Core Glossary
Core Glossary — 2 Timothy (English → Bodo)
Purpose and Method
This glossary compiles every load-bearing theological term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md, drawn from all four chapters of 2 Timothy. Per the hard rule governing this Language Package, any term already recorded in the baseline Romans translation_memory.json is reused with its exact recorded Bodo rendering — these are marked “Baseline reuse” in the Source column. New terms specific to 2 Timothy’s doctrinal emphases are marked “New (2 Timothy)” and are risk-tiered using the same Critical/High/Medium/Low framework and the same Bathouism/Brahma Dharma comparative-religion grounding the baseline established. Several new compounds are explicitly marked provisional, consistent with the baseline’s own practice of flagging conceptual-gap terms for confirmation by a Bodo-speaking theologian before wide deployment.
Risk tier definitions (unchanged from baseline):
- Critical — mistranslation destroys essential doctrine; human theologian review required for every occurrence.
- High — mistranslation creates significant theological confusion or syncretism risk; human theologian review required.
- Medium — mistranslation reduces clarity but preserves essential meaning; native speaker review recommended.
- Low — minor imprecision; automated review sufficient.
Glossary Table
| # | English Term | Greek (transliteration) | Bodo Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Source | Doctrine | Key Passage(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scripture / Holy Scriptures | γραφή / ἱερὰ γράμματα (graphē / hiera grammata) | पबित्र सास्त्र | pobitro sastro | High | New (2 Timothy) — matches doctrine registry’s existing compound | Inspiration & Sufficiency of Scripture | 3:15-16 | Bathou tradition has no fixed written scripture; Brahma Dharma has its own 1912-era reform literature. Neither supplies a ready equivalent for a closed, divinely authoritative text; teach from the ground up. |
| 2 | God-breathed / inspired by God | θεόπνευστος (theopneustos) | ईश्वरनि सासजों गोदान जानाय | Isornni sasjw godan janai | Critical | New (2 Timothy), provisional | Inspiration & Sufficiency of Scripture | 3:16 | Must not be rendered with वाणी/deity-oracle vocabulary evoking a doudini’s channeled utterance during Kherai trance. Scripture is a fixed, complete, once-given revelation, not an ongoing oracular phenomenon. Confirm with Bodo-speaking theologian. |
| 3 | sound doctrine / sound words | ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία / ὑγιαίνοντες λόγοι (hygiainousa didaskalia / hygiainontes logoi) | गेदेर सिक्षा / गेदेर राव | geder siksha / geder rang | Critical | New (2 Timothy), provisional | Guarding Sound Doctrine | 1:13; 4:3 | ”Soundness” must be measured by conformity to the fixed apostolic deposit (see #6 below), never by what “feels” spiritually satisfying to hearers — directly relevant given 4:3’s itching-ears warning. Must recur identically at every occurrence across the curriculum. |
| 4 | teaching / doctrine | διδασκαλία / διδαχή (didaskalia / didachē) | सिक्षा | siksha | Medium | New (2 Timothy) | Guarding Sound Doctrine | 3:10, 3:16; 4:2 | Base term underlying “sound doctrine” (#3); keep identical across occurrences for learner consistency. |
| 5 | teacher | διδάσκαλος (didaskalos) | सिकाइग्रा | sikaigra | Medium | New (2 Timothy) | Guarding Sound Doctrine | 1:11; 4:3 | Agentive form of सिक्षा; distinguish “heaping up teachers” (4:3, negative) from Paul’s own legitimate appointment as teacher (1:11, positive). |
| 6 | the deposit / that which is entrusted | παραθήκη (paratheke) | सोंपनाय गुदि / बेसेन सोंपनाय गुदि | sompnai gudi / besen sompnai gudi | High | New (2 Timothy), provisional | Faithful Transmission of the Gospel | 1:12, 1:14 | The gospel/apostolic teaching as a fixed trust to be guarded, not a fluid tradition open to revision. Caution: do not conflate with baseline’s forbidden रैखाथि (protection-from-misfortune) association attached to “salvation”; this term concerns guarding teaching, not securing personal well-being. |
| 7 | to entrust / commit to another’s keeping | παρατίθεμαι / παραδίδωμι (paratithemai / paradidōmi) | सोंपनाय | sompnai | High | New (2 Timothy) | Faithful Transmission of the Gospel | 2:2 | Root verb underlying #6; 2:2’s four-generation transmission chain (Paul→Timothy→faithful men→others) is this doctrine’s key proof text. |
| 8 | faithful men / faithful people | πιστοὶ ἄνθρωποι (pistoi anthrōpoi) | बिश्वासी मानुष | biswasi manwsw | Medium | New (2 Timothy), built on baseline बिश्वास | Faithful Transmission of the Gospel | 2:2 | Built directly on baseline’s “faith” entry. |
| 9 | pattern of sound words | ὑποτύπωσις ὑγιαινόντων λόγων (hypotypōsis hygiainontōn logōn) | सिकनि रूप (गेदेर रावनि) | sikni rup (geder rangni) | High | New (2 Timothy), provisional | Guarding Sound Doctrine | 1:13 | Distinguish nuance from “sound doctrine” (#3): this is a fixed model of sayings to imitate, not a body of teaching content. |
| 10 | suffering / hardship | κακοπάθεια / πάθημα (kakopatheia / pathēma) | दुख सजायनाय / दुख | dukh sajainai / dukh | High | New (2 Timothy) | Perseverance under Suffering | 1:8; 2:3, 2:9; 3:11; 4:5 | Must not be read as misfortune requiring ritual appeasement of Bathoubwrai or the Kherai pantheon. Suffering-for-the-gospel is a calling, even an honor, not a condition to be ritually corrected. |
| 11 | endurance / perseverance | ὑπομονή / ὑπομένω (hypomonē / hypomenō) | सहनाय | sahanai | High | New (2 Timothy) | Perseverance under Suffering | 2:10, 2:12; 3:10 | The letter’s programmatic perseverance term; reward (reigning with Christ) is tied to enduring, not to avoiding suffering. Use identically at every occurrence. |
| 12 | persecution | διωγμός (diōgmos) | खेदायनाय | khedainai | High | New (2 Timothy) | Perseverance under Suffering | 3:11-12 | Paired with the universal, unqualified promise “all who live godly … will suffer persecution” (3:12) — must not be softened, parallel to baseline’s protection of other universal claims. |
| 13 | rescue / deliver (from immediate danger) | ῥύομαι (rhyomai) | बाचायनाय | bachainai | Medium | New (2 Timothy) | Perseverance under Suffering | 3:11; 4:17-18 | MUST be kept distinct from फोरायनाय (baseline “salvation,” Critical, eternal/eschatological deliverance). Confusing the two risks flattening salvation into a this-worldly protection concept, the exact direction Bathou/Kherai protective ritual practice would naturally pull. |
| 14 | last days | ἔσχαται ἡμέραι (eschatai hēmerai) | सिमानि सान | simani san | High | New (2 Timothy) | Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days | 3:1 | Neither Bathou tradition (no developed eschatology) nor Brahma Dharma’s reform-progress narrative supplies a ready parallel for a decisive final period before Christ’s return; teach from the ground up. |
