Core Glossary
Core Glossary — Jeremiah — English → Bengali
Curriculum: Jeremiah | Core passage: Jeremiah 31:31–34
Authority: Reuses translation_memory.json / bible_term_registry.json (Romans, Bengali baseline) exactly for every shared term. New terms below are proposed for addition to translation memory at the same risk-tier discipline (Critical / High / Medium / Low) as the baseline.
Section A — Baseline Terms Reused Exactly (no change; cited for cross-curriculum consistency)
| Term (English) | Bengali | Risk | Notes on reuse in Jeremiah |
|---|---|---|---|
| covenant | নিয়ম | High | Central term throughout; “new covenant” = নতুন নিয়ম (Jer 31:31), converging with Bengali Bible’s existing name for the New Testament. |
| law | ব্যবস্থা | High | Torah, Jer 31:33 and throughout. Never ধর্ম/শরিয়ত. |
| righteousness | ধার্মিকতা | Critical | Jer 23:5–6; 33:15–16; Ch. 5. Never ধর্ম. |
| sin | পাপ | High | Jer 31:34 and throughout. |
| prophet | ভাববাদী | Low (High when contrasted with false prophecy) | Jer 1 and throughout; pair with মিথ্যা ভাববাণী for false prophecy contexts. |
| prophecy | ভাববাণী | Low (High in false-prophecy contexts) | See সৎ/মিথ্যা ভাববাণী distinction, Ch. 14, 23, 27–28. |
| god | ঈশ্বর | Critical | Generic “God” (Elohim); distinguished from সদাপ্রভু (YHWH) — see Section B. |
| father | পিতা | Critical | Reserved for God the Father; never applied to human “fathers/ancestors” (see পূর্বপুরুষ, Section B). |
| gentiles | পরজাতি | Medium | Jer 1:5, “prophet to the nations.” |
| david | দায়ূদ | Low | Davidic covenant background for the Branch prophecies (Ch. 23, 33). |
| israel | ইস্রায়েল | Medium | Jer 31:31, “house of Israel.” |
| peace | শান্তি | Medium (High when used ironically) | Jer 6:14; 8:11 uses শান্তি ironically of false comfort — must be flagged distinctly from the positive doctrinal sense. |
| election | ঈশ্বরের মনোনয়ন | High | Relevant background for God’s sovereign choice of a New Covenant people. |
| providence | ঈশ্বরের পরিচালনা | High | Complements new term ঈশ্বরের পরিকল্পনা (God’s plans) — see Section B. |
| imputed_righteousness | আরোপিত ধার্মিকতা | Critical | Directly anticipated by যিহোবা/সদাপ্রভু আমাদের ধার্মিকতা (Jer 23:6; 33:16). |
| church_as_gods_people (doctrine reference: প্রজা) | — | — | The Bengali term প্রজা (“people,” from this existing doctrine-registry entry) is reused for Jeremiah’s covenant formula “they shall be my people” for cross-curriculum consistency. |
Section B — New Terms Introduced by Jeremiah, Organized by Doctrine
Doctrine: The New Covenant (core passage anchor)
| Original (Hebrew) | Transliteration | Category | Risk | Definition | Translation notes | Bengali term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| יהוה | YHWH | God | Critical | The covenant name of God, distinct from Elohim/generic “God.” | Never flatten to ঈশ্বর or প্রভু; established Bengali Bible convention. | সদাপ্রভু |
| חֲדָשָׁה (with בְּרִית) | chadashah | Covenant | High | ”New” — qualitatively new, not renewed. | Converges felicitously with existing Bengali name for New Testament (নতুন নিয়ম); do not soften to “renewed.” | নতুন |
| לֵב | lev | Anthropology | High | Seat of will, intellect, moral decision (not primarily emotion). | Bengali হৃদয় skews toward emotion/devotional feeling in popular use; translator note required distinguishing biblical usage. | হৃদয় |
| יָדַע | yada | Salvation/Covenant | High | Deep, relational, covenantal knowing, not mere cognition. | Pair with translator note: “personally/relationally know,” parallel to baseline’s caution on faith’s object. | জানা (+ note) |
| סָלַח | salach | Salvation | High | God’s gracious removal of guilt. | Distinct from justification (ধার্মিক বলে গণ্য হওয়া); complementary, not identical. | ক্ষমা করা |
| עָוֹן | avon | Sin | Medium/High | Guilt/iniquity, the twisted moral condition. | Keep distinct from পাপ (sin/act) to preserve Hebrew’s double term. | অপরাধ |
| זָכַר | zakar | Assurance | Critical | To remember; “remember no more” = total, permanent, active forgiveness. | Climactic assurance term; render with unqualified finality. | স্মরণ করা |
| בָּעַלְתִּי (root בעל) | ba’alti | Covenant/Christology-adjacent | Critical | Disputed: “I was a husband/master to them” or “I disregarded them” (LXX). | Untranslatable wordplay with “Baal”; mandatory translator note; route to theologian for final rendering choice each occurrence. | স্বামী (+ mandatory note) |
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
| Original | Transliteration | Category | Risk | Definition | Translation notes | Bengali term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| זָנָה | zanah | Idolatry | High | Covenant-unfaithfulness metaphorized as harlotry/adultery. | Retain full metaphorical force; clarify metaphorical referent so not misread as isolated vice. | ব্যভিচার |
| אֱלִיל / גִּלּוּלִים | elil / gillulim | Idolatry | High/Critical | Contemptuous terms for idols. | Same word (প্রতিমা) as Hindu festival clay images (Durga/Kali Puja) — strong live cultural resonance in Bengal; retain pejorative force via context. | প্রতিমা |
| בַּעַל | Ba’al | Idolatry | High | The Canaanite storm-god, chief rival deity. | Use বায়াল, never বাল (homograph for “body hair”). | বায়াল |
| מְלֶכֶת הַשָּׁמַיִם | melekhet hashamayim | Idolatry | High | ”Queen of Heaven,” an astral fertility-goddess cult title. | Distinguish from the Catholic Marian title of the same name; add translator note in mixed-tradition contexts. | স্বর্গের রাণী |
| תֹּפֶת | Topheth | Idolatry | High | Site of child sacrifice in the Valley of Hinnom. | Requires historical-cultural translator note; do not sensationalize or omit. | তোফৎ |
| מוּל לֵב | mul lev | Covenant | Critical | ”Circumcise the heart” — inward moral transformation. | Never সুন্নত (Islamic ritual-circumcision term); use ত্বকচ্ছেদ exclusively. | হৃদয়ের ত্বকচ্ছেদ |
| שָׁלוֹם שָׁלוֹם וְאֵין שָׁלוֹם | shalom shalom ve’en shalom | False Prophecy | High | “‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace” — false reassurance. | Distinguish from doctrinal শান্তি (peace with God, baseline); flag ironic use explicitly. | শান্তি! শান্তি! কিন্তু কোনো শান্তি নেই |
| אָרוּר | arur | Covenant curse | High | Judicial covenant curse for breach. | Personal, judicial curse — not fatalistic ভাগ্য/নিয়তি. | অভিশপ্ত |
| מִשְׁפָּט | mishpat | Ethics | Medium | Justice, fair treatment especially of the vulnerable. | Paired with ধার্মিকতা (righteousness). | ন্যায়বিচার |
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry
| Original | Transliteration | Category | Risk | Definition | Translation notes | Bengali term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| בָּכָה | bakhah | Lament | High | To weep, genuine costly grief. | Preserve raw emotional register; not a mild “sad.” | কাঁদা / বিলাপ করা |
| קִינָה | qinah | Lament | Medium | Funeral dirge poetry. | Formal lament genre. | বিলাপ (গীত) |
| אֵשׁ עֲצֻרָה בְּעַצְמֹתָי | esh atsurah be’atsmotai | Calling | Medium | ”Fire shut up in my bones” — uncontainable compulsion to speak God’s word. | Idiom; preserve image, do not literalize. | (idiom retained) |
| פִּתִּיתַנִי | pittitani | Lament | High | ”You have deceived/enticed me” — raw complaint to God. | Preserve rawness/honesty; do not euphemize. | তুমি আমাকে প্রতারিত করেছ (+ note) |
| קֶשֶׁר | qesher | Persecution | Low | Conspiracy/plot against the prophet. | Narrative term. | চক্রান্ত |
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
| Original | Transliteration | Category | Risk | Definition | Translation notes | Bengali term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| שֶׁקֶר | sheqer | False Prophecy | High | Falsehood; specifically “prophesying lies.” | Pair explicitly with ভাববাণী as মিথ্যা ভাববাণী (false prophecy) vs. true ভাববাণী. | মিথ্যা |
