Leviticus — Semantic Analysis (English → Bengali)

Phase 1, Step 1: Full-Book Original-Language Analysis

Curriculum: Leviticus Core passage: Leviticus 16:1–34 (Day of Atonement) Destination language: Bengali

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Methodology Note

Leviticus was composed in Biblical Hebrew, not Koine Greek. Per this pipeline’s convention of anchoring all original-language citation in Koine Greek (consistent with the Romans baseline package this document extends), each entry below cites the Septuagint (LXX) Greek rendering as the “original word” field, since the LXX is the Greek text this curriculum’s term-registry architecture is built to track. The underlying Hebrew (MT) term is given alongside every LXX citation in parentheses, because Leviticus’s cultic vocabulary cannot be responsibly analyzed without it — the Hebrew root frequently carries the theological weight (e.g., the shared root כפר behind both “atone” and “mercy seat”). Where the LXX uses more than one Greek equivalent for a Hebrew term depending on context, both are noted.

All renderings already fixed in the baseline translation_memory.json (গSusomachar, অনুগ্রহ, বিশ্বাস, ধার্মিকতা, পরিত্রাণ, পবিত্র, পাপ, নিয়ম, ব্যবস্থা, ঈশ্বর, প্রভু, মহিমা, পরজাতি, প্রেরিত, মধ্যস্থতা, etc.) are reused exactly below and marked “(baseline reuse).” New terms required by Leviticus’s cultic/legal vocabulary are proposed with a recommended Bengali rendering and risk tier, for validation in Phase 2 against 08_core_glossary.md.

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PART A — CORE PASSAGE: Leviticus 16:1–34 (Day of Atonement)

Leviticus 16:1–2

Term (LXX / Heb)	Transliteration	Literal Meaning	Semantic Range	English Variants	Theological Meaning in Context	Bengali Rendering & Risk
ἱλαστήριον (Heb כַּפֹּרֶת, kapporet)	hilastērion / kapporet	”covering,” “place/means of propitiation”	The gold lid of the Ark; by extension the locus where God’s wrath toward sin is satisfied and his presence is met	mercy seat, atonement cover, place of atonement	The exact spot where the High Priest may approach God’s presence, and only once a year, only with blood. Directly behind Rom 3:25’s ἱλαστήριον (Christ himself as “mercy seat”).	প্রায়শ্চিত্তের আচ্ছাদন — Critical. No settled single Bengali Bible term exists; some editions use “করুণার আসন.” Must be fixed in one form and used identically at every occurrence, and explicitly cross-referenced when Romans 3:25 is later taught.
τὸ ἅγιον / καταπέτασμα (Heb הַקֹּדֶש / הַפָּרֹכֶת)	to hagion / katapetasma	”the Holy [Place]” / “veil, curtain”	The innermost sanctuary; the physical barrier separating it	the Holy Place, the veil, the curtain	Access to God is restricted and mediated; unauthorized entry brings death (cf. 16:1’s narrative trigger, the death of Nadab and Abihu in ch.10).	পবিত্র স্থান (baseline root পবিত্র reused) / পর্দা — High. পবিত্র স্থান must be kept distinct from মহাপবিত্র স্থান (Most Holy Place) introduced at 16:2 fin.

Leviticus 16:3–5

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
περὶ ἁμαρτίας (Heb חַטָּאת, chattat) peri hamartias / chattat ”concerning sin,” “sin-[offering]“	An offering that deals specifically with sin’s guilt/defilement sin offering	The bull/goat offered specifically to deal with sin, distinct from the burnt offering’s total-dedication sense.	পাপার্থক বলি — Medium. Built on baseline পাপ; বলি itself flagged separately below.
ὁλοκαύτωμα (Heb עֹלָה, olah) holokautōma / olah ”that which goes up whole [in smoke],” “whole burnt offering”	An offering wholly consumed, symbolizing total consecration burnt offering, whole burnt offering	Total surrender/consecration to God, offered alongside the sin offering on this day.	হোমবলি — High. হোম is the Sanskrit/Hindu Vedic fire-ritual term (homa/yajna); risk of readers hearing a Hindu fire-sacrifice frame rather than a unique, divinely mandated, blood-based atonement act. Retained as the established Bengali Bible term but requires a standing translator note distinguishing biblical হোমবলি from Vedic homa.
βλι/θυσιαστήριον not yet in view; χίμαρος αἰγῶν (Heb שְׂנֵי־שְׂעִירֵי עִזִּים, “two male goats”) chimaros aigōn / se’irei izzim ”male goat(s) of the goats”	Sacrificial animal category male goats	Sets up the two-goat ritual (lots, vv.7–10) foundational to the Scapegoat doctrine.	ছাগল (chagol) — Low. Standard word; no religious collision.

Leviticus 16:6

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
ἐξιλάσκομαι (Heb כִּפֶּר, kipper) exilaskomai / kipper ”to propitiate, to cover/wipe away [guilt]“	Ranges from ritual purgation of sanctuary objects to personal atonement for sin; root shared with kapporet (16:2) make atonement, atone, expiate	Aaron must first deal with his own sin before mediating for the people — the mediator himself needs atonement.	প্রায়শ্চিত্ত করা / প্রায়শ্চিত্ত সম্পন্ন করা — Critical. প্রায়শ্চিত্ত is the established Bengali Bible term for “atonement,” but it is also the standard Bengali Hindu term for religious expiation/penance (fasting, pilgrimage, austerity performed by the sinner to remove guilt). MUST be paired with consistent teaching that in Leviticus atonement is God-provided, blood-based, and substitutionary — never self-achieved penance. Flag every occurrence for theologian review.

