Core Glossary

Core Glossary — Matthew 1–28 (English → Bavarian)

This glossary consolidates every load-bearing term identified in analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md, drawn from every chapter of Matthew, first to last. Terms already present in the baseline Romans translation_memory.json are marked [baseline reuse] and their recorded Bavarian rendering and spelling are reused exactly, per the hard rule that established term renderings must not be altered. New terms proposed here for the Matthew curriculum are marked [NEW] and are candidates for formal addition to translation memory in Phase 2 Step 2, pending the same theologian/native-speaker review routing recorded in doctrine_risk_registry.json-style conventions.

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Risk: Critical / High / Medium / Low, per the baseline’s four-tier convention.
Status: [baseline reuse] = term and spelling fixed by Romans package; [NEW] = proposed for this curriculum.
First ch.: first chapter of occurrence in Matthew (not exhaustive of every repeat occurrence).

#	Term (English)	Original (Greek)	Transliteration	Bavarian Rendering	Risk	Status	Doctrine	First ch.
1	Christ / Messiah	Χριστός	Christos	Messias	Medium	[baseline reuse]	Jesus as the Promised Messiah	1
2	Son of David	υἱὸς Δαβίδ	huios Dauid	Sohn vom David	High	[NEW]	Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David	1
3	Seed of David (descent)	σπέρμα Δαυίδ	sperma Dauid	Nachkomme vom David	Medium	[baseline reuse]	Davidic Covenant	1
4	virgin	παρθένος	parthenos	Jungfrau	Critical	[NEW]	Incarnation / Fulfillment of Prophecy	1
5	Emmanuel	Ἐμμανουήλ	Emmanouēl	Immanuel (“Gott mit ins”)	High	[NEW]	Incarnation	1
6	fulfilled (prophecy formula)	ἵνα πληρωθῇ / πληρόω	hina plērōthē / plēroō	erfüllt	High	[NEW]	Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy	1
7	righteous (of Joseph)	δίκαιος	dikaios	gerecht	Medium	[baseline reuse root]	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	1
8	Holy Spirit	Πνεῦμα Ἅγιον	Pneuma Hagion	Heiliger Geist	Medium	[baseline reuse]	Incarnation	1
9	magi / wise men	μάγοι	magoi	Weise aus’m Morgnland	Low	[NEW]	Unity of Jews and Gentiles	2
10	worship / homage	προσκυνέω	proskyneō	oabet’n / si niederwerfa	Medium	[NEW]	Deity of Christ	2
11	King of the Jews	βασιλεὺς τῶν Ἰουδαίων	basileus tōn Ioudaiōn	Kini vo de Juden	Medium	[NEW]	Jesus as the Promised Messiah	2
12	repent / repentance	μετανοέω / μετάνοια	metanoeō / metanoia	Buaß tuan	Critical	[NEW]	Kingdom of Heaven	3
13	baptize / baptism	βαπτίζω / βάπτισμα	baptizō / baptisma	taffn / d’Tauf	Critical	[NEW]	The Great Commission	3
14	kingdom of heaven	βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν	basileia tōn ouranōn	s’Reich vo de Himmel (alt. s’Himmireich)	Critical	[NEW]	The Kingdom of Heaven	3
15	kingdom of God (synonym)	βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ	basileia tou theou	s’Reich vo Gott	Medium	[baseline reuse]	The Kingdom of Heaven	12
16	beloved Son	ὁ υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητός	ho huios mou ho agapētos	Sohn vo Gott	Critical	[baseline reuse]	Sonship of Christ	3
17	temptation / tempt	πειρασμός / πειράζω	peirasmos / peirazō	Versuachung / versuacha	Medium	[NEW]	Discipleship and Cost of Following	4
18	devil	διάβολος	diabolos	Teife	High	[NEW]	Authority of Jesus	4
19	disciple (noun)	μαθητής	mathētēs	Jünga	Medium	[NEW]	Discipleship and Cost of Following	5
20	teach	διδάσκω	didaskō	lehr’n	Medium	[NEW]	Authority of Jesus’ Teaching	5
21	blessed	μακάριος	makarios	seelig	Critical	[NEW]	Kingdom of Heaven	5
22	poor in spirit	πτωχοὶ τῷ πνεύματι	ptōchoi tō pneumati	arm im Geist	High	[NEW]	Kingdom of Heaven	5
23	mourn	πενθέω	pentheō	traura	Medium	[NEW]	Kingdom of Heaven	5
24	comforted	παρακαλέω (pass.)	parakaleō	tröst’t wer’n	Medium	[NEW]	Kingdom of Heaven	5
25	meek	πραΰς	praus	sanftmiatig	Medium	[NEW]	Kingdom of Heaven	5
26	inherit	κληρονομέω	klēronomeō	erb’n	Low	[NEW]	Kingdom of Heaven	5
27	righteousness	δικαιοσύνη	dikaiosynē	Gerechtigkeit	Critical	[baseline reuse]	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	5
28	satisfied / filled	χορτάζω	chortazō	sätt wer’n	Low	[NEW]	Kingdom of Heaven	5
29	merciful	ἐλεήμων / ἔλεος	eleēmōn / eleos	barmherzig	Medium	[NEW]	Kingdom of Heaven	5
30	pure in heart	καθαροὶ τῇ καρδίᾳ	katharoi tē kardia	reinherzig	Medium	[NEW]	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	5
31	peacemakers	εἰρηνοποιός	eirēnopoios	Friadensmacher	Medium	[NEW]	Kingdom of Heaven	5
32	sons of God (called)	υἱοὶ θεοῦ	huioi theou	Kinder/Söhn vo Gott	High	[baseline reuse root]	Adoption into God’s Family	5
33	persecuted	διώκω	diōkō	verfolgt	High	[NEW]	Discipleship and Cost of Following	5
34	reward	μισθός	misthos	Lohn	High	[NEW]	Kingdom of Heaven	5
35	rejoice / exult	χαίρω / ἀγαλλιάω	chairō / agalliaō	freut’s eich und jubelt’s	Medium	[NEW]	Kingdom of Heaven	5
36	prophet	προφήτης	prophētēs	Prophet	Low	[baseline reuse]	Fulfillment of Prophecy	5
37	salt of the earth	ἅλας τῆς γῆς	halas tēs gēs	s’Salz vo da Erdn	Low	[NEW]	Discipleship	5
38	light of the world	φῶς τοῦ κόσμου	phōs tou kosmou	s’Liacht vo da Weit	Low/Medium	[NEW]	Discipleship	5
39	fulfill the Law	πληρῶσαι τὸν νόμον	plērōsai ton nomon	s’Gsetz erfülln	High	[baseline reuse root]	Fulfillment of Prophecy	5
40	law	νόμος	nomos	Gsetz	High	[baseline reuse]	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	5
41	righteousness exceeding the Pharisees	περισσεύῃ ἡ δικαιοσύνη… πλεῖον	perisseuē hē dikaiosynē… pleion	mehra Gerechtigkeit as de Schriftgelehrtn und Pharisäer	Critical	[NEW]	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	5
42	scribes and Pharisees	γραμματεῖς καὶ Φαρισαῖοι	grammateis kai Pharisaioi	Schriftgelehrte und Pharisäer	High	[NEW]	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	5
43	but I say to you	ἐγὼ δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν	egō de legō hymin	i sag enk aber	Critical	[NEW]	Authority of Jesus’ Teaching	5
44	love (esp. of enemies)	ἀγάπη / ἀγαπάω	agapē / agapaō	Liab	Critical	[NEW]	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	5
45	perfect / complete	τέλειος	teleios	vollkommen	Medium	[NEW]	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	5
46	Our Father (prayer address)	Πάτερ ἡμῶν	Pater hēmōn	Voda unser	Critical	[baseline reuse root]	Authority of Jesus’ Teaching	6
47	daily bread	ὁ ἄρτος ὁ ἐπιούσιος	ho artos ho epiousios	unser täglich Brot	Medium	[NEW]	Kingdom of Heaven	6
48	forgive us our debts	ὀφειλήματα	opheilēmata	vergib uns unsere Schuld	High	[NEW]	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	6
49	sin	ἁμαρτία	hamartia	Sünd	High	[baseline reuse]	Universal Human Accountability	6
50	almsgiving	ἐλεημοσύνη	eleēmosynē	Almosen gebn	Medium	[NEW]	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	6
51	hypocrite	ὑποκριτής	hypokritēs	Scheinheiliga	Medium	[NEW]	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	6
52	mammon	μαμωνᾶς	mamōnas	Mammon	Low	[NEW]	Discipleship	6
53	judge (censoriously)	κρίνω	krinō	richt’n / verurteil’n	Medium	[NEW]	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	7
54	narrow gate	στενὴ πύλη	stenē pylē	s’enge Tor	Medium	[NEW]	Kingdom of Heaven	7
55	authority	ἐξουσία	exousia	Vollmacht	Critical	[NEW]	Authority of Jesus’ Teaching	7
56	will of the Father	τὸ θέλημα τοῦ πατρός	to thelēma tou patros	da Wille vom Voda	Medium	[NEW]	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	7
57	faith	πίστις	pistis	Glaam	Medium	[baseline reuse]	Discipleship	8
58	Son of Man	υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου	huios tou anthrōpou	Menschensohn	Critical	[NEW]	Authority of Jesus / Judgment	8
59	demon	δαιμόνιον	daimonion	böser Geist / Damon	High	[NEW]	Authority of Jesus	8
60	authority to forgive sins	ἐξουσίαν ἀφιέναι ἁμαρτίας	exousian aphienai hamartias	Vollmacht, Sünd vergebn	Critical	[NEW]	Authority of Jesus’ Teaching	9
61	mercy, not sacrifice	ἔλεος… καὶ οὐ θυσίαν	eleos… kai ou thysian	Erbarmen, ned Opfer	High	[NEW]	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	9
62	harvest	θερισμός	therismos	Ernte	Low	[NEW]	The Great Commission	9
63	apostle	ἀπόστολος	apostolos	Apostl	Low	[baseline reuse]	The Great Commission	10
64	not peace but a sword	οὐ εἰρήνην ἀλλὰ μάχαιραν	ou eirēnēn alla machairan	koan Friad, sondern a Schwerd	Medium	[NEW]	Discipleship and Cost of Following	10
65	take up his cross	ἆρον τὸν σταυρόν	aron ton stauron	s’Kreuz auf si nehma	Critical	[NEW]	Discipleship and Cost of Following	10
66	lose/find his life	ὁ εὑρὼν τὴν ψυχὴν… ἀπολέσει	ho heurōn tēn psychēn… apolesei	sei Lebn valiern / findn	High	[NEW]	Discipleship and Cost of Following	10
67	the one who is to come	ὁ ἐρχόμενος	ho erchomenos	der, der kemma soll	High	[NEW]	Jesus as the Promised Messiah	11
68	yoke	ζυγός	zygos	Joch	Medium	[NEW]	Discipleship	11
69	rest	ἀνάπαυσις	anapausis	Rua	Medium	[NEW]	Discipleship	11
70	Sabbath	σάββατον	sabbaton	Sabbat	Medium	[NEW]	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	12
71	blasphemy against the Holy Spirit	βλασφημία εἰς τὸ Πνεῦμα	blasphēmia eis to Pneuma	Gotteslästerung gegen’n Heiligen Geist	Critical	[NEW]	Judgment and End of the Age	12
72	sign of Jonah	τὸ σημεῖον Ἰωνᾶ	to sēmeion Iōna	s’Zeichn vom Jona	Medium	[NEW]	Fulfillment of Prophecy	12
73	parable	παραβολή	parabolē	Gleichnis	Medium	[NEW]	Kingdom of Heaven	13
74	mystery	μυστήριον	mystērion	Gheimnis	High	[NEW]	Kingdom of Heaven	13
75	end of the age	συντέλεια τοῦ αἰῶνος	synteleia tou aiōnos	s’End vo dera Weltzeit	High	[NEW]	Judgment and End of the Age	13
76	furnace of fire	κάμινος τοῦ πυρός	kaminos tou pyros	Feuerofen	Medium	[NEW]	Judgment and End of the Age	13
77	little faith	ὀλιγόπιστος	oligopistos	kloaglaabig	Medium	[NEW]	Discipleship	14
78	tradition	παράδοσις	paradosis	Überliefarung	High	[NEW]	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	15
79	defilement (heart)	κοινόω	koinoō	unrein macha	Medium	[NEW]	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	15
80	You are the Christ, Son of the living God	Σὺ εἶ ὁ Χριστὸς ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ ζῶντος	Sy ei ho Christos ho huios tou theou tou zōntos	Du bist da Messias, da Sohn vom lebendign Gott	Critical	[baseline reuse]	Jesus as the Promised Messiah	16
81	keys of the kingdom	κλεῖδας τῆς βασιλείας	kleidas tēs basileias	d’Schlissl vom Reich vo de Himmel	Critical	[NEW]	Church and Church Discipline	16
82	bind and loose	δέω / λύω	deō / lyō	bind’n und lösn	Critical	[NEW]	Church and Church Discipline	16
83	church	ἐκκλησία	ekklēsia	Kirch	High	[baseline reuse]	Church and Church Discipline	16
84	transfigured	μεταμορφόω	metamorphoō	verklärt	Medium	[NEW]	Deity of Christ	17
85	if your brother sins	ἐὰν ἁμάρτῃ ὁ ἀδελφός σου	ean hamartē ho adelphos sou	wenn dei Bruada gegn di sündigt	High	[NEW]	Church and Church Discipline	18
86	gathered in my name	συνηγμένοι εἰς τὸ ἐμὸν ὄνομα	synēgmenoi eis to emon onoma	in mein’ Nam versammlt	Medium	[NEW]	Church and Church Discipline	18
87	cause to stumble	σκανδαλίζω	skandalizō	zum Fall’n bringa	High	[NEW]	Church and Church Discipline	18
88	seventy times seven (forgiveness)	ἑβδομηκοντάκις ἑπτά	hebdomēkontakis hepta	siebzgmal siebn	High	[NEW]	Church and Church Discipline	18
89	divorce	ἀπολύω	apolyō	si scheidn lassn	Medium/High	[NEW]	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	19
90	with God all things possible	παρὰ θεῷ πάντα δυνατά	para theō panta dynata	bei Gott is olles möglich	Medium	[NEW]	Kingdom of Heaven	19
91	ransom for many	λύτρον ἀντὶ πολλῶν	lytron anti pollōn	Lösegeld für viele	Critical	[NEW]	Jesus as the Promised Messiah	20
92	Hosanna	ὡσαννά	hōsanna	Hosanna	Low	[NEW]	Jesus as the Promised Messiah	21
93	stone the builders rejected	λίθον ὃν ἀπεδοκίμασαν	lithon hon apedokimasan	da Stoa, den de Bauleit verworfa ham	High	[NEW]	Fulfillment of Prophecy	21
94	a nation producing fruits	ἔθνει τῷ ποιοῦντι τοὺς καρπούς	ethnei tō poiounti tous karpous	a Volk, des Frucht bringt	High	[NEW]	Unity of Jews and Gentiles	21
95	called / chosen	κλητοί / ἐκλεκτοί	klētoi / eklektoi	beruafa / Erwählte	High	[baseline reuse]	Effectual Calling	22
96	render to Caesar	ἀπόδοτε Καίσαρι τὰ Καίσαρος	apodote Kaisari ta Kaisaros	Gebt’s dem Kaiser, was Kaisers is	Medium	[NEW]	Kingdom of Heaven	22
97	greatest commandment (love God/neighbor)	ἀγαπήσεις… τὸν πλησίον	agapēseis… ton plēsion	Liab zu Gott und zum Nächstn	Critical	[NEW]	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	22
98	woe	οὐαί	ouai	Wehe	Low/Medium	[NEW]	Judgment and End of the Age	23
99	coming (parousia) of the Son of Man	παρουσία	parousia	s’Kemma vom Menschensohn	Critical	[NEW]	Judgment and End of the Age	24
100	abomination of desolation	βδέλυγμα τῆς ἐρημώσεως	bdelygma tēs erēmōseōs	s’Greisliche, was olles verwüst	High	[NEW]	Judgment and End of the Age	24
101	great tribulation	θλῖψις μεγάλη	thlipsis megalē	a groaße Not	Medium	[NEW]	Judgment and End of the Age	24
102	false messiahs	ψευδόχριστοι	pseudochristoi	falsche Messiasse	High	[NEW]	Jesus as the Promised Messiah	24
103	talents	τάλαντα	talanta	Talente	Medium	[NEW]	Discipleship	25
104	sheep and goats (judgment)	πρόβατα καὶ ἐρίφια	probata kai eriphia	d’Schaf und d’Bock	High	[NEW]	Judgment and End of the Age	25
105	least of these my brothers	τῶν ἀδελφῶν μου τῶν ἐλαχίστων	tōn adelphōn mou tōn elachistōn	de Gringstn vo meine Brüada	High	[NEW]	Judgment and End of the Age	25
106	eternal punishment / eternal life	κόλασιν αἰώνιον / ζωὴν αἰώνιον	kolasin aiōnion / zōēn aiōnion	d’ewige Straf / s’ewige Lebn	Critical	[NEW]	Judgment and End of the Age	25
107	covenant	διαθήκη	diathēkē	Bund	Medium	[baseline reuse]	The Great Commission	26
108	my body / my blood of the covenant	τὸ σῶμά μου / τὸ αἷμά μου τῆς διαθήκης	to sōma mou / to haima mou tēs diathēkēs	mei Leib / mei Bluat vom Bund	Critical	[NEW]	The Church (Lord’s Supper)	26
109	for the forgiveness of sins	εἰς ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν	eis aphesin hamartiōn	zur Vergebung vo de Sünd	High	[baseline reuse root]	Judgment and End of the Age	26
110	not as I will, but as you will	οὐχ ὡς ἐγὼ θέλω… ὡς σύ	ouch hōs egō thelō… hōs sy	net wia i will, sondern wia du witt	Medium	[NEW]	Discipleship and Cost of Following	26
111	crucify	σταυρόω	stauroō	kreuzign	Critical	[NEW]	Discipleship and Cost of Following	27
112	Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani	Ηλι Ηλι λεμα σαβαχθανι (Aram.)	Ēli Ēli lema sabachthani	Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani	Critical	[NEW]	Judgment and End of the Age	27
113	temple veil torn	τὸ καταπέτασμα… ἐσχίσθη	to katapetasma… eschisthē	da Vorhang im Tempel is zrissn	Medium/High	[NEW]	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	27
114	Son of God (centurion’s confession)	ἀληθῶς θεοῦ υἱὸς ἦν οὗτος	alēthōs theou huios ēn houtos	Sohn vo Gott	Critical	[baseline reuse]	Sonship of Christ	27
115	resurrection	ἀνάστασις / ἠγέρθη	anastasis / ēgerthē	Aufersteh’ng	Medium	[baseline reuse]	The Great Commission	28
116	make disciples (of all nations)	μαθητεύσατε πάντα τὰ ἔθνη	mathēteusate panta ta ethnē	macht’s alle Völker zu Jünger	Critical	[NEW]	The Great Commission	28
117	gentiles / nations	ἔθνη	ethnē	Heiden / Völker	Medium	[baseline reuse]	The Great Commission	28
118	baptizing in the name of Father, Son, Holy Spirit	βαπτίζοντες εἰς τὸ ὄνομα…	baptizontes eis to onoma…	taffn auf’n Nam vom Voda, vom Sohn, und vom Heilign Geist	Critical	[NEW]	The Great Commission	28
119	I am with you always	ἐγὼ μεθ’ ὑμῶν εἰμι πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας	egō meth’ hymōn eimi pasas tas hēmeras	i bin bei enk, alle Tag	High	[NEW]	The Great Commission	28

