Core Glossary
Core Glossary: 1 Timothy (English–Bodo)
Section 1 — Terms Reused Exactly from the Romans Baseline (No Change Permitted)
| Term | Bodo (fixed) | Transliteration | Risk (baseline) | 1 Timothy occurrences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| God | ईश्वर | Isor | Critical | 1:1,2,17; 2:3,5; 3:15,16; 4:10; 6:11,13,17 |
| Lord | प्रभु | probhu | Critical | 1:2,12,14; 6:3,14,15 |
| Jesus | जिसु | Jisu | Critical | throughout |
| Christ (Messiah) | मसीह | mosih | Critical | throughout |
| Father | आफा | afa | Critical | (implicit, 1:2 “God our Father”) |
| Holy Spirit | पबित्र आत्था | pobitro aatha | Critical | 3:16 (implicit “vindicated in the Spirit”) |
| gospel | मंगल खबर | mangal khabor | High | 1:11 |
| grace | मोफादांनाय दान | mwphwdangnai daan | Critical | 1:2,14 |
| faith | बिश्वास | biswas | High | throughout, esp. 1:2,5,14,19; 3:9,13; 4:1,6; 6:10-12,21 |
| righteousness | धार्मिकता | dharmikota | Critical | 6:11 |
| salvation / saved | फोरायनाय | phoraynai | Critical | 1:15; 2:4,15; 4:16 |
| church | मण्डली | mwndoli | Medium | 3:5,15; 5:16 |
| holy / saints | पबित्र / पबित्र मानुष | pobitro / pobitro manwsw | High | 1:9 (implicit); 5:10 |
| sanctification | पबित्रनाय | pobitronai | High | 4:5 |
| glory | महिमा | mohima | High | 1:11,17; 3:16 |
| peace | सान्ति | santi | Medium | 1:2; 2:2 |
| law | बिथान | bithan | Medium | 1:7-9 |
| sin | गुनाह | gunah | High | 1:9,15; 5:20,22,24 |
| apostle | गोदान जायगारि | godan jaigari | Medium | 1:1; 2:7 |
| intercession | मोनसे नि थाखाय बिनयनाय | monse ni thakhai binoinai | Medium | 2:1 |
| thanksgiving | धिनानाय | dhinanai | Low | 2:1; 4:3-4 |
| spiritual gifts | आत्मानि दान | aatmani daan | Medium | 4:14 |
| power of God | ईश्वरनि सक्ति | Isorni sakti | High | (implicit, doxological context) |
| gentiles / nations | गैर-जुथुद | goir-juthud | Medium | 2:7 |
| obedience of faith (structural parallel) | बिश्वासनि मानोन | biswasni manwn | High | root reused for coined “godliness,” see Section 2 |
| election-adjacent care/providence | ईश्वरनि सामलानाय | Isornni samlanai | High | root reused for “manage a household” (3:4-5,12) |
| seed of David (lineage root) | बेंसे | bense | High | root reused for “genealogies” (1:4) |
Section 2 — New Terms Introduced by 1 Timothy (Provisional; Theologian/Native-Speaker Confirmation Required Before Phase 2 Enforcement)
| # | English Term | Greek (translit.) | Bodo Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | Notes / Rejected Alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sound doctrine | ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία (hygiainousa didaskalia) | स्वस्थ सिखानाय | swastho sikhanai | High | Sound Doctrine vs. False Teaching | Central organizing term (1:10; 4:6; 6:3). Must not be conflated with Brahma Dharma’s own “purified/reformed teaching” rhetoric, which uses structurally similar health/purity language for its own reform program. |
| 2 | False / different teaching | ἑτεροδιδασκαλέω (heterodidaskaleō) | गुबुन सिखानाय होनाय | gubun sikhanai honai | High | Sound Doctrine vs. False Teaching | 1:3; 6:3. Define narrowly as “teaching contrary to the apostolic deposit,” not all doctrinal disagreement. |
| 3 | Myths | μῦθοι (mythoi) | मिथ्या कधा | mithyo kodha | High | Sound Doctrine vs. False Teaching | 1:4. REJECTED interpretation: मिथ्या must NOT be read in its Vedantic-philosophical sense (illusory nature of the world); render narrowly as “fictitious/invented tales.” |
| 4 | Genealogies | γενεαλογίαι (genealogiai) | बेंसेनि सोर | bense ni sor | Medium | Sound Doctrine vs. False Teaching | 1:4. Reuses TM बेंसे (lineage/seed). Sensitive given clan (afad) lineage’s cultural weight — text targets speculative legendary disputes, not lineage/genealogy as such. |
| 5 | Conscience | συνείδησις (syneidēsis) | गोसोनि गियान | gwso ni gyan | High | Sound Doctrine; Guarding the Deposit | 1:5,19; 3:9; 4:2. PROVISIONAL. Distinguish from karma-ledger-style inner accounting familiar from Brahma Dharma ethics; this is a God-given faculty bearing witness before a personal God. |
| 6 | Mercy | ἔλεος (eleos) | करुणा | karuna | Medium | Sound Doctrine (Paul’s testimony) | 1:2,13,16. Distinguish from a detached, cultivable virtue (as in generic Buddhist/Hindu usage); this is God’s personal, relational compassion shown to the specifically undeserving. |
| 7 | Love (agapē) | ἀγάπη (agapē) | मोफादांनाय गोसो | mwphwdangnai gwso | High | Sound Doctrine; Godliness | 1:5; 6:11. PROVISIONAL. Deliberately built on TM’s grace-root मोफादांनाय (“freely given”) to teach that Christian love is likewise non-transactional, resisting both reciprocal-offering logic and clan-obligation framing. |
| 8 | Eternal life | ζωὴ αἰώνιος (zōē aiōnios) | अनादि जिउनाय | anadi jiunai | High | Sound Doctrine; Godliness; Guarding the Deposit | 1:16; 4:8; 6:12,19. Must never be rendered with फिन जोनोम (rebirth, FORBIDDEN per baseline) or मोक्ष (FORBIDDEN per baseline). |
| 9 | The only God (contextual monotheism flag) | μόνος θεός (monos theos) | मोनसे-मोनबिदि ईश्वर | monse-monbidi Isor | Critical | Sound Doctrine; Deity of Christ (baseline-linked) | 1:17; 6:15-16. Reuses TM-fixed ईश्वर. CRITICAL CONTEXTUAL NOTE: unlike a generic Hindu-majority context, Brahma Dharma ALSO explicitly claims a reformed Hindu monotheism; teaching must make explicit that this is the Triune God revealed in Christ (3:16), not a generic monotheistic principle assimilable to Brahma Dharma’s own concept of God. |
| 10 | Good warfare / good fight | καλὴ στρατεία / καλὸς ἀγών (kalē strateia / kalos agōn) | गोमोर लाड़ाइ | gomor larai | Medium | Sound Doctrine; Guarding the Deposit | 1:18; 6:12. |
| 11 | Devil / Satan | διάβολος / Σαταν᷇ (diabolos / Satanas) | शैतान | Saitan | High | Sound Doctrine; Church Leadership qualifications | 3:6,7,11 (adjectival); 1:20. Distinguish sharply from देउ/bhut (generic nature- or ancestral spirits addressed by ओझा) — a single, personal, morally evil arch-adversary, not one troublesome spirit among many appeasable by ritual. |