Leviticus 16:7–10

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
κλῆρος (Heb גּוֹרָל, goral) klēros / goral ”lot” (for casting)	A means of discerning God’s choice, not chance/fate lot, casting lots	God, not the priest, determines which goat serves which function — his sovereign choice, not human decision or fortune.	গুটিকাপাত / লটারি — Medium. Must avoid connotation of chance/luck (ভাগ্য, already forbidden elsewhere in baseline for “election”/“providence”); frame as a means of discerning divine choice, not gambling.
τῷ ἀποπομπαίῳ / ὁ χίμαρος ὁ ἀποπομπαῖος (Heb לַעֲזָאזֵל, la’Azazel) tō apopompaiō / la’Azazel ”for the one sent away,” or proper name “Azazel”	Two live scholarly readings: (a) a place-name/desert demon-figure to whom the goat is dispatched; (b) a descriptive term, “the goat of removal/complete removal” Azazel, the scapegoat, the goat of departure	The goat symbolically carries the nation’s sin away, out of the camp, permanently — the OT root image behind the English idiom “scapegoat” and behind NT substitutionary-atonement language.	অপসারণের ছাগল (“goat of removal”) with আসাসেল (transliteration) offered as an alternative proper-noun rendering — Critical. This is the single most theologically loaded term in the core passage for the doctrine of Substitution. Requires a standing translator note explaining the two readings and clarifying that Leviticus does not teach that sin is dispatched to a rival deity, but that it is removed, symbolically, from the camp of God’s people — the goat itself is never sacrificed to Azazel.
ζῇ … προσάξει (Heb יָעֳמַד חַי, “presented alive”) prosaxei zōnta ”shall present [it] living”	The live goat, contrasted with the slain goat presented alive	The two goats together depict a single atoning act in two movements: propitiation (blood) and removal (banishment) — one goat cannot convey both.	জীবিত রাখা — Low.

Leviticus 16:11 (Recapitulation)

No new load-bearing terms; reaffirms ἐξιλάσκομαι / kipper (16:6) and περὶ ἁμαρτίας / chattat (16:3) for Aaron’s own sin offering. Bengali renderings as above.

Leviticus 16:12–13

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
θυμίαμα (Heb קְטֹרֶת, qetoret) thymiama / qetoret ”that which is burned/smoked”	Fragrant resin burned as an offering; by extension prayer/worship ascending to God (cf. Ps 141:2) incense, sweet incense	The cloud of incense shields Aaron from the direct sight of God’s glory over the mercy seat — mediated, veiled access, not casual approach.	ধূপ — High. ধূপ is the everyday Bengali Hindu/Buddhist devotional incense-stick word used constantly in home and temple puja. Retained because there is no unloaded alternative in common Bengali, but requires a translator note that biblical incense here is a once-a-year, divinely mandated act tied to substitutionary blood atonement, not a repeatable devotional offering a worshiper may perform at will.

Leviticus 16:14–15

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
αἷμα (Heb דָּם, dam) haima / dam ”blood”	Physical blood; by metonymy, the life poured out in death blood	The literal, physical blood of a substitute is required and applied by hand to the very place of God’s presence — atonement is not abstract but concretely, bodily costly.	রক্ত — Low lexically, but doctrinally High: every occurrence in ch.16–17 must be kept vivid and literal, never softened into a metaphor for “sacrifice in general.”
ἑπτάκις (Heb שֶׁבַע פְּעָמִים) heptakis ”seven times”	Ritual completeness/thoroughness seven times	Numerical completeness signaling the sufficiency of this single, complete atoning act.	সাতবার — Low.

Leviticus 16:16

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
ἀκαθαρσία (Heb טֻמְאָה, tum’ah) akatharsia / tum’ah ”uncleanness”	Ritual/ceremonial defilement, transmissible by contact uncleanness, impurity	Even the sanctuary itself is defiled by the people’s cumulative uncleanness and must be cleansed — sin has objective, contaminating consequences reaching into sacred space.	অশুচিতা — High. Distinct from পাপ (moral sin, below) and from Hindu ritual-purity vocabulary generally; must not be confused with caste-based purity/untouchability categories still socially live in the Bengal region.
ἀσέβημα / ἀνομία (Heb פֶּשַׁע, pesha) asebēma or anomia / pesha ”transgression,” “rebellion”	Willful, defiant breach of relationship, sharper than mere error transgressions, rebellions	Three near-synonyms (uncleanness, transgression, sin) are stacked in one verse — Leviticus treats sin’s guilt as multidimensional: ritual, relational, and moral.	অপরাধ — Medium.
ἁμαρτία (Heb חַטָּאָה) hamartia ”sin, missing the mark”	(baseline reuse) sins	Comprehensive term covering all categories above.	পাপ — baseline reuse, High (per baseline doctrine_risk_registry).

Leviticus 16:17

No new load-bearing terms beyond ἐξιλάσκομαι/kipper and συναγωγή (Heb קָהָל, qahal, “assembly/congregation,” Bengali সমাজ/জামাত-এর পরিবর্তে মণ্ডলী-র পূর্বসূত্র — Medium, prefigures baseline’s later মণ্ডলী for ἐκκλησία but here denotes ethnic-national Israel’s assembly, not the church; must not be collapsed into মণ্ডলী in Leviticus contexts).

Leviticus 16:18–19

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
θυσιαστήριον (Heb מִזְבֵּח, mizbeach) thysiastērion / mizbeach ”place of sacrifice”	The altar, wherever located (bronze altar or incense altar) the altar	The altar itself, the meeting-point of sacrifice, requires cleansing — the very instrument of atonement is not automatically holy apart from consecration.	বেদি (also seen as যজ্ঞবেদি) — High. যজ্ঞ is the Vedic Hindu fire-sacrifice term; recommend the unprefixed বেদি or বলিদানের বেদি (“altar of sacrifice-giving”) to avoid direct Vedic yajna evocation, flagged for theologian decision.
καθαρίζω / ἁγιάζω (Heb טהר / קדש) katharizō / hagiazō ”cleanse” / “consecrate, make holy”	Two distinct but paired actions: removal of defilement, then setting-apart for divine use cleanse and consecrate	Cleansing (negative: removing impurity) and consecration (positive: setting apart) are both required — atonement is not merely subtraction of guilt but establishment of a holy status.	শুচি করা / পবিত্র করা — High. Keep the two verbs distinct: শুচি করা (ceremonial cleansing) vs. পবিত্র করা (baseline reuse, consecration/holiness) — do not collapse into one Bengali verb.