| 15 | apostasy / turning away from the truth | ἀποστρέφω / ἀφίστημι (apostrephō / aphistēmi) | बिश्वासनि गारिनाय / सत्यखौनि खनाब सोलायनाय | biswasni garinai / swtyokhwni khanab solainai | Critical | New (2 Timothy), provisional | Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days | 1:15; 4:4 | CAUTION: shares the root सोलायनाय with the baseline’s resurrection term (जिउनाय सोलायनाय); here it names a negative moral turning-away, there a positive turning-back-to-life. Curriculum materials must state this contrast explicitly to avoid learner confusion. |
| 16 | myths / fables | μῦθος (mythos) | मिथ्या गाथा | mithya gatha | High | New (2 Timothy) | Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days | 4:4 | Confine strictly to the false teaching Paul describes arising within the church; must never be applied wholesale to Bathou oral tradition’s own origin narratives about Bathoubwrai, which deserve respectful, non-polemical treatment. |
| 17 | itching ears | κνηθόμενοι τὴν ἀκοήν (knēthomenoi tēn akoēn) | खनानि सोकनाय | khanani soknai | Medium | New (2 Timothy), idiom | Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days | 4:3 | Idiom without ready Bodo equivalent; literal-ish rendering retained with explanatory gloss (“desire to hear only pleasant things”). Flag for native-speaker naturalness review. |
| 18 | godliness | εὐσέβεια (eusebeia) | ईश्वर-मानानाय | Isor-mananai | Critical | New (2 Timothy), deliberate avoidance of भक्ति | Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days | 3:5, 3:12 | Deliberately avoids the Sanskrit loan भक्ति (“bhakti/devotion”) to prevent godliness being heard as a variety of Hindu bhakti-movement devotional practice, especially given Brahma Dharma’s own Sanskritized 1912 reform. Parallel in kind to baseline’s avoidance of बाथौबुरै for “God.” |
| 19 | form (without substance) | μόρφωσις (morphōsis) | बाहिरनि रूप | bahirni rup | High | New (2 Timothy) | Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days | 3:5 | Must be taught as Paul’s critique of last-days corruption within the professing church, not a comparative-religion verdict on Bathou ritual or Brahma Dharma observance. |
| 20 | deceivers / impostors | γόης (goēs) | फुसला होग्रा | phusla hwgra | Medium | New (2 Timothy) | Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days | 3:13 | Possible (mis)association risk with ओझा-type folk-ritual figures (already flagged in baseline for “prophet”); here the emphasis is moral/doctrinal deception within the church. |
| 21 | man of God | ἄνθρωπος τοῦ θεοῦ (anthrōpos tou theou) | ईश्वरनि मानुष | Isornni manwsw | High | New (2 Timothy) | Inspiration & Sufficiency of Scripture | 3:17 | Risk of being heard as naming a specialist religious office parallel to the doudini, ओझा, or a Brahma Dharma-trained teacher. Must be taught as describing any Scripture-formed believer, not a specialist class. |
| 22 | thoroughly equipped | ἐξηρτισμένος (exērtismenos) | गोरोबनाय | gwrwbnai | Medium | New (2 Timothy) | Inspiration & Sufficiency of Scripture | 3:17 | Shares a root with baseline’s rejected grace-alternative (दान गोरोबनाय, reciprocal gift); different collocation here (equipping for work, not reciprocal exchange), but flag for native-speaker confirmation of naturalness. |
| 23 | I charge / solemnly charge | διαμαρτύρομαι (diamartyromai) | गम्भीर हुकुम होनाय | gombhir hukum honai | High | New (2 Timothy) | The Charge to Preach the Word | 4:1 | Must be distinguished from a doudini’s solemn ritual invocation formula during Kherai puja; this is Paul’s apostolic commission under the witness of the one true God and Christ. |
| 24 | judge the living and the dead | κρίνειν ζῶντας καὶ νεκρούς (krinein zōntas kai nekrous) | जीबि आरो गोथाय मानुषखौ बिसारनाय | jibi aro gwthai manwshkhw bisaranai | Critical | New (2 Timothy) | The Charge to Preach the Word / Assurance of Reward | 4:1 | Must not be read as ancestor-spirits judging the living (cf. baseline’s रejected बुरहा-बुरही आत्था for Holy Spirit); Christ alone judges all. Must not be impersonal fate/karma-style reckoning. |
| 25 | his appearing | ἐπιφάνεια (epiphaneia) | प्रकाश जानाय | prokash janai | Critical | New (2 Timothy) | The Charge to Preach the Word / Assurance of Reward | 1:10; 4:1, 4:8 | Distinguish from doudini trance-radiance (cf. baseline’s caution on महिमा/glory) and from Bathou worship’s aniconic character (no embodied, visibly appearing deity in that tradition). Use identically at every occurrence. |
| 26 | preach the word | κήρυξον τὸν λόγον (kēryxon ton logon) | रावखौ सोमोन्दो होनाय | rawkhw somondo honai | High | New (2 Timothy) | The Charge to Preach the Word | 4:2 | Heraldic, authoritative public proclamation — not a doudini’s ritual utterance, not one private opinion among several in a pluralistic village setting. |
| 27 | will not endure sound doctrine | οὐκ ἀνέξονται (ouk anexontai) | सहा नाजायो | saha najaiyo | High | New (2 Timothy) | Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days | 4:3 | Reuses सहनाय (#11) negated; the inability to bear sound teaching is itself a symptom of last-days apostasy. |
| 28 | be watchful / sober | νήφω (nēphō) | सजाग थानाय | sajag thanai | Medium | New (2 Timothy) | The Charge to Preach the Word | 4:5 | |
| 29 | evangelist | εὐαγγελιστής (euangelistēs) | मंगल खबर सोंग्रा | mangal khabor songra | Medium | New (2 Timothy), built on baseline मंगल खबर | The Charge to Preach the Word | 4:5 | Built directly on baseline “gospel” (मंगल खबर, High); flag for native-speaker naturalness review of the agentive compound. |
| 30 | fulfill (ministry) | πληροφορέω (plērophoreō) | पूरा होनाय | pura honai | Low-Medium | New (2 Timothy) | The Charge to Preach the Word | 4:5 | |
| 31 | ministry / service | διακονία (diakonia) | सेवा | seva | Medium | New (2 Timothy), matches doctrine registry pattern | The Charge to Preach the Word | 4:5 | |
| 32 | poured out (as a drink offering) | σπένδομαι (spendomai) | जिउ दानै बानाय | jiu danai banai | High | New (2 Timothy) | Perseverance under Suffering / Assurance of Reward | 4:6 | Distinguish sharply from literal, repeated Bathou/Kherai offerings made to secure divine favor; Paul’s “pouring out” is a one-time voluntary self-giving at the point of death, not a ritual transaction. |
| 33 | fought the good fight | τὸν καλὸν ἀγῶνα ἠγώνισμαι (ton kalon agōna ēgōnismai) | बेसेन जुज खालामनाय | besen juj khalamnai | High | New (2 Timothy) | Assurance of Reward | 4:7 | Retrospective confidence at life’s end; ground of coming reward, not anxious ongoing striving. |
| 34 | finished the race | τὸν δρόμον τετέλεκα (ton dromon teteleka) | देवनाय पूरा खालामनाय | dewnai pura khalamnai | Medium | New (2 Timothy) | Assurance of Reward | 4:7 | |
| 35 | kept the faith | τὴν πίστιν τετήρηκα (tēn pistin tetērēka) | बिश्वासखौ रैखा खालामनाय | biswaskhw raikha khalamnai | High | New (2 Timothy), built on baseline बिश्वास | Assurance of Reward | 4:7 | |
