Core Glossary
Core Glossary — Titus — English → Bavarian
This glossary consolidates every load-bearing term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md, covering the whole book of Titus (chapters 1–3) with the core passage (2:11–3:8) as theological anchor. Terms marked REUSED carry over the exact Bavarian rendering and spelling already recorded in the baseline Romans translation_memory.json — do not alter. Terms marked NEW are proposed additions for this curriculum’s translation memory and require sign-off before Phase 2 begins.
Risk tiers follow the baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json definitions exactly:
- Critical — mistranslation destroys essential doctrine; mandatory theologian review, every occurrence.
- High — mistranslation creates significant theological confusion or defaults to a strong competing folk-Catholic reading; mandatory theologian review.
- Medium — reduces clarity but preserves essential meaning; native speaker review recommended.
- Low — minor imprecision; automated review sufficient (dialect spot-check still required per baseline’s orthography note).
A. Terms Reused Exactly from the Romans Baseline Translation Memory
| Term (English) | Greek / Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Doctrine Category | Titus Passages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grace | χάρις / charis | Gnad | High | Grace That Trains for Godly Living; Salvation by Grace not Works | 1:4; 2:11; 3:7; 3:15 |
| Peace | εἰρήνη / eirēnē | Friad | Low | (greeting formula) | 1:4 |
| Faith | πίστις / pistis | Glaam | Medium | Salvation by Grace not Works | 1:1; 1:4; 1:13; 2:2; 2:10; 3:8; 3:15 |
| Apostle | ἀπόστολος / apostolos | Apostl | Low | Apostleship | 1:1 |
| God | θεός / theos | Gott | Critical | Deity of Christ; all doctrines | throughout |
| Jesus / Christ | Ἰησοῦς Χριστός / Iēsous Christos | Jesus / Christus | Critical | Deity of Christ; Sonship of Christ | 1:1, 1:4; 2:13; 3:6 |
| Father | πατήρ / patēr | Voda | Medium | (greeting formula) | 1:4 |
| Holy Spirit | πνεῦμα ἅγιον / pneuma hagion | Heiliger Geist | Critical | Regeneration by the Holy Spirit | 3:5 |
| Righteousness | δικαιοσύνη / dikaiosynē | Gerechtigkeit | Critical | Salvation by Grace not Works | 3:5 |
| Justification (verb: justified) | δικαιόω / dikaioō | Rechtfertigung (verb: grechtfertigt) | Critical | Salvation by Grace not Works | 3:7 |
| Election / Elect | ἐκλεκτός / eklektos | Erwählung (adj. form: de Erwähltn) | High | Effectual Calling (register-gap risk) | 1:1 |
| Glory | δόξα / doxa | Herrlichkeit | Medium | Deity of Christ | 2:13 |
| Exhort | παρακαλέω / parakaleō | ermahna | Low | Mutual Edification | 2:15 |
| Sin (verb) | ἁμαρτάνω / hamartanō | sündign | High | Universal Human Accountability | 3:11 |
B. Grace That Trains for Godly Living (New Terms)
| Term (English) | Greek / Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Notes | Passages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train / discipline (grace as pedagogue) | παιδεύω / paideuō | erziahn | Critical | The book’s single highest-stakes verb; must read as active, formative, parental training flowing from grace, never as punitive law-substitute or as mere permissiveness. | 2:12 |
| Self-controlled / soberly | σωφρόνως / sōphronōs (and σώφρων family) | nüchtern | Medium | Recurs across elder/household codes (1:8; 2:2,4,5,6) and here; consistency required. | 2:2,4,5,6,12; 1:8 |
| Godly / godliness | εὐσεβῶς / eusebōs; εὐσέβεια / eusebeia | fromm / Frömmigkeit | High | Bavarian folk-Catholic “fromm” risks defaulting to external devotional performance (pilgrimage, rosary) rather than Paul’s God-oriented internal character; context must supply the internal sense. | 1:1; 2:12 |
| Ungodliness | ἀσέβεια / asebeia | Gottlosigkeit | Medium | Borrowed; no dialect coinage. | 2:12 |
| Worldly desires | κοσμικαὶ ἐπιθυμίαι / kosmikai epithymiai | weltliche Begierdn | Medium | Not limited to sexual sin; broader this-age orientation. | 2:12 |
| Appearing / epiphany | ἐπιφάνεια, ἐπιφαίνω / epiphaneia, epiphainō | Erscheinung / erschaina | High | Same root spans past appearing (2:11; 3:4) and future appearing (2:13); context, not vocabulary, must disambiguate. | 2:11,13; 3:4 |
| Blessed hope | μακαρία ἐλπίς / makaria elpis | seliche Hoffnung | Medium | Confident certainty, not wishful optimism. | 2:13 |
| Hope (general) | ἐλπίς / elpis | Hoffnung | Medium | First formal glossary entry for “hope” in this curriculum pair (absent from Romans baseline glossary despite thematic overlap). | 1:2; 2:13; 3:7 |
C. Qualifications for Elders (New Terms)
| Term (English) | Greek / Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Notes | Passages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elder | πρεσβύτερος / presbyteros | Ältester | High | No native Bavarian Catholic congregational-elder concept; register gap requiring contextual explanation, not vocabulary alone. | 1:5 |
| Bishop / overseer | ἐπίσκοπος / episkopos | Aufseher (NOT “Bischof”) | CRITICAL | ”Bischof” defaults unambiguously to the Diocesan Archbishop in Bavarian Catholic life; using it here collapses Paul’s local, plural, lay-eligible office into an entirely different, singular, hierarchical one. Mandatory theologian review. | 1:7 |
| Husband of one wife | μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἀνήρ / mias gynaikos anēr | a Mo, der wo nur oane Frau hod | CRITICAL | Direct collision with mandatory Roman Catholic priestly celibacy discipline; must be framed as belonging to a structurally different NT office, not as commentary on the reader’s own clergy. | 1:6 |
| Faithful/believing children | τέκνα πιστά / tekna pista | glaabige Kinder | Medium | Ambiguous between “well-behaved” and “believing” in Greek; flag for translator’s note. | 1:6 |
| Steward of God | οἰκονόμος θεοῦ / oikonomos theou | a Verwalter vo Gott | Medium | Conveys derived, accountable authority. | 1:7 |
| Blameless | ἀνέγκλητος / anegklētos | untadelig | Low-Medium | Standard qualification-list term. | 1:6,7 |
| Devout / holy (personal piety) | ὅσιος / hosios | fromm | High | Distinct Greek word from ἅγιος (“heilig,” REUSED); do not collapse the two. Same folk-devotional-performance risk as εὐσεβῶς above. | 1:8 |
| Disciplined / self-controlled (elder cluster) | ἐγκρατής / egkratēs | beherrscht | Medium | Part of the 1:8 character cluster alongside σώφρων, δίκαιος, ὅσιος. | 1:8 |
D. Sound Doctrine and Good Works (New Terms)
