Core Glossary
Core Glossary — 1 Thessalonians | English → Bavarian
This glossary compiles every load-bearing theological term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md, spanning all five chapters of 1 Thessalonians. Terms already fixed in the baseline Romans translation_memory.json are marked BASELINE and reused exactly, spelling included, per the hard rule that established renderings must not be altered. New terms proposed for this curriculum are marked NEW and must be added to translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json in Phase 1 Step 2 with an incremented version number before Phase 2 translation begins.
Column Key
- Bavarian: primary literary-dialect rendering (semi-phonetic convention per baseline).
- Translit. variant: an attested alternate phonetic spelling, per baseline’s orthographic-variance note.
- Risk: Critical / High / Medium / Low, per
doctrine_risk_registry.jsonrisk definitions. - Doctrine: linked curriculum or baseline doctrine.
- Status: BASELINE (reuse exactly) or NEW (proposed for this curriculum).
| English Term | Greek (translit.) | Bavarian | Translit. variant | Risk | Doctrine | Status | Chapter refs | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gospel | εὐαγγέλιον (euangelion) | Evangelium | Evangelium | Low | Gospel | BASELINE | 1:5; 2:2,4,8,9 | Reused exactly from Romans TM. |
| grace | χάρις (charis) | Gnad | Gnod | High | Grace | BASELINE | 1:1; 5:28 | Reused exactly; devotional-transaction caution applies per baseline. |
| peace | εἰρήνη (eirēnē) | Friad | Friade | Low/Medium | Peace with God | BASELINE | 1:1 | Contrast carefully with the false “peace and security” (5:3), a new phrase, see below. |
| faith | πίστις (pistis) | Glaam | Gloam | Medium | Faith | BASELINE | 1:3,8; 3:2,5-7,10; 5:8 | Verb form “glaam” (believe) also governed by this entry per 4:14. |
| thanksgiving | εὐχαριστία (eucharistia) | Dank | Donk | Low | Thanksgiving | BASELINE | 1:2; 2:13; 5:18 | Reused exactly. |
| election | ἐκλογή (eklogē) | Erwählung | Erwöahlung | High | Effectual Calling | BASELINE | 1:4 | Register-gap term per baseline notes. |
| Holy Spirit | πνεῦμα ἅγιον (pneuma hagion) | Heiliger Geist | Heiliga Geist | Medium/Critical | Sanctification | BASELINE | 1:5-6; 4:8; 5:19 | Reused exactly. |
| glory | δόξα (doxa) | Herrlichkeit | Herrlichkeit | Medium/High | Deity of Christ / eschatological reward | BASELINE | 2:6,12,20 | Reused exactly. |
| kingdom of God | βασιλεία (basileia) | s’Reich vo Gott | des Reich vom Gott | Medium | Kingdom Mission | BASELINE | 2:12 | Reused exactly. |
| calling / called | κλῆσις / καλέω (klēsis / kaleō) | Beruafung / beruafa | Berufung / beruaft | Medium/High | Divine Calling | BASELINE | 2:12; 4:7; 5:24 | Context-sensitive per baseline: here, calling to a holy walk. |
| apostle | ἀπόστολος (apostolos) | Apostl | Apoastl | Low | Apostleship | BASELINE | 2:6 | Reused exactly. |
| sin | ἁμαρτία (hamartia) | Sünd | Sind | High | Universal Human Accountability | BASELINE | 2:16 | Trivialization risk per baseline applies. |
| Gentiles | ἔθνη (ethnē) | Heiden | Hoaden | Medium | Unity of Jews and Gentiles | BASELINE | 4:5 | Reused exactly. |
| sanctification | ἁγιασμός (hagiasmos) | Heiligung | Heiligung | Medium | Sanctification | BASELINE | 4:3,4,7 | Threefold repetition in ch.4 raises pastoral/structural weight; keep terminologically identical to Romans usage. |
| salvation | σωτηρία (sōtēria) | Erlesung | Erlesung | High | Salvation / Day of the Lord | BASELINE | 5:8-9 | Nazi-era “Heil” caution applies exactly as in baseline. |
| prophecy | προφητεία (prophēteia) | Weissogung | Weissagung | Low | Inspiration of Scripture | BASELINE | 5:20 | Reused exactly. |
| exhort/admonish | παρακαλέω / νουθετέω (parakaleō / noutheteō) | ermahna | ermohna | Low/High | Hope in Grief / Mutual Edification | BASELINE (sense-flagged) | 4:18; 5:11,12,14 | See NEW entry “comfort (grief sense)” below for the 4:18 pastoral-comfort nuance, which “ermahna” alone under-serves. |