| 36 | crown of righteousness | στέφανος τῆς δικαιοσύνης (stephanos tēs dikaiosynēs) | धार्मिकतानि मुकुट | dharmikotani mukut | Critical | New (2 Timothy), built on baseline धार्मिकता | Assurance of Reward | 4:8 | Inherits धार्मिकता’s Critical status. Must be taught as grace-given eschatological reward, never merit accumulated (guards against Brahma Dharma पुण्य-style reading) and never a ritual object exchanged with a deity (guards against Bathou/Kherai reciprocal-offering reading). Available to “all,” not a specialist reward. |
| 37 | that Day | ἐκείνη ἡ ἡμέρα (ekeinē hē hēmera) | बे सान | be san | High | New (2 Timothy) | Assurance of Reward | 1:12, 1:18; 4:8 | Fixed eschatological reference to the day of Christ’s return/judgment; keep identical across occurrences. |
| 38 | love | ἀγάπη (agapē) | मोसारनाय | mwsaranai | High | New — absent from baseline TM despite Romans’ own use; added here | Guarding Sound Doctrine / general | 1:7; 2:22; 3:4; 4:8 | Must be distinguished both from mere family/clan affection and from any reciprocal-favor logic (parallel to the grace/merit collision risk already named in the baseline). Recommend cross-referencing with baseline’s “grace” entry in teaching notes. |
| 39 | fear / timidity | δειλία (deilia) | भय | bhoi | Medium | New (2 Timothy) | Perseverance under Suffering | 1:7 | Contrasted with सक्ति (power), मोसारनाय (love), गोसो थिरनाय (self-control) in the same verse — a compact, high-value teaching verse. |
| 40 | self-control / sound mind | σωφρονισμός (sōphronismos) | गोसो थिरनाय | gwsw thirnai | Medium | New (2 Timothy) | Perseverance under Suffering | 1:7 | |
| 41 | laying on of hands | ἐπίθεσις τῶν χειρῶν (epithesis tōn cheirōn) | आखाइ बोहायनाय | akhai bohainai | High | New (2 Timothy) | Faithful Transmission of the Gospel | 1:6 | Must be distinguished from any power-transfer gesture associated with a doudini’s or ओझा’s ritual practice; the Spirit’s gift is sovereignly given, symbolized (not magically caused) by the human gesture. |
| 42 | not ashamed | ἐπαισχύνομαι (epaischynomai), negated | लाज खालामनाय गैया | laj khalamnai gaiya | Medium | New (2 Timothy) | Perseverance under Suffering | 1:8, 1:12, 1:16 | Flagged for native-speaker cultural-sensitivity review given the real social weight of honor/shame dynamics in Bodo social life. |
| 43 | repentance | μετάνοια (metanoia) | गुनाहजों फिन जानाय | gunahjw phin janai | High | New — absent from baseline TM despite Romans’ own use (2:4); added here | Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days | 2:25 | Must be taught as inward, moral turning of the whole person toward God, distinct from external ritual purification performed before Kherai/Bathou ceremonies to restore household/community harmony. |
| 44 | knowledge of the truth | ἐπίγνωσις ἀληθείας (epignōsis alētheias) | सत्यनि मिथिंगा | swtyoni mithinga | High | New (2 Timothy) | Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days | 2:25; 3:7 | Distinguish from a gnosis-style path of accumulated esoteric/reform-community knowledge; granted by God together with repentance, not achieved through independent study or ascetic discipline. |
| 45 | the devil | διάβολος (diabolos) | सैतान | saitan | High | New (2 Timothy) | Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days | 2:26 | Singular, personal, malevolent adversary — distinct from the diffuse, morally ambiguous nature-spirits and ancestral spirits of the Bathou spirit-world, none of which functions as a unified personal tempter figure. |
| 46 | rightly dividing / handling accurately | ὀρθοτομέω (orthotomeō) | थार-थार बुझिनाय आरो होनाय | thar-thar bujinai aro honai | High | New (2 Timothy), provisional | Guarding Sound Doctrine | 2:15 | Must not suggest a specialist’s exclusive interpretive authority resembling an ओझा’s or doudini’s privileged access to hidden meaning; available to any diligent, Scripture-taught believer. |
| 47 | profane, empty chatter | βέβηλος κενοφωνία (bebēlos kenophōnia) | गैर-पबित्र रां-रोंथोन | goir-pobitro rang-rwnthwn | High | New (2 Timothy), built on baseline पबित्र | Guarding Sound Doctrine | 2:16 | Deliberate contrast pair with “sound doctrine” (#3): false teaching’s character is irreverent and substance-less; sound teaching’s character is गेदेर (healthy/sound). |
| 48 | spreading like gangrene | γάγγραινα (gangraina) | फैलाव जायनाय घा | phailao jainai gha | Medium | New (2 Timothy) | Guarding Sound Doctrine | 2:17 | Cultural/medical metaphor; flag for native-speaker review. Core point (false teaching doesn’t stay contained) must survive even if the specific medical image is adapted. |
| 49 | the elect / chosen | ἐκλεκτός (eklektos) | ईश्वरनि सायखा मानुष | Isornni saikha manwsw | High | New (2 Timothy), built on baseline “election” | Assurance of Reward | 2:10 | Inherits baseline’s caution against भागी (impersonal fate) framing. |
| 50 | if we deny Him, He will deny us | ἀρνέομαι (arneomai) | नासे होनाय | nase honai | Critical | New (2 Timothy) | Assurance of Reward | 2:12 | Stark, symmetrical warning must be preserved in full force, not softened; the flip side of Assurance of Reward. Flag for human theologian review alongside the immediately following clause on God’s unconditional faithfulness. |
| 51 | vessels of honor and dishonor | σκεῦος εἰς τιμήν / ἀτιμίαν (skeuos eis timēn / atimian) | आदोरनि/अनादोरनि बासोन | adorni/anadorni bason | Medium | New (2 Timothy) | Guarding Sound Doctrine | 2:20-21 | Flag for native-speaker review given honor/shame’s cultural weight in Bodo social life. |
| 52 | foundation | θεμέλιος (themelios) | बुनियाद | buniyad | Medium | New (2 Timothy) | Assurance of Reward | 2:19 | |
| 53 | seal | σφραγίς (sphragis) | छाप | chhap | Medium | New (2 Timothy) | Assurance of Reward | 2:19 | Ties to Assurance of Salvation, already Critical in the baseline. |
| 54 | strengthened (by grace / by the Lord) | ἐνδυναμόω (endynamoō) | सक्तिजों गोहोम होनाय | saktijw gwhwm honai | High | New (2 Timothy), built on baseline सक्ति root | Perseverance under Suffering | 2:1; 4:17 | Inherits baseline caution: सक्ति must be kept categorically distinct from देउनि सक्ति (doudini’s Kherai-trance power). |
| 55 | immortality / incorruption | ἀφθαρσία (aphtharsia) | अमर जिउ | amor jiu | High | New (2 Timothy) | Inspiration & Sufficiency of Scripture (via 1:10’s gospel-context) | 1:10 | Must be distinguished from Brahma Dharma’s Hindu-influenced teaching on the soul’s inherent immortality across rebirth cycles (फिन जोनोम, already forbidden for “resurrection” in the baseline); here immortality is a gift disclosed through the gospel and grounded in Christ’s resurrection, not an innate migrating property of the soul. |
| 56 | Savior | σωτήρ (sōtēr) | फोरायग्रा | phoraygra | Critical | New (2 Timothy), built on baseline फोरायनाय | Inspiration & Sufficiency of Scripture (via 1:10) | 1:10 | Inherits salvation’s Critical status; must never suggest a this-worldly protector-deity role of the kind sought from Bathoubwrai/the Kherai pantheon through offerings. |
Terms Reused Exactly from the Baseline Romans Translation Memory
The following terms occur in 2 Timothy and MUST be rendered exactly as recorded in the baseline translation_memory.json. No new analysis is required for these; they are listed here for completeness of full-book coverage.