Leviticus 16:20–22

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
ἐπιθήσει τὰς χεῖρας (Heb וְסָמַךְ … יָדָיו) epithēsei tas cheiras / samak yadayim ”shall lay/press the hands”	Ritual identification and transfer lay hands upon	Aaron identifies himself and the nation with the goat by physical contact — the sin is symbolically transferred from the people onto the animal.	হাত রাখা — Medium. Foundational gesture for the doctrine of Substitution; ensure translation notes connect this to the sin-bearing language of Isaiah 53 and 1 Peter 2:24 in later curriculum materials.
ἐξαγορεύσει (Heb וְהִתְוַדָּה) exagoreusei / hitvadah ”shall confess, declare fully”	Verbal, specific acknowledgment of wrongdoing confess over	Sin must be named specifically, aloud, over the substitute — atonement includes verbal acknowledgment, not silent ritual alone.	স্বীকার করা — Low-Medium.
ἀνομία (Heb עָוֹן, avon) anomia / avon ”iniquity, guilt”	Guilt/culpability attached to wrongdoing (distinct nuance from pesha’s rebellion and chet’s missing-the-mark) iniquities	All three Hebrew sin-words (avon, pesha, chattat/chet) are piled together at v.21 — total, comprehensive transfer of guilt.	অপরাধ / দোষ — High, ties directly to the doctrine of Substitution: the goat “bears” (λήψεται ἐφ’ ἑαυτῷ, Heb וְנָשָׂא, nasa, “shall carry/bear”) the guilt away.
λήψεται ἐφ’ ἑαυτῷ (Heb וְנָשָׂא הַשָּׂעִיר עָלָיו, nasa) lēpsetai eph’ heautō / nasa ”shall take/bear upon itself”	Bearing a burden, carrying guilt away from its rightful bearer bear, carry away	The precise verb behind later substitutionary language (Isaiah 53:4,11-12; John 1:29’s “Lamb who takes away the sin of the world”).	পাপ বহন করা / বহন করে নিয়ে যাওয়া — Critical. This is the linguistic and theological hinge of the Scapegoat/Substitution doctrine; the Bengali verb chosen here must be reusable and consistent when this curriculum later touches Isaiah 53 and John 1:29 typology.
ἔρημος (Heb מִדְבָּר, midbar) erēmos / midbar ”wilderness, desert, uninhabited place”	Place outside ordered, inhabited society wilderness, desert	The goat departs the camp entirely — sin is removed, not merely relocated within the community.	মরুভূমি — Low.

Leviticus 16:23–24

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
λούσεται … ὕδατι (Heb וְרָחַץ … בַּמַּיִם) lousetai hydati / rachatz bamayim ”shall wash/bathe … in water”	Ritual bodily washing, distinct from ordinary hygiene bathe, wash	Even the mediating high priest must be washed before returning to ordinary garments and duties — no one, including the mediator, stands unaffected by contact with sin’s weight.	স্নান করা — Medium. Must be distinguished in teaching notes from Hindu ritual bathing (snan) at sacred rivers/tirthas, which functions as self-performed purification; here washing follows, rather than achieves, an atonement God has already accomplished through blood.

Leviticus 16:25

No new load-bearing term; στέαρ (Heb חֵלֶב, chelev, “fat/suet”) — Low, technical sacrificial-portion vocabulary, চর্বি (chorbi), consistent through chs.3,4,7.

Leviticus 16:26

No new load-bearing term; πλυνεῖ τὰ ἱμάτια (Heb וְכִבֶּס בְּגָדָיו, “shall wash his garments”) — reuses washing vocabulary above (পোশাক ধোয়া).

Leviticus 16:27–28

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
ἔξω τῆς παρεμβολῆς (Heb מִחוּץ לַמַּחֲנֶה) exō tēs parembolēs / michutz lamachaneh ”outside the camp”	The boundary of the holy community outside the camp	The bodies of the sin-bearing animals are entirely removed from the sacred community’s midst and destroyed — foreshadowing Hebrews 13:11-13’s application to Christ suffering “outside the gate.”	শিবিরের বাইরে — Medium, flagged for typological continuity notes with Hebrews.

Leviticus 16:29–31

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
νόμιμον αἰώνιον (Heb חֻקַּת עוֹלָם, chuqqat olam) nomimon aiōnion / chuqqat olam ”an everlasting statute”	A perpetual, binding ordinance for all generations a statute forever, a permanent law	This day is not optional or occasional but a fixed, repeated national observance — establishing the annual rhythm later fulfilled once-for-all in Christ (Heb 9:12,25-26).	চিরস্থায়ী বিধি — Medium.
κακώσετε τὰς ψυχὰς ὑμῶν (Heb וְעִנִּיתֶם אֶת נַפְשֹׁתֵיכֶם) kakōsete tas psychas hymōn / ve’initem et nafshoteichem ”you shall afflict your souls”	Self-denial, understood in Jewish tradition primarily as fasting afflict yourselves, humble yourselves, deny yourselves	A posture of humility and repentance accompanies the atoning ritual — atonement received is met with genuine contrition, not celebration.	উপবাস করে নিজেদের নত করা (“humble yourselves through fasting”) — Medium.
σάββατα σαββάτων / ἀνάπαυσις (Heb שַׁבַּת שַׁבָּתוֹן) sabbata sabbatōn / shabbat shabbaton ”a sabbath of sabbaths,” i.e., a most solemn rest	Intensified form of Sabbath rest, applied to a specific festival day beyond the weekly Sabbath a sabbath of solemn rest, a most holy day of rest	Absolute cessation from ordinary labor marks the day as uniquely set apart, more solemn even than the weekly Sabbath.	মহাবিশ্রামের দিন — Medium, ties to the Sabbath/Sacred Time doctrine developed fully at ch.23.

Leviticus 16:32–34

No new load-bearing terms; recapitulates ὁ ἀλειφθεὶς ἱερεύς (Heb הַכֹּהֵן אֲשֶׁר יִמְשַׁח, “the priest who is anointed” — অভিষিক্ত যাজক, Medium, connects priesthood to anointing vocabulary of ch.8) and ἅπαξ τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ (Heb פַּעַם בַּשָּׁנָה, “once in the year” — বছরে একবার, Low, but doctrinally High: this single annual, repeated act is precisely what Hebrews 9–10 contrasts with Christ’s single, unrepeated sacrifice).