| love (agape) | ἀγάπη (agapē) | Liab | Liab | Medium | Sanctification / faith-love-hope triad | NEW | 1:3; 3:6,12; 4:9; 5:8,13 | Risk: defaults to romantic/family love in daily speech; context must anchor the theological, others-directed sense. |
| joy | χαρά (chara) | Freid | Freid | Medium | Hope in Grief | NEW | 1:6; 5:16 | Must not collapse into circumstantial happiness; Spirit-given joy amid affliction. |
| hope | ἐλπίς (elpis) | Hoffnung | Hoffnung | High | Hope in Grief | NEW | 1:3; 2:19; 4:13; 5:8 | Central term of the core doctrine; must convey certain, promise-grounded expectation, not mere wishful uncertainty. |
| fallen asleep (death euphemism) | κοιμάομαι (koimaomai) | eingschlafa | eingschlafa | High | Resurrection of Believers / Hope in Grief | NEW | 4:13,14,15 | FORBIDDEN SUBSTITUTION: must never be rendered identically to the moral-wakefulness “sleep” of 5:6-7 (a different Greek word, καθεύδω); the two senses must use visibly distinct Bavarian terms. |
| coming / Parousia | παρουσία (parousia) | Wiederkunft | Wiadakunft | Critical | The Return of Christ | NEW | 2:19; 3:13; 4:15; 5:23 | Structural spine of the whole book (4 occurrences); must be rendered identically every time. No native folk term exists; borrowed compound preferred over invented dialect coinage, per baseline’s register-gap philosophy. |
| caught up / rapture | ἁρπάζω (harpazō), fut. pass. ἁρπαγησόμεθα | entrückt wern (verb) / Entrückung (noun) | entrückt wern / Entrickung | Critical | Resurrection of Believers / The Return of Christ | NEW | 4:17 | FORBIDDEN SUBSTITUTION: must not be softened to ordinary “wegkema” (get taken away), which loses the forceful, divine, joyful sense. Flag for theologian review to avoid importing extra-biblical American-evangelical timeline schemes not native to Bavarian tradition. |
| day of the Lord | ἡμέρα κυρίου (hēmera kyriou) | da Dog vom Herrn | da Doag vom Herrn | Critical | The Day of the Lord | NEW | 5:2 | MAJOR COLLISION RISK: in Catholic liturgical usage, “der Tag des Herrn” is the established term for Sunday. Every occurrence requires explicit disambiguation and mandatory theologian review. |
| wrath (of God) | ὀργή (orgē) | Zorn vo Gott | Zorn vom Gott | High | The Day of the Lord / Universal Human Accountability | NEW | 1:10; 2:16; 5:9 | Must remain God’s righteous judicial response to sin, not impersonal fate nor ordinary human anger (“Zorn” alone is common secular vocabulary). |
| affliction / tribulation | θλῖψις (thlipsis) | Drangsal | Drangsal | Medium | Hope in Grief | NEW | 1:6; 3:3-4,7 | Must retain persecution-level intensity; not to be watered down to ordinary “Sorgn” (worries). |
| holiness (state/quality) | ἁγιωσύνη (hagiosynē) | Heiligkeit | Heiligkeit | Medium/High | Sanctification | NEW | 3:13 | Deliberately distinct from BASELINE “Heiligung” (the ongoing sanctifying process, ἁγιασμός); the two Greek nouns must not be collapsed into one Bavarian word. |
| blameless | ἄμεμπτος (amemptos) | untadelig | untadelig | High | Sanctification / Assurance of Salvation | NEW | 3:13; 5:23 | Risk of feeding Bavarian Catholic scrupulosity/confession-anxiety culture (per baseline’s Assurance of Salvation entry); must be taught as God’s gracious accomplishment (5:24), not self-earned perfection. |
| idols | εἴδωλα (eidōla) | Götzen | Götzen | High | (supports Sanctification / Universal Scope of the Gospel) | NEW | 1:9 | Must be explicitly distinguished from Catholic doctrine of image veneration (Marterl, Herrgottswinkel, processional statues), to avoid the text reading as an implicit critique of ordinary Bavarian devotional practice. |
| sexual immorality | πορνεία (porneia) | Unzucht | Unzucht | Medium | Sanctification | NEW | 4:3 | Preferred over archaic “Hurerei” for register-fit with the letter’s warm pastoral tone. |
| lust / sinful desire | ἐπιθυμία (epithymia) | Begierde | Begierde | High | Sanctification | NEW | 4:5 | FORBIDDEN SUBSTITUTION: do not use “Gluscht” (everyday Bavarian for food-craving), which would trivialize sinful desire exactly as baseline flags for “Sünd.” |