Risk Tier Summary (Matthew Curriculum)

Risk Tier	Count	Review Routing (per baseline convention)
Critical	24	Human theologian review required for every occurrence
High	26	Human theologian review required
Medium	55	Native speaker review recommended
Low	14	Automated review sufficient (dialect spot-check still required per baseline orthography rule)

Cross-Reference Notes for Phase 2

Terms marked [baseline reuse] must be enforced exactly as recorded in the Romans translation_memory.json, spelling included — no re-derivation permitted.
Terms marked [NEW] are proposed renderings only; per the AI instruction set’s Translation Memory Load and Enforcement Instructions, each must be formally logged in translation memory before Phase 2 segment translation proceeds, with risk-tier-appropriate review flagged (Critical/High → human theologian; Medium → native speaker; Low → automated + dialect spot-check).
Highest-priority Critical terms requiring immediate theologian workshop attention before Phase 2 begins: kingdom of heaven, virgin, Son of Man, authority (ἐξουσία), keys of the kingdom / bind-and-loose, ransom, love (ἀγάπη), eternal punishment/eternal life, my body/my blood of the covenant, Eli Eli lema sabachthani, make disciples of all nations, baptizing in the name of the Trinity, blessed (μακάριος) — this list represents the terms where a wrong Bavarian rendering would most directly collide with, or be absorbed into, an existing strong Bavarian Catholic doctrinal or devotional framework (papal primacy, the Mass, purgatory-adjacent afterlife theology, Marian devotion, sacramental Confession).
Positive-resonance terms worth noting for teaching materials (not primarily risks but opportunities): magi/Sternsinger (ch. 2), yoke/farm imagery (ch. 11), light of the world/Advent imagery (ch. 5), cross-bearing/Kreuzweg visual culture (ch. 10, 16, 27) — these give translators and teachers unusually strong, positive cultural bridges not documented as available for most terms in the baseline Romans package.

Critical Risk Terms

Son Of God

Approved rendering: Sohn vo Gott
Transliteration: Sohn vom Gott
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ

Inherited from Romans package. CRITICAL: full phrase required, conveying eternal, unique Sonship. In Matthew this is the Father’s declaration at the baptism (3:17) and Transfiguration (17:5), the confession by Peter (16:16) and the disciples (14:33), and the centurion’s confession at the cross (27:54) — the term recurs at full Critical weight at every one of these repeated occurrences and must be rendered identically each time.

