Core Glossary
Core Glossary: 1 John (English → Bodo)
This glossary lists every load-bearing term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md, drawn from every chapter of 1 John (1-5). Terms already fixed in the baseline Romans translation_memory.json are marked [BASELINE — REUSED EXACTLY] and must not be altered. All new terms proposed for this curriculum are marked [NEW — 1 John] and are provisional pending confirmation by a Bodo-speaking theologian, consistent with the baseline’s own practice for compound/descriptive renderings.
Category: God, Christ, and the Spirit
| English Term | Greek (Translit.) | Bodo Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Status | Chapters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| God | θεός (theos) | ईश्वर | Isor | Critical | BASELINE — REUSED | 1-5 | Never बाथौबुरै. |
| Jesus | Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous) | जिसु | Jisu | Critical | BASELINE — REUSED | 1-5 | Standard form. |
| Christ / Messiah | Χριστός (Christos) | मसीह | Mosih | Critical | BASELINE — REUSED | 1-5 | Not one of many divine claimants. |
| Son of God | υἱὸς θεοῦ | ईश्वरनि गोरा | Isornni gwra | Critical | BASELINE — REUSED | 3,4,5 | |
| only-begotten Son | υἱὸς μονογενής | ईश्वरनि एकमात्र गोरा | Isornni ekmatro gwra | Critical | NEW — 1 John | 4 (v.9) | Extends baseline term with exclusivity marker एकमात्र; excludes rival divine-sonship claims in the Kherai pantheon. |
| Holy Spirit | πνεῦμα ἅγιον | पबित्र आत्था | pobitro aatha | Critical | BASELINE — REUSED | 3,4,5 | Never bare आत्था/देउ. |
| Father | πατήρ (patēr) | आफा | afa | Critical | BASELINE — REUSED | 1,2,3,4,5 | |
| Advocate | παράκλητος (paraklētos) | बिनयगिरि | binoigiri | Critical | NEW — 1 John | 2 (v.1) | Built on baseline intercession root; never conflated with doudini/ओझा mediation. |
| Savior | σωτήρ (sōtēr) | फोरायग्रा | phoraygra | Critical | NEW — 1 John | 4 (v.14) | Agent noun on baseline’s फोरायनाय root. |
| Spirit (generic, tested) | πνεῦμα (pneuma, lower-case) | आत्था | aatha | Critical | NEW — 1 John | 4 (vv.1-6) | Deliberately NOT पबित्र आत्था; refers to spirits behind prophets, tested by the incarnation-confession. See doctrine note below. |
| spirit of truth / spirit of error | πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας / πλάνης | सत्यनि आत्था / भ्रमनि आत्था | satyoni aatha / bhromni aatha | Critical | NEW — 1 John | 4 (v.6) | Matched pair; acute overlap with Bathou/Kherai spirit-discernment vocabulary. |
| the true God | ὁ ἀληθινός θεός | सोर ईश्वर | swr Isor | High | NEW — 1 John | 5 (v.20) | Exclusive claim against all rival deities. |
Category: Incarnation, Antichrist, and Testing the Spirits
| English Term | Greek (Translit.) | Bodo Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Status | Chapters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| incarnation (“come in the flesh”) | ἐν σαρκὶ ἐληλυθότα | मानसि गुदि सोलायनाय | manwsi gudi solainai | Critical | BASELINE — REUSED | 4 (v.2) | Never equated with doudini possession. |
| flesh / body | σάρξ (sarx) | गुदि | gudi | High | NEW — 1 John | 1,4 | Component of incarnation term; used consistently. |
| manifested / revealed | φανερόω (phaneroō) | दिन्थिनाय | dinthinai | High | NEW — 1 John | 1,3,4 | Deliberately NOT फोराय- (reserved for salvation). |
| antichrist | ἀντίχριστος (antichristos) | मसीहनि बिरोधी | Mosihni birodhi | High | NEW — 1 John | 2,4 | Not a generic evil spirit from the Bathou/Kherai spirit taxonomy. |
| test the spirits | δοκιμάζετε τὰ πνεύματα | आत्थाखौ सोलोंनाय | aathakhau swlwngnai | Critical | NEW — 1 John | 4 (v.1) | Highest-priority teaching note: only valid test is confession of the true incarnation, not ritual/lineage/trance criteria. |
| second coming / appearing | παρουσία (parousia) | मसीहनि फिन फैनाय | Mosihni phin phoinai | High | NEW — 1 John | 2 (v.28) | फिन ≠ the forbidden फिन जोनोम compound; single historical event, not a cycle. |
Category: Love and God’s Nature (Core Passage Focus)
| English Term | Greek (Translit.) | Bodo Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Status | Chapters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| love (noun) | ἀγάπη (agapē) | प्रेम | prem | Critical | NEW — 1 John | 2,3,4,5 | Must not collapse into भक्ति-style reciprocal devotion or Bathou/Kherai offering-exchange logic. |
| to love | ἀγαπάω (agapaō) | प्रेम खालामनाय | prem khalamnai | Critical | NEW — 1 John | 2,3,4,5 | Verbal form of प्रेम. |
| ”God is love” | ὁ θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν | ईश्वर सैलेइ प्रेम / ईश्वरनि सारा गुण प्रेम | Isor sailei prem | Critical | NEW — 1 John | 4 (vv.8,16) | Essence-statement; requires theologian confirmation of Bodo copula’s ontological force. Must render verbatim-identically at every occurrence. |
| ”God is light” | ὁ θεὸς φῶς ἐστίν | ईश्वर सैलेइ उजाव | Isor sailei ujao | Critical | NEW — 1 John | 1 (v.5) | Structural twin of “God is love”; must not identify God with the sijou plant’s fire-element (or). |
| light | φῶς (phōs) | उजाव | ujao | Critical | NEW — 1 John | 1,2 | See above. |
| darkness | σκοτία (skotia) | अंधकार | andhokar | High | NEW — 1 John | 1,2 | Moral/relational, not ritual-impurity darkness. |
| propitiation / atoning sacrifice | ἱλασμός (hilasmos) | गुनाह मायांनाय बलि | gunah mayangnai boli | Critical | NEW — 1 John | 2,4 | Rejects प्रायश्चित्त (self-performed penance); God provides the sacrifice, direction inverted from Bathou/Kherai offering logic. |
| perfected / made complete | τελειόω (teleioō) | पूरा जानाय | pura janai | High | NEW — 1 John | 2,4 | Not Brahma Dharma-style self-achieved moral perfection. |
| first (loved us first) | πρῶτος (prōtos) | सिगां | sigang | Critical | NEW — 1 John | 4 (v.19) | Crystallizes grace-priority logic; memory-verse candidate. |
| ought / are obligated | ὀφείλω (opheilō) | गोनांथि | gonanthi | Medium | NEW — 1 John | 4 (v.11) | Gratitude-driven, not merit-generating. |
