Core Glossary
08 Core Glossary: 2 Peter (English–Bengali)
Status legend: [TM: reused] = already fixed in baseline translation_memory.json, must be used exactly as recorded, no deviation permitted. [NEW] = proposed for this curriculum; risk tier assigned using the same Critical/High/Medium/Low framework as the baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json.
| English Gloss | Greek | Transliteration | Bengali Rendering | Status | Risk | Doctrine Link | Occurrences | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| God | θεός | theos | ঈশ্বর | [TM: reused] | Critical | Divine Nature; Deity of Christ | 1:1,2,3,17,21; 2:4; 3:5,12 | Never ভগবান/আল্লাহ. |
| Lord | κύριος | kyrios | প্রভু | [TM: reused] | Critical | Certainty of Christ’s Return; Day of the Lord | 1:2,8,11,14,16; 2:9,11,20; 3:2,8,9,10,15,18 | Exclusive, supreme Lordship throughout; also underlies compound title “Lord and Savior.” |
| Jesus | Ἰησοῦς | Iēsous | যীশু | [TM: reused] | Critical | Deity of Christ | 1:1,2,8,14,16; 2:20; 3:18 | Never ঈসা. |
| Christ | Χριστός | Christos | খ্রীষ্ট | [TM: reused] | Critical | Certainty of Christ’s Return | 1:1,8,11,14,16; 2:20; 3:18 | Consistent with Romans usage. |
| Savior | σωτήρ | sōtēr | ত্রাণকর্তা | [NEW] | Critical | Deity of Christ; Reliability of Scripture (1:1’s Sharp’s-rule construction) | 1:1,11; 2:20; 3:2,18 | Fixed “Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” title recurs 5x; must render identically every time. 1:1’s “our God and Savior Jesus Christ” is a strong single-referent deity claim requiring theologian review. |
| Father | πατήρ | patēr | পিতা | [TM: reused] | Critical | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture (Transfiguration voice) | 1:17 | God the Father’s voice at the Transfiguration. |
| Holy Spirit | πνεῦμα ἅγιον | pneuma hagion | পবিত্র আত্মা | [TM: reused] | Critical | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1:21 | The agent of prophetic inspiration; never ব্রহ্ম/পরমাত্মা. |
| Son (of God) | υἱός | huios | পুত্র (full doctrinal phrase: ঈশ্বরের পুত্র) | [TM: reused root] | Critical | Divine Nature; Deity/Sonship of Christ | 1:17 | Father’s declaration at the Transfiguration; requires the standard Muslim-background translator note (relational/eternal, not biological, Sonship). |
| faith | πίστις | pistis | বিশ্বাস | [TM: reused] | High | Growing in Christian Virtue | 1:1,5; 3:2 (implied) | Object of faith recoverable from context: Christ. |
| grace | χάρις | charis | অনুগ্রহ | [TM: reused] | High | Growing in Christian Virtue | 1:2; 3:18 | Never পুণ্য/ভাগ্য/কৃপা (soteriological). |
| peace | εἰρήνη | eirēnē | শান্তি | [TM: reused] | Medium | — | 1:2 | Salutation term. |
| righteousness | δικαιοσύνη | dikaiosynē | ধার্মিকতা | [TM: reused] | Critical | Reliability of Scripture; False Teachers | 1:1; 2:5,21; 3:13 | Never ধর্ম. In 3:13, righteousness permanently “dwells” in the new heavens/earth — a key eschatological hope statement. |
| righteous (adj.) | δίκαιος | dikaios | ধার্মিক | [TM: reused adj. form] | High | False Teachers and Their Judgment | 2:7,8 | Of Lot; adjective form of the fixed noun. |
| apostle | ἀπόστολος | apostolos | প্রেরিত | [TM: reused] | Medium | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1:1; 3:2 | Grounds apostolic authority of the letter. |
| holy | ἅγιος | hagios | পবিত্র | [TM: reused] | High | Divine Nature; Day of the Lord | 1:18,21; 2:21; 3:2,11 | Never শুচি. |
| prophet | προφήτης | prophētēs | ভাববাদী | [TM: reused] | Low | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 2:16; 3:2 | Of Balaam (false use) and the OT prophets generally. |
| prophecy | προφητεία | prophēteia | ভাববাণী | [TM: reused] | Low (elevated to High in context) | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1:20,21 | Though baseline tier is Low, its role in 2 Peter’s core passage elevates practical risk; treat occurrences in 1:19-21 as High-risk context. |
| calling | κλῆσις | klēsis | আহ্বান | [TM: reused] | High | Growing in Christian Virtue | 1:10 | Paired with election. |
| election | ἐκλογή | eklogē | ঈশ্বরের মনোনয়ন | [TM: reused] | High | Growing in Christian Virtue; Patience of God’s Timing | 1:10 | Confirmed by godly living, not earned by it. |
| kingdom of God | βασιλεία (τοῦ θεοῦ, contextual: “eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior”) | basileia | (অনন্ত) রাজ্য | [TM: reused root] | Medium | Growing in Christian Virtue | 1:11 | Modified by αἰώνιος, “eternal.” |
| sin | ἁμαρτία | hamartia | পাপ | [TM: reused] | High | False Teachers and Their Judgment; Divine Nature | 1:9; 2:14 | Moral transgression, not karmic residue. |
| myth | μῦθος | mythos | কল্পকাহিনী | [NEW] | Medium | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1:16 | Contrasted with apostolic eyewitness testimony. |
| power (of Christ/God) | δύναμις | dynamis | সামর্থ্য | [TM: reused convention] | High | Certainty of Christ’s Return; Divine Nature | 1:3,16; 2:11 | Never শক্তি (Shakta-goddess collision). Distinguish from ἰσχύς (বল) in 2:11. |
| strength/might | ἰσχύς | ischys | বল | [NEW] | Medium | False Teachers and Their Judgment | 2:11 | Distinct Greek word from δύναμις; keep visibly distinct in Bengali. |
| coming / second coming | παρουσία | parousia | আগমন | [NEW] | High | Certainty of Christ’s Return | 1:16; 3:4,12 | Must denote a literal, personal, future, bodily return, not a spiritualized “presence.” |
| eyewitness | ἐπόπτης | epoptēs | প্রত্যক্ষদর্শী | [NEW] | Medium | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1:16 | Grounds apostolic authority in first-hand testimony. |
| majesty | μεγαλειότης | megaleiotēs | মহিমা | [NEW, shares rendering with δόξα by design] | Medium | Divine Nature | 1:16 | Flag the deliberate overlap with δόξα in translator notes. |
| glory | δόξα | doxa | মহিমা | [TM: reused] | High | Divine Nature; Certainty of Christ’s Return | 1:3,17(x2); 3:18 | God’s radiant honor; also of the “Majestic Glory” title in 1:17. |
| the Majestic Glory (divine title) | μεγαλοπρεπὴς δόξα | megaloprepēs doxa | মহিমাময় পরম প্রতাপ | [NEW] | High | Divine Nature; Reliability of Scripture | 1:17 | A reverential periphrasis for God the Father himself; must remain personal, not abstract. |
| honor | τιμή | timē | সম্মান | [NEW] | Low | Divine Nature | 1:17 | Bestowed on Christ at the Transfiguration. |
