Core Glossary
Core Glossary — 1 Corinthians | English → Bodo
This glossary consolidates every load-bearing theological term identified in analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md, drawn from the full span of 1 Corinthians (chapters 1–16), with the core passage (15:1-11) as theological anchor.
Rule of reuse: Every term marked “REUSED” below carries its EXACT rendering from the baseline Romans translation_memory.json and MUST NOT be altered, paraphrased, or re-translated in this curriculum. Only terms marked “NEW” are introduced by this document.
Risk tiers follow the baseline definitions:
- Critical — mistranslation destroys essential doctrine; human theologian review required for every occurrence.
- High — mistranslation creates significant theological confusion or syncretism risk; human theologian review required.
- Medium — mistranslation reduces clarity but preserves essential meaning; native speaker review recommended.
- Low — minor imprecision risk; automated review sufficient.
Section 1 — Reused Terms from the Romans Baseline (enforce exactly, no changes)
| Term | Bodo Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | 1 Corinthians Occurrences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gospel | मंगल खबर | mangal khabor | High | 1:17; 4:15; 9:12-18,23; 15:1-2 |
| grace | मोफादांनाय दान | mwphwdangnai daan | Critical | 1:3-4; 3:10; 15:10; 16:23 |
| faith / believe | बिश्वास | biswas | High | 2:5; 3:5; 12:9; 13:2,13; 15:2,11,14,17 |
| righteousness | धार्मिकता | dharmikota | Critical | 1:30 |
| salvation / saved | फोरायनाय | phoraynai | Critical | 1:18,21; 3:15; 5:5; 9:22; 10:33; 15:2 |
| apostle | गोदान जायगारि | godan jaigari | Medium | 1:1; 4:9; 9:1-5; 12:28-29; 15:5,7,9 |
| called / calling | फिनायाव / फिनायनि सिम | phinaiyao / phinaini sim | High | 1:1-2,9,24,26; 7:15-24 |
| holy | पबित्र | pobitro | High | 3:17; 7:14,34 |
| saints | पबित्र मानुष | pobitro manwsw | High | 1:2; 6:1-2; 14:33; 16:1,15 |
| sanctification | पबित्रनाय | pobitronai | High | 1:2,30; 6:11; 7:14 |
| resurrection | जिउनाय सोलायनाय | jiunai solainai | Critical | 15:4,12-23,29,32,35,42,52 |
| lord | प्रभु | probhu | Critical | throughout, esp. 8:6; 11:23-27; 12:3; 15:31,57 |
| son of God | ईश्वरनि गोरा | Isornni gwra | Critical | 1:9 (implicit, “his Son”) |
| incarnation (root concept) | मानसि गुदि सोलायनाय | manwsi gudi solainai | Critical | background for body-of-Christ and body/temple discussions |
| peace | सान्ति | santi | Medium | 1:3; 7:15; 14:33; 16:11 |
| spiritual gifts | आत्मानि दान | aatmani daan | Medium | 1:7; 7:7; 12:1-31; 14:1 |
| thanksgiving | धिनानाय | dhinanai | Low | 1:4,14; 14:16-18; 15:57 |
| fellowship | गोसो जोंथानाय | gwsw jwnthanai | Low | 1:9; 10:16-20 |
| church | मण्डली | mwndoli | Medium | 1:2; 4:17; 5:12; 6:4; 7:17; 10:32; 11:16,18,22; 12:28; 14:4-35; 15:9; 16:1,19 |
| kingdom of God | ईश्वरनि राज्य | Isornni rajyo | Medium | 4:20; 6:9-10; 15:24,50 |
| law | बिथान | bithan | Medium | 7:19; 9:8-9,20; 14:21,34; 15:56 |
| sin | गुनाह | gunah | High | 6:18; 15:3,17,34,56 |
| gentiles | गैर-जुथुद | goir-juthud | Medium | 1:23-24 (implicit, “Greeks”); 5:1; 10:20,32; 12:2 |
| glory | महिमा | mohima | High | 2:7-8; 10:31; 11:7,15; 15:40-43 |
| obedience of faith (root concept) | बिश्वासनि मानोन | biswasni manwn | High | background for 7:19’s “keeping the commandments of God” |
| power of God | ईश्वरनि सक्ति | Isornni sakti | High | 1:18,24; 2:4-5; 6:14 |
| messiah / Christ | मसीह | mosih | Critical | throughout; esp. 1:23-24; 15:3,12-23 |
| prophet | भाबिष्यत सोंग्रा | bhabishyot songra | Low | 12:28-29; 14:29,32,37 |
| prophecy | भाबिष्यत रां | bhabishyot rang | Low | 12:10; 13:2,8-9; 14:1-39 |
| covenant | गोसाथारि | gwsathari | High | 11:25 |
| election (root concept) | ईश्वरनि सायख | Isornni saikho | High | background for 1:26-28 |
| intercession (root concept) | मोनसे नि थाखाय बिनयनाय | monse ni thakhai binoinai | Medium | background for prayer references, 14:14-16 |
| providence (root concept) | ईश्वरनि सामलानाय | Isornni samlanai | High | background for 4:1-2 (steward), 12:6,11,18,24 |
| mission (root concept) | मंगल खबरनि दायो | mangal khaborni dayo | Medium | background for 9:16-23 |
| israel | इस्राएल | Israel | Medium | 10:18 |
| jesus | जिसु | Jisu | Critical | throughout |
| god | ईश्वर | Isor | Critical | throughout |
| holy spirit | पबित्र आत्था | pobitro aatha | Critical | 2:10-14; 3:16; 6:11,19; 12:3-13 |
| father | आफा | afa | Critical | 1:3; 8:6; 15:24 |
| exhort | गोसो होनाय | gwsw honai | Low | 1:10; 4:16; 16:15-16 |
Section 2 — New Terms Introduced by 1 Corinthians (this document’s contribution)
| Term | Bodo Rendering | Transliteration | Category/Doctrine | Risk | Key Passages | Grounded Risk Rationale (Critical/High) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cross | क्रुस | krus | Cross as Wisdom and Power | Critical | 1:17-18; 2:2 | Must be taught as the historical instrument of Christ’s atoning death and paradox-center of the gospel, distinct from a devotional object comparable to the aniconic sijou plant central to Bathou worship. |
| wisdom | बुद्धि | buddhi | Cross as Wisdom and Power | High | 1:17-30; 2:1-13; 3:19 | Risks assimilation into Brahma Dharma’s Sanskritized reform emphasis on learning/enlightenment as the path of religious progress; must be taught as God’s paradoxical, cross-centered revealed wisdom. |
| foolishness | मूर्खताय | murkhatai | Cross as Wisdom and Power | Medium | 1:18-27; 3:19; 4:10 | — |
| divisions/factions | फुटानाय | phutanai | Christian Unity vs. Factionalism | High | 1:10-13; 3:3; 11:18-19 | Must be distinguished from Bodo clan (afad) loyalty structures and from contemporary ethnic/territorial factionalism in the Bodoland region; the unity in view is unity in Christ, not existing kinship/political alignment. |
| boasting | गर्ब खालामनाय | garbo khalamnai | Christian Unity vs. Factionalism | Medium | 1:29,31; 3:21; 4:7 | — |
| baptism | बाप्तिस्मा | baptisma | Christian Unity / Church | High | 1:13-17; 10:2; 12:13; 15:29 | Must be distinguished from occasional external Bathou/Kherai ritual-purification rites; baptism is a one-time act of identification with Christ, not a repeatable purificatory ritual. |
| redemption / bought with a price | दाम होजों फिन सिकनाय | dam hwjw phin siknai | Cross / Grace | Critical | 1:30; 6:20; 7:23 | Must resist both the Bathou reciprocal-offering reading and the Brahma Dharma merit reading, exactly as already flagged Critical for “grace” in the baseline; Christ’s purchase is a completed act on believers’ behalf. |
| mystery | रहस्य | rahasyo | Wisdom / Resurrection | High | 2:1,7; 4:1; 13:2; 14:2; 15:51 | Must be taught as truth now openly revealed in the gospel, distinct from secret ritual knowledge restricted to specialists such as a doudini or an ओझा. |
| spiritual person / natural person | आत्मिक मानुष / प्राणिक मानुष | aatmik manwsw / pranik manwsw | Wisdom / Spiritual Gifts | High | 2:14-15 | Must not be read as a ranked spiritual elite paralleling a doudini/ordinary-worshiper hierarchy; the distinction is Spirit-regeneration available to all believers. |
| mind of Christ | मसीहनि मन | mosihni mon | Wisdom | Medium | 2:16 | — |
| carnal / fleshly | मांसनि खान्थि | mangsoni khanthi | Christian Unity vs. Factionalism | Medium-High | 3:1-4 | — |
| foundation | बुनियाद | buniyad | Church Discipline / Ministry | Medium | 3:10-12 | — |
| temple (of God/Spirit) | ईश्वरनि पबित्र थान | Isornni pobitro than | Church Discipline and Holiness | High | 3:16-17; 6:19 | Must be kept distinct both from मन्दिर (Hindu-image-temple associations) and from नमासोलि (the Bathou/Kherai shrine, already forbidden in the baseline for “church”); a genuinely new category requiring explicit teaching. |