| Term (English) | Greek / Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Notes | Passages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound doctrine | ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία / hygiainousa didaskalia | gsunde Lehr | High | Health/vitality metaphor is load-bearing; do not flatten to bland “correct teaching.” Defining term for the whole letter. | 1:9; 2:1 |
| Sound speech | λόγος ὑγιής / logos hygiēs | a gsunde Red | Medium | Same health-metaphor family applied to speech. | 2:8 |
| Good works | καλὰ ἔργα / kala erga | guade Werk | High | Must be held in tension with 3:5’s works-exclusion clause: fruit of grace, never its precondition. Recurring across the whole book. | 1:16; 2:7,14; 3:1,8,14 |
| Adorn the doctrine | κοσμέω τὴν διδασκαλίαν / kosmeō tēn didaskalian | d’Lehr schmückn | Medium-High | ”Adorn” must read as authenticating demonstration to outsiders, not decorative optional extra. | 2:10 |
| Word of God not blasphemed | ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ μὴ βλασφημῆται / ho logos tou theou mē blasphēmētai | ’s Wort vo Gott ned in Verruaf bringa | Medium-High | Establishes outward gospel-credibility purpose behind household-code instructions. | 2:5 |
| Pattern of good works | τύπος καλῶν ἔργων / typos kalōn ergōn | a Vorbild vo guade Werk | Medium | Applied to Titus’s own personal example. | 2:7 |
E. Salvation by Grace, Not Works (New + Reused Terms)
| Term (English) | Greek / Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Notes | Passages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not by works of righteousness | οὐκ ἐξ ἔργων τῶν ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ / ouk ex ergōn tōn en dikaiosynē | ned wegn de Werk, wo mir in Gerechtigkeit doa ham | Critical | Explicit thesis statement of this doctrine for the curriculum; a full exclusion, not a partitive softening (“not only”). Mandatory theologian review. | 3:5 |
| Mercy | ἔλεος / eleos | Barmherzigkeit | Medium | Distinguish from χάρις/Gnad: compassion toward the helpless, vs. favor toward the undeserving — related but distinguishable emphases. | 3:5 |
| Saved (verb) | σώζω / sōzō | hod uns erlöst | High | Verb form of REUSED “Erlösung”; must use the same root for consistency, no alternate verb. | 3:5 |
| Profess to know God but deny by works | ὁμολογοῦσιν εἰδέναι τὸν θεόν, τοῖς δὲ ἔργοις ἀρνοῦνται / homologousin eidenai ton theon, tois de ergois arnountai | de sag’n, dass s’n Gott kenna, aber mit ihrne Werk verleugna s’n | High | Negative mirror of the good-works doctrine: works do not save, but their total absence exposes false profession. Must not contradict 3:5. | 1:16 |
| Disqualified / reprobate | ἀδόκιμος / adokimos | untauglich | High | Avoid double-predestination-style final-rejection resonance (per baseline’s Erwählung caution); describes observable moral disqualification. | 1:16 |
| Faithful is the word (confessional formula) | πιστὸς ὁ λόγος / pistos ho logos | A treuer Spruch is des | Medium | Signals 2:11–3:7 as an authoritative doctrinal summary unit. | 3:8 |
F. Regeneration by the Holy Spirit (New Terms)
| Term (English) | Greek / Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Notes | Passages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regeneration / new birth | παλιγγενεσία / paliggenesia | Wiedergeburt | Critical | Borrowed wholesale, no dialect coinage exists (register-gap pattern, per baseline). Must never carry reincarnation/cyclical-rebirth resonance — a one-time, permanent, Spirit-wrought event. | 3:5 |
| Renewing | ἀνακαίνωσις / anakainōsis | Erneuerung | Medium | Regeneration’s ongoing complement; distinct decisive-event vs. continuing-process nuance. | 3:5 |
| Washing | λουτρόν / loutron | Wosch’ng | High | Risk of over-identifying with ritual baptismal efficacy detached from the Spirit’s agency named in the same clause; genuine baptismal imagery must not be denied either. | 3:5 |
| Poured out (Spirit) | ἐκχέω / ekcheō | hod ausgschütt | Medium | Pentecost/Joel echo; retain abundance imagery. | 3:6 |
| Iniquity / lawlessness | ἀνομία / anomia | Gsetzlosigkeit | Medium | Distinct Greek word from ἁμαρτία/“Sünd”; denotes rebellion against order, not generic sin. | 2:14 |
G. Submission to Authority (New Terms)
| Term (English) | Greek / Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Notes | Passages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rulers and authorities | ἀρχαὶ καὶ ἐξουσίαι / archai kai exousiai | de Obrigkeit | High | Requires the same historically aware sensitivity the baseline documents for Romans 13-type authority passages, sharpened by Bavaria’s specific 20th-century history of civil-authority abuse. | 3:1 |
| Submit / be subordinate | ὑποτάσσω / hypotassō | si unterordna | High | Three distinct objects across the book (rulers 3:1; wives 2:5; bondservants 2:9); render consistently as voluntary ordered submission, never endorsement of abuse by the one submitted-to. | 2:5; 2:9; 3:1 |
| Obey | πειθαρχέω / peitharcheō | gehorsam sei | Medium | Paired with ὑποτάσσω at 3:1. | 3:1 |
| Bondservants submit to masters | δοῦλοι…δεσπόταις ὑποτάσσεσθαι / douloi…despotais hypotassesthai | Knecht solln si iahrn Herrn unterordna | High | First-century household-slavery context; must not be read as timeless endorsement of the historical institution. | 2:9 |
H. Avoiding Divisive Controversies (New Terms)
| Term (English) | Greek / Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Notes | Passages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Circumcision party / Jewish fables | οἱ ἐκ τῆς περιτομῆς / Ἰουδαϊκοὶ μῦθοι / hoi ek tēs peritomēs / Ioudaikoi mythoi | de Beschneidungspartei / jüdische Fabln | Medium | Historically specific first-century Judaizing controversy; frame carefully to avoid generalized anti-Jewish misreading. | 1:10,14 |
| Commandments of men | ἐντάλματα ἀνθρώπων / entalmata anthrōpōn | Menschngebot | High | Sits atop the historic Reformation-era Scripture-vs-tradition controversy, still live in a Catholic dialect region; frame as addressing the specific first-century false teachers, not church tradition generally. | 1:14 |
| Foolish controversies, genealogies, quarrels, legal disputes | μωραὶ ζητήσεις, γενεαλογίαι, ἔρεις, μάχαι νομικαί / mōrai zētēseis, genealogiai, ereis, machai nomikai | narrische Streitfrogn, Sippnkunde, Gezänk und Gsetzesstreit | Medium-High | ”Genealogies” carries real positive cultural weight in Bavarian Catholic family/patron-saint heritage; must be framed to the specific first-century dispute, not general family-heritage interest. | 3:9 |
