Core Glossary
Core Glossary
2 Corinthians 1–13 | English → Bodo (Boro)
This glossary consolidates every load-bearing theological term identified in analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md, covering all 13 chapters of 2 Corinthians. Terms already fixed in the baseline Romans translation_memory.json are reused exactly as recorded there (marked “Baseline reuse” in the Source column) and must not be altered. Terms newly introduced by this curriculum are marked “New” and are provisional pending confirmation by a Bodo-speaking theologian, consistent with the baseline’s own treatment of descriptive-compound gap concepts.
Risk tiers follow baseline definitions: Critical (theologian review mandatory, every occurrence), High (theologian review mandatory), Medium (native-speaker review recommended), Low (automated review sufficient).
Table 1 — Terms Reused Exactly from the Romans Baseline
| English Term | Bodo Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine Link (2 Cor) | 2 Cor Occurrence Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| God | ईश्वर | Isor | Critical | All | Throughout; never बाथौबुरै |
| Jesus | जिसु | Jisu | Critical | Christology | 1:1, 4:5, 11:4, etc. |
| Christ / Messiah | मसीह | Mosih | Critical | Christology | Throughout |
| Lord | प्रभु | probhu | Critical | Lordship of Christ | 1:2-3, 4:5, 10:17, 13:14; never बर’ऐ/बुरहा |
| Holy Spirit | पबित्र आत्था | pobitro aatha | Critical | Holy Spirit / New Covenant | 1:22, 3:3-18, 5:5, 13:14; always in full |
| Father | आफा | afa | Critical | Fatherhood of God | 1:2-3, 6:18 |
| Grace | मोफादांनाय दान | mwphwdangnai daan | Critical | Grace / Generosity in Giving | 1:2, 6:1, 8:1-9, 9:8, 12:9, 13:14 — see High-risk expansion notes for chs. 8-9 |
| Faith | बिश्वास | biswas | High | Faith / Sincerity | 1:24, 4:13, 5:7, 13:5 |
| Righteousness | धार्मिकता | dharmikota | Critical | Reconciliation / New Creation | 3:9, 5:21, 6:7,14, 9:9-10, 11:15 |
| Salvation | फोरायनाय | phoraynai | Critical | Reconciliation with God | 1:6, 6:2, 7:10 |
| Apostle | गोदान जायगारि | godan jaigari | Medium (Critical in false-apostle contrast) | Genuine vs. False Apostleship | 1:1, 11:5,13, 12:11-12 |
| Holy | पबित्र | pobitro | High | Sincerity / New Covenant | 1:12, 6:6, 7:1, 13:12 |
| Saints | पबित्र मानुष | pobitro manwsw | High | Church | 1:1, 8:4, 9:1,12, 13:12 |
| Sanctification | पबित्रनाय | pobitronai | High | Suffering & Comfort / Sincerity | 7:1, 6:6 |
| Church | मण्डली | mwndoli | Medium | Church as God’s People | 1:1, 8:1,18-19,23-24, 11:8,28, 12:13 |
| Covenant | गोसाथारि | gwsathari | High (Critical in New/Old contrast) | New Covenant vs. Old | 3:6,14 |
| Law | बिथान | bithan | Medium | New Covenant vs. Old | 3:6-15 (implicit, “old covenant”) |
| Sin | गुनाह | gunah | High (Critical in 5:21) | Reconciliation with God | 5:19,21, 11:7 |
| Glory | महिमा | mohima | High | New Creation / Power in Weakness | 3:7-18, 4:4,6,17, 8:23 |
| Power (of God) | ईश्वरनि सक्ति | Isornni sakti | High | Power in Weakness | 4:7, 6:7, 13:4 |
| Resurrection | जिउनाय सोलायनाय | jiunai solainai | Critical | New Creation / Core passage | 4:14, 5:15 |
| Thanksgiving | धिनानाय | dhinanai | Low | Generosity in Giving | 1:11, 2:14, 4:15, 9:11-12 |
| Fellowship | गोसो जोंथानाय | gwsw jwnthanai | Low (Critical within 13:14 benediction) | Church / New Covenant | 6:14, 8:4, 13:14 |
| Exhort (encourage) | गोसो होनाय | gwsw honai | Low | Suffering & Comfort (encouragement sense only) | 2:7, 5:20 (entreaty sense — see बिनयनाय), 9:5, 10:1, 12:18, 13:11 |
| Adoption / sonship framing | गोसोआव फैनाय | gwswao phoinai | High | New Creation (background) | 6:18 (“sons and daughters”) |
| Incarnation | मानसि गुदि सोलायनाय | manwsi gudi solainai | Critical | Reconciliation / New Creation (background Christology) | 5:16 (implicit), 8:9 |
| Imputed righteousness | दानै लाबोनाय धार्मिकता | danai labwnai dharmikota | Critical | Core passage 5:19,21 | Structural backbone of 5:19 (negative) and 5:21 (positive) |
Table 2 — New Terms Introduced by 2 Corinthians (by Chapter)
| Ch. | English Term | Greek (translit.) | Bodo Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine Link | Rationale / Forbidden Alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Comfort / consolation | παράκλησις (paraklēsis) | सान्ति होनाय | santi honai | High | Suffering & Comfort in Ministry | Distinct from गोसो होनाय (exhort/encourage sense); never read as ritual protective reassurance or as karmic resignation to suffering |
| 1 | Affliction / suffering | θλῖψις (thlipsis) | दुख-कष्ट | dukh-koshto | High | Suffering & Comfort in Ministry | Must not be read as karma-merit consequence (Brahma Dharma risk) |
| 1 | Sufferings of Christ | παθήματα Χριστοῦ (pathēmata Christou) | मसीहनि दुख-कष्ट | Mosihni dukh-koshto | High | Suffering & Comfort in Ministry | Participatory union with Christ’s suffering, not repeatable ritual re-enactment |
| 1 | Seal | σφραγίς (sphragis) | छाप | chap | Medium | Assurance (background) | Not a protective amulet/charm |
| 1 | Guarantee / down payment | ἀρραβών (arrabōn) | आगोत्थार थारो | agwtthar tharo | Medium-High | New Creation (Spirit as pledge) | Legal-relational pledge, not a charm; ties to baseline adoption/inheritance framing |
| 1 | Sincerity | ἁπλότης / εἰλικρίνεια (haplotēs / eilikrineia) | सोर गोसो | sor gwsw | High | Sincerity and Apostolic Authority | Inward motive-transparency, not outward ritual purity |
| 2 | Satan | Σατανᾶς (Satanas) | शैतान | Shaitan | Critical | Genuine vs. False Apostleship | Never one hostile spirit among the Bathou pantheon; singular personal defeated adversary |
| 2 | Forgiveness | χαρίζομαι / ἀφίημι (charizomai / aphiēmi) | माफ खालामनाय | maph khalamnai | Medium | Reconciliation with God (component) | Real but narrower than धार्मिक होनाय राव (justification); do not conflate |
| 2 | Aroma / fragrance of Christ | εὐωδία (euōdia) | सुबास | subas | Medium | Sincerity / Ministry | Metaphor for gospel witness, not literal ritual incense |
| 2 | Triumphal procession | θριαμβεύω (thriambeuō) | जयनि सोबाय | jayni sobai | Medium | Power in Weakness (background) | Roman military-political image; needs cultural background note |
| 2 | Peddling God’s word | καπηλεύω (kapēleuō) | ईश्वरनि रावखौ बेछा खालामनाय | Isornni raokhou becha khalamnai | Medium | Sincerity and Apostolic Authority | Warns against commercializing ministry |
| 3 | New covenant | καινὴ διαθήκη (kainē diathēkē) | गोदान गोसाथारि | godan gwsathari | Critical | New Covenant vs. Old | No crystallized covenant-theology term yet attested; theologian confirmation required |
| 3 | Old covenant | παλαιὰ διαθήκη (palaia diathēkē) | जुना गोसाथारि | juna gwsathari | Critical | New Covenant vs. Old | Paired with above |
| 3 | The letter (of the law) | γράμμα (gramma) | अक्षर | akshar | High | New Covenant vs. Old | Contrasted with पबित्र आत्था (always in full) |