| fellow worker | समान सेवारि | saman sebari | Ministry | Low | 3:9 | — |
| steward | सामलायग्रा | samlaigra | Ministry / Apostleship | Medium | 4:1-2 | — |
| sexual immorality | व्यभिचार | vyabhichar | Church Discipline and Holiness | High | 5:1,9-11; 6:9,13,18; 7:2; 10:8 | Must be taught as sin against God’s created design for marriage/the body, not merely a breach of afad marriage/kinship custom or bride-price obligation. |
| leaven / unleavened | खमीर / खमीर नङा | khamir / khamir nanga | Church Discipline and Holiness | Medium | 5:6-8 | — |
| Passover / Christ our Passover lamb | निस्तार पर्ब | niostar porbo | Church Discipline and Holiness | Medium | 5:7 | Requires explicit Exodus background teaching (low OT narrative literacy). |
| Satan | साइतान | Saitan | Church Discipline and Holiness | High | 5:5; 7:5 | Must be taught as a real, personal, singular evil being opposed to God, distinct from diffuse ancestral/nature spirits and from any single Bathou-pantheon antagonist figure; “handing over” is redemptive discipline, not ओझा-style curse-casting. |
| judge / judgment | बिसारनाय | bisarnai | Church Discipline and Holiness | Medium-High | 5:12-13; 6:1-6; 11:31-32 | — |
| washed | धुनाय | dhunai | Church Discipline and Holiness | Medium | 6:11 | — |
| one flesh | मोनसे मांसो | monse mangso | Marriage and Singleness | Medium | 6:16 | — |
| marriage | बिबाहो | bibaho | Marriage and Singleness | Medium | 7:1-40 | — |
| unmarried / singleness | बिबाहो नङा मानुष | bibaho nanga manwsw | Marriage and Singleness | High | 7:7-9,32-35 | Must be explicitly taught against strong cultural headwind, since Bodo marriage is closely tied to afad continuity/inheritance; Paul affirms singleness as a valid, Spirit-enabled calling, not a deficient state. |
| virgin | कुवारी | kuwari | Marriage and Singleness | Medium | 7:25-38 | — |
| divorce / separate | जोबथा जानाय | jwbtha janai | Marriage and Singleness | Medium-High | 7:10-15 | — |
| idol | मूर्ति | murti | Christian Liberty and Idol Meat | High | 8:4-7; 10:19; 12:2 | Must be taught to cover more than carved/cast images, since Bathou worship is aniconic (sijou plant); a narrow “idol = statue” reading would wrongly exempt Bodo traditional devotion from this category. |
| food offered to idols | मूर्तिनो होनाय बानी | murtinu honai bani | Christian Liberty and Idol Meat | High | 8:1-13; 10:19-28 | Direct real-world analogue: food/rice beer/meat literally offered to Bathoubwrai and the Kherai pantheon (incl. Mainao) and eaten afterward; a live pastoral question, not a distant cultural-background issue. |
| knowledge | ज्ञान | gyaan | Christian Liberty and Idol Meat | High | 8:1-11; 12:8; 13:2,8 | Risks alignment with Brahma Dharma’s positive valuation of Sanskritic religious knowledge as spiritual progress; Paul’s corrective (knowledge without love is dangerous) must be taught as a counter-emphasis. |
| conscience | बिबेक | bibek | Christian Liberty and Idol Meat | High | 8:7-12; 10:25-29 | Pastorally urgent for converts from Bathouist/Brahma Dharma families with lingering ritual associations; must be taught as inner moral standing before a personal God, not social shame-calculation or ritual-purity anxiety. |
| stumbling block | बादा | bada | Christian Liberty and Idol Meat | Medium | 8:9,13 | — |
| liberty / right | अधिकार | adhikar | Christian Liberty and Idol Meat | High | 8:9; 9:4-18 | Deliberately avoids the मुक्त-/मोक्ष root to prevent bleed-through into the forbidden “liberation” language already flagged Critical for salvation; liberty is freedom exercised within love, not autonomous liberation. |
| crown / prize | जयनि मुकुट | joyni mukut | Christian Liberty (ch.9 athletic imagery) | Medium | 9:24-25 | — |
| self-control | मोनथिखौ थामनाय | monthikhou thamnai | Christian Liberty | Medium | 9:25,27 | — |
| disqualified | गनायथि जायनाय | ganaithi jainai | Christian Liberty | Medium | 9:27 | — |
| type / example | नमुना | namuna | Christian Liberty and Idol Meat | Low | 10:6,11 | — |
| temptation / testing | परिक्षा | porikha | Christian Liberty and Idol Meat | Medium | 10:13 | — |
| idolatry | मूर्ति पूजा | murti puja | Christian Liberty and Idol Meat | High | 10:7,14 | Must be extended beyond image-worship to include aniconic Bathou devotion and Kherai puja offerings, or Bodo hearers could wrongly exempt their own family religious heritage. |
| demons | देउ | deu | Christian Liberty and Idol Meat | Critical | 10:20-21 | Deliberate, contextually-limited exception to the baseline’s blanket देउ prohibition (which applies to God/Holy Spirit substitution only): here it faithfully names the spiritual reality behind pagan sacrificial worship per Paul’s own argument, directly bearing on hearers’ family religious heritage; requires theologian oversight for pastoral framing. |
| table of the Lord / table of demons | प्रभुनि मेजा / देउनि मेजा | probhuni meja / deuni meja | Christian Liberty and Idol Meat | High | 10:21 | Directly parallels communal sacrificial meals following Kherai puja offerings; teaches two mutually exclusive spiritual allegiances. |
| head / headship | खोरा (provisional) | khora | Order in Worship | High | 11:3 | Bodo clan (afad) structure is traditionally patrilineal; risk of conflation with, or reactive rejection against, existing patriarchal kinship expectations rather than Paul’s creation-grounded relational argument. |
| head covering / veil | खोरा ढापनाय गबरा | khora dhapnai gobra | Order in Worship | High | 11:4-15 | Bodo women’s traditional dress (dokhona) has no established religious head-veil requirement; requires cultural bridging of the underlying principle, not forced literal equivalence. |
| Lord’s Supper | प्रभुनि बोजोन | probhuni bwjwn | The Lord’s Supper | High | 11:20-34 | Must be distinguished from the communal ritual feast following Kherai puja sacrificial offerings; commemorates a completed, once-for-all sacrifice, not a repeated protective/propitiatory rite. |
| body and blood (of the Lord) | गुदि आरो थि | gudi aro thi | The Lord’s Supper | Critical | 11:23-27 | Must be categorically distinct from literal, repeated animal-blood offerings central to Kherai puja and household sijou rites; Christ’s sacrifice is finished, remembered rather than repeated. |
| new covenant | गोदान गोसाथारि | gwdan gwsathari | The Lord’s Supper | High | 11:25 | Inherits covenant’s High risk from the baseline; requires OT covenant background teaching. |
| remembrance | मोनथि खालामनाय | monthi khalamnai | The Lord’s Supper | Medium | 11:24-25 | — |
| discern the body | गुदिखौ बुझनाय | gudikhou bujhnai | The Lord’s Supper | Medium | 11:29 | — |
| unworthy manner | गोनां नङा हांख्रीजों | gonang nanga hankhrijw | The Lord’s Supper | Medium | 11:27 | — |
| manifestation of the Spirit | आत्थानि दैखांनाय | aathani daikhannai | Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ | Medium | 12:7 | — |
| gifts of healing | रोगा फिटायनि दान | roga phitaini daan | Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ | Medium | 12:9,28,30 | — |
| workings of power / miracles | सक्तिनि गुन | saktini gun | Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ | High | 12:10,28-29 | Builds on the same सक्ति root already flagged High in the baseline for needing separation from doudini-attributed Kherai-trance power; this gift-list is the passage most exposed to that conflation. |