| English Term | Bodo Rendering | Risk (baseline) | 2 Timothy Occurrences |
|---|---|---|---|
| God | ईश्वर | Critical | throughout |
| Lord | प्रभु | Critical | 1:2, 8, 16, 18; 2:1, 7, 14, 19, 22, 24; 4:1, 8, 14, 17, 18, 22 |
| Jesus | जिसु | Critical | 1:2, 9, 10; 2:1, 3, 8, 10; 4:1, 22 |
| Messiah / Christ | मसीह | Critical | 1:1, 2, 9, 10, 13; 2:1, 3, 8, 10; 4:1 |
| Holy Spirit | पबित्र आत्था | Critical | 1:14 |
| Father | आफा | Critical | 1:2 |
| grace | मोफादांनाय दान | Critical | 1:2, 9; 2:1; 4:22 |
| faith | बिश्वास | High | 1:5, 13; 2:18, 22; 3:8, 10, 15; 4:7 |
| gospel | मंगल खबर | High | 1:8, 10; 2:8 |
| holy | पबित्र | High | 1:9 |
| calling | फिनायनि सिम | High | 1:9 |
| resurrection | जिउनाय सोलायनाय | Critical | 2:8, 18 |
| salvation | फोरायनाय | Critical | 1:9; 2:10; 3:15 |
| righteousness | धार्मिकता | Critical | 2:22; 3:16; 4:8 |
| apostle | गोदान जायगारि | Medium | 1:1 |
| glory | महिमा | High | 2:10; 4:18 |
| seed of David | दाऊदनि बेंसे | High | 2:8 |
| peace | सान्ति | Medium | 1:2; 2:22 |
| kingdom of God / his kingdom | ईश्वरनि राज्य (adapted: बिनि राज्य / सुबुंगनि राज्य) | Medium | 4:1, 18 |
| gentiles / nations | गैर-जुथुद | Medium | 4:17 |
| spiritual gifts / gift of God | आत्मानि दान | Medium | 1:6 |
| power of God | ईश्वरनि सक्ति (root सक्ति) | High | 1:7-8; 3:5 |
| election (root) | ईश्वरनि सायख | High | 2:10 (extended as ईश्वरनि सायखा मानुष) |
| exhort | गोसो होनाय | Low | 4:2 |
| abba (proper transliteration precedent) | — pattern reused for अमीन/आमेन transliteration convention | — | 4:18 |
Cross-Cutting Risk Notes for Phase 2
- धार्मिकता-family terms (#3, #36) and देउनि सक्ति-adjacent terms (#54, #56, #24) remain the highest-density risk cluster in this letter, exactly as in the baseline Romans package — 2 Timothy repeatedly returns to righteousness, power, and salvation-adjacent vocabulary in its closing reward passages (4:6-8, 4:17-18).
- New terms absent from the baseline despite being foundational NT vocabulary — ἀγάπη/love (#38) and μετάνοια/repentance (#43) — must be added to the master translation memory going forward and flagged for theologian confirmation, since their absence from the Romans-only baseline was a gap in that package, not evidence of low risk.
- The Guarding Sound Doctrine cluster (#3, #4, #9, #46, #47) all depend on a single Bodo root, गेदेर (sound/healthy) or सिक्षा (teaching), and must be used with total consistency; any drift in rendering across lessons will visibly undercut the letter’s own central metaphor (healthy vs. diseased teaching, 2:17’s “gangrene” image).
- Idiom-flagged terms (#17 itching ears; #2:1’s “in season/out of season”) should be routed to native-speaker review per the AI Translation Requirements’ idiom-handling rule, with meaning-preservation prioritized over literal idiomatic mapping.
- Sacrificial/offering-metaphor terms (#32 poured out; #36 crown of righteousness) require explicit contrastive teaching against literal Bathou/Kherai ritual offering practice in every lesson where they occur — this is a recurring structural risk across the whole letter’s reward theology, not a one-off caution.
This glossary should be loaded alongside the baseline translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json before any Phase 2 segment translation of 2 Timothy begins, per the Pre-flight Checklist in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.
Critical Risk Terms
God
Approved rendering: ईश्वर
Transliteration: Isor
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: बाथौबुरै (never use as the primary term for the biblical God; reserve strictly for describing traditional Bathou belief)
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, copied exactly. Occurs throughout 2 Timothy (1:1-2, 3, 8; 2:9, 15, 19; 3:16-17; 4:1). Never use बाथौबुरै.
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, copied exactly. Among the most frequent terms in 2 Timothy: 1:2, 8, 16, 18; 2:1, 7, 14, 19, 22, 24; 4:1, 8, 14, 17, 18, 22. Never use बर’ऐ/बुरहा.
Jesus
Approved rendering: जिसु
Transliteration: Jisu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, copied exactly. Occurs throughout 2 Timothy (1:2, 9, 10; 2:1, 3, 8, 10; 4:1, 22). Verify against a current printed Bodo Bible copy.
Messiah
Approved rendering: मसीह
Transliteration: mosih
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, copied exactly. Occurs throughout 2 Timothy (1:1, 2, 9, 10, 13; 2:1, 3, 8, 10; 4:1).
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: पबित्र आत्था
Transliteration: pobitro aatha
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: देउ (a generic spirit-being from the Bathou/Kherai pantheon, never use), बुरहा-बुरही आत्था (ancestral household spirits venerated in traditional practice, never use)
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, copied exactly. Occurs at 2 Timothy 1:14 (‘guard the good deposit through the Holy Spirit’), making the Spirit the explicit enabling agent of Guarding Sound Doctrine. Always use the full compound; never bare देउ/आत्था.
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, copied exactly. Occurs at 2 Timothy 1:2.
Grace
Approved rendering: मोफादांनाय दान
Transliteration: mwphwdangnai daan
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: दान गोरोबनाय (a reciprocal gift expecting return offering, rejected), पुण्य (Brahma Dharma merit-language, never use)
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, copied exactly. Occurs at 2 Timothy 1:2, 9, 2:1, 4:22 — opening and closing the letter. 1:9 (‘not according to our works but according to His own purpose and grace’) is a direct parallel to the Critical grace-versus-works contrast the baseline names for Romans 4:4-5 and 11:5-6; the same forbidden-substitution rules apply without exception.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: जिउनाय सोलायनाय
Transliteration: jiunai solainai
Doctrine: Resurrection of 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: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, copied exactly. Occurs at 2 Timothy 2:8 (true creedal statement, render identically to its Romans 1:3-4 counterpart) and 2:18, where Hymenaeus and Philetus falsely teach the resurrection is ‘already past’ — a distinct proto-Gnostic over-spiritualizing error, not to be conflated with the फिन जोनोम caution.
