Core Glossary
Core Glossary — Genesis
This glossary consolidates every load-bearing theological term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md, spanning Genesis 1–50. Terms marked [Reused from Romans TM] are already fixed in the baseline translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json and MUST be rendered exactly as recorded there; they are listed here only for cross-reference and full-book traceability, not for re-decision. Terms marked [NEW — Genesis] are proposed additions required for this curriculum and should be added to translation memory before Phase 2 begins, following the version-increment procedure in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.
Legend
- Risk: Critical / High / Medium / Low (per baseline definitions)
- Status: [Reused from Romans TM] or [NEW — Genesis]
| # | English Term | Hebrew (transliteration) | Bengali Rendering | Risk | Status | Doctrine | Key Chapters | Alternatives Rejected & Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | God | Elohim | ঈশ্বর | Critical | [Reused from Romans TM] | Creation Ex Nihilo; all doctrines | 1–50 | ভগবান, আল্লাহ — see baseline notes |
| 2 | LORD (personal name) | YHWH | সদাপ্রভু | Critical | [NEW — Genesis] | All covenant doctrines | 2, 4, 6–9, 12, 15–29, etc. | প্রভু rejected as this would collapse God’s personal covenant name into the generic NT title for κύριος already fixed for Christ; ঈশ্বর rejected as it flattens the personal-name/generic-title distinction present in the Hebrew text |
| 3 | LORD God (combined) | YHWH Elohim | সদাপ্রভু ঈশ্বর | Critical | [NEW — Genesis] | Creation, Fall | 2–3 | — |
| 4 | create (ex nihilo) | bara | সৃষ্টি করা | Critical | [NEW — Genesis] | Creation Ex Nihilo | 1, 5, 6:7, 9 | কোনো বিকল্প নেই (no viable alternative exists in Bengali); retained as established term with mandatory ex-nihilo/non-cyclical translator notes distinguishing from Hindu emanation/cyclical cosmogony |
| 5 | image (of God) | tselem | ঈশ্বরের প্রতিমূর্তি | Critical | [NEW — Genesis] | Image of God | 1:26-27; 5:1,3; 9:6 | স্বরূপ considered as a less idol-associated alternative but rejected in favor of the established Bengali Bible tradition term; requires mandatory translator notes distinguishing from মূর্তিপূজা (idol worship) at every occurrence |
| 6 | likeness | demut | সাদৃশ্য | High | [NEW — Genesis] | Image of God | 1:26; 5:1,3 | Paired with প্রতিমূর্তি; guards against a divine-essence-identity (non-dual Atman=Brahman) misreading |
| 7 | living creature/soul | nephesh chayah | জীবন্ত প্রাণী | High | [NEW — Genesis] | Creation; Fall | 1:20-30; 2:7 | প্রাণ (bare) rejected as too closely tied to the Hindu/Yogic prana life-force concept |
| 8 | breath of life | nishmat chayim | জীবনের নিঃশ্বাস | High | [NEW — Genesis] | Creation; Image of God | 2:7 | Distinguished from প্রাণায়াম-linked cosmic-energy concepts |
| 9 | Sabbath rest / rested | shabat | বিশ্রাম নিলেন | Medium | [NEW — Genesis] | Creation Ex Nihilo | 2:2-3 | Distinguished from Hindu/Buddhist cyclical pralaya (dissolution-before-renewal) |
| 10 | holy / sanctified | qadash/qadosh | পবিত্র / পবিত্র করলেন | High | [Reused from Romans TM] | Creation; Sanctification | 2:3 | Reuse exactly |
| 11 | seed / offspring | zera | বংশ (offspring sense); বীজ (botanical sense) | High/Critical | [NEW — Genesis] | Abrahamic Covenant; Messianic Promise | 1:11; 3:15; 12:7; 15:5; 17; 22:17-18; 49 | বংশ chosen to align with baseline’s দায়ূদের বংশ (seed_of_david) for full-Bible term-family consistency |
| 12 | serpent | nachash | সাপ | High | [NEW — Genesis] | The Fall | 3 | Guard against dualistic (co-equal evil deity) misreading |
| 13 | you shall surely die | mot tamut | তুমি নিশ্চয়ই মরবে | High | [NEW — Genesis] | The Fall | 2:17; 3 | Teach death as an unnatural intrusion, not a neutral samsaric transition |
| 14 | cursed | arur | অভিশপ্ত | High | [NEW — Genesis] | The Fall; Sin’s Consequences | 3, 4, 9 | Distinguish from impersonal karma (কর্মফল) |
| 15 | sin (noun, personified) | chatta’t | পাপ | High | [Reused from Romans TM] | Origin of Sin | 4 and throughout | Reuse exactly |
| 16 | sign / mark | ot | চিহ্ন | Medium | [NEW — Genesis] | Common Grace; Covenant | 4; 9; 17 | Context must exclude astrological/omen readings |
| 17 | generations (structural formula) | toledot | বংশতালিকা | Low | [NEW — Genesis] | Structural/genre marker | 2, 5, 6, 10, 11, 25, 36, 37 | — |
| 18 | walked with God | hithalekh et-ha-Elohim | ঈশ্বরের সাথে চলাফেরা করলেন | Low | [NEW — Genesis] | Covenant Faithfulness | 5 | — |
| 19 | grace / favor | chen / charis | অনুগ্রহ | Critical | [Reused from Romans TM] | Grace; Common Grace | 6:8 and throughout | Reuse exactly; Genesis 6:8 is the OT root anchor |
| 20 | righteous, blameless | tsaddiq tamim | ধার্মিক ও নিখুঁত | High | [Reused from Romans TM root] | Righteousness | 6:9 | ধার্মিক reused from ধার্মিকতা family |
| 21 | ark | tevah | জাহাজ | Low | [NEW — Genesis] | Sin’s Consequences; Common Grace | 6–9 | — |
| 22 | covenant | berit | নিয়ম | Critical | [Reused from Romans TM] | All covenant doctrines | 6, 9, 15, 17, and throughout | Reuse exactly |
| 23 | everlasting covenant | berit olam | চিরস্থায়ী নিয়ম | High | [NEW — Genesis] | Covenant Faithfulness | 9, 17 | Compound built on established নিয়ম |
| 24 | sons of God (disputed) | benei ha-Elohim | ঈশ্বরের সন্তানগণ | Medium | [NEW — Genesis] | (Disputed; flagged not resolved) | 6 | Do not conflate with New Testament adoption (দত্তকপুত্রতা) |
| 25 | altar | mizbe’ach | বেদী | Low | [NEW — Genesis] | Worship | 8, 12, 22, 35 | — |
| 26 | burnt offering | olah | হোমবলি | High/Critical | [NEW — Genesis] | Common Grace; Messianic typology | 8, 22 | Established term retained despite Vedic homa-ritual overlap; mandatory distinguishing translator note; escalated to Critical at Genesis 22 (Akedah, substitutionary-atonement typology) |
| 27 | pleasing aroma | reyach nichoach | সন্তোষজনক সুগন্ধ | Medium | [NEW — Genesis] | Common Grace | 8 | — |
| 28 | image of God (basis for human dignity/justice) | tselem Elohim | ঈশ্বরের প্রতিমূর্তি | Critical | [NEW — Genesis] (same term as #5) | Common Grace; Universal Human Dignity | 9:6 | See #5 |
| 29 | rainbow / bow | qeshet | রংধনু | Medium | [NEW — Genesis] | Covenant Faithfulness; Common Grace | 9 | Teach as covenant sign, not folk-omen |
| 30 | nation | goy | জাতি | High | [NEW — Genesis] | Abrahamic Covenant; Table of Nations | 10, 12, 17, 18, 22 | Flag caste-homonym risk (জাতি = caste in Hindu social usage); pair with বংশ/গোষ্ঠী for contextual clarity |
| 31 | tower (Babel) | migdal | মিনার/দুর্গ | Low | [NEW — Genesis] | Sin’s Consequences | 11 | — |
| 32 | blessing | berakhah | আশীর্বাদ | Critical | [NEW — Genesis] | Abrahamic Covenant; Mission to Nations | 1:22, 28; 12; 22; 27–28; 49 | Escalated to Critical due to Hindu ritual-blessing (guru/elder/deity touch-blessing) associations; mandatory translator notes at every Abrahamic-promise occurrence |
| 33 | go for yourself (call) | lekh-lekha | যাত্রা কর | High | [NEW — Genesis] | Divine Calling (OT root) | 12 | Connects to baseline আহুত/আহ্বান term-family |
| 34 | Melchizedek (king of righteousness) | Malki-tsedeq | মল্কীষেদক | High | [NEW — Genesis] | Messianic typology | 14 | Proper name; ধার্মিকতা root embedded |
| 35 | God Most High | El Elyon | পরাৎপর ঈশ্বর / মহান ঈশ্বর | Medium | [NEW — Genesis] | Common Grace; General Revelation | 14 | — |
| 36 | tithe | ma’aser | দশমাংশ | Low | [NEW — Genesis] | Worship | 14 | — |
| 37 | believed (faith) | he’emin (aman root) | বিশ্বাস করলেন | Critical | [Reused from Romans TM] | Faith | 15:6 | Reuse exactly; direct OT root of Romans 4:3 |
| 38 | credited/counted as righteousness | vayachsheveha lo tsedaqah | আরোপিত ধার্মিকতা | Critical | [Reused from Romans TM] | Imputed Righteousness | 15:6 | Reuse exactly — this is the very verse cited in the baseline registry for this term |