| discerning of spirits | आत्थाखौ सुबुं नाय | aathakhou subung nai | Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ | Critical | 12:10 | Invites direct comparison with a doudini’s Kherai-trance ability to identify a present deity/spirit; must be taught as Spirit-given, settled-mind, church-serving discernment, never trance-based mediumship. |
| tongues | आत्मानि रां | aatmani rang | Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ | Critical | 12:10,28,30; 13:1,8; 14:1-39 | Highest-risk term in the book: Kherai puja’s doudini trance state includes ecstatic, spirit-attributed speech, a real currently-practiced phenomenon closely resembling glossolalia; must be taught as Spirit-given, orderly, self-possessed speech, not possession-trance utterance. |
| interpretation of tongues | रांनि उलथा | rangni ultha | Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ | High | 12:10,30; 14:26-28 | Tied to the tongues risk above; unexplained tongues-speech risks being indistinguishable, to a Bodo hearer, from unexplained trance utterance. |
| teacher | सिखाग्रा | sikhagra | Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ | High | 12:28-29 | Deliberately not गुरु, to avoid evoking Brahma Dharma founder Kalicharan Brahma’s title “Gurudev” and its guru-centered reform leadership model. |
| member / body (corporate metaphor) | अंग / गुदि | ango / gudi | Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ | High | 12:12-27 | Must be kept distinct from the incarnation concept and from a deity using a human body as a temporary ritual vessel (doudini possession); names the church’s organic unity-in-diversity. |
| love | मोसानाय | mwsanai | Love as the Greater Way | Critical | 13:1-13; 8:1; 16:14,24 | Central term of the letter’s theological climax; must convey selfless, covenantal, self-giving love — not romantic affection alone, not mere afad kin-loyalty, and not a reciprocal-exchange logic, paralleling the same risk already flagged Critical for grace and redemption. |
| order | निय়म | niyom | Order in Worship | High | 14:33,40 | Must be distinguished from Kherai puja’s strict prescribed ceremonial sequence; Paul’s “order” is Spirit-led, love-motivated mutual consideration, not ritual-correctness-as-efficacy. |
| resurrection of the dead | सिनाय मानुषनि जिउनाय सोलायनाय | sinai manwsni jiunai solainai | The Resurrection of Christ and Believers | Critical | 15:12-32,35,42,52 | Same forbidden-substitution rule as core resurrection term: never फिन जोनोम (rebirth/reincarnation); the doctrinal capstone of the book on this point. |
| firstfruits | गिबि फल | gibi phal | The Resurrection of Christ and Believers | High | 15:20,23 | Harvest/rice-fertility imagery risks association with Mainao, goddess of wealth and rice in the Kherai pantheon; must be taught as a one-time resurrection guarantee, not a fertility/harvest-cycle image. |
| last Adam | गथानै आदम | gwthanai Adam | The Resurrection of Christ and Believers | High | 15:45 | Requires explicit Genesis background teaching; verify “Adam” transliteration against the established Bodo Bible. |
| spiritual body / natural body | आत्मिक गुदि / प्राणिक गुदि | aatmik gudi / pranik gudi | The Resurrection of Christ and Believers | High | 15:42-44 | Must be taught as continuity-with-transformation of the same body, not disembodied spirit-existence and not migration into a different body as in a rebirth cycle. |
| imperishable / incorruptible | गैया गोमानाय | gaiya gwmanai | The Resurrection of Christ and Believers | Medium | 15:42,52-54 | — |
| victory | जय | joy | The Resurrection of Christ and Believers | Low | 15:54-57 | — |
| mortal / immortality | मरनाय गुथि / मरा नङा गुथि | mwrnai guthi / mwra nanga guthi | The Resurrection of Christ and Believers | Medium | 15:53-54 | — |
| in vain | बेकार | bekar | The Resurrection of Christ and Believers | Medium | 15:2,10,14,17,58 | Thematic thread; must be rendered consistently across all five occurrences in ch.15. |
| collection (for the saints) | पबित्र मानुषनि थाखाय जमा खालामनाय | pobitro manwsni thakhai jama khalamnai | Church / Fellowship | Low-Medium | 16:1-2 | — |
| Maranatha | मारना था | Marana Tha | Church / Eschatology | Medium | 16:22 | Preserved transliteration, following the same pattern established for अब्बा (Abba) in the Romans baseline. |
| anathema / accursed | अभिशाप | obhishap | Church Discipline and Holiness | High | 16:22 | Must be taught as God’s own solemn covenantal judgment, distinct from folk sorcery-curses sought/removed through an ओझा; divine judicial pronouncement, not incantation-based curse practice. |
Section 3 — Risk Summary for New Terms
| Risk Tier | Count | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 8 | Human theologian review required for every occurrence (cross, redemption/bought with a price, demons, body and blood, discerning of spirits, tongues, love, resurrection of the dead) |
| High | 24 | Human theologian review required |
| Medium | 22 | Native speaker review recommended |
| Low | 6 | Automated review sufficient |
Cross-cutting note for Phase 2: Six new terms in this glossary (cross, redemption, body and blood, demons, tongues, discerning of spirits) sit at the direct intersection of core Christian doctrine and the most phenomenologically similar elements of Bodo traditional religious practice — the Kherai puja doudini’s trance/possession phenomenon and its sacrificial-offering meal. These require the highest level of translator and reviewer care in the entire curriculum and should be prioritized for early theologian consultation in Phase 2, ahead of full-scale segment translation.
Critical Risk Terms
Grace
Approved rendering: मोफादांनाय दान
Transliteration: mwphwdangnai daan
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: दान गोरोबनाय (a reciprocal gift expecting return offering, rejected), पुण्य (Brahma Dharma merit-language, never use)
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. 1 Corinthians 15:10 is the densest concentration of grace language in the letter (‘not I, but the grace of God’); must resist BOTH the Bathou/Kherai reciprocal-offering reading and the Brahma Dharma merit reading. Occurs at 1:3-4; 3:10; 15:10; 16:23.
Righteousness
Approved rendering: धार्मिकता
Transliteration: dharmikota
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: धर्म (avoid the bare Sanskritic sense of cosmic duty imported through Brahma Dharma reform teaching)
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Appears at 1:30 alongside sanctification and redemption as a triad of gifts believers have ‘in Christ Jesus.‘
Salvation
Approved rendering: फोरायनाय
Transliteration: phoraynai
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: मोक्ष (Brahma Dharma’s Hindu-derived liberation concept, never use), रैखाथि (protection from the Kherai pantheon against misfortune, never use as a stand-alone gloss for eternal salvation)
Original: σωτηρία / σῴζω
Category: Salvation
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. 15:2’s present-tense ‘being saved’ must be taught alongside the once-for-all events of vv.3-5; both the historical event and its present security require ground-up teaching. Occurs at 1:18,21; 3:15; 5:5; 9:22; 10:33; 15:2.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: जिउनाय सोलायनाय
Transliteration: jiunai solainai
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Rejected alternatives: फिन जोनोम (rebirth into a new life-cycle, a concept absorbed into Brahma Dharma from Hindu reincarnation teaching, never use)
Original: ἀνάστασις / ἐγείρω
Category: Eschatology
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. This is the single most important term in 1 Corinthians 15 (occurring at 15:4,12-23,29,32,35,42,52); every occurrence must use this exact rendering with zero deviation. NEVER फिन जोनोम.