| 3 | Veil | κάλυμμα (kalymma) | मुं ढापनाय फोर | mung dhapnai phor | Medium-High | New Covenant vs. Old | Distinguish from purdah/head-covering cultural custom |
| 3 | Freedom | ἐλευθερία (eleutheria) | बन्धन गैयि थानाय | bwndon gaiyi thanai | High | New Covenant vs. Old | NEVER मुक्ति (collides with Brahma Dharma मोक्ष-liberation language) |
| 3 | Transformed | μεταμορφούμεθα (metamorphoumetha) | रूप सोलायनाय | rup solainai | High | New Creation | Progressive Christlikeness, never रebirth/reincarnation (फिन जोनोम forbidden) |
| 4 | Jars of clay | ὄστράκινα σκεύη (ostrakina skeuē) | मालाव भरनि बर्तन | malao bhorni bortan | Medium | Power in Weakness | Fragile vessel imagery for human ministers |
| 4 | God of this age (Satan) | ὁ θεὸς τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου | ई जगतनि शैतान | i jagatni Shaitan | Critical | Genuine vs. False Apostleship (background) | Deliberately avoids literal “god” wording to prevent polytheistic misreading |
| 4 | Outer / inner man | ἔξω / ἔσω ἄνθρωπος | बाहेरनि मानसि / गुदिनि मानसि | baherni manwsi / gudini manwsi | High | New Creation | Not the reincarnating आत्मा of Brahma Dharma teaching |
| 4 | Eternal weight of glory | αἰώνιον βάρος δόξης | हमेशा थाखोनि महिमानि गुरं | hamesha thakhwni mohimani guru | Medium | Power in Weakness | God’s own majesty, not doudini trance-radiance |
| 5 | Judgment seat of Christ | βῆμα (bēma) | मसीहनि बिसार आसन | Mosihni bisar asan | High | Reconciliation (accountability) | Distinguish from civil/territorial courts and village councils |
| 5 | Tent / earthly house | σκῆνος (skēnos) | खामनि नोगोर | khamni nogor | Low-Medium | New Creation (background) | Temporary body imagery |
| 6 | Temple of the living God | ναὸς θεοῦ ζῶντος | जिबोन ईश्वरनि मन्दिर | jibwn Isornni mwndir | Critical | Church / Reconciliation | Must not suggest a physical shrine like मन्दिर or नमासोलि |
| 6 | Belial | Βελιάλ | बिलियाल | Biliyal | Medium | Genuine vs. False Apostleship (background) | Synonym for शैतान; flag to avoid implying a distinct spirit-being |
| 6 | Unequally yoked | ἑτεροζυγέω (heterozygeō) | अलग जातनि जों जुड़नाय | alag jatni jong jwrnai | Medium | Church / Sincerity | Positive agrarian resonance; teach relationally, not as blanket social prohibition |
| 6 | Separate (unto God) | ἀφορίζω (aphorizō) | फोजाब जानाय | phojab janai | Medium | Sanctification (background) | Whole-life devotion, not periodic ritual state |
| 7 | Repentance | μετάνοια (metanoia) | मन सोलायनाय | mon solainai | High | Suffering & Comfort (background) | Distinct from ritual purification and from mere regret |
| 7 | Godly sorrow / worldly sorrow | λύπη κατὰ θεόν / τοῦ κόσμου | ईश्वरनि जायगायनि सुस्ति / जगतनि सुस्ति | Isornni jaygayni susti / jagatni susti | Medium-High | Suffering & Comfort in Ministry | Preserve Paul’s moral distinction; do not collapse to one generic “sadness” |
| 8 | Generosity (giving sense of ἁπλότης) | ἁπλότης (haplotēs) | खोलामनाय गोसो | kholamnai gwsw | Medium | Generosity and Grace in Giving | Same lexeme as “sincerity” (ch.1); note dual English variant |
| 8 | Equality | ἰσότης (isotēs) | समानता | samanata | Medium | Generosity and Grace in Giving | Economic mutual care between churches, not ethnic/political equality rhetoric |
| 8 | Christ’s poverty/riches (kenosis) | πτωχεία / πλοῦτος Χριστοῦ | गरीब / धनी (मसीहनि) | garib / dhoni (Mosihni) | High | Generosity and Grace in Giving (Christological ground) | Christological self-humbling, not mere moralizing about generosity |
| 9 | Cheerful giver | ἱλαρός (hilaros) | सान्थियै दान होग्रा | santhiyoi daan hwgra | Low | Generosity and Grace in Giving | |
| 9 | Sufficiency | αὐτάρκεια (autarkeia) | गोबां जायगायाव गनानाय | gwbang jaygayao gonanai | Low-Medium | Generosity and Grace in Giving | God-given, not self-derived contentment |
| 9 | Sowing / seed | σπείρω / σπόρος | बीज सिनगारनाय | bij singarnai | Low | Generosity and Grace in Giving | Positive agrarian cultural resonance |
| 10 | Warfare (not of the flesh) | στρατεύομαι κατὰ σάρκα | गाहायनि लराइ | gahaini lorai | High | Genuine vs. False Apostleship | Strictly spiritual-rhetorical; sensitive given Bodoland’s real ethnic-conflict history |
| 10 | Strongholds | ὀχύρωμα (ochyrōma) | गढ़ | garh | High | Genuine vs. False Apostleship | Same regional-conflict sensitivity |
| 10 | Weapons | ὅπλον (hoplon) | आयुध | ayudh | High | Genuine vs. False Apostleship | Same regional-conflict sensitivity |
| 10-12 | Boasting | καύχημα / καυχάομαι (kauchēma / kauchaomai) | गर्बनाय (illegitimate) / प्रभुआव सोमान खालामनाय (legitimate, “in the Lord”) | garbnai / probhuao soman khalamnai | High | Genuine vs. False Apostleship | Dual valence must be taught explicitly |
| 11 | False apostles | ψευδαπόστολοι (pseudapostoloi) | मिथ्या गोदान जायगारि | mithya godan jaigari | Critical | Genuine vs. False Apostleship | Anchor term of the doctrine; teach discernment criteria (11:13-15, 12:11-12) |
| 11 | Angel of light | ἄγγελος φωτός (angelos phōtos) | महर आथारनि दूत | mohor atharni doot | High | Genuine vs. False Apostleship | Impressiveness ≠ legitimacy; caution vs. Kherai spirit-visitation assumptions |
| 11 | Super-apostles | ὑπερλίαν ἀπόστολοι | अति-बर गोदान जायगारि | ati-bor godan jaigari | High | Genuine vs. False Apostleship | Ironic term; impressiveness of claim ≠ genuineness |
| 11 | Godly jealousy | ζῆλος θεοῦ (zēlos theou) | ईश्वरनि जायगायनि हींसा | Isornni jaygayni hinsa | Medium | Sincerity and Apostolic Authority | Protective zeal, not sinful envy |
| 12 | Third heaven | τρίτος οὐρανός (tritos ouranos) | गोसोम सान्दांनि आखा | gwswm sandangni akha | Medium-High | Power in Weakness (background) | Distinct Jewish apocalyptic category; avoid conflation with Bathou okhrang sky-element cosmology |
| 12 | Paradise | παράδεισος (paradeisos) | स्वर्गनि बगान | swargwni bogan | Medium | Power in Weakness (background) | |
| 12 | Thorn in the flesh | σκόλοψ τῇ σαρκί (skolops tē sarki) | गाहायनि खोंथाय | gahaini khonthai | High | Power in Weakness | God’s answer is sufficient grace, not necessarily removal; contrast with ritual-diagnosis instinct |
| 12 | Messenger of Satan | ἄγγελος Σατανᾶ (angelos Satana) | शैताननि दूत | Shaitanni doot | High | Power in Weakness | Permitted for sanctifying purpose, not demonic conquest requiring exorcism |
| 12 | Christ’s power (perfected in weakness) | ἡ δύναμίς τοῦ Χριστοῦ | मसीहनि सक्ति | Mosihni sakti | Critical | Power in Weakness | NEVER bare सक्ति/देउनि सक्ति; power displayed through weakness, not visible strength |
| 12 | Weakness | ἀσθένεια (astheneia) | कमजोर / गोरलैनाय | komjor / gworlainai | High | Power in Weakness | Central doctrinal paradox vs. cultural expectation of power-as-visible-strength (cf. doudini trance potency) |
| 12 | Signs of a true apostle | σημεῖα τοῦ ἀποστόλου | रोखा गोदान जायगारिनि चिनांथाय | rokha godan jaigarini chinangthai | High | Genuine vs. False Apostleship | Marks = patient endurance in suffering, not spectacle |