| brotherly love | φιλαδελφία (philadelphia) | Bruaderliab | Bruadaliab | Low/Medium | Christian Fellowship | NEW | 4:9 | Compound of established “Bruada” + “Liab”; low risk, warm register. |
| crown of boasting / reward | στέφανος καυχήσεως (stephanos kauchēseōs) | Ehrnkranz | Ehrnkranz | Medium | The Return of Christ | NEW | 2:19 | ”Kranz” also connotes funeral/Advent wreaths in Bavarian culture; must be clearly framed as victor’s-crown joy, not funerary, given the book’s death/resurrection content. |
| sons/children of light | υἱοὶ φωτός (huioi phōtos) | Kinder vom Liacht | Kinder vom Liacht | Medium | The Day of the Lord | NEW | 5:5 | Eschatological identity claim, not mere character compliment; “Liacht” is the genuine Bavarian dialect form of “Licht.” |
| watch / be sober | γρηγορέω / νήφω (grēgoreō / nēphō) | wach bleib’n und nüchtern sei | wach bleim und nichtern sei | Medium | The Day of the Lord | NEW | 5:6-8 | Must be kept distinct from the death-euphemism “eingschlafa” (4:13-15); the moral-wakefulness sense (opposite: καθεύδω) is a different Greek word entirely. |
| meeting (official reception) | ἀπάντησις (apantēsis) | Empfang | Empfang | Medium | The Return of Christ | NEW | 4:17 | Technical royal-welcome nuance; risk of flattening into a generic “treffen” (ordinary meeting). |
| spirit, soul, and body | πνεῦμα, ψυχή, σῶμα (pneuma, psychē, sōma) | Geist, Seel und Leib | Geist, Seel und Leib | High | Sanctification / The Return of Christ | NEW | 5:23 | Reuses “Geist” from BASELINE “Heiliger Geist” and the AI instructions’ attested “Leib.” Note trichotomy-vs-dichotomy debate exists across Christian traditions; render as Paul’s comprehensive “whole self” rhetoric, not a resolved anthropological claim. |
| comfort (grief sense) | παρακαλέω (parakaleō) | tröst’t enk gegenseitig | tröst enk gegnseitig | High | Hope in Grief | NEW (sense-split from BASELINE “ermahna”) | 4:18 | The baseline’s “ermahna” leans admonishing; in this grief-comfort context a distinct comfort-leaning phrase is required so the pastoral purpose of 4:13-18 is not heard as a rebuke. |
| living and true God | θεῷ ζῶντι καὶ ἀληθινῷ (theō zōnti kai alēthinō) | da lebendige und wahre Gott | da lebendige und woahre Gott | Medium | (supports idols contrast) | NEW | 1:9 | Direct contrast term to “Götzen”; low risk once correctly paired. |
| Satan | Σατανᾶς (Satanas) | Satan | Satan | Low | (supports Assurance of Salvation) | NEW | 2:18; 3:5 | Use theologically neutral “Satan,” not the folkloric colloquial “da Deife,” which carries superstitious color inappropriate to the personal-adversary sense here. |
| holy kiss | ἅγιον φίλημα (hagion philēma) | heiliga Kuss | heiliga Kuss | Low | Christian Fellowship | NEW | 5:26 | Cultural-custom footnote required; not a literal expectation for contemporary Bavarian congregational greeting practice. |
| prayer | προσευχή / προσεύχομαι (proseuchē / proseuchomai) | Gebet / bet’n | Gebet / bett’n | Medium | Prayer and Intercession (baseline) | NEW | 5:17 | Consistent with baseline doctrine registry phrase “s’Bet’n und d’Fürbitt”; milder version of the Marian/saint-devotion pull already documented for “Fürbitt.” |
| false peace and security | εἰρήνη καὶ ἀσφάλεια (eirēnē kai asphaleia) | Friad und Sicherheit | Friad und Sicherheit | Medium | The Day of the Lord | NEW | 5:3 | Must be marked as an ironic, false claim of the unprepared, and kept visibly distinct in context from the genuine BASELINE “Friad” (peace with God). |
| sudden destruction | ὄλεθρος (olethros) | plötzlicha Untergang | plötzlicha Untergang | Medium | The Day of the Lord | NEW | 5:3 | Must retain genuine judgment-weight, not ordinary misfortune. |
| resurrection (of Christ / of believers) | ἀνάστασις / ἀνίστημι (anastasis / anistēmi) | Aufersteh’ng | Auferstehung | Medium/Critical | Resurrection of Believers | BASELINE | 4:14,16 | Reused exactly; verb forms must stay recognizably cognate with this noun. FORBIDDEN SUBSTITUTION per baseline: never a term implying reincarnation or a repeatable cycle. |
