifying clause; must never be trimmed or paraphrased away |
| Gentile vice list (sensuality, drunkenness, carousing, idolatry) | ἀσελγείαι, οἰνοφλυγίαι, κῶμοι, πότοι, εἰδωλολατρίαι | Wollust, Sauferei, Fressgelag, Idolatrie | High | Holiness in Conduct | Bavaria’s communal drinking/festival culture (Wirtshaus, Kirwa) risks softening this into normal festivity rather than the decisively renounced pagan pattern described |
| fiery trial / fiery ordeal | πύρωσις (pyrōsis) | d’Feiaprüfung | High | Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake | Core doctrine term; must not be minimized as ordinary difficulty nor read as a sign of divine displeasure |
| suffer as a Christian | πάσχειν ὡς Χριστιανός (paschein hōs Christianos) | leidn als Christ | Medium-High | Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake | Must retain the specific “bearing this name” nuance, not flatten into generic religious persecution |
| stewards of God’s varied grace | οἰκονόμοι ποικίλης χάριτος θεοῦ | Verwalter vo Gottes mannigfaltiger Gnad | Medium | Elders and Humility (gift-stewardship) | Register-gap term with light grounding in historic Bavarian estate-management roles |
| elders / fellow elder | πρεσβύτεροι / συμπρεσβύτερος | d’Gmoa-Ältesten | High | Elders and Humility | No lay-elder office analogous to this exists in Catholic parish structure; risks being heard as mere age-description rather than recognized office |
| chief shepherd | ἀρχιποίμην (archipoimēn) | da oberste Hirt | High | Elders and Humility; Christ’s headship | Standard rendering “Oberhirte” is a live honorific title for a Catholic bishop; avoid this specific compound for Christ |
| clothe yourselves with humility | ταπεινοφροσύνην ἐγκομβώσασθε | zieht enk d’Demuat an wia a Schürzn | Medium | Elders and Humility | Names the doctrine directly; the rare Greek apron-tying verb finds an unusually vivid, faithful native equivalent in Bavarian’s own concrete word for an apron |
| adversary the devil / roaring lion | ἀντίδικος διάβολος / λέων ὠρυόμενος | da Teufel, wia a brüllnda Leu | Medium | Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance (spiritual warfare) | Stable, compatible vocabulary; light flag only for potential folkloric/festival color-bleed from nearby Alpine masked-devil traditions |
| kiss of love | φίλημα ἀγάπης (philēma agapēs) | hoiliga Bussl vo da Liab | Medium | Christian Fellowship (closing greeting) | “Bussl” is warm and native but ordinarily secular-affectionate; qualify consistently with “hoiliga” and teach the ancient custom explicitly |
C. Doctrine-to-Term Cross-Reference (for Phase 2 routing)
| Curriculum Doctrine | Primary Terms (this glossary) | Overall Risk |
|---|---|---|
| The Living Hope of the Resurrection | living hope, inheritance, imperishable, undefiled, unfading, guarded, soul(s), resurrection [TM], salvation [TM] | Critical/High cluster |
| Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake | trial, tested genuineness, suffering unjustly/for righteousness, fiery trial, suffer as a Christian | Critical/High cluster |
| The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood | living stone, holy priesthood, royal priesthood, spiritual sacrifices, chosen race/holy nation/God’s own people, church [TM] | Critical cluster |
| Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance | submit, king, household servants, sojourners/exiles/pilgrims, adversary the devil | High cluster |
| Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering | Christ suffered for you leaving an example, bore our sins on the tree, healed by his wounds, lamb without blemish | Critical/High cluster |
| Holiness in Conduct | conduct/way of life, brotherly love, pure spiritual milk, gentle and quiet spirit, weaker vessel, Gentile vice list | High cluster |
| Elders and Humility | elders, exercising oversight, chief shepherd, clothe yourselves with humility, stewards of God’s varied grace | Critical/High cluster |
| Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits (1 Peter 3:18-22) | put to death in flesh/made alive in spirit, spirits in prison, proclaimed, baptism as antitype, not removal of dirt but appeal for a good conscience | Critical/High cluster |
All eight curriculum doctrines contain at least one Critical- or High-risk term requiring mandatory human theologian review, consistent with the baseline’s escalation framework. No chapter of 1 Peter was found to introduce zero new theological vocabulary; every chapter (1–5) required full glossary treatment.
Critical Risk Terms
Righteousness
Approved rendering: Gerechtigkeit
Transliteration: Gerechtigkeit
Doctrine: Salvation
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. CRITICAL EXTENSION for 1 Peter: this same borrowed word must also carry the letter’s dominant ethical sense of righteous conduct (2:24 ‘live to righteousness’; 3:14 ‘suffer for righteousness’ sake’) alongside Romans’ forensic sense. No separate native term exists for the two senses. Translators and reviewers must track which sense is active per occurrence; conflating them either turns forensic justification into a suffering-reward system or flattens 1 Peter’s ethical exhortation into abstract Reformation doctrine.
Christ
Approved rendering: Christus
Transliteration: Christus
Doctrine: Christology
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
NEW to this curriculum’s translation memory (baseline Romans TM records only ‘jesus’; ‘Christ’ recurs as an independent title far more frequently across 1 Peter’s suffering-then-glory argument). Follows the established Bavarian Catholic devotional form identical to standard German, per baseline transliteration standards. Must never be interpreted as a title interchangeable with a generic religious teacher or one avatar among several.