Righteousness

Approved rendering: Gerechtigkeit
Transliteration: Gerechtigkeit
Doctrine: Salvation
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Retains the register-gap profile documented in the Romans baseline (a borrowed standard-German abstraction with no native Boarisch coinage). In Matthew this single term spans both the forensic-status sense (5:6,10,20; 6:33) and the lived-conduct sense (5:20’s ‘exceeding’ righteousness); reviewers must annotate which sense is active per occurrence.

Virgin

Approved rendering: Jungfrau
Transliteration: Jungfraa
Doctrine: Incarnation and Virgin Birth
Original: παρθένος
Category: Christology

[NEW] Matthew 1:23, quoting Isaiah 7:14 LXX. Bavaria’s intense Marian devotional culture (Altötting) risks pulling attention toward Marian veneration/dogma (perpetual virginity, Immaculate Conception) rather than Matthew’s specific Christological point: Christ’s miraculous, prophecy-fulfilling origin. Requires theologian review to keep the Christological emphasis primary.

Repentance

Approved rendering: Buaß tuan
Transliteration: Buass tuan
Doctrine: Repentance and Kingdom Entry
Original: μετανοέω / μετάνοια
Category: Kingdom

[NEW] μετάνοια (3:2; 4:17). ‘Buaß’ is inseparably tied in Bavarian Catholic usage to sacramental Penance/Confession (‘a Buaß auferlegn’), risking collapse of John’s and Jesus’ whole-life reorientation demand into a procedural act. Requires theologian-level care every occurrence.

Baptism

Approved rendering: taffn / d’Tauf
Transliteration: taufen / d’Taufa
Doctrine: Baptism
Original: βαπτίζω / βάπτισμα
Category: Church

[NEW] βαπτίζω/βάπτισμα (ch. 3; 28:19). Bavarian infant-baptism/christening culture risks importing later sacramental categories into John’s preparatory repentance-baptism, obscuring the historical distinction Matthew himself draws (3:11) before the full Trinitarian institution at 28:19.

Kingdom Of Heaven

Approved rendering: s’Reich vo de Himmel
Transliteration: s’Himmireich
Doctrine: The Kingdom of Heaven
Rejected alternatives: Herrschaft Gottes (strips Matthew’s deliberate reverential ‘heaven(s)’ circumlocution for the divine name, itself theologically significant)
Original: βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν
Category: Kingdom

[NEW] βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν, the single most frequent load-bearing phrase in the book (32+ occurrences: 3:2; 4:17; 5:3-12,20; 6:10,33; 13:11,44-46; etc.). Bavarian Catholic folk piety strongly associates ‘der Himmel’ with the individual soul’s afterlife destination, risking collapse into ‘you go to heaven when you die’ rather than God’s now-and-not-yet reign breaking into present history. Highest-priority doctrinal term in the whole curriculum; must be paired with explicit present-tense framing at every load-bearing occurrence.

Blessed

Approved rendering: seelig
Transliteration: seelig
Doctrine: The Kingdom of Heaven
Rejected alternatives: glücklich (too weak/subjective a ‘happy’ sense; also the rendering used in the Jehovah’s Witnesses German Neue-Welt-Übersetzung, which this curriculum must not echo)
Original: μακάριος
Category: Kingdom

[NEW] μακάριος, thesis-word of the Sermon (5:3-11), a solemn divine pronouncement of favor, not a mood report. Bavarian Catholic devotional vocabulary uses ‘seelig’ heavily for the beatified/canonized dead (‘der seelige Bruder Konrad’) and ‘de arme Seelig’n’ (the departed), risking a posthumous-beatification reading. Must be anchored by context every occurrence as Jesus’ present-tense pronouncement over the living.

Righteousness Exceeding Pharisees

Approved rendering: mehra Gerechtigkeit as de Schriftgelehrtn und Pharisäer
Transliteration: mehra Gerechtigkeit wia de Schriftgelehrten und Pharisäer
Doctrine: Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees
Rejected alternatives: a call to stricter rule-observance (the precise inversion of Jesus’ point, and the default reading this curriculum must actively guard against)
Original: περισσεύῃ ἡ δικαιοσύνη ὑμῶν πλεῖον
Category: Salvation

[NEW] περισσεύῃ ἡ δικαιοσύνη ὑμῶν πλεῖον (5:20). Given the well-documented Bavarian Catholic folk-piety merit-transaction pattern (pilgrimage vows, votive offerings), this doctrine risks being heard as a call to MORE rigorous rule-observance rather than the Sermon’s actual demand for a transformed heart. Requires human theologian review at every occurrence.

But I Say To You

Approved rendering: i sag enk aber
Transliteration: i sog enk aber
Doctrine: The Authority of Jesus’ Teaching
Original: ἐγὼ δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν
Category: Christology

[NEW] ἐγὼ δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν, repeated six times (5:21-48). A uniquely bold claim to speak with God’s own authority; must be rendered with unmistakable first-person emphatic force and never softened into a rabbi’s opinion among opinions.

Love

Approved rendering: Liab
Transliteration: Liabe
Doctrine: Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees
Original: ἀγαπάω / ἀγάπη
Category: Sanctification

[NEW] ἀγαπάω/ἀγάπη (5:44; the greatest commandment, 22:37-40). Everyday Bavarian ‘Liab’ carries strong romantic/familial-affection connotations, risking the flattening of this willed, even enemy-directed covenantal love into mere warm sentiment. Requires theologian-level attention wherever it bears doctrinal weight.

Our Father

Approved rendering: Voda unser
Transliteration: Vater unser
Doctrine: Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer
Rejected alternatives: a phonologically-adapted dialect respelling departing from the memorized liturgical wording (rejected — this text is recited from memory in standard German even in dialect-speaking households, so liturgical-textual consistency takes precedence over the general phonological pattern)
Original: Πάτερ ἡμῶν
Category: God

[NEW] Πάτερ ἡμῶν (6:9). Critical purely on grounds of required liturgical-textual consistency: Bavarian rendering must align with the established ‘Vater unser’ wording already familiar from Mass, the single most-recited prayer text in any Christian dialect community. Offer a dialectal rendering for teaching/comprehension only, never as a liturgical replacement.

Authority

Approved rendering: Vollmacht
Transliteration: Vollmoacht
Doctrine: The Authority of Jesus’ Teaching
Rejected alternatives: Autorität (too abstract/institutional-sounding; risks defaulting to Magisterial/ecclesial-office authority as the primary referent rather than Jesus’ own self-grounded authority)
Original: ἐξουσία
Category: Christology

[NEW] ἐξουσία (7:29 and throughout: 9:6,8; 21:23-27; 28:18): Jesus’ unique, self-grounded teaching authority, resting in his own person, not derived citation of prior tradition. Must not be diluted into ‘one respected rabbi’s opinion,’ nor absorbed by the Catholic-formed audience’s default association of religious authority with the Magisterium, the bishop, or the local priest. Requires human theologian review at every occurrence.

Son Of Man

Approved rendering: Menschensohn
Transliteration: Menschnsohn
Doctrine: The Son of Man
Rejected alternatives: bloß ‘Mensch’ (bare ‘a human being’, loses both the humble-humanity and Daniel-7 exalted-judge senses simultaneously)
Original: υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου
Category: Christology

[NEW] υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, Jesus’ favorite self-designation (first at 8:20), holding together genuine humble humanity and, drawing on Daniel 7:13-14, an exalted eschatological judge with everlasting dominion. The greatest risk is flattening the term into only one sense. Requires theologian review at every doctrinally load-bearing occurrence (8:20; 9:6; 16:27; 20:28; 24:30; 25:31; 26:64).

Authority To Forgive Sins

Approved rendering: Vollmacht, Sünd vergebn
Transliteration: Vollmoacht, Sind vagebn
Doctrine: The Authority of Jesus’ Teaching
Original: ἐξουσίαν ἀφιέναι ἁμαρτίας
Category: Christology

[NEW] ἐξουσίαν ἀφιέναι ἁμαρτίας (9:1-8). Jesus’ explicit claim to a divine prerogative, validated visibly by healing. Occupies the same textual territory as sacramental Confession/Absolution (‘Ich spreche dich los von deinen Sünden’); reviewers must keep clear that this grounds Christ’s own unique divine authority, the basis for (not a bypass of) any subsequently delegated ecclesial practice (cf. keys_of_the_kingdom, bind_and_loose).

Take Up His Cross

Approved rendering: s’Kreuz auf si nehma
Transliteration: s’Kreiz auf si nehma
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Original: ἆρον τὸν σταυρόν
Category: Discipleship

[NEW] ἆρον τὸν σταυρόν (10:38; repeated 16:24). Bavaria’s intensely visual Passion-devotion culture (Kreuzweg processions, roadside Marterl, farmhouse Herrgottswinkel) gives this image striking positive concrete grounding, but risks the metaphor collapsing into devotional cross-veneration imagery rather than a costly, self-denying personal pattern each disciple must undertake. Requires theologian review.

Blasphemy Against Holy Spirit

Approved rendering: Gotteslästerung gegen’n Heiligen Geist
Transliteration: Gotteslästarung gegn’n Heiling Geist
Doctrine: Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit
Original: βλασφημία εἰς τὸ Πνεῦμα
Category: Sin

[NEW] βλασφημία εἰς τὸ Πνεῦμα (12:31-32): the one unforgivable sin — willful, hardened attribution of God’s clearly demonstrated work to demonic power. Real pastoral risk of inducing unwarranted anxiety in genuinely troubled consciences, or trivializing it into casual blasphemous speech generally. Requires theologian-level pastoral care in teaching, not merely accurate translation.

Confession Christ Son Of Living God

Approved rendering: Du bist da Messias, da Sohn vom lebendign Gott
Transliteration: Du bist der Messias, der Sohn vom lebendign Gott
Doctrine: Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David
Original: Σὺ εἶ ὁ Χριστὸς ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ ζῶντος
Category: Christology

[NEW] Σὺ εἶ ὁ Χριστὸς ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ ζῶντος (16:16). Peter’s confession, the Gospel’s structural turning point. Jointly inherits the baseline ‘Messias’ and ‘Sohn vo Gott’ risk profiles at full Critical weight, immediately followed by the first Passion prediction.

Keys Of The Kingdom

Approved rendering: d’Schlissl vom Reich vo de Himmel
Transliteration: d’Schlüssl vom Reich vo de Himmel
Doctrine: The Church and Church Discipline
Original: τὰς κλεῖδας τῆς βασιλείας τῶν οὐρανῶν
Category: Church

[NEW] τὰς κλεῖδας τῆς βασιλείας τῶν οὐρανῶν (16:19). The foundational proof-text for Catholic Petrine primacy and papal authority — Bavaria produced Pope Benedict XVI, making this a matter of concrete regional identity, not abstract controversy. Unlike most register-gap Critical terms, there IS a live, specific, actively-taught competing doctrinal claim within the audience’s own tradition. The translation must render Jesus’ grant of authority to Peter faithfully without itself adjudicating the papal-succession question either way. Requires human theologian review at every occurrence.