| 5, 13 | ”In Christ” / “Christ in you” | ἐν Χριστῷ / Χριστὸς ἐν ὑμῖν | मसीहाव / मसीह नोंसोरनि सोदोमाव | Mosihao / Mosih nongsworni sodomao | High | Christian Identity in Christ (background) | Relational-spiritual incorporation, not devotion to one deity among several |
| 5 | New creation | καινὴ κτίσις (kainē ktisis) | गोदान सृष्टि | godan srishti | Critical | New Creation in Christ | Spiritual/moral remaking of the person, not cosmological/elemental creation (Bathou five-element risk) |
| 5 | Reconciliation | καταλλαγή / καταλλάσσω (katallagē / katallassō) | गोसो फिन जोड़ोनाय | gwsw phin jworonai | Critical | Reconciliation with God | Genuine conceptual gap; God’s unilateral initiative, not ritual-exchange or merit-based repair |
| 5 | Ministry (of reconciliation) | διακονία (diakonia) | सेवा (full form: गोसो फिन जोड़ोनायनि सेवा) | seba (gwsw phin jworonaini seba) | High | Reconciliation / Ministry | Never bare सेवा when the specifically gospel-ministry sense is intended |
| 5 | Ambassador | πρεσβεύω (presbeuō) | प्रतिनिधि | protinidhi | Medium-High | Sincerity and Apostolic Authority | Avoid political/territorial-representative connotation in Bodoland context |
| 5 | Not imputing (trespasses) | λογίζομαι (logizomai, negative) | गुनाहखौ हिसाब खालामनाय गैया | gunahkhou hisab khalamnai gaiya | Critical | Core passage / Reconciliation | Mirror of दानै लाबोनाय धार्मिकता; same forensic-accounting register both directions |
| 5 | Made sin / became sin | ἁμαρτίαν ἐποίησεν | गुनाह महरै खालामबाय | gunah mworai khalambai | Critical | Core passage / Reconciliation | Substitutionary imputation; Christ not morally corrupted, legally bearing sin’s penalty |
| 5, 13 | Love (of Christ / of God) | ἀγάπη (agapē) | प्रेम | prem | Medium | Core passage / Benediction | Self-giving love, distinct from general affection/desire vocabulary |
| 5 | Fear of the Lord | φόβος τοῦ κυρίου (phobos tou kyriou) | प्रभुनि सायखो गोरोन्थि | probhuni saikho gwronthi | High | Genuine vs. False Apostleship (background: accountability) | Reverent accountability, not appeasement of a potentially harmful spirit |
| 5 | Ecstasy / beside ourselves | ἐξίστημι (existēmi) | गोसो सोर सोलायनाय | gwsw sor solainai | Critical | Genuine vs. False Apostleship | MUST NOT evoke doudini Kherai-trance possession; idiomatic self-description of zeal, not altered ritual consciousness |
| 5 | Substitutionary “for” (died for all) | ὑπέρ (hyper) | …नि थाखाय सिरनाय | …ni thakhai sirnai | Critical | Core passage / Reconciliation | Real substitution, not mere example or sympathetic solidarity |
| 13 | Examine yourselves | δοκιμάζετε ἑαυτούς | सिगां परीक्षा खालाम | sigang porikha khalam | Medium | Genuine vs. False Apostleship | |
| 13 | Holy kiss | φίλημα ἅγιον | पबित्र चुम्बन | pobitro chumbon | Low | Church (background) | Cultural-adaptation note required; not a prescribed literal greeting form |
| 13 | Benediction triad (grace/love/fellowship) | χάρις, ἀγάπη, κοινωνία | मोफादांनाय दान, प्रेम, गोसो जोंथानाय | (as above) | Critical | Multiple | Verbatim-consistent rendering required across all curriculum documents, per baseline precedent (Rom 1:16-17; 8:28; 10:9-10) |
Risk Summary
| Risk Tier | Count (new terms) | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 14 | Human theologian, every occurrence |
| High | 27 | Human theologian |
| Medium | 22 | Native speaker review |
| Low | 9 | Automated review |
Notes for Phase 2 preparation:
- All “Critical” and “High” new terms in Table 2 must be added to a curriculum-specific extension of
translation_memory.jsonandbible_term_registry.jsonbefore any Phase 2 segment translation begins, following the same JSON schema as the Romans baseline. - Six terms in this glossary (new creation, reconciliation, ministry of reconciliation, ambassador, ecstasy/beside ourselves, Christ’s power in weakness) represent genuine conceptual gaps in the Bodo comparative-religion landscape, in the same category the baseline identifies for grace, salvation, justification, resurrection, and incarnation — they require ground-up teaching, not reuse of an existing native-religious concept, and are flagged for mandatory theologian confirmation before wide deployment.
- Three terms (warfare, strongholds, weapons — ch. 10) carry a Bodo-specific regional-conflict sensitivity not present in the Romans baseline’s risk landscape, arising from the Bodoland Territorial Region’s recent history of ethnic-political militancy, and require pastoral framing guidance in addition to standard doctrinal review.
Critical Risk Terms
God
Approved rendering: ईश्वर
Transliteration: Isor
Doctrine: Deity of Christ / God
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. Occurs throughout 2 Corinthians (1:2-3, 3:3, 5:18-21, 6:16, 13:11). Never render with बाथौबुरै. NOTE: 2 Corinthians 4:4 applies the literal word ‘god’ ironically to Satan (‘the god of this age’) — see god_of_this_age entry below for the required non-literal handling that protects this term’s integrity elsewhere in the letter.
Jesus
Approved rendering: जिसु
Transliteration: Jisu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs throughout, e.g. 1:1, 4:5, 4:10-14, 11:4. Use established Bodo Bible form only; verify against a current printed copy before finalizing.
Messiah
Approved rendering: मसीह
Transliteration: Mosih
Doctrine: Messianic Promise / Christology
Inherited from Romans package (baseline ‘messiah’ entry). In 2 Corinthians this same rendering carries the pervasive ‘Christ’ title-and-virtual-proper-name usage, including the repeated ‘in Christ’ formula (5:17, 5:19, 12:2, 13:5) — see in_christ entry below. Must not be heard as one of several anointed teachers or spirit-mediators.
Lord
Approved rendering: प्रभु
Transliteration: probhu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: बुरहा/बर’ऐ titles reserved for Bathoubwrai and Kherai-pantheon elder-deities, never use for Christ
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:2-3, 4:5, 5:11 (‘fear of the Lord’), 10:17-18, 13:14. Never use बर’ऐ/बुरहा, which would place Christ inside the Bathou pantheon as an honored elder-spirit rather than exclusive Lord.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: पबित्र आत्था
Transliteration: pobitro aatha
Doctrine: Sanctification / New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: देउ (a generic spirit-being from the Bathou/Kherai pantheon, never use), बुरहा-बुरही आत्था (ancestral household spirits, never use)
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:22, 3:3-18, 5:5, 6:6, 13:14. Always render in full, even in the letter/Spirit antithesis of ch. 3 where bare πνεῦμα in Greek could tempt an abbreviation to bare आत्था — retain पबित्र आत्था in full per the forbidden-substitution rule, with a bracketed translator clarification instead of abbreviation.