| fear (dread) | φόβος (phobos) | गिबि | gibi | High | NEW — 1 John | 4 (v.18) | Addresses live anxious-dread-of-spirits motivator in traditional practice — apologetic opportunity. |
| torment / punishment | κόλασις (kolasis) | सजा | saja | Medium | NEW — 1 John | 4 (v.18) |
Category: Fellowship, Abiding, and the Church
| English Term | Greek (Translit.) | Bodo Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Status | Chapters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fellowship | κοινωνία (koinōnia) | गोसो जोंथानाय | gwsw jwnthanai | Low | BASELINE — REUSED | 1 | Fellowship with God and with one another are mutually verifying in this letter. |
| abide / remain | μένω (menō) | थाखानाय | thakhanai | High | NEW — 1 John | 2,3,4 | Governing verb of the letter; never suggests ancestral/household-spirit dwelling. Verbatim-consistent rendering required. |
| word of life | λόγος τῆς ζωῆς | जिउनि राव | jiuni rao | Medium | NEW — 1 John | 1 | राव reused from baseline’s justification compound. |
| brother(s) | ἀδελφός (adelphos) | बाई | bai | Medium-High | NEW — 1 John | 2,3,4 | Spiritual family beyond clan/afad lineage — flag for native-speaker review. |
| commandment | ἐντολή (entolē) | आदेश | adesh | Medium | NEW — 1 John | 2,3,4,5 | Distinct from बिथान (Mosaic Law as covenant code) and from Brahma Dharma’s codified conduct-rules. |
Category: Sin, Confession, and Cleansing
| English Term | Greek (Translit.) | Bodo Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Status | Chapters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sin | ἁμαρτία (hamartia) | गुनाह | gunah | High | BASELINE — REUSED | 1,3,5 | |
| confess (sin) | ὁμολογέω (homologeō) | स्वीकार खालामनाय | sikar khalamnai | High | NEW — 1 John | 1 (v.9) | Context-sensitive: sin (1:9) vs. Christ’s identity (4:15) — same verb, different objects. |
| confess (Christ) | ὁμολογέω (homologeō) | स्वीकार खालामनाय | sikar khalamnai | Critical | NEW — 1 John | 2,4 | Equivalent weight to Romans 10:9’s Lordship confession. |
| cleanse | καθαρίζω (katharizō) | गुनाहनि सोरखां साफनाय | gunahni sworkhang saphnai | Critical | NEW — 1 John | 1 (v.9) | Tension with baseline’s साफ restriction (ritual-only); requires explicit “of sin’s stain” qualifier and theologian sign-off. |
| faithful / trustworthy (of God) | πιστός (pistos) | बिश्वासी | biswasi | Medium | NEW — 1 John | 1 (v.9) | Distinct from πίστις/बिश्वास (believer’s trust). |
| lawlessness | ἀνομία (anomia) | बिथान लांनाय | bithan langnai | Medium | NEW — 1 John | 3 (v.4) | Not ritual-taboo violation. |
| liar | ψεύστης (pseustēs) | मैथाइगिरि | maithaigiri | Medium | NEW — 1 John | 1,2,4 | Preserve bluntness; do not soften. |
| sin unto death | ἁμαρτία πρὸς θάνατον | मोदोमाव थांनाय गुनाह | mwdwmau thangnai gunah | Medium-High | NEW — 1 John | 5 (v.16) | Not a magical curse-consequence; unrepentant apostasy. |
| devil / evil one | διάβολος / ὁ πονηρός | शैतान | shaitan | Medium | NEW — 1 John | 2,3,5 | Personal, defeated enemy; distinct from amoral nature/ancestral spirits. |
| murderer | ἀνθρωποκτόνος (anthrōpoktonos) | मानुष सोरगिरि | manush sworgiri | Low | NEW — 1 John | 3 (v.15) |
Category: New Birth, Sonship, and Assurance
| English Term | Greek (Translit.) | Bodo Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Status | Chapters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| born of God | γεννάω ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ | ईश्वरनिफ्राय जायनाय | Isornniphray jainai | Critical | NEW — 1 John | 2,3,4,5 | Must never use जोनोम-based compounds (rebirth/reincarnation risk); verbatim-consistent. |
| children of God | τέκνα θεοῦ (tekna theou) | ईश्वरनि फिसा | Isornni phisa | High | NEW — 1 John | 3 | Complements, does not replace, baseline’s adoption doctrine (गोसोआव फैनाय). |
| his seed (abiding) | σπέρμα αὐτοῦ (sperma autou) | बेंसे | bense | Medium-High | NEW — 1 John | 3 (v.9) | Reuses baseline’s Davidic-seed root metaphorically; flag as deliberate metaphor, not literal genealogy. |
| eternal life | ζωὴ αἰώνιος (zōē aiōnios) | अनन्त जिउ | anonto jiu | Critical | NEW — 1 John | 5 | Present possession, not future uncertainty; never मोक्ष-style liberation. |
| confidence / boldness / assurance | παρρησία (parrēsia) | निश्चय | nishchoy | High | NEW — 1 John | 2,3,4,5 | Reuses baseline’s assurance-of-salvation term; grounded in Christ’s finished work, never ritual/merit record. |
| testimony / witness | μαρτυρία (martyria) | साक्ष्य | sakhyo | High | NEW — 1 John | 1,4,5 | God’s own self-testimony; unique category, not human/ritual witness. |
| lay down one’s life | τίθημι τὴν ψυχήν | जिउ होनाय | jiu honai | Medium-High | NEW — 1 John | 3 (v.16) | Self-giving love, not appeasement-offering. |
| overcome / victory | νικάω (nikaō) | जिनाय | jinai | Medium-High | NEW — 1 John | 2,4,5 | Spiritual victory; flag against militant/political overtones given Bodoland’s political history. |
Category: The World, Idols, and Closing Warnings
| English Term | Greek (Translit.) | Bodo Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Status | Chapters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| world (loved by God) | κόσμος (kosmos), sense (b) | दुनिया | duniya | Medium | NEW — 1 John | 4 (v.9) | Object of God’s saving love. |
| world (opposed system) | κόσμος (kosmos), sense (c) | दुनिया | duniya | High | NEW — 1 John | 2 (vv.15-17), 4 (vv.4-5), 5 (v.19) | Same Bodo word as above; MUST be sense-flagged at every occurrence. |
| lust of the flesh | ἐπιθυμία τῆς σαρκός | गुदिनि खमो | gudini khamw | Medium | NEW — 1 John | 2 (v.16) | |
| lust of the eyes | ἐπιθυμία τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν | नाथाइनि खमो | nathaini khamw | Medium | NEW — 1 John | 2 (v.16) | |
| pride of life | ἀλαζονεία τοῦ βίου | जिउनि गर्ब | jiuni gorbo | Medium | NEW — 1 John | 2 (v.16) | |