| 12 | Mediator | μεσίτης (mesitēs) | मध्यस्थ | modhyostho | Critical | Christ as the One Mediator | 2:5. THE single sharpest comparative-religion collision in this curriculum: must be taught against the explicit backdrop of the doudini’s Kherai-trance mediation and the ओझा’s ritual mediation of household petitions to the Bathou/Kherai spirit-world. Christ is the ONE, permanent, sufficient Mediator — no trance, no ritual renewal, no human intermediary class required. |
| 13 | Ransom | ἀντίλυτρον (antilytron) | फोरायनायनि दाम | phoraynaini dam | High | Christ as the One Mediator | 2:6. REJECTED reading: not a payment offered by humans to appease a deity (do-ut-des Bathou/Kherai logic); a payment GIVEN BY God/Christ to secure release from sin’s penalty. |
| 14 | Testimony / witness | μαρτύριον / μαρτυρία (martyrion / martyria) | साक्ष्य | sakkhyo | Medium | Christ as the One Mediator; Church Leadership | 2:6; 3:7. Distinguish from oracular “testimony” delivered by a doudini in trance. |
| 15 | Herald / preacher | κῆρυξ (kēryx) | मंगल खबर सोंग्रा | mangal khabor songra | Medium | Christ as the One Mediator; Mission | 2:7. Built on TM मंगल खबर + agentive -ग्रा (cf. TM’s भाबिष्यत सोंग्रा). |
| 16 | Godliness | εὐσέβεια (eusebeia) | ईश्वर मानोन | Isor manwn | Critical | Godliness and Contentment | 2:2; 3:16; 4:7,8; 6:3,5,6,11. PROVISIONAL — the single most consequential new coinage in this package. REJECTED: भक्ति (bhakti) — carries specific Hindu devotional-theology associations (chosen deity, devotional path within a distinct soteriology) risking a reading of godliness as one devotional path among many. Must also be distinguished from Bathou/Kherai ritual piety (protection/prosperity-oriented) and Brahma Dharma’s reformed pious-conduct ethic. |
| 17 | Mystery | μυστήριον (mystērion) | लुकिनाय सत्य | lukinai sotyo | High | Sound Doctrine; Church as Pillar of Truth | 3:9,16. Distinguish from esoteric/restricted ritual knowledge (doudini’s trance revelations, ओझा’s guarded lore); biblical mystery is now openly disclosed to all believers, not privileged specialist knowledge. |
| 18 | Mystery of godliness | τὸ τῆς εὐσεβείας μυστήριον (to tēs eusebeias mystērion) | ईश्वर मानोननि लुकिनाय सत्य | Isor manwnni lukinai sotyo | Critical | Godliness and Contentment; Church as Pillar of Truth | 3:16. Introduces the christological hymn (Incarnation/Deity/Resurrection, all baseline-Critical); reuses TM-fixed मानसि गुदि सोलायनाय and महिमा exactly within the hymn’s six clauses. |
| 19 | Contentment | αὐτάρκεια (autarkeia) | गोसो सन्तुष्ट थानाय | gwso santushto thanai | High | Godliness and Contentment | 6:6. Distinguish from वैराग्य-style renunciation-as-attainment (Brahma-Dharma-influenced ascetic ideal); biblical contentment is gratitude-rooted trust in God’s provision (6:17), not self-achieved desirelessness. |
| 20 | Love of money / root of all evils | φιλαργυρία (philargyria) | पैसा गोनांनाय | poisa gonannai | Medium | Godliness and Contentment | 3:3; 6:10. “Root of all evils” = सकल बेयानि गेदा (sokol beyani geda). |
| 21 | Overseer / bishop | ἐπίσκοπος / ἐπισκοπή (episkopos / episkopē) | मण्डलीनि सायग्रा | mwndolini saygra | High | Qualifications for Church Leadership | 3:1,2. PROVISIONAL. Distinguish from the doudini (Kherai-trance ritual medium) and ओझा (village diviner); authority is teaching- and character-based, publicly testable, not trance- or divination-based. |
| 22 | Elder — church office | πρεσβύτερος (presbyteros, office sense) | मण्डलीनि आगान मानुष | mwndolini agan manwsw | High | Qualifications for Church Leadership | 5:17,19 (functionally = ἐπίσκοπος per 3:1-7 / Titus 1:5-7). Deliberately built on आगान (“front/leading”), NOT on बुरहा, to avoid the SAME Bathou-pantheon-elder-deity collision the baseline already forbids for “Lord.” |
| 23 | Elder — generic age sense | πρεσβύτερος (presbyteros, age sense) | बुरहा मानुष / बुरही मानुष | burha manwsw / burhi manwsw | Low | (contrast case for #22) | 5:1-2. Acceptable ONLY for plain age-based address; NEVER for the church office (see #22) or for Christ/Lord (per baseline). |
| 24 | Deacon | διάκονος (diakonos) | सेवा जायगारि | sewa jaigari | High | Qualifications for Church Leadership | 3:8,10,12,13. PROVISIONAL. Built in structural parallel to TM’s गोदान जायगारि (apostle). Distinguish from नोकर/दास (ordinary servant) and from Kherai-puja ritual attendant roles. |
| 25 | Deacons’ wives / women deacons | γυναῖκας (gynaikas) | सिनी मानुष | sini manwsw | Medium | Qualifications for Church Leadership | 3:11. Genuine Greek ambiguity (wives of deacons vs. deaconesses) deliberately preserved, not resolved unilaterally; flag for native-speaker/theologian review presenting both interpretive options. |
| 26 | Household of God | οἶκος θεοῦ (oikos theou) | ईश्वरनि नखर | Isorni nokhor | Medium | Church as Pillar of Truth; Care for Widows | 3:15. Distinguish from आफाद (clan/lineage household identity) — this is the family of all believers. |
| 27 | Pillar and foundation of the truth | στῦλος καὶ ἑδραίωμα τῆς ἀληθείας | सत्यनि खम आरो गादि | sotyoni kham aro gadi | Medium | Church as Pillar of Truth | 3:15. The church upholds/displays revealed truth; it does not generate or progressively develop truth (contrast with Brahma Dharma’s reform-development self-understanding). |
| 28 | Savior (agentive title) | σωτήρ (sōtēr) | फोरायग्रा | phoraygra | Critical | Christ as the One Mediator; Godliness | 4:10. Built on TM फोराय- (salvation) + agentive -ग्रा. Distinguish from Bathoubwrai’s localized, clan/household-bound protective-deity function; this Savior’s scope is universal in offer, eschatological in effect. |
| 29 | True widow | ὄντως χήρα (ontōs chēra) | सत्यजों गुरैया सिनी | sotyojwng guraiya sini | Medium | Care for Widows and the Household of Faith | 5:3,5,16. Technical designation for a widow without family support, formally recognized for church material care. |
| 30 | Denying the faith (household neglect) | τὴν πίστιν ἤρνηται (tēn pistin ērnētai) | बिश्वासखौ नकार खालामनाय | biswaskhou nakar khalamnai | High | Care for Widows and the Household of Faith | 5:8. Reuses TM बिश्वास. Strong equation of household neglect with denial of faith; teach with its specific occasion (neglect of widowed relatives), not generalized indiscriminately. |