Father
Approved rendering: आफा
Transliteration: afa
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Rejected alternatives: बाथौबुरै (reserve strictly for describing traditional belief, never for the biblical Father)
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:2-3, 6:18 (‘I will be a Father to you’). Warm, relational rendering; never बाथौबुरै.
Grace
Approved rendering: मोफादांनाय दान
Transliteration: mwphwdangnai daan
Doctrine: Grace / Generosity and Grace in Giving
Rejected alternatives: दान गोरोबनाय (a reciprocal gift expecting return offering, rejected), पुण्य (Brahma Dharma merit-language, never use)
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:2, 6:1, 8:1,6-7,9,19, 9:8,14, 12:9, 13:14. In chs. 8-9 the double usage (God’s saving favor / the human generosity it produces) must be taught with a translator’s note distinguishing fruit from ground, guarding against both Bathou reciprocal-offering logic and Brahma Dharma merit logic being read into the collection itself.
Righteousness
Approved rendering: धार्मिकता
Transliteration: dharmikota
Doctrine: Reconciliation with God / Salvation
Rejected alternatives: धर्म (avoid the bare Sanskritic sense of cosmic duty imported through Brahma Dharma reform teaching)
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 3:9, 5:21 (the doctrinal keystone of the core passage), 6:7,14, 9:9-10, 11:15. Must never collapse into the reformed Brahma Dharma sense of dutiful religious-code conduct; 5:21’s ‘become the righteousness of God’ requires mandatory theologian review at every occurrence.
Salvation
Approved rendering: फोरायनाय
Transliteration: phoraynai
Doctrine: Reconciliation with God
Rejected alternatives: मोक्ष (Brahma Dharma’s Hindu-derived liberation concept, never use), रैखाथि (protection from the Kherai pantheon, never use as a stand-alone gloss)
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:6, 6:2 (‘now is the day of salvation’), 7:10. Remains a ground-up teaching concept, not a reused native category.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: जिउनाय सोलायनाय
Transliteration: jiunai solainai
Doctrine: New Creation in Christ
Rejected alternatives: फिन जोनोम (rebirth into a new life-cycle, absorbed into Brahma Dharma from Hindu reincarnation teaching, never use)
Original: ἀνάστασις / ἐγείρω
Category: Eschatology
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 4:14, 5:15. Never फिन जोनोम.
Incarnation
Approved rendering: मानसि गुदि सोलायनाय
Transliteration: manwsi gudi solainai
Doctrine: Christ’s Voluntary Poverty (Kenosis) / Christology (background)
Rejected alternatives: देउनि आगोर (a deity temporarily ‘descending into’ or speaking through a doudini during Kherai trance, never use)
Original: ὁ λόγος σὰρξ ἐγένετο
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Background to 5:16 (‘Christ according to the flesh’) and 8:9 (Christ’s voluntary poverty). Must be sharply distinguished from doudini Kherai-trance possession.
Imputed Righteousness
Approved rendering: दानै लाबोनाय धार्मिकता
Transliteration: danai labwnai dharmikota
Doctrine: Reconciliation with God / Substitutionary Atonement
Rejected alternatives: मोनसे नि गुनथिजों लाबोनाय धार्मिकता (righteousness earned by one’s own good conduct, the explicit rejected opposite)
Original: ἐλογίσθη…εἰς δικαιοσύνην
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Structural backbone of 5:19 (negative form — sin not imputed) and 5:21 (positive form — righteousness credited). Both directions of this forensic-accounting logic must use the same register; see not_imputing_trespasses and made_sin entries.
Satan
Approved rendering: शैतान
Transliteration: Shaitan
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and Discernment
Original: Σατανᾶς
Category: Spiritual Warfare
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 2:11, 11:14, 12:7. Must be clearly distinguished from the malevolent or capricious spirit-beings recognized within the Bathou spirit-world and addressed through Kherai/Bathou ritual appeasement; a singular, personal, defeated-yet-active adversary, not one hostile spirit among a populated pantheon to be ritually managed.
New Covenant
Approved rendering: गोदान गोसाथारि
Transliteration: godan gwsathari
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Original: καινὴ διαθήκη
Category: New Covenant versus the Old
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 3:6. No crystallized single covenant-theology term is attested in current Bodo Christian literature; requires theologian confirmation before wide deployment. Must be paired explicitly with old_covenant for the contrast to be visible to learners.
Old Covenant
Approved rendering: जुना गोसाथारि
Transliteration: juna gwsathari
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Original: παλαιὰ διαθήκη
Category: New Covenant versus the Old
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 3:14. Paired with new_covenant; must be distinguished from Brahma Dharma’s own codified early-20th-century reform of Bodo religious practice, and from Bathouism’s lack of any fixed written ‘letter’ at all.
God Of This Age
Approved rendering: ई जगतनि शैतान
Transliteration: i jagatni Shaitan
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and Discernment
Rejected alternatives: इ जगतनि ईश्वर (a literal rendering, forbidden — risks legitimizing Satan as a rival deity within an assumed polytheistic Bathou framework)
Original: ὁ θεὸς τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου
Category: Spiritual Warfare
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 4:4. Deliberately does NOT render literally with ईश्वर. This deviation from strict literalness is itself a doctrinal safeguard and must be flagged for theologian review with an explicit translator’s note.
Temple Of Living God
Approved rendering: जिबोन ईश्वरनि मन्दिर
Transliteration: jibwn Isornni mwndir
Doctrine: Church as Temple of the Living God
Original: ναὸς θεοῦ ζῶντος
Category: Church
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 6:16. मन्दिर is heavily associated with Hindu temple-worship and, adjacently, with नमासोलि, the Bathou/Kherai ritual worship-ground already flagged in the baseline as strictly distinct from मण्डली. Must be taught as figurative, relational, and corporate, never suggesting believers should construct or venerate a physical shrine-building.
False Apostles
Approved rendering: मिथ्या गोदान जायगारि
Transliteration: mithya godan jaigari
Doctrine: Genuine versus False Apostleship
Original: ψευδαπόστολοι
Category: Genuine versus False Apostleship
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 11:13. Anchor term of Genuine versus False Apostleship; must be taught alongside criteria for discernment (11:13-15, 12:11-12) so that impressive claims to spiritual authority — potentially resonant with the perceived authority of a doudini’s trance-derived pronouncements — are not mistaken for evidence of genuine apostolic legitimacy.
Christs Power In Weakness
Approved rendering: मसीहनि सक्ति
Transliteration: Mosihni sakti
Doctrine: Power in Weakness
Rejected alternatives: bare सक्ति (forbidden — generic supernatural power), देउनि सक्ति (spirit/mediumistic power attributed to a doudini’s trance, forbidden)
Original: ἡ δύναμίς τοῦ Χριστοῦ
Category: Power in Weakness
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 12:9. Direct textual anchor of Power in Weakness; must never use bare सक्ति alone. The paradox that God’s power is displayed through, not despite, human weakness stands in sharp, deliberate contrast to any cultural expectation that spiritual power is authenticated through displays of strength, trance vigor, or oracular potency.
New Creation
Approved rendering: गोदान सृष्टि
Transliteration: godan srishti
Doctrine: New Creation in Christ
Original: καινὴ κτίσις
Category: New Creation
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 5:17. सृष्टि risks being heard through Bathou cosmology’s own five-element creation frame (ha/dwi/bar/or/okhrang, radiating from the sijou plant); must be explicitly taught as a spiritual and moral remaking of the person, categorically distinct from cosmological/elemental creation-language. Requires theologian confirmation before deployment.