| 39 | cut a covenant (idiom) | karat berit | নিয়ম স্থাপন করলেন | High | [NEW — Genesis] | Abrahamic Covenant | 15 | Dynamic rendering with literal-idiom footnote |
| 40 | angel of the LORD | mal’akh YHWH | সদাপ্রভুর দূত | High | [NEW — Genesis] | Common Grace; Providence | 16, 22 | Distinguish from প্রেরিত (apostle) |
| 41 | God Almighty | El Shaddai | সর্বশক্তিমান ঈশ্বর | High | [NEW — Genesis] | Abrahamic Covenant | 17 | Contains শক্তি root forbidden elsewhere for “power of God”; retained as an established fixed liturgical/creedal title, distinguished by mandatory translator note from the bare-noun prohibition governing Romans 1:16 |
| 42 | circumcision / sign of the covenant | mul / ot ha-berit | ত্বকচ্ছেদ | Critical | [NEW — Genesis] | Abrahamic Covenant | 17 | সুন্নত, খৎনা REJECTED — both are the standard Bengali terms for the Islamic circumcision practice tied to the Sunnah of Muhammad; using them would wrongly equate the Abrahamic covenant sign with a distinct Islamic religious rite |
| 43 | Abraham / Sarah (name change) | Avraham / Sarah | অব্রাহাম / সারা | Low | [NEW — Genesis] | Covenant | 17 | Established Bengali Bible proper-name forms |
| 44 | tested | nissah | পরীক্ষা করলেন | High | [NEW — Genesis] | Providence; Faith | 22 | Distinguish from “tempted to sin” |
| 45 | The LORD will provide | YHWH-Yireh | সদাপ্রভু জোগাবেন | High | [NEW — Genesis] | Providence; Atonement typology | 22 | — |
| 46 | steadfast love / covenant loyalty | chesed | বিশ্বস্ত অনুগ্রহ | High | [NEW — Genesis] | Covenant Faithfulness; Providence | 24 | No single Bengali word captures full range; compound anchored to established অনুগ্রহ |
| 47 | birthright | bekhorah | জ্যেষ্ঠাধিকার | High | [NEW — Genesis] | Providence; Sovereignty of God (Election) | 25 | Connects to baseline ঈশ্বরের মনোনয়ন (election), cited directly in Romans 9 |
| 48 | house of God (place name) | Beit-El | বৈথেল | Medium | [NEW — Genesis] | Covenant Faithfulness | 28, 35 | — |
| 49 | Israel (name) | Yisra’el | ইস্রায়েল | Medium | [Reused from Romans TM] | Covenant Faithfulness | 32 and throughout | Reuse exactly; teach etymology (striving with God) |
| 50 | defiled | tame | অপবিত্র | Medium | [NEW — Genesis] | Sin’s Consequences | 34 | Antonym of established পবিত্র |
| 51 | pillar / standing stone | matsevah | স্তম্ভ | Medium | [NEW — Genesis] | Covenant Faithfulness | 28, 35 | Distinguish from Hindu devotional standing-stone objects of worship |
| 52 | dream | chalom | স্বপ্ন | Medium | [NEW — Genesis] | Providence in Suffering | 37, 40–41 | Teach as sovereign purposeful revelation, not generic folk-omen |
| 53 | sold | makhar | বিক্রি করলেন | High | [NEW — Genesis] | Providence in Suffering; Sin | 37 | Moral responsibility of sin retained alongside sovereign good purpose |
| 54 | more righteous than I | tsadeqah mimeni | ধার্মিক | Medium | [Reused from Romans TM root] | Righteousness (relative/narrative sense) | 38 | — |
| 55 | for preservation of life | le-michyah | জীবন রক্ষার জন্য | High | [NEW — Genesis] | Providence in Suffering | 45 | Bookends with Genesis 50:20 |
| 56 | scepter | shevet | রাজদণ্ড | High | [NEW — Genesis] | Davidic Covenant; Messianic Promise | 49 | Connects to baseline দাউদীয় নিয়ম / মশীহি প্রতিশ্রুতি |
| 57 | Shiloh | Shiloh | শীলো | Critical | [NEW — Genesis] | Messianic Promise | 49 | Retain transliterated with mandatory interpretive translator note; do not silently resolve the philological crux |
| 58 | you meant evil | chashavtem ra’ah | মন্দ চিন্তা করেছিলে | High | [NEW — Genesis] | Providence in Suffering | 50 | মন্দ (plain) preferred |
| 59 | God meant it for good | Elohim chashavah le-tovah | ঈশ্বর তা ভালোর জন্য ব্যবহার করলেন | Critical | [NEW — Genesis] | Providence and Sovereignty of God | 50 | মঙ্গল REJECTED — carries strong associations with Bengali Hindu Mangal-Kavya devotional literature and ritual auspiciousness; ভালো preferred as the religiously unmarked, doctrinally clean term; direct OT counterpart to Romans 8:28, must use compatible vocabulary across curricula |
Doctrine-to-Term Cross-Reference (for Phase 1 Step 2 doctrine analysis continuity)
| Doctrine | Primary Terms (# above) |
|---|---|
| Creation Ex Nihilo | 4, 9, 10 |
| The Image of God | 5, 6, 7, 8, 28 |
| The Fall and the Origin of Sin | 12, 13, 14, 15 |
| The Abrahamic Covenant and Promise | 11, 22, 23, 30, 32, 33, 41, 42, 43 |
| Providence and the Sovereignty of God | 40, 44, 45, 47, 53, 55, 58, 59 |
| Sin’s Consequences and Common Grace | 16, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 35 |
| Covenant Faithfulness across Generations | 22, 23, 39, 46, 48, 49, 50, 51 |
| Joseph and God’s Providence in Suffering | 52, 53, 54, 55, 58, 59 |
This glossary must be loaded alongside translation_memory.json before any Phase 2 translation of Genesis material. All entries marked [NEW — Genesis] require formal addition to translation memory (with version increment) before Phase 2 segment translation begins, per the procedure in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.
Critical Risk Terms
God
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বর
Transliteration: Ishshor
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ভগবান, আল্লাহ
Original: אֱלֹהִים
Category: God
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification. ঈশ্বর is the settled Bengali Christian standard. ভগবান is heavily used in Bengali Hindu devotional address; আল্লাহ is the Islamic-idiom option. Genesis cross-reference: renders Elohim (אֱלֹהִים) throughout Genesis 1-50; the grammatically plural Elohim used with a singular verb at Gen 1:26 is a teaching point for Trinitarian plurality-in-unity, not a translation change.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: পবিত্র আত্মা
Transliteration: Pobitro Attha
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: ব্রহ্ম, পরমাত্মা
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. Never ব্রহ্ম or পরমাত্মা. Genesis cross-reference: the specific Genesis 1:2 phrase ruach Elohim (רוּחַ אֱלֹהִים) is rendered as the distinct NEW term ঈশ্বরের আত্মা (see spirit_of_god below), but the same forbidden-substitution logic governing this baseline entry applies identically to that new term.
Father
Approved rendering: পিতা
Transliteration: Pita
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Rejected alternatives: ব্রহ্মা, সৃষ্টিকর্তা
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. Never substitute Hindu creator-deity names such as ব্রহ্মা. Genesis cross-reference: relevant to the patriarchal formula ‘God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob’ and to teaching bridges around Abba (আব্বা) in the Abrahamic narratives.
Righteousness
Approved rendering: ধার্মিকতা
Transliteration: dharmikota
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: ধর্ম, পুণ্য, ন্যায়
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. NEVER ধর্ম. Genesis cross-reference: root underlies tsedaqah occurrences throughout Genesis, including Melchizedek’s name (מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶק, ‘king of righteousness,’ ch. 14), Noah’s description as tsaddiq (ধার্মিক, ch. 6:9), and Tamar’s relative comparison (ch. 38:26).
Imputed Righteousness
Approved rendering: আরোপিত ধার্মিকতা
Transliteration: aropito dharmikota
Doctrine: Justification by Faith
Rejected alternatives: অর্জিত ধার্মিকতা
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. Genesis cross-reference: THIS IS THE VERY VERSE. Genesis 15:6, vayachsheveha lo tsedaqah (‘and he counted it to him as righteousness’), is the exact Old Testament source-text the baseline bible_term_registry.json cites for this term via Romans 4:3. Render Genesis 15:6 identically to how Romans 4:3 is rendered so Bengali readers recognize Paul is quoting this precise verse; any deviation severs the Genesis-Romans doctrinal bridge.