Lord
Approved rendering: प्रभु
Transliteration: probhu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: बुरहा/बर’ऐ titles reserved for Bathoubwrai and Kherai-pantheon elder-deities, never use for Christ
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Occurs throughout, especially 8:6; 11:23-27; 12:3; 15:31,57.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि गोरा
Transliteration: Isornni gwra
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: देवता गोरा (a lesser divine being’s son, an explicit downgrade)
Original: υἱὸς θεοῦ
Category: Christology
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. 1:9’s ‘his Son’ implies this doctrine; must not read as one divine figure among others in a populated Bathou pantheon.
Incarnation
Approved rendering: मानसि गुदि सोलायनाय
Transliteration: manwsi gudi solainai
Doctrine: Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: देउनि आगोर (a deity temporarily ‘descending into’ or speaking through a doudini during Kherai trance, never use)
Original: ὁ λόγος σὰρξ ἐγένετο
Category: Christology
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Root concept underlying the body-of-Christ and temple discussions in chs. 3, 6, and 12; must never be equated with doudini spirit-possession during Kherai puja.
Messiah
Approved rendering: मसीह
Transliteration: mosih
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Central throughout, especially 1:23-24 and 15:3-23; must not be interpreted as one of several deities or spirit-mediators in the Bathou pantheon.
Jesus
Approved rendering: जिसु
Transliteration: Jisu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Occurs throughout. Consistency with the printed Bodo Bible must be verified before finalization, per the baseline’s standing caveat.
God
Approved rendering: ईश्वर
Transliteration: Isor
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: बाथौबुरै (never use as the primary term for the biblical God; reserve strictly for describing traditional Bathou belief)
Original: θεός
Category: God
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. NEVER बाथौबुरै.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: पबित्र आत्था
Transliteration: pobitro aatha
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: देउ (a generic spirit-being from the Bathou/Kherai pantheon, never use), बुरहा-बुरही आत्था (ancestral household spirits venerated in traditional practice, never use)
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Occurs at 2:10-14; 3:16; 6:11,19; 12:3-13; must always be used in full, never bare देउ/आत्था. NOTE: the deliberately bounded 10:19-21 देउ exception (see ‘demons’ entry below) applies ONLY to that pericope and must never be read as loosening this rule.
Father
Approved rendering: आफा
Transliteration: afa
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Rejected alternatives: बाथौबुरै (reserve strictly for describing traditional belief, never for the biblical Father)
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Occurs at 1:3; 8:6; 15:24.
Cross
Approved rendering: क्रुस
Transliteration: krus
Doctrine: Cross as Wisdom and Power
Rejected alternatives: A bare paraphrase without definition on first use, rejected as insufficient for a hearer with no prior referent
Original: σταυρός
Category: Cross as Wisdom and Power
NEW TERM. Transliteration, defined explicitly on first use as ‘the wooden execution-stake on which Jisu died.’ Must be taught as the historical instrument of Christ’s atoning death, foolishness to the perishing but power to the saved (1:17-18; 2:2), never as a devotional object comparable to the aniconic sijou plant central to Bathou household worship.
Redemption
Approved rendering: दाम होजों फिन सिकनाय
Transliteration: dam hwjw phin siknai
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: मोनसे नि गुनथिजों लाबोनाय (righteousness earned by one’s own conduct, the explicit rejected opposite, following the baseline ‘imputed_righteousness’ pattern)
Original: ἀπολύτρωσις / ἀγοράζω
Category: Salvation
NEW TERM. Must resist BOTH the Bathou reciprocal-offering reading and the Brahma Dharma merit reading, exactly as already flagged Critical for ‘grace’ in the baseline (1:30; 6:20; 7:23). Christ’s purchase of believers is a completed, gracious transaction on their behalf, never a payment believers make or reciprocate.
Demons
Approved rendering: देउ
Transliteration: deu
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Rejected alternatives: A neutral, generic ‘spirit’ vocabulary, rejected as insufficiently identifying the specific malevolent reality Paul names
Original: δαιμόνιον
Category: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
NEW TERM — DELIBERATE, CONTEXTUALLY-LIMITED EXCEPTION to the Romans baseline’s blanket देउ prohibition, which forbids देउ ONLY as a substitute for God/Holy Spirit. Authorized ONLY at 10:19-21, where Paul’s own argument requires naming the spiritual reality behind pagan sacrificial worship as demonic, directly identifying the spirits venerated through Bathou/Kherai sacrificial offerings. MUST NEVER appear anywhere else in this Language Package; requires human theologian sign-off at every occurrence.
Body And Blood
Approved rendering: गुदि आरो थि
Transliteration: gudi aro thi
Doctrine: The Lord’s Supper
Original: σῶμα καὶ αἷμα
Category: The Lord’s Supper
NEW TERM. Must be categorically distinct from literal, repeated animal-blood offerings central to Kherai puja and household sijou rites (11:23-27); Christ’s sacrifice is finished — remembered, never repeated or supplemented. Every occurrence must carry a ‘once, for all time / completed’ fencing phrase and must never be paired with a verb implying repetition of the sacrifice itself.
Discerning Of Spirits
Approved rendering: आत्थाखौ सुबुं नाय
Transliteration: aathakhou subung nai
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
Original: διάκρισις πνευμάτων
Category: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
NEW TERM. This gift’s very name invites direct comparison with a doudini’s recognized ability, during Kherai-trance possession, to identify which deity/spirit is present (12:10). Must be taught as Spirit-given, church-serving, settled-mind discernment, never trance-based mediumship. Requires human theologian review at every occurrence.
Tongues
Approved rendering: आत्मानि रां
Transliteration: aatmani rang
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
Original: γλῶσσα / γλῶσσαι
Category: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
NEW TERM — the single highest-risk term in the entire curriculum. The Kherai puja doudini’s ritual trance state is understood to include ecstatic, spirit-attributed speech during possession — a real, currently-practiced phenomenon with striking surface resemblance to glossolalia (12:10,28,30; ch.14 throughout). Must be taught as Spirit-given, orderly (14:27-28,40), church-edifying speech exercised by a believer in full self-possession, categorically distinct from possession-trance utterance. Requires human theologian review at every occurrence; never described using vocabulary of ‘seizure,’ ‘entering,’ or ‘overtaking.‘
Love
Approved rendering: मोसानाय
Transliteration: mwsanai
Doctrine: Love as the Greater Way
Rejected alternatives: Reliance on the noun alone without the 13:4-7 behavioral catalogue, rejected as insufficient to distinguish agapē from romantic affection or afad kin-loyalty
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Love as the Greater Way
NEW TERM. Central term of the letter’s theological climax (13:1-13; 8:1; 16:14,24). Must convey God’s selfless, self-giving, covenantal love, made concrete via the qualities in 13:4-7 — NOT romantic affection alone, NOT mere afad kin-loyalty (bounded and reciprocal by nature), and NOT a reciprocal-exchange logic, paralleling the do-ut-des risk already flagged Critical for grace and redemption.
Resurrection Of The Dead
Approved rendering: सिनाय मानुषनि जिउनाय सोलायनाय
Transliteration: sinai manwsni jiunai solainai
Doctrine: The Resurrection of Christ and Believers
Rejected alternatives: फिन जोनोम (rebirth/reincarnation), same forbidden-substitution rule as the core resurrection term, never use
Original: ἀνάστασις νεκρῶν
Category: The Resurrection of Christ and Believers
NEW TERM (compound built on the REUSED जिउनाय सोलायनाय). The doctrinal capstone of the whole book on resurrection (15:12-32,35,42,52); must be internally consistent with every other resurrection reference in the curriculum — lock exact word order across every occurrence.