Reconciliation
Approved rendering: गोसो फिन जोड़ोनाय
Transliteration: gwsw phin jworonai
Doctrine: Reconciliation with God
Original: καταλλαγή / καταλλάσσω
Category: Reconciliation
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 5:18-20. Genuine conceptual gap: neither Bathou ritual practice (oriented toward securing ongoing favor/protection through offerings) nor Brahma Dharma’s merit ethic has a category for a broken relationship with a personal, holy God being unilaterally and completely restored by that God’s own initiative apart from human ritual repair. Requires theologian confirmation before deployment.
Not Imputing Trespasses
Approved rendering: गुनाहखौ हिसाब खालामनाय गैया
Transliteration: gunahkhou hisab khalamnai gaiya
Doctrine: Reconciliation with God
Original: μὴ λογιζόμενος (αὐτοῖς τὰ παραπτώματα)
Category: Reconciliation
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 5:19. Must be rendered with the same forensic-accounting register established for imputed_righteousness, so learners see the same divine-ledger logic operating in both directions.
Made Sin
Approved rendering: गुनाह महरै खालामबाय
Transliteration: gunah mworai khalambai
Doctrine: Substitutionary Atonement
Original: τὸν μὴ γνόντα ἁμαρτίαν…ἁμαρτίαν ἐποίησεν
Category: Reconciliation
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 5:21. Must not be softened into ‘made Him a sin-offering’ only (true but incomplete) nor into ‘punished as if guilty’ in a way suggesting Christ became morally corrupted; the forensic, substitutionary sense established for imputed_righteousness must govern this rendering as its structural mirror-image. Mandatory theologian review at every occurrence.
Ecstasy Beside Ourselves
Approved rendering: गोसो सोर सोलायनाय
Transliteration: gwsw sor solainai
Doctrine: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
Original: ἐξίστημι
Category: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 5:13. This sits directly beside the single most dangerous collision point in the whole Bodo language package: the doudini’s Kherai-trance possession state, in which the medium’s ordinary self recedes and Bathoubwrai or another deity is understood to speak through her. Must under no circumstances be rendered with vocabulary evoking doudini possession; a mandatory translator’s note must instruct that this is idiomatic self-description of zeal, not an altered ritual consciousness state.
Substitutionary For
Approved rendering: …नि थाखाय सिरनाय
Transliteration: …ni thakhai sirnai
Doctrine: Substitutionary Atonement
Original: ὑπέρ (πάντων ἀπέθανεν)
Category: Reconciliation
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 5:14-15,21. Carries the entire weight of substitutionary atonement in these verses; must be rendered so that Christ’s death is understood as a real substitution for sinners, not merely an example or a sympathetic act of solidarity.
Benediction Triad
Approved rendering: मोफादांनाय दान, प्रेम, गोसो जोंथानाय
Transliteration: mwphwdangnai daan, prem, gwsw jwnthanai
Doctrine: Trinitarian Benediction and Fellowship
Original: ἡ χάρις…ἡ ἀγάπη…ἡ κοινωνία (τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος)
Category: Church
[NEW TERM — compound of baseline reuse terms]. Occurs at 13:14. Given the accumulated weight of every Critical-risk term it contains (grace, love, fellowship, Holy Spirit), this benediction must be flagged for identical, verbatim-consistent rendering across every document in this curriculum, per the Theological Consistency Rules precedent set in the Romans baseline for 1:16-17, 8:28, and 10:9-10.
High Risk Terms
Faith
Approved rendering: बिश्वास
Transliteration: biswas
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: भरोसा (generic trust, too weak alone)
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:24, 4:13, 5:7 (‘we walk by faith, not by sight’), 13:5. Object of faith (Christ) must remain explicit in context to avoid a generic-devotion reading.
Holy
Approved rendering: पबित्र
Transliteration: pobitro
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: साफ (physically clean, ritual-purity sense only)
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:12 (implicit, via sincerity construction), 6:6, 7:1, 13:12 (‘holy kiss’). Reserve साफ strictly for physical/ritual cleanliness, distinct from Bathou/Kherai purification rites.
Saints
Approved rendering: पबित्र मानुष
Transliteration: pobitro manwsw
Doctrine: Church
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:1, 8:4, 9:1,12, 13:12. Must not be narrowed to suggest a specialist religious elite paralleling the doudini’s recognized ritual role.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: पबित्रनाय
Transliteration: pobitronai
Doctrine: Suffering and Comfort in Ministry / Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: साफनाय (ritual cleansing, avoid as a substitute)
Original: ἁγιασμός
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. Relevant to 7:1 (‘let us cleanse ourselves…perfecting holiness’) and 6:6. Distinguish from the external ritual cleansing preceding Bathou/Kherai ceremonies.
Covenant
Approved rendering: गोसाथारि
Transliteration: gwsathari
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Original: διαθήκη
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 3:6,14. Risk escalates to Critical when explicitly contrasted as new vs. old (see new_covenant/old_covenant entries) since no crystallized single covenant-theology term is attested in current Bodo Christian literature.
Sin
Approved rendering: गुनाह
Transliteration: gunah
Doctrine: Reconciliation with God
Rejected alternatives: दोष (fault/blame, too weak/civic)
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 5:19,21, 11:7. Risk escalates to Critical in 5:21 (‘made Him…to be sin for us’) — see made_sin entry. Distinguish from ritual impurity addressed by Bathou/Kherai cleansing rites.
Glory
Approved rendering: महिमा
Transliteration: mohima
Doctrine: New Creation / Power in Weakness
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 3:7-18 (Moses’ fading glory vs. the new covenant’s greater glory), 4:4,6,17, 8:23. Must never be described with metaphors evoking a doudini’s trance-radiance or oracular authority.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि सक्ति
Transliteration: Isornni sakti
Doctrine: Power in Weakness
Rejected alternatives: देउनि सक्ति (spirit/deity power as manifested through a doudini’s trance, avoid as a substitute)
Original: δύναμις θεοῦ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 4:7, 6:7, 13:4. See also christs_power_in_weakness (12:9) as the intensified Critical-risk form of this term specific to 2 Corinthians’ central paradox.
Adoption
Approved rendering: गोसोआव फैनाय
Transliteration: gwswao phoinai
Doctrine: New Creation in Christ (background)
Original: υἱοθεσία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Background sense at 6:18 (‘sons and daughters’). Full inheritance-rights sense must be taught explicitly, per baseline caution on Bodo clan (afad) kinship structure.
Comfort
Approved rendering: सान्ति होनाय
Transliteration: santi honai
Doctrine: Suffering and Comfort in Ministry
Original: παράκλησις / παρακαλέω
Category: Suffering and Comfort
[NEW TERM]. Occurs 10 times in 1:3-7 alone; also 7:4,6-7,13. Must be taught as relational and personal (God himself present with the sufferer), not the ritual reassurance/protection Bathou and Kherai offerings secure, nor a fatalistic resignation to suffering as karmic consequence (a live risk given Brahma Dharma’s karma-oriented ethic). Distinct from गोसो होनाय (exhort) and from सान्ति (peace).
Affliction
Approved rendering: दुख-कष्ट
Transliteration: dukh-koshto
Doctrine: Suffering and Comfort in Ministry
Original: θλῖψις
Category: Suffering and Comfort
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 1:4,8, 2:4, 4:17, 6:4, 7:4, 8:2,13. Must not be read as karma-merit consequence (deserved result of past deeds); Paul’s afflictions are for the gospel’s sake and are met with God’s comfort, not karmic accounting.
Sufferings Of Christ
Approved rendering: मसीहनि दुख-कष्ट
Transliteration: Mosihni dukh-koshto
Doctrine: Suffering and Comfort in Ministry
Original: παθήματα τοῦ Χριστοῦ
Category: Suffering and Comfort
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 1:5. Must be taught as participatory union with Christ’s redemptive suffering, never a cyclical or repeatable ritual re-enactment.