Holy Priesthood
Approved rendering: heiligs Priestertum
Transliteration: hoaligs Priestertum
Doctrine: The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood
Original: ἱεράτευμα ἅγιον
Category: Church
2:5. CRITICAL: direct, load-bearing collision with the concrete, currently-functioning Catholic ordained priesthood (der Priester), one of the most visible and socially central offices in Bavarian parish life. Never leave unglossed — require explicit ‘alle Gläubign’ (all believers) clarification at every occurrence, structurally parallel to the baseline’s ‘Heiling’ (saints) landmine but sharper, since the competing referent is a living clerical office.
Royal Priesthood
Approved rendering: königlichs Priestertum
Transliteration: kinigliches Priestertum
Doctrine: The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood
Original: βασίλειον ἱεράτευμα
Category: Church
2:9. Same collision as ‘holy_priesthood,’ compounded by the royal/political overtone of ‘königlichs,’ which must not be heard as implying earthly political authority for the church.
Chosen Race Holy Nation
Approved rendering: auserwähltes Gschlecht, heilige Nation, Gottes Eigentumsvolk
Transliteration: ausawöhltes Gschlecht, hoalige Nation, Gottes Eigntumsvolk
Doctrine: The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood
Rejected alternatives: Volk alone (compressed, triggers ethnic-nationalist collision more sharply), Nation alone (same risk)
Original: γένος ἐκλεκτόν, ἔθνος ἅγιον, λαὸς εἰς περιποίησιν
Category: Church
2:9. ‘Nation/Volk’ carries ethnic-nationalist connotations in modern German-language political discourse, with particular acuteness in Bavaria/Germany given 20th-century history; the church here is a chosen people defined by faith in Christ across all ethnicities, explicitly not an ethnic-national entity. Always retain the full three-part phrase; never compress to a single term.
Suffering For Righteousness
Approved rendering: leidn wegn da Gerechtigkeit
Transliteration: leidn wegn der Grechtigkeit
Doctrine: Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake
Original: πάσχειν ἀδίκως / διὰ δικαιοσύνην
Category: Suffering
2:19-20, 3:14, 3:17. Uses the ETHICAL sense of Gerechtigkeit, sharing the one Bavarian word with the baseline’s forensic Romans sense; translators and reviewers must track which sense is active per occurrence to avoid conflating suffering-reward ethics with forensic justification.
Christ Suffered Left Example
Approved rendering: da Christus hat für enk glittn und uns a Vorbild higlassn
Transliteration: da Christus hod fia enk glidn und uns a Vurbuild higlassn
Doctrine: Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering
Rejected alternatives: a purely exemplary paraphrase (denies substitution), a purely substitutionary paraphrase (denies the call to imitation)
Original: Χριστὸς ἔπαθεν ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν, ὑπολιμπάνων ὑπογραμμόν
Category: Christology
2:21. The letter’s key atonement statement, holding substitutionary (‘for you’) and exemplary (‘leaving an example’) senses together, on par with the baseline’s mandatory-review Romans 3:25 propitiation language. Never sever the two clauses.
Put To Death Flesh Alive Spirit
Approved rendering: im Fleisch tot, im Geist lebendig gmacht
Transliteration: im Fleisch tod, im Geist lebendig gmacht
Doctrine: Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits
Rejected alternatives: any rendering implying Christ’s resurrection was merely spiritual/non-bodily (rejected: contradicts the Critical bodily-resurrection safeguard for ‘Aufersteh’ng’)
Original: θανατωθεὶς σαρκί, ζωοποιηθεὶς πνεύματι
Category: Christology
3:18. Genuine risk of a docetic/over-spiritualized misreading that would directly contradict the baseline’s Critical bodily-resurrection safeguard; requires mandatory theologian review with an explicit doctrinal framing note attached wherever this verse is translated.
High Risk Terms
Grace
Approved rendering: Gnad
Transliteration: Gnod
Doctrine: Grace
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Recurs as 1 Peter’s connective tissue (1:2, 1:10, 1:13, 3:7, 4:10, 5:5, 5:10, 5:12). 5:5’s ‘God gives grace to the humble’ introduces a fresh risk: humility must never be taught as the meritorious act that earns this grace.
Salvation
Approved rendering: Erlösung
Transliteration: Erlesung
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: Heil (Nazi-era contamination risk, acute in Bavaria specifically)
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. 1:5, 1:9, 1:10 frame this as future/eschatological (‘ready to be revealed’); do not let ‘Erlesung’ read as a completed past event only. Baseline ‘Heil’-avoidance rule applies without exception.
Election
Approved rendering: Erwählung
Transliteration: Erwöahlung
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Original: ἐκλεκτός / ἐκλογή
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Opens the letter (1:1, ‘elect exiles’) and reapplies to Christ (‘chosen and precious,’ 2:4, 2:6) before the corporate ‘chosen race’ of 2:9. Risk remains register-gap emptiness, not a rival doctrinal answer.
Lord
Approved rendering: Herr
Transliteration: Herr
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. 3:15’s ‘sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts’ is a distinctive 1 Peter construction requiring full weight, given the passage’s persecution setting.
Sin
Approved rendering: Sünd
Transliteration: Sind
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. 2:22/2:24 apply this to Christ’s sinlessness and substitutionary sin-bearing; 4:1/4:8 apply it to the believer’s break with sin. Baseline’s colloquial-trivialization caution (‘a Sünd is des scho’) applies with full force.