| Divisive/factious person | αἱρετικὸς ἄνθρωπος / hairetikos anthrōpos | a Mensch, der wo Streit und Spaltung macht (AVOID “Ketzer”) | CRITICAL | ”Ketzer” imports the Counter-Reformation/Inquisition-tribunal register from Bavarian historical memory, entirely absent from Paul’s pastoral, relational, congregational-discipline instruction. Mandatory theologian review. | 3:10 |
| Self-condemned | αὐτοκατάκριτος / autokatakritos | selbst verurteilt | Low | Describes the divisive person’s self-incrimination through persistence. | 3:11 |
I. Christology and Miscellaneous Terms
| Term (English) | Greek / Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Notes | Passages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Savior (title) | σωτήρ / sōtēr | Heiland | High | Distinct from baseline “Erlösung” (salvation, noun); a stable, traditional Bavarian devotional title with no Nazi-era contamination, unlike bare “Heil” — but requires a translator’s note distinguishing the two to preempt reviewer over-correction. Applied to both “God” and “Christ,” itself an implicit deity argument. | 1:3,4; 2:10,13; 3:4,6 |
| ”Our great God and Savior Jesus Christ” (Granville Sharp construction) | τοῦ μεγάλου θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ / tou megalou theou kai sōtēros hēmōn Iēsou Christou | unsern grousn Gott und Heiland, Jesus Christus | CRITICAL | The single highest-stakes deity-of-Christ verse in Titus; grammar identifies Jesus Christ as “our great God,” not two separate figures. Mandatory theologian review, every occurrence. | 2:13 |
| Redeem / redemption | λυτρόω / lytroō | auslösn / Loskauf | High | Deliberately distinct from “erlösn”/“Erlösung” to preserve ransom-price imagery; do not default to the salvation root here. | 2:14 |
| His own possession people | λαὸς περιούσιος / laos periousios | sei eigns Volk | Medium-High | Echoes Exodus 19:5 LXX; avoid any nationalist/ethnic “Volk” resonance given 20th-century history — emphasis is covenant-belonging, not ethnicity. | 2:14 |
| Kindness | χρηστότης / chrēstotēs | Güte | Medium | Part of the Trinitarian 3:4–6 unit. | 3:4 |
| Love toward mankind (philanthropy, theological sense) | φιλανθρωπία / philanthrōpia | Menschnliab | Medium | Avoid modern secular-humanitarian “Philanthropie” connotations; keep God-directed sense primary. | 3:4 |
| Heir | κληρονόμος / klēronomos | Erb | Medium | Conceptually continuous with Romans’s “Kindschaft” (adoption) doctrine but lexically distinct; present as the same family of promise. | 3:7 |
| Eternal life | ζωὴ αἰώνιος / zōē aiōnios | s’ewige Lem | Medium | First formal glossary entry for this exact phrase in the curriculum pair. | 1:2; 3:7 |
| God who cannot lie | ἀψευδὴς θεός / apseudēs theos | da Gott, der wo ned liang kann | Low-Medium | Grounds promise-reliability; low collision risk. | 1:2 |
| Preaching / proclamation | κήρυγμα / kērygma | d’Verkündigung | Low-Medium | Note: εὐαγγέλιον/“Evangelium” does not occur anywhere in Titus — a notable lexical gap relative to Romans. | 1:3 |
Cross-Reference to Romans Baseline Absences
The following baseline Romans doctrines/terms have no lexical occurrence in Titus and should not be force-fitted into this curriculum’s Titus-specific materials: Church (ἐκκλησία), Saints (ἅγιοι as noun for believers), Called/Calling (κλητός/κλῆσις), Adoption (υἱοθεσία — though “heir”/κληρονόμος above is conceptually adjacent), Resurrection (ἀνάστασις), Spiritual Gifts (χαρίσματα), Fellowship (κοινωνία), Kingdom of God (βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ), Thanksgiving (εὐχαριστία), Intercession, Providence, Mission (as a distinct term — κήρυγμα functions differently here), David/Israel/Messiah/Covenant/Seed of David/Prophet/Prophecy (no explicit OT redemptive-historical exposition in Titus), Imputed Righteousness (the specific Genesis 15:6/Romans 4:3 citation formula does not recur). This is a structural feature of Titus as a short, pastoral, household-focused letter and should be documented for Phase 2 planning so reviewers do not expect Romans-density coverage of these categories.
Critical Risk Terms
Righteousness
Approved rendering: Gerechtigkeit
Transliteration: Gerechtigkeit
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace not Works
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation
(Inherited from Romans package.) Register-gap term, borrowed wholesale from standard German; no native Boarisch coinage. Titus 3:5’s ‘not from works done in righteousness’ is the sharpest works-exclusion clause in the curriculum; the term must not shift meaning between forensic standing and dutiful conduct within the same clause, or the exclusion collapses into a mere qualification.
Justification
Approved rendering: Rechtfertigung
Transliteration: Rechtfertigung
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace not Works
Original: δικαιόω
Category: Salvation
(Inherited from Romans package.) Essentially borrowed wholesale from standard German; limited lived pastoral currency for a historically Catholic dialect population. Verb form in Titus 3:7 (‘grechtfertigt’, ge->g apocope) is the doctrinal hinge connecting 3:5’s works-exclusion to 3:7’s grant of inheritance.
God
Approved rendering: Gott
Transliteration: Herrgott
Doctrine: Deity of Christ and the Savior Title
Original: θεός
Category: God
(Inherited from Romans package.) ‘Herrgott’ reserved for warm folk-devotional contexts only per baseline caution (mild-profanity risk); this curriculum uses plain ‘Gott’ as primary term. Occurs throughout Titus (1:1-4; 2:10-13; 3:4-6) as the consistent referent behind the recurring ‘Heiland’ (Savior) title, which Titus applies interchangeably to God and to Jesus Christ — an implicit deity-of-Christ argument threaded through the whole letter.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: Heiliger Geist
Transliteration: Heiliga Geist
Doctrine: Regeneration by the Holy Spirit
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
(Inherited from Romans package.) In Titus 3:5-6, the acting agent of regeneration and renewal, poured out through Christ. Bavarian Catholic sacramental-baptismal theology risks shifting agency onto the water/rite itself (see washing); the grammar must keep the Spirit, not the washing, as the acting source, without denying the passage’s real baptismal imagery.
Jesus Christ
Approved rendering: Jesus Christus
Transliteration: Jesus Christus
Doctrine: Deity of Christ and the Savior Title
Original: Ἰησοῦς Χριστός
Category: Christology
The full compound proper name, required (not a shortened/informal variant) at Titus 1:1,4; 2:13; 3:6 given the letter’s Christological weight, especially the Granville Sharp construction of 2:13. Reuses baseline ‘Jesus’ plus the standard-German-tradition form ‘Christus’.