Guarantee
Approved rendering: आगोत्थार थारो
Transliteration: agwtthar tharo
Doctrine: Holy Spirit as Seal and Guarantee
Original: ἀρραβών
Category: Assurance
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 1:22, 5:5. Ties directly to baseline’s adoption doctrine (गोसोआव फैनाय) and its inheritance-rights emphasis; must be taught with that explicit inheritance framing rather than assumed as familiar.
Sincerity
Approved rendering: सोर गोसो
Transliteration: sor gwsw
Doctrine: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
Original: ἁπλότης / εἰλικρίνεια
Category: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 1:12, 11:3 (implicit, ‘simplicity that is in Christ’). Inward, motive-level transparency, distinct from outward ritual purity in Bathou/Kherai preparation rites. Same lexeme also denotes ‘generosity’ in giving contexts (ch. 8) — see generosity entry; disambiguate by context.
The Letter
Approved rendering: अक्षर
Transliteration: akshar
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Original: γράμμα
Category: New Covenant versus the Old
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 3:6-7. Contrasted with पबित्र आत्था (always in full, never bare आत्था even in this antithesis). Central to teaching that the old covenant’s external written code condemns while the new covenant’s Spirit internally transforms and gives life.
Veil
Approved rendering: मुं ढापनाय फोर
Transliteration: mung dhapnai phor
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Original: κάλυμμα
Category: New Covenant versus the Old
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 3:13-16. ‘Veil’ carries strong contemporary South Asian cultural associations (purdah/head-covering practice) unrelated to Paul’s metaphor of spiritual incomprehension; a translator’s note distinguishing the metaphorical usage from literal head-covering custom is required.
Freedom
Approved rendering: बन्धन गैयि थानाय
Transliteration: bwndon gaiyi thanai
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Rejected alternatives: मुक्ति (collides with Brahma Dharma’s Hindu-derived मोक्ष liberation theology, already forbidden in the baseline for ‘salvation’)
Original: ἐλευθερία
Category: New Covenant versus the Old
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 3:17. NEVER मुक्ति. This is freedom from the old covenant’s condemning letter, not liberation from a cycle of rebirth.
Transformed
Approved rendering: रूप सोलायनाय
Transliteration: rup solainai
Doctrine: Transformation into Christ’s Likeness
Rejected alternatives: फिन जोनोम (rebirth/reincarnation, forbidden)
Original: μεταμορφούμεθα
Category: New Creation
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 3:18. Shares the सोलायनाय (‘turning/changing’) root with baseline’s जिउनाय सोलायनाय (resurrection); must be carefully distinguished from any rebirth/reincarnation reading — this is ever-increasing conformity to Christ, not a cyclical process.
Outer Inner Man
Approved rendering: बाहेरनि मानसि / गुदिनि मानसि
Transliteration: baherni manwsi / gudini manwsi
Doctrine: New Creation in Christ
Original: ὁ ἔξω / ὁ ἔσω ἄνθρωπος
Category: New Creation
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 4:16. This body/inner-self dualism must not be assimilated to the reincarnating आत्मा concept absorbed into Brahma Dharma’s Hindu-influenced teaching; the inner man’s daily renewal is progressive sanctification of a single, continuous person, not sequential rebirth stages.
Judgment Seat Of Christ
Approved rendering: मसीहनि बिसार आसन
Transliteration: Mosihni bisar asan
Doctrine: Judgment Seat of Christ and Accountability
Original: βῆμα (τοῦ Χριστοῦ)
Category: Reconciliation
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 5:10. बिसार आसन carries administrative/judicial-court resonance that could be conflated either with civil/territorial courts (a politically loaded association in the Bodoland region) or with a traditional village dispute-resolution council; must be explicitly taught as distinct from both and from the final condemnation-judgment already resolved by justification.
Repentance
Approved rendering: मन सोलायनाय
Transliteration: mon solainai
Doctrine: Repentance and Godly Sorrow
Original: μετάνοια
Category: Suffering and Comfort
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 7:9-10. Must be distinguished both from mere remorse/regret and from ritual purification acts performed before Bathou/Kherai ceremonies, which address ritual rather than moral/relational standing.
Godly Sorrow Worldly Sorrow
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि जायगायनि सुस्ति / जगतनि सुस्ति
Transliteration: Isornni jaygayni susti / jagatni susti
Doctrine: Repentance and Godly Sorrow
Original: λύπη κατὰ θεόν / λύπη τοῦ κόσμου
Category: Suffering and Comfort
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 7:10. Requires explicit contrast teaching; risk of collapsing both into a single generic ‘sadness’ term that loses Paul’s crucial moral distinction.
Christs Poverty Riches
Approved rendering: गरीब / धनी (मसीहनि)
Transliteration: garib / dhoni (Mosihni)
Doctrine: Christ’s Voluntary Poverty (Kenosis)
Original: πτωχεία / πλοῦτος (Χριστοῦ)
Category: Generosity in Giving
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 8:9. This is a genuinely Christological statement about the incarnate Son’s voluntary self-humbling and must not be flattened into a merely economic or moralizing statement about material generosity detached from its Christological ground (मानसि गुदि सोलायनाय).
Warfare Not Of Flesh
Approved rendering: गाहायनि लराइ
Transliteration: gahaini lorai
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and Discernment
Original: στρατεύομαι κατὰ σάρκα
Category: Genuine versus False Apostleship
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 10:3. HIGH risk with a distinctive Bodo-specific pastoral sensitivity: the Bodoland Territorial Region has a real, recent history of ethnic-political armed conflict and militancy. Must be taught with unusual care as strictly spiritual-rhetorical language, never as endorsement, analogy, or coded reference to actual armed or political conflict.
Strongholds
Approved rendering: गढ़
Transliteration: garh
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and Discernment
Original: ὀχύρωμα
Category: Genuine versus False Apostleship
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 10:4. Same regional-conflict sensitivity as warfare_not_of_flesh applies; teach as intellectual/spiritual, never political-military.
Weapons
Approved rendering: आयुध
Transliteration: ayudh
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and Discernment
Original: ὅπλον
Category: Genuine versus False Apostleship
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 10:4. Same regional-conflict sensitivity applies as above.
Boasting
Approved rendering: गर्बनाय (illegitimate) / प्रभुआव सोमान खालामनाय (legitimate)
Transliteration: garbnai / probhuao soman khalamnai
Doctrine: Boasting Rightly: Glorying in the Lord
Original: καύχημα / καυχάομαι
Category: Genuine versus False Apostleship
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 5:12, 10:8,13,15-17, 11:10,12,16-18,30, 12:1,5-6,9,11. Dual valence (illegitimate self-promotion vs. legitimate glorying in Christ, 10:17) must be taught explicitly; conflating the two collapses the Genuine versus False Apostleship doctrine.
Angel Of Light
Approved rendering: महर आथारनि दूत
Transliteration: mohor atharni doot
Doctrine: Genuine versus False Apostleship
Original: ἄγγελος φωτός
Category: Genuine versus False Apostleship
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 11:14. Warns that impressive, seemingly benevolent spiritual manifestation is not self-authenticating — directly relevant to how learners might otherwise regard Kherai-puja spirit visitations as inherently benevolent by virtue of their impressiveness or claimed divine origin.
Super Apostles
Approved rendering: अति-बर गोदान जायगारि
Transliteration: ati-bor godan jaigari
Doctrine: Genuine versus False Apostleship
Original: ὑπερλίαν ἀπόστολοι
Category: Genuine versus False Apostleship
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 11:5, 12:11. Teaches that impressiveness of claim or manner is not the measure of genuine apostleship; genuine apostolic authority is validated by suffering-marked, Christ-centered ministry (11:23-33).