| idols | εἴδωλον (eidōlon) | मूर्ति | murti | Critical | NEW — 1 John | 5 (v.21) | Narrow (iconic) sense must be explicitly extended in teaching notes to cover the aniconic sijou-plant/Kherai-pantheon devotion. |
| water and blood and Spirit | ὕδωρ καὶ αἷμα καὶ πνεῦμα | दुइ, रं, आरो पबित्र आत्था | dwi, rwng, aru pobitro aatha | High | NEW — 1 John | 5 (vv.6-8) | Testimonial function only; no independent ritual-purifying power implied. |
Category: Address, Style, and Low-Risk Vocabulary
| English Term | Greek (Translit.) | Bodo Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Status | Chapters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| beloved (address) | ἀγαπητοί (agapētoi) | मोसामोर बाईफोर | mwsamwr baifwr | Low | NEW — 1 John | 2,3,4 | Register/warmth only. |
| little children (address) | τεκνία / παιδία | फिसामोन | phisamwn | Low | NEW — 1 John | 2,3,4,5 | Affectionate diminutive address, not literal age. |
| young men / fathers (address) | νεανίσκοι / πατέρες | बर’मानसिफोर / आफासोरफोर | bwrmanshifwr / afaswrfwr | Low-Medium | NEW — 1 John | 2 (vv.13-14) | Spiritual-maturity rhetoric, not literal age-cohorts. |
| walk (conduct) | περιπατέω (peripateō) | जिउ थानाय | jiu thanai | Low-Medium | NEW — 1 John | 1,2 | Habitual conduct idiom. |
| write | γράφω (graphō) | लिरनाय | lirnai | Low | NEW — 1 John | 2 | Standard epistolary term. |
| stumbling-block | σκάνδαλον (skandalon) | बासथि | basthi | Low | NEW — 1 John | 2 (v.10) | Provisional; confirm naturalness. |
| heart condemns | καρδία καταγινώσκῃ | गोसोआ दोष होबाय | gwswa dosh hobai | Medium | NEW — 1 John | 3 (vv.20-21) | Conscience, not spirit-displeasure/curse-fear. |
| compassion (bowels) | σπλάγχνα (splanchna) | गोसोनि दुखुयारि | gwswni dukhuyari | Low-Medium | NEW — 1 John | 3 (v.17) | Idiom-handling: preserve meaning over literal image. |
| burdensome | βαρύς (barys) | भारी | bhari | Low | NEW — 1 John | 5 (v.3) | Connects to baseline’s obedience_of_faith doctrine. |
| day of judgment | ἡμέρα τῆς κρίσεως | न्यायनि सान | nyayni san | Medium | NEW — 1 John | 4 (v.17) | Singular divine tribunal, not impersonal karmic reckoning. |
| understanding | διάνοια (dianoia) | बुझिनाय | bujinai | Low | NEW — 1 John | 5 (v.20) | |
| proper name: Cain | Κάϊν (Kain) | कैन | Kain | Low | NEW — 1 John | 3 (v.12) | Standard transliteration. |
Risk Distribution Summary (1 John Curriculum)
| Risk Tier | Count | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 20 | Human theologian (mandatory) |
| High | 17 | Human theologian (mandatory) |
| Medium-High | 6 | Human theologian (recommended) / Native speaker (minimum) |
| Medium | 15 | Native speaker review |
| Low-Medium | 4 | Native speaker review |
| Low | 10 | Automated review sufficient |
Notes for Phase 2 integration:
- All [BASELINE — REUSED] terms must be loaded directly from the existing
translation_memory.json; do not re-derive or re-risk-assess them. - All [NEW — 1 John] terms must be added to a curriculum-specific extension of
translation_memory.json(version-incremented per the requirements document’s Translation Memory Load and Enforcement Instructions) before Phase 2 segment translation begins, with Critical/High entries flagged for theologian review prior to first use. - The three highest-priority terms for early theologian sign-off, given their combination of doctrinal centrality and cultural-collision risk, are: ὁ θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν / ὁ θεὸς φῶς ἐστίν (essence-statement grammar), δοκιμάζετε τὰ πνεύματα (spirit-testing overlap with Kherai practice), and εἴδωλον (aniconic-idolatry extension). These should be resolved before any Phase 2 translation of chapters 1, 4, or 5 proceeds.
Critical Risk Terms
God
Approved rendering: ईश्वर
Transliteration: Isor
Doctrine: Deity of Christ / God is Light / God is Love
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. 1 John’s repeated identity-statements (“God is light,” 1:5; “God is love,” 4:8,16) make this term’s exclusivity even more load-bearing than in Romans, since the letter explicitly contrasts the true God against “many antichrists” (2:18) and “idols” (5:21).
Jesus
Approved rendering: जिसु
Transliteration: Jisu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ / Incarnation
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. 1 John repeatedly ties this name to a specific historical confession (“Jesus Christ come in the flesh,” 4:2; “Jesus is the Christ,” 5:1) that functions as the letter’s test for true versus false spirits.
Messiah
Approved rendering: मसीह
Transliteration: Mosih
Doctrine: Messianic Promise / The Incarnation of Christ
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Also renders the general title “Christ” throughout 1 John (2:1,22; 4:2; 5:1,6,20). Never one of many divine claimants recognized in the Kherai pantheon.
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 τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Central to 1 John’s confession formula (4:15; 5:5,10,12,20). Must not be softened to “a divine figure” or “a son among sons” given the populated Kherai pantheon’s own divine and semi-divine offspring figures.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: पबित्र आत्था
Transliteration: pobitro aatha
Doctrine: Testing the Spirits (contrast term)
Rejected alternatives: देउ (a generic spirit-being from the Bathou/Kherai pantheon, never use), बुरहा-बुरही आत्था (ancestral household spirits, never use), bare आत्था (never use alone for the Holy Spirit himself)
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον / τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Must always appear in full. 1 John’s own vocabulary of testing lower-case πνεύματα (4:1-6) makes this distinction sharper here than anywhere else in the curriculum — the Holy Spirit must never be confused with the generic spirits under examination.