| חֲלוֹם / דָּבָר | chalom / davar | Discernment | High | Contrast: subjective “dream” claimed by false prophets vs. objective authoritative “word.” | Central discernment pair; teach as contrasted terms. | স্বপ্ন / বচন |
| מוֹטָה / עֹל | motah / ol | Political Judgment | Medium/High | ”Yoke” — submission to Babylon as God’s disciplinary instrument. | Distinct from Christ’s “easy yoke” (future NT curriculum, Matt 11:29–30); flag for cross-curriculum disambiguation. | যুগ |
| רֹעִים | ro’im | Leadership | Medium/High | ”Shepherds” — indicted royal/religious leaders. | Sets up contrast with the coming true Shepherd; flag for John 10 cross-curriculum consistency. | পালকরা / মেষপালক |
Doctrine: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People
| Original | Transliteration | Category | Risk | Definition | Translation notes | Bengali term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| מַחֲשָׁבָה | machashavah | Providence | High | God’s deliberate plan/purpose/intention. | Complements (not identical to) baseline providence (ঈশ্বরের পরিচালনা); never ভাগ্য/নিয়তি. | পরিকল্পনা |
| יוֹצֵר | yotser | Creation/Sovereignty | Medium | Potter/Former/Maker; God’s shaping sovereignty. | স্রষ্টা (divine sense) / কুম্ভকার (literal potter); not the same substitution risk as ব্রহ্মা-for-পিতা. | স্রষ্টা / কুম্ভকার |
| כּוֹס הַחֵמָה | kos hachemah | Judgment | High | ”Cup of wrath” — God’s sovereign judgment extended over all nations. | Do not dilute divine-wrath imagery into mere “hardship.” | ক্রোধের পাত্র |
| שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה | shiv’im shanah | Prophecy Fulfillment | Medium/High | ”Seventy years” — specific, historically fulfilled exile duration. | Precise numeric prophecy; confirm numeral house style. | সাত্তর বছর |
Doctrine: Individual Responsibility
| Original | Transliteration | Category | Risk | Definition | Translation notes | Bengali term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| אִישׁ בַּעֲוֹנוֹ יָמוּת | ish ba’avono yamut | Individual Responsibility | Critical | ”Each one shall die for his own iniquity” — repudiates corporate-only guilt-transfer. | Must not be softened toward corporate-guilt-only reading; counters caste/family-honor guilt frameworks. | প্রত্যেকে নিজ অপরাধে মরবে |
| דֶּרֶךְ הַחַיִּים / דֶּרֶךְ הַמָּוֶת | derekh hachayim / derekh hamavet | Individual Responsibility | Medium | ”The way of life / the way of death” — real, consequential individual choice. | Two mutually exclusive courses with real consequences. | জীবনের পথ / মৃত্যুর পথ |
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
| Original | Transliteration | Category | Risk | Definition | Translation notes | Bengali term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| גָּלָה / גָּלוּת | galah / galut | Exile | High | Forced removal from the covenant land as covenant curse. | Foundational term for the entire restoration doctrine; use consistently chs. 16–52. | নির্বাসন |
| תִּקְוָה | tiqvah | Hope | High | Confident, covenant-grounded expectation, not vague optimism. | Distinct from both wishful ইচ্ছা and fatalistic acceptance idioms. | আশা |
| קִבֵּץ | qibbets | Restoration | Medium/High | To regather a scattered people; divine initiative. | God gathers; not a human “return movement.” | একত্র করা |
| דִּרְשׁוּ אֶת־שְׁלוֹם | dirshu et-shelom | Civic Welfare | Medium/High | ”Seek the welfare/well-being” (of a place). | Broader civic sense of שלום; use কল্যাণ, not শান্তি, to avoid conflating with peace-with-God doctrine. | কল্যাণ |
| גָּאַל / גְּאֻלָּה | ga’al / ge’ulah | Restoration (legal-economic) | Critical | Kinsman-redemption right over family land/persons. | NOT soteriological; collides with baseline’s forbidden মুক্তি (rejected for salvation). Mandatory translator note every occurrence. | উদ্ধারের অধিকার / মুক্তিস্বত্ব (+ mandatory note) |
| דְּרוֹר | derror | Social Justice / Restoration | High | Legal manumission/release of debt-slaves. | Same collision risk as above; mandatory translator note distinguishing from পরিত্রাণ. | স্বাধীনতা / মুক্তি (+ mandatory note) |
| רָפָא | rafa | Restoration | Medium | To heal; national restoration of wholeness. | God heals wounds his own judgment inflicted. | আরোগ্য করা |
| צֶמַח צַדִּיק / צֶמַח צְדָקָה | tsemach tsaddiq / tsedaqah | Messianic Prophecy | Critical | ”Righteous Branch” — Davidic-messianic royal title. | Christological; route to theologian every occurrence (23:5; 33:15). | ধার্মিক শাখা |
| יְהוָה צִדְקֵנוּ | YHWH Tsidqenu | Messianic Prophecy | Critical | ”The LORD our Righteousness” — divine throne-name of the coming King. | Combines সদাপ্রভু + ধার্মিকতা exactly; directly linked to baseline imputed_righteousness. | সদাপ্রভু আমাদের ধার্মিকতা |
| צָרַת יַעֲקֹב | tsarat Ya’aqov | Eschatology | Medium | ”Jacob’s trouble” — intense tribulation preceding deliverance. | Tribulation-then-deliverance pattern. | যাকোবের সংকট |
Supporting / Anthropological Terms (cross-doctrinal)
| Original | Transliteration | Category | Risk | Definition | Translation notes | Bengali term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| עָקֹב (לֵב) | aqov (lev) | Anthropology | High | ”Crooked/deceitful” heart — moral untrustworthiness. | Grounds the necessity of the New Covenant’s heart-transformation. | কুটিল |
| בָּטַח | batach | Faith (OT) | Medium/High | Confident trust/reliance, contrasted with trusting man vs. YHWH. | Keep distinct from বিশ্বাস (NT faith in Christ); note conceptual overlap. | নির্ভর করা / আস্থা রাখা |
| מְקוֹר מַיִם חַיִּים | meqor mayim chayim | Metaphor | Medium | ”Fountain of living water” — YHWH as sole life-source. | Cross-reference future John 4/7 curriculum for identical phrasing. | জীবন্ত জলের উৎস |
| הֶבֶל | hevel | Idolatry Polemic | Medium | ”Vapor/vanity” — idols’ insubstantiality. | Polemical contrast with the living God. | অসার |
| אֲבוֹתָם (human “fathers”) | avotam | Genealogy | Low/Medium | Ancestors/forefathers. | Deliberately not পিতা (reserved, Critical, for God the Father). | পূর্বপুরুষ |
| שַׁבָּת | shabbat | Covenant Sign | Medium | Sabbath rest, Sinai covenant sign. | Standard established term. | বিশ্রামবার |
| כֹּהֲנִים | kohanim | Covenant/Priesthood | Medium | Levitical priesthood. | Flag for future Hebrews-curriculum consistency. | যাজক |
| בֵּית יְהוָה | beit YHWH | Cultic/Historical | High | The literal Jerusalem Temple. | মন্দির permitted HERE (literal OT Temple), unlike its rejection for NT “church”; do not over-apply baseline caution. | মন্দির / সদাপ্রভুর গৃহ |
Section C — Proper Nouns (Nations, Chs. 46–51, and Other New Proper Names)
| English | Bengali | Risk | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egypt | মিশর | Low | Established form. |
| Judah | যিহূদা | Low | Established form. |
| Philistia | পলেশেৎ | Low | |
| Moab | মোয়াব | Low | |
| Ammon | অম্মোন | Low | |
| Edom | ইদোম | Low | |
| Damascus | দম্মেশক | Low | |
| Kedar / Hazor | কেদার / হাৎসোর | Low | |
| Elam | এলম | Low | |
| Babylon | ব্যাবিলন | Low | Distinguish typographically from বায়াল (Baal). |
| Rachel | রাহেল | Medium | Flag for future Matthew 2:18 cross-curriculum consistency. |
| Ephraim | ইফ্রয়িম | Low | |
| Jacob | যাকোব | Low | |
| Baruch | বারূক | Low | |
| Gedaliah | গদলিয় | Low |
Risk Summary (New Jeremiah Terms Only)
| Risk Tier | Count | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 9 | Human theologian (every occurrence) |
| High | 20 | Human theologian |
| Medium | 20 | Native speaker review |
| Low | 15 | Automated review |
This glossary extends, and must never contradict, the baseline Romans translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json. All Section A terms are binding as recorded there. All Section B/C terms are proposed new entries for the same translation-memory system and must be added at the risk tier indicated before Phase 2 translation of Jeremiah begins.