Third Heaven
Approved rendering: गोसोम सान्दांनि आखा
Transliteration: gwswm sandangni akha
Doctrine: Power in Weakness (background)
Original: τρίτος οὐρανός
Category: Power in Weakness
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 12:2. Risk of conflation with Bathou cosmology’s own sky-element okhrang (one of the sijou plant’s five represented elements); must be taught as a distinct Jewish apocalyptic category, not an extension of Bathou’s elemental cosmology.
Thorn In The Flesh
Approved rendering: गाहायनि खोंथाय
Transliteration: gahaini khonthai
Doctrine: Thorn in the Flesh and Sufficient Grace
Original: σκόλοψ τῇ σαρκί
Category: Power in Weakness
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 12:7. The strong cultural instinct in Bathou/Kherai-influenced folk practice is to interpret persistent unexplained affliction as requiring ritual diagnosis and intervention by a doudini or ओझा. Paul’s theology — that God’s answer is not necessarily removal but sufficient grace — represents a significant, explicitly taught contrast.
Messenger Of Satan
Approved rendering: शैताननि दूत
Transliteration: Shaitanni doot
Doctrine: Thorn in the Flesh and Sufficient Grace
Original: ἄγγελος Σατανᾶ
Category: Power in Weakness
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 12:7. Must be taught carefully: this affliction is permitted by God for a sanctifying purpose, not a sign of demonic conquest requiring an exorcistic ritual response.
Weakness
Approved rendering: कमजोर / गोरलैनाय
Transliteration: komjor / gworlainai
Doctrine: Power in Weakness
Original: ἀσθένεια
Category: Power in Weakness
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 11:30, 12:5,9-10, 13:4,9. The theological paradox sits in real tension with the cultural expectation — reinforced by Kherai puja’s dramatic displays of trance potency — that authentic spiritual power manifests as visible strength, vigor, or overwhelming force. This tension should be named directly in teaching, not smoothed over.
Signs Of True Apostle
Approved rendering: रोखा गोदान जायगारिनि चिनांथाय
Transliteration: rokha godan jaigarini chinangthai
Doctrine: Genuine versus False Apostleship
Original: σημεῖα τοῦ ἀποστόλου
Category: Genuine versus False Apostleship
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 12:12. Genuine marks include patient endurance in suffering, not merely impressive spiritual phenomena — directly relevant to the discernment criteria needed against false apostles and super-apostles.
In Christ
Approved rendering: मसीहाव / मसीह नोंसोरनि सोदोमाव
Transliteration: Mosihao / Mosih nongsworni sodomao
Doctrine: New Creation in Christ
Original: ἐν Χριστῷ / Χριστὸς ἐν ὑμῖν
Category: Reconciliation
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 5:17,19, 12:2,19, 13:5. Must be taught, not assumed, as a relational-spiritual incorporation formula rather than a devotional posture toward one deity among several.
Ministry Of Reconciliation
Approved rendering: गोसो फिन जोड़ोनायनि सेवा
Transliteration: gwsw phin jworonaini seba
Doctrine: Ministry of Reconciliation
Rejected alternatives: bare सेवा (forbidden when the specifically apostolic/gospel ministry sense is intended — risks reading as generic ritual service paralleling a doudini or ओझा)
Original: διακονία (τῆς καταλλαγῆς)
Category: Reconciliation
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 5:18-19. The compound must always be used in full rather than bare सेवा.
Ambassador
Approved rendering: प्रतिनिधि
Transliteration: protinidhi
Doctrine: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
Original: πρεσβεύω
Category: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 5:20. ‘Ambassador/representative’ language carries live political resonance in the Bodoland Territorial Region, where ‘representative’ is closely tied to elected territorial-council office; must be taught as Christ’s spiritual-diplomatic authorization to proclaim reconciliation, not a political appointment or claim to territorial representation. Always modify with मसीहनि.
Fear Of The Lord
Approved rendering: प्रभुनि सायखो गोरोन्थि
Transliteration: probhuni saikho gwronthi
Doctrine: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
Original: φόβος τοῦ κυρίου
Category: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 5:11. Must be distinguished from fear of Bathoubwrai’s displeasure or fear of misfortune addressed by Kherai/Bathou protective ritual; this is relational accountability to a personal, exclusive Lord, not appeasement of a spirit that might otherwise cause harm.
Flesh Kata Sarka
Approved rendering: गाहाय जों
Transliteration: gahai jong
Doctrine: Reconciliation with God (background)
Original: σάρξ (κατὰ σάρκα)
Category: Reconciliation
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 5:16. ‘According to the flesh’ easily collapses into clan (afad), ethnic, or territorial identity categories — a live and sensitive axis in the Bodoland region. Must be taught as: identity in Christ supersedes lineage, clan, and worldly status evaluation, without denying the real value of positive lineage-language used elsewhere (दाऊदनि बेंसे).
Medium Risk Terms
Apostle
Approved rendering: गोदान जायगारि
Transliteration: godan jaigari
Doctrine: Apostleship / Genuine versus False Apostleship
Rejected alternatives: दूत (generic messenger, too weak)
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Apostleship
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:1, 11:5,13, 12:11-12. Risk escalates to Critical whenever contrasted with false_apostles or super_apostles (chs. 10-12), where the genuineness of the office itself is under dispute.
Church
Approved rendering: मण्डली
Transliteration: mwndoli
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: नमासोलि (Bathou/Kherai shrine site or worship ground, never use)
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:1, 8:1,18-19,23-24, 11:8,28, 12:13. Remains distinct from नमासोलि and from मन्दिर (see temple_of_living_god below).
Law
Approved rendering: बिथान
Transliteration: bithan
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Rejected alternatives: धर्मनि नियम (Brahma Dharma’s own codified religious-conduct rules, avoid as the primary gloss)
Original: νόμος
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Implicit throughout 3:6-15 as the content of the ‘old covenant’ and its ‘letter’. Distinguish from Brahma Dharma’s own codified reform conduct-rules.
Peace
Approved rendering: सान्ति
Transliteration: santi
Doctrine: Peace with God (background)
Inherited from Romans package. Background presence at 13:11 (‘live in peace’). Must be kept visually and contextually distinct from सान्ति होनाय (comfort, [NEW TERM] below) to prevent merging comfort-in-affliction with static peace-with-God.
Seal
Approved rendering: छाप
Transliteration: chap
Doctrine: Holy Spirit as Seal and Guarantee
Original: σφραγίς / σφραγίζω
Category: Assurance
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 1:22. Must not be read as a protective charm or amulet, a category present in traditional Bodo material-religious practice.
Forgiveness
Approved rendering: माफ खालामनाय
Transliteration: maph khalamnai
Doctrine: Forgiveness and Restoration in Church Discipline
Original: χαρίζομαι / ἀφίημι
Category: Church
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 2:7,10. Baseline explicitly rejected ‘गुनाहनि माफ’ as an insufficient stand-alone gloss for justification; here, as plain interpersonal/divine forgiveness, माफ खालामनाय is appropriate, but a translator note should mark the boundary: this is a real component of, but not synonymous with, the fuller forensic declaration धार्मिक होनाय राव.
Fragrance Of Christ
Approved rendering: सुबास
Transliteration: subas
Doctrine: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
Original: εὐωδία (Χριστοῦ)
Category: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 2:15-16. Must be taught as a metaphor for gospel witness, not literal ritual incense/fragrance offering, a practice present in regional devotional culture broadly and adjacent to (though not identical with) Kherai puja ritual elements.
Triumphal Procession
Approved rendering: जयनि सोबाय
Transliteration: jayni sobai
Doctrine: Power in Weakness (background)
Original: θριαμβεύω
Category: Power in Weakness
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 2:14. Roman military-political image with no direct Bodo cultural parallel; low syncretism risk but real comprehension risk requiring cultural-background explanation.
Peddling Gods Word
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि रावखौ बेछा खालामनाय
Transliteration: Isornni raokhou becha khalamnai
Doctrine: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
Original: καπηλεύω
Category: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 2:17. Warns against commercializing ministry; worth noting alongside caution about any perception that Christian teaching, like some itinerant religious specialists’ services, is offered for a fee.