Father
Approved rendering: आफा
Transliteration: afa
Doctrine: Adoption / Children of God
Rejected alternatives: बाथौबुरै (reserve strictly for describing traditional belief, never for the biblical Father)
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. God as personal Father, sender of the Son (4:14) and object of confident address (2:1).
Righteousness
Approved rendering: धार्मिकता
Transliteration: dharmikota
Doctrine: Confession of Sin / Cleansing and Forgiveness of Sin
Rejected alternatives: धर्म (avoid the bare Sanskritic sense of cosmic duty imported through Brahma Dharma reform teaching)
Inherited from Romans package. Underlies 1:9’s “faithful and just [δίκαιος] to forgive” — God’s own righteous character, the ground of forgiveness upon confession.
Incarnation
Approved rendering: मानसि गुदि सोलायनाय
Transliteration: manwsi gudi solainai
Doctrine: The Incarnation of Christ
Rejected alternatives: देउनि आगोर (a deity temporarily ‘descending into’ or speaking through a doudini during Kherai trance, never use)
Original: ἐν σαρκὶ ἐληλυθότα
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. The confessional test for true versus false spirits in 1 John (4:2-3) turns entirely on this doctrine. Must be sharply distinguished from the doudini’s Kherai-trance possession, in which a deity temporarily seizes and speaks through a human medium.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: जिउनाय सोलायनाय
Transliteration: jiunai solainai
Doctrine: Eternal Life (background doctrine)
Rejected alternatives: फिन जोनोम (rebirth into a new life-cycle, absorbed into Brahma Dharma from Hindu reincarnation teaching, never use)
Inherited from Romans package. Retained because the जोनोम-forbidding logic directly governs this book’s own ‘born of God’ (γεννάω) rendering — the same forbidden root must never leak into born_of_god either.
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
Inherited from Romans package. Applies to any Lordship-of-Christ language occurring within 1 John’s confession passages (e.g., in connection with 5:1, 5:20’s exclusive claims).
Salvation
Approved rendering: फोरायनाय
Transliteration: phoraynai
Doctrine: Assurance of Salvation / Eternal Life
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)
Inherited from Romans package. Underlies फोरायग्रा (Savior, an agent-noun built on this root) and the letter’s broader rescue-vocabulary (4:14).
Grace
Approved rendering: मोफादांनाय दान
Transliteration: mwphwdangnai daan
Doctrine: God is Love / Propitiation
Rejected alternatives: दान गोरोबनाय (a reciprocal gift expecting return offering, rejected), पुण्य (Brahma Dharma merit-language, never use)
Inherited from Romans package. Directly underlies 1 John 4:10, 4:19’s unmerited, God-initiated love logic; the same reciprocal-exchange and merit risks documented in the baseline apply here with equal force.
Only Begotten Son
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि एकमात्र गोरा
Transliteration: Isornni ekmatro gwra
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ईश्वरनि गोरा alone without the exclusivity marker (insufficient — fails to exclude rival divine-sonship claims within the Kherai pantheon)
Original: υἱὸς μονογενής
Category: Christology
Extends son_of_god with एकमात्र (“sole/only-one”). Must be taught as excluding, not merely outranking, any other claimant to divine sonship (1 John 4:9).
Advocate
Approved rendering: बिनयगिरि
Transliteration: binoigiri
Doctrine: Christ’s Ongoing Advocacy
Rejected alternatives: doudini/ओझा household-mediation vocabulary, never use
Original: παράκλητος
Category: Salvation
Built on the baseline’s intercession root (मोनसे नि थाखाय बिनयनाय) for cross-curriculum consistency. Christ’s advocacy (2:1) is a unique, once-secured, heavenly legal standing, not a repeatable ritual petition.
Savior
Approved rendering: फोरायग्रा
Transliteration: phoraygra
Doctrine: Assurance of Salvation
Original: σωτήρ
Category: Salvation
Agent noun built directly on the baseline’s Critical फोरायनाय root (4:14). No comparable personal-rescuer office exists in Bathouism or Brahma Dharma; must be taught from the ground up as naming a specific person.
Spirit Generic Tested
Approved rendering: आत्था
Transliteration: aatha
Doctrine: Testing the Spirits
Rejected alternatives: पबित्र आत्था (never substitute the full Holy Spirit term for this deliberately generic sense)
Original: πνεῦμα (lower-case)
Category: Pneumatology
Deliberately NOT पबित्र आत्था — bare आत्था is linguistically correct here, but this creates acute overlap with the currently-practiced Bathou/Kherai vocabulary of discerning which spirit speaks through a prophet, oracle, or doudini in trance (4:1). Must always be paired with explicit teaching that the ONLY valid test is confession of Christ’s true incarnate identity (4:2-3).
Spirit Of Truth
Approved rendering: सत्यनि आत्था
Transliteration: satyoni aatha
Doctrine: Testing the Spirits
Original: πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας
Category: Pneumatology
Matched pair with spirit_of_error (4:6); belongs to the same acute discernment-passage risk as test_the_spirits.
Spirit Of Error
Approved rendering: भ्रमनि आत्था
Transliteration: bhromni aatha
Doctrine: Testing the Spirits
Rejected alternatives: any specific named spirit from the Bathou/Kherai spirit taxonomy — never equate; the distinguishing mark is doctrinal (denial of the incarnation), not ritual or genealogical
Original: πνεῦμα τῆς πλάνης
Category: Pneumatology
Matched pair with spirit_of_truth (4:6).
Test The Spirits
Approved rendering: आत्थाखौ सोलोंनाय
Transliteration: aathakhau swlwngnai
Doctrine: Testing the Spirits
Rejected alternatives: ritual-correctness, officiant-lineage, or trance-authenticity discernment criteria drawn from Kherai puja practice, never use as the criterion
Original: δοκιμάζετε τὰ πνεύματα
Category: Pneumatology
The single highest-priority discernment term in this curriculum (4:1). The ONLY valid apostolic test is confession of Christ’s true incarnate identity, displacing every ritual or experiential criterion from traditional practice.
Love Noun
Approved rendering: प्रेम
Transliteration: prem
Doctrine: God is Love
Rejected alternatives: भक्ति-style reciprocal, favor-securing devotion vocabulary, never use
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Love
Governs the entire core passage (4:7-21). Every occurrence requires contextual reinforcement that this love originates in God, not in human religious performance or ritual exchange.
