Core Glossary
Core Glossary — 2 Peter — English → Bavarian
This glossary lists every load-bearing theological term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md, covering 2 Peter 1:1 through 3:18. Terms already established in the baseline Romans translation_memory.json are marked [TM-REUSE] and MUST be rendered exactly as recorded there — no new entry is created for these, only a citation row confirming reuse. All other rows are new terms proposed for addition to translation memory, pending Phase 1 Step 2-8 review and sign-off.
Risk tiers follow the baseline’s four-tier schema (Critical / High / Medium / Low) as defined in doctrine_risk_registry.json.
Section 1 — Baseline Terms Reused Exactly (TM-REUSE)
| English Term | Greek | Bavarian (TM) | Risk (baseline) | 2 Peter Citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| faith | πίστις | Glaam | Medium | 1:1, 1:5 |
| grace | χάρις | Gnad | High | 1:2, 3:18 |
| peace | εἰρήνη | Friad | Low | 1:2 |
| righteousness | δικαιοσύνη | Gerechtigkeit | Critical | 1:1, 2:5, 2:21, 3:13 |
| god | θεός | Gott | Critical | throughout |
| lord | κύριος | Herr | Critical | 1:2, 1:8, 1:11, 1:14, 1:16, 2:1, 2:9, 2:11, 2:20, 3:2, 3:8-10, 3:15, 3:18 |
| jesus | Ἰησοῦς | Jesus | Critical | throughout |
| son_of_god (pattern) | υἱός | Sohn (vo Gott) | Critical | 1:17 |
| holy | ἅγιος | heilig | High | 1:18, 1:21, 2:21, 3:2, 3:11 |
| holy_spirit | Πνεῦμα Ἅγιον | Heiliger Geist | Critical | 1:21 |
| glory | δόξα | Herrlichkeit | High | 1:3, 1:17 (x2), 3:18 |
| prophecy | προφητεία | Weissogung | Low | 1:20, 1:21, 3:2 |
| prophet | προφήτης | Prophet | Low | 2:16, 3:2 |
| calling | κλῆσις | Beruafung | High | 1:10 |
| election | ἐκλογή | Erwählung | High | 1:10 |
| kingdom_of_god (pattern) | βασιλεία | s’Reich (vo Gott) | Medium | 1:11 |
| salvation | σωτηρία | Erlösung / Erlesung | High | 3:15 |
| sin | ἁμαρτία | Sünd | High | 1:9, 2:14 |
| apostle | ἀπόστολος | Apostl | Low | 1:1, 3:2 |
Note: all citation rows above are confirmations of reuse, not new proposals. Any deviation flagged in Phase 2 must be escalated per the baseline’s Glossary Enforcement Priority Order.
Section 2 — New Terms Introduced by 2 Peter
2.1 Scripture and Revelation (Doctrine: The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture)
| English Term | Greek | Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Citations | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scripture | γραφή | graphē | Schrift / d’Heiling Schrift | Critical | 1:20, 3:16 | Foundational noun for the whole doctrine; consistent with baseline doctrine-name usage. Must render identically at both occurrences (prophetic and apostolic writings unified as one Scripture). |
| private interpretation | ἰδία ἐπίλυσις | idia epilysis | ausn eigana Verstand / eigane Auslegung | Critical | 1:20 | Bavaria’s Counter-Reformation-shaped magisterium-vs-private-judgment tradition risks over-reading this clause as settling who may interpret Scripture, when it primarily addresses prophecy’s divine origin. Requires an explicit teaching note distinguishing the two questions. |
| carried along (by the Spirit) | φέρω (φερόμενοι) | pheromenoi | gtriebn (vom Heiling Geist) | Critical | 1:21 | The technical inspiration-verb; must avoid both passive-dictation and mere-human-genius misreadings. |
| eyewitness | ἐπόπτης | epoptēs | Augnzeuge | Medium | 1:16 | Grounds apostolic testimony’s evidentiary/legal weight against a “myth” accusation. |
| cleverly devised myth | μῦθος (σεσοφισμένος) | sesophismenos mythos | erfundane Gschicht | Medium | 1:16 | Must retain Peter’s polemical denial force; avoid the folkloric warmth of “Sag’n.” |
| more sure/confirmed | βεβαιότερον | bebaioteron | no gwisser / vollkommen gwiss | High | 1:19 | Exegetically delicate comparative construction bearing on Scripture’s relative certainty. |
| twist/distort (Scripture) | στρεβλόω | strebloō | verdraahn | High | 3:16 | Must retain culpable, deliberate distortion, linking directly to the false-teachers doctrine. |
| unstable | ἀστήρικτος | astēriktos | ungfestigt / wackelig im Glaam | Medium | 3:16 | Names those vulnerable to Scripture-twisting. |
| firm standing | στηριγμός | stērigmos | Standhaftigkeit | Medium | 3:17 | The doctrinal stability believers must guard. |
2.2 Growing in Christian Virtue
| English Term | Greek | Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Citations | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| virtue/excellence | ἀρετή | aretē | Tugend | High | 1:3, 1:5 | Bavaria’s rich Catholic virtue-catechesis could bias this toward self-effort merit rather than Spirit-enabled fruit; sequence with divine power (1:3) must be taught explicitly. |
| knowledge / full knowledge | ἐπίγνωσις / γνῶσις | epignōsis / gnōsis | Erkenntnis | Medium | 1:2, 1:3, 1:5, 1:6, 1:8, 2:20, 3:18 | Must stay relational/experiential, not mere data or elite esoteric knowledge (anti-Gnostic caution). |
| diligence / make every effort | σπουδή / σπουδάζω | spoudē / spoudazō | Eifer / si bemühn | Medium | 1:5, 1:10, 1:15, 3:14 | Response to grace, not a means of earning it. |
| self-control | ἐγκράτεια | egkrateia | Selbstbeherrschung | Medium | 1:6 | Must not collapse into mere external ascetic performance. |
| steadfastness/endurance | ὑπομονή | hypomonē | Standhaftigkeit / Ausdauer | Medium | 1:6 | Distinct Greek term from μακροθυμία (ch. 3); keep the two conceptually separate in Bavarian. |
| godliness | εὐσέβεια | eusebeia | Frömmigkeit | High | 1:3, 1:6-7, 3:11 | Colloquial “fromm/frumm” risks a mildly dismissive, merely-outward connotation. |
| brotherly love | φιλαδελφία | philadelphia | Bruaderliab | Medium | 1:7 | Reuses the compound pattern already attested in the Romans requirements register. |
| love | ἀγάπη | agapē | Liab | Medium | 1:7 | Default everyday usage skews romantic/familial; context must establish covenantal register. |