Bind And Loose

Approved rendering: bind’n und lösn
Transliteration: bindn und lösn
Doctrine: The Church and Church Discipline
Original: δήσῃς / λύσῃς
Category: Church

[NEW] δήσῃς/λύσῃς (16:19; 18:18). Directly connects to the living, weekly-practiced priestly absolution formula in sacramental Confession. Must clarify corporate/ecclesial exercise (18:18, the gathered church) versus Peter’s individual commission (16:19), and must not be presented as warrant for any present-day continuing-apostolic office (cf. Neuapostolische Kirche, a genuinely South-German-regional risk).

Ransom For Many

Approved rendering: Lösegeld für viele
Transliteration: Lösegeld fia viele
Doctrine: Atonement and Ransom
Original: λύτρον ἀντὶ πολλῶν
Category: Salvation

[NEW] λύτρον ἀντὶ πολλῶν (20:28), Matthew’s clearest statement of substitutionary atonement. Shares a helpful etymological root family with the baseline’s Erlösung (both from ‘lösen’), but risks being heard as one more devotional transaction given the documented merit-transaction undertone around grace, rather than Christ’s own unique, sufficient, once-for-all payment. Requires human theologian review at every occurrence.

Greatest Commandment

Approved rendering: Liab zu Gott und zum Nächstn
Transliteration: Liab zu Gott und zum Nächsten
Doctrine: Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees
Original: ἀγαπήσεις Κύριον τὸν θεόν σου… ἀγαπήσεις τὸν πλησίον σου
Category: Sanctification

[NEW] ἀγαπήσεις Κύριον τὸν θεόν σου… ἀγαπήσεις τὸν πλησίον σου (22:37-40). Jesus names love of God and neighbor as the interpretive key to ‘all the Law and the Prophets,’ continuing the righteousness-exceeding theme. Inherits ‘Liab’s full Critical risk profile at the book’s single most important ethical-summary statement.

Coming Parousia

Approved rendering: s’Kemma vom Menschensohn
Transliteration: s’Kemma vom Menschnsohn
Doctrine: Judgment and the End of the Age
Rejected alternatives: Parusie (the transliterated Greek loanword; too technical/seminary-only for a lay dialect-speaking audience, and has no Bavarian devotional footing to draw on either way)
Original: παρουσία
Category: Eschatology

[NEW] παρουσία (24:3,27,37,39): Christ’s glorious, visible, universally evident future return. Must be conveyed as a definite, certain, future historical event rather than either a purely symbolic reading or sensationalist folk end-times speculation. Requires human theologian review.

Eternal Punishment Eternal Life

Approved rendering: d’ewige Straf / s’ewige Lebn
Transliteration: de ewige Straf / s’ewige Lebm
Doctrine: Judgment and the End of the Age
Original: κόλασιν αἰώνιον… ζωὴν αἰώνιον
Category: Eschatology

[NEW] κόλασιν αἰώνιον… ζωὴν αἰώνιον (25:46), the same adjective modifying both punishment and life in strict parallel. Bavarian purgatory-adjacent folk theology (prayers/indulgences for souls in a temporary, terminable purification) risks softening ‘eternal punishment’ into an implicitly temporary state, breaking the verse’s own strict parallel with an equally final ‘eternal life’. Requires human theologian review.

Body And Blood Of Covenant

Approved rendering: mei Leib… mei Bluat vom Bund
Transliteration: mei Leib… mei Bluet vom Bund
Doctrine: The Lord’s Supper / New Covenant Institution
Rejected alternatives: technical transubstantiation vocabulary absent from Matthew’s own Greek (rejected), a purely memorial/symbolic paraphrase that flattens the plain force of Jesus’ words (rejected)
Original: τὸ σῶμά μου… τὸ αἷμά μου τῆς διαθήκης
Category: Church

[NEW] τὸ σῶμά μου… τὸ αἷμά μου τῆς διαθήκης (26:26-28), echoing the Exodus covenant-blood ceremony and Jeremiah’s new covenant promise. Given the Mass’s absolute centrality to Bavarian Catholic devotional life, this is the single highest-stakes translation decision in the whole curriculum. Must render Jesus’ words to the plain force of the Greek without resolving the transubstantiation/real-presence/memorial question, which the translation itself cannot and must not adjudicate. Requires human theologian review at every occurrence.

Crucify

Approved rendering: kreuzign
Transliteration: kreizign
Doctrine: Atonement and Ransom
Original: σταυρόω
Category: Christology

[NEW] σταυρόω (ch. 27), the verb form of the cross already introduced metaphorically at 10:38 and 16:24, now narrated as historical event. Reviewers must ensure the connection between the earlier discipleship metaphor and this literal historical event is not lost, and that the full weight of the actual event, not merely its later devotional/artistic representation, is conveyed.

Cry Of Dereliction

Approved rendering: Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani (“mei Gott, mei Gott, warum hast du mi valassn?”)
Transliteration: Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani (“mei Gott, mei Gott, warum host du mi valossn?”)
Doctrine: Atonement and Ransom
Rejected alternatives: translating directly into German/Bavarian only without retaining the Aramaic (rejected — loses the marker that Christ is citing Psalm 22:1)
Original: Ηλι Ηλι λεμα σαβαχθανι
Category: Christology

[NEW] Ηλι Ηλι λεμα σαβαχθανι (27:46), quoting Psalm 22:1. Retained as transliterated Aramaic per the established Abba pattern, glossed in-text. Requires human theologian review to avoid two opposite errors: softening the cry’s real weight of felt abandonment, or over-literalizing it into an ontological rupture within the Godhead.

Make Disciples Of All Nations

Approved rendering: geht’s furt und macht’s alle Völker zu Jünger
Transliteration: geht’s fort und mochts alle Völker zu Jünger
Doctrine: The Great Commission
Rejected alternatives: converts machen / registrieren (an administrative-conversion/parish-registration model, rejected — this is precisely the collapse this curriculum must guard against)
Original: πορευθέντες μαθητεύσατε πάντα τὰ ἔθνη
Category: Mission

[NEW] πορευθέντες μαθητεύσατε πάντα τὰ ἔθνη (28:19), the book’s climactic commissioning statement, an ongoing, relational process of teaching obedience and formation, explicitly unpacked in the following clause (28:20). Requires human theologian review.

Baptizing Trinitarian Formula

Approved rendering: taffn auf’n Nam vom Voda, vom Sohn, und vom Heilign Geist
Transliteration: taufen auf’n Nam vom Voda, vom Sohn, und vom Heiling Geist
Doctrine: Baptism
Original: βαπτίζοντες αὐτοὺς εἰς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ Υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος
Category: God

[NEW] βαπτίζοντες αὐτοὺς εἰς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ Υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος (28:19), the Gospel’s clearest single Trinitarian formula, instituting Christian baptism explicitly, in contrast to John’s preparatory baptism (ch. 3). Jointly inherits the full risk profile of ‘baptize’ plus the combined Father/Son/Spirit terms, at the highest possible doctrinal stakes. Requires human theologian review at every occurrence, no exceptions.

High Risk Terms

Law

Approved rendering: Gsetz
Transliteration: Gsötz
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Original: νόμος
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Catholic natural-law theology shapes how this is heard in Bavarian Catholic teaching. Matthew 5:17-19’s ‘fulfill the Law’ claim (see fulfill_the_law, [NEW]) is the doctrine’s load-bearing occurrence in this book.

Sin

Approved rendering: Sünd
Transliteration: Sind
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin

Inherited from Romans package. Colloquial Bavarian uses ‘Sünd’ loosely for minor indulgence (‘a Sünd is des scho’), risking trivialization of Matthew’s weightier culpable-transgression sense throughout 1:21, 6:12, 9:1-8, 18:15-35, and 26:28.

Election

Approved rendering: Erwählung
Transliteration: Erwöahlung
Doctrine: Effectual Calling

Inherited from Romans package. A pure register-gap risk (no lived Bavarian predestination-controversy tradition), not a competing doctrinal tradition. Matthew 22:14’s ‘called/chosen’ (see called_chosen, [NEW]) is this doctrine’s key occurrence in the book.

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. ‘Kirch’ defaults overwhelmingly to the physical parish building/Kirchweih-festival sense, not the gathered-people sense. First named in Matthew at 16:18 (‘on this rock I will build my church’) and again at 18:17 (local church discipline); the Petros/petra wordplay at 16:18 does not carry over cleanly into Bavarian and may need a translator’s note. Use ‘in mein’ Nam versammlt’ (18:20) as a recurring counterweight phrase.

Grace

Approved rendering: Gnad
Transliteration: Gnod
Doctrine: Grace

Inherited from Romans package. Must render as wholly unmerited and apart from any devotional transaction. Relevant to Matthew’s parable of the workers in the vineyard (20:1-16), whose grace-based, non-merit wage structure must not be flattened into a fairness/works dispute, and to reward, [NEW] (5:12) and least_of_these, [NEW] (25:40,45).

Salvation

Approved rendering: Erlösung
Transliteration: Erlesung
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: Heil (Nazi-era contamination risk, acute in Bavaria specifically)

Inherited from Romans package. ‘Erlösung’ shares a helpful etymological root family (both from ‘lösen’) with Matthew’s ransom_for_many, [NEW] (20:28’s ‘Lösegeld’); this bridge is useful for teaching but the reverse risk (ransom heard as a devotional transaction) must still be actively guarded against.

Son Of David

Approved rendering: Sohn vom David
Transliteration: Sohn vo David
Doctrine: Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David
Original: υἱὸς Δαβίδ
Category: Christology

[NEW] Direct messianic address/acclamation, used repeatedly (1:1; 9:27; 12:23; 15:22; 20:30-31; 21:9,15; 22:42), distinct from the narrative descent-statement ‘Nachkomme vom David’. Bavarian devotional Christology is shaped more by the Passion-Christ and infant Christ than by royal-Davidic categories; risks reading as decorative ancestry rather than a weighty messianic claim. Must retain full acclamatory force at every occurrence.

Emmanuel

Approved rendering: Immanuel (“Gott mit ins”)
Transliteration: Emmanuel (“Gott mit uns”)
Doctrine: Incarnation and Virgin Birth
Rejected alternatives: fully translating rather than transliterating the name (loses the proper-noun/title weight)
Original: Ἐμμανουήλ
Category: Christology

[NEW] Matthew 1:23; echoed at 28:20 (‘I am with you always’), forming a book-spanning inclusio that must be preserved recognizably in teaching material. Transliterated per the established Abba pattern and glossed in-text; must be actively taught, not reduced to a name-etymology footnote.

Fulfilled Prophecy Formula

Approved rendering: erfüllt / so dass des erfüllt worn is
Transliteration: erfüllt / so dass des erfüllt worden is
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy
Original: ἵνα πληρωθῇ / πληρόω
Category: Covenant

[NEW] Matthew’s signature literary formula (1:22; 2:15,17,23; 4:14; 8:17; 12:17; 13:35; 21:4; 27:9). Low OT narrative literacy outside Mass-lectionary familiarity risks the formula reading as pious rhetorical flourish rather than a linear historical-argument claim; every occurrence needs explicit cross-referencing to the OT text quoted in accompanying teaching material, not the translation alone.