Salvation
Approved rendering: फोरायनाय
Transliteration: phoraynai
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: मोक्ष (Brahma Dharma’s Hindu-derived liberation concept, never use), रैखाथि (protection from misfortune, never use as a stand-alone gloss for eternal salvation)
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, copied exactly. Occurs at 2 Timothy 1:9; 2:10; 3:15. Must be kept sharply distinct from this letter’s own this-life rescue vocabulary (see new term rescue_from_danger); confusing the two flattens eternal salvation into the this-worldly protection Bathou/Kherai ritual offerings are meant to secure.
Righteousness
Approved rendering: धार्मिकता
Transliteration: dharmikota
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: धर्म (avoid the bare Sanskritic sense of cosmic duty imported through Brahma Dharma reform teaching)
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, copied exactly. Occurs at 2 Timothy 2:22, 3:16 (‘training in righteousness’), 4:8 (‘crown of righteousness’). 3:16 and 4:8 are exceptionally vulnerable to a disciplined-conduct or merit-earned-reward misreading.
God Breathed
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि सासजों गोदान जानाय
Transliteration: Isornni sasjw godan janai
Doctrine: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: वाणी / देउ-वाणी style oracular-utterance vocabulary evoking a doudini’s channeled speech during Kherai trance, never use
Original: θεόπνευστος
Category: Scripture
PROVISIONAL, pending Bodo-speaking theologian confirmation. Occurs 3:16, a unique NT coinage (θεόπνευστος). Bathou tradition has no scripture at all, so there is no rival category to correct — only a category to build. Scripture is a fixed, once-given, complete written revelation, not an ongoing oracular phenomenon.
Sound Doctrine
Approved rendering: गेदेर सिक्षा
Transliteration: geder siksha
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία
Category: Scripture
PROVISIONAL, pending theologian confirmation. Occurs 1:13 (‘pattern of sound words’) and 4:3. Must recur identically at every occurrence. ‘Soundness’ must be measured by conformity to the fixed apostolic deposit, never by whether teaching feels spiritually satisfying to hearers — the exact danger 4:3’s itching-ears warning names.
Turning Away From Truth
Approved rendering: सत्यखौनि खनाब सोलायनाय
Transliteration: swtyokhwni khanab solainai
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Original: ἀποστρέφω
Category: Apostasy
PROVISIONAL. Occurs 1:15 (personal abandonment of Paul) and 4:4 (doctrinal apostasy). CAUTION: shares the root सोलायनाय with the baseline’s resurrection term (जिउनाय सोलायनाय) — here a negative moral turning-away, there a positive turning-back-to-life. This contrast must be stated explicitly in every lesson using either term.
Godliness
Approved rendering: ईश्वर-मानानाय
Transliteration: Isor-mananai
Doctrine: Godliness and True Devotion
Rejected alternatives: भक्ति (deliberately avoided: carries strong Hindu bhakti-devotional-movement associations, sharpened by Brahma Dharma’s 1912 Sanskritized reform; never use)
Original: εὐσέβεια
Category: Apostasy
New term (2 Timothy), deliberate avoidance of भक्ति. Occurs 3:5, 3:12. This avoidance parallels the baseline’s deliberate avoidance of बाथौबुरै for ‘God’ and should be named explicitly in teacher notes so a future translator does not silently ‘correct’ it back to भक्ति.
Judge Living And Dead
Approved rendering: जीबि आरो गोथाय मानुषखौ बिसारनाय
Transliteration: jibi aro gwthai manwshkhw bisaranai
Doctrine: Divine Judgment and Christ’s Return
Original: κρίνειν ζῶντας καὶ νεκρούς
Category: Christology
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 4:1. Two collision risks: (1) must not be read as ancestor-spirits judging the living, given Bodo ancestral veneration (cf. baseline’s rejected बुरहा-बुरही आत्था); the text teaches the reverse. (2) Must be Christ’s own exclusive, personal, moral authority, never an impersonal fate/karma-style reckoning.
His Appearing
Approved rendering: प्रकाश जानाय
Transliteration: prokash janai
Doctrine: Divine Judgment and Christ’s Return
Original: ἐπιφάνεια
Category: Christology
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 1:10 (first appearing/incarnation), 4:1 and 4:8 (future appearing/return). Must be distinguished from (a) a doudini’s Kherai-trance radiance and (b) Bathou worship’s aniconic character (no embodied, visibly appearing deity in that tradition). Use identically at every occurrence.
Savior
Approved rendering: फोरायग्रा
Transliteration: phoraygra
Doctrine: Salvation
Original: σωτήρ
Category: Christology
New term (2 Timothy), built on the baseline’s Critical फोरायनाय root. Occurs 1:10. Must never suggest a this-worldly protector-deity role of the kind traditionally sought from Bathoubwrai or the wider Kherai pantheon through offerings.
Crown Of Righteousness
Approved rendering: धार्मिकतानि मुकुट
Transliteration: dharmikotani mukut
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Original: στέφανος τῆς δικαιοσύνης
Category: Reward
New term (2 Timothy), built on the baseline’s Critical धार्मिकता. Occurs 4:8. Must be taught as a grace-given eschatological reward for a life of faith and perseverance — never merit accumulated (guards against Brahma Dharma पुण्य) and never a ritual-exchange object (guards against Bathou/Kherai reciprocal-offering logic). Explicitly available to ‘all,’ not an elite few.
Deny Him
Approved rendering: नासे होनाय
Transliteration: nase honai
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Original: ἀρνέομαι
Category: Reward
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 2:12. The stark, symmetrical warning (‘if we deny Him, He will also deny us’) must be preserved in full force, not softened; must be taught alongside 2:13’s statement of God’s unconditional faithfulness without collapsing the tension between the two.
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, copied exactly. Occurs at 2 Timothy 1:5, 13; 2:18, 22; 3:8, 10, 15; 4:7. At 1:5 explicitly a trans-generational inheritance (Lois, Eunice, Timothy); at 4:7 Paul’s own settled, guarded possession at life’s end. Object of बिश्वास must always be recoverable from context.
Gospel
Approved rendering: मंगल खबर
Transliteration: mangal khabor
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: सुसमाचार (Hindi loan, avoid as default; retain only as an explanatory gloss)
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, copied exactly. Occurs at 2 Timothy 1:8, 10; 2:8.
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, copied exactly. Occurs at 2 Timothy 1:9 (‘holy calling’).
Calling
Approved rendering: फिनायनि सिम
Transliteration: phinaini sim
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, copied exactly. Occurs at 2 Timothy 1:9, stacked with फोरायनाय and पबित्र in a single clause describing effectual calling ‘not according to our works.‘
Glory
Approved rendering: महिमा
Transliteration: mohima
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, copied exactly. Occurs at 2 Timothy 2:10 (‘eternal glory’) and 4:18 (doxology). Avoid metaphors colliding with a doudini’s Kherai-trance radiance.