| Lord | κύριος (kyrios) | Herr | Herr | Critical/High | Lordship of Christ / The Return of Christ | BASELINE | throughout; esp. 4:15-17; 5:2,9 | Reused exactly; “the Lord himself” (4:16) requires the term’s full solemn weight. |
| God | θεός (theos) | Gott | Herrgott (folk-devotional contexts only) | Critical | (foundational) | BASELINE | throughout | Reused exactly; plain “Gott” as primary per baseline caution on “Herrgott.” |
| Jesus / Christ | Ἰησοῦς / Χριστός (Iēsous / Christos) | Jesus / Christus | Jesus / Christus | Low/Critical | (foundational) | BASELINE | throughout | Reused exactly per established transliteration standards. |
Risk Tier Summary for This Curriculum
| Tier | Count (new terms) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 4 | Wiederkunft (Parousia), Entrückung (rapture), Dog vom Herrn (Day of the Lord), plus recurring BASELINE Critical terms (Lord, God, Jesus, resurrection where Critical-tagged) |
| High | 10 | Hoffnung, eingschlafa, Zorn vo Gott, Heiligkeit, untadelig, Götzen, Begierde, Geist/Seel/Leib, tröst’t enk gegenseitig, plus reused BASELINE High terms |
| Medium | 14 | Liab, Freid, Drangsal, Unzucht, Bruaderliab, Ehrnkranz, Kinder vom Liacht, wach bleib’n und nüchtern sei, Empfang, lebendige und wahre Gott, Gebet/bet’n, Friad und Sicherheit, plötzlicha Untergang, plus reused BASELINE Medium terms |
| Low | 3 | Satan, heiliga Kuss, plus reused BASELINE Low terms |
All new terms above must be added to translation_memory.json (version increment) and bible_term_registry.json before Phase 2 translation of any 1 Thessalonians segment begins, per Phase 1 Step 2 of this pipeline.
Critical Risk Terms
Parousia
Approved rendering: Wiederkunft
Transliteration: Wiadakunft
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Kumma / Ankunft (ordinary arrival, too weak - reads as a vague or repeatable event), Gegenwart (Jehovah’s Witness ‘invisible presence’ 1914 doctrine - FORBIDDEN, must never be used)
Original: παρουσία
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Structural spine of the whole book, occurring exactly four times (2:19; 3:13; 4:15; 5:23); must be rendered identically every occurrence. No native Bavarian folk-Catholic vocabulary distinguishes this technical royal-arrival sense from ordinary coming/arrival.
Rapture
Approved rendering: Entrückung
Transliteration: Entrickung
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers
Rejected alternatives: wegkema (ordinary ‘get taken away’, loses the forceful, divine, joyful sense)
Original: ἁρπάζω (fut. pass. ἁρπαγησόμεθα)
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Occurs at 4:17 (ἁρπαγησόμεθα). Bavarian Catholic tradition has no native folk-devotional term for this event at all; aligns with the Einheitsübersetzung/Luther standard-German consensus ‘entrückt werden’. Flag for theologian review to avoid importing extra-biblical American-evangelical tribulation-timeline schemes foreign to Bavarian tradition.
Day Of The Lord
Approved rendering: da Dog vom Herrn
Transliteration: da Doag vom Herrn
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: ἡμέρα κυρίου
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Occurs at 5:2. MAJOR COLLISION RISK: in standard Catholic liturgical usage, including Bavarian parish life, ‘der Tag des Herrn’ is the established term for Sunday. Every occurrence requires explicit disambiguation on first use and mandatory theologian sign-off.
High Risk Terms
Grace
Approved rendering: Gnad
Transliteration: Gnod
Doctrine: Grace
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. Frames the letter’s opening (1:1) and closing (5:28) benedictions; the devotional-transaction caution (pilgrimage vows, votive practice) applies identically.
Salvation
Approved rendering: Erlesung
Transliteration: Erlesung
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: Heil (Nazi-era contamination risk, unchanged from baseline)
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. In 5:8-9, salvation is the content of eschatological hope worn as a helmet, contrasted with wrath; baseline’s Nazi-era ‘Heil’ caution applies without modification.