Jars Of Clay
Approved rendering: मालाव भरनि बर्तन
Transliteration: malao bhorni bortan
Doctrine: Power in Weakness
Original: ὄστράκινα σκεύη
Category: Power in Weakness
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 4:7. Ties directly into Power in Weakness: God’s power is deliberately displayed through fragile human ministers, not despite their fragility.
Eternal Weight Of Glory
Approved rendering: हमेशा थाखोनि महिमानि गुरं
Transliteration: hamesha thakhwni mohimani guru
Doctrine: Power in Weakness
Original: αἰώνιον βάρος δόξης
Category: Power in Weakness
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 4:17. Reinforces baseline’s caution that God’s glory is his own self-existent majesty, never to be confused with the trance-radiance or oracular authority attributed to a doudini.
Tent Earthly House
Approved rendering: खामनि नोगोर
Transliteration: khamni nogor
Doctrine: New Creation in Christ (background)
Original: σκῆνος
Category: New Creation
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 5:1,4. The physical body as a temporary dwelling; requires clear body-imagery framing so it is not confused with an ancestral-spirit dwelling concept.
Belial
Approved rendering: बिलियाल
Transliteration: Biliyal
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and Discernment
Original: Βελιάλ
Category: Spiritual Warfare
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 6:15. A Hebrew-derived title for Satan/the devil, a hapax legomenon in the NT. Transliterate and flag with a note identifying it as a synonym for शैतान to avoid the impression of a distinct spirit-being within a populated pantheon.
Unequally Yoked
Approved rendering: अलग जातनि जों जुड़नाय
Transliteration: alag jatni jong jwrnai
Doctrine: Unequal Yoking and Separation from Idolatry
Original: ἑτεροζυγέω
Category: Church
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 6:14. Positive cultural note: Bodo agrarian life’s own ox/buffalo-yoke farming practice gives this image natural resonance; must be taught relationally (partnership, marriage, close alliance with unbelief), not as a blanket prohibition on ordinary social or economic contact.
Separate Unto God
Approved rendering: फोजाब जानाय
Transliteration: phojab janai
Doctrine: Unequal Yoking and Separation from Idolatry
Original: ἀφορίζω
Category: Sanctification
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 6:17. Connects to baseline’s ‘separation unto God’s service’ doctrine; whole-life devotion, not a periodic ritual state.
Generosity
Approved rendering: खोलामनाय गोसो
Transliteration: kholamnai gwsw
Doctrine: Generosity and Grace in Giving
Original: ἁπλότης
Category: Generosity in Giving
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 8:2, 9:11,13. Same Greek lexeme as sincerity (ch. 1); both are expressions of the same undivided heart. Must be taught as fruit of grace, not a meritorious act securing further favor.
Equality
Approved rendering: समानता
Transliteration: samanata
Doctrine: Generosity and Grace in Giving
Original: ἰσότης
Category: Generosity in Giving
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 8:13-14. Should be taught as mutual economic care between churches, not conflated with contemporary ethnic/political equality rhetoric in the Bodoland region.
Godly Jealousy
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि जायगायनि हींसा
Transliteration: Isornni jaygayni hinsa
Doctrine: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
Original: ζῆλος θεοῦ
Category: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 11:2. A protective, jealous zeal on God’s behalf, distinct from sinful envy.
Paradise
Approved rendering: स्वर्गनि बगान
Transliteration: swargwni bogan
Doctrine: Power in Weakness (background)
Original: παράδεισος
Category: Power in Weakness
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 12:4. God’s dwelling place, used interchangeably with ‘third heaven.‘
Love
Approved rendering: प्रेम
Transliteration: prem
Doctrine: Reconciliation with God / Trinitarian Benediction and Fellowship
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Reconciliation
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 5:14 (‘the love of Christ’), 13:11,14 (‘the love of God’). Must be taught as Christ’s own self-giving initiative, not devotional affection offered upward to a deity as in Bathou/Kherai worship postures. Risk escalates to Critical within the 13:14 benediction (see benediction_triad).
Examine Yourselves
Approved rendering: सिगां परीक्षा खालाम
Transliteration: sigang porikha khalam
Doctrine: Genuine versus False Apostleship
Original: δοκιμάζετε ἑαυτούς
Category: Genuine versus False Apostleship
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 13:5. Self-examination as to whether one is genuinely in the faith and Christ is truly present within.
Commend
Approved rendering: आमरा राव होनाय
Transliteration: amra rao honai
Doctrine: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
Original: συνίστημι
Category: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 3:1, 5:12, 10:12,18. Contrasts self-promotion with genuine ministry credibility.
Persuade
Approved rendering: राव सुजुनाय
Transliteration: rao sujunai
Doctrine: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
Original: πείθω
Category: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 5:11. Must be distinguished from rhetorical flattery/manipulation, a live concern given rival teachers (ch. 11).
Trespass
Approved rendering: गुइरनाय
Transliteration: guirnai
Doctrine: Reconciliation with God (background)
Original: παράπτωμα
Category: Reconciliation
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 5:19. May be glossed simply as गुनाह in most contexts with a translator note on the nuance distinguishing a specific lapse from general sin.
Low Risk Terms
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: धिनानाय
Transliteration: dhinanai
Doctrine: Thanksgiving and Mutual Edification
Original: εὐχαριστία
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:11, 2:14, 4:15, 9:11-12.
Fellowship
Approved rendering: गोसो जोंथानाय
Transliteration: gwsw jwnthanai
Doctrine: Trinitarian Benediction and Fellowship
Original: κοινωνία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 6:14, 8:4, 13:14. Risk escalates to Critical within the 13:14 benediction triad (see benediction_triad entry).
Exhort
Approved rendering: गोसो होनाय
Transliteration: gwsw honai
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 2:7 (encouragement), 9:5, 10:1, 12:18, 13:11. Reserve for encouragement-to-action contexts; use बिनयनाय for entreaty (5:20) and सान्ति होनाय for comfort-in-suffering contexts.
Cheerful Giver
Approved rendering: सान्थियै दान होग्रा
Transliteration: santhiyoi daan hwgra
Doctrine: Generosity and Grace in Giving
Original: ἱλαρός
Category: Generosity in Giving
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 9:7. Low doctrinal risk.
Sufficiency
Approved rendering: गोबां जायगायाव गनानाय
Transliteration: gwbang jaygayao gonanai
Doctrine: Generosity and Grace in Giving
Original: αὐτάρκεια
Category: Generosity in Giving
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 9:8. Must be understood as God-given, not self-derived, contentment.
Sowing Seed
Approved rendering: बीज सिनगारनाय
Transliteration: bij singarnai
Doctrine: Generosity and Grace in Giving
Original: σπείρω / σπόρος
Category: Generosity in Giving
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 9:6,10. Agricultural metaphor for generous giving and its harvest; highly resonant in Bodo agrarian (rice-farming) culture.
Holy Kiss
Approved rendering: पबित्र चुम्बन
Transliteration: pobitro chumbon
Doctrine: Christian Greeting Customs
Original: φίλημα ἅγιον
Category: Church
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 13:12. Requires a cultural-adaptation note: this specific greeting gesture is culturally distant from customary Bodo greeting practice and should be taught as a first-century cultural expression of warm, pure, familial affection among believers, not necessarily prescribed as a literal contemporary greeting form.
Conscience
Approved rendering: गोसोनि सायख
Transliteration: gwswni saikho
Doctrine: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
Original: συνείδησις
Category: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 1:12, 4:2, 5:11. Distinct from the baseline election term ईश्वरनि सायख; context disambiguates, but must be kept visually distinct in all teaching materials.
World
Approved rendering: जगत
Transliteration: jagat
Doctrine: Reconciliation with God (background)
Original: κόσμος
Category: Reconciliation
[NEW TERM]. Occurs at 5:19. Standard, low-risk loanword usage.
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