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: मंगल खबर
Transliteration: mangal khabor
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: सुसमाचार (Hindi loan, avoid as default; retain only as an explanatory gloss for readers already literate in Hindi)
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. In 1 Corinthians 15:1-3 the term additionally carries the sense of a fixed, received apostolic deposit (paralleled by ‘received’/‘delivered’ vocabulary); teach both senses together. Occurs at 1:17; 4:15; 9:12-18,23; 15:1-2.
Faith
Approved rendering: बिश्वास
Transliteration: biswas
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: भरोसा (generic trust, too weak alone)
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. In 15:2,11,14,17 the object of faith is specifically the historical death-burial-resurrection content just recited; must not collapse into generic religious belief. Occurs at 2:5; 3:5; 12:9; 13:2,13; 15:2,11,14,17.
Called
Approved rendering: फिनायाव
Transliteration: phinaiyao
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: मिनतिनाय (a plea/invitation, too weak)
Original: κλητός
Category: Salvation
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. In 1:1-2,9,24,26 and 7:15-24 the sense ranges across apostleship, sainthood, and vocation-in-life; must be distinguished from a doudini being ritually ‘called’/seized during Kherai trance.
Calling
Approved rendering: फिनायनि सिम
Transliteration: phinaini sim
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Kept structurally parallel to फिनायाव for teaching consistency across both curricula.
Holy
Approved rendering: पबित्र
Transliteration: pobitro
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: साफ (physically clean, ritual-purity sense only)
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. 3:17 (temple) and 7:14,34 (persons/children) use this term; must convey moral, relational set-apartness, not ritual purity alone.
Saints
Approved rendering: पबित्र मानुष
Transliteration: pobitro manwsw
Doctrine: Sainthood
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. 1:2; 6:1-2; 14:33; 16:1,15 use this corporately; must not be narrowed to a specialist devotional class paralleling the doudini’s recognized ritual role.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: पबित्रनाय
Transliteration: pobitronai
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: साफनाय (ritual cleansing, avoid as a substitute)
Original: ἁγιασμός
Category: Sanctification
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. 1:2,30; 6:11 use the ordinary sense; 7:14 uses an unusual, NON-SALVIFIC household-consecration sense requiring explicit teacher-facing distinction — the unbelieving spouse is not thereby saved.
Sin
Approved rendering: गुनाह
Transliteration: gunah
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: दोष (fault/blame, too weak/civic)
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Occurs at 6:18; 15:3,17,34,56; must be distinguished from ritual impurity addressed through Bathou/Kherai cleansing rites.
Glory
Approved rendering: महिमा
Transliteration: mohima
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Occurs at 2:7-8; 10:31; 11:7,15; 15:40-43; avoid metaphors that could be read as describing a doudini’s trance-radiance or oracular authority.
Obedience Of Faith
Approved rendering: बिश्वासनि मानोन
Transliteration: biswasni manwn
Doctrine: Obedience of Faith
Rejected alternatives: धर्मनि निदान मानोन (rule-keeping obedience to a reformed religious code, a works-based misreading)
Original: ὑπακοὴ πίστεως
Category: Faith
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Root concept behind 7:19’s ‘keeping the commandments of God’; distinguish from Brahma Dharma’s structured rule-observance ethic.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि सक्ति
Transliteration: Isornni sakti
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Rejected alternatives: देउनि सक्ति (spirit/deity power as manifested through a doudini’s trance, avoid as a substitute)
Original: δύναμις θεοῦ
Category: God
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Occurs at 1:18,24; 2:4-5; 6:14; must be kept categorically distinct from ritual/mediumistic power attributed to a doudini’s Kherai-trance state.
Covenant
Approved rendering: गोसाथारि
Transliteration: gwsathari
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: διαθήκη
Category: Covenant
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Occurs at 11:25, ‘the new covenant in my blood.‘
Election
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि सायख
Transliteration: Isornni saikho
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: भागी (fate/fortune, too impersonal)
Original: ἐκλογή
Category: Salvation
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Root concept behind 1:26-28’s ‘consider your calling.‘
Providence
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि सामलानाय
Transliteration: Isornni samlanai
Doctrine: Providence
Rejected alternatives: भागी (fate, never use)
Original: πρόνοια
Category: God
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Root concept behind 4:1-2 (steward) and 12:6,11,18,24 (‘the one Spirit apportioning gifts as he wills’).
Wisdom
Approved rendering: बुद्धि
Transliteration: buddhi
Doctrine: Cross as Wisdom and Power
Original: σοφία
Category: Cross as Wisdom and Power
NEW TERM. Risks assimilation into Brahma Dharma’s Sanskritized reform emphasis on learning/enlightenment as the path of religious progress (1:18-25; 2:1-13; 3:19); must be taught as God’s own paradoxical, revealed wisdom centered on a crucified Messiah, with an explicit ‘the world calls this foolish’ contrast clause on first use per lesson unit.
Divisions Factions
Approved rendering: फुटानाय
Transliteration: phutanai
Doctrine: Christian Unity versus Factionalism
Original: σχίσμα
Category: Christian Unity versus Factionalism
NEW TERM. Must be distinguished from Bodo clan (afad) loyalty structures and from contemporary ethnic/territorial factionalism in the Bodoland Territorial Region (1:10-13; 3:3; 11:18-19); always pair with मण्डलीआव (in the church) / मसीहआव (in Christ) framing so the referent is Christ-centered division, not existing kinship/political alignment.
Baptism
Approved rendering: बाप्तिस्मा
Transliteration: baptisma
Doctrine: Church
Original: βάπτισμα / βαπτίζω
Category: Church
NEW TERM (transliteration). Must be distinguished from the occasional external ritual-purification/cleansing rites (साफनाय) that precede Bathou and Kherai ceremonies; Christian baptism is a one-time act of identification with Christ’s death and resurrection, not a repeatable purificatory ritual (1:13-17; 10:2; 12:13; 15:29).
Mystery
Approved rendering: रहस्य
Transliteration: rahasyo
Doctrine: Cross as Wisdom and Power
Original: μυστήριον
Category: Cross as Wisdom and Power
NEW TERM. Must be taught as truth now openly disclosed in the gospel (2:1,7; 4:1; 13:2; 14:2; 15:51), sharply distinguished from secret ritual knowledge restricted to specialists such as a doudini or an ओझा.
Spiritual Person Natural Person
Approved rendering: आत्मिक मानुष / प्राणिक मानुष
Transliteration: aatmik manwsw / pranik manwsw
Doctrine: Cross as Wisdom and Power
Original: πνευματικός / ψυχικός ἄνθρωπος
Category: Cross as Wisdom and Power
NEW TERM. Must not be read as two ranked classes of people paralleling a doudini/ordinary-worshiper hierarchy (2:14-15); the distinction is Spirit-regeneration available to all believers, not a spiritual elite attained through ritual specialization.
Temple
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि पबित्र थान
Transliteration: Isornni pobitro than
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Holiness
Rejected alternatives: मन्दिर (carries Sanskritic image-worship associations, avoid), नमासोलि (the Bathou/Kherai shrine site, already forbidden in the Romans baseline as a gloss for ‘church’, never use)
Original: ναός
Category: Church Discipline and Holiness
NEW TERM. A genuinely new theological category for the church corporately (3:16-17) and each believer individually (6:19); must always appear in full — never abbreviated to थान alone, which is a generic word for ‘place/site’ that could default toward नमासोलि-adjacent readings.
Sexual Immorality
Approved rendering: व्यभिचार
Transliteration: vyabhichar
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Holiness
Original: πορνεία
Category: Church Discipline and Holiness
NEW TERM. Must be taught as sin against God’s created design for marriage and the body (5:1,9-11; 6:9,13,18; 7:2; 10:8), paired with explicit ‘against God, against one’s own body’ framing (6:18-20) — not merely a violation of afad (clan) marriage/kinship custom or bride-price social obligation.