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PART B — CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER STUDY OF THE WHOLE BOOK

Chapter 1 — The Burnt Offering

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
ὁλοκαύτωμα (עֹלָה, olah) holokautōma / olah ”whole burnt offering”	Total consumption by fire, symbolizing total consecration burnt offering, whole offering	Total, voluntary self-giving to God; the base pattern for all Levitical sacrifice.	হোমবলি — High (see Part A, 16:3–5 note).
θυσιαστήριον (מִזְבֵּח) thysiastērion / mizbeach ”altar”	Location where offerings are presented and burned altar	The fixed meeting-point between worshiper and God.	বেদি / যজ্ঞবেদি — High (see Part A).
ὀσμὴ εὐωδίας (רֵיח נִיחֹחַ, reach nichoach) osmē euōdias / reach nichoach ”an odor of a sweet smell”	Idiom for an offering acceptable/pleasing to God pleasing aroma, sweet-smelling savor	God’s acceptance of the offering is expressed anthropomorphically — not that God needs the smoke, but that the offering is received favorably.	সুঘ্রাণ / প্রীতিজনক গন্ধ — Medium. Risk of being read as literal divine appetite for smoke; a light explanatory note is advisable.
ἄμωμος (תָּמִים, tamim) amōmos / tamim ”without blemish, blameless”	Physical soundness required in sacrificial animals; later applied morally/typologically without blemish, unblemished, without defect	God requires the costliest, soundest offering, not defective leftovers — later applied to Christ as the perfect, unblemished sacrifice (1 Pet 1:19).	নির্দোষ / ত্রুটিহীন — High, flagged for typological continuity to the NT.

Chapter 2 — The Grain Offering

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
θυσία / δῶρον (מִנְחָה, minchah) thysia/dōron / minchah ”gift, tribute, offering”	A bloodless offering of flour, oil, and frankincense grain offering, meal offering	An offering of the fruit of one’s ordinary labor, acknowledging God as provider — sacrifice is not only about blood but about consecrating daily sustenance.	শস্য-নৈবেদ্য — High. নৈবেদ্য is the standard Bengali Hindu term for food offered before a deity’s image (prasad-style temple offering). Retained as the closest available lexical match, but requires explicit translator notes distinguishing the biblical grain offering (presented to the one true God at his appointed altar, never returned to the worshiper as a blessed substance) from Hindu prasad customs (food offered then distributed back to worshipers as blessed).
ἅλας διαθήκης (מֶלַח בְּרִית, melach berit) halas diathēkēs / melach berit ”salt of the covenant”	Salt as a preservative and covenant-sealing symbol in the ancient Near East salt of the covenant	Every offering is bound to God’s covenant faithfulness, not a free-floating ritual act.	নিয়মের লবণ — Medium; reuses baseline নিয়ম (covenant).
ἀπαρχή (רֵאשִׁית, reshit) aparchē / reshit ”firstfruit(s)“	The first and best portion, given before the rest is used firstfruits	Priority given to God from the harvest before personal consumption.	প্রথম ফল — Low.

Chapter 3 — The Peace/Fellowship Offering

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
θυσία σωτηρίου (שְׁלָמִים, shelamim) thysia sōtēriou / shelamim ”sacrifice of well-being/peace”	An offering shared as a communal meal, celebrating restored relationship peace offering, fellowship offering	Atonement’s fruit is shared fellowship — a meal eaten in God’s presence, celebrating restored relationship, not merely guilt removed.	মঙ্গলার্থক বলি — Medium. Note the shared root σωτηρίου with baseline’s πরিত্রাণ family, though this Greek word here denotes “well-being,” not “salvation” proper — do not conflate.
χυqqat olam reused (חֻקַּת עוֹלָם) — “perpetual statute”	— —	Perpetual prohibition on eating fat/blood reinforces blood’s exclusive sacredness for atonement (developed fully at 17:11).	চিরস্থায়ী বিধি — reuse (see 16:29–31).

Chapter 4 — The Sin Offering for Unintentional Sin

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
ἀκουσίως (בִּשְׁגָגָה, bishgagah) akousiōs / bishgagah ”unwittingly, unintentionally”	Sins committed in ignorance or error, distinct from willful/high-handed sin (cf. Num 15:30-31) unintentionally, by mistake, in error	Even unintended sin defiles and requires atonement — guilt before a holy God is not measured solely by conscious intent.	অনিচ্ছাকৃতভাবে — High, doctrinally central to the Holiness of God doctrine: God’s standard is objective, not merely a matter of the sinner’s felt culpability.
περὶ ἁμαρτίας (reuse) tiered by office (priest/leader/individual) — —	— —	Greater responsibility (priest, leader) requires costlier sacrifice — accountability scales with authority/mediating role.	পাপার্থক বলি — reuse.

Chapter 5 — The Guilt Offering and Provision for the Poor

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
πλημμέλεια (אָשָׁם, asham) plēmmeleia / asham ”guilt, trespass” incl. restitution	Sin involving damage to another’s property/rights, requiring both sacrifice and repayment (+20%) guilt offering, trespass offering	Atonement with God and restitution toward the wronged neighbor are both required — vertical and horizontal reconciliation are joined, not separated.	দোষার্থক বলি — Medium.
sliding-scale provision (flour permitted for the poor, 5:11) — —	— —	God’s atoning provision is not withheld from those who cannot afford the standard offering — mercy accommodates the poor without lowering the requirement of atonement itself.	দরিদ্রদের জন্য বিধান — Low-Medium, worth pastoral emphasis.

Chapter 6 — Priestly Instructions; the Perpetual Fire; “Most Holy”

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
πῦρ διὰ παντός (אֵש תָּמִיד, esh tamid) pyr dia pantos / esh tamid ”fire continually”	The altar fire must never be extinguished perpetual fire, continual fire	Uninterrupted access to atonement is maintained; God’s provision for dealing with sin is never allowed to lapse.	নিরন্তর আগুন — Low-Medium.
ἅγιον τῶν ἁγίων (קֹדֶש קָדָשִׁים, qodesh qodashim) hagion tōn hagiōn / qodesh qodashim ”holy of holies,” superlative holiness	The highest gradation of consecrated status, applied to offerings, objects, and space most holy, holy of holies	Leviticus operates with graded holiness (common → holy → most holy); the priestly portion of these offerings shares in the highest grade, restricted to priests alone.	মহাপবিত্র — High (baseline পবিত্র root extended); must be kept visually/lexically distinct from the ordinary পবিত্র grade.