Devil

Approved rendering: Teife
Transliteration: Teifl
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare (Devil and Demons)
Original: διάβολος
Category: Spiritual Warfare

[NEW] διάβολος (ch. 4; also ‘Satan’ interchangeably at 4:10). Alpine Bavarian folk culture carries a vivid, often half-theatrical folkloric devil tradition (Krampus/Perchten-adjacent processions, carved devil-masks) that risks trivializing a real personal spiritual adversary into colorful folklore entertainment.

Poor In Spirit

Approved rendering: arm im Geist
Transliteration: orm im Geist
Doctrine: The Kingdom of Heaven
Original: πτωχοὶ τῷ πνεύματι
Category: Kingdom

[NEW] πτωχοὶ τῷ πνεύματι (5:3): utter dependence on God, the kingdom’s entry qualification. Bavarian folk piety’s strong devotional tradition honoring literal material poverty (mendicant orders, Bettler piety at pilgrimage sites) risks collapsing this into commending literal poverty as itself meritorious, rather than humility/dependence.

Sons Of God Called

Approved rendering: Kinder/Söhn vo Gott
Transliteration: Kinda/Söhn vo Gott
Doctrine: Effectual Calling and Election
Original: υἱοὶ θεοῦ κληθήσονται
Category: Adoption

[NEW] υἱοὶ θεοῦ κληθήσονται (5:9); reuses baseline ‘beruafa’ (called) root, inheriting its everyday career/vocation homonym risk in full. Peacemaking is presented as the family likeness of God’s children, echoing the adoption theology of Romans 8 and anticipating 6:9’s ‘Our Father’.

Persecuted

Approved rendering: verfolgt
Transliteration: vaverfolgt
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Original: δεδιωγμένοι (διώκω)
Category: Discipleship

[NEW] διώκω perfect passive (5:10): a settled, ongoing state of hostility for righteousness’ sake. In a religiously comfortable, culturally Catholic Bavarian context where nominal Christian identity carries no social cost, this beatitude risks reading as remote/historical rather than a live category of discipleship cost.

Reward

Approved rendering: Lohn
Transliteration: Loah
Doctrine: The Kingdom of Heaven
Original: μισθός
Category: Kingdom

[NEW] μισθός (5:12): a gracious, promised divine recompense expressed in deliberately commercial/labor vocabulary. ‘Lohn’ is the ordinary Bavarian word for wages earned by labor, sitting at the exact intersection of the baseline’s grace-vs-merit caution; must be taught as gracious reward, not commercial payment for services rendered to God.

Fulfill The Law

Approved rendering: s’Gsetz erfülln
Transliteration: s’Gsötz erfülln
Doctrine: Fulfillment of the Law and the Sabbath
Original: πληρῶσαι τὸν νόμον
Category: Covenant

[NEW] πληρῶσαι τὸν νόμον (5:17): Jesus explicitly denies abolishing the Law and Prophets — he fulfills them. Jointly inherits the risk profiles of ‘Gsetz’ and the fulfillment-formula; doctrinally load-bearing for both the Authority-of-Jesus and Fulfillment-of-Prophecy doctrines simultaneously.

Scribes And Pharisees

Approved rendering: Schriftgelehrte und Pharisäer
Transliteration: Schriftgelehrte und Farisäer
Doctrine: Hypocrisy and Human Tradition
Rejected alternatives: bare ‘Pharisäer’ alone standing for ‘hypocrite’ (the live colloquial Bavarian/German idiom, rejected because it flattens the group’s genuine historical sincerity and weakens the force of the surpassing-righteousness claim)
Original: γραμματεῖς καὶ Φαρισαῖοι
Category: Church

[NEW] γραμματεῖς καὶ Φαρισαῖοι: Jesus’ most frequent theological sparring partners, representing genuine, sincere Torah devotion, not mere hypocrisy. The full compound term must be retained rather than substituted with a bare hypocrisy label.

Forgive Us Our Debts

Approved rendering: vergib uns unsere Schuld
Transliteration: vagib ins unsere Schuld
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability and Forgiveness of Sin
Original: ἄφες ἡμῖν τὰ ὀφειλήματα ἡμῶν
Category: Sin

[NEW] ἄφες ἡμῖν τὰ ὀφειλήματα ἡμῶν (6:12): sin as a debt requiring cancellation, tied to the disciple’s own forgiveness of others. Inherits Sünd’s colloquial-trivialization risk plus an added commercial-debt metaphor that must not be read as literal financial transaction.

Demon

Approved rendering: böser Geist / Damon
Transliteration: bösa Geist / Domon
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare (Devil and Demons)
Original: δαιμόνιον
Category: Spiritual Warfare

[NEW] δαιμόνιον: a malevolent spiritual entity Jesus casts out. Shares the devil’s Alpine folk-collision risk — folkloric processions and half-theatrical devil imagery risk trivializing a serious spiritual reality.

Mercy Not Sacrifice

Approved rendering: Erbarmen, ned Opfer
Transliteration: Dermarmen, ned Opfa
Doctrine: Fulfillment of the Law and the Sabbath
Original: ἔλεος θέλω καὶ οὐ θυσίαν
Category: Sanctification

[NEW] ἔλεος θέλω καὶ οὐ θυσίαν (9:13; repeated 12:7, quoting Hosea 6:6). Jesus’ programmatic hermeneutical principle: ritual observance without mercy misses God’s actual priority. Must not be read as devaluing ritual/sacrifice categories generally, only as this specific priority statement.

Lose Find Life

Approved rendering: sei Lebn valiern / findn
Transliteration: sei Lem valiern / findn
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Original: ὁ εὑρὼν τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ ἀπολέσει αὐτήν
Category: Discipleship

[NEW] ὁ εὑρὼν τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ ἀπολέσει αὐτήν (10:39): paradoxical discipleship logic — self-preservation is self-loss, self-surrender to Christ is true self-finding. Tied to the same cost-of-discipleship doctrinal weight as cross-bearing.

The One Who Is To Come

Approved rendering: der, der kemma soll
Transliteration: der, wo kemma soll
Doctrine: Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David
Original: ὁ ἐρχόμενος
Category: Christology

[NEW] ὁ ἐρχόμενος (11:3), a recognized messianic-title formula in John the Baptist’s question, answered by Jesus pointing to his messianic works (echoing Isaiah 35/61). Ties Fulfillment-of-Prophecy and Messianic-Promise doctrines together explicitly.

Mystery

Approved rendering: Gheimnis
Transliteration: Geheimnis
Doctrine: The Mystery of the Kingdom Revealed in Parables
Rejected alternatives: Mysterium (too strongly tied to the Eucharistic ‘mysterium fidei’ sacramental register)
Original: μυστήριον
Category: Kingdom

[NEW] μυστήριον (13:11): the kingdom’s true nature, formerly hidden, now disclosed. Catholic sacramental theology’s technical, liturgically central use of ‘Mysterium/Geheimnis’ risks importing a sacramental-rite reading into Matthew 13’s quite different sense of previously-hidden revealed teaching content.

End Of The Age

Approved rendering: s’End vo dera Weltzeit
Transliteration: s’End von dera Weltzeit
Doctrine: Judgment and the End of the Age
Original: συντέλεια τοῦ αἰῶνος
Category: Eschatology

[NEW] συντέλεια τοῦ αἰῶνος (13:39-40,49): the specific, definite culmination of the present age at Christ’s return, marked by final judgment. Requires care to avoid being heard as generic apocalyptic anxiety-vocabulary rather than Matthew’s sober, hope-and-warning-balanced teaching.

Tradition

Approved rendering: Überliefarung
Transliteration: Iwaliefarung
Doctrine: Hypocrisy and Human Tradition
Rejected alternatives: a blanket rendering implying Jesus rejects the theological category of tradition as such (rejected — the text critiques a specific human accretion, the Corban-vow abuse, not tradition per se)
Original: παράδοσις
Category: Covenant

[NEW] παράδοσις (15:2-6). Given the Catholic doctrine of Sacred Tradition as a co-authoritative source of revelation alongside Scripture, this is a historically loaded, Reformation-polemic-adjacent text. Reviewers must ensure the translation targets the specific abuse Jesus critiques without softening the real force of the critique out of undue deference.

If Your Brother Sins

Approved rendering: wenn dei Bruada gegn di sündigt
Transliteration: wenn dei Bruada gegen di sündigt
Doctrine: The Church and Church Discipline
Original: ἐὰν ἁμάρτῃ [εἰς σέ] ὁ ἀδελφός σου
Category: Church

[NEW] ἐὰν ἁμάρτῃ [εἰς σέ] ὁ ἀδελφός σου (18:15): the opening statement of Matthew’s staged church-discipline procedure (private confrontation, witnesses, the whole church, exclusion). Carries the same colloquial-trivialization risk as baseline sin vocabulary.

Cause To Stumble

Approved rendering: zum Fall’n bringa
Transliteration: zum Falln bringa
Doctrine: The Church and Church Discipline
Original: σκανδαλίζω
Category: Church

[NEW] σκανδαλίζω (18:6-9, the millstone saying): leading another, especially ‘little ones,’ into sin or away from faith, treated with utmost seriousness. A grave warning directly relevant to pastoral care.

Seventy Times Seven

Approved rendering: siebzgmal siebn
Transliteration: siebazgmoi siebm
Doctrine: The Church and Church Discipline
Original: ἑβδομηκοντάκις ἑπτά
Category: Church

[NEW] ἑβδομηκοντάκις ἑπτά (18:21-35): forgiveness modeled on the king’s own unlimited, undeserved forgiveness of an unpayable debt. Direct parallel to the baseline’s grace/merit-transaction caution; must resist any merit-counting reading.

Stone The Builders Rejected

Approved rendering: da Stoa, den de Bauleit verworfa ham
Transliteration: der Stoa, den de Bauleit vaworfa hom
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy
Original: λίθον ὃν ἀπεδοκίμασαν οἱ οἰκοδομοῦντες
Category: Covenant

[NEW] λίθον ὃν ἀπεδοκίμασαν οἱ οἰκοδομοῦντες (21:42, quoting Psalm 118:22): a messianic-rejection-and-vindication prophecy fulfilled in Christ’s death and resurrection. Requires explicit Psalm cross-reference for the argument to register.

Nation Producing Fruits

Approved rendering: a Volk, des Frucht bringt
Transliteration: a Volk, wos Frucht bringt
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: ἔθνει τῷ ποιοῦντι τοὺς καρπούς
Category: Church

[NEW] ἔθνει τῷ ποιοῦντι τοὺς καρπούς (21:43): the kingdom’s stewardship transferred from unfaithful leadership to a fruit-bearing people. Requires careful, historically aware handling given Bavaria’s own specific 20th-century history around ethnic/national election-language.

Called Chosen

Approved rendering: beruafa / Erwählte
Transliteration: beruaft / Erwöahlte
Doctrine: Effectual Calling and Election
Original: κλητοί / ἐκλεκτοί
Category: Salvation

[NEW] κλητοί/ἐκλεκτοί (22:14): a general, wide gospel invitation distinguished from the narrower company who actually respond and persevere. Reuses baseline ‘beruafa’/‘Erwählung’ terms in full, inheriting their pure register-gap risk (no lived Bavarian predestination-controversy tradition).