Satan
Approved rendering: साइतान
Transliteration: Saitan
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Holiness
Original: Σατανᾶς
Category: Church Discipline and Holiness
NEW TERM (transliteration). Must be taught as a real, personal, singular evil being (5:5; 7:5), distinguished from the diffuse array of ancestral/nature spirits in Bodo folk belief and from any single antagonist within the Bathou pantheon (which has no clear devil-analogue); ‘handing over to Satan’ is redemptive church discipline, never ओझा-style curse-casting.
Unmarried Singleness
Approved rendering: बिबाहो नङा मानुष
Transliteration: bibaho nanga manwsw
Doctrine: Marriage and Singleness
Original: ἄγαμος
Category: Marriage and Singleness
NEW TERM. Requires ground-up teaching against strong cultural headwind, since Bodo marriage is closely tied to afad continuity/inheritance and an unmarried adult can be viewed as socially incomplete (7:8,11,32-34). Every doctrinally weighted occurrence must carry an explicit ‘गुण’ (gift/advantage) framing clause so the term is not read through the ambient cultural lens of deficiency.
Idol
Approved rendering: मूर्ति
Transliteration: murti
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Rejected alternatives: A narrow ‘idol = carved/cast image only’ reading, explicitly rejected as under-translating the doctrine
Original: εἴδωλον
Category: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
NEW TERM. Must be taught as covering more than carved/cast images (8:4-7; 10:19; 12:2). Bathou worship is itself aniconic (the sijou plant, not an image), so a narrow reading would wrongly exempt Bodo traditional devotion; every occurrence in chs. 8, 10, and 12:2 must carry an explicit scope-extension clause naming Bathoubwrai/sijou and Kherai-pantheon offerings.
Food Offered To Idols
Approved rendering: मूर्तिनो होनाय बानी
Transliteration: murtinu honai bani
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Original: εἰδωλόθυτον
Category: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
NEW TERM. Direct, real-world Bodo analogue: rice beer, meat, and food literally offered to Bathoubwrai and the Kherai pantheon (including Mainao) during household sijou rites and Kherai puja, eaten communally afterward (8:1-13; 10:19-28) — a live pastoral question, not a distant cultural-background issue.
Knowledge
Approved rendering: ज्ञान
Transliteration: gyaan
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Original: γνῶσις
Category: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
NEW TERM. Risks alignment with Brahma Dharma’s positive valuation of Sanskritic religious knowledge/enlightenment as a marker of spiritual progress; ‘knowledge puffs up, but love builds up’ (8:1) must be taught as a direct counter-emphasis, continued at 13:2,8.
Conscience
Approved rendering: बिबेक
Transliteration: bibek
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Original: συνείδησις
Category: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
NEW TERM. Pastorally urgent for converts from Bathouist or Brahma Dharma families whose conscience may still be shaped by prior household ritual life (8:7-12; 10:25-29); must be taught as inner moral standing before a personal God, not social shame-calculation or ritual-purity anxiety.
Liberty Right
Approved rendering: अधिकार
Transliteration: adhikar
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Rejected alternatives: Any रендering built on the मुक्त-/मोक्ष root, deliberately avoided to prevent bleed-through into the forbidden ‘liberation’ language already flagged Critical for salvation
Original: ἐξουσία
Category: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
NEW TERM. Christian liberty is exercised within love and voluntary self-limitation (8:9; 9:4-18), never an autonomous personal right or liberation from bondage.
Idolatry
Approved rendering: मूर्ति पूजा
Transliteration: murti puja
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Original: εἰδωλολατρία
Category: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
NEW TERM. Must be explicitly extended beyond image-worship (10:7,14, ‘flee from idolatry’) to include aniconic Bathou devotion (the sijou plant, Bathoubwrai) and the communal offerings of Kherai puja, or Bodo hearers could wrongly exempt their own family religious heritage.
Table Of The Lord
Approved rendering: प्रभुनि मेजा / देउनि मेजा
Transliteration: probhuni meja / deuni meja
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Original: τράπεζα κυρίου / δαιμονίων
Category: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
NEW TERM. Occurs at 10:21, ‘you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons’; directly parallels the communal sacrificial meals following Kherai puja offerings — teaches two mutually exclusive spiritual allegiances.
Head Headship
Approved rendering: खोरा
Transliteration: khora
Doctrine: Order in Worship
Original: κεφαλή
Category: Order in Worship
NEW TERM — PROVISIONAL pending confirmation with Bodo-speaking theologians. Bodo clan (afad) structure is traditionally patrilineal, so 11:3’s teaching could be absorbed into, or reactively rejected against, existing patriarchal kinship expectations rather than understood as Paul’s creation-grounded relational argument. Flagged for dedicated theologian/native-speaker consultation before Phase 2 finalization.
Head Covering
Approved rendering: खोरा ढापनाय गबरा
Transliteration: khora dhapnai gobra
Doctrine: Order in Worship
Original: κάλυμμα
Category: Order in Worship
NEW TERM. Bodo traditional women’s dress (the dokhona) has no established religious head-veil requirement; 11:4-15 requires cultural bridging of the underlying principle, not forced literal equivalence.
Lords Supper
Approved rendering: प्रभुनि बोजोन
Transliteration: probhuni bwjwn
Doctrine: The Lord’s Supper
Original: κυριακὸν δεῖπνον
Category: The Lord’s Supper
NEW TERM. Must be distinguished sharply from the communal ritual feast following Kherai puja sacrificial offerings (11:20-34); commemorates a completed, once-for-all atoning death, not a repeated propitiatory rite, and displays rather than fractures church unity (11:17-22).
New Covenant
Approved rendering: गोदान गोसाथारि
Transliteration: gwdan gwsathari
Doctrine: The Lord’s Supper
Original: καινὴ διαθήκη
Category: The Lord’s Supper
NEW TERM. Occurs at 11:25; inherits Covenant’s High risk from the baseline and requires Old Testament covenant background teaching.
Workings Of Power
Approved rendering: सक्तिनि गुन
Transliteration: saktini gun
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
Original: ἐνεργήματα δυνάμεων
Category: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
NEW TERM. Builds on the same सक्ति root already flagged High in the Romans baseline for needing separation from ritual/mediumistic power attributed to a doudini’s Kherai-trance state (12:10,28-29); this gift-list passage is the most exposed to that conflation.
Interpretation Of Tongues
Approved rendering: रांनि उलथा
Transliteration: rangni ultha
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
Original: ἑρμηνεία γλωσσῶν
Category: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
NEW TERM. Tied directly to the tongues risk above; without interpretation, tongues-speech in worship risks being indistinguishable, to a Bodo hearer, from unexplained trance utterance (12:10,30; 14:26-28).
Teacher
Approved rendering: सिखाग्रा
Transliteration: sikhagra
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
Rejected alternatives: गुरु (guru), deliberately rejected because it would directly evoke Brahma Dharma founder Kalicharan Brahma’s title ‘Gurudev’ and its guru-centered reform-movement leadership model
Original: διδάσκαλος
Category: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
NEW TERM. Occurs at 12:28-29. A plain descriptive ‘one who teaches’ avoids importing the Brahma Dharma comparative-religion association into the church’s teaching office.
Member Body
Approved rendering: अंग / गुदि
Transliteration: ango / gudi
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
Original: μέλος / σῶμα
Category: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
NEW TERM. Must be kept distinct from the incarnation concept and from a deity using a human body as a temporary ritual vessel, as in doudini possession (12:12-27); names the church’s organic unity-in-diversity, not an embodiment event.
Order
Approved rendering: निय়म
Transliteration: niyom
Doctrine: Order in Worship
Original: τάξις
Category: Order in Worship
NEW TERM. Kherai puja involves a strict, prescribed ritual sequence where ‘order’ carries force as precise ceremonial procedure with efficacy in itself. Paul’s ‘order’ (14:33,40) must always be framed as Spirit-led, love-motivated mutual consideration for building up the whole body (14:26), never as ritual-correctness-as-efficacy.