Messiah
Approved rendering: খ্রীষ্ট
Transliteration: Khrishto
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Rejected alternatives: মশীহ, অবতার পুরুষ
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. Genesis cross-reference: the entire book’s messianic trajectory (protoevangelium at 3:15; Abrahamic seed-promise at 12:3/22:18; Judah’s scepter and Shiloh at 49:8-12) points forward to this term. Never substitute মশীহ outside explicitly Muslim-background-framed materials.
Lord
Approved rendering: প্রভু
Transliteration: provu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: মালিক, ঈশ্বর
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. Genesis cross-reference: this term is reserved EXCLUSIVELY for the New Testament’s kyrios/Christ. It must NEVER be used to render YHWH (see lord_yhwh below); Genesis introduces a three-way distinction — ঈশ্বর (Elohim), সদাপ্রভু (YHWH), প্রভু (reserved for Christ) — that must be taught explicitly so students do not collapse God’s personal covenant name into this NT title.
Create Ex Nihilo
Approved rendering: সৃষ্টি করা
Transliteration: srishti kora
Doctrine: Creation Ex Nihilo
Original: בָּרָא
Category: Creation
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew bara (Qal, exclusively of God). No viable Bengali alternative exists; সৃষ্টি is also the standard Hindu Puranic/Vedantic term for emanation from Brahman or cyclical re-manifestation (সৃষ্টি-স্থিতি-প্রলয়) from pre-existent prakriti. MANDATORY translator note at every occurrence clarifying one-time, ex nihilo, non-cyclical creation by a personal God’s sovereign will.
Spirit Of God
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বরের আত্মা
Transliteration: Ishshorer attha
Doctrine: Creation Ex Nihilo
Rejected alternatives: ব্রহ্ম, পরমাত্মা
Original: רוּחַ אֱלֹהִים
Category: God
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew ruach Elohim, Genesis 1:2. Reuses আত্মা from the baseline’s পবিত্র আত্মা entry; the same forbidden-substitution rule applies — never ব্রহ্ম or পরমাত্মা. The active, personal, creative presence of God, historically read as the Holy Spirit’s agency in creation.
Blessed Blessing
Approved rendering: আশীর্বাদ
Transliteration: ashirbad
Doctrine: Blessing and Promise
Original: בָּרַךְ / בְּרָכָה
Category: Abrahamic Promise
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew barakh/berakhah. আশীর্বাদ is deeply embedded in Bengali Hindu ritual culture (blessings sought from elders/gurus/deities via touch — প্রণাম করে আশীর্বাদ নেওয়া) and can be read as a semi-transferable ritual force. MANDATORY translator note at every Abrahamic-promise occurrence (1:22,28; 12:2-3; 22:17-18; 27; 49) affirming God’s own sovereign, personal, gracious favor — never a ritual substance channeled through a human or idol intermediary.
Image Of God
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বরের প্রতিমূর্তি
Transliteration: Ishshorer protimurti
Doctrine: The Image of God
Rejected alternatives: স্বরূপ
Original: צֶלֶם
Category: Anthropology
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew tselem (1:26-27; 5:1,3; 9:6). THE SINGLE HIGHEST-RISK TERM IN THE CURRICULUM. প্রতিমূর্তি shares its root with মূর্তি, the ordinary Bengali word for a crafted deity-idol (দেবমূর্তি, মূর্তিপূজা = idol worship), central to Hindu devotional practice. MANDATORY translator note at EVERY occurrence distinguishing the God→humanity direction (image-bearer reflects God) from the human→god direction (an idol is a human-made representation of a false god) — theological opposites, not variants of the same phenomenon.
Lord Yhwh
Approved rendering: সদাপ্রভু
Transliteration: Sodaprovu
Doctrine: Divine Names and Progressive Revelation
Rejected alternatives: প্রভু, ঈশ্বর
Original: יְהוָה
Category: God
NEW — Genesis, required term not present in the Romans NT baseline. Renders the Tetragrammaton YHWH, first introduced at Genesis 2:4. Established Bengali Bible convention: সদাপ্রভু (‘the ever-existing/eternal Lord’), distinct from ঈশ্বর (Elohim, generic) and from প্রভু (baseline’s fixed rendering of kyrios for Christ). This three-way distinction must be taught explicitly.
Lord God Combined
Approved rendering: সদাপ্রভু ঈশ্বর
Transliteration: Sodaprovu Ishshor
Doctrine: Divine Names and Progressive Revelation
Original: יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים
Category: God
NEW — Genesis. Renders YHWH Elohim, the combined form used throughout Genesis 2-3, joining the intimate covenant-name God to the transcendent Creator of Genesis 1. Keep word order consistent (সদাপ্রভু ঈশ্বর) across all occurrences.
Seed Of The Woman
Approved rendering: নারীর বংশ
Transliteration: narir bongsho
Doctrine: Messianic Promise (Protoevangelium)
Original: זֶרַע הָאִשָּׁה
Category: Messianic and Davidic
NEW — Genesis. Genesis 3:15, the protoevangelium — the first messianic promise. বংশ must be used consistently here and at every later occurrence (12:7; 22:18; 49:10) so readers can trace the unbroken thread from Eve’s promised offspring to Abraham’s to Judah’s line. Must be read as one specific, singular, historical offspring, not one deliverer among many (a risk shared with Hindu avatar-cycle thinking and Islamic successive-prophet framing).
Burnt Offering
Approved rendering: হোমবলি
Transliteration: hombali
Doctrine: Worship and Sacrifice
Original: עֹלָה
Category: Worship
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew olah (ch. 8; ch. 22). হোম is also the standard Sanskrit/Hindu term for a Vedic fire-ritual (হোম যজ্ঞ) invoking deities or generating ritual merit. Retained as the established Bengali Bible rendering, but MANDATORY translator note required distinguishing biblical sacrifice — costly worship pointing to substitutionary atonement provided by God — from ritual-merit-generating technology. Escalates to Critical specifically at Genesis 22 (the Akedah), the OT’s clearest pre-Mosaic picture of substitutionary atonement.
Circumcision Covenant Sign
Approved rendering: ত্বকচ্ছেদ
Transliteration: tôkchhed
Doctrine: Covenant Sign of Circumcision
Rejected alternatives: সুন্নত, খৎনা
Original: מוּל / אוֹת הַבְּרִית
Category: Covenant
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew mul / ot ha-berit (ch. 17). সুন্নত and খৎনা are REJECTED — both are the standard Bengali terms for the Islamic circumcision practice tied to the Sunnah of Muhammad, an entirely distinct theological rationale disconnected from the Abrahamic covenant of grace and the imputed-righteousness sequence of Genesis 15 and 17 (faith credited BEFORE the physical sign). ত্বকচ্ছেদ is the safer, religiously neutral, established rendering; mandatory first-occurrence translator note required, directly analogous to the baseline’s মশীহ/খ্রীষ্ট distinction.
Shiloh
Approved rendering: শীলো
Transliteration: Shilo
Doctrine: Davidic Lineage and the Messianic Scepter
Rejected alternatives: until he comes to whom it belongs (paraphrase, rejected as silently resolving the crux)
Original: שִׁילֹה
Category: Messianic and Davidic
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew Shiloh (49:10), a genuinely difficult philological crux even in Hebrew scholarship. Render literally/transliterated with a MANDATORY interpretive translator note explaining the traditional messianic reading and its connection to খ্রীষ্ট, rather than resolving the difficulty by silently choosing one interpretive paraphrase.
God Meant It For Good
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বর তা ভালোর জন্য ব্যবহার করলেন
Transliteration: Ishshor ta bhalor jonno byabohar korlen
Doctrine: Providence and the Sovereignty of God
Rejected alternatives: মঙ্গলের জন্য
Original: אֱלֹהִים חֲשָׁבָהּ לְטֹבָה
Category: Providence
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew Elohim chashavah le-tovah (50:20). THE summary statement of the book’s Providence doctrine. মঙ্গল is REJECTED — it carries strong associations with Bengali Hindu Mangal-Kavya devotional literature (praise-poetry to deities such as Manasa and Chandi for granting auspicious welfare) and ritual auspiciousness-seeking. ভালো is the plain, religiously unmarked term, required to keep this the direct Old Testament counterpart to Romans 8:28, already fixed in the baseline with compatible vocabulary.
High Risk Terms
Holy
Approved rendering: পবিত্র
Transliteration: pobitro
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: শুচি, নির্মল
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. Set apart for God and morally pure; শুচি rejected for its Hindu ritual-purity (shuddhi) connotation. Genesis cross-reference: renders qadash/qadosh at Gen 2:3 (the Sabbath day made holy) — the first biblical use of this root, establishing sacred TIME, not merely a sacred person or object.