| beloved | ἀγαπητός | agapētos | প্রিয় | [NEW] | Low | — | 1:17; 3:1,8,14,15,17 | Recurs as Peter’s address to his readers throughout ch. 3 as well. |
| holy mountain | ἅγιον ὄρος | hagion oros | পবিত্র পর্বত | [NEW, reuses ἅγιος] | Low | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1:18 | Site of the Transfiguration. |
| more sure/certain | βεβαιότερος | bebaioteros | অধিক দৃঢ়/নিশ্চিত | [NEW] | High | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1:19 | Central comparative claim of the core passage. |
| prophetic word | προφητικὸς λόγος | prophētikos logos | ভাববাণীর বচন | [NEW, reuses ভাববাণী] | High | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1:19 | The OT Scriptures as a unified predictive witness to Christ. |
| lamp | λύχνος | lychnos | প্রদীপ | [NEW] | Low | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1:19 | Metaphor for Scripture’s guiding function. |
| morning star | φωσφόρος | phōsphoros | শুকতারা | [NEW] | Low-Medium | Certainty of Christ’s Return | 1:19 | Avoid any astrological (omen-reading) framing. |
| Scripture | γραφή | graphē | পবিত্রশাস্ত্র | [NEW, aligned with baseline doctrine registry naming] | High | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1:20; 3:16 | Denotes the specific, closed canon of God-breathed writings, not any generic religious/philosophical শাস্ত্র corpus. |
| (one’s own) interpretation | ἰδία ἐπίλυσις | idia epilysis | ব্যক্তিগত/নিজস্ব ব্যাখ্যা | [NEW] | Critical | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1:20 | The single highest-stakes phrase in the core passage; concerns prophecy’s origin, not the legitimacy of personal Bible reading. Mandatory theologian review every occurrence. |
| will of man | θέλημα ἀνθρώπου | thelēma anthrōpou | মানুষের ইচ্ছা | [NEW] | High | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1:21 | Negated term; the negation carries the doctrinal weight. |
| carried along (by the Spirit) | φερόμενοι (φέρω) | pheromenoi | (পবিত্র আত্মার দ্বারা) চালিত হয়ে | [NEW] | Critical | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1:21 | The classic verbal (organic, not mechanical) inspiration term; distinguish from Qur’anic dictation and Hindu śruti reception. |
| servant/slave | δοῦλος | doulos | দাস | [NEW] | Low-Medium | — | 1:1 | Peter’s self-designation. |
| of equal standing | ἰσότιμος | isotimos | সমমূল্য | [NEW] | Medium | Growing in Christian Virtue | 1:1 | Counters any spiritual-caste hierarchy among believers. |
| full knowledge | ἐπίγνωσις | epignōsis | পরিপূর্ণ জ্ঞান | [NEW] | Medium | Divine Nature; Growing in Christian Virtue | 1:2,3,8; 2:20 | Deep, transformative knowledge, distinct from bare γνῶσις. |
| divine power | θεία δύναμις | theia dynamis | ঈশ্বরিক সামর্থ্য | [NEW, extends power_of_god] | High | Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption | 1:3 | Never শক্তি. |
| virtue/excellence | ἀρετή | aretē | সদগুণ | [NEW] | Medium | Growing in Christian Virtue | 1:3,5 | Risk of triguṇa (Hindu philosophical) misreading. |
| divine nature | θεία φύσις | theia physis | ঈশ্বরিক প্রকৃতি | [NEW] | Critical | Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption | 1:4 | Highest-risk term in the book; guard against Advaita Vedanta ātman-Brahman identity reading. |
| partaker/sharer | κοινωνός | koinōnos | সহভাগী | [NEW, related to TM fellowship root] | Critical | Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption | 1:4 | ”Partakers of the divine nature” — participation in God’s moral character, not ontological merger. |
| corruption | φθορά | phthora | ক্ষয় / বিনাশ | [NEW] | Medium | Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption | 1:4; 2:12,19 | The moral decay believers escape. |
| desire/lust | ἐπιθυμία | epithymia | কামনা / অভিলাষ | [NEW] | Low-Medium | Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption; False Teachers | 1:4; 2:10,18 | |
| self-control | ἐγκράτεια | egkrateia | আত্মসংযম | [NEW] | Low | Growing in Christian Virtue | 1:6 | Virtue-chain term. |
| perseverance | ὑπομονή | hypomonē | ধৈর্য | [NEW] | Low | Growing in Christian Virtue | 1:6 | Distinct from μακροθυμία. |
| godliness | εὐσέβεια | eusebeia | ঈশ্বরভক্তি | [NEW] | High | Growing in Christian Virtue | 1:3,6,7; 2:9; 3:11 | Bare ভক্তি carries Hindu bhakti-devotional connotation; compound form required every occurrence. |
| brotherly love | φιλαδελφία | philadelphia | ভ্রাতৃপ্রেম | [NEW] | Low | Growing in Christian Virtue | 1:7 | |
| love | ἀγάπη | agapē | প্রেম | [NEW] | Low-Medium | Growing in Christian Virtue | 1:7 | Capstone virtue; disambiguate from romantic register by context. |
| knowledge | γνῶσις | gnōsis | জ্ঞান | [NEW] | Medium | Growing in Christian Virtue; False Teachers | 1:5,6,8; 3:18 | Avoid esoteric “secret knowledge” framing. |
| cleansing | καθαρισμός | katharismos | শুদ্ধিকরণ | [NEW] | Medium | Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption | 1:9 | Distinct from পবিত্রীকরণ (sanctification); never used interchangeably with it. |
| eternal | αἰώνιος | aiōnios | অনন্ত | [NEW] | Medium | Growing in Christian Virtue; Day of the Lord | 1:11; 3:18 | Modifies “kingdom” and “day” (doxology). |
| body (tent metaphor) | σκήνωμα | skēnōma | দেহ/শরীরের তাঁবু | [NEW] | Low | — | 1:13,14 | |
| departure/death | ἔξοδος | exodos | প্রস্থান | [NEW] | Low | — | 1:15 | Euphemism for Peter’s death. |
| false teacher | ψευδοδιδάσκαλος | pseudodidaskalos | মিথ্যা শিক্ষক | [NEW] | High | False Teachers and Their Judgment | 2:1 | Must retain culpable-deception force. |
| destructive heresy | αἵρεσις ἀπωλείας | hairesis apōleias | সর্বনাশা ভ্রান্ত মতবাদ | [NEW] | High | False Teachers and Their Judgment | 2:1 | Must not be flattened into neutral “alternative path” language. |
| Master (owner) | δεσπότης | despotēs | প্রভু (+ ownership-clause note) | [NEW] | High | False Teachers and Their Judgment; Certainty of Christ’s Return | 2:1 | Distinct Greek word from κύριος; ownership/purchase nuance must be retained contextually. |
| bought/purchased | ἀγοράζω | agorazō | ক্রয় করা | [NEW] | Medium | False Teachers and Their Judgment | 2:1 | Redemption-purchase imagery. |
| destruction/perdition | ἀπώλεια | apōleia | বিনাশ | [NEW] | High | Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | 2:1,3,12; 3:7,16 | Recurring eschatological term across chs. 2-3. |
| sensuality | ἀσέλγεια | aselgeia | স্বেচ্ছাচারিতা | [NEW] | Low-Medium | False Teachers and Their Judgment | 2:2,7,18 | |