Seed Of David
Approved rendering: दाऊदनि बेंसे
Transliteration: Daudni bense
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: σπέρμα Δαυίδ
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, copied exactly. Occurs at 2 Timothy 2:8, in a compressed creedal statement functionally parallel to Romans 1:3-4; render identically per cross-document consistency rule.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि सक्ति
Transliteration: Isornni sakti
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Rejected alternatives: देउनि सक्ति (spirit/deity power as manifested through a doudini’s trance, avoid as a substitute)
Original: δύναμις
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package; root सक्ति reused. Occurs at 2 Timothy 1:7-8 (contrasted with ‘a spirit of fear’) and 3:5 (‘denying its power’). सक्ति must never appear bare; always qualify with ईश्वरनि/पबित्र आत्थानि.
Election
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि सायख
Transliteration: Isornni saikho
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: भागी (fate/fortune, too impersonal)
Original: ἐκλογή / ἐκλεκτός
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; root reused. Occurs at 2 Timothy 2:10, extended as ‘the elect’ (see new term the_elect). Must never be rendered with भागी.
Scripture
Approved rendering: पबित्र सास्त्र
Transliteration: pobitro sastro
Doctrine: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture
Original: γραφή / ἱερὰ γράμματα
Category: Scripture
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 3:15-16. Bathou tradition has no fixed written scripture (oral/ritual only); Brahma Dharma has its own 1912-era reform literature. A closed, divinely authoritative text corpus must be taught as a genuinely new category, not assimilated to either.
Sound Words
Approved rendering: सिकनि रूप (गेदेर रावनि)
Transliteration: sikni rup (geder rangni)
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: ὑποτύπωσις ὑγιαινόντων λόγων
Category: Scripture
PROVISIONAL. Occurs 1:13. Distinguish from ‘sound doctrine’ (a body of teaching content): this is a fixed model/pattern of sayings to imitate.
Man Of God
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि मानुष
Transliteration: Isornni manwsw
Doctrine: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture
Original: ὁ τοῦ θεοῦ ἄνθρωπος
Category: Scripture
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 3:17. Risk of being heard as a recognized religious-specialist office (parallel to the doudini, ओझा, or a Brahma Dharma-trained teacher). Must be taught as describing any Scripture-formed believer, male or female, not a specialist class.
Deposit
Approved rendering: सोंपनाय गुदि
Transliteration: sompnai gudi
Doctrine: Faithful Transmission of the Gospel
Original: παραθήκη
Category: Transmission
PROVISIONAL. Occurs 1:12, 1:14 (‘the good deposit,’ बेसेन सोंपनाय गुदि). Caution: do not conflate with the baseline’s forbidden रैखाथि (protection-from-misfortune) association attached to salvation; this concerns guarding fixed teaching content, not securing personal well-being through ritual.
Entrust
Approved rendering: सोंपनाय
Transliteration: sompnai
Doctrine: Faithful Transmission of the Gospel
Original: παρατίθεμαι
Category: Transmission
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 2:2, the letter’s key proof text for a four-generation transmission chain (Paul -> Timothy -> faithful men -> others also). Recur identically wherever deposit-vocabulary occurs.
Laying On Of Hands
Approved rendering: आखाइ बोहायनाय
Transliteration: akhai bohainai
Doctrine: Faithful Transmission of the Gospel
Original: ἐπίθεσις τῶν χειρῶν
Category: Transmission
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 1:6. Must be distinguished from any power-transfer gesture associated with a doudini’s or ओझा’s ritual practice; the Spirit’s gift is sovereignly given by God, only symbolized (never magically caused) by the human gesture.
Faithful Saying
Approved rendering: बिश्वासजाब्ला राव
Transliteration: biswasjabla rang
Doctrine: Faithful Transmission of the Gospel
Original: πιστὸς ὁ λόγος
Category: Transmission
New term (2 Timothy), built on baseline बिश्वास. Fixed, memorized creedal formula (πιστὸς ὁ λόγος) introducing 2:11b-13. Fix rendering now for forward compatibility with a broader Pastoral Epistles curriculum.
Preach The Word
Approved rendering: रावखौ सोमोन्दो होनाय
Transliteration: rawkhw somondo honai
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Original: κήρυξον τὸν λόγον
Category: Ministry
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 4:2, the central command of the doctrine. Must convey heraldic, authoritative public proclamation — not a doudini’s ritual utterance, nor one private opinion among several in a pluralistic village setting.
Suffering Hardship
Approved rendering: दुख सजायनाय
Transliteration: dukh sajainai
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Original: κακοπάθεια / πάθημα
Category: Perseverance
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 1:8, 2:3, 2:9, 3:11, 4:5. Must not be read as misfortune or ritual impurity requiring appeasement of Bathoubwrai or the Kherai pantheon; suffering-for-the-gospel is a calling, even an honor (1:12), not a condition needing ritual correction.
Endurance Perseverance
Approved rendering: सहनाय
Transliteration: sahanai
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Original: ὑπομονή / ὑπομένω
Category: Perseverance
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 2:10, 2:12, 3:10. The letter’s programmatic perseverance term; reward (reigning with Christ, 2:12) is tied to enduring, not to avoiding suffering. Use identically at every occurrence.
Persecution
Approved rendering: खेदायनाय
Transliteration: khedainai
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Original: διωγμός
Category: Perseverance
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 3:11-12, paired with the universal, unqualified promise ‘all who live godly…will suffer persecution’ — must not be softened, parallel to the baseline’s protection of other universal claims.
Strengthened By Grace
Approved rendering: सक्तिजों गोहोम होनाय
Transliteration: saktijw gwhwm honai
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Original: ἐνδυναμόω
Category: Perseverance
New term (2 Timothy), built on the सक्ति root. Occurs 2:1 (Timothy exhorted to be strengthened) and 4:17 (Paul himself strengthened by the Lord when abandoned) — a deliberate pastoral parallel. सक्ति must be kept categorically distinct from देउनि सक्ति.
Good Fight
Approved rendering: बेसेन जुज खालामनाय
Transliteration: besen juj khalamnai
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Original: τὸν καλὸν ἀγῶνα ἠγώνισμαι
Category: Reward
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 4:7. Retrospective confidence at life’s end, the ground of coming reward, not ongoing anxious striving; render with warm, settled tone within formal register.
Poured Out As Offering
Approved rendering: जिउ दानै बानाय
Transliteration: jiu danai banai
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Original: σπένδομαι
Category: Reward
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 4:6. Sharply distinguish from literal, currently-practiced Bathou/Kherai libation-type offerings made to secure divine favor; Paul’s ‘pouring out’ is a one-time, voluntary self-giving at the point of death, not a repeated ritual transaction.
Last Days
Approved rendering: सिमानि सान
Transliteration: simani san
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Original: ἔσχαται ἡμέραι
Category: Apostasy
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 3:1. Neither Bathou tradition (no developed eschatology) nor Brahma Dharma’s reform-progress narrative (moving in the opposite direction, toward restoration) supplies a ready parallel; teach from the ground up.