Critical Risk Terms
Righteousness
Approved rendering: ধার্মিকতা
Transliteration: dharmikota
Doctrine: Messianic Promise: Righteous Branch / YHWH Tsidqenu
Rejected alternatives: ধর্ম, পুণ্য, ন্যায়
Original: צְדָקָה
Category: Salvation
(inherited from Romans package) Right standing before God, never ধর্ম. Central to Jer 5, 23:5-6, 33:15-16; built into the Messianic titles ধার্মিক শাখা and সদাপ্রভু আমাদের ধার্মিকতা.
God
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বর
Transliteration: Ishshor
Doctrine: The Covenant Name of God (YHWH)
Rejected alternatives: ভগবান, আল্লাহ
Original: אֱלֹהִים
Category: God
(inherited from Romans package) Generic ‘God’ (Elohim/theos). In Jeremiah this MUST be kept distinct from সদাপ্রভু (YHWH, the covenant name) — see yhwh entry below. Losing the ঈশ্বর/সদাপ্রভু distinction erases the covenant-name emphasis driving every judgment-and-restoration oracle.
Father
Approved rendering: পিতা
Transliteration: Pita
Doctrine: God as Personal Father
Rejected alternatives: ব্রহ্মা, সৃষ্টিকর্তা
Original: אָב
Category: God
(inherited from Romans package) Reserved exclusively for God the Father. Jeremiah’s human ‘fathers/ancestors’ (avotam) are rendered পূর্বপুরুষ instead, never পিতা, to avoid confusing human ancestors with the divine Father.
Imputed Righteousness
Approved rendering: আরোপিত ধার্মিকতা
Transliteration: aropito dharmikota
Doctrine: Messianic Promise: Righteous Branch / YHWH Tsidqenu
Rejected alternatives: অর্জিত ধার্মিকতা
Original: (anticipated by יְהוָה צִדְקֵנוּ)
Category: Salvation
(inherited from Romans package) Righteousness credited, not earned. Directly anticipated by Jer 23:6 and 33:16’s যিহোবা/সদাপ্রভু আমাদের ধার্মিকতা throne-name — the coming King is named for the righteousness he grants, not achieves.
Salvation
Approved rendering: পরিত্রাণ
Transliteration: poritran
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
Rejected alternatives: মুক্তি, মোক্ষ, নাজাত
Original: יְשׁוּעָה
Category: Salvation
(inherited from Romans package) CRITICAL: never মুক্তি, মোক্ষ, or নাজাত. Jeremiah’s legal-economic redemption/manumission terms (redeem_gaal, release_derror) share a root with the forbidden মুক্তি and require mandatory translator notes distinguishing them from this soteriological term at every occurrence.
Lord
Approved rendering: প্রভু
Transliteration: provu
Doctrine: The Covenant Name of God (YHWH)
Rejected alternatives: মালিক, ঈশ্বর
(inherited from Romans package) Reserved for generic κύριος/‘lord-master’ usage. In Jeremiah, প্রভু must never be substituted for সদাপ্রভু (YHWH’s personal covenant name) — the two are distinct Bengali words for two distinct source terms and must never be flattened into each other.
Justification
Approved rendering: ধার্মিক বলে গণ্য হওয়া
Transliteration: dharmik bole gonyo howa
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: ক্ষমা পাওয়া, পুণ্য লাভ করা
(inherited from Romans package) Forensic ‘declared righteous.’ In Jeremiah 31:34, keep distinct from ক্ষমা করা (forgive_salach, ‘forgive/remove guilt’): forgiveness removes the debt of guilt; justification is the forensic declaration of righteous standing. Both doctrines meet in the New Covenant promise but are not identical — a translator note is required wherever both appear together.
Messiah
Approved rendering: খ্রীষ্ট
Transliteration: Khrishto
Doctrine: Messianic Promise: Righteous Branch / YHWH Tsidqenu
Rejected alternatives: মশীহ, অবতার পুরুষ
(inherited from Romans package) The specific Jewish OT figure fulfilled exclusively in Jesus; the term itself is New Testament usage, cross-referenced here because Jeremiah’s ধার্মিক শাখা / সদাপ্রভু আমাদের ধার্মিকতা titles (Jer 23:5-6; 33:15-16) are the direct OT anticipation of this figure.
Yhwh
Approved rendering: সদাপ্রভু
Transliteration: Sadaprabhu
Doctrine: The Covenant Name of God (YHWH)
Rejected alternatives: ঈশ্বর (generic Elohim), প্রভু (generic κύριος), যাহোয়ে (transliteration)
Original: יהוה
Category: Divine Name
The covenant, personal, self-existent name of God (over 700 occurrences in Jeremiah). Established Bengali Bible convention; never flattened to generic ঈশ্বর or প্রভু. This is the theological engine of every judgment-and-restoration oracle in the book.
Ne’um Yhwh Formula
Approved rendering: এই সদাপ্রভুর কথা / সদাপ্রভু বলেন
Transliteration: Ei Sadaprabhur kotha / Sadaprabhu bolen
Doctrine: The Covenant Name of God (YHWH)
Rejected alternatives: ঈশ্বর বলেন (generic)
Original: נְאֻם־יְהוָה
Category: Divine Name
The formal oracular seal certifying a statement as YHWH’s own binding word. Recurs dozens of times; must be rendered identically throughout for doctrinal and stylistic consistency.
Husband Or Disregarded Baalti
Approved rendering: স্বামী (+ mandatory note distinguishing from ‘অগ্রাহ্য করা’)
Transliteration: shami
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: বায়াল-linked rendering (impossible; no shared root)
Original: וְאָנֹכִי בָּעַלְתִּי בָם
Category: Covenant
Disputed Jer 31:32 clause: (a) ‘I was a husband/master to them’ (root בעל, identical to the god Baal’s name) or (b) LXX-based ‘I disregarded/rejected them.’ The Hebrew wordplay with Baal cannot be reproduced in Bengali (স্বামী shares no root with বায়াল). Mandatory translator note every occurrence; route the (a) vs (b) choice to human theologian per occurrence, not a one-time decision.
Covenant Formula God And People
Approved rendering: আমি তাদের ঈশ্বর হব এবং তারা আমার প্রজা হবে
Transliteration: Ami tader Ishshor hobo ebong tara amar proja hobe
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Original: וְהָיִיתִי לָהֶם לֵאלֹהִים וְהֵמָּה יִהְיוּ־לִי לְעָם
Category: Covenant
The classic covenant-formula of mutual, exclusive relational belonging (Jer 31:33). প্রজা aligned with the baseline doctrine-registry term for ‘God’s people’ for cross-curriculum consistency. Must be rendered identically at every recurrence (Jer 7:23; 11:4; 24:7; 30:22; 32:38).
Remember Zakar
Approved rendering: স্মরণ করা (“আর স্মরণ করব না”)
Transliteration: sroron kora
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: ভুলে যাওয়া (mere forgetting, too passive)
Original: זָכַר
Category: Assurance
Zakar: not mere recall but active covenantal attention; ‘not remembering’ means the sin will never again be held against the sinner. The climactic assurance of Jer 31:34 — must be rendered with full, unqualified finality, never hedged.