Firstfruits
Approved rendering: गिबि फल
Transliteration: gibi phal
Doctrine: The Resurrection of Christ and Believers
Original: ἀπαρχή
Category: The Resurrection of Christ and Believers
NEW TERM. Harvest/rice-fertility imagery risks association with Mainao, goddess of wealth and rice in the Kherai pantheon (15:20,23); every occurrence must carry an explicit ‘one-time guarantee, not a harvest cycle’ fencing clause.
Last Adam
Approved rendering: गथानै आदम
Transliteration: gwthanai Adam
Doctrine: The Resurrection of Christ and Believers
Original: ἔσχατος Ἀδάμ
Category: The Resurrection of Christ and Believers
NEW TERM. Occurs at 15:45; requires explicit Genesis background teaching; verify ‘Adam’ transliteration against the established Bodo Bible’s Genesis translation before finalizing.
Spiritual Body Natural Body
Approved rendering: आत्मिक गुदि / प्राणिक गुदि
Transliteration: aatmik gudi / pranik gudi
Doctrine: The Resurrection of Christ and Believers
Original: σῶμα πνευματικόν / σῶμα ψυχικόν
Category: The Resurrection of Christ and Believers
NEW TERM. Must be taught as continuity-with-transformation of the SAME body (15:42-44), echoing the resurrection’s never-rebirth rule, not disembodied spirit-existence and not migration into a different body as in a rebirth cycle.
Anathema
Approved rendering: अभिशाप
Transliteration: obhishap
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Holiness
Rejected alternatives: A bare transliteration of ‘anathema,’ rejected as an exotic technical term rather than the weighty, comprehensible judgment-pronouncement Paul intends
Original: ἀνάθεμα
Category: Church Discipline and Holiness
NEW TERM (paraphrase using existing Sanskritic-loan vocabulary). Must be taught as God’s own solemn covenantal judgment on persistent unbelief/lack of love for Christ (16:22), sharply distinguished from folk sorcery-curses sought or removed through an ओझा.
Medium Risk Terms
Apostle
Approved rendering: गोदान जायगारि
Transliteration: godan jaigari
Doctrine: Apostleship
Rejected alternatives: दूत (generic messenger, too weak)
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. 15:5,7,9 lists apostolic witnesses to the resurrection; distinguish from a generic religious-specialist role such as a doudini or ओझा. Occurs at 1:1; 4:9; 9:1-5; 12:28-29; 15:5,7,9.
Peace
Approved rendering: सान्ति
Transliteration: santi
Doctrine: Peace with God
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Occurs at 1:3; 7:15; 14:33; 16:11.
Spiritual Gifts
Approved rendering: आत्मानि दान
Transliteration: aatmani daan
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts
Rejected alternatives: सक्ति (a generic supernatural power associated with the doudini’s trance abilities, avoid as a substitute)
Original: χαρίσματα
Category: Church
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Central to chs. 12-14; must not be rendered as ritual/mediumistic power attributed to a doudini’s trance abilities. Occurs at 1:7; 7:7; 12:1-31; 14:1.
Church
Approved rendering: मण्डली
Transliteration: mwndoli
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: नमासोलि (Bathou/Kherai shrine site or worship ground, never use)
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Frequent throughout 1 Corinthians (e.g., 1:2; 5:12; 10:32; 11:16-22; 12:28; 14:4-35; 16:1,19); must remain clearly distinct from नमासोलि.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि राज्य
Transliteration: Isornni rajyo
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Occurs at 4:20; 6:9-10; 15:24,50.
Law
Approved rendering: बिथान
Transliteration: bithan
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: धर्मनि नियम (Brahma Dharma’s own codified religious-conduct rules, avoid as the primary gloss)
Original: νόμος
Category: Covenant
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Occurs at 7:19; 9:8-9,20; 14:21,34; 15:56.
Gentiles
Approved rendering: गैर-जुथुद
Transliteration: goir-juthud
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: ἔθνη / Ἕλληνες
Category: Church
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Renders non-Jewish peoples, often ‘Greeks’ in this letter’s idiom. Occurs at 1:23-24 (implicit, ‘Greeks’); 5:1; 10:20,32; 12:2.
Intercession
Approved rendering: मोनसे नि थाखाय बिनयनाय
Transliteration: monse ni thakhai binoinai
Doctrine: Prayer and Intercession
Original: ἔντευξις
Category: Faith
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Root concept behind 14:14-16’s prayer-in-the-Spirit discussion.
Mission
Approved rendering: मंगल खबरनि दायो
Transliteration: mangal khaborni dayo
Doctrine: Mission to the Nations
Original: ἀποστολή / πέμπω
Category: Church
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Root concept behind 9:16-23’s discussion of gospel obligation.
Israel
Approved rendering: इस्राएल
Transliteration: Israel
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: Ἰσραήλ
Category: Covenant
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Occurs at 10:18.
Foolishness
Approved rendering: मूर्खताय
Transliteration: murkhatai
Doctrine: Cross as Wisdom and Power
Original: μωρία
Category: Cross as Wisdom and Power
NEW TERM. Occurs at 1:18-27; 3:19; 4:10; must retain Paul’s ironic, argumentative force, not flattened into a simple insult.
Boasting
Approved rendering: गर्ब खालामनाय
Transliteration: garbo khalamnai
Doctrine: Christian Unity versus Factionalism
Original: καύχημα
Category: Christian Unity versus Factionalism
NEW TERM. Occurs at 1:29,31; 3:21; 4:7.
Mind Of Christ
Approved rendering: मसीहनि मन
Transliteration: mosihni mon
Doctrine: Cross as Wisdom and Power
Original: νοῦς Χριστοῦ
Category: Cross as Wisdom and Power
NEW TERM. Occurs at 2:16.
Carnal Fleshly
Approved rendering: मांसनि खान्थि
Transliteration: mangsoni khanthi
Doctrine: Christian Unity versus Factionalism
Original: σαρκικός
Category: Christian Unity versus Factionalism
NEW TERM. The Corinthians’ factionalism (3:1-4) is evidence of relational/spiritual immaturity (jealousy, strife), not ritual impurity; must not import Brahma Dharma’s own reform-vs-unreformed hierarchy of spiritual progress.
Foundation
Approved rendering: बुनियाद
Transliteration: buniyad
Doctrine: Church
Original: θεμέλιος
Category: Church
NEW TERM. Occurs at 3:10-12, ‘no other foundation than Jesus Christ.‘
Steward
Approved rendering: सामलायग्रा
Transliteration: samlaigra
Doctrine: Church
Original: οἰκονόμος
Category: Church
NEW TERM. Built on the same root as the Providence root concept; occurs at 4:1-2, ‘stewards of the mysteries of God’ — accountable to their master, not an autonomous religious-specialist authority paralleling a doudini or ओझा.
Leaven Unleavened
Approved rendering: खमीर / खमीर नङा
Transliteration: khamir / khamir nanga
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Holiness
Original: ζύμη / ἄζυμος
Category: Church Discipline and Holiness
NEW TERM. Occurs at 5:6-8, ‘a little leaven leavens the whole lump.‘
Passover
Approved rendering: निस्तार पर्ब
Transliteration: niostar porbo
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Holiness
Rejected alternatives: पास्खा (bare transliteration, rejected as conveying nothing without extensive background teaching already required for the concept)
Original: πάσχα
Category: Church Discipline and Holiness
NEW TERM (descriptive compound, not transliteration). Occurs at 5:7, ‘Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed’; requires explicit Exodus background teaching given low Old Testament narrative literacy in the target audience.
Judge Judgment
Approved rendering: बिसारनाय
Transliteration: bisarnai
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Holiness
Original: κρίνω / κρίμα
Category: Church Discipline and Holiness
NEW TERM. Occurs at 5:12-13; 6:1-6; 11:31-32; church discipline is loving, accountable correction within the covenant community, not vigilante shaming or folk-curse practice — every occurrence must carry an explicit restorative-purpose clause.