Myths
Approved rendering: मिथ्या गाथा
Transliteration: mithya gatha
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Original: μῦθος
Category: Apostasy
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 4:4. Must be confined strictly to the false teaching Paul describes arising within the church; must never be applied wholesale to Bathou oral tradition’s own origin narratives about Bathoubwrai or the sijou plant, which deserve respectful, non-polemical treatment.
Form Without Power
Approved rendering: बाहिरनि रूप
Transliteration: bahirni rup
Doctrine: Godliness and True Devotion
Original: μόρφωσις εὐσεβείας
Category: Apostasy
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 3:5. Must be taught as Paul’s critique of last-days corruption within the professing Christian community, never as a comparative-religion verdict on Bathou ritual practice or Brahma Dharma reform observance.
Repentance
Approved rendering: गुनाहजों फिन जानाय
Transliteration: gunahjw phin janai
Doctrine: Repentance and Restoration
Original: μετάνοια
Category: Apostasy
New term — absent from the baseline Romans package despite Romans’ own use (2:4); added here for 2 Timothy. Occurs 2:25. Must be taught as inward, moral turning of the whole person toward God, distinct from the external household/courtyard ritual purification performed before Kherai and other Bathou ceremonies.
Knowledge Of Truth
Approved rendering: सत्यनि मिथिंगा
Transliteration: swtyoni mithinga
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Original: ἐπίγνωσις ἀληθείας
Category: Apostasy
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 2:25, 3:7. Must be distinguished from a gnosis-style path of accumulated esoteric or reform-community knowledge; granted by God together with repentance, not achieved through independent study or ascetic discipline.
The Devil
Approved rendering: सैतान
Transliteration: saitan
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare against the Devil
Original: διάβολος
Category: Apostasy
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 2:26. Must be presented as a singular, personal, malevolent adversary — distinct from the diffuse, morally ambiguous nature-spirits and ancestral spirits of the Bathou spirit-world, none of which functions as a unified personal tempter figure.
Solemn Charge
Approved rendering: गम्भीर हुकुम होनाय
Transliteration: gombhir hukum honai
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Original: διαμαρτύρομαι
Category: Ministry
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 4:1, launching the doctrine. Must be distinguished from a doudini’s solemn ritual invocation formula during Kherai puja; this is Paul’s personal apostolic commission under the witness of the one true God and Christ, not a ritual incantation.
Immortality
Approved rendering: अमर जिउ
Transliteration: amor jiu
Doctrine: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: फिन जोनोम (already forbidden for resurrection; must not be extended here to immortality)
Original: ἀφθαρσία
Category: Christology
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 1:10. Must be distinguished from Brahma Dharma’s Hindu-influenced teaching on the soul’s inherent immortality across rebirth cycles; here immortality is a gift newly disclosed through the gospel, grounded in Christ’s own resurrection, not an innate migrating property of the soul.
Love
Approved rendering: मोसारनाय
Transliteration: mwsaranai
Doctrine: Godliness and True Devotion
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Faith
New term — absent from the baseline Romans package despite Romans’ own extensive use (agape); added here for 2 Timothy. Occurs 1:7, 2:22, 3:4, 4:8. Must be distinguished both from mere family/clan affection and from any reciprocal-favor logic paralleling the grace/merit collision risk; cross-reference with the ‘grace’ entry in teaching notes.
Mercy
Approved rendering: दैया
Transliteration: doiya
Doctrine: Grace
Original: ἔλεος
Category: God
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 1:2, in the salutation’s triad grace-mercy-peace. Overlaps conceptually with grace’s unmerited-favor logic and must be guarded against the same two collision risks named for grace: reciprocal Bathou/Kherai ritual exchange and Brahma Dharma merit-accumulation. Teach alongside मोफादांनाय दान as a linked pair.
That Day
Approved rendering: बे सान
Transliteration: be san
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Original: ἐκείνη ἡ ἡμέρα
Category: Reward
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 1:12, 1:18, 4:8. Fixed eschatological reference to the day of Christ’s return/judgment; keep identical across all occurrences.
Rightly Dividing
Approved rendering: थार-थार बुझिनाय आरो होनाय
Transliteration: thar-thar bujinai aro honai
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: ὀρθοτομέω
Category: Scripture
PROVISIONAL. Occurs 2:15. Must not suggest a specialist’s exclusive interpretive authority resembling an ओझा’s or doudini’s privileged access to hidden meaning; available to any diligent, Scripture-taught believer (cf. ‘man of God,’ 3:17).
Profane Empty Chatter
Approved rendering: गैर-पबित्र रां-रोंथोन
Transliteration: goir-pobitro rang-rwnthwn
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: βέβηλος κενοφωνία
Category: Scripture
New term (2 Timothy), built on baseline पबित्र (negated). Occurs 2:16. Deliberate contrast pair with ‘sound doctrine’: false teaching’s character is irreverent and substance-less; sound teaching’s character is गेदेर (healthy/sound).
The Elect
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि सायखा मानुष
Transliteration: Isornni saikha manwsw
Doctrine: Effectual Calling and Election
Original: ἐκλεκτός
Category: Salvation
New term (2 Timothy), built on the baseline’s ‘election’ entry. Occurs 2:10. Inherits the baseline’s caution against भागी (impersonal fate) framing.
Repay According To Works
Approved rendering: खामानि जाबग्रा दानाय
Transliteration: khamani jabgra danai
Doctrine: Divine Judgment and Christ’s Return
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 4:14 (‘the Lord will repay him according to his works’). Judicial recompense reserved to the Lord alone; must not be taught as license for personal vengeance-seeking. Link to 4:1’s judgment doctrine and to Assurance of Reward’s positive counterpart.
Medium Risk Terms
Apostle
Approved rendering: गोदान जायगारि
Transliteration: godan jaigari
Doctrine: Apostleship
Rejected alternatives: दूत (generic messenger, too weak)
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Ministry
Inherited from Romans package, copied exactly. Occurs at 2 Timothy 1:1, 1:11.
Peace
Approved rendering: सान्ति
Transliteration: santi
Doctrine: Peace with God
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, copied exactly. Occurs at 2 Timothy 1:2, 2:22.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि राज्य
Transliteration: Isornni rajyo
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Original: βασιλεία
Category: Reward
Inherited from Romans package; adapted for 2 Timothy 4:1 (‘his kingdom,’ बिनि राज्य, referring to Christ) and 4:18 (‘his heavenly kingdom,’ सुबुंगनि राज्य). Must be distinguished from territorial-political framing given the Bodoland Territorial Region’s own contemporary politics.
Gentiles
Approved rendering: गैर-जुथुद
Transliteration: goir-juthud
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, copied exactly. Occurs at 2 Timothy 4:17 (‘that all the Gentiles might hear’); frame as the church’s own ongoing calling, not a colonial-era foreign mission project.
Spiritual Gifts
Approved rendering: आत्मानि दान
Transliteration: aatmani daan
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts
Rejected alternatives: सक्ति (a generic supernatural power associated with the doudini’s trance abilities, avoid as a substitute)
Original: χάρισμα
Category: Ministry
Inherited from Romans package, copied exactly. Occurs at 2 Timothy 1:6, specifically the gift received ‘through the laying on of my hands,’ tying spiritual-gifts vocabulary to ordination.