Circumcise Heart
Approved rendering: হৃদয়ের ত্বকচ্ছেদ
Transliteration: hridoyer tokocched
Doctrine: Heart Transformation and the Circumcision of the Heart
Rejected alternatives: সুন্নত (Islamic ritual referent, forbidden)
Original: מוּל (לֵב)
Category: Covenant
Extends the literal covenant-sign of circumcision to inward moral reality (Jer 4:4), a direct forerunner of 31:33. সুন্নত must never be used; ত্বকচ্ছেদ (clinical/anatomical) is the only acceptable rendering.
Righteous Branch
Approved rendering: ধার্মিক শাখা
Transliteration: dharmik shakha
Doctrine: Messianic Promise: Righteous Branch / YHWH Tsidqenu
Rejected alternatives: বংশধর (generic ‘descendant,’ too weak)
Original: צֶמַח צַדִּיק / צֶמַח צְדָקָה
Category: Messianic Prophecy
Tsemach tsaddiq/tsedaqah: a royal-messianic title, a shoot springing from David’s line (Jer 23:5; 33:15). Built on ধার্মিকতা. Requires human theologian review at every occurrence; coordinate with future Gospel/Christology curricula.
Yhwh Tsidqenu
Approved rendering: সদাপ্রভু আমাদের ধার্মিকতা
Transliteration: Sadaprabhu amader dharmikota
Doctrine: Messianic Promise: Righteous Branch / YHWH Tsidqenu
Original: יְהוָה צִדְקֵנוּ
Category: Messianic Prophecy
‘The LORD is our righteousness’ (Jer 23:6; 33:16) — a divine throne-name for the coming King. Must combine সদাপ্রভু and ধার্মিকতা exactly, without separation; directly anticipates আরোপিত ধার্মিকতা (imputed righteousness). Route to theologian every occurrence.
Individual Responsibility Proverb
Approved rendering: প্রত্যেকে নিজ অপরাধে মরবে
Transliteration: prottheke nij oporadhe morbe
Doctrine: Individual Responsibility
Rejected alternatives: corporate-guilt-only softened readings
Original: אִישׁ בַּעֲוֹנוֹ יָמוּת
Category: Individual Responsibility
‘Each one shall die for his own iniquity’ (Jer 31:29-30), repudiating a proverb blaming the present generation solely on ancestors. Must always be translated together with the rejected proverb it overturns so the corrective, not merely the assertion, is visible. Must never be softened toward corporate-only guilt or karma-transfer readings.
Redeem Gaal
Approved rendering: উদ্ধারের অধিকার / মুক্তিস্বত্ব (+ mandatory note)
Transliteration: uddharer odhikar / muktisshotto
Doctrine: Kinsman-Redemption and Manumission as Signs of Hope
Rejected alternatives: পরিত্রাণ (wrong domain: soteriological, not legal-economic)
Original: גָּאַל / גְּאֻלָּה
Category: Restoration (Legal-Economic)
Ga’al/ge’ulah: a kinsman’s legal right to buy back family land or a family member from debt-slavery (Jer 32). Direct collision with the baseline’s forbidden মুক্তি (rejected for salvation). This is a narrow, literal, legal-economic term, NOT soteriological. Mandatory translator note at every occurrence distinguishing it from পরিত্রাণ.
High Risk Terms
Covenant
Approved rendering: নিয়ম
Transliteration: niyom
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant / The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: চুক্তি, অঙ্গীকার
Original: בְּרִית
Category: Covenant
(inherited from Romans package) Relational covenant bond, more than a legal contract. Jeremiah note: ‘new covenant’ = নতুন নিয়ম (Jer 31:31), which felicitously converges with the existing Bengali Bible name for the New Testament (নতুন নিয়ম) — flag this convergence positively in Phase 2 teaching notes rather than treating it as coincidental.
Law
Approved rendering: ব্যবস্থা
Transliteration: bebostha
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: ধর্ম, শরিয়ত, নিয়ম (confusion with covenant)
Original: תּוֹרָה
Category: Covenant
(inherited from Romans package) The Mosaic law. Never ধর্ম or শরিয়ত. Jeremiah 31:33: the same law Israel broke (v. 32) will be internalized under the New Covenant, not abolished — continuity of moral content, discontinuity of location/means.
Sin
Approved rendering: পাপ
Transliteration: pap
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Rejected alternatives: অধর্ম, অশুচিতা
Original: חַטָּאָה / פֶּשַׁע
Category: Sin
(inherited from Romans package) Moral transgression before a personal God. In Jeremiah, kept lexically distinct from অপরাধ (avon, ‘iniquity/guilt’) so the Hebrew’s double emphasis (avon + chatta’ah, Jer 31:34) is not collapsed into one Bengali word.
Election
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বরের মনোনয়ন
Transliteration: Ishshorer monownoyon
Doctrine: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People
Rejected alternatives: ভাগ্য, নিয়তি, কর্মফল
Original: בָּחַר
Category: Salvation
(inherited from Romans package) God’s sovereign, personal choice; relevant background for his sovereign choice of a New Covenant people. Never karma-determined fate vocabulary.
Providence
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বরের পরিচালনা
Transliteration: Ishshorer porichalona
Doctrine: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People
Rejected alternatives: ভাগ্য, নিয়তি
Original: (cf. Jeremiah 29:11’s מַחֲשָׁבָה context)
Category: God
(inherited from Romans package) God’s personal, purposive governance of all things. Complements, but is not identical to, the new Jeremiah term পরিকল্পনা (plan_machashavah): পরিকল্পনা names the content/intention of God’s purpose, পরিচালনা names his ongoing governance in carrying it out.
Called
Approved rendering: আহুত
Transliteration: ahuto
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry
Rejected alternatives: আমন্ত্রিত, নিমন্ত্রিত
(inherited from Romans package) Relevant to Jeremiah’s own prophetic calling (ch. 1); use alongside পৃথক করেছি (consecrated_set_apart) which conveys the specific ‘set apart before birth’ sense of Jer 1:5.
Calling
Approved rendering: আহ্বান
Transliteration: ahban
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry
(inherited from Romans package) Noun form for God’s sovereign summons; relevant to Jeremiah’s prophetic vocation (ch. 1) and the cost that vocation carries throughout the book.
Holy
Approved rendering: পবিত্র
Transliteration: pobitro
Doctrine: Heart Transformation and the Circumcision of the Heart
Rejected alternatives: শুচি, নির্মল
(inherited from Romans package) Set apart for God and morally pure; cross-referenced by Jeremiah 1:5’s consecration and the book’s broader separation-unto-God’s-service theme.
Faith
Approved rendering: বিশ্বাস
Transliteration: bishwas
Doctrine: Individual Responsibility
Rejected alternatives: ঈমান, শ্রদ্ধা
(inherited from Romans package) Reserved for NT-style personal trust in Christ’s atoning work. Keep distinct from the new Jeremiah term নির্ভর করা/আস্থা রাখা (trust_batach), the OT’s more general ‘trust/reliance’ concept (Jer 17:5-7), to avoid flattening the two into one term.
Adoption
Approved rendering: দত্তকপুত্রতা
Transliteration: dattaka-putrota
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
Rejected alternatives: দত্তক নেওয়া
(inherited from Romans package) Full son-status with complete inheritance rights. Resonates with, but is distinct from, Jeremiah 31:20’s প্রিয় পুত্র ইফ্রয়িম (Ephraim, precious/dear son) — God’s fatherly compassion even for the judged northern kingdom.
New Covenant Adjective
Approved rendering: নতুন
Transliteration: notun
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: পুনর্নবীকৃত (renewed)
Original: חֲדָשָׁה
Category: Covenant
‘New’ in the qualitative sense (chadashah) — a fresh kind of covenant, not a repaired or renewed old one. Must not be softened to পুনর্নবীকৃত, which would blunt the contrast Jer 31:32 explicitly draws with the Sinai covenant.