| 31 | Laying on of hands | ἐπίθεσις τῶν χειρῶν (epithesis tōn cheirōn) | आं होनाय | ang honai | Medium | Qualifications for Church Leadership | 4:14; 5:22. Commissioning/ordination act; distinguish from any healing-trance or spirit-transfer ritual. |
| 32 | Council of elders | πρεσβυτέριον (presbyterion) | आगान मानुषनि हांखो | agan manwsw ni hangkho | Medium | Qualifications for Church Leadership | 4:14. Reuses #22’s आगान मानुष root. |
| 33 | Deceiving spirits / teachings of demons | πνεύματα πλάνα / διδασκαλίαι δαιμονίων | भ्रम खालामग्रा आत्था आरो बेयाथिनि सिखानाय | bhrom khalamgra aatha aro beyathini sikhanai | High | Sound Doctrine vs. False Teaching | 4:1. Bare आत्था here must not be confused with TM-fixed पबित्र आत्था (always used in full); these are personal deceiving evil spirits, distinct from both the Holy Spirit and from the populated Bathou/Kherai nature-and-ancestor spirit-world. |
| 34 | Forbidding marriage / requiring abstinence from foods | κωλυόντων γαμεῖν, ἀπέχεσθαι βρωμάτων | थुनलाइ बन्ध खालामनाय, जानाय सामानखौ नङाब सिनायथि | thunlai bandho khalamnai, janai samankhou nangab sinaythi | High | Sound Doctrine vs. False Teaching | 4:3-5. CRITICAL CULTURAL SENSITIVITY: must not be preached as a blanket polemic against Brahma-Dharma-associated vegetarian dietary practice among Bodo Christian families; target is mandatory ascetic false teaching, not voluntary dietary choice (“everything created by God is good,” 4:4). |
| 35 | Falsely-called knowledge | ψευδώνυμος γνῶσις (pseudōnymos gnōsis) | बेयजानाय गियान | beyjanai gyan | Medium-High | Guarding the Deposit of Faith | 6:20. Distinguish from legitimate biblical knowledge; also flag structural resemblance to Brahma Dharma’s own reform-knowledge (ज्ञान) claims — target is knowledge-claims contradicting the apostolic deposit specifically. |
| 36 | Guard the deposit | τὴν παραθήκην φύλαξον (tēn parathēkēn phylaxon) | जिबथिनाय दानखौ थिना खालाम | jibthinai daankhou thina khalam | Critical | Guarding the Deposit of Faith | 6:20. PROVISIONAL. The letter’s climactic charge; the “deposit” is the apostolic gospel content, to be preserved intact and transmitted faithfully, not progressively reformed/developed (contrast Brahma Dharma’s self-understanding as a reform movement). |
| 37 | Good confession | καλὴ ὁμολογία (kalē homologia) | गोमोर एकजाया राव | gomor ekojaya rao | Medium | Guarding the Deposit of Faith | 6:12-13. PROVISIONAL. |
| 38 | King of kings and Lord of lords | βασιλεὺς τῶν βασιλευόντων καὶ κύριος τῶν κυριευόντων | राजाफोरनि राजा आरो प्रभुफोरनि प्रभु | rajaphorni raja aro probhuphorni probhu | Critical | Christ as the One Mediator (Lordship extension) | 6:15. Direct extension of baseline’s Critical Lordship-of-Christ doctrine; NEVER render with बर’ऐ/बुरहा elder-honorifics. |
| 39 | Unapproachable light | φῶς ἀπρόσιτον (phōs aprositon) | सामनो गैया रोसनाय | samnao gaiya rosnai | Medium | Christ as the One Mediator (God’s nature) | 6:16. Caution: could accidentally reinforce Bathou’s own aniconic conception of Bathoubwrai; teach as holiness/glory made approachable IN Christ (2:5), not as aniconic absence of self-revelation. |
| 40 | Transgression | παράβασις (parabasis) | बिथान लांनाय | bithan lannai | Medium | Public Worship and Prayer (contextual) | 2:14. Reuses TM बिथान (law). |
| 41 | Trustworthy saying (formula) | πιστὸς ὁ λόγος (pistos ho logos) | बिश्वास खालामनाय राव | biswas khalamnai rao | Medium | Sound Doctrine; Guarding the Deposit | 1:15; 3:1; 4:9. Must be rendered identically at all occurrences (cross-document consistency rule, per baseline’s Theological Consistency Rules). |
| 42 | Saved through childbearing (controversial) | σωθήσεται διὰ τῆς τεκνογονίας | गोरा-जोनोम होनायजों फोरायनाय | gora-jonom honaijwng phoraynai | Critical | Public Worship and Prayer; Sound Doctrine | 2:15. MANDATORY explanatory note required wherever taught: continuing in faith/love/holiness/self-control is the operative condition, NOT the biological act of childbirth; must never be read as works-salvation. |
Section 3 — Chapter Coverage Confirmation
| Chapter | New Load-Bearing Terms Introduced | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sound doctrine, false/different teaching, myths, genealogies, love, conscience, mercy, eternal life, only God (contextual), good warfare, shipwrecked faith, blasphemer, devil/Satan | Covered — see Part B, Ch.1 |
| 2 | Prayer-term cluster (supplication/prayer/intercession/thanksgiving), kings/authorities, quiet life, godliness, mediator, ransom, testimony, herald, women’s modesty cluster, submission/silence, Adam/Eve/transgression, saved-through-childbearing | Covered — see Part B, Ch.2 |
| 3 | Overseer, office of overseer, above reproach, husband-of-one-wife, character-qualification cluster, deacon, mystery of the faith, conscience (reused), household of God, church of the living God, pillar/foundation of truth, mystery of godliness (christological hymn) | Covered — Core Passage verse-by-verse (Part A) + immediate context 3:14-16 |
| 4 | Deceiving spirits/demons, seared conscience, forbidding marriage/food-abstinence (Brahma Dharma collision flag), sanctified through word/prayer, godliness (train for), Savior of all people, example, gift/laying on of hands, council of elders, progress | Covered — see Part B, Ch.4 |
| 5 | Elder (generic vs. office — critical distinction), double honor, ruling/teaching elders, accusation/witnesses procedure, true widow, denying the faith, laying on of hands (ordination caution) | Covered — see Part B, Ch.5 |
| 6 | Slave/master/yoke, sound-words/diseased-controversy wordplay, godliness-as-gain (rejected view), godliness with contentment, love of money/root of evils, virtue-pursuit list, good fight of faith, lay hold of eternal life, good confession, King of kings/Lord of lords, unapproachable light, riches cluster, guard the deposit, falsely-called knowledge | Covered — see Part B, Ch.6 |
No chapter in 1 Timothy is without new or reused load-bearing theological vocabulary; every chapter is represented above with full term-level treatment.