| supply abundantly | ἐπιχορηγέω | epichorēgeō | reichlich zuageb’n | Medium | 1:5, 1:11 | Frames virtue-growth as enabled, not self-generated. |
| grow | αὐξάνω | auxanō | wachsn | Medium | 3:18 | Capstone exhortation; organic, ongoing growth, not one-time achievement. |
| cleansing/purification | καθαρισμός | katharismos | Reinigung | High | 1:9 | Risk of a sacramental-transaction reading (regular confession) overshadowing the once-for-all cleansing in view. |
2.3 False Teachers and Their Judgment
| English Term | Greek | Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Citations | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| false teacher | ψευδοδιδάσκαλος | pseudodidaskalos | Falschlehrer | High | 2:1 | Anchor antagonist term; must target doctrinal corruption specifically, not legitimate teaching office. |
| false prophet | ψευδοπροφήτης | pseudoprophētēs | falscher Prophet | Medium | 2:1 | OT-analogue introducing the NT antagonists. |
| destructive heresies | αἵρεσις | hairesis | Irrlehr | High | 2:1 | Bavaria’s Counter-Reformation history loads this term with anti-Protestant historical residue requiring careful, non-polemical framing. |
| destruction/perdition | ἀπώλεια | apōleia | Verdammnis / Untergang | High | 2:1, 2:3, 3:7, 3:16 | Must retain final, eschatological weight. |
| Master/Sovereign Owner | δεσπότης | despotēs | Gebieter | Medium-High | 2:1 | Distinct ownership-nuance from κύριος/Herr; loses force if collapsed into generic “Herr.” |
| bought/redeemed | ἀγοράζω | agorazō | erkauft | High | 2:1 | Connects to atonement; must retain sacrificial-purchase referent. |
| sensuality | ἀσέλγεια | aselgeia | Ausschweifung | Medium | 2:2, 2:7, 2:18 | |
| greed | πλεονεξία | pleonexia | Habgier | Medium | 2:3, 2:14 | |
| judgment | κρίμα / κρίσις | krima / krisis | Gricht | Medium | 2:3, 2:4, 2:9, 3:7 | Positively grounded via “Jüngstes Gricht” church-art tradition; must not be received as mere folk-art motif. |
| Tartarus (cast into) | ταρταρόω | tartaroō | in Ketten der Finsternis higworfa | High | 2:4 | Must be clearly distinguished from Fegfeuer (Purgatory) in Bavarian folk-Catholic afterlife geography. |
| flood | κατακλυσμός | kataklysmos | d’Sindflut | Low | 2:5, 3:6 | Well-established, widely known term. |
| catastrophe/overthrow | καταστροφή | katastrophē | Untergang | Low-Medium | 2:6 | |
| example/pattern | ὑπόδειγμα | hypodeigma | Beispiel | Low | 2:6 | |
| rescue/deliver | ῥύομαι | rhyomai | retten | Low-Medium | 2:7, 2:9 | |
| punish | κολάζω | kolazō | strafen | Medium | 2:9 | |
| defilement | μιασμός | miasmos | Verunreinigung | Medium | 2:10, 2:20 | |
| dominion/authority | κυριότης | kyriotēs | Herrschaft | Medium | 2:10 | Abstract-power sense, kept distinct from personal-title κύριος/Herr. |
| lawlessness | παρανομία | paranomia | Gsetzlosigkeit | Medium | 2:16 | Compound with TM Gsetz. |
| entice/lure | δελεάζω | deleazō | anlocka | Medium | 2:14, 2:18 | Vivid native hunting/fishing register; must retain predatory intent. |
| error/deception | πλάνη | planē | Irrtum / Verführung | Medium | 2:18, 3:17 | |
| freedom | ἐλευθερία | eleutheria | Freiheit | Medium | 2:19 | Ironic false promise; irony must be preserved. |
| slave/enslaved | δοῦλος / δουλόω | doulos / douloō | Knecht / versklavt | High | 1:1 (contrast), 2:19 | Deliberate echo/contrast with Peter’s own “Knecht [vom Christus]” self-designation in 1:1 must survive translation. |
| commandment | ἐντολή | entolē | s’hoalige Gebot | Low-Medium | 2:21 | Grounded via “de Zehn Gebot” catechetical familiarity. |
2.4 The Certainty of Christ’s Return
| English Term | Greek | Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Citations | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| coming (Parousia) | παρουσία | parousia | Wiedakunft | Medium | 1:16, 3:4, 3:12 | Positively grounded via weekly Creed recitation (“wird wiederkommen in Herrlichkeit”); must stay distinct from generic Advent sentiment. |
| promise | ἐπαγγελία / ἐπάγγελμα | epangelia / epangelma | Verspreng | Medium-High | 1:4, 3:4, 3:9, 3:13 | Reuses attested baseline coinage (s'messianische Verspreng); scoffers’ challenge in 3:4 must retain full force. |
| mocker/scoffer | ἐμπαίκτης | empaiktēs | Spötter | Medium | 3:3 | |
| last days | ἔσχαται ἡμέραι | eschatai hēmerai | de letztn Täg | Medium | 3:3 | Technical eschatological term, not generic “troubled times.” |
| morning star | φωσφόρος | phōsphoros | Morgenstern | High | 1:19 | FORBIDDEN SUBSTITUTION: never “Luzifer” — the Vulgate’s Latin lucifer for this image later became, via unrelated Isaiah 14:12 tradition, a proper name for Satan; a Luzifer-adjacent rendering would invert the meaning catastrophically. |
| majesty | μεγαλειότης | megaleiotēs | Majestät | Medium | 1:16 | Kept distinct from δόξα/Herrlichkeit to avoid collapsing two Greek terms into one Bavarian word. |
| hasten/be eager for | σπεύδω | speudō | herbeisehna | Medium | 3:12 | Active longing for the Parousia’s arrival, not passive waiting. |
2.5 The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
| English Term | Greek | Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Citations | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day of the Lord | ἡμέρα κυρίου | hēmera kyriou | da Grichtstag vom Herrn (NOT “Tag des Herrn”) | Critical | 3:10 | ”Tag des Herrn” is the established Catholic liturgical term for Sunday (cf. Dies Domini); a literal calque would produce a severe referent collision. Reserve “Tag des Herrn” exclusively for Sunday-observance contexts. |
| day of judgment | ἡμέρα κρίσεως | hēmera kriseōs | Grichtstag | High | 3:7 | Closely related to, and must be kept terminologically aligned with, ἡμέρα κυρίου above. |
| elements | στοιχεῖα | stoicheia | Elemente | Medium | 3:10, 3:12 | Ancient cosmological sense, not modern chemistry. |