Law Within Them
Approved rendering: তাদের অন্তরে / ভিতরে
Transliteration: tader ontore / bhitore
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: তাদের মনে (too narrowly cognitive)
Original: בְּקִרְבָּם
Category: Covenant
‘Within them / in their inward parts’ (Jer 31:33), the internal location of the New Covenant’s law, contrasted with external stone tablets. Must not be flattened to a merely cognitive ‘in their minds.‘
Heart
Approved rendering: হৃদয়
Transliteration: hridoy
Doctrine: Heart Transformation and the Circumcision of the Heart
Original: לֵב
Category: Anthropology
Hebrew lev = seat of will, intellect, moral decision, not primarily emotion. Bengali হৃদয় skews toward devotional/emotional (bhakti) connotations; a translator note is required on load-bearing occurrences (esp. Jer 31:33; 17:9) clarifying that biblical হৃদয় denotes the whole inner person — will, conscience, and mind together.
Know Yada
Approved rendering: জানা (+ mandatory note)
Transliteration: jana
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Original: יָדַע (יֵדְעוּ)
Category: Covenant
Ranges from simple cognition to deep, covenantal, relational knowing. Bengali জানা defaults to factual awareness. Mandatory translator note every occurrence in Jer 31:34: ‘personally/relationally know’ (তাঁকে ব্যক্তিগতভাবে জানা), not mere factual awareness — parallel to the baseline’s caution that faith’s object must always be specified.
Forgive Salach
Approved rendering: ক্ষমা করা
Transliteration: khoma kora
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Original: סָלַח
Category: Salvation
Salach: God’s gracious removal of guilt, used only of God in the OT (Jer 31:34). Distinct from justification (ধার্মিক বলে গণ্য হওয়া): forgiveness removes the debt of guilt; justification is the forensic declaration of righteous standing.
Iniquity Avon
Approved rendering: অপরাধ
Transliteration: oporadh
Doctrine: Individual Responsibility
Original: עָוֹן
Category: Sin
Avon: the twisted, guilt-bearing character of wrongdoing, distinguished from chatta’ah (the act itself). Kept distinct from পাপ to preserve the Hebrew’s double emphasis (Jer 31:34; 31:29-30).
Consecrated Set Apart
Approved rendering: পৃথক করেছি
Transliteration: prithok korechi
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry
Original: קִדַּשְׁתִּיךָ (קָדַשׁ)
Category: Calling
Qadash: to dedicate/set apart for sacred office prior to and independent of the person’s own choice (Jer 1:5). Must not imply self-achieved ritual purity; cross-references the baseline’s ‘separation unto God’s service’ doctrine.
Harlotry Zanah
Approved rendering: ব্যভিচার
Transliteration: bebhichar
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: זָנָה
Category: Idolatry
Zanah: covenant-unfaithfulness metaphorized as harlotry (Jer 2-3). Retain full metaphorical force; translator note must anchor the metaphorical referent so it is not misread as an isolated personal-vice accusation.
Idols Elil Gillulim
Approved rendering: প্রতিমা
Transliteration: protima
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Rejected alternatives: মূর্তি (even more devotionally loaded)
Original: אֱלִיל / גִּלּוּלִים
Category: Idolatry
Contemptuous Hebrew terms for idols. প্রতিমা is also the word for the ritually consecrated and later immersed clay images of Durga/Kali worshipped in Bengal’s major festivals — an unusually strong live cultural association. Retained as the established Christian term; must carry pejorative force through surrounding context, never a neutral ‘religious image’ reading.
Baal Deity
Approved rendering: বায়াল
Transliteration: bayal
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Rejected alternatives: বাল (homograph for ‘body hair’)
Original: בַּעַל
Category: Idolatry
The chief Canaanite rival deity condemned throughout Jeremiah. Must use বায়াল, never বাল; also typographically distinct from ব্যাবিলন (Babylon) — enforce spelling in style guide.
Queen Of Heaven
Approved rendering: স্বর্গের রাণী
Transliteration: shorger rani
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: מְלֶכֶת הַשָּׁמַיִם
Category: Idolatry
An astral fertility-goddess cult title (Jer 7, 44). Also used devotionally of Mary in Catholic tradition; mandatory translator note distinguishing the condemned pagan referent from the Marian title wherever reaching mixed-tradition readerships.
Topheth
Approved rendering: তোফৎ
Transliteration: tofot
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: תֹּפֶת
Category: Idolatry
Site in the Valley of Hinnom associated with child sacrifice (Jer 19). Requires a historical-cultural translator note; neither sensationalize nor omit.
False Peace Slogan
Approved rendering: শান্তি! শান্তি! কিন্তু কোনো শান্তি নেই
Transliteration: Shanti! Shanti! Kintu kono shanti nei
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
Original: שָׁלוֹם שָׁלוֹם וְאֵין שָׁלוֹם
Category: False Prophecy
‘Peace, peace, when there is no peace’ (Jer 6:14; 8:11) — the false prophets’ reassuring slogan. শান্তি reused from baseline but used ironically/critically here; mandatory translator note distinguishing this ironic condemned use from the doctrinally positive ‘peace with God’ sense so the two are never confused.
Temple Beit Yhwh
Approved rendering: সদাপ্রভুর গৃহ / মন্দির
Transliteration: Sadaprabhur griho / mondir
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: בֵּית יְהוָה
Category: Cultic/Historical
The literal, physical Jerusalem Temple (Jer 7 and throughout). মন্দির is PERMITTED here (unlike its rejection for NT ‘church’) — a deliberate, bounded exception; do not over-apply the baseline’s church-related caution to this distinct OT referent.
Weep Bakhah
Approved rendering: কাঁদা / বিলাপ করা
Transliteration: kanda / bilap kora
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry
Rejected alternatives: দুঃখিত (too mild)
Original: בָּכָה
Category: Lament
Bakhah: genuine, often loud, grief-weeping (Jer 9:1) — the textual anchor of the Weeping Prophet doctrine. Must preserve the raw, costly emotional register.
Cursed Arur
Approved rendering: অভিশপ্ত
Transliteration: obhishopto
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Breach (Covenant Curse and Divine Wrath)
Rejected alternatives: ভাগ্য/নিয়তি-adjacent framing
Original: אָרוּר
Category: Judgment
Arur: judicial covenant curse for breach (Jer 11). Must retain a personal, judicial sense pronounced by the living God, never an impersonal fate/bad-luck notion.
Deceived Me Pittitani
Approved rendering: তুমি আমাকে প্রতারিত/প্রলুব্ধ করেছ (+ mandatory note)
Transliteration: tumi amake protarito/prolubdho korecho
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry
Rejected alternatives: তুমি আমাকে প্রলুব্ধ করেছ (too mild/euphemistic alone, requires note)
Original: פִּתִּיתַנִי
Category: Lament
‘You have deceived/enticed me’ (Jer 20:7) — a startlingly raw accusation directed at God. Must preserve this rawness rather than softening to ‘you persuaded me,’ which would lose the doctrinal function of Scripture modeling authentic lament.
Shepherds Roim
Approved rendering: পালকরা / মেষপালক
Transliteration: palokra / meshpalok
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
Original: רֹעִים
Category: False Prophecy
Ro’im: indicted royal/religious leaders who scattered the flock (Jer 23). Sets up contrast with the coming true Shepherd-King; flag for future John 10 (Good Shepherd) cross-curriculum consistency.
Dream Word Contrast
Approved rendering: স্বপ্ন / বচন
Transliteration: shopno / bochon
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
Original: חֲלוֹם / דָּבָר
Category: False Prophecy
Chalom/davar: the chapter’s own discernment test (Jer 23) between a false prophet’s subjective claimed dream and the true prophet’s objective, authoritative word. স্বপ্ন carries a POSITIVE cultural valence in Bengali folk practice (pir-dreams, devotional dreams); explicit contrastive teaching framing is required so this passage’s negative use is not inverted.
Falsehood Sheqer
Approved rendering: মিথ্যা
Transliteration: mittha
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
Original: שֶׁקֶר
Category: False Prophecy
Sheqer: deliberate deception, specifically ‘prophesying falsehood’ (Jer 14:14; 23:25-32; 27:10; 28:15; 29:9). Must be paired as মিথ্যা ভাববাণী wherever contrasted with true ভাববাণী.