| way of truth | ὁδὸς τῆς ἀληθείας | hodos tēs alētheias | সত্যের পথ | [NEW] | Low | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 2:2 | |
| judgment | κρίμα / κρίσις | krima / krisis | বিচার / দণ্ড | [NEW] | High | Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | 2:3,4,9; 3:7 | |
| angel | ἄγγελος | angelos | স্বর্গদূত | [NEW] | Low | False Teachers and Their Judgment | 2:4,11 | |
| cast into Tartarus | ταρταρόω | tartaroō | অন্ধকারের অতল গহ্বরে বন্দী করা | [NEW] | High | Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | 2:4 | Avoid transliterating “Tartarus” and avoid নরক (Hindu/Buddhist karmic-hell cosmology). |
| flood | κατακλυσμός | kataklysmos | জলপ্রলয় | [NEW] | Low | Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | 2:5; 3:6 | |
| Noah | Νῶε | Nōe | নোহ | [NEW] | Low | — | 2:5 | Established OT proper name. |
| preacher of righteousness | δικαιοσύνης κήρυξ | dikaiosynēs kēryx | ধার্মিকতার প্রচারক | [NEW, reuses ধার্মিকতা] | Medium | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 2:5 | Of Noah. |
| Sodom and Gomorrah | Σόδομα καὶ Γόμορρα | Sodoma kai Gomorra | সদোম ও ঘমোরা | [NEW] | Low | — | 2:6 | Established proper names. |
| Lot | Λώτ | Lōt | লোট | [NEW] | Low | — | 2:7 | Established proper name. |
| rescue/deliver | ῥύομαι | rhyomai | উদ্ধার করা | [NEW] | Medium | Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | 2:9 | God’s rescue of the godly amid judgment. |
| day of judgment | ἡμέρα κρίσεως | hēmera kriseōs | বিচারের দিন | [NEW] | High | Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | 2:9; 3:7 | Parallel to ἡμέρα κυρίου. |
| bold/self-willed | τολμηταί / αὐθάδεις | tolmētai / authadeis | দুঃসাহসী / ঔদ্ধত্যপূর্ণ | [NEW] | Low | False Teachers and Their Judgment | 2:10 | |
| Balaam | Βαλαάμ | Balaam | বিলিয়ম | [NEW] | Low | — | 2:15 | Established OT proper name. |
| freedom | ἐλευθερία | eleutheria | স্বাধীনতা | [NEW] | Medium | Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption | 2:19 | Ironic false promise vs. true freedom in Christ. |
| enslaved | δουλόω | douloō | দাসত্বে বদ্ধ হওয়া | [NEW] | Medium | Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption | 2:19 | |
| scoffer | ἐμπαίκτης | empaiktēs | উপহাসকারী | [NEW] | Medium | Certainty of Christ’s Return | 3:3 | Deniers of the parousia. |
| promise | ἐπαγγελία | epaggelia | প্রতিশ্রুতি | [NEW] | High | Certainty of Christ’s Return; Patience of God’s Timing | 3:4,9,13 | |
| creation | κτίσις | ktisis | সৃষ্টি | [NEW] | Low | Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | 3:4 | |
| word of God | λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ | logos tou theou | ঈশ্বরের বচন | [NEW] | Medium | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 3:5,7 | |
| a day as a thousand years | ἡμέρα … ὡς χίλια ἔτη | hēmera hōs chilia etē | প্রভুর কাছে একদিন হাজার বছরের সমান | [NEW] | Medium-High | Patience of God’s Timing | 3:8 | Risk of cyclical-time (yuga/kalpa) misreading; translator note recommended. |
| patience/longsuffering | μακροθυμία | makrothymia | সহনশীলতা / ধৈর্য | [NEW] | High | Patience of God’s Timing | 3:9,15 | Personal, purposeful forbearance, not impersonal delay. |
| repentance | μετάνοια | metanoia | মন-পরিবর্তন | [NEW] | High | Patience of God’s Timing | 3:9 | Prefer over bare অনুতাপ (mere remorse). |
| perish | ἀπόλλυμι | apollymi | বিনষ্ট হওয়া | [NEW] | High | Patience of God’s Timing; Day of the Lord | 3:9 | |
| Day of the Lord | ἡμέρα κυρίου | hēmera kyriou | প্রভুর দিন | [NEW] | Critical | Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | 3:10 | Must be distinguished from Islamic Yawm al-Qiyāmah and Hindu pralaya cyclical dissolution. |
| like a thief | ὡς κλέπτης | hōs kleptēs | চোরের মতো | [NEW] | Low | Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | 3:10 | |
| elements | στοιχεῖα | stoicheia | মৌলিক উপাদান | [NEW] | Low-Medium | Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | 3:10,12 | |
| new heavens and new earth | καινοὺς οὐρανοὺς καὶ γῆν καινήν | kainous ouranous kai gēn kainēn | নতুন আকাশমণ্ডল ও নতুন পৃথিবী | [NEW] | High | Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | 3:13 | Once-for-all renewal, not a repeatable cosmic cycle. |
| spotless and blameless | ἄσπιλοι καὶ ἀμώμητοι | aspiloi kai amōmētoi | নিষ্কলঙ্ক ও নির্দোষ | [NEW] | Low | Growing in Christian Virtue | 3:14 | |
| twist/distort | στρέβλωσις (στρεβλοῦσιν) | strebloūsin | বিকৃত করা | [NEW] | High | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 3:16 | Ties to 1:20’s warning against private interpretation. |
| steadfastness | στηριγμός | stērigmos | স্থিরতা | [NEW] | Low | — | 3:17 | |
| error | πλάνη | planē | ভ্রান্তি | [NEW] | Medium | False Teachers and Their Judgment | 2:18; 3:17 | |
| grow (in grace/knowledge) | αὐξάνω | auxanō | বৃদ্ধি পাওয়া | [NEW] | Medium | Growing in Christian Virtue | 3:18 | Closing exhortation, bookends 1:5-8 virtue chain. |
Notes on Baseline Continuity
- All [TM: reused] entries above are drawn directly from the baseline Romans
translation_memory.json/bible_term_registry.jsonand MUST NOT be altered in rendering or risk tier for this curriculum. - The compound title “Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (κύριος καὶ σωτήρ Ἰησοῦς Χριστός), recurring at 1:11, 2:20, and 3:18, and its variant “our God and Savior Jesus Christ” (1:1), must be rendered identically at every occurrence across all Phase 2 output documents, per the baseline’s Theological Consistency Rules.
- New terms flagged Critical or High in this glossary (ত্রাণকর্তা, ঈশ্বরিক প্রকৃতি, সহভাগী, ব্যক্তিগত/নিজস্ব ব্যাখ্যা, চালিত হয়ে, প্রভুর দিন, ঈশ্বরভক্তি, and related terms) require formal theologian sign-off before being merged into
translation_memory.jsonandbible_term_registry.jsonfor Phase 2, mirroring the baseline’s escalation rules.
Critical Risk Terms
Carried Along
Approved rendering: পবিত্র আত্মার দ্বারা চালিত হয়ে
Transliteration: pobitro atthar dwara chalito hoye
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: φερόμενοι (φέρω)
Category: Scripture
New to this curriculum. The classic verbal (organic, not mechanical) inspiration term (1:21): human authors spoke in their own words and voices while the Spirit was the moving, directing cause. Must be distinguished in translator notes from the Qur’anic model of verbatim angelic dictation and from the Hindu concept of śruti (impersonal timeless hearing by ancient ṛṣis). Mandatory theologian review at every occurrence.