Covenant
Approved rendering: নিয়ম
Transliteration: niyom
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Rejected alternatives: চুক্তি, অঙ্গীকার
Original: בְּרִית
Category: Covenant
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. Relational covenant bond, more than a legal contract. Genesis cross-reference: this is the taproot term for berit (בְּרִית), first occurring at Genesis 6:18 (Noahic covenant) and structuring the entire Abrahamic covenant narrative (chs. 15, 17); the Covenant Faithfulness across Generations doctrine depends on absolute consistency of this rendering throughout Genesis.
Sin
Approved rendering: পাপ
Transliteration: pap
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: অধর্ম, অশুচিতা
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. Genesis cross-reference: renders chatta’t (חַטָּאת), first occurring as a noun at Genesis 4:7, personified there as a crouching predator (see sin_personified below); the origin-of-sin doctrine requires this term never be softened toward ritual impurity or impersonal karma.
Grace
Approved rendering: অনুগ্রহ
Transliteration: anugroho
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: কৃপা, পুণ্য, ভাগ্য
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. Genesis cross-reference: renders chen (חֵן) at Genesis 6:8, ‘Noah found favor/chen in the eyes of the LORD’ — the OT root anchor of the grace-precedes-obedience pattern; Noah’s righteousness (6:9) is named only AFTER God’s favor is named.
Faith
Approved rendering: বিশ্বাস
Transliteration: bishwas
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: ঈমান, শ্রদ্ধা
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. Genesis cross-reference: renders he’emin (הֶאֱמִן) at the pivotal Genesis 15:6, ‘and he believed the LORD’ — quoted directly by Paul in Romans 4:3, already anchored in the baseline. Render identically in both curricula.
Election
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বরের মনোনয়ন
Transliteration: Ishshorer monownoyon
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: ভাগ্য, নিয়তি, কর্মফল
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. Genesis cross-reference: directly anchors Genesis 25:21-23 (the birthright oracle, ‘the older shall serve the younger’) and the birthright reversal narratives (chs. 25, 27, 48), which Paul cites explicitly in Romans 9:10-13. Teach this narrative as the OT ground for Paul’s argument there.
Providence
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বরের পরিচালনা
Transliteration: Ishshorer porichalona
Doctrine: Providence
Rejected alternatives: ভাগ্য, নিয়তি
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. Genesis cross-reference: this is the doctrine name for the Joseph narrative’s climactic statement at Genesis 50:20 (‘God meant it for good’), the direct Old Testament counterpart to Romans 8:28 already anchored in the baseline. ভালো (never মঙ্গল) renders ‘good’ in that verse to keep cross-curriculum vocabulary compatible.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বরের সামর্থ্য
Transliteration: Ishshorer shamorthyo
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Rejected alternatives: শক্তি
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. NEVER শক্তি as a bare noun for God’s power. Genesis cross-reference: this prohibition governs every bare-noun occurrence in Genesis EXCEPT the fixed creedal title সর্বশক্তিমান ঈশ্বর (God Almighty / El Shaddai, see god_almighty below), which is retained as a standing, documented exception due to its entrenched liturgical use.
Adoption
Approved rendering: দত্তকপুত্রতা
Transliteration: dattaka-putrota
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Rejected alternatives: দত্তক নেওয়া
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. Genesis cross-reference: this NT soteriological category must NOT be used to translate or explain the disputed ‘sons of God’ (bene ha-Elohim) phrase at Genesis 6:2,4, which remains a distinct, unresolved OT interpretive question (see sons_of_god_disputed below).
Called
Approved rendering: আহুত
Transliteration: ahuto
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: আমন্ত্রিত, নিমন্ত্রিত
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. Genesis cross-reference: God’s sovereign, effectual summons of Abram (lekh-lekha, Genesis 12:1-4, see go_for_yourself_calling below) is the OT type of this doctrine, later expounded in Romans 8:28-30 and 9.
Calling
Approved rendering: আহ্বান
Transliteration: ahban
Doctrine: Divine Calling
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. Genesis cross-reference: noun form for God’s summons of Abram; must convey sovereign summons, not human-initiated seeking or Hindu dharma-path self-discovery.
Seed Of David
Approved rendering: দায়ূদের বংশ
Transliteration: Dayuder bongsho
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. Genesis cross-reference: বংশ (bongsho) is the same headword this curriculum uses for zera (seed/offspring) throughout Genesis (see seed_offspring, seed_of_the_woman below), deliberately aligned for full-Bible term-family consistency from Eve’s promised offspring through Abraham’s to David’s.
Seed Offspring
Approved rendering: বংশ (offspring) / বীজ (botanical)
Transliteration: bongsho / bij
Doctrine: The Abrahamic Covenant and Promise
Original: זֶרַע
Category: Abrahamic Promise
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew zera. Literal seed at first occurrence (1:11); becomes the theologically loaded offspring term throughout Genesis (3:15; 12:7; 15:5; 22:17-18; 49). বংশ aligned with the baseline’s দায়ূদের বংশ (seed_of_david) for full-Bible offspring-sense consistency; বীজ retained only for the literal botanical sense.
Living Creature
Approved rendering: জীবন্ত প্রাণী
Transliteration: jibonto prani
Doctrine: The Image of God
Rejected alternatives: প্রাণ (bare)
Original: נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה
Category: Anthropology
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew nephesh chayah (1:20-30; 2:7). Bare প্রাণ risks collision with the Hindu/Yogic prana life-force concept and with Jain/Hindu ideas of an eternal transmigrating আত্মা distinct from the body. Denotes a whole, embodied, personally animated, mortal creature.
Likeness
Approved rendering: সাদৃশ্য
Transliteration: sadrishyo
Doctrine: The Image of God
Original: דְּמוּת
Category: Anthropology
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew demut, paired with tselem (1:26; 5:1,3). Must not be read as suggesting humans share God’s essence/divinity — a live risk given Vedantic non-dual ‘Atman is Brahman’ theology. Affirms real but creaturely resemblance, not ontological identity.
Holy Sanctified
Approved rendering: পবিত্র করলেন
Transliteration: pobitro korlen
Doctrine: Sabbath and Creation Order
Original: קִדֵּשׁ
Category: Anthropology
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew qidesh (2:3). Reused from the baseline holy-term family. Establishes the Sabbath DAY itself, not merely a person or object, as sacred time — the first use of the qadash root in Scripture.
God Almighty
Approved rendering: সর্বশক্তিমান ঈশ্বর
Transliteration: Sorboshoktiman Ishshor
Doctrine: Divine Names and Progressive Revelation
Rejected alternatives: শক্তিমান ঈশ্বর
Original: אֵל שַׁדַּי
Category: God
NEW — Genesis. Renders El Shaddai (Genesis 17:1). Contains শক্তি, the exact root forbidden elsewhere for translating ‘power of God’ (Romans 1:16) due to strong Shakta-Hindu goddess-power associations in Bengal. RETAINED as a fixed, entrenched Bengali Christian creedal/liturgical title (cf. the Apostles’ Creed’s ‘সর্বশক্তিমান পিতা ঈশ্বর’). MANDATORY first-occurrence translator note distinguishing this fixed compound title from the bare-noun শক্তি prohibition governing power_of_god.
Angel Of The Lord
Approved rendering: সদাপ্রভুর দূত
Transliteration: Sodaprovur dut
Doctrine: The Angel of the LORD and Divine Care
Original: מַלְאַךְ יְהוָה
Category: God
NEW — Genesis. Renders mal’akh YHWH, a figure identified with YHWH himself (16:7-13; 21:17-19; 22:11,15). Distinguish দূত (messenger/angel) from প্রেরিত (baseline’s ‘apostle,’ a distinct sent-one category).
Steadfast Love Chesed
Approved rendering: বিশ্বস্ত অনুগ্রহ
Transliteration: bishwosto anugroho
Doctrine: Covenant Loyalty (Chesed)
Rejected alternatives: দয়া, স্নেহ
Original: חֶסֶד
Category: God
NEW — Genesis. Renders chesed (24:12,14,27; 47:29). No single Bengali word fuses covenant loyalty and active love; constructed compound anchored to the baseline’s established অনুগ্রহ, with a mandatory first-occurrence note explaining the fusion generic kindness terms cannot carry.
God Relented
Approved rendering: দুঃখিত হলেন
Transliteration: dukkhito holen
Doctrine: Sin’s Consequences
Original: נִחַם
Category: God
NEW — Genesis. Renders nicham (6:6), God’s genuine relational grief over sin. Must not suggest God made a correctable mistake (undermining sovereignty/omniscience), nor be flattened into pure impassibility erasing the text’s real expression of divine grief.
Breath Of Life
Approved rendering: জীবনের নিঃশ্বাস
Transliteration: jiboner nishwash
Doctrine: The Image of God
Original: נִשְׁמַת חַיִּים
Category: Anthropology
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew nishmat chayim (2:7). Risk of collision with the Hindu/Yogic prana concept, an impersonal universal life-force accessed via pranayama breath-control. Genesis’s breath of life is a singular, personal divine act directly animating one specific human being.