Teaching Doctrine
Approved rendering: सिक्षा
Transliteration: siksha
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: διδασκαλία / διδαχή
Category: Scripture
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 3:10, 3:16, 4:2. Base term underlying ‘sound doctrine’; keep identical across occurrences for learner consistency.
Teacher
Approved rendering: सिकाइग्रा
Transliteration: sikaigra
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: διδάσκαλος
Category: Ministry
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 1:11 (Paul’s legitimate appointment) and 4:3 (false teachers ‘heaped up’ by itching ears). The same headword carries both positive and negative referents; distinguish the referent, not the term.
Thoroughly Equipped
Approved rendering: गोरोबनाय
Transliteration: gwrwbnai
Doctrine: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture
Original: ἐξηρτισμένος
Category: Scripture
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 3:17. Shares a root with the baseline’s rejected grace-alternative (दान गोरोबनाय, reciprocal gift); this is a different, non-transactional collocation, but flag for native-speaker naturalness confirmation.
Faithful Men
Approved rendering: बिश्वासी मानुष
Transliteration: biswasi manwsw
Doctrine: Faithful Transmission of the Gospel
Original: πιστοὶ ἄνθρωποι
Category: Transmission
New term (2 Timothy), built on baseline बिश्वास. Occurs 2:2. Must be taught as a general pattern of gospel-faithful transmission, not a specific ecclesial-office chain.
Evangelist
Approved rendering: मंगल खबर सोंग्रा
Transliteration: mangal khabor songra
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Original: εὐαγγελιστής
Category: Ministry
New term (2 Timothy), built directly on the baseline’s High-risk ‘gospel’ term मंगल खबर. Occurs 4:5. Flag for native-speaker naturalness review of the agentive compound.
Rescue From Danger
Approved rendering: बाचायनाय
Transliteration: bachainai
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Original: ῥύομαι
Category: Perseverance
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 3:11; 4:17-18. MUST be kept distinct from फोरायनाय (baseline salvation, Critical, eternal deliverance). Confusing the two flattens salvation into the this-worldly protection concept Bathou/Kherai ritual practice is oriented toward.
Not Ashamed
Approved rendering: लाज खालामनाय गैया
Transliteration: laj khalamnai gaiya
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Original: ἐπαισχύνομαι
Category: Perseverance
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 1:8, 1:12, 1:16. Flagged for native-speaker cultural-sensitivity review given the genuine social weight of honor/shame dynamics in Bodo social life.
Fear Timidity
Approved rendering: भय
Transliteration: bhoi
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Original: δειλία
Category: Perseverance
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 1:7, contrasted in the same verse with सक्ति, मोसारनाय, and गोसो थिरनाय — a compact, high-value teaching verse.
Self Control
Approved rendering: गोसो थिरनाय
Transliteration: gwsw thirnai
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Original: σωφρονισμός
Category: Perseverance
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 1:7.
Itching Ears
Approved rendering: खनानि सोकनाय
Transliteration: khanani soknai
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Original: κνηθόμενοι τὴν ἀκοήν
Category: Apostasy
New term (2 Timothy), idiom. Occurs 4:3. No ready Bodo equivalent; a fairly literal rendering is retained with an explanatory gloss (‘a desire to hear only pleasant things’). Flag for native-speaker naturalness review.
Deceivers Impostors
Approved rendering: फुसला होग्रा
Transliteration: phusla hwgra
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Original: γόης
Category: Apostasy
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 3:13. Possible (mis)association risk with ओझा-type folk-ritual figures already flagged in the baseline for ‘prophet’; here the emphasis is moral/doctrinal deception within the professing church.
Vessels Honor Dishonor
Approved rendering: आदोरनि/अनादोरनि बासोन
Transliteration: adorni/anadorni bason
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: σκεῦος εἰς τιμήν / ἀτιμίαν
Category: Scripture
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 2:20-21. Flag for native-speaker review given honor/shame’s cultural weight in Bodo social life.
Foundation And Seal
Approved rendering: बुनियाद / छाप
Transliteration: buniyad / chhap
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Original: θεμέλιος / σφραγίς
Category: Reward
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 2:19. Ties conceptually to Assurance of Salvation, already Critical in the baseline.
Gangrene Spreading Error
Approved rendering: फैलाव जायनाय घा
Transliteration: phailao jainai gha
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: γάγγραινα
Category: Scripture
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 2:17. Cultural/medical metaphor; flag for native-speaker review. The core point (false teaching does not stay contained) must survive even if the specific medical image is adapted.
Will Of God
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि सोंथाय
Transliteration: Isornni sonthai
Doctrine: Effectual Calling and Election
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 1:1 (‘by the will of God’). Should reinforce, not compete with, baseline’s providence (ईश्वरनि सामलानाय) and election (ईश्वरनि सायख) vocabulary; God’s purposive agency, never impersonal भागी (fate).
Ministry Service
Approved rendering: सेवा
Transliteration: seva
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
New term (2 Timothy), matching the baseline doctrine registry’s Christ-Centered Ministry pattern (मसीह-थानि सेवा). Occurs 4:5 (‘fulfill your ministry’).
Be Watchful
Approved rendering: सजाग थानाय
Transliteration: sajag thanai
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 4:5 (‘be watchful/sober in all things’).
Fulfill Ministry
Approved rendering: पूरा होनाय
Transliteration: pura honai
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 4:5. Low-medium risk; standard completive verb.
Snare Of The Devil
Approved rendering: फांथाय
Transliteration: phanthai
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare against the Devil
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 2:26 (‘escape the snare of the devil’). Pairs with सैतान; teach as a real, personal trap set by a singular adversary, not an impersonal misfortune.
Forsake Abandon
Approved rendering: बिजिरायनाय
Transliteration: bijiraynai
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 4:10 (‘Demas has forsaken me’), 4:16 (‘all forsook me’); echoes 1:15’s ‘all in Asia turned away.’ Reinforces the theme of faithfulness amid others’ desertion.
Unfeigned Faith
Approved rendering: सच्चा
Transliteration: sachcha
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: साफ (reserved strictly for physical/ritual cleanliness per baseline; never use here)
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 1:5 (‘unfeigned/sincere faith’), qualifying बिश्वास. साफ must not be substituted.
Disputes Over Words
Approved rendering: रावखौनि बिबाद
Transliteration: rangkhwni bibad
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
New term (2 Timothy). Occurs 2:14 (‘not to quarrel about words’). Distinguish destructive verbal wrangling from the constructive ‘sound words’ (गेदेर राव) commended elsewhere.
Ministry Metaphors Soldier Athlete Farmer
Approved rendering: जुजग्रा / खेलग्रा / गुवारि
Transliteration: jujgra / khelgra / guwari
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
New term cluster (2 Timothy). Occurs 2:3-6 (soldier, athlete, farmer). Flag military metaphor (जुजग्रा) for native-speaker/cultural review given the Bodoland region’s own recent history of armed insurgency and counter-insurgency; frame purely as single-minded discipline and loyalty, not political-military endorsement.
Low Risk Terms
Exhort
Approved rendering: गोसो होनाय
Transliteration: gwsw honai
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, copied exactly. Occurs at 2 Timothy 4:2, one item in the triad ‘reprove, rebuke, exhort.’ बिनयनाय remains reserved for entreaty/pleading contexts.
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