Granville Sharp Great God And Savior
Approved rendering: unsern grousn Gott und Heiland, Jesus Christus
Transliteration: unsern grousn Gott und Hoiland, Jesus Christus
Doctrine: Deity of Christ and the Savior Title
Rejected alternatives: da grouße Gott, und unser Heiland Jesus Christus (splits into two referents — matches the doctrinally motivated Jehovah’s Witness NWT rendering; forbidden)
Original: τοῦ μεγάλου θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ
Category: Christology
Titus 2:13, the single highest-stakes deity-of-Christ verse in the letter, parallel in weight to Romans 9:5. The Greek’s Granville Sharp construction (one article governing both ‘God’ and ‘Savior’, both bound to ‘Jesus Christ’) identifies Jesus Christ himself as ‘our great God,’ not two figures. Bavarian devotional habit of addressing ‘Gott’ and ‘da Heiland’ as somewhat separate objects of folk prayer creates a real risk of unconscious two-referent misreading. Mandatory human theologian review, every occurrence.
Not By Works Of Righteousness
Approved rendering: ned wegn de Werk, wo mir in Gerechtigkeit doa ham
Transliteration: ned wegn de Werk, wo mir in Gerechtigkeit doa ham
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace not Works
Rejected alternatives: ned nur wegn de Werk (partitive softening, i.e. ‘not only by works’ — forbidden, destroys the categorical exclusion)
Original: οὐκ ἐξ ἔργων τῶν ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ
Category: Salvation
Titus 3:5, the explicit thesis statement of this doctrine, structurally parallel to Romans 3:20,28 and Ephesians 2:8-9. Must be a full, categorical exclusion. The single sharpest collision point with Bavarian Catholic sacramental-cooperative soteriology (confession frequency, votive offerings, pilgrimage vows). Mandatory theologian review, every occurrence.
Regeneration
Approved rendering: Wiedergeburt
Transliteration: Wiedergeburt
Doctrine: Regeneration by the Holy Spirit
Rejected alternatives: a native dialect coinage built on rebirth/cycle imagery (risks reincarnation resonance)
Original: παλιγγενεσία
Category: Salvation
Titus 3:5 (παλιγγενεσία). Borrowed wholesale, no dialect coinage exists (same register-gap class as Gerechtigkeit/Rechtfertigung/Erwählung), but unlike those the word’s compositional transparency (‘again-birth’) actively invites, not merely permits, a reincarnation/cyclical-rebirth misreading — the same forbidden-reading class the baseline flags for ‘resurrection’/Aufersteh’ng. Mandatory theologian review, every occurrence.
Train Discipline
Approved rendering: erziahn
Transliteration: erziahgt
Doctrine: Grace That Trains for Godly Living
Rejected alternatives: Zucht-family vocabulary (carries a harsh-punishment/penance connotation available in standard German, reintroducing a law-as-taskmaster dynamic)
Original: παιδεύω
Category: Sanctification
Titus 2:12 (παιδεύω), the book’s single highest-stakes verb: grace itself is the active pedagogue/parent, not law, fear, or merit-tracking. ‘Erziahn’ (the ordinary Bavarian verb for parental child-rearing) conveys formative, relational shaping without a penal-discipline connotation. Mandatory theologian review, every occurrence.
Bishop Overseer
Approved rendering: Aufseher
Transliteration: Aufseher
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders
Rejected alternatives: Bischof (defaults unambiguously to the Diocesan/Archdiocesan Bishop in Bavarian Catholic life; a forbidden substitution for this term in this curriculum)
Original: ἐπίσκοπος
Category: Church Polity
ἐπίσκοπος (1:7), used by Paul interchangeably with πρεσβύτερος for the same office. The sharpest doctrine-collision point in the curriculum: ‘Bischof’ would make Bavarian readers picture their actual Archbishop, an office of vastly greater, singular, hierarchical authority than Paul’s local, plural, congregational overseer. Mandatory theologian review with documented rationale, every occurrence. Note: this sides, on strictly lexical-accuracy grounds, with the Protestant-tradition German rendering (‘Aufseher’, per Luther) against the Catholic-tradition rendering (‘Bischof’, per Einheitsübersetzung) — flag explicitly so it does not read as an accidental confessional intrusion.
Husband Of One Wife
Approved rendering: a Mo, der wo nur oane Frau hod
Transliteration: a Mo, der wo nur oane Frau hod
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders
Original: μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἀνήρ
Category: Church Polity
μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἀνήρ (1:6). Direct, unavoidable collision with mandatory Roman Catholic priestly celibacy discipline, the near-universal lived experience of ordained ministry in Bavaria for nearly a millennium. Must be framed as belonging to a structurally different NT office (married, local, lay-eligible elder); mandatory theologian review with explicit framing note at every occurrence to prevent an anti-celibacy-polemic misreading.
Divisive Person
Approved rendering: a Mensch, der wo Streit und Spaltung macht
Transliteration: a Mensch, der wo Streit und Spoitung macht
Doctrine: Avoiding Divisive Controversies
Rejected alternatives: Ketzer (imports the Counter-Reformation/Inquisition-tribunal register and the Wittelsbach dukes’ historic enforcement of Catholic religious uniformity in Bavaria specifically; forbidden substitution)
Original: αἱρετικὸς ἄνθρωπος
Category: Ecclesial Discipline
αἱρετικὸς ἄνθρωπος (3:10), a relational/behavioral category (causes factional division), not a formal doctrinal-tribunal verdict. Older Luther-family devotional print material’s ‘ketzerischer Mensch’ rendering must also not be followed. Mandatory theologian review, every occurrence.
High Risk Terms
Grace
Approved rendering: Gnad
Transliteration: Gnod
Doctrine: Grace That Trains for Godly Living
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
(Inherited from Romans package.) Final -e dropped, regular Bavarian apocope. Bavarian Catholic folk piety (Wallfahrt, votive practice) can carry a transactional ‘grace obtained through devotion’ undertone; must render as wholly unmerited. In Titus 2:11-12 grace is grammatically personified as the active teacher/pedagogue that ‘appears’ and ‘trains’ — this personification must survive translation, not be flattened into a static backdrop noun. In Titus 3:5-7 grace is the explicit alternative to works; the contrast must never soften.
Salvation
Approved rendering: Erlösung
Transliteration: Erlesung
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace not Works
Rejected alternatives: Heil (Nazi-era contamination risk, acute given Munich’s history as the movement’s headquarters)
(Inherited from Romans package.) Root of the Titus 3:5 verb ‘hod uns erlöst’ (see saved_verb). Preferred over ‘Heil’; case-by-case reviewer judgment required if ‘Heil’ appears.
Election
Approved rendering: Erwählung
Transliteration: Erwöahlung
Doctrine: Divine Election
Original: ἐκλεκτός
Category: Salvation
(Inherited from Romans package.) Titus 1:1’s ‘faith of God’s elect’ (πίστις ἐκλεκτῶν θεοῦ) uses the adjectival ἐκλεκτός, same doctrinal family as Romans’ ἐκλογή. As the baseline documents, Bavarian Catholic dialect culture has no lived predestination-controversy tradition, so this is a register gap (unfamiliar borrowed word, no felt content) rather than a competing doctrinal claim.
Sin
Approved rendering: Sünd
Transliteration: Sind
Doctrine: Avoiding Divisive Controversies
(Inherited from Romans package.) Root of the Titus 3:11 verb form (see sin_verb). Colloquial Bavarian ‘a Sünd is des scho’ (what a shame) risks trivializing the persistent, self-condemning moral corruption Titus 3:11 actually describes.