Church
Approved rendering: Kirch
Transliteration: Kircha
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: Gmoa (secular-administrative default, rejected)
Original: ἐκκλησία (conceptual; not the letter’s own vocabulary — see ‘holy_priesthood’, ‘spiritual_house’, ‘chosen_race_holy_nation’)
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. 1 Peter never uses ‘ekklesia’ directly, instead building ecclesiology through ‘living stone’/‘spiritual house’ and ‘royal priesthood’/‘holy nation’ imagery — see the dedicated new-term entries, which carry this curriculum’s most acute collision risk with concrete Bavarian Catholic parish and clerical structure.
Obedience Of Faith
Approved rendering: Gehorsam vom Glaam
Transliteration: Gehorsam vom Gloam
Doctrine: Obedience of Faith
Original: ὑπακοή / ὑπακοῆς τῆς ἀληθείας (1:2, 1:14, 1:22)
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. 1 Peter’s ‘obedient children’ (1:14) and ‘obedience to the truth’ (1:22, paired with purified souls) apply this distinctly from Romans; must be guarded against reintroducing a merit framework, especially since ‘purified souls through obedience’ could be misheard as self-purification.
Living Hope
Approved rendering: lebendige Hoffnung
Transliteration: lebendige Hoffnung
Doctrine: The Living Hope of the Resurrection
Rejected alternatives: Hoffnung (bare, register-collapses into everyday low-stakes hoping, e.g. colloquial ‘i hoff scho’)
Original: ἐλπὶς ζῶσα
Category: Salvation
Core named doctrine of this curriculum (1 Peter 1:3). Must be rendered identically to the letter’s parallel ‘living word’ (1:23) and ‘living stone’ (2:4) so the deliberate ‘living ___’ verbal pattern remains visible to the Bavarian reader. Never drop the ‘lebendige’ modifier.
Inheritance
Approved rendering: Erbschaft
Transliteration: Erbschoft
Doctrine: The Living Hope of the Resurrection
Original: κληρονομία
Category: Salvation
1:4. Bavarian rural culture’s concrete, emotionally loaded single-heir farm/land inheritance tradition (Hoferbe) risks a literal-property reading of the imperishable, heavenly, non-competable inheritance Peter describes. Always pair with an explicit heavenly/imperishable qualifier. Recurs combined with ‘Gnad’ in 3:7’s ‘fellow heirs of the grace of life’ (see ‘fellow_heirs_grace_of_life’).
Undefiled
Approved rendering: unbefleckt
Transliteration: unbeflecht
Doctrine: The Living Hope of the Resurrection
Original: ἀμίαντον
Category: Salvation
1:4. Identical in form to the fixed Bavarian Catholic Marian devotional term for the Unbefleckte Empfängnis (Immaculate Conception); using it here for the believer’s future inheritance risks an unintended Marian association. No safer native alternative exists; context (pairing with ‘Erbschaft im Himmi’) must carry the disambiguation. Never place near Marian-teaching content in the same lesson.
Soul
Approved rendering: Seel
Transliteration: Seele
Doctrine: The Living Hope of the Resurrection
Original: ψυχή
Category: Salvation
1:9, 1:22, 2:11, 2:25, 3:20, 4:19. Bavarian Catholic folk piety’s developed devotional tradition around ‘die armen Seelen’ (poor souls in purgatory, All Souls’ Day, votive candles) risks an afterlife-purgatorial reading rather than 1 Peter’s holistic ‘whole self’ sense, especially in the doctrinally dense 1:9. Reinforce the holistic sense explicitly in teaching notes at every occurrence.
Born Again
Approved rendering: wieda gebor’n
Transliteration: wieda gebor’n
Doctrine: New Birth (Regeneration)
Rejected alternatives: Kindschaft (adoption/legal-relational term from Romans 8 — rejected as a substitute; 1 Peter’s image is birth/new-life, not legal-status adoption)
Original: ἀναγεννάω
Category: Salvation
1:3, 1:23. Must be kept lexically distinct from ‘Kindschaft’ [TM baseline, adoption]: 1 Peter’s image is birth (new life/nature), Romans 8’s is adoption (new legal status); both true, but must not collapse into one term. 1:23 additionally requires the ‘living and abiding word’ modifier to echo 1:3’s ‘living hope’.
Sojourners Exiles
Approved rendering: Fremdling und Pilger
Transliteration: Fremdling und Pilga
Doctrine: Identity as Exiles and Sojourners
Rejected alternatives: Pilger alone (softens hostile-culture outsider status into pious walking pilgrimage)
Original: παρεπίδημοι / πάροικοι
Category: Church
1:1, 1:17, 2:11. ‘Pilger’ carries strong positive Bavarian Wallfahrt/Altötting devotional resonance, risking a warm-but-wrong softening of ‘alien/outsider in a hostile culture’ into ‘one who goes on pious walking pilgrimages.’ Never use ‘Pilger’ alone; always pair with ‘Fremdling’ and explicit contextual glossing.
Living Stone
Approved rendering: lebendiger Stoa
Transliteration: lebendiga Stoa
Doctrine: The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood
Original: λίθος ζῶν
Category: Church
2:4. Completes the letter’s ‘living ___’ triad (hope 1:3 / word 1:23 / stone 2:4). Risks reinforcing rather than correcting the baseline’s documented ‘Kirch = literal building’ default, since 2:4-8 is sustained architecture imagery; keep ‘lebendiger’ obligatory to foreground the personal, living sense over the masonry sense.
