Linguistic Gap Analysis — Ephesians (English → Bodo)

Purpose and Method

This analysis extends the Romans Language Package (translation_memory.json v1, bible_term_registry.json, doctrine_risk_registry.json) to the Ephesians curriculum. It surveys the nine assigned doctrines against currently available Bodo (Devanagari-script) vocabulary, identifies where Bodo has (a) genuine lexical gaps requiring newly constructed compounds, (b) existing terms that are usable but sit in crowded semantic neighborhoods shared with Bathouism or Brahma Dharma and therefore need explicit “fencing,” and (c) proper names or loan terms best handled by transliteration rather than translation. It closes with a ranked list of the letter’s highest-risk ambiguities to prioritize for theologian review in Phase 2.

Every recommendation here either reuses a baseline Romans term unchanged or proposes a new rendering consistent with baseline conventions (aniconic-Bathou awareness, Brahma Dharma-reform awareness, doudini/Kherai-trance awareness, avoidance of भागी/fate language, avoidance of फिन जोनोम/rebirth language). All proposed new terms carry through into analysis/08_core_glossary.md and the extended bible_term_registry.json.

Ephesians differs from Romans in gap profile: Romans’ hardest problems were mostly individual soteriological terms (grace, justification, salvation) colliding with Bathou reciprocity and Brahma Dharma merit. Ephesians adds two new categories of difficulty almost entirely absent from Romans: (1) corporate/cosmic ecclesiology (body, head, fullness, one new humanity, temple) with no settled Bodo devotional vocabulary at all, and (2) explicit personal-spirit-world cosmology (principalities and powers, the devil, being filled with the Spirit) that engages the Bathou deu-pantheon and Kherai doudini-trance practice far more directly and repeatedly than anything in Romans.

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1. Doctrine Vocabulary Matrix