| dissolve/destroy | λύω | lyō | si aflösn / vergeh | Medium | 3:10-12 | |
| new heavens and new earth | καινοὺς οὐρανοὺς καὶ γῆν καινήν | kainous ouranous kai gēn kainēn | a neucha Himme und a neuche Erdn | High | 3:13 | Must convey renewal/transformation, not annihilation-then-immaterial-replacement (gnostic-dualist risk) nor reincarnation-cycle framing (already forbidden for resurrection in baseline). |
| spotless and blameless | ἄσπιλος καὶ ἀμώμητος | aspilos kai amōmētos | ohne Fleck und Tadel | Medium | 3:14 | Sacrificial-purity background may need brief explanation. |
| thief | κλέπτης | kleptēs | Diab | Low-Medium | 3:10 | Vivid, well-grounded rural image; retain “sudden and unwelcome,” not mere “surprise.” |
| creation | κτίσις | ktisis | Schöpfung | Low-Medium | 3:4 | |
| word of God (creative) | λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ | logos tou theou | s’Wort vo Gott | Medium | 3:5, 3:7 | Reuses “vo Gott” contraction pattern. |
2.6 Patience of God’s Timing
| English Term | Greek | Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Citations | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| patience/longsuffering | μακροθυμία / μακροθυμέω | makrothymia / makrothymeō | Langmuat | High | 3:9, 3:15 | Anchor term of the doctrine; must be purposive/personal forbearance aimed at repentance, not vague fatalistic slowness. Kept distinct from ὑπομονή (ch.1, believer’s endurance). |
| delay/be slow | βραδύνω | bradynō | si verspaadn | Medium | 3:9 | The scoffers’ false charge, reframed by Peter. |
| perish | ἀπόλλυμι | apollymi | zgrundgeh / umkemma | Medium | 3:9 | |
| repentance | μετάνοια | metanoia | Umkehr | High | 3:9 | Prefer over “Reue” to avoid pull toward the sacramental-confession (Beichte) transactional frame; needs whole-life turning sense. |
2.7 Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
| English Term | Greek | Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Citations | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| divine nature | θεία φύσις | theia physis | göttliche Natur | Critical | 1:4 | Unique NT phrase; risk of pantheistic self-deification/ontological-merger misreading or over-literalized theosis; must be anchored in moral/relational transformation and promise-participation, not identity with God. |
| divine power | θεία δύναμις | theia dynamis | göttliche Kraft | Medium | 1:3 | Source of all provision for life/godliness. |
| corruption/decay | φθορά | phthora | Verderbn | High | 1:4, 2:12, 2:19 | Moral vs. physical-decay senses must stay contextually distinguishable. |
| desire/lust | ἐπιθυμία | epithymia | Begierde | Medium | 1:4, 2:10, 2:18, 3:3 | Consistently negative moral charge, distinct from neutral “Wunsch.” |
| Savior | σωτήρ | sōtēr | Heiland | High | 1:1, 1:11, 2:20, 3:2, 3:18 | Safe, culturally warm folk-term distinct from the Nazi-contaminated interjection “Heil”; repeated “Gott und Heiland” pairing is 2 Peter’s signature deity-of-Christ affirmation and must render identically at all five occurrences. |
| tent/body | σκήνωμα | skēnōma | Zeltn | Medium | 1:13-14 | Must avoid gnostic body-negative overtone; body-affirming framing required. |
| departure/exodus | ἔξοδος | exodos | Auszug | Medium | 1:15 | Deliberate Exodus-narrative echo; retain triumphant-departure sense. |
| world | κόσμος | kosmos | Welt | Low-Medium | 1:4, 2:5, 2:20, 3:6 | Context-sensitive between physical world and world-system opposed to God. |
Risk Summary for 2 Peter New-Term Additions
| Tier | Count | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 5 | scripture (γραφή), private interpretation (ἰδία ἐπίλυσις), carried along (φέρω), Day of the Lord (ἡμέρα κυρίου), divine nature (θεία φύσις) |
| High | 16 | ἀρετή, εὐσέβεια, καθαρισμός, ψευδοδιδάσκαλος, αἵρεσις, ἀπώλεια, ἀγοράζω, ταρταρόω, δοῦλος/δουλόω (2:19 contrast), φωσφόρος, ἡμέρα κρίσεως, καινοὺς οὐρανοὺς καὶ γῆν καινήν, μακροθυμία, μετάνοια, φθορά, σωτήρ |
| Medium | ~35 | see full tables above |
| Low / Low-Medium | ~10 | see full tables above |
Escalation note: consistent with the baseline’s routing rules, all Critical and High terms above require human theologian review before Phase 2 translation memory finalization; all Medium terms require native speaker review; Low terms require automated review with a native-speaker spelling spot-check (per the baseline’s orthography caveat, which applies uniformly across this curriculum as well).
Critical Risk Terms
Righteousness
Approved rendering: Gerechtigkeit
Transliteration: Gerechtigkeit
Doctrine: Salvation
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. 2 Peter 1:1, 2:5, 2:21, 3:13 — all four occurrences render with this same borrowed term; no folk-coinage substitute.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: Sohn vo Gott
Transliteration: Sohn vom Gott
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Original: ὁ υἱός μου
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. In 2 Peter 1:17 (the Transfiguration voice’s direct declaration, citing Matthew 17:5), the running phrase within direct speech is ‘mein Sohn, mein liaba Sohn’ rather than the full possessive-genitive pattern; the full ‘Sohn vo Gott’ pattern is retained for third-person doctrinal statements elsewhere in teaching material. Must not read as adoptive or honorary sonship.
Scripture
Approved rendering: Schrift
Transliteration: Schrifft
Doctrine: The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: γραφή
Category: Scripture
2 Peter 1:20, 3:16. Must render identically at both occurrences to preserve 2 Peter’s early canon-formation claim uniting prophetic and apostolic writings as one Scripture. No native dialect coinage exists; borrowed standard-German form retained, consistent with the baseline’s register-gap pattern (cf. Gerechtigkeit, Rechtfertigung).