Savior Title
Approved rendering: Heiland
Transliteration: Hoiland
Doctrine: Deity of Christ and the Savior Title
Rejected alternatives: Retter (flatter, loses devotional warmth), Heil (a distinct word from Heiland, carries Nazi-era contamination; must never be confused with or substituted for Heiland)
Original: σωτήρ
Category: Christology
Titus’s single most repeated title (1:3,4; 2:10,13; 3:4,6), applied interchangeably to ‘God’ and ‘Jesus Christ’ — itself an implicit deity-of-Christ argument. ‘Heiland’ is a stable, warm, traditional Bavarian/Catholic devotional title (cf. Christmas tradition ‘Heiland der Welt’, the Herrgottswinkel devotional corner) with NO Nazi-era contamination, unlike bare ‘Heil’. Risk is High because reviewers unfamiliar with this distinction may over-correct away from a safe term or under-correct toward the flatter ‘Retter’. Mandatory translator’s note distinguishing Heiland/Heil at first occurrence (1:3).
Saved Verb
Approved rendering: hod uns erlöst
Transliteration: hod uns erlesst
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace not Works
Rejected alternatives: a different verb root not built on ‘Erlösung’ (would sever cross-curriculum consistency and reopen the ‘Heil’-contamination risk)
Original: σώζω
Category: Salvation
Titus 3:5 (σώζω). Verb form of the baseline noun ‘Erlösung’; mandatory root consistency.
Washing
Approved rendering: Wosch’ng
Transliteration: Waschung
Doctrine: Regeneration by the Holy Spirit
Original: λουτρόν
Category: Salvation
Titus 3:5 (λουτρόν). -ung > ‘ng contraction per baseline pattern. Strong Bavarian Catholic sacramental infant-baptism tradition (godparents, baptismal name-days) risks shifting the clause’s regenerating agency onto the ritual water itself; grammar must keep ‘Heiliger Geist’ as the acting source in the same clause without denying genuine baptismal imagery.
Disqualified
Approved rendering: untauglich
Transliteration: untauglich
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine and Good Works
Original: ἀδόκιμος
Category: Salvation
Titus 1:16 (ἀδόκιμος). Per baseline’s Erwählung caution, avoid any double-predestination-style final metaphysical rejection resonance; describes observable moral disqualification exposed by conduct, not a decree.
Profess Deny By Works
Approved rendering: de sag’n, dass s’n Gott kenna, aber mit ihrne Werk verleugna s’n
Transliteration: de song, dass s’n Gott kenna, oba mit ihrne Werk verleugna s’n
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine and Good Works
Original: ὁμολογοῦσιν εἰδέναι τὸν θεόν, τοῖς δὲ ἔργοις ἀρνοῦνται
Category: Salvation
Titus 1:16. Works here expose false profession rather than earn true standing — the negative mirror of 2:14/3:8’s positive good-works teaching. Must be read consistently with, not contradicting, 3:5’s works-exclusion.
Godliness
Approved rendering: fromm / Frömmigkeit
Transliteration: fromm / Frommigkeit
Doctrine: Grace That Trains for Godly Living
Original: εὐσεβῶς / εὐσέβεια
Category: Sanctification
εὐσεβῶς/εὐσέβεια (1:1; 2:12). Bavarian folk-Catholic ‘fromm’ risks defaulting to external devotional performance (pilgrimage, rosary, Mass attendance) rather than Paul’s internal, God-oriented character. Mandatory contextual gloss at first occurrence. See also devout_personal_piety (a distinct Greek word sharing this one Bavarian rendering by necessity, not equivalence).
Appearing Epiphany
Approved rendering: Erscheinung / erschaina
Transliteration: Erschoanung / erschoana
Doctrine: Grace That Trains for Godly Living
Original: ἐπιφάνεια / ἐπιφαίνω
Category: Sanctification
ἐπιφάνεια/ἐπιφαίνω spans both a completed past appearing (2:11; 3:4) and a still-future appearing (2:13) within the same short passage. Context, not vocabulary, must disambiguate; do not attempt two different Bavarian roots.
Good Works
Approved rendering: guade Werk
Transliteration: guade Werk
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine and Good Works
Original: καλὰ ἔργα
Category: Sanctification
καλὰ ἔργα, recurring load-bearing phrase (1:16; 2:7,14; 3:1,8,14). Must be held in careful tension with 3:5’s works-exclusion clause: fruit of grace, never its precondition — same tension pattern the baseline documents for ‘obedience_of_faith’.
Sound Doctrine
Approved rendering: gsunde Lehr
Transliteration: gsunde Lehr
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine and Good Works
Rejected alternatives: richtige Lehr / korrekte Lehr (flattens the health/vitality metaphor to bland ‘correct doctrine’)
Original: ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία
Category: Sanctification
ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία (1:9; 2:1), the defining term for the whole letter. The health metaphor is load-bearing, implicitly contrasted with the false teachers’ sickening doctrine (1:10-16); Bavarian retains a strong folk-health idiom register (‘gsund’) that fits this naturally.
Adorn The Doctrine
Approved rendering: d’Lehr schmückn
Transliteration: d’Lehr schmückn
Doctrine: Gospel Credibility Before Outsiders
Original: κοσμέω τὴν διδασκαλίαν
Category: Sanctification
Titus 2:10 (κοσμέω τὴν διδασκαλίαν). Must read as authenticating, credibility-lending demonstration to outside observers, never as decorative/optional. Always retain the full purpose-clause structure (‘so that…’), never truncate to the verb alone.
Word Of God Not Blasphemed
Approved rendering: ‘s Wort vo Gott ned in Verruaf bringa
Transliteration: ‘s Wort vo Gott ned in Verruaf bringa
Doctrine: Gospel Credibility Before Outsiders
Original: ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ μὴ βλασφημῆται
Category: Sanctification
Titus 2:5 (ἵνα μὴ ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ βλασφημῆται). Establishes that household-code instructions are oriented toward outsiders’ perception of the gospel’s credibility, not an end in itself; losing this purpose clause risks the instructions reading as free-standing social conservatism.
Elder
Approved rendering: Ältester
Transliteration: Ötester
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders
Original: πρεσβύτερος
Category: Church Polity
πρεσβύτερος (1:5). No native Bavarian Catholic lay-congregational-elder concept exists; readers default to a vague ‘senior person’ or import an unfamiliar Protestant polity idea. Requires explicit contextual explanation (plural, local, appointed ‘in every town’) alongside the borrowed vocabulary.
Devout Personal Piety
Approved rendering: fromm
Transliteration: fromm
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders
Rejected alternatives: heilig (would collapse ὅσιος into ἅγιος, a distinct Greek word already reserved for baseline ‘heilig’)
Original: ὅσιος
Category: Church Polity
ὅσιος (1:8), a distinct Greek word from ἅγιος, denoting personal religious devoutness. Shares the Bavarian word ‘fromm’ with godliness/εὐσέβεια by lexical necessity, not semantic equivalence — document this explicitly in reviewer training so the two are not doctrinally flattened together.