Critical Risk Terms
Grace
Approved rendering: मोफादांनाय दान
Transliteration: mwphwdangnai daan
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: दान गोरोबनाय (reciprocal gift, rejected), पुण्य (Brahma Dharma merit-language, never use)
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Occurs 1 Timothy 1:2, 1:14 (Paul’s testimony of grace poured out on him, ‘the foremost of sinners’). Must resist both the reciprocal offering-logic of Bathou/Kherai devotion and Brahma Dharma’s reformed merit-based ethic.
Righteousness
Approved rendering: धार्मिकता
Transliteration: dharmikota
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: धर्म (avoid the bare Sanskritic cosmic-duty sense)
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Occurs 1 Timothy 6:11 in the virtue-pursuit list.
Salvation
Approved rendering: फोरायनाय
Transliteration: phoraynai
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: मोक्ष (Brahma Dharma liberation concept, never use), रैखाथि (Kherai-pantheon protection, never use)
Original: σωτηρία / σῴζω
Category: Salvation
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Occurs 1 Timothy 1:15; 2:4,15; 4:16. CRITICAL conceptual gap persists exactly as in Romans: Bathou tradition has no developed eschatological salvation concept.
God
Approved rendering: ईश्वर
Transliteration: Isor
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: बाथौबुरै (never use as primary term for the biblical God)
Original: θεός
Category: God
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Central throughout 1 Timothy (1:1,2,17; 2:3,5; 3:15,16; 4:10; 6:11,13,17). CARRIES ADDED WEIGHT in this book because Brahma Dharma’s 1912 reform movement also explicitly claims a purified monotheism; ईश्वर must be taught as the Triune God revealed in Christ (3:16), not a generic monotheistic principle assimilable to Brahma Dharma’s own concept of the divine.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: पबित्र आत्था
Transliteration: pobitro aatha
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: देउ (generic spirit-being, never use), बुरहा-बुरही आत्था (ancestral household spirits, never use)
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Implicit at 1 Timothy 3:16 (‘vindicated in the Spirit’). SHARPER RISK IN THIS BOOK: 4:1’s ‘deceiving spirits’ sits within one chapter’s distance, so पबित्र आत्था must always appear in full without exception near that passage to avoid any bare-आत्था ambiguity against the populated Bathou/Kherai spirit-world.
Father
Approved rendering: आफा
Transliteration: afa
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Rejected alternatives: बाथौबुरै (never use for the biblical Father)
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Occurs 1 Timothy 1:2 (‘God our Father’).
Lord
Approved rendering: प्रभु
Transliteration: probhu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: बुरहा/बर’ऐ titles reserved for Bathoubwrai and the Kherai pantheon, never use for Christ
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Occurs 1 Timothy 1:2,12,14; 6:3,14,15. Extended at 6:15 to the superlative ‘King of kings and Lord of lords’ (see king_of_kings_lord_of_lords).
Jesus
Approved rendering: जिसु
Transliteration: Jisu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Occurs throughout 1 Timothy.
Christ Messiah
Approved rendering: मसीह
Transliteration: mosih
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Occurs throughout 1 Timothy, esp. as the agent of the ransom (2:5-6).
Incarnation
Approved rendering: मानसि गुदि सोलायनाय
Transliteration: manwsi gudi solainai
Doctrine: Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: देउनि आगोर (doudini Kherai-trance embodiment, never use)
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. MUST be reused verbatim inside the christological hymn of 1 Timothy 3:16 (‘manifested in the flesh’). Bathou worship’s own aniconic character (sijou plant, never an embodied image) makes this clause especially doctrinally loaded; never soften toward doudini trance-embodiment.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: जिउनाय सोलायनाय
Transliteration: jiunai solainai
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Rejected alternatives: फिन जोनोम (rebirth/reincarnation, forbidden)
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Theologically underlies the christological hymn’s resurrection/vindication/exaltation clauses at 1 Timothy 3:16 even though the specific Greek lexeme ἀνάστασις does not recur verbatim in this letter; teaching must still explicitly forbid फिन जोनोम whenever the hymn’s ‘taken up in glory’ clause is explained.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि गोरा
Transliteration: Isornni gwra
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: देवता गोरा (a lesser divine being’s son, explicit downgrade)
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Underlies the Deity-of-Christ dimension of the mystery of godliness hymn (3:16); Christ’s eternal, unique Sonship must never be read as one great spirit-being’s offspring among the populated Bathou pantheon.
Only God Monotheism
Approved rendering: मोनसे-मोनबिदि ईश्वर
Transliteration: monse-monbidi Isor
Doctrine: The Only God (Monotheism in Christ)
Rejected alternatives: a bare generic ‘one supreme deity’ framing that could be silently filled by Brahma Dharma’s own Brahma-concept
Original: μόνος θεός / εἷς θεός
Category: God
NEW TERM, PROVISIONAL. Occurs 1 Timothy 1:17 (‘the only God’) and 2:5 (‘there is one God’). CRITICAL contextual risk distinct from generic Hindu-majority contexts: Brahma Dharma explicitly built its identity around a reformed Hindu monotheism. Must be taught as unmistakably the Triune God revealed climactically in Christ (3:16), never a generic monotheistic principle assimilable to Brahma Dharma’s Brahma-concept.
King Of Kings Lord Of Lords
Approved rendering: राजाफोरनि राजा आरो प्रभुफोरनि प्रभु
Transliteration: rajaphorni raja aro probhuphorni probhu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: any rendering using बर’ऐ/बुरहा elder-honorifics
Original: βασιλεὺς τῶν βασιλευόντων καὶ κύριος τῶν κυριευόντων
Category: God
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 6:15. Direct extension of the baseline’s Critical-tier Lordship-of-Christ doctrine; must never use बर’ऐ/बुरहा. Teach as Christ’s supremacy over every claimed lord, king, or elder-deity, including any figure within the Bathou pantheon.
Mediator
Approved rendering: मध्यस्थ
Transliteration: modhyostho
Doctrine: Christ as the One Mediator
Rejected alternatives: any rendering drawn from the doudini/ओझा ritual-mediation semantic field
Original: μεσίτης
Category: Christology
NEW TERM, PROVISIONAL. Occurs 1 Timothy 2:5. THE single sharpest comparative-religion collision point in this curriculum. Must always be taught with an explicit modifier (‘the only/one Mediator’) and against the named contrast of the doudini’s Kherai-trance mediation and the ओझा’s ritual mediation of household petitions. No trance, no ritual renewal, no human intermediary class is required or permitted.