Helper Fit For Him
Approved rendering: তার উপযুক্ত সহকারী
Transliteration: tar upojukto shohokari
Doctrine: Marriage and Human Complementarity
Original: עֵזֶר כְּנֶגְדּוֹ
Category: Anthropology
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew ezer kenegdo. সহকারী alone can sound subordinate/functional (‘assistant’) in Bengali; mandatory translator note affirming ezer’s frequent use elsewhere of God himself helping his people, to guard against a female-inferiority reading.
Tree Of Knowledge Good Evil
Approved rendering: ভালো-মন্দ জ্ঞানের বৃক্ষ
Transliteration: bhalo-mondo gganer brikkho
Doctrine: The Fall and the Origin of Sin
NEW — Genesis. Central to the Fall doctrine. Must not be softened into neutral or positive ‘knowledge,’ a risk given gnostic and Hindu jnana-marga (path-of-knowledge) frameworks that idealize experiential knowledge-seeking; this tree marks the boundary of humanity’s proper, dependent relationship to God’s moral authority.
Serpent
Approved rendering: সাপ
Transliteration: shap
Doctrine: The Fall and the Origin of Sin
Original: נָחָשׁ
Category: Sin and the Fall
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew nachash. Guard against a dualistic reading (a co-equal evil deity); the serpent is a judged, subordinate creature under God’s sovereignty (3:14-15). Bengal’s regional Manasa Devi serpent-devotion tradition (Manasa-mangal literature, Jhapan festivals) makes সাপ religiously non-neutral here; first-occurrence translator note required distinguishing the tempter from any numinous or protective serpent-being.
Surely Die
Approved rendering: তুমি নিশ্চয়ই মরবে
Transliteration: tumi nishchoi morbe
Doctrine: Death as an Unnatural Consequence of Sin
Original: מוֹת תָּמוּת
Category: Sin and the Fall
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew mot tamut, an emphatic doubled-verb construction. নিশ্চয়ই preserves the certainty. In a culture shaped by Hindu/Buddhist samsara, death must be taught as an unnatural intrusion into a good creation, not a neutral transition within an eternal rebirth cycle.
Cursed
Approved rendering: অভিশপ্ত
Transliteration: ovishopto
Doctrine: Sin’s Consequences
Original: אָרוּר
Category: Sin and the Fall
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew arur, God’s formal judicial covenant-curse pronouncement (opposite of barukh). Distinguish this personal, judicial curse from impersonal karma (কর্মফল) or a detached folk-religious curse (অভিশাপ) as sometimes read in Bengali folk religion.
Sin Personified
Approved rendering: পাপ
Transliteration: pap
Doctrine: Sin’s Consequences
Original: חַטָּאת
Category: Sin and the Fall
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew chatta’t rovets (4:7), ‘sin is crouching’ — the first noun occurrence of chatta’t, personified as a crouching predator. Reuses the baseline পাপ exactly; preserve the vivid predator-imagery, avoid softening into a passive ‘mistake’ or impersonal accruing karma, which would remove both sin’s active malice and human moral responsibility.
Everlasting Covenant
Approved rendering: চিরস্থায়ী নিয়ম
Transliteration: chirosthayi niyom
Doctrine: Covenant Faithfulness across Generations
Original: בְּרִית עוֹלָם
Category: Covenant
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew berit olam (9:16; 17:7,13,19). An unconditional, perpetual covenant. Compound built on the established নিয়ম; keep চিরস্থায়ী নিয়ম consistent wherever ‘everlasting covenant’ recurs.
Nation
Approved rendering: জাতি
Transliteration: jati
Doctrine: The Abrahamic Covenant and Promise
Rejected alternatives: বিদেশী
Original: גּוֹי
Category: Abrahamic Promise
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew goy. জাতি is doctrinally correct for ‘nation/people’ but is ALSO the standard Bengali/South Asian word for ‘caste’ within the Hindu social system. Every occurrence in Genesis referring to ‘nation’ (Abrahamic promise, Table of Nations, Babel) should carry contextual clarity (e.g. পরিবার-গোষ্ঠী ও জাতি) so it is not misread through a caste lens.
Great Nation
Approved rendering: মহাজাতি
Transliteration: mohajati
Doctrine: The Abrahamic Covenant and Promise
Rejected alternatives: বড় জাতি
Original: גּוֹי גָּדוֹל
Category: Abrahamic Promise
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew goy gadol (12:2). Same জাতি/caste ambiguity as ‘nation’ above; মহাজাতি (or an explicit বংশ ও জাতি pairing) recommended for clarity. The promise of a great nation to a childless old man models God’s promises exceeding all natural human capacity, requiring faith.
Go For Yourself Calling
Approved rendering: যাত্রা কর
Transliteration: jatra koro
Doctrine: Divine Calling of Abraham
Original: לֶךְ־לְךָ
Category: Abrahamic Promise
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew lekh-lekha (12:1), an emphatic reflexive imperative. God’s sovereign, gracious initiative preceding and enabling human response — the OT type of the effectual calling later expounded in Romans 8:28-30 and Romans 9. Must not be read as a Sufi mystical calling or self-initiated Hindu dharma-path discovery.
Melchizedek
Approved rendering: মল্কীষেদক
Transliteration: Molkishedok
Doctrine: Messianic Promise (Protoevangelium)
Original: מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶק
Category: Messianic and Davidic
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew Malki-tsedeq, ‘king of righteousness’ (ch. 14). A mysterious priest-king of Salem, later applied typologically to Christ’s eternal priesthood (Ps 110; Heb 7, outside Genesis). Proper name embedding the ধার্মিকতা root already anchored in the baseline.
Cut A Covenant
Approved rendering: নিয়ম স্থাপন করলেন
Transliteration: niyom sthapon korlen
Doctrine: The Abrahamic Covenant and Promise
Rejected alternatives: নিয়ম কাটলেন (literal, rejected as opaque)
Original: כָּרַת בְּרִית
Category: Covenant
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew karat berit idiom, rooted in the literal cutting of animals in the ratification ceremony (ch. 15). Rendered dynamically (‘made/established a covenant’) with a translator’s note explaining the vivid literal background — the unilateral, gracious nature of God’s covenant promise, dramatized by God alone passing between the pieces.
Tested
Approved rendering: পরীক্ষা করলেন
Transliteration: porikha korlen
Doctrine: Testing of Faith
Original: נִסָּה
Category: Providence
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew nissah (ch. 22). God’s testing is a proving/refining of already-present genuine faith, NOT temptation to sin. A translator note is warranted since older English ‘tempt’ renderings can mislead; God does not tempt anyone to sin (cf. James 1:13, outside Genesis).
The Lord Will Provide
Approved rendering: সদাপ্রভু জোগাবেন
Transliteration: Sodaprovu jogaben
Doctrine: Testing of Faith
Original: יְהוָה יִרְאֶה
Category: Providence
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew YHWH-Yireh (22:14). Establishes God’s character as the one who sees need and graciously provides the means of deliverance/atonement himself — he does not merely demand sacrifice, he supplies it. A transliterated form may be offered alongside in a footnote per established Bengali Bible convention for this place-name.
Birthright
Approved rendering: জ্যেষ্ঠাধিকার
Transliteration: jesthadhikar
Doctrine: Election and Sovereign Choice
Original: בְּכֹרָה
Category: Covenant
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew bekhorah (ch. 25). Directly connects to the baseline’s ঈশ্বরের মনোনয়ন (election) doctrine, cited directly in Romans 9:10-13, which references this very narrative. God’s covenant promise passes by sovereign choice, not natural custom or merit.
Sold Into Slavery
Approved rendering: বিক্রি করলেন
Transliteration: bikri korlen
Doctrine: Joseph and God’s Providence in Suffering
Original: מָכַר
Category: Providence
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew makhar (ch. 37). The brothers’ real, culpable moral evil; must not be minimized even while God’s sovereign good purpose is affirmed — both truths held together, as made explicit at 50:20.
For Preservation Of Life
Approved rendering: জীবন রক্ষার জন্য
Transliteration: jibon rokkhar jonno
Doctrine: Joseph and God’s Providence in Suffering
Original: לְמִחְיָה
Category: Providence
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew le-michyah (45:5,7). Joseph’s own first-person theological interpretation of his suffering; should be taught alongside 50:20 as bookending statements of the same Providence doctrine.
Righteous Blameless
Approved rendering: ধার্মিক ও নিখুঁত
Transliteration: dharmik o nikhut
Doctrine: Common Grace
Original: צַדִּיק תָּמִים
Category: Faith and Righteousness
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew tsaddiq tamim (6:9). ধার্মিক reused from the baseline root; must not be read as Noah’s righteousness earning God’s rescue independent of grace — sequence matters (grace named first, 6:8; righteousness described after, 6:9).