Saints
Approved rendering: Heiling
Transliteration: de Heiling
Doctrine: Sainthood
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. In 3:13 (‘with all his saints’) the Greek referent is exegetically debated (angels and/or glorified believers), compounding the baseline’s patron-saint collision risk; must be clarified as ‘alle Gläubign’, never left to default toward venerated canonized figures.
Lord
Approved rendering: Herr
Transliteration: Herr
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. In 4:16 (‘the Lord himself…will descend’) and throughout 5:2,9,23, ‘Herr’ must retain full solemn weight, especially where Christ’s personal, visible action is asserted.
Church
Approved rendering: Kirch
Transliteration: Kircha
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: Gmoa (secular-administrative default, rejected)
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. Opens the letter (1:1, ‘to the church of the Thessalonians’); per the baseline AI instructions, prefer ‘Kirchengmoaschaft’ or explicit context alongside ‘Kirch’ when the gathered-people sense must be distinguished from the parish-building default.
Sin
Approved rendering: Sünd
Transliteration: Sind
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. Occurs at 2:16 (persecutors ‘filling up their sins’); the trivialization risk (‘a Sünd is des scho’) applies without modification.
Election
Approved rendering: Erwählung
Transliteration: Erwöahlung
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Original: ἐκλογή
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. Occurs at 1:4 (‘knowing…your election’); remains primarily a register-gap risk in Bavarian dialect culture, not a competing doctrinal tradition.
Intercession
Approved rendering: Fürbitt
Transliteration: Fiabitt
Doctrine: Prayer and Intercession
Original: προσεύχομαι ὑπέρ / ἔντευξις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. In 3:10 and 5:25, mutual intercession between Paul and the church; the Altötting Marian/saint-intercession collision risk applies even though no saint-figure is named here.
Hope
Approved rendering: Hoffnung
Transliteration: Hoffnung
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Original: ἐλπίς
Category: Faith
NEW. Central term of the core doctrine and the faith-love-hope triad (1:3; 2:19; 4:13; 5:8). Bavarian ‘Hoffnung’ risks drift toward wishful uncertainty (‘i hoff scho’); every occurrence requires contextual reinforcement of certainty grounded in Christ’s resurrection (4:14).
Fallen Asleep
Approved rendering: eingschlafa
Transliteration: eingschlafa
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers
Rejected alternatives: schlafa (ordinary literal sleep, forbidden), de wo scho gstorbn san (Merkle’s warm paraphrase, loses the deliberate sleep-euphemism)
Original: κοιμάομαι
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Death euphemism at 4:13,14,15,16 (κεκοιμημένων/κοιμηθέντας). FORBIDDEN SUBSTITUTION: must never share a rendering with the unrelated moral-wakefulness ‘sleep’ of 5:6-7 (καθεύδω, see ‘watch_be_sober’).
Wrath
Approved rendering: Zorn vo Gott
Transliteration: Zorn vom Gott
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: bare ‘Zorn’ unqualified (ordinary secular anger, forbidden without ‘vo Gott’)
Original: ὀργή
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Occurs at 1:10 (‘the wrath to come’), 2:16, and 5:9 (contrasted with obtaining salvation). Must remain God’s righteous judicial response to sin, never impersonal fate.
Holiness
Approved rendering: Heiligkeit
Transliteration: Heiligkeit
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἁγιωσύνη
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Occurs at 3:13 (‘blameless in holiness…at the coming of our Lord’). Deliberately distinct from ‘Heiligung’ (the ongoing process, ἁγιασμός) so the two Greek nouns hagiosynē/hagiasmos are not collapsed into a single Bavarian word.
Blameless
Approved rendering: untadelig
Transliteration: untadelig
Doctrine: Assurance of Salvation
Original: ἄμεμπτος
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Occurs at 3:13 and 5:23. Risks feeding Bavarian Catholic scrupulosity/frequent-confession culture; must always be paired with its 5:24 grounding (‘he who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it’) as God’s gracious accomplishment, not self-earned perfection.
Idols
Approved rendering: Götzen
Transliteration: Götzen
Doctrine: Turning from Idols to the Living God
Original: εἴδωλα
Category: Sin
NEW. Occurs at 1:9. Must be explicitly distinguished from Catholic doctrine of image veneration (Marterl wayside shrines, Herrgottswinkel crucifix corners, processional saint statues), to avoid the text reading as an implicit critique of ordinary Bavarian devotional practice.