Chapter 7 — Further Regulations; the Thanksgiving Offering; Portions for Priests

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
αἴνεσις (תּוֹדָה, todah) ainesis / todah ”praise, thanksgiving”	A subtype of peace offering, offered in gratitude rather than in fulfillment of a vow thanksgiving offering	Sacrifice as an expression of gratitude, not only guilt-removal — worship flowing from a heart already at peace with God.	ধন্যবাদ-বলি — Low, builds on baseline ধন্যবাদ.
ἐξολεθρευθήσεται (וְנִכְרְתָה, karat, “cut off”) exolethreuthēsetai / karat ”shall be utterly destroyed/cut off”	A formula of divine judgment for covenant violation (here: eating fat/blood) shall be cut off, shall be excluded/destroyed	A recurring formula throughout Leviticus signaling that some violations bring severance from the covenant community and/or God’s direct judgment, not merely social disapproval.	উচ্ছেদ করা হবে — Medium-High; must not be softened into ordinary social exclusion language — the formula carries covenantal, sometimes capital, weight.

Chapter 8 — Ordination of Aaron and His Sons

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
χρῖσμα / ἀλείφω (מִשְׁחָה, mishchah) chrisma / aleiphō / mishchah ”anointing,” “to anoint”	Pouring/applying oil to consecrate a person or object to sacred office anoint, anointing oil	The priesthood is entered by God’s appointment and consecration, not self-appointment — mediatorial authority is delegated, never self-assumed.	অভিষেক করা / অভিষেক-তেল — Medium. Note continuity: “Christ/Messiah” itself (baseline খ্রীষ্ট) means “The Anointed One” — this is the conceptual root of that title, worth surfacing pedagogically.
τελειόω (מִלֻּא יָדַיִם, lit. “filling of the hand”) teleioō / millu yadayim ”to complete, consecrate, ordain”	Idiom for formally installing/equipping someone for priestly office ordain, consecrate, “fill the hand”	Ordination is God’s act of equipping and authorizing, pictured as filling the priest’s hands with the very offerings he will present.	অভিষিক্ত করে নিয়োগ করা — Medium.

Chapter 9 — Aaron’s First Sacrifices; the Glory of the LORD Appears

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
δόξα κυρίου (כְּבוֹד יְהוָה, kevod YHWH) doxa kyriou / kevod YHWH ”glory of the LORD”	God’s visible, manifest presence and honor the glory of the LORD	Divine acceptance of the newly instituted sacrificial and priestly system is confirmed visibly — the system is not human invention but divinely ratified.	সদাপ্রভুর মহিমা — High (baseline মহিমা reused).
πῦρ ἐξῆλθεν (וַתֵּצֵא אֵש) pyr exēlthen / vatetze esh ”fire went out [from before the LORD]“	Divine, supernatural consumption of the offering fire came out and consumed	God himself, not human agency, consumes the offering — a sign of acceptance paralleling and validating the entire sacrificial economy.	আগুন নির্গত হয়ে গ্রাস করল — Low-Medium.

Chapter 10 — Nadab and Abihu; the Priestly Teaching Function

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
πῦρ ἀλλότριον (אֵש זָרָה, esh zarah) pyr allotrion / esh zarah ”strange/foreign fire”	Fire/offering not commanded or authorized by God unauthorized fire, strange fire, profane fire	Worship offered on human initiative rather than by God’s revealed instruction brings judgment, not favor — sincerity does not substitute for obedience to revealed worship-instructions.	অননুমোদিত আগুন — High. Directly relevant to broader syncretism concerns: warns against improvised or blended worship practice, a live pastoral issue where folk-religious ritual admixture is common.
διαστέλλω (לְהַבְדִּיל, lehavdil, “to distinguish, separate”) diastellō / lehavdil ”to make a distinction, set apart, differentiate”	The priest’s core teaching/discernment task: distinguishing holy/common and clean/unclean for the people distinguish, discern, differentiate	Names the essential mediatorial-teaching function of the priesthood — not only offering sacrifices but authoritatively discerning and teaching categories of holiness for the community.	পার্থক্য করা / আলাদা করে চেনানো — High, central to the Priesthood and Mediation doctrine.

Chapter 11 — Clean and Unclean Animals

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
καθαρός (טָהוֹר, tahor) katharos / tahor ”clean, pure” (ceremonial category)	Ritual/ceremonial fitness for approach to God and sacred use, not moral purity per se clean	Israel’s dietary and ritual boundaries mark it visibly as a distinct, set-apart people; a picture, not the substance, of holiness.	শুচি — High. Deliberately distinguished from baseline’s পবিত্র (moral/relational holiness) — this is a ceremonial-legal category, a distinction that must be taught explicitly so students do not conflate OT ritual cleanness with NT moral/positional holiness or with salvation status.
ἀκάθαρτος (טָמֵא, tamei) akathartos / tamei ”unclean” (ceremonial category)	Ritual unfitness, often transmissible by contact unclean	Uncleanness restricts approach to the sanctuary and community rituals; it is a status to be remedied by prescribed means, not a fixed, permanent stain on personhood.	অশুচি — High. Serious cultural sensitivity: must be handled so as never to reinforce caste-based purity/untouchability categories that remain socially operative in parts of the Bengal region — explicit contrastive teaching notes are required.
βδέλυγμα (שֶׁקֶץ, sheqets) bdelygma / sheqets ”detestable thing”	Ritually forbidden/detestable creature or food detestable, abomination	Marks certain foods as categorically off-limits, reinforcing the theme of visible distinctiveness.	ঘৃণার্হ — Medium.

Chapter 12 — Purification After Childbirth

No new theological vocabulary beyond chapter 11’s clean/unclean (שুচি/অশুচি) and the sin/burnt offering terms of chs.1–4, applied to a specific life event. Notable phrase: “blood of her purifying” (דְּמֵי טׇהֳרָה) — reuses শুচি root (শুচিকরণের রক্ত), Medium risk, worth a note that the woman’s temporary ceremonial status carries no implication of moral fault in childbirth itself.

Chapter 13 — Diagnosis of Skin Disease (“Leprosy”)

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
λέπρα (צָרַעַת, tzaraat) lepra / tzaraat ”scaly disease”	A broad category of skin/mold/mildew conditions, wider than clinical Hansen’s disease (modern leprosy) leprosy, skin disease, infectious skin disease	A visible picture of sin’s contaminating, spreading, defiling nature, diagnosed and pronounced upon by the priest, not self-declared.	কুষ্ঠরোগ / চর্মরোগ — Medium. কুষ্ঠরোগ carries heavy historical social-stigma associations in Bengali culture (outcast status, forced isolation); a translator note should clarify tzaraat’s broader technical scope (including mold/mildew in ch.14) to avoid narrowing the term to modern Hansen’s-disease stigma alone.
priestly pronouncement of clean/unclean (reuse) — —	— —	The priest exercises authoritative, mediatorial discernment over the community’s health and ritual status — again reinforcing Priesthood and Mediation.	reuse শুচি/অশুচি.