Scepter
Approved rendering: রাজদণ্ড
Transliteration: rajdondo
Doctrine: Davidic Lineage and the Messianic Scepter
Original: שֵׁבֶט
Category: Messianic and Davidic
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew shevet (49:10), ‘the scepter shall not depart from Judah.’ Directly connects to the baseline’s দাউদীয় নিয়ম (Davidic Covenant) and মশীহি প্রতিশ্রুতি (Messianic Promise) doctrines; the earliest OT anchor-point of that trajectory.
You Meant Evil
Approved rendering: তোমরা আমার বিরুদ্ধে মন্দ চিন্তা করেছিলে
Transliteration: tomra amar biruddhe mondo chinta korechile
Doctrine: Joseph and God’s Providence in Suffering
Original: אַתֶּם חֲשַׁבְתֶּם עָלַי רָעָה
Category: Providence
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew atem chashavtem alai ra’ah (50:20). The brothers’ genuinely evil intent is neither denied nor excused; মন্দ (plain, religiously unmarked) preferred for ‘evil’ here.
Medium Risk Terms
Israel
Approved rendering: ইস্রায়েল
Transliteration: Israel
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. Genesis cross-reference: Jacob’s new covenant name after wrestling with the divine figure at Peniel (Genesis 32:28), ‘he strives with God.’ Teach the etymology explicitly; it is not self-evident from the Bengali transliteration alone.
Intercession
Approved rendering: মধ্যস্থতা
Transliteration: moddhosthota
Doctrine: Prayer and Intercession
Rejected alternatives: সুপারিশ
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. Genesis cross-reference: Abraham’s intercession for Sodom (Genesis 18:22-33) is Scripture’s first extended instance of intercessory prayer; distinguish from Hindu puja ritual worship and shrine-based pir/saint-tomb intercession practice common to Bengali folk religion.
Gentiles
Approved rendering: পরজাতি
Transliteration: porojati
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Rejected alternatives: বিদেশী
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. Genesis cross-reference: conceptually anticipated by goy (nation, see nation below) throughout the Table of Nations (ch. 10) and the Abrahamic promise’s universal ‘all the families of the earth’ scope (12:3), though জাতি — not পরজাতি — is the specific Genesis-level rendering for goy.
Mission
Approved rendering: সুসমাচার প্রচার
Transliteration: susomachar prochar
Doctrine: Mission to the Nations
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. Genesis cross-reference: the Abrahamic covenant’s universal scope (‘in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed,’ 12:3; 22:18) is the Old Testament root of this doctrine, later expounded in Galatians 3 and throughout Romans.
David
Approved rendering: দায়ূদ
Transliteration: Dayud
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. Genesis cross-reference: David himself is not a Genesis-era figure, but Genesis 49:8-12 (Judah’s scepter, Shiloh) is the earliest Old Testament anchor-point of the trajectory this proper name will later fulfill.
Abba
Approved rendering: আব্বা
Transliteration: Abba
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. Genesis cross-reference: not a Genesis-occurring term itself, retained here only for cross-curriculum continuity — Genesis’s patriarchal pattern of personal address to God anticipates this later NT term of filial intimacy.
In The Beginning
Approved rendering: আদিতে
Transliteration: adite
Doctrine: Creation Ex Nihilo
Rejected alternatives: শুরুতে
Original: בְּרֵאשִׁית
Category: Creation
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew bereshit. আদি evokes Hindu cosmology’s primeval start of a yuga within an eternally repeating age-system. Requires framing at first occurrence that this beginning is linear and non-repeating, not the start of a cosmic cycle.
Formless And Empty
Approved rendering: বিশৃঙ্খল ও শূন্য
Transliteration: bishrinkhol o shunno
Doctrine: Creation Ex Nihilo
Original: תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ
Category: Creation
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew tohu va-vohu. Must not suggest an eternal co-existing chaos-principle as in some ANE or Hindu cosmogonies; this is unformed created matter fully under God’s sovereignty, not a rival force.
The Deep
Approved rendering: গভীর জল
Transliteration: gobhir jol
Doctrine: Creation Ex Nihilo
Original: תְּהוֹם
Category: Creation
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew tehom. Some ANE myths personify the deep as a chaos-deity (cf. Tiamat); render as inanimate deep water, never a mythic being.
Good Tov
Approved rendering: ভালো / উত্তম
Transliteration: bhalo / uttom
Doctrine: Sovereign Creation by God’s Word
Original: טוֹב
Category: Creation
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew tov, recurring refrain (1:4,10,12,18,21,25,31). Affirms intrinsic goodness of the material world against any maya-influenced reading of matter as illusory or a lower reality to escape. Keep consistent across all occurrences.
Called Named
Approved rendering: নাম দিলেন
Transliteration: naam dilen
Doctrine: The Image of God
Original: וַיִּקְרָא
Category: Creation
NEW — Genesis. God’s naming act exercises sovereign authority; this naming authority is later delegated to Adam (2:19-20), a key plank of the Image of God doctrine.
Expanse Firmament
Approved rendering: আকাশমণ্ডল
Transliteration: akashmondol
Doctrine: Sovereign Creation by God’s Word
Original: רָקִיעַ
Category: Creation
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew raqia. Avoid words implying a specific ancient solid-dome cosmological model is being taught as doctrine; render functionally as sky/expanse.
According To Its Kind
Approved rendering: তার জাত অনুসারে
Transliteration: tar jat onushare
Doctrine: Creation Ex Nihilo
Original: לְמִינֵהוּ
Category: Creation
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew le-minehu. জাত here means biological kind/species; must not be conflated with জাতি in its social-caste sense. Affirms stable created order against reincarnation-style species migration.
Lights Luminaries
Approved rendering: জ্যোতি / আলোকবর্তিকা
Transliteration: jyoti / alokbortika
Doctrine: Sovereign Creation by God’s Word
Original: מְאֹרֹת
Category: Creation
NEW — Genesis. Sun/moon deliberately demoted from deity status. Avoid words evoking Hindu astral deities (Surya, Chandra) or Bengali folk astrology (জ্যোতিষ).
Be Fruitful And Multiply
Approved rendering: ফলবান ও বহুগুণ হও
Transliteration: foloban o bohuguno hou
Doctrine: Blessing and Promise
Original: פְּרוּ וּרְבוּ
Category: Creation
NEW — Genesis. Recurring mandate (1:22,28; renewed 9:1,7; echoed 17:2,6). Keep verbatim-consistent across every recurrence so readers can trace the mandate being renewed and escalated.
Dominion Have
Approved rendering: কর্তৃত্ব করবে
Transliteration: kortrittwo korbe
Doctrine: The Image of God
Original: רָדָה
Category: Anthropology
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew radah. Frame as stewardship-under-God, exercised as God’s accountable representative, not autonomous ownership or unrestrained exploitation.
Subdue
Approved rendering: বশীভূত করবে
Transliteration: boshibhuto korbe
Doctrine: The Image of God
Original: כָּבַשׁ
Category: Anthropology
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew kavash. A task of ordered cultivation, not a license for exploitation.
Very Good
Approved rendering: অতি উত্তম
Transliteration: oti uttom
Doctrine: Sovereign Creation by God’s Word
Original: טוֹב מְאֹד
Category: Creation
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew tov me’od, the intensified goodness-verdict (1:31). The definitive rebuttal to any view that the material world or embodied existence is illusory or a lesser reality to escape. Keep this intensifier distinct from the simple tov refrain.
Sabbath Rested
Approved rendering: বিশ্রাম নিলেন
Transliteration: bishram nilen
Doctrine: Sabbath and Creation Order
Original: שָׁבַת
Category: Creation
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew shabat. Must not be read through a Hindu/Buddhist lens of divine withdrawal between cosmic dissolution-renewal cycles (pralaya); God’s rest marks satisfied completion of a once-for-all, non-repeating ‘very good’ creation, not fatigue-recovery.
God Most High
Approved rendering: পরাৎপর ঈশ্বর
Transliteration: Poratpor Ishshor
Doctrine: Common Grace
Original: אֵל עֶלְיוֹן
Category: God
NEW — Genesis. Renders El Elyon, used by Melchizedek and affirmed by Abram (ch. 14) as the same God he worships — an early hint of common grace/general revelation beyond the covenant family.
Dust
Approved rendering: ধুলো
Transliteration: dhulo
Doctrine: The Image of God
Original: עָפָר
Category: Anthropology
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew aphar (2:7; cf. 3:19). Anchors human humility and creatureliness against any doctrine of an inherently divine human essence/spark.
Man And Woman
Approved rendering: পুরুষ / নারী
Transliteration: purush / nari
Doctrine: Marriage and Human Complementarity
Original: אִישׁ / אִשָּׁה
Category: Anthropology
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew ish/ishah wordplay, untranslatable directly into Bengali. A footnote explaining the Hebrew pun preserves the intended emphasis on shared essential nature.
Naked Innocent
Approved rendering: উলঙ্গ
Transliteration: ulongo
Doctrine: The Fall and the Origin of Sin
Original: עָרוֹם
Category: Anthropology
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew arom (2:25). Pre-Fall innocence, nakedness without shame. Must be clearly distinguished from the shame introduced after the Fall (ch. 3) and from the wordplay with arum (‘crafty’).