Rulers And Authorities
Approved rendering: de Obrigkeit
Transliteration: de Obrigkeit
Doctrine: Submission to Authority
Original: ἀρχαὶ καὶ ἐξουσίαι
Category: Civil and Household Authority
ἀρχαὶ καὶ ἐξουσίαι (3:1). Well-established Bavarian/German folk term for civil government, historically resonant with Reformation-era ‘Obrigkeit’ theology and Bavaria’s monarchical/state-church history, sharpened acutely by Bavaria’s 20th-century history of civil authority being catastrophically abused (Munich as the Nazi movement’s historic headquarters).
Submit Be Subordinate
Approved rendering: si unterordna
Transliteration: si unterordna
Doctrine: Submission to Authority
Original: ὑποτάσσω
Category: Civil and Household Authority
ὑποτάσσω, appearing with three distinct objects across Titus: rulers (3:1), wives (2:5), bondservants (2:9). Must be rendered consistently as voluntary, ordered submission within a right relationship, never as endorsement of abuse of power by the one submitted-to; each occurrence flagged separately for native speaker plus theologian review.
Bondservants Submit To Masters
Approved rendering: Knecht solln si iahrn Herrn unterordna
Transliteration: Knecht solln si iahrn Herrn unterordna
Doctrine: Submission to Authority
Original: δοῦλοι ἰδίοις δεσπόταις ὑποτάσσεσθαι
Category: Civil and Household Authority
δοῦλοι ἰδίοις δεσπόταις ὑποτάσσεσθαι (2:9). First-century household-slavery context; must not be read as a timeless endorsement of the historical institution of slavery.
Commandments Of Men
Approved rendering: Menschngebot
Transliteration: Menschngebot
Doctrine: Avoiding Divisive Controversies
Original: ἐντάλματα ἀνθρώπων
Category: Ecclesial Discipline
ἐντάλματα ἀνθρώπων (1:14). Sits directly atop the historic Reformation-era Scripture-vs-tradition controversy, still live in a historically Roman Catholic dialect region; must be framed as addressing the specific first-century Judaizing teachers’ rules only, never as a generalized brief against church tradition.
Foolish Controversies Genealogies
Approved rendering: narrische Streitfrogn, Sippnkunde, Gezänk und Gsetzesstreit
Transliteration: narrische Streitfrogn, Sippnkunde, Gezänk und Gsetzesstreit
Doctrine: Avoiding Divisive Controversies
Original: μωραὶ ζητήσεις καὶ γενεαλογίαι καὶ ἔρεις καὶ μάχαι νομικαί
Category: Ecclesial Discipline
μωραὶ ζητήσεις καὶ γενεαλογίαι καὶ ἔρεις καὶ μάχαι νομικαί (3:9). ‘Genealogies’/Sippnkunde carries real positive cultural weight in Bavarian Catholic family/patron-saint heritage; must be framed narrowly to the specific first-century speculative genealogical dispute, not general family-heritage interest.
Redemption
Approved rendering: auslösn / Loskauf
Transliteration: auslösn / Loskauf
Doctrine: Redemption through Christ’s Self-Giving
Rejected alternatives: erlösn / Erlösung (would erase the distinct ransom-price imagery by collapsing λυτρόω into the general salvation root; flag as an error if it occurs)
Original: λυτρόω
Category: Salvation
λυτρόω (2:14). Deliberately distinct from ‘erlösn’/‘Erlösung’ to preserve the cost-of-deliverance, ransom-price imagery rather than collapsing it into general deliverance.
His Own Possession People
Approved rendering: sei eigns Volk
Transliteration: sei eigns Volk
Doctrine: Redemption through Christ’s Self-Giving
Original: λαὸς περιούσιος
Category: Church Polity
λαὸς περιούσιος (2:14), echoing Exodus 19:5 LXX’s description of Israel. Care needed that ‘Volk’ does not read with nationalist/ethnic-people connotation given 20th-century Bavarian/German history; emphasis must stay on covenant-belonging, not ethnicity or nation.
Sin Verb
Approved rendering: sündign
Transliteration: sindign
Doctrine: Avoiding Divisive Controversies
Original: ἁμαρτάνω
Category: Sin
ἁμαρτάνει (3:11), verb form built on baseline noun ‘Sünd’. Per baseline’s sin-triviality caution, must not read as a minor lapse but as persistent, self-condemning moral corruption.
Devote To Good Works
Approved rendering: si eifrig um guade Werk kümman
Transliteration: si eifrig um guade Werk kümman
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine and Good Works
φροντίζωσιν καλῶν ἔργων προΐστασθαι (3:8), adding a nuance of active leadership/practice, not passive assent. Closes the doctrinal unit by returning to good works precisely after 3:5’s ‘not by works’ statement; the sentence-order itself (grace/regeneration first, works as necessary fruit second) is the theological point and must not be reordered or blurred.
Medium Risk Terms
Faith
Approved rendering: Glaam
Transliteration: Gloam
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace not Works
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
(Inherited from Romans package.) From ‘Glauben’ via regular intervocalic b-lenition. In Titus: ‘faith of God’s elect’ (1:1), elder qualification (1:13; 2:2), and the confessional formula ‘faithful is the word’ (πιστός shares this root, 3:8; see faithful_is_the_word).
Father
Approved rendering: Voda
Transliteration: Voter
Doctrine: Apostolic Commission and Authority
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
(Inherited from Romans package.) Occurs only in the Titus 1:4 greeting formula (‘Gnad und Friad vo Gott, unsern Voda…’); risk here is limited to consistency, not doctrinal collision.
Glory
Approved rendering: Herrlichkeit
Transliteration: Herrlichkeit
Doctrine: Deity of Christ and the Savior Title
(Inherited from Romans package.) Titus 2:13: ‘d’Erscheinung vo Seina Herrlichkeit’ — modifies the future epiphany (Christ’s return), the counterpart to 2:11’s past epiphany of grace.
Kindness
Approved rendering: Güte
Transliteration: Güte
Doctrine: Trinitarian Work of Salvation
Original: χρηστότης
Category: Christology
Titus 3:4 (χρηστότης), part of the Trinitarian 3:4-6 unit; must read as God’s initiating character trait, not a human virtue being praised.
Philanthropia
Approved rendering: Menschnliab
Transliteration: Menschnliab
Doctrine: Trinitarian Work of Salvation
Rejected alternatives: Philanthropie (bare loanword; carries modern secular-humanitarian, NGO-adjacent associations)
Original: φιλανθρωπία
Category: Christology
Titus 3:4 (φιλανθρωπία). Compound native-feeling rendering keeps the God-directed theological sense primary rather than a this-worldly charitable connotation.
Mercy
Approved rendering: Barmherzigkeit
Transliteration: Barmherzigkeit
Doctrine: Mercy and Compassion
Original: ἔλεος
Category: Salvation
Titus 3:5 (ἔλεος), the stated basis of salvation, distinct from but related to grace. Must be distinguished from ‘Gnad’: mercy emphasizes compassion toward the helpless, grace emphasizes unmerited favor toward the undeserving. Do not treat as a synonym pair.