Mystery Of Godliness
Approved rendering: ईश्वर मानोननि लुकिनाय सत्य
Transliteration: Isor manwnni lukinai sotyo
Doctrine: Mystery of Godliness (Incarnation, Deity, Resurrection of Christ)
Original: τὸ τῆς εὐσεβείας μυστήριον
Category: Christology
NEW TERM, PROVISIONAL. Occurs 1 Timothy 3:16, introducing the six-clause christological hymn. Directly engages Incarnation, Deity of Christ, and Resurrection doctrines already Critical-tier in the Romans baseline; must reuse मानसि गुदि सोलायनाय and महिमा exactly within the hymn, never softened toward doudini trance-embodiment.
Savior
Approved rendering: फोरायग्रा
Transliteration: phoraygra
Doctrine: Salvation
Original: σωτήρ
Category: Christology
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 2:3; 4:10 (‘Savior of all people, especially of those who believe’). Built on TM फोराय- (salvation) + agentive -ग्रा. Must be distinguished from Bathoubwrai’s localized, clan/household-bound protective-deity function; this Savior’s scope is eschatological and universal in offer.
Saved Through Childbearing
Approved rendering: गोरा-जोनोम होनायजों फोरायनाय
Transliteration: gora-jonom honaijwng phoraynai
Doctrine: Saved Through Childbearing (Contextual Qualification)
Rejected alternatives: any rendering suggesting salvation is earned through the biological act of childbirth
Original: σωθήσεται διὰ τῆς τεκνογονίας
Category: Salvation
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 2:15. MANDATORY explanatory note required wherever taught: continuing in faith, love, holiness, and self-control is the operative condition, NOT the biological act itself. Must never be read as works-salvation, which would directly contradict the letter’s own grace-through-faith framework.
Guard The Deposit
Approved rendering: जिबथिनाय दानखौ थिना खालाम
Transliteration: jibthinai daankhou thina khalam
Doctrine: Guarding the Deposit of Faith
Original: τὴν παραθήκην φύλαξον
Category: Sound Doctrine
NEW TERM, PROVISIONAL. Occurs 1 Timothy 6:20, the letter’s climactic charge. The apostolic gospel content is to be preserved intact and transmitted faithfully — not developed, reformed, or supplemented, unlike Brahma Dharma’s self-understanding as a progressively refining reform movement. Doctrinal center of gravity for the whole letter.
Godliness
Approved rendering: ईश्वर मानोन
Transliteration: Isor manwn
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Rejected alternatives: भक्ति (bhakti), REJECTED — carries Hindu devotional-theology associations (chosen deity, devotional path within a distinct soteriology) risking a reading of godliness as one devotional path among many
Original: εὐσέβεια
Category: Godliness
NEW TERM, PROVISIONAL — arguably the single most consequential new coinage in this Language Package extension. Occurs 1 Timothy 2:2; 3:16; 4:7,8; 6:3,5,6,11. Built in structural parallel to TM’s बिश्वासनि मानोन (obedience of faith). Must also be distinguished from Bathou/Kherai ritual piety (protection/prosperity-oriented) and Brahma Dharma’s reformed pious-conduct ethic. MANDATORY theologian confirmation before Phase 2 enforcement.
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: मंगल खबर
Transliteration: mangal khabor
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: सुसमाचार (Hindi loan, avoid as default)
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Occurs 1 Timothy 1:11 (‘the glorious gospel of the blessed God’). Must be distinguished from Brahma Dharma’s own reform ‘good tidings’ rhetoric of a return to Sanskritized purity.
Faith
Approved rendering: बिश्वास
Transliteration: biswas
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: भरोसा (generic trust, too weak alone)
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. The letter’s most frequent theological term (1:2,5,14,19; 3:9,13; 4:1,6; 6:10-12,21). The object of faith must always be named, especially at 4:1 (‘depart from the faith’), where बिश्वास alone could be misheard as generic devotion transferable to Bathoubwrai or the Kherai pantheon.
Holy
Approved rendering: पबित्र
Transliteration: pobitro
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: साफ (ritual-purity sense only)
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Church
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Reflected implicitly in ethical standards for believers, e.g. 1 Timothy 5:10’s widow qualifications.
Saints
Approved rendering: पबित्र मानुष
Transliteration: pobitro manwsw
Doctrine: Sainthood
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Occurs 1 Timothy 5:10 (‘washed the feet of the saints’). Must not be narrowed to a specialist elite paralleling the doudini or ओझा.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: पबित्रनाय
Transliteration: pobitronai
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: साफनाय (ritual cleansing, avoid as substitute)
Original: ἁγιάζω / ἁγιασμός
Category: Church
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Occurs 1 Timothy 4:5 (‘sanctified through the word of God and prayer’). Distinct from external, occasional ritual purification before Bathou/Kherai ceremonies.
Glory
Approved rendering: महिमा
Transliteration: mohima
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Occurs 1 Timothy 1:11,17 and closes the christological hymn (‘taken up in glory,’ 3:16). Avoid metaphors readable as doudini trance-radiance.
Sin
Approved rendering: गुनाह
Transliteration: gunah
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: दोष (fault/blame, too weak/civic)
Original: ἁμαρτία / ἁμαρτωλός
Category: Sin
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Occurs 1 Timothy 1:9,15 (Paul, ‘the foremost of sinners’) and 5:20,22,24 (elder discipline). Distinguish from ritual impurity addressed through Bathou/Kherai cleansing rites.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि सक्ति
Transliteration: Isorni sakti
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Rejected alternatives: देउनि सक्ति (doudini-trance ritual power, avoid as substitute)
Original: δύναμις
Category: God
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Implicit throughout the letter’s doxological framing (1:17; 6:15-16).
Obedience Of Faith
Approved rendering: बिश्वासनि मानोन
Transliteration: biswasni manwn
Doctrine: Obedience of Faith
Rejected alternatives: धर्मनि निदान मानोन (rule-keeping obedience, works-based misreading)
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Not directly cited verse-by-verse in 1 Timothy, but its मानोन root is deliberately reused to build the new coined term ‘godliness’ (ईश्वर मानोन) — see that entry — to keep the two obedience/reverence concepts structurally parallel across both curricula.
Providence
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि सामलानाय
Transliteration: Isornni samlanai
Doctrine: Providence
Rejected alternatives: भागी (fate, never use)
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Root (सामला-, ‘to manage/care for’) reused to build ‘manages household well’ (नखरखौ गोमोर सामलायनाय, 3:4-5,12) — see that entry.
Seed Of David
Approved rendering: दाऊदनि बेंसे
Transliteration: Daudni bense
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Root बेंसे (‘lineage/seed’) reused to build the new coined term ‘genealogies’ (बेंसेनि सोर, 1 Timothy 1:4) — see that entry. Sensitive given the cultural weight of afad (clan) lineage in Bodo identity.
Ransom
Approved rendering: फोरायनायनि दाम
Transliteration: phoraynaini dam
Doctrine: Christ as the One Mediator
Rejected alternatives: any framing as a human payment offered to appease Bathoubwrai/the Kherai pantheon
Original: ἀντίλυτρον
Category: Christology
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 2:6. Reuses TM-fixed फोरायनाय (salvation). Must be taught as a payment GIVEN BY God/Christ himself to secure release from sin’s penalty, never as a reciprocal do-ut-des offering made by worshippers to a deity.