Spiritual Sacrifices
Approved rendering: geistliche Opfer
Transliteration: geistlicha Opfa
Doctrine: The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood
Original: θυσίαι πνευματικαί
Category: Church
2:5. Must be carefully distinguished from the Eucharistic sacrifice of the Mass (das Opfer der Messe), an extremely central and concrete concept in Bavarian Catholic devotional life, without denying or minimizing the Mass in the process; requires theologian-level handling.
Submit Submission
Approved rendering: si unterordna
Transliteration: se untaordna
Doctrine: Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance
Original: ὑποτάσσω
Category: Authority
2:13, 2:18, 3:1, 3:5, 5:5 — a single recurring register-gap term that must be rendered identically throughout. Sensitive given Germany’s/Bavaria’s own 20th-century history with abused demanded submission to civil authority; the ‘for the Lord’s sake’ qualification (2:13) and Christ’s own suffering-submission pattern (2:21-23) must never be dropped.
Bore Our Sins On Tree
Approved rendering: hat unsere Sünd in seim Leib ans Kreuz higtragn
Transliteration: hod unsare Sind in seim Leib ans Kreuz higtrong
Doctrine: Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering
Rejected alternatives: literal generic ‘Holz’/wood (obscures the crucifixion referent of xylon)
Original: τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἡμῶν αὐτὸς ἀνήνεγκεν ἐν τῷ σώματι αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὸ ξύλον
Category: Christology
2:24. Greek xylon (‘tree/wood’) must be rendered unambiguously as the cross (‘Kreuz’), consistent with standard NT translation convention.
Ransomed Redeemed
Approved rendering: ausglöst / erlöst
Transliteration: ausglest / erlest
Doctrine: Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering
Original: λυτρόω / ἐλυτρώθητε
Category: Salvation
1:18. ‘Auslösn’ is genuine, everyday Bavarian vocabulary for redeeming a pawned/pledged item, giving unusually good natural resonance — but the concreteness could flatten the cost into an ordinary financial transaction unless ‘not with silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ’ is rendered with full force.
Shepherd And Overseer
Approved rendering: Hirt und Hüata vo eure Seeln
Transliteration: Hirt und Hiata vo eure Seeln
Doctrine: Elders and Humility
Rejected alternatives: Bischof-cognate vocabulary (rejected: risks implying Christ merely holds an office equivalent to the human diocesan bishop, or elevating that human office by association)
Original: ποιμήν καὶ ἐπίσκοπος τῶν ψυχῶν
Category: Christology
2:25. Episkopos (‘overseer’) is the direct etymological root of standard German Bischof; the plain, non-clerical ‘Hüata’ (cf. ‘Behüat’ 1:5) is preferred throughout the letter over any Bischof-adjacent term.
Exercising Oversight
Approved rendering: aufpassn und hüatn
Transliteration: aufbassn und hiatn
Doctrine: Elders and Humility
Rejected alternatives: Bischof-cognate vocabulary (rejected, same rule as ‘shepherd_and_overseer’)
Original: ἐπισκοποῦντες
Category: Church
5:2. Same episkopos-root avoidance rule as 2:25 applies: must not use bishop-cognate vocabulary for this lay-elder function, to avoid implying local elders hold the much more institutionally specific office of a diocesan bishop.
Chief Shepherd
Approved rendering: da oberste Hirt
Transliteration: der obaste Hirt
Doctrine: Elders and Humility
Rejected alternatives: Oberhirte (rejected: a live, current honorific title specifically for a Catholic bishop, e.g. ‘der Oberhirte der Diözese’)
Original: ἀρχιποίμην
Category: Christology
5:4. Using ‘Oberhirte’ for Christ risks implying Christ shares a title-category with the human bishop, or unintentionally elevating that human office. The non-titular descriptive superlative ‘da oberste Hirt’ avoids the collision without losing the sense of Christ’s supremacy over all human shepherds.
Weaker Vessel
Approved rendering: s’schwächere Gfäß
Transliteration: s’schwacha Gfaß
Doctrine: Household Order in Marriage
Original: ἀσθενέστερον σκεῦος
Category: Sanctification
3:7. Real risk of a chauvinistic misreading if separated from the immediately following ‘fellow heirs of the grace of life’ (see ‘fellow_heirs_grace_of_life’); must always be taught together with that phrase.
Sanctify Christ As Lord
Approved rendering: heiligts an Christus als Herrn in eure Herzn
Transliteration: hoaligts an Christus als Herrn in eure Herzn
Doctrine: Holiness in Conduct
Original: ἁγιάσατε τὸν Χριστὸν κύριον ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ὑμῶν
Category: Christology
3:15. Fresh combination of two independently Critical/High baseline terms (‘heilig’ and ‘Herr’) with Christ as the object of the sanctifying verb; full force of both must be retained, especially given the persecution-questioning context.
Spirits In Prison
Approved rendering: de Geister im Gfängnis
Transliteration: de Geista im Gfängnis
Doctrine: Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits
Original: τὰ ἐν φυλακῇ πνεύματα
Category: Eschatology
3:19. The Apostles’ Creed’s descensus clause (‘Christi Höllenfahrt’) recited at every Bavarian Mass gives this concept a strong liturgical anchor, but folk tradition (medieval Harrowing-of-Hell, ‘Limbo of the Fathers’) often supplies far more elaborate content than this single verse specifies; teaching materials must limit content to what 3:19 itself states.