#	Doctrine	Key Concepts	Available Bodo Terms	Weaknesses / Gap Type	Recommended Strategy
1	Salvation by Grace through Faith	grace, faith, gift, works, dead in sin, wrath, mercy, love, salvation (perfect tense)	मोफादांनाय दान (grace), बिश्वास (faith), फोरायनाय (salvation) — all baseline reuse	Existing baseline terms were built for Romans’ argument (apart from works, Rom 4:4-5); Eph 2:8-10 sharpens this into a single tight three-verse unit (gift → not works → yet created for good works), a rhetorical density Romans never compresses this tightly. Risk: teaching the ground/fruit distinction (works excluded in v.9, works reintroduced in v.10) without collapsing the two.	Reuse all three baseline Critical terms exactly. Add two NEW compounds — ईश्वरनि दान (gift, standalone noun distinct from the grace-compound’s दान) and गुनथि (works, deliberately built on the baseline’s already-rejected “works” root from imputed_righteousness) — precisely so the ground/fruit contrast is visible in the vocabulary itself, not just the exposition.
2	Election and Predestination in Christ	election, predestination, eternal purpose, adoption	ईश्वरनि सायख (election), गोसोआव फैनाय (adoption) — baseline reuse	Genuine lexical gap: Romans never lexicalizes προορίζω as its own term (it uses “foreknew/predestined” together in 8:29-30 but the baseline registry does not carry a dedicated predestination entry). Ephesians 1:5,11 requires election (choice of PERSONS) and predestination (fixing of DESTINY/PLAN) to be held as two distinct, related ideas — a distinction with no ready Bodo devotional precedent, and with a live risk of being reheard as भागी (impersonal fate), the folk-fortune framework the baseline already forbids for “providence.”	NEW compound आगोबानो थारायनाय (“determined/fixed in advance”), root-linked to a second NEW term ईश्वरनि थारायनाय थाखान (eternal purpose, Eph 1:11, 3:11) so the two share a थाराय root for teaching coherence. Mandatory theologian review; flag as single highest-priority NEW Critical term in Ephesians 1.
3	The Church as the Body of Christ	body of Christ, head, unite under one head, fullness, unity	गुदि (body — used elsewhere in baseline for Christ’s incarnate body), बोथोर (NEW: head)	Crowded semantic neighborhood: गुदि already carries the baseline’s incarnation sense (मानसि गुदि सोलायनाय, Christ’s own literal historical body). Ephesians overlays a SECOND, metaphorical-corporate sense (the church as Christ’s body) onto the same word, and a THIRD sense at 5:31 (one flesh in marriage). No existing Bodo term cleanly separates these three senses. Additionally, “head” risks being read through बर’ऐ/बुरहा, the honorific elder-titles the baseline already forbids for Christ’s Lordship.	Reuse गुदि but ALWAYS qualify it compositionally (मसीहनि गुदि for the corporate body; मोनसे गुदि for one-flesh) and require a standing translator’s footnote distinguishing all three uses at first occurrence in each lesson. Use the plain anatomical बोथोर (never बर’ऐ/बुरहा) for “head.” NEW: भोरनाय (fullness) and मोनथर थानाय (unity), fenced against Mainao-associated material-abundance readings and ethnic/territorial-solidarity readings respectively.
4	Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity	one new humanity, dividing wall, reconciliation, commonwealth of Israel, fellow citizens, access	गैर-जुथुद, इस्राएल — baseline reuse; all corporate-unity vocabulary is NEW	Genuine gap: Romans addresses Jew-Gentile unity abstractly (11:17-24, olive tree) but never needed a term for a newly-created THIRD corporate identity. Eph 2:15’s “one new humanity” is a genuine lexical innovation in Greek itself (καινός, not νέος) and has no Bodo precedent. Live sensitivity: “citizenship”/“commonwealth” language intersects directly with contemporary Bodoland Territorial Region political-identity discourse — a risk Romans flagged only in general terms but Ephesians makes textually unavoidable (2:12,19).	NEW compound मोनसे गोदान मानुष, explicitly dual-tagged for corporate (2:15) vs. individual-ethical (4:24) senses via mandatory translator’s note at each occurrence. NEW इस्राएलनि जनगण and ईश्वरनि राज्यनि नागरिक both explicitly taught as OLD-COVENANT/SPIRITUAL categories, with an explicit disclaimer note distinguishing them from present-day Bodoland citizenship claims — stronger disclaimer than the Romans baseline required.
5	The Mystery of Christ Revealed	mystery, revelation, stewardship/plan, unsearchable riches, manifold wisdom	None in baseline — fully NEW cluster	Direct doctrinal collision: the Kherai puja’s doudini exists specifically to disclose hidden/secret matters to the community through ritual trance. A Bodo reader’s most available cultural category for “a hidden thing now disclosed by a religious specialist” is precisely this practice. Paul’s μυστήριον is structurally opposite: a plan once hidden in God, now PERMANENTLY, PUBLICLY, and UNIVERSALLY revealed — not an esoteric, periodic, specialist-mediated oracle.	NEW ईश्वरनि रहस्य, explicitly fenced against doudini-disclosure at every occurrence (1:9; 3:3-9; 5:32; 6:19) with mandatory theologian review each time, per escalation rule. Companion NEW पर्गट खालामनाय (revelation) reinforces the “direct from God, not through a trance-mediator” contrast.