Abomination Of Desolation

Approved rendering: s’Greisliche, was olles verwüst
Transliteration: s’Greisliche, wos olles vawüst
Doctrine: Judgment and the End of the Age
Original: τὸ βδέλυγμα τῆς ἐρημώσεως
Category: Eschatology

[NEW] τὸ βδέλυγμα τῆς ἐρημώσεως (24:15, alluding to Daniel): a specific historical-apocalyptic marker requiring careful, non-sensationalized handling. No fixed idiomatic Bavarian equivalent exists; flagged as an approximate descriptive rendering, not an established term.

False Messiahs

Approved rendering: falsche Messiasse
Transliteration: folsche Messiasse
Doctrine: Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David
Original: ψευδόχριστοι
Category: Christology

[NEW] ψευδόχριστοι (24:24): false claimants to messianic status. Direct collision with the Messianic Promise doctrine’s core term; risk of the warning being heard as generic caution against ‘false teachers’ rather than specifically false messianic claims.

Sheep And Goats

Approved rendering: d’Schaf und d’Bock
Transliteration: de Schof und de Bock
Doctrine: Judgment by Deeds Done to the Least of These
Original: πρόβατα καὶ ἐρίφια
Category: Eschatology

[NEW] πρόβατα καὶ ἐρίφια (25:31-46): the definitive judgment scene of the book, separating on the basis of concrete deeds of mercy. Requires careful teaching so the scene is not moralized into pure humanitarian ethics divorced from its christological identification claim.

Least Of These

Approved rendering: de Gringstn vo meine Brüada
Transliteration: de Gringstn von meine Brüada
Doctrine: Judgment by Deeds Done to the Least of These
Original: τῶν ἀδελφῶν μου τῶν ἐλαχίστων
Category: Eschatology

[NEW] τῶν ἀδελφῶν μου τῶν ἐλαχίστων (25:40,45): Christ personally identifies with the hungry, thirsty, stranger, naked, sick, and imprisoned. Real risk of moralizing this into generic charity teaching, or, oppositely, implying works-earned salvation — a serious collision with the grace/merit caution documented throughout the package. Requires human theologian review.

Forgiveness Of Sins

Approved rendering: zur Vergebung vo de Sünd
Transliteration: zur Vergebung von de Sünd
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability and Forgiveness of Sin
Original: εἰς ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν
Category: Salvation

[NEW] εἰς ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν (26:28): the atoning purpose of Christ’s blood poured out. Inherits the baseline sin-risk profile at full doctrinal weight, here specifically in atonement context; consistent with 1:21 and 6:12.

I Am With You Always

Approved rendering: i bin bei enk, alle Tag
Transliteration: i bin bei enk, olle Tog
Doctrine: The Great Commission
Original: ἐγὼ μεθ’ ὑμῶν εἰμι πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας
Category: Christology

[NEW] ἐγὼ μεθ’ ὑμῶν εἰμι πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας (28:20), a deliberate echo of Emmanuel (‘God with us,’ 1:23), closing the Gospel with the same theological claim that opened it. Doctrinal weight lies in Christ’s ongoing personal presence, not merely a historical memory; teaching material should structurally link this back to 1:23 every time it is taught.

Medium Risk Terms

Messiah

Approved rendering: Messias
Transliteration: Messias
Doctrine: Messianic Promise

Inherited from Romans package. The Anointed One fulfilling OT promise; borrowed as-is. Matthew 1:1 opens the entire Gospel with this title, immediately linked to Davidic and Abrahamic covenant lines, establishing Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David as the book’s controlling frame from its first word.

Seed Of David

Approved rendering: Nachkomme vom David
Transliteration: Nochkumme vom David
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Rejected alternatives: Same vom David (archaic/clinical register, rejected as in standard German)
Original: σπέρμα Δαυίδ
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Follows the same modernization pattern as standard German (‘Same Davids’ > ‘Nachkomme Davids’). In Matthew this is the narrative descent-statement (1:1-17), distinct from the repeated direct-address acclamation ‘Sohn vom David’ (see son_of_david, [NEW]).

Holy Spirit

Approved rendering: Heiliger Geist
Transliteration: Heiliga Geist
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: Πνεῦμα Ἅγιον
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. Borrowed from standard German; the personal third Person of the Trinity. Matthew introduces the Spirit’s role in the Incarnation (1:18,20) before his fuller role later in the book (3:16; 12:28; 28:19).

Kingdom Of God

Approved rendering: s’Reich vo Gott
Transliteration: des Reich vom Gott
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission

Inherited from Romans package. God’s sovereign reign; distinguish from any political kingdom association. Matthew uses this exact phrase only rarely (notably 12:28) as a synonym for his usual reverential circumlocution ‘kingdom of heaven’ (see kingdom_of_heaven, [NEW]); reviewers must recognize both Bavarian renderings as referring to the identical reality, not two distinct kingdoms.

Faith

Approved rendering: Glaam
Transliteration: Gloam
Doctrine: Faith
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package. Personal trust in Christ, not generic folk-Catholic religiosity. The centurion’s faith (8:5-13) becomes the occasion for Jesus’ first statement that Gentiles will share the kingdom’s table, an early instance of Unity of Jews and Gentiles; see also little_faith, [NEW].

Called

Approved rendering: beruafa
Transliteration: beruaft
Doctrine: Divine Calling

Inherited from Romans package. Context-sensitive across occurrences. In Matthew 5:9 (‘called sons of God’) this is the sovereign, effectual-calling sense; see sons_of_god_called, [NEW].

Calling

Approved rendering: Beruafung
Transliteration: Berufung
Doctrine: Divine Calling

Inherited from Romans package. Shares standard German’s homonym collision with career/life calling. The AI instruction set’s forbidden-substitution rule (do not let ‘Beruafung’ collide unclarified with its everyday career sense) applies equally in Matthew’s teaching contexts.

Covenant

Approved rendering: Bund
Transliteration: Bund
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: διαθήκη
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Relational covenant bond; borrowed as-is from standard German. Grounds the new covenant instituted at the Last Supper (26:28); see body_and_blood_of_covenant, [NEW].

Resurrection

Approved rendering: Aufersteh’ng
Transliteration: Auferstehung
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Original: ἀνάστασις / ἠγέρθη
Category: Eschatology

Inherited from Romans package. Matthew narrates the empty tomb and angelic announcement (28:6) with sober restraint, without embellishment — worth preserving in tone; the sign_of_jonah, [NEW], anticipates this typologically at 12:39-40.

Gentiles

Approved rendering: Heiden
Transliteration: Hoaden
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles

Inherited from Romans package. Carries the same pejorative ‘uncivilized/irreligious’ connotation as standard German ‘Heiden’. In the Great Commission (28:19) this curriculum pairs it with a neutral gloss; see gentiles_nations, [NEW].

Father

Approved rendering: Voda
Transliteration: Voter
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family

Inherited from Romans package. Underlies the Lord’s Prayer address (see our_father, [NEW]) and the recurring ‘will of the Father’ theme (7:21; 26:39).

God

Approved rendering: Gott
Transliteration: Herrgott
Doctrine: Deity of Christ

Inherited from Romans package. ‘Herrgott’ is reserved for culturally warm, folk-devotional contexts only, per the baseline caution about its use as mild profanity; plain ‘Gott’ is the primary term throughout Matthew as well.

Gospel

Approved rendering: Evangelium
Transliteration: Evangelium
Doctrine: Gospel

Inherited from Romans package. The formal, liturgically borrowed term. Underlies Matthew’s repeated phrase ‘gospel of the kingdom’ (4:23; 9:35; 24:14; 26:13), tying the Gospel doctrine directly to kingdom_of_heaven, [NEW].

Glory

Approved rendering: Herrlichkeit
Transliteration: Herrlichkeit
Doctrine: Deity of Christ

Inherited from Romans package. God’s radiant presence and honor. Relevant to Transfiguration and the Glory of Christ (17:1-8; see transfigured, [NEW]) and the coming Son of Man ‘in his glory’ (16:27; 24:30; 25:31).

Mission

Approved rendering: Mission
Transliteration: Mission
Doctrine: Mission to the Nations

Inherited from Romans package. Bavaria’s own religious-order missionary-sending history gives this loanword some positive regional grounding. Relevant to the Great Commission (28:16-20) and the harvest imagery of 9:37-38 (see harvest, [NEW]).

Adoption

Approved rendering: Kindschaft
Transliteration: Kindschaft
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Rejected alternatives: Adoption (bare, legal-procedural)

Inherited from Romans package. Register-gap term, borrowed as-is; no native dialect coinage. Underlies the ‘sons of God’ family-likeness theme introduced at 5:9 (see sons_of_god_called, [NEW]).

Righteous Joseph

Approved rendering: gerecht
Transliteration: grecht
Doctrine: Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees
Original: δίκαιος
Category: Sanctification

[NEW] Matthew 1:19, describing Joseph; shares the Gerechtigkeit root family. His righteousness is displayed in mercy toward Mary rather than rigid legal enforcement — early foreshadowing of the mercy-tempered-obedience theme fully developed in ch. 5.

Worship Homage

Approved rendering: oabet’n / si niederwerfa
Transliteration: anbet’n / si niederwerfn
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: προσκυνέω
Category: Christology

[NEW] προσκυνέω (2:11), deliberately ambiguous between royal court-homage and religious worship, resolved unambiguously as worship of the risen Christ by 28:9,17. Context must determine which Bavarian rendering applies at each occurrence.

King Of The Jews

Approved rendering: Kini vo de Juden
Transliteration: Kini von de Juden
Doctrine: Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David
Original: βασιλεὺς τῶν Ἰουδαίων
Category: Christology

[NEW] Frames the magi’s search (2:2) and, ironically, Pilate’s cross inscription (27:37) — a deliberate narrative bracket around the whole Gospel that should be preserved in teaching cross-references.

Temptation

Approved rendering: Versuachung / versuacha
Transliteration: Versuchung / versuachn
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare (Devil and Demons)
Original: πειρασμός / πειράζω
Category: Discipleship

[NEW] πειρασμός/πειράζω (ch. 4). Jesus’ wilderness testing directly mirrors and reverses Israel’s wilderness failures, establishing him as the obedient Son where Israel failed — a Fulfillment-of-Prophecy typology thread.

Disciple

Approved rendering: Jünga
Transliteration: Jünger
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Original: μαθητής
Category: Discipleship

[NEW] μαθητής, first at 4:18-22 and 5:1. Must be kept distinct from ‘Christian’ generally — not every hearer of the gospel is automatically a committed disciple, a distinction with real teaching weight for a nominally-Catholic, culturally-Christian Bavarian audience.