Proclaimed To Spirits
Approved rendering: hat’s kündt
Transliteration: hods kündt
Doctrine: Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits
Rejected alternatives: gpredigt (implies ordinary sermonizing, rejected), Evangelium verkündt (implies gospel-evangelism, rejected — would prejudge the exegetical debate)
Original: ἐκήρυξεν
Category: Eschatology
3:19. Deliberately neutral verb, distinct from both sermon-vocabulary and gospel-evangelism vocabulary, so as not to prejudge the scholarly-disputed content/purpose of this proclamation.
Baptism As Antitype
Approved rendering: d’Taufe, als s’Gegenbild dazua, rett enk jetzt aa
Transliteration: d’Taufn, als’s Gegenbuild dazua, redd enk jetzt aa
Doctrine: Baptism’s Typological Meaning
Original: ὃ καὶ ὑμᶰς ἀντίτυπον νῦν σῴζει βάπτισμα
Category: Church
3:21. Given the sacramental centrality of infant baptism in Bavarian Catholic life, this clause risks a straightforward ex opere operato sacramental-efficacy reading detached from its immediately clarifying next clause (see ‘not_removal_of_dirt_but_appeal’); the two clauses must always travel together in translation and teaching.
Not Removal Of Dirt But Appeal
Approved rendering: nicht s’Wegwaschn vom Dreck am Körper, sondern a Bittn zu Gott um a guads Gwissn
Transliteration: nix s’Wegwaschn vom Dreck am Kerper, sondern a Bittn zu Gott um a guads Gwissn
Doctrine: Baptism’s Typological Meaning
Original: οὐ σαρκὸς ἀπόθεσις ῥύπου ἀλλὰ συνειδήσεως ἀγαθῆς ἐπερώτημα εἰς θεόν
Category: Church
3:21. The crucial clarifying qualification: baptism’s saving significance is not the physical washing itself, but what it pledges before God. Doctrinally load-bearing precisely because it prevents the previous clause’s over-sacramental misreading; must never be trimmed or paraphrased away.
Gentile Vice List
Approved rendering: Wollust, Gelüst, Sauferei, Fressgelag, Suffgelag, und gsetzlose Idolatrie
Transliteration: Wollust, Glüst, Sauferei, Freßgelog, Suffgelog, und gsetzlose Idolatrie
Doctrine: Holiness in Conduct
Original: ἀσελγείαις, ἐπιθυμίαις, οἰνοφλυγίαις, κώμοις, πότοις, καὶ ἀθεμίτοις εἰδωλολατρίαις
Category: Sanctification
4:3. Bavaria’s deeply embedded communal drinking/festival culture (village Wirtshaus life, the Kirchweih/Kirwa festival itself) creates genuine risk of softening this vice list into merely festive, socially normal behavior rather than the decisively renounced pagan-idolatrous pattern Peter describes; teach explicitly as the renounced pattern, never as ordinary festivity.
Fiery Trial
Approved rendering: d’Feiaprüfung
Transliteration: d’Feiaprüfung
Doctrine: Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake
Original: πύρωσις
Category: Suffering
4:12. Core suffering-doctrine term; must not be minimized as ordinary difficulty nor treated as a sign of divine displeasure (v.12 ‘do not be surprised,’ v.13 ‘rejoice’) — a genuinely counter-intuitive teaching requiring careful pastoral framing.
Elders
Approved rendering: d’Gmoa-Ältesten
Transliteration: d’Gmoa-Öitestn
Doctrine: Elders and Humility
Rejected alternatives: Ältesten alone (rejected: risks being heard merely as ‘the old/senior people,’ an age description, rather than a recognized leadership office)
Original: πρεσβύτεροι / συμπρεσβύτερος
Category: Church
5:1. Bavarian Catholic parish structure has no lay-elder office analogous to this NT role (parish governance runs through the ordained Pfarrer and diocesan hierarchy); the qualifying ‘Gmoa-’ (community) prefix is required to signal a recognized office, not merely age.
Trial
Approved rendering: Prüfung
Transliteration: Priafung
Doctrine: Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake
Rejected alternatives: Versuchung (rejected: the moral-temptation-to-sin sense, sharing the same Greek root peirasmos, must be kept categorically distinct from this passage’s suffering-trials sense)
Original: πειρασμός
Category: Suffering
1:6. Same Greek root covers both ‘trial/test’ and ‘temptation to sin’ (as in the Lord’s Prayer); Bavarian must lexically distinguish this passage’s suffering-trials sense from the moral-temptation sense to avoid confusing categories central to the letter’s whole suffering theme.
Tested Genuineness
Approved rendering: s’Ächte an eurem Glaam
Transliteration: s’Echte an eurem Gloam
Doctrine: Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake
Rejected alternatives: Glaam alone (rejected: loses the ‘proven/tested’ nuance central to the suffering doctrine)
Original: δοκίμιον
Category: Suffering
1:7. No single native lexeme exists; a compound descriptive rendering is required. Translators must resist collapsing this into simply ‘Glaam’ [TM] alone.
Medium Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: Evangelium
Transliteration: Evangelium
Doctrine: Gospel
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. 1 Peter 1:12, 1:25 use this in the stable liturgical sense. 1 Peter 4:6 (‘gospel preached even to the dead’) is a Critical-tier exegetical complication (see ‘proclaimed_to_spirits’ and doctrine ‘Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits’): retain ‘Evangelium’ unchanged there too; do not paraphrase to resolve the ambiguity.