Day Of The Lord
Approved rendering: প্রভুর দিন
Transliteration: provur din
Doctrine: Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Original: ἡμέρα κυρίου
Category: Eschatology
New to this curriculum. The OT-rooted, fixed technical eschatological term (3:10), a singular, final, once-for-all event tied to the Lord Jesus Christ’s own return. Must be clearly distinguished from the Islamic Yawm al-Qiyāmah (weighed-deeds judgment framework) and from Hindu pralaya (periodic, repeating cosmic dissolution). Mandatory theologian review at every occurrence.
Divine Nature
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বরিক প্রকৃতি
Transliteration: Ishshorik prokriti
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Rejected alternatives: ঈশ্বরের সাথে একত্ব, ঐক্য
Original: θεία φύσις
Category: Divine Nature
New to this curriculum. The single highest-risk term in the whole book (1:4). Must be firmly distinguished from Advaita Vedanta’s ātman-Brahman identity teaching (‘tat tvam asi’) and any self-deification framing. Believers participate in God’s moral character and incorruptible life by grace and union with Christ, remaining creatures, never becoming divine in essence. Mandatory theologian review at every occurrence; guardrail content belongs in the lesson body, not only a footnote.
Father
Approved rendering: পিতা
Transliteration: Pita
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture (Transfiguration voice)
Rejected alternatives: ব্রহ্মা, সৃষ্টিকর্তা
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. God the Father’s own voice at the Transfiguration (1:17), bestowing honor and glory on the Son.
God
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বর
Transliteration: Ishshor
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ভগবান, আল্লাহ
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. In 2 Peter 1:1’s Sharp’s-rule construction (‘our God and Savior Jesus Christ’), this term is bound to the single referent Jesus Christ, one of the strongest deity-of-Christ claims in the NT; never let a Bengali coordinating structure imply two separate persons.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: পবিত্র আত্মা
Transliteration: Pobitro Attha
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: ব্রহ্ম, পরমাত্মা
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. In 1:21, the agent who carried the prophets along as they spoke from God; must be distinguished from the Islamic doctrine of the Qur’an’s angelic dictation and from the Hindu concept of śruti.
Jesus
Approved rendering: যীশু
Transliteration: Jishu
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ঈসা
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Never ঈসা, the Qur’anic/Muslim-idiom name carrying a distinct, non-divine Christology; especially load-bearing at 1:16-18’s Transfiguration account.
Lord And Savior Title
Approved rendering: প্রভু ও ত্রাণকর্তা যীশু খ্রীষ্ট
Transliteration: provu o tranokorta Jishu Khrishto
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: κύριος καὶ σωτήρ Ἰησοῦς Χριστός
Category: Christology
New to this curriculum. Fixed compound title recurring at 1:11, 2:20, 3:18, with the variant ‘আমাদের ঈশ্বর ও ত্রাণকর্তা যীশু খ্রীষ্ট’ at 1:1. Must be rendered identically at every occurrence within and across all Phase 2 output documents; any variation risks implying doctrinal nuance the source text does not contain.
Lord
Approved rendering: প্রভু
Transliteration: provu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: মালিক, ঈশ্বর
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Used throughout 2 Peter of Jesus Christ (within the fixed title ‘Lord and Savior’) and of God generally (3:8-10, the OT Day-of-the-Lord tradition).
Messiah
Approved rendering: খ্রীষ্ট
Transliteration: Khrishto
Doctrine: Messianic Promise / Certainty of Christ’s Return
Rejected alternatives: মশীহ, অবতার পুরুষ
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Always joined to যীশু within the fixed title ‘Lord and Savior Jesus Christ’ or ‘God and Savior Jesus Christ’ across 2 Peter’s five occurrences of the compound title.
Partaker
Approved rendering: সহভাগী
Transliteration: shohobhagi
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Original: κοινωνός
Category: Divine Nature
New to this curriculum, related to the baseline’s fellowship (সহভাগিতা) root. ‘Partakers of the divine nature’ (1:4) describes participation in God’s moral character, not ontological merger with God’s essence. Mandatory theologian review at every occurrence.
Private Interpretation
Approved rendering: ব্যক্তিগত/নিজস্ব ব্যাখ্যা
Transliteration: byaktigoto/nijoshsho byakhya
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: ἰδία ἐπίλυσις
Category: Scripture
New to this curriculum. The single most doctrinally sensitive phrase in the core passage (1:20): a claim about prophecy’s ORIGIN, not about the legitimacy of personal Bible reading. Too broad a rendering forbids ordinary personal Bible reading, contrary to mainstream Bengali Protestant practice; too narrow a rendering legitimizes guru/pir-style self-authorizing revelation. Mandatory theologian review at every occurrence.
Righteousness
Approved rendering: ধার্মিকতা
Transliteration: dharmikota
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture / New Creation and Final Righteousness
Rejected alternatives: ধর্ম, পুণ্য, ন্যায়
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. NEVER ধর্ম. Occurs in 1:1’s ‘righteousness of our God and Savior,’ of Noah’s proclaimed message (2:5), Lot’s character (2:7-8, adjectival), and as the permanent moral order of the new heavens and earth (3:13), a key eschatological hope statement.
Savior
Approved rendering: ত্রাণকর্তা
Transliteration: tranokorta
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: উদ্ধারকর্তা, নাজাতদাতা
Original: σωτήρ
Category: Christology
New to this curriculum. Fixed component of the compound title ‘Lord and Savior Jesus Christ’ (1:11; 2:20; 3:18) and of the 1:1 variant ‘God and Savior Jesus Christ.’ Never নাজাতদাতা, the Islamic-idiom equivalent. Must render identically at every occurrence.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বরের পুত্র
Transliteration: Ishshorer Putro
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: দেবপুত্র, ঈশ্বরের অংশ
Original: υἱός (θεοῦ)
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package (full doctrinal phrase). In the Father’s direct speech at 1:17 render as আমার পুত্র; use the full phrase ঈশ্বরের পুত্র wherever the doctrinal claim itself is being taught. Requires the standard Muslim-background translator note: eternal/relational, not biological, Sonship.
High Risk Terms
Calling
Approved rendering: আহ্বান
Transliteration: ahban
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Paired with election, to be confirmed (not earned) through godly living (1:10).
Coming Parousia
Approved rendering: আগমন
Transliteration: agomon
Doctrine: Certainty of Christ’s Return
Rejected alternatives: উপস্থিতি, ঈসার পুনরাগমন
Original: παρουσία
Category: Eschatology
New to this curriculum. Christ’s future, personal, visible, bodily return, previewed at the Transfiguration (1:16) and denied by the scoffers (3:4,12). Must never merge with the settled Bengali Muslim idiom ঈসার পুনরাগমন, which describes a non-divine prophet-judge’s return under a different theology.
Day As Thousand Years
Approved rendering: প্রভুর কাছে একদিন হাজার বছরের সমান
Transliteration: provur kachhe ekdin hajar bochorer shoman
Doctrine: Patience of God’s Timing
Original: μία ἡμέρα παρὰ κυρίῳ ὡς χίλια ἔτη
Category: Eschatology
New to this curriculum. A proportional statement about God’s transcendence of human time-measurement (3:8). Risks being absorbed into Hindu cyclical cosmology (yugas/kalpas); a translator note distinguishing personal, purposeful, linear divine patience from impersonal cyclical time is required. Mandatory theologian review.