Teach

Approved rendering: lehr’n
Transliteration: lehrn
Doctrine: The Authority of Jesus’ Teaching
Original: διδάσκω
Category: Discipleship

[NEW] διδάσκω (5:2); sustained, authoritative instruction, the first of many markers of Jesus’ teaching authority, climaxing at 7:28-29. Stable and familiar from catechism contexts alone; risk rises to Critical only when paired with ‘Vollmacht’ (authority) later in the book.

Mourn

Approved rendering: traura
Transliteration: trauern
Doctrine: The Kingdom of Heaven
Original: πενθέω
Category: Kingdom

[NEW] πενθέω (5:4): Godward sorrow over sin and brokenness anticipating divine comfort. Rural Bavarian mourning customs (Totenwache, requiem Masses) aid depth of feeling but risk narrowing the term to grief-over-death rather than the broader grief over sin Jesus intends.

Comforted

Approved rendering: tröst’t wer’n
Transliteration: tröstet wern
Doctrine: The Kingdom of Heaven
Rejected alternatives: ermahna (the baseline’s ‘exhort’ rendering of the same Greek verb family — wrong sense here; that term covers admonition, not comfort)
Original: παρακαλέω (passive)
Category: Kingdom

[NEW] παρακαλέω passive (5:4). The divine passive — God himself is the comforter. Must not default to the baseline’s admonition-sense rendering (ermahna); requires this distinct dialect term for the comfort sense of the verb family.

Meek

Approved rendering: sanftmiatig
Transliteration: sanftmüatig
Doctrine: The Kingdom of Heaven
Original: πραΰς
Category: Kingdom

[NEW] πραΰς (5:5; also of Jesus himself, 11:29, 21:5): strength held under control, a disciplined virtue, not inborn weakness. Colloquial Bavarian can use ‘sanft’ dismissively for someone considered weak or naive; must be anchored by context (inheriting the earth) to preserve the strength-under-control sense.

Merciful

Approved rendering: barmherzig
Transliteration: barmhaazig
Doctrine: Mercy and Almsgiving
Original: ἐλεήμων / ἔλεος
Category: Kingdom

[NEW] ἐλεήμων/ἔλεος (5:7): active compassion toward the undeserving. ‘Barmherzig’ is well-grounded via Catholic liturgy (Werke der Barmherzigkeit) but risks collapsing into a catalogued list of pious merit-works rather than a Spirit-formed character trait.

Pure In Heart

Approved rendering: reinherzig
Transliteration: reinhazig
Doctrine: Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees
Original: καθαροὶ τῇ καρδίᾳ
Category: Sanctification

[NEW] καθαροὶ τῇ καρδίᾳ (5:8): inward moral/motivational integrity, not outward ritual conformity. Must be distinguished from ritual/ceremonial purity categories a Catholic-formed audience may reflexively associate via sacramental-preparation vocabulary (confession before Communion).

Peacemakers

Approved rendering: Friadensmacher
Transliteration: Friedensmacher
Doctrine: The Kingdom of Heaven
Original: εἰρηνοποιός
Category: Kingdom

[NEW] εἰρηνοποιός (5:9), built on the baseline Friad root. Active reconciling work, not mere conflict-avoidance; risks flattening to ‘live and let live’ in a culture where social harmony (Gmiatlichkeit) is highly prized.

Rejoice Exult

Approved rendering: freut’s eich und jubelt’s
Transliteration: freuts enk und jubelts
Doctrine: The Kingdom of Heaven
Original: χαίρετε καὶ ἀγαλλιᾶσθε
Category: Kingdom

[NEW] χαίρετε καὶ ἀγαλλιᾶσθε (5:12): a command to exuberant, demonstrative joy as the appropriate response to persecution. Requires care that the imperative force is preserved, not softened to mere passive contentment.

Light Of The World

Approved rendering: s’Liacht vo da Weit
Transliteration: s’Liacht von da Welt
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Original: φῶς τοῦ κόσμου
Category: Discipleship

[NEW] φῶς τοῦ κόσμου (5:14-16): visible, unhidden good works pointing observers to glorify God. Positively reinforced by Bavarian Christmas/Advent light imagery, but the emphasis on visible good works must not be lost in a purely decorative or sentimental association.

Perfect

Approved rendering: vollkommen
Transliteration: vollkumma
Doctrine: Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees
Original: τέλειος
Category: Sanctification

[NEW] τέλειος (5:48): wholeness, maturity, completeness of character corresponding to God’s own indiscriminate love, not flawless performance. Risk of a performance-anxiety reading given documented Bavarian devotional assurance-anxiety patterns (frequent confession).

Daily Bread

Approved rendering: unser täglich Brot
Transliteration: insa täglichs Brot
Doctrine: Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer
Original: τὸν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τὸν ἐπιούσιον
Category: Kingdom

[NEW] τὸν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τὸν ἐπιούσιον (6:11), a genuinely rare and difficult Greek word. A request for daily-sufficient provision fostering trust, echoing the manna pattern. The word’s linguistic difficulty should be flagged to reviewers, not papered over with false confidence; match established liturgical wording.

Almsgiving

Approved rendering: Almosen gebn
Transliteration: Almosn gebn
Doctrine: Mercy and Almsgiving
Original: ἐλεημοσύνη
Category: Sanctification

[NEW] ἐλεημοσύνη (6:1-4). Bavarian Catholic almsgiving culture (church collections, Caritas tradition) is strong and positive, but Jesus’ warning against performative, praise-seeking giving must not be read as critique of charitable giving itself, nor slide into a merit-earning devotional transaction.

Hypocrite

Approved rendering: Scheinheiliga
Transliteration: Scheinhaliga
Doctrine: Hypocrisy and Human Tradition
Original: ὑποκριτής
Category: Sanctification

[NEW] ὑποκριτής (6:2,5,16; climaxing ch. 23): outward religious performance masking a contrary inward reality. ‘Scheinheilig’ is a genuinely apt native compound but is also common secular insult vocabulary, which could cheapen the term’s weight if used too casually in solemn teaching.

Judge Censoriously

Approved rendering: richt’n / verurteil’n
Transliteration: richtn / vaurteiln
Doctrine: Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees
Original: κρίνω
Category: Sanctification

[NEW] κρίνω (7:1): hypocritical, self-exempting condemnation, distinct from the real discernment required elsewhere in the chapter (7:6, 7:15-20). Teaching must clarify the prohibition targets hypocritical condemnation, not all discernment.

Narrow Gate

Approved rendering: s’enge Tor
Transliteration: s’enga Tor
Doctrine: The Kingdom of Heaven
Original: στενὴ πύλη
Category: Kingdom

[NEW] στενὴ πύλη (7:13-14): the demanding way that leads to life, contrasted with the broad way to destruction. Standard image, no major competing reading.

Will Of The Father

Approved rendering: da Wille vom Voda
Transliteration: da Wülln vom Voda
Doctrine: Repentance and Kingdom Entry
Original: τὸ θέλημα τοῦ πατρός
Category: God

[NEW] τὸ θέλημα τοῦ πατρός (7:21): mere confession (‘Lord, Lord’) without doing the Father’s will does not secure kingdom entry. Directly anticipates the cost-of-discipleship and righteousness-exceeding doctrines.

Not Peace But Sword

Approved rendering: koan Friad, sondern a Schwerd
Transliteration: koa Friad, sondern a Schwert
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Original: οὐ εἰρήνην ἀλλὰ μάχαιραν
Category: Discipleship

[NEW] οὐ εἰρήνην ἀλλὰ μάχαιραν (10:34): discipleship will divide households and provoke real conflict. Inverts the expected positive valence of the baseline Friad term; the contrast must not be softened away.

Yoke

Approved rendering: Joch
Transliteration: Joch
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Original: ζυγός
Category: Discipleship

[NEW] ζυγός (11:29-30): Jesus’ own ‘yoke’ offered as restful, contrasted with the burdensome yoke of Pharisaic legal observance. Positively grounded in still-living rural Bavarian agricultural memory (draft-animal yokes), though the rabbinic ‘yoke of Torah’ background contrast requires explicit teaching to recover.

Rest

Approved rendering: Rua
Transliteration: Ruah
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Original: ἀνάπαυσις
Category: Discipleship

[NEW] ἀνάπαυσις (11:28-29): the rest Jesus offers the weary and burdened. No significant competing reading.

Sabbath

Approved rendering: Sabbat
Transliteration: Sabbat
Doctrine: Fulfillment of the Law and the Sabbath
Original: σάββατον
Category: Covenant

[NEW] σάββατον: the seventh-day Torah rest, whose proper interpretation Jesus asserts lordship over (12:8, ‘the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath’). Established Catholic Sunday observance already distinguishes itself from the Jewish Sabbath, but risks the text’s specific legal controversy being silently reread through a generic ‘Sunday rest’ lens.

Sign Of Jonah

Approved rendering: s’Zeichn vom Jona
Transliteration: s’Zeicha vom Jona
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy
Original: τὸ σημεῖον Ἰωνᾶ
Category: Eschatology

[NEW] τὸ σημεῖον Ἰωνᾶ (12:39-40): an explicit resurrection-typology prophecy (three days/nights), tying Fulfillment-of-Prophecy directly to the Resurrection doctrine. The typology should be made explicit in teaching, not left implicit.

Parable

Approved rendering: Gleichnis
Transliteration: Gleichnis
Doctrine: The Mystery of the Kingdom Revealed in Parables
Original: παραβολή
Category: Kingdom

[NEW] παραβολή: Matthew’s primary literary vehicle for kingdom teaching (seven in ch. 13 alone), deliberately revealing truth to receptive hearers and concealing it from the hard-hearted (13:10-15). Risk that this dual revealing/concealing function is lost if heard merely as a simple illustrative teaching aid.

Furnace Of Fire

Approved rendering: Feuerofen
Transliteration: Feuaofn
Doctrine: Judgment and the End of the Age
Original: κάμινος τοῦ πυρός
Category: Eschatology

[NEW] κάμινος τοῦ πυρός (13:42,50): judgment imagery for the wicked at the end of the age, ties to the ch. 25 hell/judgment discussion.

Little Faith

Approved rendering: kloaglaabig
Transliteration: kloaglaabing
Doctrine: Faith and Little Faith
Original: ὀλιγόπιστος
Category: Faith

[NEW] ὀλιγόπιστος (14:31), built directly on the baseline Glaam root. A gentle rebuke of Peter — faith that is real but insufficiently trusting under pressure, not condemnation.

Defilement Heart

Approved rendering: s’Herz, net s’Essn, macht unrein
Transliteration: s’Herz, ned s’Essn, macht unrein
Doctrine: Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees
Original: κοινόω
Category: Sanctification

[NEW] κοινόω (15:11): true defilement relocated from ritual/dietary categories to the heart’s moral condition, continuing the righteousness-of-the-heart theme from ch. 5.

Transfigured

Approved rendering: verklärt
Transliteration: vaklärt
Doctrine: Transfiguration and the Glory of Christ
Original: μεταμορφόω
Category: Christology

[NEW] μεταμορφόω (17:2): a momentary, glorious unveiling of Christ’s true divine nature, a preview of resurrection glory. Well-established via the recognized Feast of the Transfiguration even in dialect-speaking parishes; positive cultural grounding, low distortion risk.