Faith
Approved rendering: Glaam
Transliteration: Gloam
Doctrine: Faith
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. In 1:7 faith is specifically the thing tested and proven genuine by trial (see ‘tested_genuineness’); must not be reduced to generic folk-Catholic religiosity even under persecution-language pressure.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: Aufersteh’ng
Transliteration: Auferstehung
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Original: ἀνάστασις
Category: Eschatology
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Ground of ‘living hope’ (1:3). Must be read consistently with 3:21’s baptism-typology statement and 3:18’s ‘made alive in the spirit’ clause, neither of which may soften the bodily nature of the resurrection (see ‘put_to_death_flesh_alive_spirit’, Critical).
Holy
Approved rendering: heilig
Transliteration: hoalig
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Governs 1 Peter’s central ethical command (1:15-16, citing Leviticus) and combines with ‘Herr’ in 3:15’s ‘sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts’ (see ‘sanctify_christ_as_lord’).
Sanctification
Approved rendering: Heiligung
Transliteration: Heiligung
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἁγιασμός
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Opens the letter (1:2) as the Spirit’s prior, enabling action, not self-directed moral improvement.
Called
Approved rendering: beruafa
Transliteration: beruaft
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλητός / καλέω
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. 1 Peter adds a distinctive sense beyond the baseline’s three: called specifically to suffering that follows Christ’s pattern (2:21) and to bless rather than revile (3:9) — context-check per occurrence.
Calling
Approved rendering: Beruafung
Transliteration: Berufung
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. 2:9’s calling ‘out of darkness into marvelous light’ and 5:10’s calling ‘to his eternal glory in Christ’ both apply.
Father
Approved rendering: Voda
Transliteration: Voter
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. 1:3’s opening doxology and 1:17’s ‘call on him as Father’ both require the possessive tie to Christ (‘Voda vo unserm Herrn Jesus Christus’).
God
Approved rendering: Gott
Transliteration: Herrgott
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Plain ‘Gott’ remains primary; ‘Herrgott’ reserved for warm folk-devotional contexts only, per baseline caution about mild-profanity register bleed.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: Heiliger Geist
Transliteration: Heiliga Geist
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον / πνεῦμα Χριστοῦ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. 1:11’s ‘Spirit of Christ’ (inspiring the OT prophets) must be identified as this same Spirit, not a separate spiritual entity — a subtle Trinitarian precision point unique to 1 Peter’s prophecy passage.
Glory
Approved rendering: Herrlichkeit
Transliteration: Herrlichkeit
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Threads through 1:7-8, 1:11, 4:13, 5:1, 5:4, 5:10 — the suffering-then-glory pattern requires identical rendering at every occurrence so the pattern remains visible.
Covenant
Approved rendering: Bund
Transliteration: Bund
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: διαθήκη (background concept; cf. ῥαντισμὸς αἵματος, 1:2)
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Not named directly in 1 Peter’s text but is necessary background for 1:2’s sprinkling-of-blood image and 2:9-10’s Exodus/Hosea-derived titles; teaching materials must supply this background explicitly.
Spiritual Gifts
Approved rendering: Gnodngob’n
Transliteration: Gnadengaben
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts
Original: χάρισμα
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. 4:10-11 explicitly ties gifts to grace-stewardship (‘good stewards of God’s varied grace’).
Fellowship
Approved rendering: Gmoaschaft
Transliteration: Gemoaschoft
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Original: κοινωνέω (verb form, 4:13)
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. 4:13’s ‘share/participate in Christ’s sufferings’ is a stronger participatory claim than mere social fellowship; must not default to the secular-civic ‘Gmoa’ association the baseline already warns against.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: Kraft vo Gott
Transliteration: Kroft vom Gott
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Original: δύναμις θεοῦ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. 1:5’s guarding ‘by God’s power’ is the same sovereign, saving capability as Romans 1:16, now protective custody of believers awaiting salvation’s full revelation.
Abba
Approved rendering: Abba
Transliteration: Abba
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Retained for cross-curriculum consistency though not itself occurring in 1 Peter’s text; supports the Father-intimacy background of 1:3, 1:17.
Messiah
Approved rendering: Messias
Transliteration: Messias
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: Χριστός (as title, e.g. 1:11 ‘the sufferings of Christ’)
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. 1:10-12 explicitly frames Christ’s sufferings and glories as the fulfillment the OT prophets searched to understand.
Incarnation
Approved rendering: Menschwerdung
Transliteration: Menschwerdung
Doctrine: Incarnation
Original: φανερωθέντος (1:20) / σαρκί (3:18, 4:1)
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. 1:20’s Christ ‘manifested in these last times’ and 3:18/4:1’s repeated ‘in the flesh’ (sarki) both assume the full historical incarnation; must be read alongside, not against, 3:18’s contested ‘made alive in the spirit’ clause.
Gentiles
Approved rendering: Heiden
Transliteration: Hoaden
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. 2:12 and 4:3 use this for the surrounding pagan society and its former lifestyle; note the added collision documented under ‘gentile_vice_list’ below (Bavaria’s own communal festive culture).