Chapter 14 — Cleansing Rites for Skin Disease and Houses

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
ὕσσωπος (אֵזוֹב, ezov) hyssōpos / ezov ”hyssop” (a bushy herb)	Used with water/blood for ritual sprinkling and cleansing hyssop	A recurring cleansing instrument connecting Leviticus to Psalm 51:7 (“purge me with hyssop”) and John 19:29 (hyssop at the crucifixion) — a small but real typological thread running through Scripture.	এসোব (transliteration) — Medium, low lexical collision risk but flagged for its typological significance across the whole curriculum arc.
two-bird cleansing rite; blood-and-water application (reuse) — —	— —	Cleansing from serious defilement again requires blood, applied by a mediator — reinforcing the Sacrificial System doctrine even for non-lethal, non-moral impurity.	reuse রক্ত, শুচি করা.

Chapter 15 — Bodily Discharges and Uncleanness

No new theological vocabulary; reuses chapters 11–12’s clean/unclean framework (শুচি/অশুচি), washing terminology (স্নান করা), and the sin/burnt-offering pattern for restoring ritual status. Explicitly noted here as reviewed with no new load-bearing terms introduced.

Chapter 16 — The Day of Atonement

Covered in full verse-by-verse detail in Part A above. Key terms: প্রায়শ্চিত্ত (atonement), প্রায়শ্চিত্তের আচ্ছাদন (mercy seat), অপসারণের ছাগল/আসাসেল (scapegoat/Azazel), পাপ বহন করা (bear away sin), মহাবিশ্রামের দিন (sabbath of solemn rest).

Chapter 17 — The Sanctity of Blood

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
ψυχή (נֶפֶש, nefesh) psychē / nefesh ”soul, life, living being”	Physical/animate life itself, not a separable immortal “soul” in the Greek philosophical sense life, soul, being	”The life of the creature is in the blood” (17:11) — the foundational statement of the entire Levitical logic of atonement: a life must be given, via its blood, to atone for a life. This verse is the theological hinge connecting the whole sacrificial system (chs.1–7) to the Day of Atonement (ch.16) and forward to Christ’s atoning blood in the NT.	প্রাণ — High. Bengali প্রাণ can carry “life-force/breath” (prana) connotations from yogic/Hindu vocabulary in some registers; a translator note should anchor it here strictly to “the animate life a creature possesses,” not to a cosmic life-energy concept.
αἷμα (reuse, דָּם) — —	— —	Blood is emphatically, repeatedly forbidden as food precisely because it carries life and is reserved exclusively for atonement — never for ordinary consumption.	reuse রক্ত — doctrinally High, foundational verse for the whole Sacrificial System/Atonement doctrine.

Chapter 18 — Sexual Morality and Prohibited Practices

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
βδέλυγμα (תּוֹעֵבָה, to’evah) bdelygma / to’evah ”abomination, detestable thing”	A stronger term than sheqets (ch.11), applied to grave moral/religious violations abomination, detestable practice	Certain practices are not merely culturally distasteful but fundamentally offensive to God’s holy character.	জঘন্য কাজ / ঘৃণার্হ কাজ — Medium.
Μολόχ (מֹלֶך, Molek) Moloch (proper name of a Canaanite deity associated with child sacrifice)	Proper noun Molech	Names a specific idolatrous, murderous cultic practice explicitly forbidden — the sacrificial system God ordains stands in direct, deliberate contrast to pagan child sacrifice.	মোলক (transliteration) — Low as a proper noun, but High doctrinally as a foil contrasting true vs. false sacrifice.

Chapter 19 — The Holiness Code: “Be Holy,” Love of Neighbor

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
ἅγιος (קָדוֹש, qadosh, reuse) hagios / qadosh ”holy”	(baseline reuse) holy	”You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy” (19:2) — the programmatic thesis statement of the entire book’s ethical section: God’s own character is the ground and standard for Israel’s ethics, not abstract law-keeping for its own sake.	পবিত্র — baseline reuse, High, and arguably the single most load-bearing recurring term in Leviticus outside ch.16.
ἀγαπήσεις τὸν πλησίον σου ὡς σεαυτόν (וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ) agapēseis ton plēsion sou hōs seauton / ve’ahavta lerei’akha kamokha ”you shall love your neighbor as yourself”	The command’s full weight: not sentiment but concrete, active good toward another as one instinctively seeks for oneself love your neighbor as yourself	Directly quoted by Jesus as one of the two greatest commandments (Matt 22:39) and by Paul as summarizing the whole law (Rom 13:9, Gal 5:14) — this single verse is a direct textual bridge between Leviticus and the entire New Testament ethical vision. This curriculum’s “Love of Neighbor” doctrine anchors here.	প্রতিবেশীকে নিজের মতো ভালোবাসা — High. Bengali term choices: ভালোবাসা (love, verb form) — Medium-High risk on its own (see below); প্রতিবেশী (neighbor) — Medium, must be understood broadly (per 19:34’s parallel command re: the সojourner) rather than narrowly as one’s immediate residential neighbor only. This verse’s rendering must be fixed identically here and wherever quoted later (e.g., a future Gospels or Romans 13:9/Galatians 5:14 curriculum) per the baseline’s cross-document consistency principle.
ἀγαπάω (אָהַב, ahav) agapaō / ahav ”to love”	Active, willed commitment to another’s good, not merely affection love	The verb underlying both 19:18 (neighbor) and 19:34 (the sojourner) — love in Leviticus is a command extending outward to insiders and outsiders alike.	প্রেম / ভালোবাসা — Medium-High. প্রেম is the established Bengali Bible term (e.g., ১ করিন্থীয় ১৩ is popularly known as “প্রেমের অধ্যায়”) but also carries strong Vaishnava-devotional romantic-divine connotations (Radha-Krishna prem-lila) in wider Bengali culture. ভালোবাসা is more religiously neutral. Recommend প্রেম for noun/doctrinal contexts (established Christian usage) and ভালোবাসা for the verbal command “love your neighbor,” to be finalized by theologian review.
προσήλυτος (גֵּר, ger) prosēlytos / ger ”sojourner, resident alien”	A non-Israelite permanently or semi-permanently resident among Israel, entitled to certain legal protections and included under key commands (e.g., 19:34) stranger, sojourner, resident alien, foreigner	The command to love extends explicitly to the outsider living among God’s people — a deliberate widening of the neighbor-love command beyond ethnic insiders. Distinct from baseline’s পরজাতি (Gentiles/nations generally); ger specifically denotes an individual residing within Israel’s community.	প্রবাসী — Medium. Recommend প্রবাসী over বিদেশী (foreigner, too distancing) to preserve the sense of a resident, included outsider.
φοβηθήσῃ τὸν θεόν σου (וְיָרֵאתָ מֵאֱלֹהֶיךָ) phobēthēsē ton theon sou / ve’yareita me’Eloheicha ”you shall fear your God”	A recurring motive clause throughout ch.19, grounding ethical commands in reverence for God rather than mere social utility fear your God, revere your God	Ethics in Leviticus is repeatedly and explicitly God-grounded, not merely socially pragmatic — obedience flows from reverence for God’s own character.	ঈশ্বরকে ভয় করা / ঈশ্বর-ভয় — Medium.