Tree Of Life
Approved rendering: জীবনবৃক্ষ
Transliteration: jibonbrikkho
Doctrine: The Fall and the Origin of Sin
NEW — Genesis. Distinguish from the Hindu/Buddhist wish-fulfilling tree (kalpavriksha) motif, which grants desires rather than covenantal life-fellowship with a personal God. Access reappears eschatologically in Revelation.
Ground Adamah
Approved rendering: মাটি / ভূমি
Transliteration: mati / bhumi
Doctrine: Sin’s Consequences
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew adamah, wordplay with adam (‘man is of the ground’), untranslatable directly — footnote recommended. The ground itself is drawn into the curse’s effects at the Fall (3:17), a cosmic consequence of sin.
Crafty
Approved rendering: ধূর্ত
Transliteration: dhurto
Doctrine: The Fall and the Origin of Sin
Original: עָרוּם
Category: Sin and the Fall
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew arum, a wordplay on arom (‘naked,’ 2:25) untranslatable in Bengali. Footnote the pun; the theological point (deception leading to exposure/shame) must still land clearly.
Pain And Toil
Approved rendering: প্রসববেদনা / কষ্টকর পরিশ্রম
Transliteration: proshobbedona / koshtokor porishrom
Doctrine: Sin’s Consequences
Original: עִצָּבוֹן
Category: Sin and the Fall
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew itsavon. Childbirth pain and labor toil from the same root — sin’s consequences extending into ordinary human life universally, not limited to the original couple.
Sign Mark Ot
Approved rendering: চিহ্ন
Transliteration: chinho
Doctrine: Common Grace
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew ot, e.g. the mark of Cain (4:15). চিহ্ন can also carry astrological ‘sign’ connotations (রাশিচক্রের চিহ্ন) in popular usage; context must exclude astrological or fatalistic-omen readings. Distinct from the covenant-specific signs (see rainbow_bow and circumcision_covenant_sign, which have their own dedicated entries).
Offering Gift
Approved rendering: নৈবেদ্য
Transliteration: noibeddo
Doctrine: Worship and Sacrifice
Original: מִנְחָה
Category: Worship
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew minchah (4:3-7), Scripture’s first recorded worship offerings. নৈবেদ্য is also the standard Bengali Hindu term for a food-offering placed before an idol; requires care that the offering is understood as directed to the one true, personal God, not ritually equivalent to Hindu puja offerings.
Brothers Blood
Approved rendering: তোমার ভাইয়ের রক্ত
Transliteration: tomar bhaiyer rokto
Doctrine: Universal Human Dignity and the Sanctity of Life
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew dam achikha (4:10). Blood crying out from the ground establishes the sanctity of human life (grounded in the image of God, made explicit at 9:6) and God’s role as avenger of unjust bloodshed.
Sons Of God Disputed
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বরের সন্তানগণ
Transliteration: Ishshorer shontangon
Doctrine: Sin’s Consequences
Original: בְּנֵי הָאֱלֹהִים
Category: Anthropology
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew benei ha-Elohim (6:2,4), a debated phrase (fallen angelic beings / godly Sethite line / ruling dynasts). Translation should remain literal/neutral rather than resolve the interpretive debate; do NOT conflate with the NT doctrine of adoption (দত্তকপুত্রতা), a distinct theological category.
Pleasing Aroma
Approved rendering: সন্তোষজনক সুগন্ধ
Transliteration: shontoshjonok shugondho
Doctrine: Common Grace
Original: רֵיחַ נִיחֹחַ
Category: Worship
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew reyach nichoach (8:21). An anthropomorphic idiom for God’s gracious acceptance of Noah’s worship, grounding God’s forbearing common grace toward a still-sinful humanity.
Rainbow Bow
Approved rendering: রংধনু
Transliteration: rongdhonu
Doctrine: Covenant Faithfulness across Generations
Original: קֶשֶׁת
Category: Covenant
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew qeshet (ch. 9). A war-bow repurposed as a covenant sign of peace. Teach as a covenant sign of God’s promise, not a folk-omen or astrological/weather portent.
Called On The Name Of The Lord
Approved rendering: সদাপ্রভুর নামে ডাকলেন
Transliteration: Sodaprovur naame dakhlen
Doctrine: Divine Names and Progressive Revelation
Original: קָרָא בְשֵׁם יְהוָה
Category: Worship
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew qara be-shem YHWH. Abram’s public worship establishes his devotion as visible and communal, not private/individualistic.
House Of God Bethel
Approved rendering: বৈথেল
Transliteration: Boithel
Doctrine: Covenant Faithfulness across Generations
Original: בֵּית־אֵל
Category: Covenant
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew Beit-El, established transliteration. God graciously renews the full Abrahamic covenant promise to Jacob unconditionally, even as a fleeing deceiver — grace preceding merit.
Pillar Standing Stone
Approved rendering: স্তম্ভ
Transliteration: stombho
Doctrine: Covenant Faithfulness across Generations
Original: מַצֵּבָה
Category: Covenant
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew matsevah (28:18; 35:14). Distinguish carefully from rural Bengali folk-Hindu veneration of standing stones as a village deity’s (গ্রামদেবতা) seat; this is a commemorative marker of a historical divine encounter, not an object of ongoing worship.
Defiled
Approved rendering: অপবিত্র
Transliteration: opobitro
Doctrine: Sin’s Consequences
Original: טָמֵא
Category: Sin and the Fall
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew tame (ch. 34). Antonym of the established baseline পবিত্র; note this relationship for consistency.
Dream Revelation
Approved rendering: স্বপ্ন
Transliteration: shopno
Doctrine: Dreams and Divine Revelation
Original: חֲלוֹם
Category: Providence
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew chalom (chs. 20, 28, 31, 37, 40-41, 46). Bengali folk culture widely treats dreams as omens, ancestral visitations, or portents requiring folk (often astrological) interpretation, cutting across both Hindu and Muslim popular religion. Must be taught as sovereign, purposeful revelation from the one true personal God, not a generic folk-omen.
More Righteous Than I
Approved rendering: ধার্মিক
Transliteration: dharmik
Doctrine: Imputed Righteousness
Original: צָדְקָה מִמֶּנִּי
Category: Faith and Righteousness
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew tsadeqah mimeni (38:26), Tamar’s relative moral comparison to Judah. Reuses the ধার্মিক root; a useful cross-reference showing the term’s range extends to relative moral comparison in narrative, distinct from its later forensic/soteriological sense at 15:6.
Low Risk Terms
Prophet
Approved rendering: ভাববাদী
Transliteration: bhabbadi
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: জ্যোতিষী
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. Genesis cross-reference: relevant background term for Jacob’s ‘prophetic blessing’ in Genesis 49, though Genesis itself does not use a formal ‘prophet’ title for the patriarchs.
Prophecy
Approved rendering: ভাববাণী
Transliteration: bhabbani
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: গণনা
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly. Genesis cross-reference: the protoevangelium (3:15) and Jacob’s blessing of Judah (49:8-12) are the two chief Genesis instances of God-inspired prophetic declaration relevant to this doctrine.
Heavens And Earth
Approved rendering: আকাশমণ্ডল ও পৃথিবী
Transliteration: akashmondol o prithibi
Doctrine: Creation Ex Nihilo
Rejected alternatives: স্বর্গ ও পৃথিবী
Original: הַשָּׁמַיִם וְהָאָרֶץ
Category: Creation
NEW — Genesis. A merism for ‘the entire universe.’ Reserve স্বর্গ for God’s heavenly dwelling; use আকাশমণ্ডল/আকাশ for the created sky-cosmos to avoid conflating the two senses in later chapters.
Darkness Precreation
Approved rendering: অন্ধকার
Transliteration: ondhokar
Doctrine: Creation Ex Nihilo
Original: חֹשֶׁךְ
Category: Creation
NEW — Genesis. Literal absence of light, under God’s sovereign control; standard vocabulary, minimal risk.
Hovering
Approved rendering: স্থির হয়ে বিচরণ করছিলেন
Transliteration: sthir hoye bichoron korchilen
Doctrine: Creation Ex Nihilo
Original: מְרַחֶפֶת
Category: Creation
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew merachephet (cf. an eagle hovering over its young, Deut 32:11). Avoid words suggesting impersonal cosmic vibration/energy; keep personal, parental imagery.
Light Created
Approved rendering: আলো
Transliteration: alo
Doctrine: Sovereign Creation by God’s Word
Original: אוֹר
Category: Creation
NEW — Genesis. Physical light, created independently of the sun (day 4); not an emanation of God’s own essence.
Separated Divided
Approved rendering: পৃথক করলেন
Transliteration: prithok korlen
Doctrine: Sovereign Creation by God’s Word
Original: וַיַּבְדֵּל
Category: Creation
NEW — Genesis. God’s ordering act; pattern of orderly differentiation, not violent dismemberment as in the Babylonian Enuma Elish.