Day Of Judgment
Approved rendering: বিচারের দিন
Transliteration: bichar er din
Doctrine: Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Original: ἡμέρα κρίσεως
Category: Judgment
New to this curriculum. The appointed eschatological day until which the wicked are kept for punishment (2:9; 3:7), parallel to ἡμέρα κυρίου in ch. 3.
Destruction Apoleia
Approved rendering: বিনাশ
Transliteration: binash
Doctrine: Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Original: ἀπώλεια
Category: Judgment
New to this curriculum. Final ruin/loss, often eschatological; recurs of the false teachers and scoffers’ certain end (2:1,3,12; 3:7,16). Must carry the sense of a final, personal, forensic divine act, never an annihilationist mere-cessation reading nor an earthly-restoration-only reading (cf. Watchtower NWT distortion documented in the translation landscape).
Destructive Heresy
Approved rendering: সর্বনাশা ভ্রান্ত মতবাদ
Transliteration: sarbonasha bhranto motobad
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Rejected alternatives: ভিন্ন মত, আলাদা পথ
Original: αἵρεσις ἀπωλείας
Category: False Teaching
New to this curriculum. Ruinous false doctrine secretly introduced by the false teachers (2:1). Must not be flattened into neutral ‘differing opinions’ language, which is how sampradāya/madhab/tariqa differences are typically framed in the wider South Asian culture.
Divine Power
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বরিক সামর্থ্য
Transliteration: Ishshorik shamorthyo
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Rejected alternatives: ঈশ্বরিক শক্তি
Original: θεία δύναμις
Category: Divine Nature
New to this curriculum, extending the power_of_god convention with the adjective ঈশ্বরিক. God’s own power, the source of every provision for a godly life (1:3). Never শক্তি.
Election
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বরের মনোনয়ন
Transliteration: Ishshorer monownoyon
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue / Patience of God’s Timing
Rejected alternatives: ভাগ্য, নিয়তি, কর্মফল
Original: ἐκλογή
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Paired with calling in 1:10; not karma-determined fate.
Faith
Approved rendering: বিশ্বাস
Transliteration: bishwas
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Rejected alternatives: ঈমান, শ্রদ্ধা
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. In 2 Peter 1:1, the readers’ faith is of ‘equal standing’ (ইসোতিমোস) with the apostles’ own faith.
False Teacher
Approved rendering: মিথ্যা শিক্ষক
Transliteration: mittha shikkhok
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Rejected alternatives: ভিন্নমতাবলম্বী শিক্ষক
Original: ψευδοδιδάσκαλος
Category: False Teaching
New to this curriculum. A teacher who falsely claims divine authority, secretly introducing destructive heresies (2:1). Must retain culpable-deception force, never softened to a merely ‘mistaken’ or ‘different’ teacher.
Glory
Approved rendering: মহিমা
Transliteration: mohima
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: জ্যোতি, তেজ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited rendering convention from Romans package. Conferred on Christ at the Transfiguration (1:3,17 twice) and ascribed to him in the closing doxology (3:18). Deliberately shared with μεγαλειότης (majesty) at 1:16-17; flag this intentional overlap in translator notes.
Godliness
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বরভক্তি
Transliteration: Ishshorbhokti
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Rejected alternatives: ভক্তি (bare/unqualified)
Original: εὐσέβεια
Category: Sanctification
New to this curriculum. Bare ভক্তি carries a heavy Hindu bhakti-devotional connotation (personal loving devotion to a chosen deity, e.g., Krishna-bhakti); the compound ঈশ্বরভক্তি anchors devotion explicitly to the one true God, but a residual devotional-Hindu overtone remains and must be flagged at every occurrence (1:3,6,7; 2:9; 3:11).
Grace
Approved rendering: অনুগ্রহ
Transliteration: anugroho
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Rejected alternatives: কৃপা, পুণ্য, ভাগ্য
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Multiplied through the knowledge of God and Christ (1:2); the sphere in which believers are to grow (3:18).
Holy
Approved rendering: পবিত্র
Transliteration: pobitro
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Rejected alternatives: শুচি, নির্মল
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. Used of the mountain of Transfiguration (1:18), the commandment delivered to believers (2:21), the OT prophets and apostolic commandment (3:2), and conduct while awaiting the Day of the Lord (3:11). Never শুচি.
Judgment
Approved rendering: বিচার/দণ্ড
Transliteration: bichar/dondo
Doctrine: Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Original: κρίμα / κρίσις
Category: Judgment
New to this curriculum. A legal, condemnatory sentence; the false teachers’ judgment is not idle/asleep (2:3), and God knows how to keep the unrighteous for the day of judgment (2:9; 3:7). Must retain forensic, certain-sentence force — a personal God’s verdict, never an impersonal karmic reckoning.
Majestic Glory Title
Approved rendering: মহিমাময় পরম প্রতাপ
Transliteration: mohimamoy porom protap
Doctrine: Deity of Christ / Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: মহিমা (bare abstract noun)
Original: μεγαλοπρεπὴς δόξα
Category: God
New to this curriculum. A reverential periphrasis naming God the Father himself as the source of the Transfiguration voice (1:17); must remain a personal divine title, never reduced to an abstract quality detached from a personal agent.
Master Despotes
Approved rendering: প্রভু (+ ক্রয়কারী স্বামী নোট)
Transliteration: provu (khoykari shami note)
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment / Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: মালিক
Original: δεσπότης
Category: False Teaching
New to this curriculum. δεσπότης, a distinct Greek word from κύριος carrying absolute ownership force; the false teachers deny the Master who bought them (2:1). Reuse প্রভু for consistency with Lordship doctrine, but supply an obligatory ownership clause (e.g., যে প্রভু তাঁর মূল্যে তাদের ক্রয় করেছেন) so the purchase nuance is never lost.
More Sure
Approved rendering: অধিক দৃঢ়/নিশ্চিত
Transliteration: odhik dridh/nishchit
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: মনে হয় নিশ্চিত
Original: βεβαιότερος
Category: Scripture
New to this curriculum. The comparative claim (1:19) that the prophetic word is even more firmly grounded than Peter’s own eyewitness experience; any softening undercuts the doctrine this verse exists to teach.
New Heavens And New Earth
Approved rendering: নতুন আকাশমণ্ডল ও নতুন পৃথিবী
Transliteration: notun akashmondol o notun prithibi
Doctrine: New Creation and Final Righteousness
Rejected alternatives: মহাপ্রলয়ের পরের সৃষ্টি
Original: καινοὺς οὐρανοὺς καὶ γῆν καινήν
Category: Eschatology
New to this curriculum. God’s promised final consummation (3:13), in which righteousness permanently dwells. Must be a single, final, once-for-all renewal — never a repeatable phase within an endless mahāpralaya-style creation-dissolution cycle, and never assimilated to an earthly-paradise-restoration eschatology.
Patience
Approved rendering: সহনশীলতা/ধৈর্য
Transliteration: shohonshilota/dhoirjo
Doctrine: Patience of God’s Timing
Original: μακροθυμία
Category: Eschatology
New to this curriculum. Forbearance that withholds deserved action for a purpose; God’s patience delays judgment to allow space for repentance (3:9,15). Must be personal, purposeful forbearance toward specific persons, not impersonal cosmic slowness or fatalistic delay (নিয়তি/ভাগ্য).