6	Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God	principalities/powers, devil, ruler of the air, armor, individual armor pieces, struggle not against flesh and blood	None in baseline (Romans has no comparable spiritual-warfare passage) — fully NEW cluster	HIGHEST-DENSITY collision in the entire curriculum: Bathou cosmology has a real, populated, morally neutral-to-benevolent spirit world (deu, tied to the five elements ha/dwi/bar/or/okhrang). Ephesians 6:12 requires naming a real, organized, HOSTILE, personal spiritual hierarchy. There is no existing Bodo vocabulary that names “evil spiritual authority” as opposed to “spirit” in general, because the ambient cosmology is not organized around a good/evil binary the way Ephesians’ is.	NEW multi-term cluster (दुष्ट आत्मा-राइजोनि मुलुग; दुष्ट सासोन आरो अधिकार / बे आन्धारनि जगतनि सासोनगिरि / सर्गआवनि दुष्ट आत्मिक सक्ति; दुष्ट आत्मा for “devil”) — deliberately avoiding any generic देउ term. Mandatory dedicated theologian review, ideally with a reviewer who has direct familiarity with Bathou practice, BEFORE any Phase 2 translation of Eph 2:2 or 6:10-20. Pastoral safeguard note required for 6:12’s “not against flesh and blood,” preventing this vocabulary from being weaponized against Bathou/Brahma Dharma neighbors as persons.
7	Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships	mutual submission, husbands/wives, savior, marriage mystery, one flesh, children/parents, slaves/masters	बिश्वास-adjacent baseline terms; मालिक/प्रभु distinction is NEW-critical	Crowded neighborhood with a hard trap: Paul’s own Greek reuses κύριος for the human slave-master (6:5-9), explicitly marked κατὰ σάρκα to distinguish it from his Christological use elsewhere. The baseline’s प्रभु is reserved EXCLUSIVELY for Christ’s exclusive Lordship; a literal or careless rendering could either (a) elevate a human slave-owner to Christ’s title or (b) if translators “fix” this by avoiding प्रभु for Christ elsewhere for consistency, dilute Christ’s unique Lordship claim throughout the rest of the letter. Additional sensitivity: δοῦλος (slave) intersects contemporary Assam-region bonded-labor/caste dynamics.	Hard rule: मालिक for 6:5-9’s human master, प्रभु reserved absolutely for Christ throughout — added to the FORBIDDEN SUBSTITUTIONS list. 5:21’s mutual-submission frame (मानोन दिनाय) must precede and govern 5:22’s wife-specific instruction; teaching notes must state this explicitly so the passage is not read as one-directional. दास (slave) taught as description of an existing institution, not endorsement, with explicit regional-sensitivity framing.
8	Gifts for Building Up the Church	office gifts (persons) vs. ability gifts (Romans 12 sense), evangelist, pastor, teacher, equipping	आत्मानि दान — baseline reuse, referent-shifted	Referent collision, not a lexical gap: the SAME baseline term आत्मानि दान was built in Romans for individual Spirit-given abilities (Rom 12:6-8); Eph 4:7-11 shifts the referent to CHRIST GIVING PERSONS (apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers) to the church. Reusing the identical Bodo phrase for two different referents without flagging risks conflating “gift = ability I have” with “gift = a person given to the church.” Additionally, “teacher” (διδάσκαλος) risks the गुरु collision with Brahma Dharma’s reform-guru figure.	Reuse आत्मानि दान but with a MANDATORY usage note at every Eph 4:7-11 occurrence: “(persons, not abilities).” NEW office-titles (मंगल खबर सोमोन्दो होगोरा, मण्डलीनि अगुवा, सिखा होगोरा) deliberately avoid ओझा/doudini/गुरु associations; सिखा होगोरा specifically substitutes for गुरु.
9	Walking in Newness of Life	walk (ethical conduct), old self, made/raised/seated with Christ, light/darkness, filled with the Spirit	जिउनाय सोलायनाय (resurrection) — baseline reuse root; remainder fully NEW	Two distinct risk types converge here: (a) union-with-Christ compounds (2:5-6) are a genuine conceptual gap requiring careful “together with Christ” phrasing so as not to read as parallel-but-separate blessing; (b) “filled with the Spirit” (5:18) is THE single highest-priority collision in the whole curriculum, because the Kherai doudini becomes literally filled/seized by Bathoubwrai in ritual trance — an ecstatic, temporary, oracular, specialist experience that is the closest existing cultural category to Paul’s command, yet is structurally its opposite (continuous, non-ecstatic, universally commanded, morally transformative, evidenced by ordinary corporate worship rather than oracular utterance).	Reuse जिउनाय सोलायनाय as root; build मसीहजों समान जिउ होनाय / मसीहजों समान जिउनाय सोलायनाय / मसीहजों समान होदोनाय (NEW, all Critical/High) preserving “together with Christ.” For 5:18, NEW पबित्र आत्थाजों भोरनाय with MANDATORY dedicated theologian review and a stand-alone teaching note contrasting continuous Spirit-filling with doudini possession point-by-point (duration, universality, evidence, moral vs. oracular content).