Washed
Approved rendering: धुनाय
Transliteration: dhunai
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Holiness
Original: ἀπολούω
Category: Church Discipline and Holiness
NEW TERM. Occurs at 6:11 in the triad ‘washed, sanctified, justified’; distinguish from occasional external ritual-purification rites preceding Bathou/Kherai ceremonies.
One Flesh
Approved rendering: मोनसे मांसो
Transliteration: monse mangso
Doctrine: Marriage and Singleness
Original: μία σάρξ
Category: Marriage and Singleness
NEW TERM. Occurs at 6:16, echoing Genesis 2:24; requires brief Genesis background teaching.
Marriage
Approved rendering: बिबाहो
Transliteration: bibaho
Doctrine: Marriage and Singleness
Original: γάμος
Category: Marriage and Singleness
NEW TERM. Occurs throughout chapter 7, affirmed by Paul as good but not obligatory.
Virgin
Approved rendering: कुवारी
Transliteration: kuwari
Doctrine: Marriage and Singleness
Original: παρθένος
Category: Marriage and Singleness
NEW TERM. Occurs at 7:25-38.
Divorce Separate
Approved rendering: जोबथा जानाय
Transliteration: jwbtha janai
Doctrine: Marriage and Singleness
Original: χωρίζω / ἀφίημι
Category: Marriage and Singleness
NEW TERM. Occurs at 7:10-15; a sensitive pastoral topic requiring the same care given to the marriage/singleness doctrine generally.
Stumbling Block
Approved rendering: बादा
Transliteration: bada
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Original: πρόσκομμα / σκάνδαλον
Category: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
NEW TERM. Occurs at 8:9,13.
Crown Prize
Approved rendering: जयनि मुकुट
Transliteration: joyni mukut
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Original: στέφανος / βραβεῖον
Category: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
NEW TERM. Occurs at 9:24-25; must not be read as a merit-earned reward contradicting grace — frame as gift/prize for faithful, Spirit-enabled perseverance.
Self Control
Approved rendering: मोनथिखौ थामनाय
Transliteration: monthikhou thamnai
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Original: ἐγκράτεια
Category: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
NEW TERM. Occurs at 9:25,27.
Disqualified
Approved rendering: गनायथि जायनाय
Transliteration: ganaithi jainai
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Original: ἀδόκιμος
Category: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
NEW TERM. Occurs at 9:27, Paul’s fear of being disqualified after preaching to others.
Temptation Testing
Approved rendering: परिक्षा
Transliteration: porikha
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Original: πειρασμός
Category: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
NEW TERM. Occurs at 10:13, ‘God is faithful… he will provide a way of escape’; must convey purposeful testing under God’s faithful oversight (connects to Providence), not a fatalistic ordeal.
Remembrance
Approved rendering: मोनथि खालामनाय
Transliteration: monthi khalamnai
Doctrine: The Lord’s Supper
Original: ἀνάμνησις
Category: The Lord’s Supper
NEW TERM. Occurs at 11:24-25, ‘do this in remembrance of me.‘
Discern The Body
Approved rendering: गुदिखौ बुझनाय
Transliteration: gudikhou bujhnai
Doctrine: The Lord’s Supper
Original: διακρίνω τὸ σῶμα
Category: The Lord’s Supper
NEW TERM. Occurs at 11:29; failure to discern the body brings judgment.
Unworthy Manner
Approved rendering: गोनां नङा हांख्रीजों
Transliteration: gonang nanga hankhrijw
Doctrine: The Lord’s Supper
Original: ἀναξίως
Category: The Lord’s Supper
NEW TERM. Occurs at 11:27, a warning against careless participation.
Manifestation Of Spirit
Approved rendering: आत्थानि दैखांनाय
Transliteration: aathani daikhannai
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
Original: φανέρωσις
Category: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
NEW TERM. Occurs at 12:7, ‘to each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.‘
Gifts Of Healing
Approved rendering: रोगा फिटायनि दान
Transliteration: roga phitaini daan
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
Original: ἰάματα
Category: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
NEW TERM. Occurs at 12:9,28,30; Spirit-sovereign, church-serving, never guaranteed on demand — distinct from a marketed personal healing power.
Imperishable
Approved rendering: गैया गोमानाय
Transliteration: gaiya gwmanai
Doctrine: The Resurrection of Christ and Believers
Original: ἄφθαρτος
Category: The Resurrection of Christ and Believers
NEW TERM. Occurs at 15:42,52-54.
Mortal Immortality
Approved rendering: मरनाय गुथि / मरा नङा गुथि
Transliteration: mwrnai guthi / mwra nanga guthi
Doctrine: The Resurrection of Christ and Believers
Original: θνητός / ἀθανασία
Category: The Resurrection of Christ and Believers
NEW TERM. Occurs at 15:53-54.
In Vain
Approved rendering: बेकार
Transliteration: bekar
Doctrine: The Resurrection of Christ and Believers
Original: κενός / κενῇ
Category: The Resurrection of Christ and Believers
NEW TERM. Thematic thread recurring at 15:2,10,14,17,58 (also echoed at v.2’s ‘in vain believed’); must be rendered identically at every occurrence so learners can trace Paul’s argument.
Maranatha
Approved rendering: मारना था
Transliteration: Marana Tha
Doctrine: Church
Rejected alternatives: ‘Our Lord, come’ as a full paraphrase, rejected because it would lose the term’s function as a recognizable early-church watchword
Original: Μαράνα θά
Category: Church
NEW TERM — Aramaic acclamation preserved as a transliteration (16:22), following the same precedent established for अब्बा (Abba) in the Romans baseline.
Low Risk Terms
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: धिनानाय
Transliteration: dhinanai
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία
Category: Faith
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Occurs at 1:4,14; 14:16-18; 15:57.
Fellowship
Approved rendering: गोसो जोंथानाय
Transliteration: gwsw jwnthanai
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Original: κοινωνία
Category: Church
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. 10:16-20 extends this to sacramental sharing at the Lord’s table, contrasted with sharing at ‘the table of demons.‘
Prophet
Approved rendering: भाबिष्यत सोंग्रा
Transliteration: bhabishyot songra
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: ओझा (a traditional folk ritual specialist/diviner, never use)
Original: προφήτης
Category: Covenant
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Occurs at 12:28-29; 14:29,32,37.
Prophecy
Approved rendering: भाबिष्यत रां
Transliteration: bhabishyot rang
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Original: προφητεία
Category: Covenant
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Central to 12:10; 13:2,8-9; 14:1-39; distinct from divinatory pronouncements made by a doudini in trance.
Exhort
Approved rendering: गोसो होनाय
Transliteration: gwsw honai
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, no modification permitted. Occurs at 1:10; 4:16; 16:15-16.
Fellow Worker
Approved rendering: समान सेवारि
Transliteration: saman sebari
Doctrine: Church
Original: συνεργός
Category: Church
NEW TERM. Occurs at 3:9, ‘we are God’s fellow workers.‘
Type Example
Approved rendering: नमुना
Transliteration: namuna
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Original: τύπος
Category: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
NEW TERM. Occurs at 10:6,11, Israel’s wilderness history as a warning type for the church.
Victory
Approved rendering: जय
Transliteration: joy
Doctrine: The Resurrection of Christ and Believers
Original: νῖκος
Category: The Resurrection of Christ and Believers
NEW TERM. Occurs at 15:54-57, ‘death is swallowed up in victory’; retain direct address to death as a defeated, personified enemy, not a vague metaphor for hardship.
Collection
Approved rendering: पबित्र मानुषनि थाखाय जमा खालामनाय
Transliteration: pobitro manwsni thakhai jama khalamnai
Doctrine: Church
Original: λογία
Category: Church
NEW TERM (built on REUSED पबित्र मानुष). Occurs at 16:1-2, the collection for the Jerusalem believers; voluntary, planned generosity, not a ritual offering.
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