Day And Night
Approved rendering: দিন / রাত
Transliteration: din / rat
Doctrine: Sovereign Creation by God’s Word
Original: יוֹם / לַיְלָה
Category: Creation
NEW — Genesis. yom’s semantic range (24-hour day vs. longer era) is a genuine exegetical debate elsewhere in Hebrew; keep the translation neutral, flag the debate for teaching notes only.
Evening And Morning
Approved rendering: সন্ধ্যা হল, সকাল হল
Transliteration: shondha holo, shokal holo
Doctrine: Sovereign Creation by God’s Word
Original: עֶרֶב / בֹקֶר
Category: Creation
NEW — Genesis. Recurring refrain (1:5,8,13,19,23,31); keep verbatim consistent across every creation day.
Dry Land
Approved rendering: শুকনো জমি
Transliteration: shukno jomi
Doctrine: Creation Ex Nihilo
Original: יַבָּשָׁה
Category: Creation
NEW — Genesis. Sets up adamah (‘ground’), from which Adam is later formed (2:7).
Seas
Approved rendering: সমুদ্র
Transliteration: somudro
Doctrine: Creation Ex Nihilo
Original: יַמִּים
Category: Creation
NEW — Genesis. Gathered waters; no significant doctrinal risk.
Appointed Times Seasons
Approved rendering: ঋতু ও সময়
Transliteration: ritu o shomoy
Doctrine: Sovereign Creation by God’s Word
Original: מוֹעֲדִים
Category: Creation
NEW — Genesis. Establishes God’s sovereign ordering of time.
Dominion Celestial
Approved rendering: শাসন করার জন্য
Transliteration: shashon korar jonno
Doctrine: Sovereign Creation by God’s Word
Original: מֶמְשָׁלָה
Category: Creation
NEW — Genesis. Sun/moon ‘rule’ day and night — a subordinate echo of the dominion later given to humanity (1:26,28).
Male And Female
Approved rendering: পুরুষ ও নারী
Transliteration: purush o nari
Doctrine: The Image of God
Original: זָכָר וּנְקֵבָה
Category: Anthropology
NEW — Genesis. Binary biological sex distinction; both sexes together and equally bear the divine image — doctrinal weight for teaching, translation itself is low-risk.
Finished Completed
Approved rendering: সম্পন্ন হল
Transliteration: shompanno holo
Doctrine: Sabbath and Creation Order
Original: וַיְכֻלּוּ
Category: Creation
NEW — Genesis. Creation as a bounded, completed task — not an ongoing or endlessly cyclical emanation.
Host Of Heaven
Approved rendering: বাহিনী
Transliteration: bahini
Doctrine: Sabbath and Creation Order
Original: צָבָא
Category: Creation
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew tsava. Reinforces the ordered completeness of creation.
Garden Of Eden
Approved rendering: এদন উদ্যান
Transliteration: Eden Uddan
Doctrine: The Fall and the Origin of Sin
NEW — Genesis. Proper name; established transliteration. A specific, cultivated, bounded sacred space of God’s provision, fellowship, and ordered work for humanity.
Rib Tsela
Approved rendering: পাঁজর
Transliteration: panjor
Doctrine: Marriage and Human Complementarity
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew tsela. Symbolizes the shared nature and intimate unity of man and woman (‘bone of my bone’).
Drove Out
Approved rendering: তাড়িয়ে দিলেন
Transliteration: tariye dilen
Doctrine: Sin’s Consequences
Original: גֵּרַשׁ
Category: Sin and the Fall
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew garash. Relational exile, not merely a change in physical location.
Cherubim
Approved rendering: করূব
Transliteration: korub
Doctrine: The Fall and the Origin of Sin
Original: כְּרוּבִים
Category: Sin and the Fall
NEW — Genesis. Transliterated proper term; guard the way to the tree of life until access is graciously reopened in Christ.
Violence
Approved rendering: সহিংসতা
Transliteration: shohingshota
Doctrine: Sin’s Consequences
Original: חָמָס
Category: Sin and the Fall
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew chamas (6:11-13), widespread social violence provoking the Flood judgment — shown as societal, not merely individual, sin.
Generations Toledot
Approved rendering: বংশতালিকা
Transliteration: bongshotalika
Doctrine: Genealogical Records and Historical Reliability
Original: תּוֹלְדֹת
Category: Structural
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew toledot, the recurring structural formula dividing Genesis into its major sections (2:4; 5:1; 6:9; 10:1; 11:10,27; 25:12,19; 36:1,9; 37:2). Signals real, linear, genealogically-anchored history, not myth or cyclical age-repetition.
Walked With God
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বরের সাথে চলাফেরা করলেন
Transliteration: Ishshorer shathe cholaphera korlen
Doctrine: Covenant Faithfulness across Generations
Original: הִתְהַלֵּךְ אֶת־הָאֱלֹהִים
Category: Covenant
NEW — Genesis. Idiom for Enoch’s close, ongoing covenantal fellowship and obedience (ch. 5); an early hint of hope beyond death within the fallen human story.
Flood Mabbul
Approved rendering: মহাপ্লাবন
Transliteration: mohaplabon
Doctrine: Sin’s Consequences
Rejected alternatives: জলপ্লাবন
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew mabbul (ch. 7). Bengali folk-Hindu literature includes its own flood narrative (Manu and the great fish, Matsya Purana); the Genesis Flood must be taught as a unique, historical act of righteous judgment coupled with gracious rescue of a covenant remnant, not a cyclical purification myth.
Ark
Approved rendering: জাহাজ
Transliteration: jahaj
Doctrine: Common Grace
Original: תֵּבָה
Category: Sin and the Fall
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew tevah. God’s provided means of salvation through judgment — a vessel of rescue, not human engineering triumph; the same Hebrew word later describes baby Moses’ basket in Exodus.
Altar
Approved rendering: বেদী
Transliteration: bedi
Doctrine: Worship and Sacrifice
Original: מִזְבֵּחַ
Category: Worship
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew mizbe’ach. Noah’s first recorded post-Flood act is worship — gracious deliverance met with grateful sacrifice, not presumption.
Tower Babel
Approved rendering: মিনার
Transliteration: minar
Doctrine: Sin’s Consequences
Rejected alternatives: দুর্গ
Original: מִגְדָּל
Category: Sin and the Fall
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew migdal. Symbol of prideful human self-exaltation and self-made unity apart from God.
One Language
Approved rendering: একই ভাষা
Transliteration: eki bhasha
Doctrine: Table of Nations and Human Unity/Diversity
Original: שָׂפָה אֶחָת
Category: Sin and the Fall
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew safah achat. Humanity’s self-willed unity in rebellion, judged and dispersed by God; later reversed typologically at Pentecost (outside Genesis).
Scattered
Approved rendering: ছড়িয়ে দিলেন
Transliteration: chhoriye dilen
Doctrine: Table of Nations and Human Unity/Diversity
Original: פּוּץ
Category: Sin and the Fall
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew puts. God’s judgment on prideful self-exaltation, yet also providentially sets the stage for the nations addressed in the Abrahamic promise.
Tithe
Approved rendering: দশমাংশ
Transliteration: doshomangsho
Doctrine: Worship and Sacrifice
Original: מַעֲשֵׂר
Category: Worship
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew ma’aser. Abram’s gift to Melchizedek models grateful, worshipful giving in response to God’s deliverance and blessing.
Abraham Sarah Names
Approved rendering: অব্রাহাম / সারা
Transliteration: Abraham / Sara
Doctrine: The Abrahamic Covenant and Promise
Original: אַבְרָהָם / שָׂרָה
Category: Proper Names
NEW — Genesis. Established Bengali Bible proper-name forms, already fixed in the baseline transliteration standards list for Abraham. Name changes (‘father of many’/‘princess’) mark the covenant’s formal ratification at Genesis 17.
Isaac Name
Approved rendering: ইসহাক
Transliteration: Ishaak
Doctrine: Covenant Faithfulness across Generations
NEW — Genesis. Established Bengali Bible proper-name form for Yitschaq (‘he laughs’), the child of promise, distinguishing him from Ishmael in the Isaac-vs-Ishmael covenant-line question that is pastorally sensitive for Bengali Muslim-background readers.
Interpret Patar
Approved rendering: ব্যাখ্যা করা
Transliteration: byakkha kora
Doctrine: Dreams and Divine Revelation
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew patar (chs. 40-41). Functional verb; Joseph’s interpretive gift is God-given insight (41:16), not generic folk-diviner skill.
Famine Raav
Approved rendering: দুর্ভিক্ষ
Transliteration: durbhikkho
Doctrine: Joseph and God’s Providence in Suffering
NEW — Genesis. Hebrew ra’av (ch. 41). Descriptive term setting the stage for the providential preservation narrative culminating in chs. 45 and 50.
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