Gospel Entrusted Deposit Link
Approved rendering: मंगल खबरनि जिबथिनाय दान
Transliteration: mangal khaborni jibthinai daan
Doctrine: Guarding the Deposit of Faith
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 1:11 (‘the glorious gospel… with which I have been entrusted’). Reuses TM-fixed मंगल खबर and connects conceptually forward to 6:20’s guard_the_deposit; the same fixed apostolic content is in view at both ends of the letter.
Eternal Life
Approved rendering: अनादि जिउनाय
Transliteration: anadi jiunai
Doctrine: Eternal Life
Rejected alternatives: फिन जोनोम (rebirth/reincarnation, forbidden per baseline), मोक्ष (Brahma Dharma liberation, forbidden per baseline)
Original: ζωὴ αἰώνιος
Category: Salvation
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 1:16; 4:8; 6:12,19. An unending single personal life granted by God through Christ, not escape from a cycle and not absorption into an impersonal ultimate reality.
Love Agape
Approved rendering: मोफादांनाय गोसो
Transliteration: mwphwdangnai gwso
Doctrine: Love (Agapē)
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Faith
NEW TERM, PROVISIONAL. Occurs 1 Timothy 1:5; 6:11. Deliberately built on the baseline’s grace-root मोफादांनाय (‘freely given’) to teach that Christian love shares grace’s non-transactional character, resisting both reciprocal-offering logic (Bathou/Kherai) and clan-obligation framing (afad).
Conscience
Approved rendering: गोसोनि गियान
Transliteration: gwso ni gyan
Doctrine: Conscience
Rejected alternatives: a bare use of ज्ञान/gyan alone that would read as karma-ledger accounting
Original: συνείδησις
Category: Faith
NEW TERM, PROVISIONAL. Occurs 1 Timothy 1:5,19; 3:9; 4:2 (‘seared conscience’). Genuinely new theological vocabulary category. Must be distinguished from karma-oriented guilt-accounting familiar from Brahma Dharma’s reformed ethic; biblical conscience is a God-given faculty bearing witness before a personal God.
Sound Doctrine
Approved rendering: स्वस्थ सिखानाय
Transliteration: swastho sikhanai
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Original: ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία
Category: Sound Doctrine
NEW TERM. The letter’s central organizing standard (1:10; 4:6; 6:3). Must be taught as measured against apostolic content specifically, never against Brahma Dharma’s own ‘purified/reformed teaching’ rhetoric, which uses structurally similar health/purity language for its 1912 reform program.
False Teaching
Approved rendering: गुबुन सिखानाय होनाय
Transliteration: gubun sikhanai honai
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Original: ἑτεροδιδασκαλέω
Category: Sound Doctrine
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 1:3; 6:3. Must be defined precisely as ‘teaching contrary to the apostolic deposit,’ not merely ‘teaching one disagrees with’; avoid a rendering condemning all doctrinal diversity or indigenous religious teaching per se.
Myths
Approved rendering: मिथ्या कधा
Transliteration: mithyo kodha
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Rejected alternatives: मिथ्या in its Vedantic-philosophical sense (illusory nature of phenomenal reality) — REJECTED
Original: μῦθοι
Category: Sound Doctrine
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 1:4. मिथ्या here means narrowly ‘invented/fictitious stories,’ NOT a metaphysical claim about creation’s illusory nature (a concept partly absorbed into Brahma Dharma teaching); 1 Timothy 4:4 explicitly affirms creation as good.
Deceiving Spirits
Approved rendering: भ्रम खालामग्रा आत्था आरो बेयाथिनि सिखानाय
Transliteration: bhrom khalamgra aatha aro beyathini sikhanai
Doctrine: The Devil and Deceiving Spirits
Rejected alternatives: bare आत्था alone, never use
Original: πνεύματα πλάνα καὶ διδασκαλίαι δαιμονίων
Category: Sound Doctrine
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 4:1. Bare आत्था here risks being reheard as the populated देउ/nature-spirit/ancestral-spirit world invoked in Bathou/Kherai practice. These are personal, evil, deceiving spiritual agents, categorically distinct from the one, personal, indwelling पबित्र आत्था, which must always appear in full nearby (3:16).
Mystery
Approved rendering: लुकिनाय सत्य
Transliteration: lukinai sotyo
Doctrine: Mystery of the Faith
Original: μυστήριον
Category: Sound Doctrine
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 3:9 (‘the mystery of the faith’). Distinguish sharply from esoteric ritual knowledge restricted to specialists (doudini’s trance-received revelations; ओझा’s guarded divinatory lore); the biblical mystery is NOW openly disclosed to all believers through apostolic proclamation.
Falsely Called Knowledge
Approved rendering: बेयजानाय गियान
Transliteration: beyjanai gyan
Doctrine: Guarding the Deposit of Faith
Rejected alternatives: bare ज्ञान/gyan alone, never use unfenced
Original: ψευδώνυμος γνῶσις
Category: Sound Doctrine
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 6:20. Structurally resembles Brahma Dharma’s own reform-knowledge (ज्ञान) claims; target is knowledge-claims contradicting the apostolic deposit specifically, not learning or knowledge as such.
Forbidding Marriage Food Abstinence
Approved rendering: थुनलाइ बन्ध खालामनाय, जानाय सामानखौ नङाब सिनायथि
Transliteration: thunlai bandho khalamnai, janai samankhou nangab sinaythi
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Original: κωλυόντων γαμεῖν, ἀπέχεσθαι βρωμάτων
Category: Sound Doctrine
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 4:3-5. CRITICAL CULTURAL SENSITIVITY: must NOT be preached as a blanket polemic against Brahma-Dharma-associated vegetarian dietary practice among Bodo Christian families; target is mandatory ascetic false teaching claiming spiritual superiority, not voluntary dietary choice (‘everything created by God is good,’ 4:4).
Devil Satan
Approved rendering: शैतान
Transliteration: Saitan
Doctrine: The Devil and Deceiving Spirits
Original: διάβολος / Σατανᾶς
Category: Sound Doctrine
NEW TERM (transliteration, established regional loan). Occurs 1 Timothy 1:20; 3:6-7,11. Must be distinguished sharply from generic देउ/bhut (nature- or ancestral spirits addressed by ओझा) — a single, personal, morally evil arch-adversary, not one troublesome spirit among many appeasable by ritual.
Overseer Bishop
Approved rendering: मण्डलीनि सायग्रा
Transliteration: mwndolini saygra
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership — Overseers
Original: ἐπίσκοπος / ἐπισκοπή
Category: Leadership
NEW TERM, PROVISIONAL. Occurs 1 Timothy 3:1,2. Must be sharply distinguished from the doudini (female Kherai-trance ritual medium) and ओझा (village diviner); authority is teaching- and character-based, publicly testable, not trance- or divination-based. Core-passage term.