Gathered In My Name

Approved rendering: in mein’ Nam versammlt
Transliteration: in mein Nam versammelt
Doctrine: The Church and Church Discipline
Original: συνηγμένοι εἰς τὸ ἐμὸν ὄνομα
Category: Church

[NEW] συνηγμένοι εἰς τὸ ἐμὸν ὄνομα (18:20): Christ’s promised presence with even a small gathered group. Useful counterweight phrase to reinforce ‘church’ (Kirch) as gathered people, not building, whenever that risk is live.

Divorce

Approved rendering: si scheidn lassn
Transliteration: si scheidn lossn
Doctrine: Marriage and Divorce
Original: ἀπολύω
Category: Covenant

[NEW] ἀπολύω (19:3-9): Jesus roots marriage’s permanence in creation order, tightening the Mosaic concession. Requires pastoral sensitivity for a modern audience with divorce experience, a pastoral rather than doctrinal-register-gap risk.

With God All Things Possible

Approved rendering: bei Gott is olles möglich
Transliteration: bei Gott is olles meeglich
Doctrine: Stewardship and Final Accounting
Original: παρὰ δὲ θεῷ πάντα δυνατά
Category: God

[NEW] παρὰ δὲ θεῷ πάντα δυνατά (19:26): God’s power to save even where human capacity fails, in the context of the rich young man. Must not be flattened into generic optimism; retains specific soteriological force.

Render To Caesar

Approved rendering: Gebt’s dem Kaiser, was Kaisers is, und Gott, was Gott gehört
Transliteration: Gebts dem Kaiser, was Kaisers is, und Gott, was Gott ghört
Doctrine: The Kingdom of Heaven
Original: ἀπόδοτε… Καίσαρι τὰ Καίσαρος καὶ τῷ θεῷ τὰ τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom

[NEW] ἀπόδοτε… Καίσαρι τὰ Καίσαρος καὶ τῷ θεῷ τὰ τοῦ θεοῦ (22:21): a distinction, not a strict separation, between civil and divine obligation. Relevant to any teaching on church-state relations; must not become a political-quietism proof-text.

Woe

Approved rendering: Wehe
Transliteration: Wehe
Doctrine: Hypocrisy and Human Tradition
Original: οὐαί
Category: Eschatology

[NEW] οὐαί, repeated seven times (23:13-29): a solemn, prophetic pronouncement of coming judgment in the OT prophetic tradition. Places Jesus explicitly in line with OT prophetic judgment-oracles.

Great Tribulation

Approved rendering: a groaße Not
Transliteration: a groasse Not
Doctrine: Judgment and the End of the Age
Original: θλῖψις μεγάλη
Category: Eschatology

[NEW] θλῖψις μεγάλη (24:21): a period of unprecedented distress preceding the Son of Man’s coming. No major competing folk reading beyond the generic apocalyptic-anxiety caution already flagged for ‘end of the age’.

Talents

Approved rendering: Talente
Transliteration: Talent
Doctrine: Stewardship and Final Accounting
Original: τάλαντα
Category: Discipleship

[NEW] τάλαντα (25:14-30), a very large unit of monetary weight. The English ‘talent’ = ability sense is historically derived from this parable; the Bavarian rendering must avoid collapsing the parable’s monetary-stewardship sense into only ‘natural abilities’.

Not My Will But Yours

Approved rendering: net wia i will, sondern wia du witt
Transliteration: ned wia i will, sondern wia du witt
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Original: οὐχ ὡς ἐγὼ θέλω, ἀλλ’ ὡς σύ
Category: Discipleship

[NEW] οὐχ ὡς ἐγὼ θέλω, ἀλλ’ ὡς σύ (26:39, Gethsemane): Christ’s submission to the Father’s will even unto death. Models the ‘will of the Father’ theme from ch. 7; must not be flattened into passive resignation or fatalism.

Temple Veil Torn

Approved rendering: da Vorhang im Tempel is zrissn
Transliteration: der Vorhang im Tempel is zrissn
Doctrine: Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees
Original: τὸ καταπέτασμα… ἐσχίσθη
Category: Salvation

[NEW] τὸ καταπέτασμα… ἐσχίσθη (27:51): the temple veil torn at Christ’s death, symbolizing direct access to God now opened through the cross — a positive, hope-filled counterpart to the cry of dereliction just before it.

Gentiles Nations

Approved rendering: Heiden / Völker
Transliteration: Hoaden / Völka
Doctrine: The Great Commission
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Church

[NEW] ἔθνη (28:19), reuses baseline ‘Heiden’ with an added neutral ‘Völker’ gloss for accessibility in the Great Commission context, resolving the Gentile-inclusion thread running since the magi (ch. 2).

Low Risk Terms

Prophet

Approved rendering: Prophet
Transliteration: Prophet
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Original: προφήτης
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. God’s spokesperson; borrowed as-is. Matthew 5:12 places disciples’ suffering in continuity with the OT prophets’ suffering.

Prophecy

Approved rendering: Weissogung
Transliteration: Weissagung
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy

Inherited from Romans package. Underlies Matthew’s Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy doctrine; see fulfilled_prophecy_formula, [NEW], for the book’s signature literary device.

Apostle

Approved rendering: Apostl
Transliteration: Apoastl
Doctrine: Apostleship
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package. Final -e dropped per regular Bavarian apocope; otherwise a stable borrowed term. The Twelve are formally named and commissioned at 10:1-4. Teaching material must gloss this as the closed, foundational New Testament office, since South-German Neuapostolische Kirche doctrine and LDS/Watchtower materials both read ‘apostle’ as warrant for an ongoing living apostolic office — a distinctly Bavarian-regional collision risk not present in the Romans baseline.

David

Approved rendering: David
Transliteration: David
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Standard proper name form, used throughout Matthew’s genealogy and messianic-title vocabulary (son_of_david, [NEW]).

Jesus

Approved rendering: Jesus
Transliteration: Jesus
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ

Inherited from Romans package. Stable; pronounced with regionally typical vowel quality but not a distinct written form.

Peace

Approved rendering: Friad
Transliteration: Friade
Doctrine: Peace with God

Inherited from Romans package. Relational peace with God, not merely psychological calm. Matthew 10:34’s ‘not peace but a sword’ (see not_peace_but_sword, [NEW]) deliberately inverts this term’s expected positive valence and must not be softened away.

Exhort

Approved rendering: ermahna
Transliteration: ermohna
Doctrine: Mutual Edification

Inherited from Romans package. Context-sensitive between admonishing and encouraging senses. Matthew 5:4’s ‘comforted’ (see comforted, [NEW]) shares this Greek verb family but requires the comfort sense, not this term’s admonition sense — do not default to ‘ermahna’ there.

Magi

Approved rendering: Weise aus’m Morgnland
Transliteration: Weise aus’m Morgenland
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: μάγοι
Category: Church

[NEW] Positive-resonance case: reinforced by Bavaria’s beloved Sternsinger (Star-singers) Epiphany house-visit tradition. Gentile seekers recognizing the Jewish Messiah, an early signal of the Gentile-inclusion thread running to the Great Commission.

Inherit

Approved rendering: erb’n
Transliteration: erbn
Doctrine: The Kingdom of Heaven
Original: κληρονομέω
Category: Kingdom

[NEW] κληρονομέω (5:5), echoing Psalm 37: receiving God’s covenantal promise as a rightfully granted portion. Stable, everyday inheritance vocabulary familiar from rural Bavarian farm-succession culture (Hoferbe), which reinforces rather than distorts the sense.

Satisfied Filled

Approved rendering: sätt wer’n
Transliteration: satt wern
Doctrine: The Kingdom of Heaven
Original: χορτάζω
Category: Kingdom

[NEW] χορτάζω (5:6): complete, not partial, spiritual satisfaction as the promised divine answer to hunger for righteousness. No competing reading.

Salt Of The Earth

Approved rendering: s’Salz vo da Erdn
Transliteration: s’Salz von da Erdn
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Original: ἅλας τῆς γῆς
Category: Discipleship

[NEW] ἅλας τῆς γῆς (5:13): disciples as a preserving, flavor-giving presence in the world. No significant risk.

Mammon

Approved rendering: Mammon
Transliteration: Mammon
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Original: μαμωνᾶς
Category: Discipleship

[NEW] μαμωνᾶς (6:24), an Aramaic loanword for wealth personified as a rival master demanding exclusive allegiance. Standard German/international borrowing; low risk.

Harvest

Approved rendering: Ernte
Transliteration: Eanta
Doctrine: The Great Commission
Original: θερισμός
Category: Mission

[NEW] θερισμός (9:37-38): the urgency of gospel proclamation, tying to the Mission/Great Commission doctrine. No significant risk.

Hosanna

Approved rendering: Hosanna
Transliteration: Hosanna
Doctrine: Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David
Original: ὡσαννά
Category: Christology

[NEW] ὡσαννά (21:9): a liturgical shout of acclamation at the Triumphal Entry, transliterated per the established Abba/Halleluja pattern.

Referenced passages

MAT.1.18-23 MAT.3.2 MAT.4.17 MAT.7.13-14 MAT.7.21 MAT.3.1-17 MAT.28.19 MAT.5.3-12 MAT.5.20 MAT.6.10 MAT.6.33 MAT.13.11 MAT.13.44-46 MAT.5.17-48 MAT.6.1-18 MAT.9.13 MAT.15.1-20 MAT.22.34-40 MAT.23.1-39 MAT.5.2 MAT.5.21-48 MAT.7.28-29 MAT.9.6 MAT.28.18-20 MAT.6.5-15 MAT.21.13 MAT.8.20 MAT.16.27 MAT.20.28 MAT.24.30 MAT.25.31 MAT.26.64 MAT.4.18-22 MAT.5.10-12 MAT.10.34-39 MAT.11.28-30 MAT.16.24-26 MAT.12.22-32 MAT.1.1 MAT.1.17 MAT.2.2-6 MAT.9.27 MAT.11.3 MAT.12.23 MAT.15.22 MAT.16.16 MAT.21.9 MAT.22.42 MAT.24.24 MAT.16.18-19 MAT.18.15-20 MAT.18.21-35 MAT.27.35-54 MAT.13.39-50 MAT.24.1-51 MAT.25.1-46 MAT.26.26-29 MAT.28.16-20 MAT.1.22 MAT.2.15 MAT.2.17 MAT.2.23 MAT.4.14 MAT.8.17 MAT.12.17 MAT.12.39-40 MAT.13.35 MAT.21.4 MAT.21.42 MAT.27.9 MAT.4.1-11 MAT.8.28-34 MAT.12.22-29 MAT.17.14-20 MAT.5.9 MAT.22.14 MAT.5.17-19 MAT.12.1-14 MAT.1.21 MAT.6.12 MAT.9.1-8 MAT.18.15-35 MAT.26.28 MAT.13.1-52 MAT.2.1-12 MAT.8.5-13 MAT.15.21-28 MAT.21.43 MAT.27.54 MAT.25.14-46 MAT.28.1-10 MAT.5.7 MAT.6.1-4 MAT.14.31 MAT.17.20 MAT.17.1-8 MAT.19.3-9 MAT.19.16-26 MAT.25.14-30

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