Chapter 20 — Penalties for Violation; Prohibition of Necromancy

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
ἐγγαστρίμυθος / γνώστης (אוֹב / יִדְּעֹנִי, ov / yidde’oni) eggastrimythos, gnōstēs / ov, yidde’oni ”medium, spiritist, one who consults the dead”	Occult practitioners claiming access to hidden knowledge/spirits of the dead medium, spiritist, necromancer, fortune-teller	Consulting spirits/the dead for guidance is forbidden as a direct rival to trusting God alone — a live pastoral concern given ongoing folk-religious spiritist and tantric practices in the Bengal region among both Hindu and Muslim folk traditions.	গণক / মন্ত্রতান্ত্রিক / আত্মা-আহ্বানকারী — High. Requires careful phrasing to name the practice without appearing to affirm the reality/efficacy of the spirits consulted while still taking the prohibition with full seriousness.
ὁ ἁγιάζων ὑμᾶς (מְקַדֶּשְׁכֶם, mekadeshkhem) ho hagiazōn hymas / mekadeshkhem ”the One who sanctifies you”	God as the active, personal source of Israel’s holy status I am the LORD who sanctifies you	Holiness is not self-generated through law-keeping but bestowed and maintained by God himself — anticipates the NT’s fuller doctrine of the Spirit’s sanctifying work.	সদাপ্রভু যিনি তোমাদের পবিত্র করেন — High, reuses baseline পবিত্র(ীকরণ) root; important bridge to baseline’s পবিত্রীকরণ (sanctification) entry.

Chapter 21 — Priestly Restrictions and Higher Holiness Standards

No new theological root vocabulary; extends ἄμωμος/tamim (“without blemish/defect,” ch.1) to disqualify physically blemished priests from altar service, and applies πবিত্র (holy) with heightened restrictions on priestly mourning and marriage practices. Doctrinally reinforces Priesthood and Mediation: those who mediate God’s presence are held to a visibly higher, stricter standard than the general community. Recommend flagging ত্রুটিহীন (blemish-free) as High risk here specifically because of its sensitivity: modern application must avoid implying that persons with physical disabilities are of lesser spiritual worth — the OT regulation concerned qualification for a specific typological office, not personal value before God.

Chapter 22 — Priestly Holiness and Acceptable Offerings; Profaning God’s Name

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
βεβηλόω (חִלֵּל, chalal) bebēloō / chalal ”to profane, treat as common”	The direct antonym of ἁγιάζω/hagiazō (consecrate); to strip something of its set-apart, sacred status through careless or defiant treatment profane, defile, treat as unholy	”You shall not profane my holy name” (22:32) — the positive command to sanctify/hallow God’s name and the negative warning against profaning it frame the entire priestly holiness code; directly anticipates the Lord’s Prayer’s “hallowed be thy name.”	অপবিত্র করা — High. The direct negative counterpart to baseline’s পবিত্র; must be kept as the exact morphological opposite in Bengali for pedagogical clarity across this and future curricula.

Chapter 23 — The Appointed Feasts and Sacred Times

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
ἑορτή / מוֹעֵד (moed) heortē / moed ”appointed time, fixed festival”	God-fixed, recurring sacred occasions on the calendar appointed feasts, sacred assemblies, appointed times	God, not human custom, sets the rhythm of sacred time — worship is calendared by divine appointment, structuring the year around remembrance and anticipation of God’s saving acts.	পর্ব — Medium. Recommended over উৎসব, which in Bengali carries strong specific associations with major Hindu festival culture (e.g., “দুর্গোৎসব,” Durga Puja is popularly called “উৎসব”); পর্ব is comparatively more religiously neutral and is already the established Bengali Bible term for নিস্তারপর্ব (Passover).
σάββατον (שַׁבָּת, shabbat, reuse) sabbaton / shabbat ”sabbath, rest”	Weekly cessation from labor, the first “appointed time” listed in this chapter Sabbath	The Sabbath heads the list of sacred times, establishing rest itself as a holy, God-instituted rhythm, not merely a practical break from labor.	বিশ্রামবার / শাব্বাৎ — Medium. Needs a note distinguishing OT Sabbath observance from the NT church’s later shift to gathering on the first day (the Lord’s Day), a subject best flagged for later curricula rather than resolved here.
πάσχα (פֶּסַח, pesach) pascha / pesach ”Passover”	The feast commemorating the exodus deliverance Passover	Foundational redemptive-historical festival, later reinterpreted by Christ himself at the Last Supper and by Paul (1 Cor 5:7, “Christ our Passover lamb”).	নিস্তারপর্ব — Low (established Bengali Bible term; already stable across Bengali Bible tradition).
πεντηκοστή (implied via “fifty days” count from Firstfruits) pentēkostē ”fiftieth [day]“	Feast of Weeks/Harvest, later “Pentecost” Feast of Weeks, Pentecost	Prefigures Acts 2’s Pentecost outpouring of the Spirit — a direct calendrical bridge from Leviticus into the church’s founding event.	পঞ্চাশত্তমীর পর্ব — Low, flagged for forward continuity to Acts 2.
σκηνοπηγία (סֻכּוֹת, sukkot) skēnopēgia / sukkot ”tent-pitching, booths”	Feast of Tabernacles/Booths, commemorating wilderness dwelling Feast of Tabernacles, Feast of Booths	Commemorates God’s provision and presence during Israel’s wilderness sojourn — later echoed in John 1:14’s “the Word… tabernacled among us” (baseline দেহধারণ/incarnation doctrine).	কুটিরবাসের পর্ব — Low, worth a forward-note to the Incarnation doctrine’s ἐσκήνωσεν imagery.