Renewing
Approved rendering: Erneuerung
Transliteration: Erneuerung
Doctrine: Regeneration by the Holy Spirit
Original: ἀνακαίνωσις
Category: Salvation
Titus 3:5 (ἀνακαίνωσις), regeneration’s ongoing complement. Keep the decisive one-time event (Wiedergeburt) and the continuing outworking (Erneuerung) lexically and conceptually distinct.
Poured Out Spirit
Approved rendering: hod ausgschütt
Transliteration: hod ausgschütt
Doctrine: Trinitarian Work of Salvation
Rejected alternatives: a flat ‘given’ verb (loses Pentecost/Joel abundance imagery)
Original: ἐκχέω
Category: Salvation
Titus 3:6 (ἐκχέω). Echoes Pentecost/Joel 2:28 outpouring language; retain abundance imagery — the Spirit given lavishly, not rationed.
Faithful Is The Word
Approved rendering: A treuer Spruch is des
Transliteration: A treuer Spruch is des
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace not Works
Original: πιστὸς ὁ λόγος
Category: Faith
Titus 3:8 (πιστὸς ὁ λόγος), a fixed confessional formula (cf. 1 Timothy 1:15; 3:1; 4:9; 2 Timothy 2:11) marking the preceding 3:4-7 unit as a settled, authoritative doctrinal summary.
Knowledge Of The Truth
Approved rendering: d’Erkenntnis vo da Wahrheit
Transliteration: d’Erkenntnis vo da Wahrheit
Doctrine: Apostolic Commission and Authority
Original: ἐπίγνωσις ἀληθείας
Category: Faith
Titus 1:1 (ἐπίγνωσις ἀληθείας). Must be linked contextually to the sound-doctrine theme, not read as generic intellectual knowledge.
Self Controlled
Approved rendering: nüchtern
Transliteration: nüchtern
Doctrine: Grace That Trains for Godly Living
Original: σωφρόνως / σώφρων
Category: Sanctification
σωφρόνως/σώφρων family, recurring across 1:8; 2:2,4,5,6,12. Consistency across all occurrences is the primary risk factor.
Ungodliness
Approved rendering: Gottlosigkeit
Transliteration: Gottlosigkeit
Doctrine: Grace That Trains for Godly Living
Original: ἀσέβεια
Category: Sanctification
Titus 2:12 (ἀσέβεια). Borrowed wholesale from standard German; no dialect coinage exists.
Worldly Desires
Approved rendering: weltliche Begierdn
Transliteration: weltliche Begierdn
Doctrine: Grace That Trains for Godly Living
Original: κοσμικαὶ ἐπιθυμίαι
Category: Sanctification
Titus 2:12 (κοσμικαὶ ἐπιθυμίαι). Must not be narrowed to sexual sin alone; scope is the whole present-age value system.
Sound Speech
Approved rendering: a gsunde Red
Transliteration: a gsunde Red
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine and Good Works
Original: λόγος ὑγιής
Category: Sanctification
Titus 2:8 (λόγος ὑγιής). Same health-metaphor family applied to speech specifically; consistency with ‘gsunde Lehr’ required.
Pattern Of Good Works
Approved rendering: a Vorbild vo guade Werk
Transliteration: a Vorbild vo guade Werk
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine and Good Works
Original: τύπος καλῶν ἔργων
Category: Sanctification
Titus 2:7 (τύπον καλῶν ἔργων), applied personally to Titus’s own leadership example.
Defiled Mind And Conscience
Approved rendering: a unrein’s Gemüat und Gewissn
Transliteration: a unrein’s Gmiat und Gwissn
Doctrine: False Teachers and the Judaizing Controversy
Original: μεμιαμμένοις ὁ νοῦς καὶ ἡ συνείδησις
Category: Sanctification
Titus 1:15. Should be read as moral corruption of the inner person, not primarily ritual impurity.
Faithful Children
Approved rendering: glaabige Kinder
Transliteration: gloabige Kinda
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders
Original: τέκνα πιστά
Category: Church Polity
τέκνα πιστά (1:6). Ambiguous in Greek between ‘faithful/well-behaved’ and ‘believing’ children; flag for translator’s-note treatment rather than silently resolving.
Steward Of God
Approved rendering: a Verwalter vo Gott
Transliteration: a Verwalter vo Gott
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders
Original: οἰκονόμος θεοῦ
Category: Church Polity
οἰκονόμος θεοῦ (1:7). Conveys accountable, derived management of another’s household, not self-originated authority.
Blameless
Approved rendering: untadelig
Transliteration: untadelig
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders
Original: ἀνέγκλητος
Category: Church Polity
ἀνέγκλητος (1:6,7). Standard qualification-list term; consistency across both occurrences required.
Disciplined Egkrates
Approved rendering: beherrscht
Transliteration: behersscht
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders
Original: ἐγκρατής
Category: Church Polity
ἐγκρατής (1:8), part of the elder character cluster alongside σώφρων, δίκαιος, ὅσιος.
Obey
Approved rendering: gehorsam sei
Transliteration: gehorsam sei
Doctrine: Submission to Authority
Original: πειθαρχέω
Category: Civil and Household Authority
πειθαρχέω (3:1), paired with ὑποτάσσω regarding civil rulers.
Circumcision Party Jewish Fables
Approved rendering: de Beschneidungspartei / jüdische Fabln
Transliteration: de Beschneidungspartei / jüdische Fobln
Doctrine: False Teachers and the Judaizing Controversy
Original: οἱ ἐκ τῆς περιτομῆς / Ἰουδαϊκοὶ μῦθοι
Category: Ecclesial Discipline
οἱ ἐκ τῆς περιτομῆς / Ἰουδαϊκοὶ μῦθοι (1:10,14). Historically specific first-century Judaizing controversy; requires contextual framing so as not to be misread as generalized anti-Jewish polemic.
False Teachers
Approved rendering: widerspenstig, leere Schwätzer, und Verführer
Transliteration: widerspenstig, leare Schwätza, und Verführa
Doctrine: False Teachers and the Judaizing Controversy
Original: ἀνυπότακτοι, ματαιολόγοι, φρεναπάται, ἀντιλέγοντες
Category: Ecclesial Discipline
ἀνυπότακτοι, ματαιολόγοι, φρεναπάται, ἀντιλέγοντες (1:9-10). Frame consistently with the letter’s specific historical target (Judaizing teachers), not as generic license to label any theological opponent this way.
Blessed Hope
Approved rendering: seliche Hoffnung
Transliteration: seliche Hoffnung
Doctrine: Christian Hope / Blessed Hope
Original: μακαρία ἐλπίς
Category: Eschatology
μακαρία ἐλπίς (2:13). Must convey confident certainty grounded in God’s promise, not wishful optimism.