Private Interpretation
Approved rendering: ausn eigana Verstand
Transliteration: ausn eigena Vastand
Doctrine: The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: eigane Bibelauslegung (over-specifies a modern hermeneutical-authority sense not in view)
Original: ἰδία ἐπίλυσις
Category: Scripture
2 Peter 1:20. Bavaria’s Counter-Reformation-shaped magisterium-vs-private-judgment tradition risks this being (mis)read as settling WHO may interpret Scripture, collapsing Peter’s actual point about prophecy’s DIVINE ORIGIN into an unrelated controversy. MANDATORY teaching note distinguishing origin from interpretive authority required at every occurrence.
Carried Along
Approved rendering: gtriebn (vom Heiling Geist)
Transliteration: gedriebn (vom Heiliga Geist)
Doctrine: The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: diktiert (implies passive trance-dictation, erasing human authorial voice), eigane Eingebung (implies mere human religious genius, erasing the Spirit’s controlling agency)
Original: φέρω (φερόμενοι)
Category: Scripture
2 Peter 1:21. The technical inspiration-verb; vivid native nautical image of being driven by wind/current, preserving genuine human authorship while grounding the message’s origin in God.
Day Of The Lord
Approved rendering: da Grichtstag vom Herrn
Transliteration: da Grichtstog vom Herrn
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Rejected alternatives: Tag des Herrn — ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN. This exact phrase is the established Bavarian Catholic liturgical term for SUNDAY (cf. the papal document Dies Domini, weekly Mass usage); using it here would produce a severe referent collision.
Original: ἡμέρα κυρίου
Category: Eschatology
2 Peter 3:10. The single most severe net-new destination-language trap in this book. ‘Tag des Herrn’ is permanently reserved for Sunday-observance contexts across this entire curriculum.
Divine Nature
Approved rendering: göttliche Natur
Transliteration: göttliche Natua
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Original: θεία φύσις
Category: Divine Nature
2 Peter 1:4. Unique NT phrase; risk of pantheistic self-deification/ontological-merger misreading (cf. Hindu Advaita monism, LDS eternal-progression proof-texting) or an over-literalized theosis reading. MANDATORY anchoring teaching note (moral/relational transformation, promise-participation, never identity of being with God) required at every occurrence.
High Risk Terms
Grace
Approved rendering: Gnad
Transliteration: Gnod
Doctrine: Grace
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. 2 Peter 1:2 and 3:18 bracket the whole letter (grace at greeting, ‘grow in grace’ at close); must not read as a devotional transaction earned through the virtue-chain effort of 1:5-7.
Lord
Approved rendering: Herr
Transliteration: Herr
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. 2 Peter 1:2, 1:8, 1:11, 1:14, 1:16, 2:1, 2:9, 2:11, 2:20, 3:2, 3:8-10, 3:15, 3:18. Must be kept terminologically distinct from the new 2 Peter terms ‘Gebieter’ (despotēs) and ‘Herrschaft’ (kyriotēs) — see below.
Election
Approved rendering: Erwählung
Transliteration: Erwöahlung
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Original: ἐκλογή
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. 2 Peter 1:10. As in the baseline, this is primarily a register-gap risk (unfamiliar borrowed abstraction) rather than a live rival-doctrine risk in Bavarian dialect Catholic culture.
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. 2 Peter 3:15 (‘the patience of our Lord is salvation’). ‘Heil’ remains forbidden; use ‘Erlösung’ exclusively.
Sin
Approved rendering: Sünd
Transliteration: Sind
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans package. 2 Peter 1:9 (cleansing from past sin), 2:14 (hearts trained in greed, ‘never ceasing from sin’). Colloquial ‘a Sünd is des scho’ risks trivializing the culpable-transgression sense.
More Sure
Approved rendering: no gwisser / vollkommen gwiss
Transliteration: no gwiaser / follkumma gwiss
Doctrine: The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: βεβαιότερον
Category: Scripture
2 Peter 1:19. Exegetically delicate comparative construction; mistranslation could overclaim or underclaim Scripture’s authority relative to eyewitness experience.
Twist Distort
Approved rendering: verdraahn
Transliteration: vadraahn
Doctrine: Canon and Authority of Apostolic Writings
Original: στρεβλόω
Category: Scripture
2 Peter 3:16. Must retain deliberate, culpable distortion, not innocent misunderstanding, directly tying the false-teachers doctrine to the Scripture doctrine.
Virtue
Approved rendering: Tugend
Transliteration: Tugend
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: ἀρετή
Category: Virtue
2 Peter 1:3, 1:5. Bavaria’s rich, systematized Catholic virtue-catechesis risks biasing this term toward self-effort/merit; must be sequenced explicitly AFTER 1:3-4’s prior gift of divine power, never taught as a precondition for receiving it.
Godliness
Approved rendering: Frömmigkeit
Transliteration: Frömmigkeit
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: εὐσέβεια
Category: Virtue
2 Peter 1:3, 1:6-7, 3:11. Colloquial Bavarian ‘fromm/frumm’ can carry a mildly dismissive, merely-outward connotation; teaching material must reinforce the positive, vital, relational God-orientation sense.
Cleansing
Approved rendering: Reinigung
Transliteration: Reinigung
Doctrine: Sanctification and Cleansing from Past Sin
Original: καθαρισμός
Category: Sanctification
2 Peter 1:9. Risks collapsing into an ongoing sacramental-purification framework (regular Beichte/confession) rather than the once-for-all cleansing accomplished through Christ, presupposed as already forgotten by the negligent believer.
False Teacher
Approved rendering: Falschlehrer
Transliteration: Falschlehra
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: ψευδοδιδάσκαλος
Category: False Teaching
2 Peter 2:1, the central antagonist figure of chapter 2. Must target doctrinal corruption specifically, not legitimate teaching office (ordinary catechists, priests).
Destructive Heresies
Approved rendering: Irrlehr
Transliteration: Irrlehre
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Rejected alternatives: Ketzerei (even more polemically loaded historical term)
Original: αἵρεσις
Category: False Teaching
2 Peter 2:1. Bavaria’s Counter-Reformation history under the Wittelsbach dukes loads ‘Irrlehre’ with anti-Protestant historical residue; must be framed strictly around 2 Peter’s own 1st-century target, never modern confessional rivalry.