Cup Of Wrath
Approved rendering: ক্রোধের পাত্র
Transliteration: krodher patro
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Breach (Covenant Curse and Divine Wrath)
Rejected alternatives: কষ্ট (mere ‘hardship,’ too diluted)
Original: כּוֹס הַחֵמָה
Category: Judgment
Kos hachemah: nations forced to drink from God’s cup of judgment (Jer 25; 46-51). Must not be diluted into merely metaphorical ‘difficulty.‘
Yoke Motah Ol
Approved rendering: যুগ
Transliteration: jug
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
Original: מוֹטָה / עֹל
Category: False Prophecy
The wooden yoke-bar, metaphor for submission to Babylon as God’s disciplinary instrument (Jer 27-28). A future Gospels curriculum will use the same word যুগ for Christ’s ‘easy yoke’ (Matt 11:29-30) with an opposite theological valence — flag for a clarifying note when both curricula coexist.
Seek Welfare
Approved rendering: কল্যাণ
Transliteration: kollyan
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
Rejected alternatives: শান্তি (would conflate with doctrinal peace-with-God sense)
Original: דִּרְשׁוּ אֶת־שְׁלוֹם
Category: Restoration
‘Seek the welfare/well-being’ of the city (Jer 29), a civic-prosperity sense of shalom broader than doctrinal peace-with-God. Reserve কল্যাণ strictly for this civic sense; never let শান্তি do double duty.
Plan Machashavah
Approved rendering: পরিকল্পনা
Transliteration: porikolpona
Doctrine: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People
Rejected alternatives: ভাগ্য, নিয়তি, তকদির
Original: מַחֲשָׁבָה
Category: Providence
Machashavah: God’s deliberate plan/purpose/intention (Jer 18; 29:11). Must never be rendered with fatalistic ভাগ্য/নিয়তি/তকদির vocabulary, which would silently undercut ch. 18’s claim that repentance genuinely changes the outcome. Complements, but is distinct from, ঈশ্বরের পরিচালনা (providence).
Hope Tiqvah
Approved rendering: আশা
Transliteration: asha
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
Rejected alternatives: ইচ্ছা (mere wish, too weak)
Original: תִּקְוָה
Category: Restoration
Tiqvah: confident, covenant-grounded expectation (Jer 29:11), not vague optimism. Always anchor to God’s specific, spoken promise in context; never leave standalone.
Return Repent Shuv
Approved rendering: ফিরে আসা
Transliteration: fire asha
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Rejected alternatives: মন পরিবর্তন (too narrowly a change of mind/remorse)
Original: שׁוּב
Category: Covenant
Shuv: THE OT term for repentance — a relational, covenantal turning back to God (Jer 3 and throughout), not merely inward remorse.
Deceitful Heart Aqov
Approved rendering: কুটিল
Transliteration: kutil
Doctrine: Heart Transformation and the Circumcision of the Heart
Rejected alternatives: জটিল/রহস্যময় (too softened toward ‘complicated/mysterious’)
Original: עָקֹב (הַלֵּב)
Category: Anthropology
‘The heart is deceitful above all things’ (Jer 17:9) — grounds the necessity of the New Covenant’s heart-transformation. Must not be softened; the force is moral untrustworthiness.
Trust Batach
Approved rendering: নির্ভর করা / আস্থা রাখা
Transliteration: nirbhor kora / astha rakha
Doctrine: Individual Responsibility
Original: בָּטַח
Category: Faith (OT)
Batach: confident reliance, contrasted between trusting ‘man’ and trusting the LORD (Jer 17:5-7). Keep distinct from বিশ্বাস (NT faith in Christ) to avoid flattening the OT’s general trust/reliance into the specifically Christological faith-object.
Release Derror
Approved rendering: স্বাধীনতা / মুক্তি (+ mandatory note)
Transliteration: shadhinota / mukti
Doctrine: Kinsman-Redemption and Manumission as Signs of Hope
Original: דְּרוֹר
Category: Restoration (Legal-Social)
Derror: legal manumission of Hebrew debt-slaves (Jer 34), later treacherously reversed. Same collision risk as ga’al, compounded because মুক্তি itself (not just a compound) appears here. Mandatory note every occurrence; flag for theologian review given the double proximity to the forbidden-substitution list.
Exile Galah Galut
Approved rendering: নির্বাসন
Transliteration: nirbashon
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
Original: גָּלָה / גָּלוּת
Category: Restoration
Galah/galut: forced removal from the covenant land as covenant curse — the dominant historical horizon of Jeremiah’s second half. Must be used consistently across all judgment/restoration passages (chs. 16, 24, 29, 30-33, 40-44, 52).
Medium Risk Terms
Gentiles
Approved rendering: পরজাতি
Transliteration: porojati
Doctrine: Prophet to the Nations
Rejected alternatives: বিদেশী
Original: גּוֹיִם
Category: Church
(inherited from Romans package) Jer 1:5, ‘a prophet to the nations’ (নবী লাগগোয়িম) — পরজাতিদের জন্য ভাববাদী.
Israel
Approved rendering: ইস্রায়েল
Transliteration: Israel
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Original: יִשְׂרָאֵל
Category: Covenant
(inherited from Romans package) Jer 31:31, ‘the house of Israel’ — reused inside ইস্রায়েল-কুল.
Peace
Approved rendering: শান্তি
Transliteration: shanti
Doctrine: Peace with God
Rejected alternatives: সুখ, স্বস্তি
Original: שָׁלוֹם
Category: Salvation
(inherited from Romans package) Reserved for the doctrinal ‘peace with God’ sense only. Jeremiah introduces two further, DISTINCT Bengali solutions for other Hebrew shalom senses that must never be merged back into শান্তি: the ironic false-reassurance slogan (see false_peace_slogan) and the civic-welfare sense (see seek_welfare, rendered কল্যাণ, never শান্তি).
Church
Approved rendering: মণ্ডলী
Transliteration: mondoli
Doctrine: Cross-Reference (Temple/Church Distinction)
Rejected alternatives: মন্দির, গির্জা
(inherited from Romans package) The baseline rejects মন্দির for ‘church’ because মন্দির denotes a Hindu temple in ordinary Bengali usage. This rejection does NOT extend to Jeremiah’s references to the literal, historical Jerusalem Temple (see temple_beit_yhwh below), where মন্দির is the correct and established rendering — Phase 2 translators must not over-apply this caution to the distinct OT referent.
Seed Of David
Approved rendering: দায়ূদের বংশ
Transliteration: Dayuder bongsho
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
(inherited from Romans package) Physical Davidic lineage; background continuity for the Righteous Branch title in Jeremiah 23 and 33, which springs from David’s royal line.
Cut Covenant Idiom
Approved rendering: নিয়ম স্থাপন করা
Transliteration: Niyom sthapon kora
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: নিয়ম কাটা (literal ‘cut’)
Original: כָּרַת (בְּרִית)
Category: Covenant
Idiom ‘to cut a covenant’ (karat berit), from ratifying a covenant by sacrifice. Never render literally as কাটা, which would be meaningless/confusing; idiom-handling rule applies.
House Of Israel And Judah
Approved rendering: ইস্রায়েল-কুল / যিহূদা-কুল
Transliteration: Israel-kul / Jihuda-kul
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: ইস্রায়েল-বংশ (register mismatch)
Original: בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל / בֵּית יְהוּדָה
Category: Covenant
The two covenant kingdoms addressed together as the whole covenant people (Jer 31:31). কুল chosen over বংশ to keep register formal and consistent with genealogical usage elsewhere.
Fathers Ancestors
Approved rendering: পূর্বপুরুষ
Transliteration: purbopurush
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: পিতা (reserved for God the Father)
Original: אֲבוֹתָם
Category: Genealogy
Human ancestors/forefathers, specifically the exodus generation (Jer 31:32). Deliberately never পিতা, which is Critical-reserved exclusively for God the Father.
Write Inscribe
Approved rendering: লেখা / অঙ্কিত করা
Transliteration: lekha / ongkito kora
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: দেওয়া (too vague)
Original: כָתַב
Category: Covenant
Katav, ‘to write/inscribe’ (Jer 31:33), contrasted with the stone tablets of Sinai (Exod 31:18). Preserve the inscription image rather than a vaguer ‘give/instill.‘
Teach
Approved rendering: শিক্ষা দেওয়া
Transliteration: shikkha deoa
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Original: לָמַד (יְלַמְּדוּ)
Category: Covenant
Lamad, ‘to teach’ covenant knowledge from neighbor to neighbor (Jer 31:34) — contrasted with ‘know’ (yada) below, which the New Covenant makes universal and unmediated.