Perish
Approved rendering: বিনষ্ট হওয়া
Transliteration: binosto howa
Doctrine: Patience of God’s Timing
Original: ἀπόλλυμι
Category: Eschatology
New to this curriculum. The negative outcome God’s patience is meant to forestall (3:9); shares the root of বিনাশ (ἀπώλεια).
Power Of God
Approved rendering: সামর্থ্য
Transliteration: shamorthyo
Doctrine: Certainty of Christ’s Return / Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Rejected alternatives: শক্তি
Original: δύναμις
Category: God
Inherited convention from Romans package. NEVER শক্তি (Shakta-goddess collision). Christ’s own divine might, displayed proleptically at the Transfiguration (1:16), the source of every provision for godly life (1:3), and possessed by angels in greater measure than the false teachers (2:11).
Promise
Approved rendering: প্রতিশ্রুতি
Transliteration: protishruti
Doctrine: Certainty of Christ’s Return / Patience of God’s Timing
Original: ἐπαγγελία
Category: Eschatology
New to this curriculum. A formal, guaranteed pledge; the scoffers’ taunt ‘Where is the promise of his coming?’ (3:4), and God’s patience grounded in the promise of new heavens and earth (3:9,13). Must retain the force of a guaranteed pledge, not a mere hope.
Prophecy
Approved rendering: ভাববাণী
Transliteration: bhabbani
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: গণনা
Original: προφητεία
Category: Scripture
Inherited rendering from Romans package (baseline tier Low), but this curriculum ELEVATES the risk tier to High: prophecy’s origin is the central subject of the core passage’s teaching (1:20-21), making imprecision here far more consequential than in Romans.
Prophetic Word
Approved rendering: ভাববাণীর বচন
Transliteration: bhabbanir bochon
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: προφητικὸς λόγος
Category: Scripture
New to this curriculum, combining the fixed ভাববাণী root with বচন. The OT Scriptures as a unified predictive witness to Christ (1:19), functioning as a lamp shining in a dark place.
Relapse Worse Than First
Approved rendering: শেষ অবস্থা প্রথম অবস্থার চেয়ে খারাপ হয়েছে
Transliteration: shesh obostha prothom obosthar cheye kharap hoyeche
Doctrine: Danger of Apostasy and Relapse
Original: τὰ ἔσχατα χείρονα τῶν πρώτων
Category: False Teaching
New to this curriculum. A pastorally weighty warning about relapse into corruption after having known ‘the way of righteousness’ (2:20-21). Must not be softened into a mild regression, nor over-dramatized into a shame-weapon against those whose religious departure from an inherited community already carries acute social risk.
Repentance
Approved rendering: মন-পরিবর্তন
Transliteration: mon-poriborton
Doctrine: Patience of God’s Timing
Rejected alternatives: অনুতাপ (bare)
Original: μετάνοια
Category: Eschatology
New to this curriculum. The goal of God’s patience (3:9); preferred over bare অনুতাপ, which risks reduction to mere emotional remorse without the whole-person volitional reorientation the Greek term requires.
Righteous
Approved rendering: ধার্মিক
Transliteration: dharmik
Doctrine: Judgment of Fallen Angels and OT Precedents
Rejected alternatives: ধর্মীয়, সৎ
Original: δίκαιος
Category: Salvation
New adjectival form of the fixed baseline noun ধার্মিকতা. Describes Noah as ‘a preacher of righteousness’ (2:5) and Lot as ‘a righteous man’ (2:7-8), preserved as exceptions amid judgment.
Scripture
Approved rendering: পবিত্রশাস্ত্র
Transliteration: pobitroshastro
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: শাস্ত্র (bare/unqualified)
Original: γραφή
Category: Scripture
New to this curriculum. Denotes the specific, closed canon of God-breathed writings (1:20; 3:16). The qualifier পবিত্র is non-negotiable at every occurrence — bare শাস্ত্র covers the broader Hindu religious/philosophical corpus (Vedas, Purāṇas, Manusmṛti, Bhagavad Gītā).
Sin
Approved rendering: পাপ
Transliteration: pap
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Rejected alternatives: অধর্ম, অশুচিতা
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans package. The sin from which believers were cleansed (1:9) and which the false teachers commit and incite (2:14).
Tartarus
Approved rendering: অন্ধকারের অতল গহ্বরে বন্দী করা
Transliteration: ondhokarer otol gohbore bondi kora
Doctrine: Judgment of Fallen Angels and OT Precedents
Rejected alternatives: নরক, টারটারাস (transliteration)
Original: ταρταρόω
Category: Judgment
New to this curriculum. Deliberate departure from established Bengali Bible-translation precedent, which historically renders all NT underworld/confinement terms (Hades, Gehenna, Tartarus) uniformly as নরক. NEVER নরক here: it imports Hindu/Buddhist karma-calibrated, multi-graded, rebirth-cycle hell cosmology. This is a single, temporary holding place awaiting one final future judgment (2:4).
Twist Distort
Approved rendering: বিকৃত করা
Transliteration: bikrito kora
Doctrine: Scripture Distortion and False Interpretation
Rejected alternatives: ভিন্নভাবে ব্যাখ্যা করা
Original: στρεβλοῦσιν (στρέβλωσις)
Category: Scripture
New to this curriculum. Willful distortion of Paul’s letters and the other Scriptures by the untaught and unstable (3:16), directly extending 1:20’s warning. Must retain accusatory, culpable force — never a neutral ‘different reading.‘
Will Of Man
Approved rendering: মানুষের ইচ্ছা
Transliteration: manusher ichchha
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: θέλημα ἀνθρώπου
Category: Scripture
New to this curriculum. Negated as the source of prophecy (1:21); the negation itself carries the doctrinal weight and must clearly negate human origination, not merely qualify it.
Medium Risk Terms
Apostle
Approved rendering: প্রেরিত
Transliteration: prerito
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Authority
Rejected alternatives: দূত, বার্তাবাহক
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Peter’s self-designation (1:1) and the collective apostolic office referenced in 3:2, alongside the OT prophets.
Bought Purchased
Approved rendering: ক্রয় করা
Transliteration: kroy kora
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Rejected alternatives: গ্রহণ করা, মনোনীত করা
Original: ἀγοράζω
Category: False Teaching
New to this curriculum. Christ’s redemptive purchase of believers (2:1); supports the redemption/atonement background load-bearing for δεσπότης. Never flattened to mere selection.
Cleansing
Approved rendering: শুদ্ধিকরণ
Transliteration: shuddhikoron
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Original: καθαρισμός
Category: Divine Nature
New to this curriculum. A past, once-for-all cleansing from sin’s guilt, likely referring to conversion (1:9). Distinct Greek word from the baseline’s ongoing পবিত্রীকরণ (sanctification); the two must never be used interchangeably.
Corruption
Approved rendering: ক্ষয়/বিনাশ
Transliteration: khoy/binash
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Original: φθορά
Category: Divine Nature
New to this curriculum. Moral decay in the world caused by evil desire, from which believers escape via the divine nature (1:4); recurs of the false teachers themselves (2:12,19).
Desire Lust
Approved rendering: কামনা/অভিলাষ
Transliteration: kamona/obhilash
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Original: ἐπιθυμία
Category: Divine Nature
New to this curriculum. The corrupting force in the world (1:4) and driving motive of the false teachers (2:10,18); consistently the sinful sense in this letter.