Destruction
Approved rendering: Verdammnis / Untergang
Transliteration: Vaddammnis / Untergong
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: ἀπώλεια
Category: Judgment
2 Peter 2:1, 2:3, 3:7, 3:16. Must retain final, eschatological weight, not merely temporal misfortune.
Master Sovereign Owner
Approved rendering: Gebieter
Transliteration: Gebieda
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Rejected alternatives: Herr (collapses δεσπότης into κύριος, erasing the deliberate ownership/purchase nuance)
Original: δεσπότης
Category: Christology
2 Peter 2:1. Christ as the Master who ‘bought’ the false teachers; must retain ownership/purchase nuance distinct from ‘Herr,’ or the redemption-denial force of the verse is lost.
Bought Redeemed
Approved rendering: erkauft
Transliteration: akauft
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: ἀγοράζω
Category: Salvation
2 Peter 2:1. Connects directly to atonement/redemption doctrine; must not be flattened to a merely commercial transaction devoid of its sacrificial referent.
Tartarus
Approved rendering: in Ketten der Finsternis higworfa
Transliteration: in Kettn dor Finsternis hi’gworfa
Doctrine: Judgment of Fallen Angels and Ancient Examples
Rejected alternatives: Fegfeuer (Purgatory — a temporary purifying state for redeemed HUMAN souls; a structurally different category from confinement of fallen angels), Tartarus (bare transliteration — has zero native referent in Bavarian folk-Catholic afterlife geography)
Original: ταρταρόω
Category: Judgment
2 Peter 2:4. Must be clearly and explicitly distinguished from Fegfeuer at every occurrence. Rendered descriptively rather than transliterated.
Slave Enslaved
Approved rendering: Knecht / versklavt
Transliteration: Knecht / vaschklavt
Doctrine: Moral Corruption and the Ironic Slavery of False Teachers
Original: δοῦλος / δουλόω
Category: Discipleship
2 Peter 2:19, deliberately contrasted with Peter’s own self-designation as Christ’s ‘Knecht’ (1:1). The verbal echo must survive translation using the same root, or Peter’s rhetorical point — every person serves one master or another — is lost.
Promise
Approved rendering: Verspreng
Transliteration: Vaspreng
Doctrine: The Certainty of Christ’s Return
Original: ἐπαγγελία / ἐπάγγελμα
Category: Covenant
2 Peter 1:4, 3:4, 3:9, 3:13. Reuses the coinage attested in the baseline doctrine name ‘s’messianische Verspreng.’ The scoffers’ challenge in 3:4 must retain full rhetorical force.
Morning Star
Approved rendering: Morgenstern
Transliteration: Morgastern
Doctrine: The Certainty of Christ’s Return
Rejected alternatives: Luzifer / any Luzifer-adjacent term — FORBIDDEN. The Vulgate’s Latin lucifer for this exact image later became, via the unrelated Isaiah 14:12 tradition, the proper name for Satan; using it here would invert 1:19’s meaning.
Original: φωσφόρος
Category: Christology
2 Peter 1:19. Standing forbidden substitution; never render with any Luzifer-adjacent term.
Day Of Judgment
Approved rendering: Grichtstag
Transliteration: Grichtstog
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Original: ἡμέρα κρίσεως
Category: Eschatology
2 Peter 3:7. Closely related to, and must be kept terminologically aligned with, ‘da Grichtstag vom Herrn’ above.
New Heavens New Earth
Approved rendering: a neucha Himme und a neuche Erdn
Transliteration: a neucha Himmel und a neiche Erdn
Doctrine: Cosmic Dissolution and the New Creation
Original: καινοὺς οὐρανοὺς καὶ γῆν καινήν
Category: Eschatology
2 Peter 3:13. Must convey renewal/transformation of God’s good creation, not annihilation-and-replacement with an immaterial realm (gnostic-dualist misreading), nor a reincarnation-cycle framing (already forbidden for resurrection in the baseline).
Patience Longsuffering
Approved rendering: Langmuat
Transliteration: Langmuad
Doctrine: Patience of God’s Timing
Rejected alternatives: Geduld (too weak/generic, loses the deliberate, purposive, redemptive-aim sense)
Original: μακροθυμία / μακροθυμέω
Category: God
2 Peter 3:9, 3:15. Anchor term for the doctrine; must be purposive, personal forbearance aimed at repentance, not vague fatalistic slowness. Kept distinct from ‘Standhaftigkeit/Ausdauer’ (endurance, ch. 1).
Repentance
Approved rendering: Umkehr
Transliteration: Umkehr
Doctrine: Repentance unto Salvation
Rejected alternatives: Reue (strongly tied to the sacramental act of contrition within Beichte/confession; would pull the term toward a ritual-transactional reading rather than a decisive, whole-life turning to God)
Original: μετάνοια
Category: Salvation
2 Peter 3:9, the intended outcome of God’s patience. ‘Umkehr’ is fixed and must not be varied stylistically to ‘Reue’ even where it would read more naturally.
Corruption Decay
Approved rendering: Verderbn
Transliteration: Vaderbn
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Original: φθορά
Category: Divine Nature
2 Peter 1:4, 2:12, 2:19. Moral and physical-decay senses must be kept distinguishable by context (consider a disambiguating adjective, e.g. ‘sittliche Verderbn’ for the moral sense) or the moral stakes are trivialized/over-literalized.
Savior
Approved rendering: Heiland
Transliteration: Heilond
Doctrine: Saviorhood of Christ
Original: σωτήρ
Category: Christology
2 Peter 1:1, 1:11, 2:20, 3:2, 3:18, always paired with ‘Gott’ (2 Peter’s signature deity-of-Christ affirmation). ‘Heiland’ is safe and culturally warm, distinct from the Nazi-contaminated interjection ‘Heil.’ Must render identically ‘Gott und Heiland’ at ALL FIVE occurrences without exception, and the phrase must never be restructured to imply two separate referents (a documented Jehovah’s Witnesses NWT bias pattern).
Medium Risk Terms
Faith
Approved rendering: Glaam
Transliteration: Gloam
Doctrine: Faith
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. 2 Peter 1:1, 1:5 — retains the baseline sense; 2 Peter additionally pairs it directly with the virtue-growth chain (1:5), so ‘Glaam’ must read as the root from which the virtues grow, not one virtue among equals.
God
Approved rendering: Gott
Transliteration: Herrgott
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Throughout 2 Peter, frequently paired with ‘Heiland’ (savior) in the distinctive ‘God and Savior’ formula (1:1, 1:11, 2:20, 3:2, 3:18); reserve ‘Herrgott’ for folk-devotional contexts only, per baseline caution.