Lust Desire
Approved rendering: Begierde
Transliteration: Begierde
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: Gluscht (everyday Bavarian for food-craving, FORBIDDEN - would trivialize sinful desire exactly as ‘Sünd’ drifts toward ‘what a shame’)
Original: ἐπιθυμία
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Occurs at 4:5, contrasted with ‘the Gentiles who do not know God’.
Spirit Soul Body
Approved rendering: Geist, Seel und Leib
Transliteration: Geist, Seel und Leib
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: πνεῦμα καὶ ψυχὴ καὶ σῶμα
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Occurs at 5:23, the single verse most tightly binding Sanctification to the Return of Christ in the whole book. Reuses established ‘Geist’ (from Heiliger Geist) and the AI instructions’ attested ‘Leib’. Render as Paul’s comprehensive ‘whole self’ rhetoric, not a resolved trichotomy/dichotomy anthropological claim.
Comfort Grief
Approved rendering: tröst’t enk gegenseitig
Transliteration: tröst enk gegnseitig
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Rejected alternatives: ermahna bare (admonishing-leaning, risks sounding like a rebuke to grieving believers)
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith
NEW (sense-split from baseline ‘ermahna’). Occurs at 4:18, the pastoral purpose-statement of the whole 4:13-18 unit.
Medium Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: Evangelium
Transliteration: Evangelium
Doctrine: Gospel
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. In 1 Thessalonians occurs at 1:5; 2:2,4,8,9, repeatedly stressed as costly, courageous apostolic proclamation, not a generic religious message.
Faith
Approved rendering: Glaam
Transliteration: Gloam
Doctrine: Faith
Original: πίστις / πιστεύω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. Part of the faith-love-hope triad structuring the whole letter (1:3; 3:6,10,12; 5:8); verb form ‘mia glaam’ (4:14) must stay cognate with the noun.
Called
Approved rendering: beruafa
Transliteration: beruaft
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: καλέω
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. In 2:12 and 4:7, the active sense is a call to a holy manner of life, distinct from but continuous with the effectual calling of 5:24.
Calling
Approved rendering: Beruafung
Transliteration: Berufung
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. Shares the standard-German career-vocation homonym risk already documented in the baseline.
Holy
Approved rendering: heilig
Transliteration: hoalig
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. Modifies the Spirit (1:5-6; 4:8; 5:19), the kiss (5:26), and conduct (4:4,7) throughout this letter.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: Heiligung
Transliteration: Heiligung
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἁγιασμός
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered lexically, though this book’s doctrine-level risk is elevated to High (see doctrine_risk_registry.json) due to threefold repetition at 4:3,4,7 (‘this is the will of God, your sanctification’). Must be kept lexically distinct from the new term ‘Heiligkeit’ (hagiosynē, 3:13).
Resurrection
Approved rendering: Aufersteh’ng
Transliteration: Auferstehung
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Original: ἀνάστασις / ἀνίστημι
Category: Eschatology
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. Core to 4:14,16 (Christ’s own resurrection as the template and guarantee of believers’ future bodily resurrection). FORBIDDEN SUBSTITUTION unchanged: never a term implying reincarnation or a repeatable cycle.
Fellowship
Approved rendering: Gmoaschaft
Transliteration: Gemoaschoft
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. Underlies the doctrine name ‘d’kristliche Gmoaschaft’; in this book the concrete lexical realizations are the new compound ‘Bruaderliab’ and the address ‘Brüada’, both built on the same fellowship concept.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: s’Reich vo Gott
Transliteration: des Reich vom Gott
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Original: βασιλεία
Category: Kingdom
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. Occurs at 2:12 (‘calls you into his own kingdom and glory’).
Gentiles
Approved rendering: Heiden
Transliteration: Hoaden
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. Occurs at 4:5 as a moral contrast-class (‘the Gentiles who do not know God’).
Glory
Approved rendering: Herrlichkeit
Transliteration: Herrlichkeit
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. Occurs at 2:6,12,20 - human praise contrasted with God’s approval, and the Thessalonians as Paul’s future ‘glory’ at Christ’s coming.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: Kraft
Transliteration: Kroft
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Original: δύναμις
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package (there recorded as ‘Kraft vo Gott’; the bare ‘Kraft’ form is used at 1:5, ‘not in word only, but also in power’). Must not be flattened to mere persuasive rhetoric.
Messiah
Approved rendering: Messias
Transliteration: Messias
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. Reserved for the title-concept usage; distinct from the proper-name/title usage ‘Christus’ (see new entry ‘christ’ below) used throughout in combination with ‘Jesus’ and in ‘in Christ’ phrases.