Elements
Approved rendering: মৌলিক উপাদান
Transliteration: moulik upadan
Doctrine: Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Original: στοιχεῖα
Category: Eschatology
New to this curriculum. The fundamental constituent parts of the physical universe, dissolved by fire at the Day of the Lord (3:10,12).
Enslaved
Approved rendering: দাসত্বে বদ্ধ হওয়া
Transliteration: dasotte boddho howa
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Original: δουλόω
Category: Divine Nature
New to this curriculum. The false teachers’ actual condition, contradicting their promise of freedom (2:19); keep the irony with স্বাধীনতা visible.
Equal Standing
Approved rendering: সমমূল্য
Transliteration: shomomullyo
Doctrine: Equal Standing of Believers
Original: ἰσότιμος
Category: Faith
New to this curriculum. The readers’ faith is of the same worth as the apostles’ own (1:1) — no spiritual caste distinction. Must not be softened in a way that implies gradations of faith-worth, given residual caste-status and communal-status thinking in the region.
Error
Approved rendering: ভ্রান্তি
Transliteration: bhranti
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: πλάνη
Category: False Teaching
New to this curriculum. A straying from truth; the ‘error of lawless people’ that could destabilize believers (3:17; echoes 2:18).
Eternal Kingdom
Approved rendering: অনন্ত রাজ্য
Transliteration: ononto rajyo
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
New to this curriculum, combining the fixed রাজ্য root with অনন্ত (eternal). The destination into which believers are richly welcomed (1:11); a personal, unending reign, not a political or territorial kingdom.
Eternal
Approved rendering: অনন্ত
Transliteration: ononto
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue / Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Original: αἰώνιος
Category: Kingdom
New to this curriculum. Modifies ‘kingdom’ (1:11) and the closing doxology’s ‘day of eternity’ (3:18).
Eyewitness
Approved rendering: প্রত্যক্ষদর্শী
Transliteration: prottokkhodorshi
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Authority
Rejected alternatives: যারা দেখেছিল
Original: ἐπόπτης
Category: Scripture
New to this curriculum. Grounds apostolic authority in first-hand, official-nuance testimony (1:16), not a mystical vision or a guru-parampara/pir-silsila style transmitted authority.
Freedom
Approved rendering: স্বাধীনতা
Transliteration: swadhinota
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Rejected alternatives: মুক্তি
Original: ἐλευθερία
Category: Divine Nature
New to this curriculum. The false teachers promise freedom while being themselves enslaved to corruption (2:19), an ironic contrast with true freedom as participation in God’s holy nature. Never মুক্তি (which carries baseline-forbidden rebirth-liberation associations).
Full Knowledge
Approved rendering: পরিপূর্ণ জ্ঞান
Transliteration: poripurno gyan
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Original: ἐπίγνωσις
Category: Sanctification
New to this curriculum. Deep, accurate, experiential knowledge of God and Christ (1:2,3,8; 2:20), distinct from the false teachers’ merely intellectual, unfruitful γνῶσις.
Grow
Approved rendering: বৃদ্ধি পাওয়া
Transliteration: briddhi paoya
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: αὐξάνω
Category: Sanctification
New to this curriculum. Closing exhortation to grow in grace and knowledge of Christ (3:18), bookending the 1:5-8 virtue chain.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: রাজ্য
Transliteration: Rajyo
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Rejected alternatives: ঈশ্বরের দেশ
Original: βασιλεία (τοῦ θεοῦ)
Category: Kingdom
Inherited root from Romans package (ঈশ্বরের রাজ্য). In 2 Peter 1:11 the specific phrase is ‘the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ’ — see eternal_kingdom entry for the full modified phrase.
Knowledge
Approved rendering: জ্ঞান
Transliteration: gyan
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: γνῶσις
Category: Sanctification
New to this curriculum. A virtue-chain term (1:5-6,8) also ironically claimed in hollow form by the false teachers, and part of the closing exhortation to grow (3:18). Must not be read as endorsing an esoteric ‘secret knowledge’ framework, whether Gnostic-adjacent or a Hindu jñāna-mārga reading.
Love
Approved rendering: প্রেম
Transliteration: prem
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Sanctification
New to this curriculum. The capstone virtue of the virtue chain (1:7); ensure not collapsed into the romantic register of প্রেম alone — context should disambiguate.
Majesty
Approved rendering: মহিমা
Transliteration: mohima
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Original: μεγαλειότης
Category: God
New to this curriculum. A rare NT word (μεγαλειότης, 1:16) for visible, overwhelming greatness/splendor at the Transfiguration; deliberately shares মহিমা with δόξα — a sanctioned stylistic overlap, not an inconsistency.
Morning Star
Approved rendering: শুকতারা
Transliteration: shuktara
Doctrine: Certainty of Christ’s Return
Original: φωσφόρος
Category: Eschatology
New to this curriculum. The morning star (Venus), a metaphor for the dawning clarity of Christ’s return (1:19). Must never acquire an astrological/omen-reading connotation (গণনা-type divination).
Myth
Approved rendering: কল্পকাহিনী
Transliteration: kolpokahini
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: রূপকথা
Original: μῦθος
Category: Scripture
New to this curriculum. What the apostles explicitly did NOT follow when proclaiming Christ (1:16). রূপকথা rejected as too childish/light; কল্পকাহিনী preserves the sense of a deliberately constructed but false religious narrative, never softened toward ‘legend’ as one valid sacred-story genre among others.
Peace
Approved rendering: শান্তি
Transliteration: shanti
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Rejected alternatives: সুখ, স্বস্তি
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Salutation term (1:2).
Preacher Of Righteousness
Approved rendering: ধার্মিকতার প্রচারক
Transliteration: dharmikotar prochārok
Doctrine: Judgment of Fallen Angels and OT Precedents
Original: δικαιοσύνης κήρυξ
Category: Judgment
New to this curriculum, reusing the fixed ধার্মিকতা root. Noah’s role as herald of righteousness prior to the flood (2:5).
Rescue
Approved rendering: উদ্ধার করা
Transliteration: uddhar kora
Doctrine: Judgment of Fallen Angels and OT Precedents
Original: ῥύομαι
Category: Judgment
New to this curriculum. God’s ability to rescue the godly even while judging the wicked (2:9); personal and purposeful, not incidental.
Scoffer
Approved rendering: উপহাসকারী
Transliteration: upohashkari
Doctrine: Certainty of Christ’s Return
Rejected alternatives: ঠাট্টাকারী
Original: ἐμπαίκτης
Category: Eschatology
New to this curriculum. Mockers who deny the certainty of Christ’s return in the last days (3:3), showing the doctrine is precisely what unbelief targets for ridicule.
Sensuality
Approved rendering: স্বেচ্ছাচারিতা
Transliteration: swecchacharita
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Rejected alternatives: লাম্পট্য
Original: ἀσέλγεια
Category: False Teaching
New to this curriculum. Unrestrained, shameless self-indulgence, especially sexual; the false teachers’ immoral conduct (2:2,7,18). Must retain strong moral-seriousness tone.
Strength Ischys
Approved rendering: বল
Transliteration: bol
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: ἰσχύς
Category: False Teaching
New to this curriculum. Distinct Greek word from δύναμις (সামর্থ্য); angels are greater in both ἰσχύς and δύναμις than the false teachers (2:11). Keep বল and সামর্থ্য visibly distinct across occurrences to preserve the text’s own two-term contrast.