Holy
Approved rendering: heilig
Transliteration: hoalig
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. 2 Peter 1:18 (‘holy mountain’), 1:21 (Holy Spirit), 2:21 (‘the holy commandment’), 3:2 (holy prophets), 3:11 (holy conduct).
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: Heiliger Geist
Transliteration: Heiliga Geist
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: Πνεῦμα Ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. 2 Peter 1:21, the agent who ‘carries along’ the human prophets (see new term ‘carried_along’ below); must remain personal and active, not an impersonal force.
Glory
Approved rendering: Herrlichkeit
Transliteration: Herrlichkeit
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. 2 Peter 1:3, 1:17 (twice, intensified as ‘de herrliche Majestät’), 3:18. Kept distinct from the new terms ‘Majestät’ (megaleiotēs) and ‘Ehre’ (timē).
Calling
Approved rendering: Beruafung
Transliteration: Berufung
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. 2 Peter 1:10, paired with ‘Erwählung’ (election) in the exhortation to ‘confirm your calling and election.’ Everyday career-vocation homonym risk applies as in baseline.
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. 2 Peter 1:11: ‘s’ewige Reich vo unserm Herrn und Heiland’ — the believer’s final destination entered at glorification.
Equally Precious Faith
Approved rendering: gleichwertiga Glaam
Transliteration: gleichwertiga Gloam
Doctrine: Epistolary Greeting and Apostolic Identity
Original: ἰσότιμος πίστις
Category: Faith
2 Peter 1:1. A faith of identical honor, value, and standing shared equally by all believers, apostles and audience alike — echoes the baseline’s unity_of_jews_and_gentiles concern that no hierarchy of believers exists.
Eyewitness
Approved rendering: Augnzeuge
Transliteration: Augnzeug
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Testimony
Original: ἐπόπτης
Category: Scripture
2 Peter 1:16. Grounds apostolic testimony in personal, verifiable observation; must retain legal/testimonial weight, not casual ‘mir ham’s gsehng.‘
Cleverly Devised Myth
Approved rendering: erfundane Gschicht
Transliteration: erfundane Gschicht’n
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Testimony
Rejected alternatives: Sag’n (too-neutral folkloric warmth, softens the polemical denial)
Original: σεσοφισμένοι μῦθοι
Category: Scripture
2 Peter 1:16. Peter’s explicit denial that apostolic testimony is invented mythology.
Unstable
Approved rendering: ungfestigt / wackelig im Glaam
Transliteration: ungfeschtigt / wackelig im Gloam
Doctrine: Canon and Authority of Apostolic Writings
Original: ἀστήρικτος
Category: Scripture
2 Peter 3:16, those vulnerable to being led astray by twisted Scripture.
Firm Standing
Approved rendering: Standhaftigkeit / Festigkeit
Transliteration: Standhoftigkeit / Feschtigkeit
Doctrine: Canon and Authority of Apostolic Writings
Original: στηριγμός
Category: Scripture
2 Peter 3:17, what believers must guard so as not to ‘fall from.‘
Knowledge
Approved rendering: Erkenntnis
Transliteration: Erkenntnis
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: ἐπίγνωσις / γνῶσις
Category: Virtue
2 Peter 1:2, 1:3, 1:5, 1:6, 1:8, 2:20, 3:18 — the key term running through the whole letter. Must stay relational/experiential, not mere data or elite esoteric knowledge (anti-Gnostic caution).
Diligence
Approved rendering: Eifer / si bemühn
Transliteration: Eifa / si bemiahn
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: σπουδή / σπουδάζω
Category: Virtue
2 Peter 1:5, 1:10, 1:15, 3:14. Response to grace already given, not a means of earning it.
Self Control
Approved rendering: Selbstbeherrschung
Transliteration: Selbstbeherrschung
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: ἐγκράτεια
Category: Virtue
2 Peter 1:6. Must not collapse into mere external ascetic performance divorced from inward transformation.
Endurance
Approved rendering: Standhaftigkeit / Ausdauer
Transliteration: Standhoftigkeit / Ausdaua
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: ὑπομονή
Category: Virtue
2 Peter 1:6. Must be kept conceptually and lexically distinct from ‘Langmuat’ (patience_longsuffering, ch. 3) — a different Greek word (ὑπομονή vs μακροθυμία) describing the believer’s own perseverance, not God’s forbearance toward others.
Brotherly Love
Approved rendering: Bruaderliab
Transliteration: Bruderliab
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: φιλαδελφία
Category: Virtue
2 Peter 1:7. Compound register pattern consistent with the Romans requirements register.
Love
Approved rendering: Liab
Transliteration: Liabe
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Virtue
2 Peter 1:7, the capstone virtue. Default everyday usage skews toward romantic/family affection; context must establish the self-giving, covenantal register.
Supply Abundantly
Approved rendering: reichlich zuageb’n
Transliteration: reichlich zuageba
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: ἐπιχορηγέω
Category: Virtue
2 Peter 1:5, 1:11. Frames virtue-growth as richly enabled, not self-generated.
Grow
Approved rendering: wachsn
Transliteration: wachsa
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: αὐξάνω
Category: Virtue
2 Peter 3:18, the letter’s capstone exhortation, ‘grow in grace and knowledge.’ Organic, ongoing growth, not a one-time achievement.
False Prophet
Approved rendering: falscher Prophet
Transliteration: folscher Prophet
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: ψευδοπροφήτης
Category: False Teaching
2 Peter 2:1, the OT-era analogue introducing the NT-era false teachers.
Sensuality
Approved rendering: Ausschweifung
Transliteration: Ausschweifung
Doctrine: Moral Corruption and the Ironic Slavery of False Teachers
Original: ἀσέλγεια
Category: False Teaching
2 Peter 2:2, 2:7, 2:18. The false teachers’ immoral ‘way,’ which brings the true way into disrepute.
Greed
Approved rendering: Habgier
Transliteration: Hobgier
Doctrine: Moral Corruption and the Ironic Slavery of False Teachers
Original: πλεονεξία
Category: False Teaching
2 Peter 2:3, 2:14. The false teachers’ financial exploitation of believers.
Judgment
Approved rendering: Gricht
Transliteration: Gricht
Doctrine: Judgment of Fallen Angels and Ancient Examples
Original: κρίμα / κρίσις
Category: Judgment
2 Peter 2:3, 2:4, 2:9, 3:7. Positively grounded via widespread ‘Jüngstes Gricht’ Last-Judgment fresco tradition in Altbayern parish churches, but must be taught as a real, personal, future reckoning, not merely a folk-art motif.