Elder Office
Approved rendering: मण्डलीनि आगान मानुष
Transliteration: mwndolini agan manwsw
Doctrine: Church Leadership — Elders (Office, Honor, and Discipline)
Rejected alternatives: बुरहा/बुरही, NEVER for the church-office sense
Original: πρεσβύτερος (office sense)
Category: Leadership
NEW TERM, PROVISIONAL. Occurs 1 Timothy 5:17,19; functionally identical to ἐπίσκοπος (3:1-7). Built deliberately on आगान (‘front/leading’) rather than बुरहा, avoiding the same Bathou-pantheon-elder-deity collision the baseline already forbids for ‘Lord.‘
Deacon
Approved rendering: सेवा जायगारि
Transliteration: sewa jaigari
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership — Deacons
Original: διάκονος
Category: Leadership
NEW TERM, PROVISIONAL. Occurs 1 Timothy 3:8,10,12,13. Built in structural parallel to TM’s गोदान जायगारि (apostle). Must not be flattened into नोकर/दास (ordinary servant) nor confused with a Kherai-puja ritual attendant role. Core-passage term.
Husband Of One Wife
Approved rendering: मोनसे जनीनि सादेर
Transliteration: monse jonini sadar
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership — Overseers
Original: μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἄνδρα
Category: Leadership
NEW TERM, PROVISIONAL. Occurs 1 Timothy 3:2,12. Precise Bodo kinship vocabulary for ‘wife/husband’ in a formal doctrinal register needs native-speaker confirmation; the doctrinal point (marital exclusivity and fidelity as a leadership qualification) must not be lost regardless of exact lexical choice.
Contentment
Approved rendering: गोसो सन्तुष्ट थानाय
Transliteration: gwso santushto thanai
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Rejected alternatives: वैराग्य (renunciation-as-attainment, REJECTED)
Original: αὐτάρκεια
Category: Godliness
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 6:6. Must be distinguished from the Hindu/Brahma-Dharma-influenced ascetic ideal of वैराग्य; biblical contentment is gratitude-rooted trust in God’s provision (6:17), not self-achieved desirelessness.
Denying The Faith
Approved rendering: बिश्वासखौ नकार खालामनाय
Transliteration: biswaskhou nakar khalamnai
Doctrine: Household Responsibility and Denying the Faith
Original: τὴν πίστιν ἤρνηται
Category: Family
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 5:8. Reuses TM बिश्वास. Strong equation of household neglect with denial of faith; must not be softened, but taught with its specific occasion (neglect of widowed relatives), not generalized indiscriminately.
Medium Risk Terms
Church
Approved rendering: मण्डली
Transliteration: mwndoli
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: नमासोलि (Bathou/Kherai shrine site, never use)
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Occurs 1 Timothy 3:5,15; 5:16.
Peace
Approved rendering: सान्ति
Transliteration: santi
Doctrine: Peace with God
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Worship
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Occurs 1 Timothy 1:2; 2:2 (‘a quiet and peaceable life’). Distinguish from household-harmony/misfortune-avoidance goals of Bathou/Kherai offerings.
Law
Approved rendering: बिथान
Transliteration: bithan
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: धर्मनि नियम (Brahma Dharma codified conduct rules, avoid as primary gloss)
Original: νόμος
Category: Sound Doctrine
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Occurs 1 Timothy 1:7-9. Serves as the root for the new coined term ‘transgression’ (बिथान लांनाय, 2:14).
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, enforced exactly. Occurs 1 Timothy 1:1; 2:7.
Intercession
Approved rendering: मोनसे नि थाखाय बिनयनाय
Transliteration: monse ni thakhai binoinai
Doctrine: Prayer and Intercession
Original: ἔντευξις
Category: Worship
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Occurs 1 Timothy 2:1, part of the fourfold prayer list. Must be distinguished from petitions carried through a doudini or ओझा ritual intermediary.
Spiritual Gifts
Approved rendering: आत्मानि दान
Transliteration: aatmani daan
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts
Rejected alternatives: सक्ति (doudini trance power, avoid as substitute)
Original: χάρισμα
Category: Church
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Occurs 1 Timothy 4:14 (the gift given ‘through prophecy with the laying on of hands’).
Gentiles
Approved rendering: गैर-जुथुद
Transliteration: goir-juthud
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Church
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Occurs 1 Timothy 2:7 (Paul, ‘teacher of the Gentiles’).
Unapproachable Light
Approved rendering: सामनो गैया रोसनाय
Transliteration: samnao gaiya rosnai
Doctrine: The Only God (Monotheism in Christ)
Original: φῶς ἀπρόσιτον
Category: God
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 6:16. Caution: could accidentally reinforce Bathou’s own aniconic conception of Bathoubwrai (a deity with no image, represented only by the sijou plant). Teach as holiness/glory made approachable IN Christ (2:5’s Mediator), not as aniconic absence of self-revelation.
Mercy
Approved rendering: करुणा
Transliteration: karuna
Doctrine: Mercy
Rejected alternatives: generic detached karuna as a cultivable virtue apart from a personal God
Original: ἔλεος
Category: Salvation
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 1:2,13,16 (Paul’s testimony that he ‘received mercy’ though formerly a persecutor). Must be God’s personal, relational compassion shown to a named, undeserving individual, not an abstract quality cultivated apart from God as in generic Buddhist/Hindu usage.
Trustworthy Saying
Approved rendering: बिश्वास खालामनाय राव
Transliteration: biswas khalamnai rao
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Original: πιστὸς ὁ λόγος
Category: Faith
NEW TERM. Formulaic marker occurring at 1 Timothy 1:15; 3:1; 4:9. Must render IDENTICALLY at every occurrence for pedagogical consistency (cross-document consistency rule).
Good Fight
Approved rendering: गोमोर लाड़ाइ
Transliteration: gomor larai
Doctrine: Guarding the Deposit of Faith
Original: καλὴ στρατεία / καλὸς ἀγών
Category: Faith
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 1:18 (‘the good warfare’) and 6:12 (‘the good fight of faith’). Standard athletic/combat idiom; keep consistent across occurrences.
Good Confession
Approved rendering: गोमोर एकजाया राव
Transliteration: gomor ekojaya rao
Doctrine: Guarding the Deposit of Faith
Original: καλὴ ὁμολογία
Category: Faith
NEW TERM, PROVISIONAL. Occurs 1 Timothy 6:12-13. Flag for confirmation of naturalness with native speakers given limited existing Bodo Christian devotional vocabulary for formal public doctrinal confession.
Genealogies
Approved rendering: बेंसेनि सोर
Transliteration: bense ni sor
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Original: γενεαλογίαι ἀπέραντοι
Category: Sound Doctrine
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 1:4 (‘endless genealogies’). Reuses TM बेंसे (lineage/seed). Sensitive given the cultural weight of afad (clan) lineage; targets speculative legendary genealogical disputes specifically, not lineage/genealogy as such.