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2. Missing Vocabulary vs. Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods

2.1 Genuine Lexical Gaps (no existing Bodo term at all; new compounds required)

These concepts have no attested Bodo devotional vocabulary, baseline or otherwise, and require entirely new descriptive compounds, each pending theologian confirmation before Phase 2 deployment:

• Predestination (आगोबानो थारायनाय) — distinct from election; Bodo has भागी (fate) but nothing for a personal, gracious, pre-temporal fixing of destiny.
• Mystery as “formerly hidden, now permanently/publicly revealed” (ईश्वरनि रहस्य) — Bodo has words for “secret” but none carrying the specific once-hidden-now-disclosed-to-all theological shape.
• Principalities and powers / organized hostile spiritual hierarchy (दुष्ट सासोन आरो अधिकार, etc.) — no existing term separates “evil, organized, personal spiritual opposition to God” from the ambient, largely neutral Bathou deu-world.
• Body of Christ (corporate), head (governing), fullness, unity (Spirit-given) — no prior Bodo Christian literature (per the baseline’s own caveat about “considerably less settled” doctrinal vocabulary) has needed to name the church as a single organism with Christ as head; this is new ecclesiological territory beyond Romans’ “one body” metaphor in Romans 12:4-5, which the baseline registry did not need to develop this far.
• One new humanity (मोनसे गोदान मानुष, corporate sense) — a genuine innovation in the Greek itself; no Bodo precedent.
• Filled with the Spirit (as a continuous ethical command, not an episodic trance state) (पबित्र आत्थाजों भोरनाय) — see above; this is not a missing word so much as a missing category.
• Redemption as price-paid release (दाम होनाय मुक्ति) — Bodo has release/liberation vocabulary but nothing that specifically combines “payment” with “release from bondage to sin” outside the phonetic-collision risk noted below.
• Sevenfold unity confession (Eph 4:4-6) as a single rhetorical unit — no precedent for teaching a compressed creedal list in Bodo devotional material; recommend treating as one indivisible teaching segment rather than seven separate glosses.

2.2 Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods Requiring Fencing

These are cases where Bodo does have a usable term, but that term already carries other meanings — either from Bathouism/Brahma Dharma or from within this same curriculum — that must be explicitly fenced off in teaching notes and translator footnotes:

Term	Competing Senses in the Same Neighborhood	Fencing Strategy
गुदि (body)	(1) Christ’s literal incarnate body [baseline]; (2) the church as Christ’s corporate body (Eph 1:22-23, 4:4-16, 5:23); (3) marital “one flesh” (Eph 5:31)	Always qualify compositionally (मसीहनि गुदि / मोनसे गुदि); mandatory footnote at first occurrence per lesson distinguishing the three senses; never allow (2) to imply Christ’s literal body IS the assembled believers.
सक्ति (power)	(1) ईश्वरनि सक्ति, God’s saving/resurrection power [baseline, consolidated Eph 1:19-21]; (2) देउनि सक्ति, doudini’s Kherai-trance oracular power [baseline-forbidden substitute]	Never substitute (2) for (1); consolidate the four Greek power-synonyms in 1:19-21 under the single baseline term rather than proliferating new neologisms that could each independently drift toward (2).
आत्मा / देउ (spirit)	(1) पबित्र आत्था, the personal, singular Holy Spirit [baseline]; (2) generic देउ, one spirit among the Bathou/Kherai pantheon [baseline-forbidden]; (3) बुद्धिनि आत्मा (Eph 4:23, “spirit of the mind,” a different psychological sense)	पबित्र आत्था always in full for (1); बुद्धिनि आत्मा for (3) must be footnoted as a distinct, non-Trinitarian psychological usage so it is not mistaken for a second “spirit” alongside the Holy Spirit.
मुक्ति / मोक्ष (release/liberation)	(1) दाम होनाय मुक्ति, redemption by Christ’s blood (Eph 1:7,14); (2) मोक्ष, Brahma Dharma’s cyclical liberation-from-rebirth doctrine [explicitly forbidden in baseline]	Phonetic and conceptual proximity of मुक्ति to मोक्ष is itself the risk, independent of denotation. Flag for theologian decision between retaining मुक्ति with heavy fencing vs. replacing with दाम होनाय फोरायनाय (built instead on the unambiguous baseline फोरायनाय root) before Phase 2 begins.
सोर (homonym)	(1) “wrath” — ईश्वरनि सोर (Eph 2:3, 5:6); (2) “fruit” — फार/आत्थानि सोर (Eph 5:9)	Pure orthographic/phonetic homonym collision internal to the curriculum, not a Bathou/Brahma Dharma collision. Flag for translators to disambiguate by context or, if native speakers confirm a naturalness issue, propose an alternate “fruit” term to avoid the clash entirely.
बुरहा (old)	(1) Plain adjective “old” — बुरहा मानुष, old self (Eph 4:22); (2) बर’ऐ/बुरहा, honorific elder-title reserved for Bathoubwrai/Kherai pantheon [baseline-forbidden for Christ’s Lordship]	Confirm with native speakers that बुरहा मानुष reads unambiguously as plain “old person/former self” and does not accidentally invoke sense (2)‘s honorific register; if any ambiguity is confirmed, propose an alternative.
दान (gift)	(1) मोफादांनाय दान, grace as unmerited gift [baseline]; (2) ईश्वरनि दान, salvation as God’s total gift (Eph 2:8); (3) traditional reciprocal ritual offerings to Bathoubwrai/Kherai pantheon [baseline-forbidden reading]	Both (1) and (2) must be taught together as reinforcing, non-reciprocal gift-language; Eph 2:8-10’s tight grace/faith/works sequence is the sharpest opportunity in either curriculum to foreclose reading (3).
धार्मिकता (righteousness)	(1) Forensic right-standing by faith [baseline, Critical]; (2) Brahma Dharma’s dharma-conduct code [baseline-forbidden]; (3) धार्मिकतानि थुरांगखी, breastplate metaphor (Eph 6:14)	Armor imagery in (3) creates NEW risk not present in Romans: a breastplate is something one visibly “puts on” and could be read as self-achieved moral defense, reinforcing rather than resisting sense (2). Explicit teaching note required tying the breastplate back to the imputed/credited sense of (1).
रहस्य (mystery)	(1) ईश्वरनि रहस्य, God’s redemptive plan formerly hidden now publicly revealed; (2) doudini’s Kherai-trance disclosures, understood by practitioners as genuinely hidden/esoteric knowledge revealed periodically to a ritual specialist	Central doctrinal risk of Doctrine 5; requires the “once hidden, now PERMANENTLY and PUBLICLY revealed to ALL believers” contrast at every occurrence (1:9; 3:3-9; 5:32; 6:19), not just the first.
मन्दिर (temple)	(1) पबित्र मन्दिर, the church as God’s dwelling-place metaphor (Eph 2:21); (2) generic pan-regional Hindu temple; (3) NOT नमासोलि, the Bathou/Kherai shrine-site [baseline-forbidden, already fenced off]	मन्दिर was chosen specifically to avoid नमासोलि, but it imports its own Hindu-temple/Brahma Dharma associations. Must be taught explicitly as figurative language for the gathered PEOPLE of God, never a literal building, sanctuary, or shrine of any kind.