Punish
Approved rendering: strafen
Transliteration: strofn
Doctrine: Judgment of Fallen Angels and Ancient Examples
Original: κολάζω
Category: Judgment
2 Peter 2:9, the unrighteous ‘kept for punishment’ until the day of judgment.
Defilement
Approved rendering: Verunreinigung
Transliteration: Vaunreinigung
Doctrine: Escaping the Defilement of the World
Original: μιασμός
Category: False Teaching
2 Peter 2:10, 2:20. Must retain moral rather than merely ritual-purity connotations.
Dominion Authority
Approved rendering: Herrschaft
Transliteration: Herrschoft
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: κυριότης
Category: False Teaching
2 Peter 2:10, an abstract governing-power the false teachers arrogantly despise/blaspheme. Kept distinct from ‘Herr’ (κύριος) as a personal title.
Lawlessness
Approved rendering: Gsetzlosigkeit
Transliteration: Gsötzlosigkeit
Doctrine: Moral Corruption and the Ironic Slavery of False Teachers
Original: παρανομία
Category: False Teaching
2 Peter 2:16, Balaam’s transgression as an OT paradigm. Compound with the baseline TM term ‘Gsetz.‘
Entice Lure
Approved rendering: anlocka
Transliteration: olocka
Doctrine: Moral Corruption and the Ironic Slavery of False Teachers
Original: δελεάζω
Category: False Teaching
2 Peter 2:14, 2:18. Vivid native hunting/fishing register; must retain the predatory, deceptive intent, not neutral ‘attract.‘
Error Deception
Approved rendering: Irrtum / Verführung
Transliteration: Irrdum / Vafiahrung
Doctrine: Moral Corruption and the Ironic Slavery of False Teachers
Original: πλάνη
Category: False Teaching
2 Peter 2:18, 3:17. Context-sensitive between passive confusion and active deception.
Freedom
Approved rendering: Freiheit
Transliteration: Freiheid
Doctrine: Moral Corruption and the Ironic Slavery of False Teachers
Original: ἐλευθερία
Category: False Teaching
2 Peter 2:19. The false teachers’ ironic promise of freedom while themselves enslaved to corruption; irony must be preserved, not flattened.
Bondservant
Approved rendering: Knecht
Transliteration: Knecht
Doctrine: Epistolary Greeting and Apostolic Identity
Original: δοῦλος
Category: Discipleship
2 Peter 1:1, ‘Knecht und Apostl vom Jesus Christus.’ Culturally resonant with Bavarian rural farmhand social memory (Knecht und Magd); risks being read as merely socioeconomic status rather than total spiritual belonging unless glossed. Deliberately echoed/inverted at 2:19.
Parousia
Approved rendering: Wiedakunft
Transliteration: Wiederkunft
Doctrine: The Certainty of Christ’s Return
Rejected alternatives: Parusie (bare transliteration; loses the positive grounding of weekly Creed recitation)
Original: παρουσία
Category: Eschatology
2 Peter 1:16, 3:4, 3:12. Positively grounded via the Creed (‘wird wiederkommen in Herrlichkeit’); must stay distinct from generic Advent-season sentimentality.
Mocker Scoffer
Approved rendering: Spötter
Transliteration: Schpötta
Doctrine: The Certainty of Christ’s Return
Original: ἐμπαίκτης
Category: Eschatology
2 Peter 3:3, the scoffers who deny the certainty of Christ’s return.
Last Days
Approved rendering: de letztn Täg
Transliteration: de letztn Tog
Doctrine: The Certainty of Christ’s Return
Original: ἔσχαται ἡμέραι
Category: Eschatology
2 Peter 3:3. Technical eschatological term; must not be flattened to generic ‘these troubled times.‘
Majesty
Approved rendering: Majestät
Transliteration: Majeschtät
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Testimony
Original: μεγαλειότης
Category: Christology
2 Peter 1:16, Christ’s majesty witnessed at the Transfiguration. Kept distinct from ‘Herrlichkeit’ (δόξα) so the two Greek terms are not collapsed into one Bavarian word.
Hasten
Approved rendering: herbeisehna
Transliteration: herbeisehna
Doctrine: The Certainty of Christ’s Return
2 Peter 3:12. Active longing for the Parousia’s arrival, not passive waiting.
Honor
Approved rendering: Ehre
Transliteration: Ehr
Doctrine: Sonship and Deity of Christ
Original: τιμή
Category: Christology
2 Peter 1:17. Honor conferred on Christ by the Father at the Transfiguration, paired with ‘Herrlichkeit’ (glory).
Beloved
Approved rendering: liab / liaba
Transliteration: liab / liaba
Doctrine: Sonship and Deity of Christ
Original: ἀγαπητός
Category: Christology
2 Peter 1:17, ‘mein Sohn, mein liaba Sohn.’ Must convey a unique, singular love, not one of several favored figures.
Well Pleased
Approved rendering: an dem i mei Wohlgefalln hab
Transliteration: on dem i mei Wohlgfoin hob
Doctrine: Sonship and Deity of Christ
Original: εὐδοκέω
Category: Christology
2 Peter 1:17. Borrowed compound from standard German ‘Wohlgefallen,’ phonologically adapted. Foundational to Christ’s unique standing before the Father.
Majestic Glory
Approved rendering: de herrliche Majestät
Transliteration: de herrliche Majeschtät
Doctrine: Sonship and Deity of Christ
Original: μεγαλοπρεπὴς δόξα
Category: Christology
2 Peter 1:17. A reverent periphrasis for God the Father speaking directly; must not be received as a distinct divine being from ‘God the Father’ named in the same verse.
Elements
Approved rendering: Elemente
Transliteration: Elemente
Doctrine: Cosmic Dissolution and the New Creation
Original: στοιχεῖα
Category: Eschatology
2 Peter 3:10, 3:12. Ancient cosmological sense, not modern chemistry.
Dissolve
Approved rendering: si aflösn / vergeh
Transliteration: si oflösn / vageh
Doctrine: Cosmic Dissolution and the New Creation
Original: λύω
Category: Eschatology
2 Peter 3:10-12, the dissolution of the present cosmic order.
Spotless Blameless
Approved rendering: ohne Fleck und Tadel
Transliteration: ohne Fleck und Tadl
Doctrine: Cosmic Dissolution and the New Creation
Original: ἄσπιλος καὶ ἀμώμητος
Category: Sanctification
2 Peter 3:14, sacrificial-purity language for the believer’s called-for moral condition while awaiting the Day of the Lord.