Prophet To The Nations
Approved rendering: পরজাতিদের জন্য ভাববাদী
Transliteration: porojatider jonno bhabbadi
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry
Original: נָבִיא לַגּוֹיִם
Category: Calling
Jeremiah’s mandate extends beyond Israel to surrounding nations (Jer 1:5; chs. 46-51). পরজাতি reused exactly from baseline.
Justice Mishpat
Approved rendering: ন্যায়বিচার
Transliteration: nyayobichar
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: מִשְׁפָּט
Category: Ethics
Mishpat: fair legal/social treatment, especially of the vulnerable (Jer 5). Paired doctrinally with ধার্মিকতা.
Watchman Tsofeh
Approved rendering: প্রহরী
Transliteration: prohori
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry
Original: צֹפֶה
Category: Calling
Tsofeh: one posted to see danger and sound warning (Jer 6) — the prophet’s watchman role.
Den Of Robbers
Approved rendering: ডাকাতদের গুহা
Transliteration: dakatder guha
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: מְעָרַת פָּרִצִים
Category: Cultic/Historical
Jer 7’s temple-as-hideout indictment, later quoted verbatim by Jesus (Matt 21:13; Mark 11:17; Luke 19:46); flag for future Gospels-curriculum consistency.
Sacrifice Olah Zevach
Approved rendering: হোমবলি / বলিদান
Transliteration: hombali / bolidan
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: עוֹלָה / זֶבַח
Category: Cultic/Historical
Burnt offering/sacrifice (Jer 7:21-23), worthless when divorced from obedience. বলি/বলিদান is also Hindu (Kali-associated) sacrificial vocabulary; largely unavoidable established OT usage — flag for translator awareness rather than substitution.
Lament Qinah
Approved rendering: বিলাপ (গীত)
Transliteration: bilap (geet)
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry
Original: קִינָה
Category: Lament
Qinah: formal funeral-dirge poetry (Jer 9), composed for a nation not yet dead. Supply a brief genre note at first occurrence.
Vanity Hevel
Approved rendering: অসার / শূন্যতা
Transliteration: oshar / shunnota
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: הֶבֶל
Category: Idolatry
Hevel: idols’ insubstantiality/worthlessness (Jer 10), polemical contrast with the living God.
Potter Maker Yotser
Approved rendering: স্রষ্টা / কুম্ভকার
Transliteration: sroshta / kumbhokar
Doctrine: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People
Original: יוֹצֵר
Category: Providence
Yotser: Potter/Former/Maker (Jer 10; 18). স্রষ্টা for the divine sense, কুম্ভকার for the literal potter image. স্রষ্টা as a descriptive term for God’s creative action is NOT the same substitution risk the baseline flags around Hindu creator-deity proper names (e.g. ব্রহ্মা), which are forbidden only as replacements for পিতা.
Fire In Bones Idiom
Approved rendering: আমার অস্থিতে (যেন) জ্বলন্ত আগুন
Transliteration: amar osthite (jeno) jolonto agun
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry
Original: אֵשׁ עֲצֻרָה בְּעַצְמֹתָי
Category: Lament
‘A fire shut up in my bones’ (Jer 20) — uncontainable inner compulsion to speak. Idiom-handling rule: preserve the image, do not literalize into a medical claim.
Ate Your Words Idiom
Approved rendering: তোমার বচন আমি ভোজন করেছি
Transliteration: tomar bochon ami bhojon korechi
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry
Original: אָכַל דְּבָרֶיךָ
Category: Lament
‘I ate/devoured your words’ (Jer 15:16), internalizing God’s word as nourishment. Idiom-handling rule: translate the image, not a literal eating instruction.
Way Of Life Death
Approved rendering: জীবনের পথ / মৃত্যুর পথ
Transliteration: jiboner poth / mrittur poth
Doctrine: Individual Responsibility
Original: דֶּרֶךְ הַחַיִּים / דֶּרֶךְ הַמָּוֶת
Category: Individual Responsibility
Two mutually exclusive, divinely-determined courses (Jer 21:8-10). Real, individually consequential choice; anchors Individual Responsibility ahead of ch. 31.
Good Bad Figs
Approved rendering: ভালো ডুমুর / খারাপ ডুমুর
Transliteration: bhalo dumur / kharap dumur
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
Original: תְּאֵנִים טוֹבוֹת / רָעוֹת
Category: Restoration
A visionary sign (Jer 24) distinguishing exiles marked for restoration from those left/fled to further judgment.
Seventy Years
Approved rendering: সাত্তর বছর
Transliteration: sattor bochor
Doctrine: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People
Original: שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה
Category: Prophecy Fulfillment
A specific, numbered prophetic time-span for the Babylonian exile (Jer 25), fulfilled historically (Dan 9:2; Ezra 1:1). Confirm Arabic-numeral house style with reviewer.
Pride Gaon
Approved rendering: গর্ব / অহংকার
Transliteration: gorbo / ohonkar
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: גָּאוֹן
Category: Ethics
Ga’on: self-exalting national/royal pride (Jer 13), the specific sin bringing Judah’s downfall in this chapter’s sign-act.
Future Outcome Acharit
Approved rendering: ভবিষ্যৎ
Transliteration: bhobishyot
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
Original: אַחֲרִית
Category: Restoration
Acharit: ‘the latter end/outcome’ (Jer 29:11), paired with tiqvah — the object of hope is a real, historical future, not merely spiritual consolation.
Jacobs Trouble
Approved rendering: যাকোবের সংকট
Transliteration: Jakober shonkot
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
Original: צָרַת יַעֲקֹב
Category: Eschatology
Tsarat Ya’aqov: a period of severe national anguish preceding deliverance (Jer 30); reinforces that restoration comes only through and after real judgment.
Heal Rafa
Approved rendering: আরোগ্য করা / সুস্থ করা
Transliteration: arogyo kora / sustho kora
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
Original: רָפָא
Category: Restoration
Rafa: restoration of national health/wholeness (Jer 30); God heals the very wounds his own judgment inflicted.
Treachery Begidah
Approved rendering: বিশ্বাসঘাতিনী / বিশ্বাসঘাতকতা
Transliteration: bishwasghatini / bishwasghatokota
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: בֹּגְדָה / בְּגִידָה
Category: Covenant
Bogedah/begidah: faithlessness toward a covenant partner (Jer 3) — Judah’s treachery, this chapter argues, is worse than the northern kingdom’s.
Divorce Gerushim
Approved rendering: বিবাহবিচ্ছেদ
Transliteration: bibahobicched
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: גֵּרוּשִׁים
Category: Covenant
Gerushim: legal severance of the marriage covenant (Jer 3); keep the legal-covenantal, not merely emotional, force.
Forsake Azab
Approved rendering: ত্যাগ করা
Transliteration: tyag kora
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: עָזַב
Category: Covenant
Azab: Israel’s deliberate abandonment of YHWH (Jer 2), the active counterpart to being ‘abandoned’ in judgment later.
Fountain Living Water
Approved rendering: জীবন্ত জলের উৎস
Transliteration: jibonto joler utsho
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: מְקוֹר מַיִם חַיִּים
Category: Idolatry Polemic
Meqor mayim chayim: YHWH as sole source of life, contrasted with broken cisterns/idols (Jer 2). Recurs in John 4:10-14 and 7:38 in a future NT curriculum; recommend identical phrasing for cross-curriculum consistency.
Sabbath Shabbat
Approved rendering: বিশ্রামবার / সাব্বাথ
Transliteration: bishrambar / sabbath
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Original: שַׁבָּת
Category: Covenant Sign
The seventh-day rest, a test case of covenant obedience (Jer 17:19-27). Both forms circulate in Bengali Bible tradition; confirm primary house-style form with reviewer.
Voice In Ramah
Approved rendering: রামায় রাহেলের বিলাপ-স্বর
Transliteration: Ramay Rahel-er bilap-shor
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
Original: קוֹל בְּרָמָה
Category: Restoration
Rachel weeping for her exiled/lost descendants (Jer 31:15), later quoted by Matthew (2:18); flag for future Matthew-curriculum consistency.