Mission
Approved rendering: Mission
Transliteration: Mission
Doctrine: Mission to the Nations
Original: ἐξαγγείλητε (2:9, ‘that you may proclaim’)
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. 2:9’s call for the royal priesthood to ‘proclaim the excellencies’ of God is this letter’s mission mandate, addressed to the whole believing community.
Imperishable
Approved rendering: unvergänglich
Transliteration: unvergänglich
Doctrine: The Living Hope of the Resurrection
Original: ἄφθαρτον
Category: Salvation
1:4 (the inheritance) and 3:4 (the ‘imperishable beauty’ of a gentle and quiet spirit). Register-gap borrowing from standard German; transparent meaning, no native coinage exists.
Unfading
Approved rendering: unverwelklich
Transliteration: unverwelklich
Doctrine: The Living Hope of the Resurrection
Original: ἀμάραντον
Category: Salvation
1:4. Botanical (withering-flower) image, transparent and low-risk in a rural agrarian dialect culture.
Foreknowledge
Approved rendering: Vorherwissen
Transliteration: Vorherwissn
Doctrine: Divine Calling and Election
Original: πρόγνωσις
Category: God
1:2 (of believers), 1:20 (of Christ, ‘foreknown before the foundation of the world’). Register-gap noun; keep distinct from ‘Vorsehung’ [TM baseline, providence = ongoing governance] though the concepts are related.
Sprinkling Of Blood
Approved rendering: Besprengung mit’m Bluat vom Jesus Christus
Transliteration: Bsprengung mitm Bluat vom Jesus Christus
Doctrine: New Covenant Ratification
Original: ῥαντισμὸς αἵματος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ
Category: Covenant
1:2. Applies OT covenant-ratification/cleansing ritual (Exodus 24) to the New Covenant’s ratification by Christ’s blood. Requires explicit OT background teaching for a dialect-speaking audience with strong liturgical but low catechetical literacy.
Conduct Way Of Life
Approved rendering: Lebenswandel
Transliteration: Lebmswandel
Doctrine: Holiness in Conduct
Original: ἀναστροφή
Category: Sanctification
Recurs six times (1:15, 1:18, 2:12, 3:1, 3:2, 3:16) and must be rendered identically at every occurrence. Register-gap compound borrowed from standard German; no native dialect coinage exists.
Pure Spiritual Milk
Approved rendering: reine Milli vom Wort
Transliteration: reine Milli vom Woat
Doctrine: Holiness in Conduct
Original: τὸ λογικὸν ἄδολον γάλα
Category: Sanctification
2:2. Dairy imagery naturally at home in Bavarian farming/dairy culture; must stay clearly tied to Scripture/the word, not misheard as literal infant-nutrition advice.
Spiritual House
Approved rendering: geistlichs Haus
Transliteration: geistlichs Haus
Doctrine: The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood
Original: οἶκος πνευματικός
Category: Church
2:5. Must be read corporately (the whole community), not as an individual’s private devotional life.
King
Approved rendering: Kini
Transliteration: Kiniag
Doctrine: Submission to Civil Government
Original: βασιλεύς
Category: Authority
2:13, 2:17. Genuine Bavarian dialect word for king (cf. ‘der Kini,’ King Ludwig II), giving warm regional color, but risks importing Bavarian-monarchist nostalgia foreign to the Roman-imperial referent; use with a light contextual gloss identifying the emperor.
Household Servants
Approved rendering: Knecht
Transliteration: Knechd
Doctrine: Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance
Original: οἰκέται
Category: Authority
2:18. Concretely grounded in historic Bavarian agrarian farmhand social structure, giving good resonance, but modern hearers may hear this as an outdated farm-labor relationship rather than ancient household-slavery; a brief historical note helps.
Healed By Wounds
Approved rendering: durch sei Wundn seids heil worn
Transliteration: durch sei Wundn seid’s hoal worn
Doctrine: Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering
Original: τῷ μώλωπι αὐτοῦ ἰάθητε
Category: Christology
2:24. The verb ‘heil werden’ (become well/whole/healed) is ordinary, safe, everyday Bavarian idiom, distinct from the forbidden noun ‘Heil’ (salvation) flagged Nazi-era-contaminated in the baseline. Legitimate, common phrase — retain confidently; flag only for translator awareness of the shared root, not for avoidance.
Gentle And Quiet Spirit
Approved rendering: sanftmüatigs und stills Gmüat
Transliteration: sanftmüatigs und stills Gmiat
Doctrine: Household Order in Marriage
Original: τὸ πραὺ καὶ ἡσύχιον πνεῦμα
Category: Sanctification
3:4. Must not be preached as passivity/doormat character but as settled inner strength; connects to ‘imperishable’ vocabulary already flagged in 1:4.
Fellow Heirs Grace Of Life
Approved rendering: Miterbn vo da Gnad vom Lebn
Transliteration: Mitaebm vo der Gnod vom Lebm
Doctrine: Household Order in Marriage
Original: συγκληρονόμοι χάριτος ζωῆς
Category: Salvation
3:7. Combines ‘Gnad’ [TM] with the ‘Erbschaft’ vocabulary already flagged High in chapter 1; equal standing before God for husband and wife, regardless of the ‘weaker vessel’ language just used.
Suffer As A Christian
Approved rendering: leidn als Christ, wegn dem Nam
Transliteration: leidn als Christ, wegn dem Noma
Doctrine: Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake
Original: πάσχει ὡς Χριστιανός
Category: Suffering
4:16. Must retain the specific ‘bearing this name’ nuance (v.16, ‘in this name let him glorify God’), not flatten into generic religious persecution.