Love Verb
Approved rendering: प्रेम खालामनाय
Transliteration: prem khalamnai
Doctrine: God is Love / Love for the Brethren as Evidence of New Birth
Rejected alternatives: भक्ति-style reciprocal devotion vocabulary, never use
Original: ἀγαπάω
Category: Love
Verbal form of प्रेम, built on Bodo’s productive verbalizing auxiliary खालामनाय (parallel to माफ खालामनाय, “to forgive”).
God Is Love Statement
Approved rendering: ईश्वर सैलेइ प्रेम
Transliteration: Isor sailei prem
Doctrine: God is Love
Rejected alternatives: a possession/quality reading (‘God has love’ or ‘God is loving’) — rejected pending theologian confirmation that the Bodo copula bears the full essence-statement force
Original: ὁ θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν
Category: God
The single highest-stakes doctrinal statement in the letter (4:8, 4:16). MUST render verbatim-identically at both occurrences. Requires direct theologian confirmation of the copula’s ontological force before wide deployment.
God Is Light Statement
Approved rendering: ईश्वर सैलेइ उजाव
Transliteration: Isor sailei ujao
Doctrine: God is Light
Rejected alternatives: or/fire-derived terms tied to the sijou plant’s five-branch cosmology, never use
Original: ὁ θεὸς φῶς ἐστίν
Category: God
Structural twin of god_is_love_statement (1:5). Must be taught as a moral/relational claim about God’s truthfulness and purity, explicitly not an identification of God with the fire-element (or) of Bathou cosmology.
Light
Approved rendering: उजाव
Transliteration: ujao
Doctrine: God is Light
Rejected alternatives: or (the sijou plant’s fire-element vocabulary), never use
Original: φῶς
Category: God
[TRANSLATOR NOTE: φῶς rendered उजाव rather than any or/fire-derived term, to avoid identifying the biblical God with the fire-element of Bathou cosmology.]
Propitiation
Approved rendering: गुनाह मायांनाय बलि
Transliteration: gunah mayangnai boli
Doctrine: Propitiation / Christ’s Atoning Sacrifice
Rejected alternatives: प्रायश्चित्त (self-performed penance) — never use, relocates the atoning action from Christ to the worshipper’s own religious performance
Original: ἱλασμός
Category: Salvation
बलि is the doctrinally correct register (a costly offering laid before a deity) precisely because such offerings are a live, currently-practiced part of Bodo religious life — but the direction must be taught as inverted: God himself provides the बलि, once, by his own initiative (2:2; 4:10), not the household offering it TO a deity.
First Loved Us
Approved rendering: सिगां
Transliteration: sigang
Doctrine: God is Love
Original: πρῶτος (ἠγάπησεν ἡμᾶς)
Category: Salvation
Crystallizes the letter’s entire grace-priority logic into a single memorable clause (4:19); prioritized as a memory-verse candidate precisely because its brevity risks being learned as a slogan without its doctrinal weight.
Confess Christ
Approved rendering: स्वीकार खालामनाय
Transliteration: sikar khalamnai
Doctrine: The Incarnation of Christ / Testing the Spirits
Original: ὁμολογέω (Ἰησοῦν)
Category: Christology
To publicly affirm Jesus’ identity as the Christ, Son of God, come in the flesh (2:23; 4:2-3,15; 5:1). Functionally equivalent in doctrinal weight to the baseline’s Critical Romans 10:9 Lordship confession and requires the same escalation to human theologian review at every occurrence.
Cleanse
Approved rendering: गुनाहनि सोरखां साफनाय
Transliteration: gunahni sworkhang saphnai
Doctrine: Cleansing and Forgiveness of Sin
Rejected alternatives: bare साफ alone — rejected, reserved by baseline rule for physical/ritual cleanliness only, पबित्रनाय alone — rejected, denotes the Spirit’s ongoing sanctifying work, not a once-for-all judicial cleansing
Original: καθαρίζω
Category: Sanctification
Direct tension with the baseline’s own restriction on साफ. This provisional compound retains साफ but qualifies it explicitly with “of sin’s stain” (गुनाहनि सोरखां) EVERY TIME (1:7,9), to signal judicial/moral cleansing by Christ’s blood, not ritual purification. Requires theologian sign-off before wide deployment.
Born Of God
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनिफ्राय जायनाय
Transliteration: Isornniphray jainai
Doctrine: New Birth (Born of God)
Rejected alternatives: जोनोम-based compounds (e.g., फिन जोनोम) — FORBIDDEN, this is the rebirth/reincarnation register absorbed via Brahma Dharma’s Hindu-influenced reform teaching
Original: γεννάω ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Salvation
[TRANSLATOR NOTE: γεννάω rendered ईश्वरनिफ्राय जायनाय rather than any जोनोम-based compound.] A single, decisive, non-repeatable spiritual birth (2:29; 3:9; 4:7; 5:1,4,18), not one turn of a cycle. Requires verbatim-consistent rendering at every occurrence.
Eternal Life
Approved rendering: अनन्त जिउ
Transliteration: anonto jiu
Doctrine: Eternal Life
Rejected alternatives: मोक्ष-style liberation language — FORBIDDEN, per baseline
Original: ζωὴ αἰώνιος
Category: Salvation
Full, genuine, God-given life, possessed now and consummated in the future (1:2; 2:25; 3:14-15; 5:11-13,20). Genuine conceptual gap: Bathouism has no developed eschatological life-after-death category oriented toward reconciliation with a personal God. The present-tense certainty of 5:13 (“that you may KNOW you have eternal life”) is a significant apologetic point requiring explicit ground-up teaching.
Idols
Approved rendering: मूर्ति
Transliteration: murti
Doctrine: Idolatry and Exclusive Devotion to the True God
Rejected alternatives: a narrow iconic-only reading — must be extended via mandatory teacher notes to cover Bathou’s aniconic sijou-plant devotion and the Kherai pantheon
Original: εἴδωλα
Category: Sin
Any rival object, image, plant, ritual locus, or spirit-being treated as a focus of worship, trust, or ultimate allegiance (5:21). मूर्ति narrowly denotes carved/cast image-idols, but Bathou worship of Bathoubwrai through the sijou plant is explicitly ANICONIC; teacher notes (not necessarily reader-facing text) must state this extension explicitly by name.