Ephraim Precious Son
Approved rendering: প্রিয় পুত্র ইফ্রয়িম
Transliteration: Priyo putro Ifroyim
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
Original: אֶפְרַיִם בֵּן יַקִּיר
Category: Restoration
God’s tender, fatherly affection even for judged Ephraim (Jer 31:20); resonates with, but is distinct from, the NT adoption doctrine.
Scroll Megillah
Approved rendering: পুস্তক / গ্রন্থ
Transliteration: pustok / grontho
Doctrine: Inspiration and Indestructibility of Scripture
Original: מְגִלָּה
Category: Inspiration of Scripture
Megillah: the written medium of God’s word given to Baruch (Jer 36). Doctrinal weight rests on the narrative event (burned scroll rewritten/expanded), not the object-term.
Priests Kohanim
Approved rendering: যাজক
Transliteration: jajok
Doctrine: Messianic Promise: Righteous Branch / YHWH Tsidqenu
Original: כֹּהֲנִים
Category: Covenant/Priesthood
Kohanim: the Levitical priesthood, promised enduring alongside the Davidic line (Jer 33); flag for future Hebrews-curriculum consistency (Christ’s priesthood).
Gather Qibbets
Approved rendering: একত্র করা / সংগ্রহ করা
Transliteration: ekotro kora / songroho kora
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
Original: קִבֵּץ
Category: Restoration
Qibbets: to regather a scattered people (Jer 16); keep the grammatical subject explicitly God, not a passive/human ‘return movement.‘
Rachel Proper Noun
Approved rendering: রাহেল
Transliteration: Rahel
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
Original: רָחֵל
Category: Proper Names
Matriarch weeping poetically for her exiled/lost descendants (Jer 31:15); flag for future Matthew 2:18 cross-curriculum consistency.
Low Risk Terms
Prophet
Approved rendering: ভাববাদী
Transliteration: bhabbadi
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: জ্যোতিষী
Original: נָבִיא
Category: Calling
(inherited from Romans package) Risk rises to High whenever contrasted with false prophecy; always pair with মিথ্যা ভাববাণী in false-prophecy contexts so learners visually distinguish true from false.
Prophecy
Approved rendering: ভাববাণী
Transliteration: bhabbani
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: গণনা
Original: נְבוּאָה
Category: Calling
(inherited from Romans package) Pair with মিথ্যা as মিথ্যা ভাববাণী to mark false-prophecy contexts distinctly; never let ভাববাণী stand alone when falsehood is in view.
David
Approved rendering: দায়ূদ
Transliteration: Dayud
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: דָּוִד
Category: Covenant
(inherited from Romans package) Established Bengali proper-name form; background for the Righteous Branch prophecies (Jer 23, 33).
Almond Watching Wordplay
Approved rendering: আমি সজাগ আছি (pun untranslatable)
Transliteration: ami shojag achi
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry
Original: שָׁקֵד / שֹׁקֵד
Category: Prophetic Sign
Hebrew pun: ‘almond tree’ (shaqed) sounds like ‘watching/alert’ (shoqed), Jer 1:11-12. No Bengali equivalent pun exists; render meaning only, with a translator note on the lost wordplay.
Shofar
Approved rendering: শিঙ্গা / তূরী
Transliteration: shinga / turi
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: שׁוֹפָר
Category: Sign/Object
Ram’s-horn trumpet for war alarms and covenant assemblies (Jer 4). Concrete object; native Bengali term preferred over transliteration.
Deceit Mirmah
Approved rendering: প্রতারণা / ছলনা
Transliteration: protarona / cholona
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: מִרְמָה
Category: Ethics
Mirmah: deliberate deception in dealing (Jer 5), a symptom of covenant breach.
Balm Of Gilead
Approved rendering: গিলিয়দের ঔষধি-তরল / নিরাময়-তেল
Transliteration: Giliyader oushodi-torol / nirmoy-tel
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry
Original: צֳרִי בְּגִלְעָד
Category: Lament
Proverbial medicinal resin (Jer 8); rhetorical question about a cure for the nation’s wound. Retain the healing-image idiom.
Physician Rofe
Approved rendering: চিকিৎসক / আরোগ্যকারী
Transliteration: chikitshok / arogyokari
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry
Original: רֹפֵא
Category: Lament
Rofe: metaphor for absent spiritual remedy (Jer 8).
Clay Cheres
Approved rendering: মাটি / কাদা
Transliteration: mati / kada
Doctrine: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People
Original: חֶרֶס
Category: Providence
Cheres: the pliable material the potter shapes (Jer 18); concrete image, low ambiguity.
Conspiracy Qesher
Approved rendering: চক্রান্ত
Transliteration: chokranto
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry
Original: קֶשֶׁר
Category: Persecution
Qesher: secret plot against Jeremiah by the men of Anathoth (Jer 11).
Belt Sign Object
Approved rendering: কটিবন্ধ / বেল্ট
Transliteration: kotibondho / belt
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: אֵזוֹר
Category: Sign/Object
Ezor: sign-act object, the ruined belt symbolizing Judah’s ruined intimacy with God (Jer 13).
Flask Sign Object
Approved rendering: কলসি / পাত্র
Transliteration: kolshi / patro
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Breach (Covenant Curse and Divine Wrath)
Original: בַּקְבֻּק
Category: Sign/Object
Baqbuq: the shattered flask sign-act symbolizing Jerusalem’s irreversible judgment (Jer 19).
Covenant Of Day And Night
Approved rendering: দিনের নিয়ম ও রাতের নিয়ম
Transliteration: diner niyom o rater niyom
Doctrine: Messianic Promise: Righteous Branch / YHWH Tsidqenu
Original: בְּרִית יוֹם וּבְרִית לַיְלָה
Category: Covenant
The fixed order of day/night as a guarantee-metaphor for God’s covenant reliability (Jer 33); reuses নিয়ম exactly.
Judah Proper Noun
Approved rendering: যিহূদা
Transliteration: Jihuda
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Original: יְהוּדָה
Category: Proper Names
Established Bengali OT proper-name form for Judah, the southern covenant kingdom.
Egypt Proper Noun
Approved rendering: মিশর
Transliteration: Mishor
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: מִצְרַיִם
Category: Proper Names
Established Bengali form; the exodus deliverance and the remnant’s later flight (chs. 2, 42-44).
Babylon Proper Noun
Approved rendering: ব্যাবিলন
Transliteration: Byabilon
Doctrine: Universal Scope of God’s Sovereignty over the Nations
Original: בָּבֶל
Category: Proper Names
The empire executing, and later itself receiving, God’s judgment (chs. 25, 27-29, 50-51). Distinguish typographically from বায়াল (Baal) at every occurrence.
Jacob Proper Noun
Approved rendering: যাকোব
Transliteration: Jakob
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
Original: יַעֲקֹב
Category: Proper Names
Patriarch, ancestor of Israel; namesake of ‘Jacob’s trouble’ (Jer 30).
Baruch Proper Noun
Approved rendering: বারূক
Transliteration: Baruk
Doctrine: Inspiration and Indestructibility of Scripture
Original: בָּרוּךְ
Category: Proper Names
Jeremiah’s scribe (chs. 36, 45); established Bengali OT form.
Gedaliah Proper Noun
Approved rendering: গদলিয়
Transliteration: Godoliyo
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Breach (Covenant Curse and Divine Wrath)
Original: גְּדַלְיָהוּ
Category: Proper Names
Governor appointed over Judah after Jerusalem’s fall, assassinated (chs. 40-41).
Nations Oracle Proper Nouns
Approved rendering: পলেশেৎ / মোয়াব / অম্মোন / ইদোম / দম্মেশক / কেদার / হাৎসোর / এলম
Transliteration: Poleshet / Moyab / Ammon / Idom / Dommeshok / Kedar / Hatsor / Elom
Doctrine: Universal Scope of God’s Sovereignty over the Nations
Original: פְּלֶשֶׁת / מוֹאָב / עַמּוֹן / אֱדוֹם / דַּמֶּשֶׂק / קֵדָר / חָצוֹר / עֵילָם
Category: Proper Names
Nations subject to God’s judgment oracles (chs. 46-51); low individual doctrinal ambiguity, but cumulative theological weight (universal sovereignty) is carried by consistent, careful transliteration across every occurrence.
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