Stewards Of Grace
Approved rendering: Verwalter vo Gottes mannigfaltiger Gnad
Transliteration: Verwoita vo Gottes mannigfoitiga Gnod
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and Stewardship
Original: οἰκονόμοι ποικίλης χάριτος θεοῦ
Category: Church
4:10. ‘Verwalter’ has light grounding in historic Bavarian farm-estate administration roles, but is otherwise a register-gap borrowing; reuse ‘Gnad’ [TM] exactly within the compound.
Clothe With Humility
Approved rendering: zieht enk d’Demuat an wia a Schürzn
Transliteration: ziagts enk d’Demuat an wia a Schuazn
Doctrine: Elders and Humility
Rejected alternatives: a bare abstract noun ‘Demuat’ alone (rejected: discards the vivid concrete apron-tying image the rare Greek verb pictures)
Original: τὴν ταπεινοφροσύνην ἐγκομβώσασθε
Category: Church
5:5. Names the Elders and Humility doctrine directly. Bavarian’s own concrete word for an apron (‘Schürzn,’ worn in farmhouse kitchens and by household servants) is an unusually vivid, faithful native equivalent — a genuine translation asset, provided the servant/lowly connotation is preserved, not softened into a decorative accessory.
Adversary The Devil
Approved rendering: da Teufel, wia a brüllnda Leu
Transliteration: der Teifl, wia a brüllnda Leu
Doctrine: Watchfulness Against the Devil
Original: ὁ ἀντίδικος διάβολος… ὡς λέων ὠρυόμενος
Category: Suffering
5:8. ‘Teufel’ is stable, well-established, broadly Catholic-compatible vocabulary; light flag only because Alpine-adjacent folk-festival devil traditions (masked Krampus/Perchten-type customs near the Bavarian-Austrian border) can lend the word a semi-folkloric, entertaining color that must not bleed into this passage’s serious spiritual-warfare register.
Kiss Of Love
Approved rendering: hoiliga Bussl vo da Liab
Transliteration: hoaliga Bussl vo der Liab
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship and Mutual Love
Rejected alternatives: Bussl alone (rejected: ordinary secular-affectionate everyday use risks flattening the solemn liturgical-greeting custom)
Original: φίλημα ἀγάπης
Category: Church
5:14. ‘Bussl’ is a characteristic, warm Bavarian word for an affectionate peck, but qualify consistently with ‘hoiliga’ (holy) and explain the ancient greeting custom in teaching notes.
Revelation Of Christ
Approved rendering: Offenbarung
Transliteration: Offnbarung
Doctrine: The Living Hope of the Resurrection
Original: ἀποκάλυψις Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ
Category: Eschatology
1:7, 1:13. Register-gap borrowing from standard German; must be tied to a specific future decisive moment (Christ’s return), not a vague ‘someday’.
Outcome Of Faith
Approved rendering: Ziel
Transliteration: Ziel
Doctrine: The Living Hope of the Resurrection
Original: τέλος
Category: Salvation
1:9. Risk that ‘Ziel’ (goal) is read as something the believer achieves by striving, rather than a result faith already reaches by God’s action; teaching notes should clarify this explicitly.
Low Risk Terms
Jesus
Approved rendering: Jesus
Transliteration: Jesus
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.
Prophet
Approved rendering: Prophet
Transliteration: Prophet
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Original: προφήτης
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. 1:10-12 describes OT prophets searching out the suffering-then-glory pattern they foretold but did not fully understand.
Prophecy
Approved rendering: Weissogung
Transliteration: Weissagung
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Original: προφητεία
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.
Exhort
Approved rendering: ermahna
Transliteration: ermohna
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. 5:12 frames the whole letter’s purpose as exhorting and testifying to God’s true grace.
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: Dank
Transliteration: Donk
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία / doxological framing
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Underlies the doxological framing of 1:3, 4:11, 5:11.
Apostle
Approved rendering: Apostl
Transliteration: Apoastl
Doctrine: Apostleship
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Opens the letter (1:1, ‘Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ’).
Peace
Approved rendering: Friad
Transliteration: Friade
Doctrine: Peace with God
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Appears in the opening greeting (1:2), the exhortation to ‘seek peace and pursue it’ (3:11, quoting Psalm 34), and the closing benediction (5:14).
Guarded Kept
Approved rendering: behüat
Transliteration: bhiat
Doctrine: The Living Hope of the Resurrection
Original: φρουρέω
Category: Salvation
1:5. Warm, deeply native Bavarian word (cf. the traditional farewell blessing ‘Behüt di Gott’), giving excellent culturally resonant fit without borrowing.
Brotherly Love
Approved rendering: brüaderliche Liab
Transliteration: brüadaliche Liab
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship and Mutual Love
Original: φιλαδελφία
Category: Church
1:22, 3:8. Warm, native compound, consistent with the baseline AI-instruction usage in Romans 12 (‘brüadaliche Liab’).
Lamb Without Blemish
Approved rendering: Lamm Gottes ohne Fehl und Tadel
Transliteration: Lamm Gottes ohne Fehl und Todl
Doctrine: Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering
Original: ἀμνὸς ἄμωμος καὶ ἄσπιλος
Category: Christology
1:19. Unusually well-grounded via the Agnus Dei sung/prayed at every Catholic Mass, giving exceptional liturgical familiarity even to low-catechesis dialect speakers.
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