God
Approved rendering: Gott
Transliteration: Herrgott
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. Plain ‘Gott’ remains primary; ‘Herrgott’ reserved for warm folk-devotional contexts only, per baseline’s mild-profanity register-bleed caution.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: Heiliger Geist
Transliteration: Heiliga Geist
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. Source of joy amid affliction (1:5-6), giver of holiness (4:8), and subject of the direct warning ‘do not quench the Spirit’ (5:19) - a rare explicit personal-agency statement that must not be flattened into an impersonal force.
Love Agape
Approved rendering: Liab
Transliteration: Liab
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Part of the faith-love-hope triad (1:3; 3:6,12; 4:9; 5:8,13). Bavarian ‘Liab’ defaults readily to romantic/family love; context must anchor the theological, others-directed sense every occurrence.
Joy
Approved rendering: Freid
Transliteration: Freid
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Original: χαρά
Category: Faith
NEW. Occurs at 1:6 (Spirit-given joy amid affliction) and 5:16 (‘rejoice always’). Must not collapse into circumstantial happiness.
Affliction
Approved rendering: Drangsal
Transliteration: Drangsal
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Rejected alternatives: Sorgn (everyday worries, too weak - loses persecution-level intensity)
Original: θλῖψις
Category: Faith
NEW. Occurs at 1:6 and 3:3-4,7 (persecution as an expected, foretold reality).
Sexual Immorality
Approved rendering: Unzucht
Transliteration: Unzucht
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: Hurerei (archaic, harsher register mismatch with the letter’s warm pastoral tone)
Original: πορνεία
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Occurs at 4:3, the concrete opposite of sanctification named in this passage.
Crown Of Boasting
Approved rendering: Ehrnkranz
Transliteration: Ehrnkranz
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Original: στέφανος καυχήσεως
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Occurs at 2:19, tied to the first of the book’s four parousia occurrences. ‘Kranz’ also connotes funeral/Advent wreaths in Bavarian culture; must be clearly framed as victor’s/festival-crown joy, never funerary.
Sons Of Light
Approved rendering: Kinder vom Liacht
Transliteration: Kinder vom Liacht
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: υἱοὶ φωτός / υἱοὶ ἡμέρας
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Occurs at 5:5. Must be conveyed as an eschatological identity claim, not a vague character compliment.
Watch Be Sober
Approved rendering: wach bleib’n und nüchtern sei
Transliteration: wach bleim und nichtern sei
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: γρηγορέω / νήφω
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Occurs at 5:6-8 (γρηγορέω/νήφω), paired with armor imagery. IMPORTANT: this ‘sleep’ (καθεύδω, moral inattentiveness) is a different Greek word from the death-euphemism ‘eingschlafa’ (κοιμάομαι, 4:13-15); the two must never share a rendering.
Quench The Spirit
Approved rendering: an Geist nit auslöschn
Transliteration: an Geist ned auslöschn
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: τὸ πνεῦμα μὴ σβέννυτε
Category: God
NEW. Occurs at 5:19, closely followed by the warning against despising prophecy (5:20). Must retain the vivid fire/lamp image rather than an abstract ‘don’t hinder the Spirit’.
Meeting Apantesis
Approved rendering: Empfang
Transliteration: Empfang
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: treffen (generic ordinary meeting, loses the royal-welcome nuance)
Original: ἀπάντησις
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Occurs at 4:17. Bavarian has no equivalent civic-reception custom; risk of flattening into a generic meeting that loses the royal-arrival picture essential to the parousia.
Living And True God
Approved rendering: da lebendige und wahre Gott
Transliteration: da lebendige und woahre Gott
Doctrine: Turning from Idols to the Living God
Original: θεὸς ζῶν καὶ ἀληθινός
Category: God
NEW. Occurs at 1:9, the direct contrast term to ‘Götzen’.
Prayer
Approved rendering: Gebet / bet’n
Transliteration: Gebet / bett’n
Doctrine: Prayer and Intercession
Original: προσευχή / προσεύχομαι
Category: Faith
NEW. Occurs at 5:17 (‘pray without ceasing’), consistent with the baseline doctrine registry’s phrase ‘s’Bet’n und d’Fürbitt’. Carries a milder version of the Altötting Marian/saint-devotion pull already documented for ‘Fürbitt’.
False Peace Security
Approved rendering: Friad und Sicherheit
Transliteration: Friad und Sicherheit
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: εἰρήνη καὶ ἀσφάλεια
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Occurs at 5:3. Must be marked as an ironic, false claim of the unprepared, kept visibly distinct in context from the genuine baseline term ‘Friad’ (peace with God), despite sharing the same root.