High Risk Terms
Sin
Approved rendering: गुनाह
Transliteration: gunah
Doctrine: Confession of Sin
Rejected alternatives: दोष (fault/blame, too weak/civic)
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans package. Must be distinguished from ritual impurity addressed through Bathou/Kherai cleansing rites, which restore household or community harmony rather than answering to a holy God.
Holy
Approved rendering: पबित्र
Transliteration: pobitro
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: साफ (physically clean, ritual-purity sense only)
Inherited from Romans package. Undergirds the “God is light” moral-purity claim (1:5) and सaफ’s restriction to physical/ritual cleanliness.
Faith
Approved rendering: बिश्वास
Transliteration: biswas
Doctrine: Overcoming the World
Rejected alternatives: भरोसा (generic trust, too weak alone)
Original: πίστις / πιστεύω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. The object of बिश्वास must always be named as Jesus/Christ specifically (5:1,4-5,10,13); otherwise it risks being read as generic devotion transferable to Bathoubwrai or the wider Kherai pantheon.
Glory
Approved rendering: महिमा
Transliteration: mohima
Doctrine: Deity of Christ (adjacent)
Inherited from Romans package. Reused without modification for any glory-language occurring in 1 John’s Christological passages.
Covenant
Approved rendering: गोसाथारि
Transliteration: gwsathari
Doctrine: Fellowship with God (background doctrine)
Inherited from Romans package. Retained for any relational-covenant-bond language that may arise in teaching notes framing 1 John’s fellowship and abiding doctrines against Old Testament covenant background.
True God
Approved rendering: सोर ईश्वर
Transliteration: swr Isor
Doctrine: Idolatry and Exclusive Devotion to the True God
Rejected alternatives: subordinationist glosses that read ‘true God’ (5:20) as excluding the Son, per the Jehovah’s Witness/New World Translation pattern — never use
Original: ὁ ἀληθινός (θεός)
Category: God
In a landscape where Bathoubwrai, the Kherai pantheon, and Brahma Dharma’s reformed monotheism all present rival claims to ultimate reality, this closing designation is a direct, exclusive apologetic claim and must not be softened into a comparative or relative sense.
Flesh
Approved rendering: गुदि
Transliteration: gudi
Doctrine: The Incarnation of Christ
Original: σάρξ
Category: Christology
Component of the incarnation compound (मानसि गुदि सोलायनाय); used consistently across two senses — Christ’s real body (4:2) vs. sinful bodily desire (2:16) — disambiguated by context.
Manifested
Approved rendering: दिन्थिनाय
Transliteration: dinthinai
Doctrine: The Incarnation of Christ
Rejected alternatives: फोराय- root compounds (reserved for the Critical फोरायनाय/salvation term), never use for manifestation
Original: φανερόω
Category: Christology
Used for the Son’s incarnation being made visible (1:2; 3:5,8) and for God’s love being manifested (4:9). Must be distinguished from a deity’s temporary self-disclosure through doudini possession.
Antichrist
Approved rendering: मसीहनि बिरोधी
Transliteration: Mosihni birodhi
Doctrine: Antichrist and False Teaching
Rejected alternatives: generic evil-spirit vocabulary from the Bathou/Kherai spirit taxonomy, never use
Original: ἀντίχριστος
Category: Christology
A specific theological category — denial of Christ’s true incarnate identity (2:18,22; 4:3) — not a generic malevolent being.
Parousia Second Coming
Approved rendering: मसीहनि फिन फैनाय
Transliteration: Mosihni phin phoinai
Doctrine: Christ’s Second Coming
Rejected alternatives: फिन जोनोम-based compounds — FORBIDDEN, this is the rebirth/reincarnation register absorbed via Brahma Dharma
Original: παρουσία
Category: Eschatology
[TRANSLATOR NOTE: फिन here means only “again” (2:28); confirm this is never confused with the forbidden फिन जोनोम compound, despite the shared morpheme.]
Darkness
Approved rendering: अंधकार
Transliteration: andhokar
Doctrine: God is Light
Original: σκοτία
Category: Ethics
Purely moral/relational sphere of sin, falsehood, and separation from God (1:5-6; 2:9,11); not a physical or seasonal category.
Perfected
Approved rendering: पूरा जानाय
Transliteration: pura janai
Doctrine: Perfect Love Casts Out Fear
Rejected alternatives: Brahma Dharma-adjacent self-achieved moral perfection framing, avoid
Original: τελειόω
Category: Sanctification
τελειόω (2:5; 4:12,17-18) describes love reaching its God-given shape in community, not an individual’s accumulated moral attainment.
Fear
Approved rendering: गिबि
Transliteration: gibi
Doctrine: Perfect Love Casts Out Fear
Original: φόβος
Category: Assurance
Anxious dread of punishment/condemnation, which perfect love casts out (4:18). Anxious fear of displeasing or being harmed by unpredictable spirit-powers is a live, motivating force in traditional Bathou household and Kherai religious life; this passage should be taught as making direct apologetic contact with that lived experience.
Abide
Approved rendering: थाखानाय
Transliteration: thakhanai
Doctrine: Fellowship with God
Rejected alternatives: spirit/ancestral-dwelling vocabulary tied to a household, the sijou plant, or a ritual site, never use
Original: μένω
Category: Sanctification
The letter’s most theologically loaded and most frequent verb (~24 occurrences). Must be taught as an ongoing, personal, covenantal relationship with the one true God, categorically distinct from a spirit or ancestral presence dwelling in a physical locus. Requires verbatim-consistent rendering at every occurrence.
Brother
Approved rendering: बाई
Transliteration: bai
Doctrine: Fellowship with One Another / Love for the Brethren as Evidence of New Birth
Original: ἀδελφός
Category: Church
Strong Bodo clan (afad) kinship structures make “brother” a category with deep blood-lineage weight; teaching must make explicit that ἀδελφός designates the whole believing community across clan lines (2:9-11; 3:10-17; 4:20-21).
Confess Sin
Approved rendering: स्वीकार खालामनाय
Transliteration: sikar khalamnai
Doctrine: Confession of Sin
Original: ὁμολογέω (ἁμαρτίας)
Category: Sin
To acknowledge one’s sin before God, receiving his faithful and just forgiveness (1:9). Same verb as confess_christ, but with sin, not Christ’s identity, as its object — the two senses must never be flattened together.
Sin Unto Death
Approved rendering: मोदोमाव थांनाय गुनाह
Transliteration: mwdwmau thangnai gunah
Doctrine: Sin Unto Death and Apostasy
Rejected alternatives: curse-consequence/taboo-violation-and-ritual-remedy framing, never use
Original: ἁμαρτία πρὸς θάνατον
Category: Sin
A settled state of persistent, unrepentant rejection of Christ (5:16). Maps disturbingly easily onto an existing folk-religious category; must be taught explicitly as NOT a magical curse-consequence.