Transgression
Approved rendering: बिथान लांनाय
Transliteration: bithan lannai
Doctrine: Gender Roles in Public Worship
Original: παράβασις
Category: Sound Doctrine
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 2:14 (Eve’s transgression). Reuses TM-fixed बिथान (law) root.
Household Of God
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि नखर
Transliteration: Isorni nokhor
Doctrine: Household of God
Original: οἶκος θεοῦ
Category: Church
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 3:15. Must be distinguished from आफाद (clan/lineage household identity) in traditional Bodo kinship structure; this is the family of all believers, not a birth-lineage household.
Pillar And Foundation Of Truth
Approved rendering: सत्यनि खम आरो गादि
Transliteration: sotyoni kham aro gadi
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Original: στῦλος καὶ ἑδραίωμα τῆς ἀληθείας
Category: Church
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 3:15. The church upholds/displays revealed truth given once by God; it does not generate or progressively develop truth as an oral tradition (Bathou) or an evolving reform literature (Brahma Dharma) might be understood to do.
Herald Preacher
Approved rendering: मंगल खबर सोंग्रा
Transliteration: mangal khabor songra
Doctrine: Christ as the One Mediator
Original: κῆρυξ
Category: Church
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 2:7. Built on TM-fixed मंगल खबर + agentive suffix -ग्रा (cf. TM’s भाबिष्यत सोंग्रा, ‘prophet’).
Testimony Witness
Approved rendering: साक्ष्य
Transliteration: sakkhyo
Doctrine: Christ as the One Mediator
Original: μαρτύριον / μαρτυρία
Category: Church
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 2:6 and 3:7 (‘a good testimony from outsiders’). Must be distinguished from oracular ‘testimony’ delivered by a doudini in trance during Kherai puja.
Deacons Wives
Approved rendering: सिनी मानुष
Transliteration: sini manwsw
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership — Deacons
Original: γυναῖκας
Category: Leadership
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 3:11. Genuine Greek ambiguity (deacons’ wives vs. women deacons) deliberately preserved, not unilaterally resolved; present both interpretive options in teaching notes.
Able To Teach
Approved rendering: सिखायथाव मोनग्रा
Transliteration: sikhaythav mwngra
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership — Overseers
Original: διδακτικός
Category: Leadership
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 3:2. Must be distinguished from the ओझा’s orally transmitted ritual lore; this is doctrinal teaching competency specifically.
Manages Household Well
Approved rendering: नखरखौ गोमोर सामलायनाय
Transliteration: nokhorkhou gomor samlaynai
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership — Overseers
Original: τοῦ ἴδίου οἴκου καλῶς προϊστάμενον
Category: Leadership
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 3:4-5,12. Household here is the immediate domestic household (नखर), distinct from आफाद (clan identity); reuses the सामला- root from TM’s providence term.
Above Reproach
Approved rendering: दोष होनाय गैया
Transliteration: dosh honai gaiya
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership — Overseers
Original: ἀνεπίλημπτος / ἀνέγκλητος
Category: Leadership
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 3:2,10. Refers to reputational fault/charge (दोष), not गुनाह (sin, TM-fixed); the two words must not be conflated.
Good Testimony From Outsiders
Approved rendering: बाहारनि मानुषनिफ्राय गोमोर साक्ष्य
Transliteration: baharni manwsw niphray gomor sakkhyo
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership — Overseers
Original: μαρτυρίαν καλὴν … ἀπὸ τῶν ἔξωθεν
Category: Leadership
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 3:7. Must be distinguished from oracular testimony given by a doudini in trance; this is ordinary, publicly observable reputation among non-believers.
Love Of Money
Approved rendering: पैसा गोनांनाय गैया / पैसा गोनांनाय
Transliteration: poisa gonannai gaiya / poisa gonannai
Doctrine: Love of Money and Material Stewardship
Original: ἀφιλάργυρος / φιλαργυρία / αἰσχροκερδής
Category: Leadership
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 3:3,8 (leadership qualification) and 6:10 (‘root of all evils,’ सकल बेयानि गेदा). Anchors the Godliness and Contentment doctrine already at the leadership-qualification level; connects to 6:5’s rejected ‘godliness as gain’ view.
Laying On Of Hands
Approved rendering: आं होनाय
Transliteration: ang honai
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership — Overseers
Original: ἐπίθεσις τῶν χειρῶν
Category: Leadership
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 4:14; 5:22. A commissioning/ordination act, not a healing-trance or spirit-transfer ritual comparable to Kherai practice.
Council Of Elders
Approved rendering: आगान मानुषनि हांखो
Transliteration: agan manwsw ni hangkho
Doctrine: Church Leadership — Elders (Office, Honor, and Discipline)
Original: πρεσβυτέριον
Category: Leadership
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 4:14. Built on the elder_office root आगान मानुष, not बुरहा, for the same collision-avoidance reason.
True Widow
Approved rendering: सत्यजों गुरैया सिनी
Transliteration: sotyojwng guraiya sini
Doctrine: Care for Widows and the Household of Faith
Original: ὄντως χήρα
Category: Family
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 5:3,5,16. Technical designation for a widow without family support, formally recognized for church material care; interacts with, rather than replaces, afad (clan) support obligations.
Low Risk Terms
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: धिनानाय
Transliteration: dhinanai
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία
Category: Worship
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, enforced exactly. Occurs 1 Timothy 1:12; 2:1; 4:3-4 (‘received with thanksgiving’).
Elder Generic
Approved rendering: बुरहा मानुष / बुरही मानुष
Transliteration: burha manwsw / burhi manwsw
Doctrine: Church Leadership — Elders (Office, Honor, and Discipline)
Original: πρεσβύτερος (age sense) / πρεσβύτης / πρεσβῦτις
Category: Leadership
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 5:1-2, plain age-based address only. Acceptable ONLY for this generic sense; NEVER for the church office (elder_office) or for Christ/Lord.
Not A Recent Convert
Approved rendering: गोदान बिश्वासि मानुष
Transliteration: godan biswasi manwsw
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership — Overseers
Original: νεόφυτος
Category: Leadership
NEW TERM. Occurs 1 Timothy 3:6. Functional gloss; the Greek horticultural image (‘newly planted’) may optionally be retained in a footnote.
Moral Character Qualifications
Approved rendering: गोसो सामलायग्रा, मान्नाय जोँगोर, आगन्तुकखौ आदर खालामग्रा, आदि
Transliteration: gwso samlaygra, mannai jwngor, agontukkhou adar khalamgra, adi
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership — Overseers
Original: νηφάλιος, σώφρων, κόσμιος, φιλόξενον, μὴ πάροινον, μὴ πλήκτην, ἐπιεικῆ, ἄμαχον, μὴ δίλογος
Category: Leadership
NEW TERM (cluster gloss). Occurs 1 Timothy 3:2-3,8 (sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, not violent, gentle, peaceable, not double-tongued). Collectively low doctrinal-collision risk; render consistently across both verse-groups for pedagogical parallelism.
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