Thief
Approved rendering: Diab
Transliteration: Diab
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Original: κλέπτης
Category: Eschatology
2 Peter 3:10. Vivid, well-grounded rural image; must retain ‘sudden and unwelcome,’ not mere ‘surprise.‘
Creation
Approved rendering: Schöpfung
Transliteration: Schöpfung
Doctrine: Cosmic Dissolution and the New Creation
Original: κτίσις
Category: Creation
2 Peter 3:4, the created world ‘since the beginning of creation’ per the scoffers’ false assumption, corrected by 3:5.
Word Of God Creative
Approved rendering: s’Wort vo Gott
Transliteration: s’Wort vom Gott
Doctrine: Cosmic Dissolution and the New Creation
Original: λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Creation
2 Peter 3:5, 3:7. God’s effective, creative speech; reuses the ‘vo Gott’ contraction pattern.
Delay
Approved rendering: si verspaadn
Transliteration: si vaschpaatn
Doctrine: Patience of God’s Timing
Original: βραδύνω
Category: Eschatology
2 Peter 3:9, the scoffers’ false charge that the Lord is ‘slow,’ which Peter reframes as loving patience, not delay.
Perish
Approved rendering: zgrundgeh / umkemma
Transliteration: zgrundgeh / umkumma
Doctrine: Repentance unto Salvation
Original: ἀπόλλυμι
Category: Judgment
2 Peter 3:9, God’s desire that none perish, tied to the purpose of his patience.
Divine Power
Approved rendering: göttliche Kraft
Transliteration: göttliche Kroft
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Original: θεία δύναμις
Category: Divine Nature
2 Peter 1:3, the source of everything needed for life and godliness; grounds virtue-growth in God’s provision, not human striving alone.
Desire Lust
Approved rendering: Begierde
Transliteration: Begierd
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Original: ἐπιθυμία
Category: Sin
2 Peter 1:4, 2:10, 2:18, 3:3. Must be distinguished from neutral ‘Wunsch’ (wish) to retain its consistently negative moral charge.
Tent Body
Approved rendering: Zeltn
Transliteration: Zeltn
Doctrine: Mortality and the Hope of Departure
Original: σκήνωμα
Category: Eschatology
2 Peter 1:13-14. Must not import a gnostic body-negative ‘prison of the flesh’ connotation; frame as temporary, not disposable-and-worthless, to preserve bodily resurrection hope.
Departure Exodus
Approved rendering: Auszug
Transliteration: Auszug
Doctrine: Mortality and the Hope of Departure
Original: ἔξοδος
Category: Eschatology
2 Peter 1:15. Deliberate Exodus-narrative echo; must retain the triumphant, purposeful-departure connotation, not merely a neutral euphemism for dying.
World
Approved rendering: Welt
Transliteration: Wödt
Doctrine: Escaping the Defilement of the World
Original: κόσμος
Category: Creation
2 Peter 1:4, 2:5, 2:20, 3:6. Context-sensitive between the physical world and the world-system opposed to God; check which sense is active per occurrence.
Low Risk Terms
Peace
Approved rendering: Friad
Transliteration: Friade
Doctrine: Peace with God
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. 2 Peter 1:2, paired with grace in the greeting per established convention.
Jesus
Approved rendering: Jesus
Transliteration: Jesus
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Stable across 2 Peter; consistently paired with ‘Christ’ and title formulas (Lord, Savior).
Prophecy
Approved rendering: Weissogung
Transliteration: Weissagung
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Original: προφητεία
Category: Scripture
Inherited from Romans package. 2 Peter 1:20, 1:21, 3:2 — the anchor noun for the doctrine of inspired prophetic origin in 1:20-21.
Prophet
Approved rendering: Prophet
Transliteration: Prophet
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Original: προφήτης
Category: Scripture
Inherited from Romans package. 2 Peter 2:16 (Balaam), 3:2 (holy prophets).
Apostle
Approved rendering: Apostl
Transliteration: Apoastl
Doctrine: Apostleship
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. 2 Peter 1:1, 3:2. Paired with the new term ‘Knecht’ (bondservant) as Peter’s self-designation, a posture of total belonging before naming his office.
Flood
Approved rendering: d’Sindflut
Transliteration: de Sindflut
Doctrine: Judgment of Fallen Angels and Ancient Examples
Original: κατακλυσμός
Category: Judgment
2 Peter 2:5, 3:6. Well-established, widely known via the Sintflut/Noah narrative.
Catastrophe
Approved rendering: Untergang
Transliteration: Untergong
Doctrine: Judgment of Fallen Angels and Ancient Examples
Original: καταστροφή
Category: Judgment
2 Peter 2:6, Sodom and Gomorrah’s judgment as a paradigm of judgment on the ungodly.
Example Pattern
Approved rendering: Beispiel
Transliteration: Beispiel
Doctrine: Judgment of Fallen Angels and Ancient Examples
Original: ὑπόδειγμα
Category: False Teaching
2 Peter 2:6, Sodom/Gomorrah as an enduring warning-pattern.
Rescue Deliver
Approved rendering: retten
Transliteration: rettn
Doctrine: Judgment of Fallen Angels and Ancient Examples
Original: ῥύομαι
Category: Salvation
2 Peter 2:7, 2:9. God’s ability to rescue the godly (Lot; and by extension believers) even amid surrounding judgment.
Commandment
Approved rendering: s’hoalige Gebot
Transliteration: s’hoalige Gebod
Doctrine: Moral Corruption and the Ironic Slavery of False Teachers
Original: ἐντολή
Category: Covenant
2 Peter 2:21, ‘the holy commandment’ delivered to believers, abandonment of which characterizes apostasy. Grounded via ‘de Zehn Gebot’ catechetical familiarity.
Holy Mountain
Approved rendering: da hoalige Berg
Transliteration: da hoalige Berg
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Testimony
Original: ἅγιον ὄρος
Category: Scripture
2 Peter 1:18. Grounds the eyewitness event in a specific, sacred, historical place, echoing Sinai.
Voice From Heaven
Approved rendering: a Stimm vom Himme
Transliteration: a Stimm vom Himmel
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Testimony
Original: φωνὴ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ
Category: Scripture
2 Peter 1:18. Direct, audible divine speech-event corroborating eyewitness testimony.
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