Children Of God
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि फिसा
Transliteration: Isornni phisa
Doctrine: Children of God / Sonship
Original: τέκνα θεοῦ
Category: Salvation
Believers as God’s own organically-born children (3:1-2,10). Complements, but must not be collapsed into, the baseline’s legal-adoption term (गोसोआव फैनाय): Romans emphasizes legal placement into inheritance rights; John emphasizes organic new birth from God’s own life.
Seed Of God
Approved rendering: बेंसे
Transliteration: bense
Doctrine: Children of God / Sonship
Rejected alternatives: a literal genealogical reading — must be flagged explicitly as deliberate scriptural metaphor, not literal lineage
Original: σπέρμα αὐτοῦ
Category: Salvation
Reuses the baseline’s established बेंसे root from दाऊदनि बेंसे (“seed of David”), applied here (3:9) metaphorically to a spiritual, God-given generative principle.
Confidence Assurance
Approved rendering: निश्चय
Transliteration: nishchoy
Doctrine: Assurance of Salvation
Original: παρρησία
Category: Assurance
Reuses the baseline’s assurance-of-salvation term. Must be grounded explicitly in Christ’s finished atoning work (2:28; 3:21; 4:17; 5:14), never in an accumulated record of ritual offerings, purifications, or merit.
Testimony
Approved rendering: साक्ष्य
Transliteration: sakhyo
Doctrine: The Testimony of God Concerning the Son
Rejected alternatives: doudini trance-testimony framing, avoid
Original: μαρτυρία / μαρτυρέω
Category: Christology
Authoritative eyewitness or divine self-testimony to Christ’s identity (1:2; 4:14; 5:6-11). God’s own self-testimony (5:9) is a unique, self-authenticating category, distinct from any human witness or ritual attestation.
Lay Down Life
Approved rendering: जिउ होनाय
Transliteration: jiu honai
Doctrine: Love for the Brethren as Evidence of New Birth
Rejected alternatives: votive/animal-sacrifice offering-to-a-deity framing, avoid — the direction and purpose in 1 John are opposite
Original: τίθημι τὴν ψυχήν
Category: Ethics
Sacrificial self-giving unto death, modeled on Christ’s own death and required in the believer’s love for the brethren (3:16).
Overcome Victory
Approved rendering: जिनाय
Transliteration: jinai
Doctrine: Overcoming the World
Rejected alternatives: militant/political conquest framing — must be avoided given the Bodoland Territorial Region’s recent history of ethnic-political armed struggle
Original: νικάω
Category: Assurance
Spiritual victory over the world, achieved through faith, not human strength (2:13-14; 4:4; 5:4-5).
World Opposed System
Approved rendering: दुनिया
Transliteration: duniya
Doctrine: The World and Its Desires
Original: κόσμος (sense: system in rebellion against God)
Category: Ethics
The organized system of human values in rebellion against God (2:15-17; 4:4-5; 5:19). 1 John’s use of κόσμος in two opposed senses within the same short letter is a genuine translation-clarity challenge; every occurrence must be sense-flagged, never assumed settled from a single prior instance.
Water Blood Spirit
Approved rendering: दुइ, रं, आरो पबित्र आत्था
Transliteration: dwi, rwng, aru pobitro aatha
Doctrine: The Testimony of God Concerning the Son
Rejected alternatives: independently-efficacious ritual-purification framing for ‘water’, avoid
Original: τὸ ὕδωρ καὶ τὸ αἷμα καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα
Category: Christology
The three corroborating witnesses to the Son’s identity (5:6-8). Water is a live ritual substance in Bathou/Kherai purification practice; must be taught as purely testimonial reference to Christ’s baptism, not independently efficacious.
Medium Risk Terms
Law
Approved rendering: बिथान
Transliteration: bithan
Doctrine: Distinguishing Children of God from Children of the Devil
Rejected alternatives: धर्मनि नियम (Brahma Dharma’s own codified religious-conduct rules, avoid as the primary gloss)
Inherited from Romans package. Underlies ἀνομία/“lawlessness” (3:4) as violation of God’s revealed law; must remain distinct from Christ’s relational ἐντολή (commandment).
Ought Obligated
Approved rendering: गोनांथि
Transliteration: gonanthi
Doctrine: Love for the Brethren as Evidence of New Birth
Original: ὀφείλω
Category: Ethics
A moral debt/necessity to love one another (4:11), incurred by having already received God’s prior love — gratitude-driven, not merit-generating.
Torment Punishment
Approved rendering: सजा
Transliteration: saja
Doctrine: Perfect Love Casts Out Fear
Original: κόλασις
Category: Eschatology
The pain/consequence anticipated by fear of judgment (4:18).
Word Of Life
Approved rendering: जिउनि राव
Transliteration: jiuni rao
Doctrine: The Incarnation of Christ (background)
Original: ὁ λόγος τῆς ζωῆς
Category: Scripture
A specific, historical, eyewitness-verified message (1:1), not an oral tradition of unfixed authority (Bathou) nor a body of reform literature (Brahma Dharma). Reuses राव (word/declaration) already present in the baseline’s justification compound.
Commandment
Approved rendering: आदेश
Transliteration: adesh
Doctrine: Obedience to God’s Commandments
Rejected alternatives: बिथान substituted as the primary gloss — rejected, बिथान is reserved for the Mosaic covenant-code as a whole, Brahma Dharma’s codified conduct-rule vocabulary, avoid
Original: ἐντολή
Category: Ethics
Christ’s own relational directive to love (2:7-11; 3:23; 4:21), received directly from him — distinct from बिथान and from reform-movement conduct codes.
Faithful Trustworthy
Approved rendering: बिश्वासी
Transliteration: biswasi
Doctrine: Confession of Sin
Original: πιστός
Category: God
God’s own reliable, promise-keeping character (1:9), distinct from πίστις/बिश्वास (the trust believers exercise).
Lawlessness
Approved rendering: बिथान लांनाय
Transliteration: bithan langnai
Doctrine: Distinguishing Children of God from Children of the Devil
Rejected alternatives: ritual-taboo-violation framing, avoid
Original: ἀνομία
Category: Sin
Sin defined technically as violation of God’s revealed law (3:4), not ritual impurity or village taboo requiring ritual remedy.