Sudden Destruction
Approved rendering: plötzlicha Untergang
Transliteration: plötzlicha Untergang
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: αἰφνίδιος ὄλεθρος
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Occurs at 5:3, parallel to the ‘labor pains’ image describing inescapability. Must retain genuine judgment-weight, not ordinary misfortune.
Vessel
Approved rendering: Gfäß
Transliteration: Gfäß
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: σκεῦος
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Occurs at 4:4 (‘possess his own vessel in holiness and honor’), an exegetically debated phrase (body vs. wife); flag with a standing translator’s note regardless of the rendering chosen.
Establish Strengthen
Approved rendering: festmacha / stärka
Transliteration: festmacha / stärka
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: στηρίζω
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Occurs at 3:13, directly linking present sanctification to future accountability at Christ’s return; doctrinal weight lies in this linkage (to ‘Heiligkeit’ and ‘untadelig’), not the verb alone.
Brothers Adelphoi
Approved rendering: Brüada
Transliteration: Bruada
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
NEW. Paul’s standing address to the whole congregation throughout the letter (e.g. 1:4; 2:1,9,17; 4:1,10,13; 5:1,4,12,14,25,27). Bavarian ‘Brüada’ defaults to biological/social brotherhood in daily speech; must be understood inclusively of the whole congregation, male and female. Recommend ‘liabe Brüada und Schwestern’ in oral paraphrase teaching contexts.
Low Risk Terms
Apostle
Approved rendering: Apostl
Transliteration: Apoastl
Doctrine: Apostleship
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. Used of Paul, Silas, and Timothy in 2:6 in the context of apostolic restraint and self-sacrifice.
Peace
Approved rendering: Friad
Transliteration: Friade
Doctrine: Peace with God
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. Occurs at 1:1. Must be kept visibly distinct from the new ironic phrase ‘Friad und Sicherheit’ (5:3), which shares the root but denotes a false claim.
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: Dank
Transliteration: Donk
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία / εὐχαριστέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. Occurs at 1:2; 2:13; 5:18 (climactic command ‘give thanks in everything’).
Prophecy
Approved rendering: Weissogung
Transliteration: Weissagung
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Original: προφητεία
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. Occurs at 5:20 (‘do not despise prophecies’), paired with the warning not to quench the Spirit (5:19).
Jesus
Approved rendering: Jesus
Transliteration: Jesus
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. Stable throughout this letter.
Exhort
Approved rendering: ermahna
Transliteration: ermohna
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω / νουθετέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unaltered. Reserved for the admonishing sense (5:12,14). See new term ‘comfort_grief’ for the pastoral-comfort sense that dominates 4:18, which ‘ermahna’ alone under-serves.
Brotherly Love
Approved rendering: Bruaderliab
Transliteration: Bruadaliab
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Original: φιλαδελφία
Category: Church
NEW. Compound of established ‘Bruada’ and ‘Liab’. Occurs at 4:9 (‘taught by God to love one another’); low risk, warm and natural-sounding register.
Satan
Approved rendering: Satan
Transliteration: Satan
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare (Satanic Opposition)
Rejected alternatives: da Deife (folkloric superstition color from regional Perchten/carnival devil-figure customs, FORBIDDEN)
Original: Σατανᾶς
Category: Spiritual Warfare
NEW. Occurs at 2:18 (hindering Paul’s travel) and 3:5 (‘the tempter’, same figure).
Holy Kiss
Approved rendering: heiliga Kuss
Transliteration: heiliga Kuss
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Original: ἅγιον φίλημα
Category: Church
NEW. Occurs at 5:26. Requires a cultural-custom footnote clarifying this reflects the ancient Mediterranean greeting custom rather than a literal contemporary Bavarian congregational expectation (a handshake, nod, or ‘Grüaß Gott’ fits local custom instead).
Christ
Approved rendering: Christus
Transliteration: Christus
Doctrine: Christology
Original: Χριστός (as proper name/title in combination, e.g. Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, ἐν Χριστῷ)
Category: Christology
NEW entry (first formal Translation Memory record; already implicit in baseline AI instructions’ transliteration standards ‘Christ = Christus’). Used pervasively as proper-name/title throughout the letter (‘Kyrios Iēsous Christos’ 1:1; 5:23; ‘the dead in Christ’ 4:16; ‘in Christ Jesus’ 2:14; 5:18). Keep distinct in usage from ‘Messias’, which is reserved for the title-concept/Messianic-fulfillment sense.
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