Virtue
Approved rendering: সদগুণ
Transliteration: sodgun
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: ἀρετή
Category: Sanctification
New to this curriculum. God’s own moral excellence and the first link in the virtue chain (1:3,5). Risk of being read through the Hindu triguṇa (sattva/rajas/tamas) framework as an impersonal cosmic quality rather than a personally cultivated Christian character trait; context must disambiguate.
Word Of God
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বরের বচন
Transliteration: Ishshorer bochon
Doctrine: Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Original: λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Scripture
New to this curriculum. God’s spoken, creative, authoritative word, by which the heavens and earth were formed and are preserved and will be judged (3:5,7).
Low Risk Terms
Angel
Approved rendering: স্বর্গদূত
Transliteration: shorgodut
Doctrine: Judgment of Fallen Angels and OT Precedents
Original: ἄγγελος
Category: Judgment
New to this curriculum, established Bengali Christian usage. Some angels sinned and were judged (2:4); angels are described as greater in strength and power than the false teachers yet do not presume to blaspheme (2:11).
Balaam
Approved rendering: বিলিয়ম
Transliteration: Biliyom
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: Βαλαάμ
Category: False Teaching
New to this curriculum, established Bengali OT proper-name form. An OT prophet-for-hire, corrupted by love of wages (2:15-16).
Beloved
Approved rendering: প্রিয়
Transliteration: priyo
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Original: ἀγαπητός
Category: Faith
New to this curriculum. The Father’s address to the Son (1:17) and Peter’s address to his readers throughout chapter 3 (3:1,8,14,15,17).
Body Tent
Approved rendering: দেহ/শরীরের তাঁবু
Transliteration: deho/sharirer tabu
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Authority
Original: σκήνωμα
Category: Church
New to this curriculum. Metaphor for Peter’s physical body as a temporary dwelling he will soon ‘put off’ (1:13-14).
Bold Selfwilled
Approved rendering: দুঃসাহসী/ঔদ্ধত্যপূর্ণ
Transliteration: dussahoshi/oudhotyopurno
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: τολμηταί / αὐθάδεις
Category: False Teaching
New to this curriculum. Character description of the false teachers as reckless and stubbornly self-assertive (2:10).
Brotherly Love
Approved rendering: ভ্রাতৃপ্রেম
Transliteration: bhratripremo
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: φιλαδελφία
Category: Sanctification
New to this curriculum. Love/affection between believers as siblings, a virtue-chain term (1:7).
Creation
Approved rendering: সৃষ্টি
Transliteration: sristi
Doctrine: Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Original: κτίσις
Category: Eschatology
New to this curriculum. The created order; the scoffers falsely claim all things continue unchanged since creation (3:4).
Departure
Approved rendering: প্রস্থান
Transliteration: prosthan
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Authority
Original: ἔξοδος
Category: Church
New to this curriculum. Euphemism for Peter’s approaching death (1:15).
Flood
Approved rendering: জলপ্রলয়
Transliteration: jalproloy
Doctrine: Judgment of Fallen Angels and OT Precedents
Original: κατακλυσμός
Category: Judgment
New to this curriculum. The Noahic flood specifically (2:5; 3:6). Acceptable here because anchored to a specific historical flood event; must NOT be extended by analogy to 3:10’s final cosmic dissolution, to avoid a mahāpralaya-cyclical misreading.
Holy Mountain
Approved rendering: পবিত্র পর্বত
Transliteration: pobitro porbot
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Authority
Original: ἅγιον ὄρος
Category: Scripture
New to this curriculum, reusing the fixed পবিত্র. The site of the Transfiguration (1:18), grounding the eyewitness claim geographically.
Honor
Approved rendering: সম্মান
Transliteration: shomman
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: τιμή
Category: God
New to this curriculum. Bestowed on Christ by the Father at the Transfiguration (1:17).
Lamp
Approved rendering: প্রদীপ
Transliteration: prodip
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: λύχνος
Category: Scripture
New to this curriculum. Metaphor for Scripture’s guiding function until Christ’s return (1:19).
Like A Thief
Approved rendering: চোরের মতো
Transliteration: chorer moto
Doctrine: Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Original: ὡς κλέπτης
Category: Eschatology
New to this curriculum. Metaphor for the Day of the Lord’s suddenness and unpredictability (3:10); conveys unexpectedness without implying impersonal chance.
Lot
Approved rendering: লোট
Transliteration: Lot
Doctrine: Judgment of Fallen Angels and OT Precedents
Original: Λώτ
Category: Judgment
New to this curriculum, established Bengali OT proper-name form. Preserved as a righteous exception amid Sodom’s judgment (2:7-8).
Noah
Approved rendering: নোহ
Transliteration: Noho
Doctrine: Judgment of Fallen Angels and OT Precedents
Original: Νῶε
Category: Judgment
New to this curriculum, established Bengali OT proper-name form. Preserved through the flood as a righteous exception (2:5).
Perseverance
Approved rendering: ধৈর্য
Transliteration: dhoirjo
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: ὑπομονή
Category: Sanctification
New to this curriculum. Steadfastness under pressure, a link in the virtue chain (1:6). Keep visibly distinct from সহনশীলতা/ধৈর্য used for μακροθυμία (patience) in ch. 3 where both terms appear in the same document.
Prophet
Approved rendering: ভাববাদী
Transliteration: bhabbadi
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: জ্যোতিষী
Original: προφήτης
Category: Scripture
Inherited from Romans package. Used of Balaam’s episode (2:16, a false-use context) and the OT prophets generally alongside the apostles (3:2).
Self Control
Approved rendering: আত্মসংযম
Transliteration: attoshongyom
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: ἐγκράτεια
Category: Sanctification
New to this curriculum. Mastery over one’s own desires/impulses, a link in the virtue chain (1:6).
Servant Slave
Approved rendering: দাস
Transliteration: das
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Authority
Rejected alternatives: ভাড়াটে সেবক
Original: δοῦλος
Category: Church
New to this curriculum. Peter’s self-designation of total submission to Christ (1:1), prior to naming his apostleship. Avoid any term implying a hired/paid role.
Sodom And Gomorrah
Approved rendering: সদোম ও ঘমোরা
Transliteration: Sodom o Ghomora
Doctrine: Judgment of Fallen Angels and OT Precedents
Original: Σόδομα καὶ Γόμορρα
Category: Judgment
New to this curriculum, established Bengali Bible proper names. Cities destroyed by fire as the third OT example of judgment (2:6).
Spotless And Blameless
Approved rendering: নিষ্কলঙ্ক ও নির্দোষ
Transliteration: nishkolonko o nirdosh
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: ἄσπιλοι καὶ ἀμώμητοι
Category: Sanctification
New to this curriculum. Moral purity without defect, the moral goal of believers awaiting the Day of the Lord (3:14).
Steadfastness
Approved rendering: স্থিরতা
Transliteration: sthirota
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: στηριγμός
Category: Sanctification
New to this curriculum. Stability, a secure footing, which believers must guard against losing by being carried away with lawless error (3:17).
Way Of Truth
Approved rendering: সত্যের পথ
Transliteration: sotter poth
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: ὁδὸς τῆς ἀληθείας
Category: Scripture
New to this curriculum. The true path of authentic Christian faith, blasphemed on account of the false teachers’ conduct (2:2).
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