Chapter 24 — The Lamp, the Bread of the Presence, and a Blasphemy Case

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
ἄρτοι τοῦ προσώπου (לֶחֶם הַפָּנִים) artoi tou prosōpou / lechem hapanim ”bread of the face/presence”	Twelve loaves perpetually displayed before God in the sanctuary bread of the Presence, showbread	A continual, visible sign of God’s covenant provision and presence among his people.	সান্নিধ্যের রুটি — Low.
βλασφημέω / קלל (naqab shem / qillel) blasphēmeō / qillel ”to blaspheme, curse, revile [God’s name]“	Verbal contempt or cursing directed at God himself blaspheme, curse God’s name	Treats irreverent speech against God with the utmost seriousness — the sanctity of God’s name (echoing ch.22) is a capital matter.	ঈশ্বরনিন্দা করা — Medium, standard established term in Bengali Christian usage.
lex talionis: ὀφθαλμὸν ἀντὶ ὀφθαλμοῦ (עַיִן תַּחַת עַיִן) ophthalmon anti ophthalmou / ayin tachat ayin ”eye for eye”	Principle of proportionate justice eye for eye, tooth for tooth	Justice must be proportionate and applied equally to native Israelite and resident sojourner alike (24:22) — reinforcing ch.19’s inclusive love/justice ethic.	চোখের বদলে চোখ — Low.

Chapter 25 — The Sabbath Year and the Jubilee

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
ἄφεσις (יוֹבֵל, yovel) aphesis / yovel ”release, liberty” (LXX renders yovel with the same root used elsewhere for “release/forgiveness”)	The fiftieth-year institution of land return, debt cancellation, and slave release Jubilee, Year of Jubilee	A structural, built-into-the-calendar picture of periodic restoration and release, later echoed in Christ’s Nazareth manifesto quoting Isaiah 61 (“proclaim liberty,” Luke 4:18-19).	যোবেল বছর (transliteration retained) — High. Do NOT render with মুক্তি (already forbidden per baseline for its Hindu moksha/rebirth-liberation associations) despite the shared “release” concept; recommend যোবেল বছর (“Year of Yobel”) glossed contextually as “মুক্তি ঘোষণার বছর” only with a clarifying note that this is socio-economic release (land, debt, slavery), not the soteriological পরিত্রাণ.
λυτρόω / גָּאַל (ga’al) lytroō / ga’al ”to redeem, buy back”	Recovering land, property, or persons from bondage through payment by a qualified relative redeem, buy back	Redemption in Leviticus is concrete and economic — a near relative pays to recover what was lost — providing the vivid, literal backdrop for the NT’s spiritual redemption imagery (Christ as Redeemer).	উদ্ধার করা — High. Avoid রূপ মুক্তি-ভিত্তিক শব্দ (any রেন্ডারিং rooted in মুক্তি); উদ্ধার (“rescue, recovery”) carries no Hindu liberation-theology freight.
גֹּאֵל (go’el, “kinsman-redeemer”) goel ”redeemer, one who buys back”	The specific near-relative empowered/obligated to redeem redeemer, kinsman-redeemer	Sets up the vivid legal-family image later applied typologically to Christ as the believer’s Redeemer (cf. Ruth’s go’el, Boaz, as background reading).	উদ্ধারকর্তা — High, same rationale as above; must never be মুক্তিদাতা.

Chapter 26 — Covenant Blessings and Curses

No major new theological vocabulary; reapplies baseline নিয়ম (covenant) to blessing/curse conditional structure. Notable phrase: “I will remember my covenant” (וְזָכַרְתִּי אֶת בְּרִיתִי) — মনে রাখা + নিয়ম (established, Low risk) — reinforces God’s covenant faithfulness even after judgment, and “a remnant” (שְׁאָר, she’ar / LXX κατάλειμμα, kataleimma) — অবশিষ্টাংশ (Low-Medium) — introduces remnant-hope theology that recurs throughout the Prophets and Romans 9-11’s discussion of a remnant of Israel (baseline unity_of_jews_and_gentiles doctrine).

Chapter 27 — Vows and Dedications

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Bengali Rendering & Risk
εὐχή (נֶדֶר, neder) euchē / neder ”vow, solemn pledge”	A voluntary promise made directly to God, with fixed valuation for redemption vow	Vows are binding, serious commitments made directly to God, not conditional bargains struck through an intermediary shrine or holy person.	প্রতিজ্ঞা — Critical. Explicitly reject মানত (the common Bengali word for a religious vow), which in both Bengali Hindu and Bengali Muslim folk practice denotes a conditional promise made at a shrine, pir’s tomb, or deity’s image in exchange for a granted request — an intermediary-shrine practice fundamentally different from a vow made directly to God with no intermediary.
ἀνάθεμα / חֵרֶם (cherem) anathema / cherem ”a devoted thing” — either wholly given over to God’s service, or wholly set apart for destruction	Double-edged: positive dedication (property irrevocably given to God) or judicial total destruction (as in Joshua’s conquest texts) devoted thing, dedicated thing, banned/accursed thing	The same root behind Paul’s ἀνάθεμα in Galatians 1:8-9 and Romans 9:3 — a term whose “set apart, no possibility of reclaiming” force carries through the whole canon.	উৎসর্গীকৃত বস্তু (positive sense) / বিনাশের জন্য নির্দিষ্ট বস্তু (destruction sense) — High; the two senses must be disambiguated by context in every occurrence, never rendered with a single flattening Bengali word.
δεκάτη (מַעֲשֵׂר, ma’aser) dekatē / ma’aser ”a tenth”	The tithe, a fixed proportion given to God tithe	Regular, proportionate giving as an act of worship and covenant loyalty.	দশমাংশ — Low, established Bengali Christian term.

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End of semantic analysis. See 08_core_glossary.md for the consolidated, risk-tiered glossary table consumable by Phase 2 translation memory maintenance.