Hope General
Approved rendering: Hoffnung
Transliteration: Hoffnung
Doctrine: Christian Hope / Blessed Hope
Original: ἐλπίς
Category: Eschatology
ἐλπίς (1:2; 2:13; 3:7). First formal glossary entry for ‘hope’ across the whole curriculum pair despite Romans’ heavy hope-theology; no prior Bavarian precedent exists to anchor consistency against, so this rendering itself becomes the anchor going forward.
Heir
Approved rendering: Erb
Transliteration: Erb
Doctrine: Heirship and Eternal Life
Original: κληρονόμος
Category: Eschatology
κληρονόμος (3:7). Conceptually continuous with, but lexically distinct from, the baseline’s Kindschaft/adoption doctrine; present as the same family of promise using different vocabulary, not a competing or duplicate doctrine.
Eternal Life
Approved rendering: s’ewige Lem
Transliteration: s’ewige Lem
Doctrine: Heirship and Eternal Life
Original: ζωὴ αἰώνιος
Category: Eschatology
ζωὴ αἰώνιος (1:2; 3:7). First formal glossary entry for this exact phrase in the curriculum pair; consistency across both occurrences required. Leben > Lem per baseline’s documented b-lenition pattern.
Lawlessness Anomia
Approved rendering: Gsetzlosigkeit
Transliteration: Gsetzlosigkeit
Doctrine: Redemption through Christ’s Self-Giving
Original: ἀνομία
Category: Sin
ἀνομία (2:14), distinct from ἁμαρτία/‘Sünd’; built on the baseline’s registered root ‘Gsetz’ for law. Must not be read as merely legal-technical lawbreaking divorced from moral rebellion.
Cleanse
Approved rendering: rein macha
Transliteration: roa macha
Doctrine: Redemption through Christ’s Self-Giving
καθαρίσῃ (2:14). Mild risk of drifting toward a ritual-purity-only reading given Catholic sacramental-purification associations; context (Christ’s self-giving, not a rite) should anchor the moral sense.
Kerygma Preaching
Approved rendering: d’Verkündigung
Transliteration: d’Verkündigung
Doctrine: Apostolic Commission and Authority
κήρυγμα (1:3). Note that εὐαγγέλιον/‘Evangelium’ does not occur anywhere in Titus — a notable lexical gap relative to Romans; κήρυγμα is the operative proclamation term here instead.
Apeitheis Disobedient
Approved rendering: ungehorsam
Transliteration: ungehorsam
Doctrine: Universal Human Depravity Before Grace
ἀπειθεῖς (3:3; same root recurs 1:16). Establishes the ‘before’ state that grace decisively reverses; must not be softened into mere unbelief — retain the stark ‘we too once were… but…’ contrast.
Enslaved To Passions
Approved rendering: Sklavn vo de Gluste und Freidn
Transliteration: Sklavn vo de Gluste und Freidn
Doctrine: Universal Human Depravity Before Grace
δουλεύοντες ἐπιθυμίαις καὶ ἡδοναῖς (3:3). The slavery-to-desire image should not be softened into mere ‘enjoying pleasures’.
Blasphemein Slander
Approved rendering: schlecht redn / verleumdn
Transliteration: schlecht redn / verleumdn
Doctrine: Submission to Authority
βλασφημεῖν (3:2); same verb root recurs at 2:5 regarding ‘the word of God’ being blasphemed/discredited (see word_of_god_not_blasphemed) — keep the two occurrences conceptually linked, not treated as unrelated.
Low Risk Terms
Apostle
Approved rendering: Apostl
Transliteration: Apoastl
Doctrine: Apostolic Commission and Authority
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church Polity
(Inherited from Romans package.) Final -e dropped per regular apocope. Grounds Paul’s theological credentials at Titus 1:1.
Jesus
Approved rendering: Jesus
Transliteration: Jesus
Doctrine: Deity of Christ and the Savior Title
(Inherited from Romans package.) Stable proper name. See jesus_christ below for the required full compound form in Titus’s Christologically weighted occurrences.
Exhort
Approved rendering: ermahna
Transliteration: ermohna
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine and Good Works
(Inherited from Romans package.) Titus 2:15: one of three imperatives (speak/exhort/rebuke) Titus is charged to deliver; context-sensitive between admonishing and encouraging senses per baseline note. Distinguish from the freshly-introduced ἔλεγχε (‘rebuke’, see false_teachers cluster notes) — do not flatten all three verbs into this one term.
Peace
Approved rendering: Friad
Transliteration: Friade
Doctrine: Apostolic Commission and Authority
(Inherited from Romans package.) Occurs in the Titus 1:4 greeting formula alongside ‘Gnad’.
God Who Cannot Lie
Approved rendering: da Gott, der wo ned liang kann
Transliteration: da Gott, der wo ned liang kaunn
Doctrine: Reliability of God’s Promise
Original: ἀψευδὴς θεός
Category: God
Titus 1:2 (ἀψευδὴς θεός). Grounds the reliability of the promise of eternal life; low collision risk, no competing Bavarian folk tradition assigns deceptiveness to God.
Self Condemned
Approved rendering: selbst verurteilt
Transliteration: selbst verurteilt
Doctrine: Avoiding Divisive Controversies
Original: αὐτοκατάκριτος
Category: Ecclesial Discipline
αὐτοκατάκριτος (3:11). Describes behavioral self-incrimination through persistence, not a formal ecclesiastical verdict.
Epitage Authority
Approved rendering: mit volla Vollmacht
Transliteration: mit volla Vollmacht
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine and Good Works
ἐπιταγῆς (2:15), the full authority with which Titus is to speak, exhort, and rebuke.
Periphroneito Disregard
Approved rendering: soi ned gring ochtn
Transliteration: soi ned gring ochtn
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine and Good Works
περιφρονείτω (2:15): ‘let no one disregard/despise’.
Amachous Peaceable
Approved rendering: ned streitbar
Transliteration: ned streitbar
Doctrine: Submission to Authority
ἀμάχους (3:2), part of the character list accompanying submission-to-authority instruction.
Epieikeis Gentle
Approved rendering: milde
Transliteration: milde
Doctrine: Submission to Authority
ἐπιεικεῖς (3:2).
Praotes Gentleness
Approved rendering: Samtmuat
Transliteration: Samtmuat
Doctrine: Submission to Authority
πραότητα (3:2), Sanftmut with dialect vowel/consonant adaptation.
Anoetoi Foolish
Approved rendering: dumm/unvernünftig
Transliteration: dumm/unvernünftig
Doctrine: Universal Human Depravity Before Grace
ἀνόητοι (3:3), part of the ‘before grace’ character description.
Kakia Phthonos
Approved rendering: Bosheit und Neid
Transliteration: Bosheit und Neid
Doctrine: Universal Human Depravity Before Grace
κακίᾳ καὶ φθόνῳ (3:3).
Misountes Allelous
Approved rendering: ham uns geggnseitig hasst
Transliteration: ham uns geggnseitig hosst
Doctrine: Universal Human Depravity Before Grace
μισοῦντες ἀλλήλους (3:3).
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