Liar
Approved rendering: मैथाइगिरि
Transliteration: maithaigiri
Doctrine: Antichrist and False Teaching / Love for the Brethren
Rejected alternatives: softened terms for ‘mistaken’ or ‘inconsistent’ — rejected, must preserve the term’s rhetorical bluntness
Original: ψεύστης
Category: Sin
A blunt, direct designation for one who speaks falsehood (2:22; 4:20).
Devil
Approved rendering: शैतान
Transliteration: shaitan
Doctrine: Distinguishing Children of God from Children of the Devil
Rejected alternatives: generic nature-spirit/ancestral-spirit vocabulary from the Bathou/Kherai taxonomy, avoid
Original: διάβολος / ὁ πονηρός
Category: Sin
The personal, defeated spiritual enemy who has sinned from the beginning (3:8,10); distinct from the diffuse, largely amoral population of nature/ancestral spirits managed through Bathou/Kherai ritual practice.
World Loved By God
Approved rendering: दुनिया
Transliteration: duniya
Doctrine: The Incarnation of Christ (4:9 sense)
Original: κόσμος (sense: object of God’s love)
Category: Salvation
Humanity generally, as the object and destination of the Son’s sending (4:9). Same Bodo word as world_opposed_system; must be sense-flagged at every occurrence.
Lust Of Flesh
Approved rendering: गुदिनि खमो
Transliteration: gudini khamw
Doctrine: The World and Its Desires
Original: ἡ ἐπιθυμία τῆς σαρκός
Category: Ethics
Disordered bodily desire (2:16); reuses गुदि from the incarnation term, context-disambiguated.
Lust Of Eyes
Approved rendering: नाथाइनि खमो
Transliteration: nathaini khamw
Doctrine: The World and Its Desires
Original: ἡ ἐπιθυμία τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν
Category: Ethics
Covetous visual desire (2:16).
Pride Of Life
Approved rendering: जिउनि गर्ब
Transliteration: jiuni gorbo
Doctrine: The World and Its Desires
Original: ἡ ἀλαζονεία τοῦ βίου
Category: Ethics
Boastful self-sufficiency regarding possessions/achievements (2:16).
Heart Condemns
Approved rendering: गोसोआ दोष होबाय
Transliteration: gwswa dosh hobai
Doctrine: Assurance of Salvation
Rejected alternatives: spirit-displeasure/curse-fear framing, avoid
Original: ἡ καρδία καταγινώσκῃ
Category: Assurance
The conscience’s self-accusation before God (3:20-21); distinguished from fear of a spirit’s displeasure or an ancestral curse.
Day Of Judgment
Approved rendering: न्यायनि सान
Transliteration: nyayni san
Doctrine: Perfect Love Casts Out Fear
Rejected alternatives: impersonal karmic reckoning framing, avoid
Original: ἡ ἡμέρα τῆς κρίσεως
Category: Eschatology
The future, singular, decisive divine assize (4:17), not an impersonal karmic process.
Low Risk Terms
Fellowship
Approved rendering: गोसो जोंथानाय
Transliteration: gwsw jwnthanai
Doctrine: Fellowship with God / Fellowship with One Another
Original: κοινωνία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. 1 John intensifies the stakes by presenting fellowship with God and fellowship with one another as mutually verifying (1:3,6-7) — one cannot claim the first while lacking the second.
Murderer
Approved rendering: मानुष सोरगिरि
Transliteration: manush sworgiri
Doctrine: Distinguishing Children of God from Children of the Devil
Original: ἀνθρωποκτόνος
Category: Sin
Applied to Cain and, by extension, to anyone who hates a brother (3:15).
Beloved Address
Approved rendering: मोसामोर बाईफोर
Transliteration: mwsamwr baifwr
Doctrine: Pastoral Address and Epistolary Purpose
Original: ἀγαπητοί
Category: Church
A pastoral term of address for the letter’s readers (2:7; 3:2,21; 4:1,7,11).
Little Children Address
Approved rendering: फिसामोन
Transliteration: phisamwn
Doctrine: Pastoral Address and Epistolary Purpose
Original: τεκνία / παιδία
Category: Church
Affectionate diminutive address, not literal children (2:1,12,14,18,28; 3:7,18; 4:4; 5:21).
Walk Conduct
Approved rendering: जिउ थानाय
Transliteration: jiu thanai
Doctrine: Walking in the Light (Sanctified Conduct)
Original: περιπατέω
Category: Ethics
One’s habitual manner of life/conduct (1:6-7; 2:6,11).
Write
Approved rendering: लिरनाय
Transliteration: lirnai
Doctrine: Pastoral Address and Epistolary Purpose
Original: γράφω
Category: Scripture
Standard epistolary vocabulary (2:1,7,12-14 and throughout).
Stumbling Block
Approved rendering: बासथि
Transliteration: basthi
Doctrine: Fellowship with One Another
Original: σκάνδαλον
Category: Ethics
An obstacle causing another to sin or fall (2:10). Provisional native compound; confirm naturalness with native speakers.
Compassion
Approved rendering: गोसोनि दुखुयारि
Transliteration: gwswni dukhuyari
Doctrine: Love for the Brethren as Evidence of New Birth
Original: σπλάγχνα
Category: Ethics
Deep, tender compassion, the seat of practical love toward a brother in need (3:17); idiom-handling preserves meaning over the literal body-part image.
Burdensome
Approved rendering: भारी
Transliteration: bhari
Doctrine: Obedience to God’s Commandments
Original: βαρύς
Category: Ethics
Describes what God’s commandments are NOT for the one who loves and believes (5:3); connects to the baseline’s obedience_of_faith doctrine.
Understanding
Approved rendering: बुझिनाय
Transliteration: bujinai
Doctrine: Pastoral Address and Epistolary Purpose
Original: διάνοια
Category: Faith
The mind/understanding given by the Son to know the true God (5:20).
Cain Proper Name
Approved rendering: कैन
Transliteration: Kain
Doctrine: Distinguishing Children of God from Children of the Devil
Original: Κάϊν
Category: Sin
Proper name; the Old Testament figure cited as a negative example (3:12); requires basic Old Testament narrative background teaching given assumed low OT literacy.
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Young Men Fathers Address
Approved rendering: बर’मानसिफोर / आफासोरफोर
Transliteration: bwrmanshifwr / afaswrfwr
Doctrine: Pastoral Address and Epistolary Purpose
Original: νεανίσκοι / πατέρες
Category: Church
A rhetorical address dividing the congregation by spiritual maturity (2:13-14), not literal age-cohorts nor age-graded Bathou ritual roles.
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