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3. Transliteration vs. Paraphrase Decisions

Category	Decision	Terms	Rationale
Proper names — transliterate, established Bodo Bible form	Transliterate	जिसु (Jesus), मसीह (Christ/Messiah), दाऊद (David), इस्राएल (Israel)	Already fixed in the Romans baseline; Ephesians introduces no new proper names of this class. Must be verified against a current printed Bodo Bible per the baseline’s standing caveat.
Aramaic/liturgical terms of intimacy — transliterate	Transliterate, retained alongside native gloss	अब्बा (Abba)	Not textually present in Ephesians itself but retained in the registry for thematic continuity with the adoption doctrine (Eph 1:5) and Romans 8:15; if a lesson quotes both texts side by side, transliteration must match.
Creedal/ritual technical terms — transliterate	Transliterate	बाप्तिस्मो (baptism, within the sevenfold unity confession, Eph 4:5)	No native paraphrase exists that would not either (a) invent an unfamiliar descriptive compound with its own risk profile or (b) collide with Bathou/Kherai ritual-washing vocabulary; transliteration following established regional Bible-translation convention is safest.
Core soteriological/christological doctrine — paraphrase via descriptive compound, never transliterate or loan a Sanskritic near-equivalent	Paraphrase	grace, salvation, righteousness, justification (baseline); predestination, mystery, redemption, one new humanity, filled with the Spirit, body of Christ, principalities and powers (new)	These are exactly the terms where a ready Sanskritic/Hindi loanword exists (पुण्य, मोक्ष, भागी, गुरु) but would import unwanted Brahma Dharma merit-ethic, fate, or guru-reform associations. Consistent with the baseline’s own founding decision (grace, salvation, righteousness) — Ephesians extends the same discipline to its new Critical terms rather than reaching for convenient existing religious vocabulary.
Borderline loan, retained with heavy fencing pending confirmation	Loan-with-caution	मन्दिर (temple metaphor), मुक्ति (within “redemption”)	Both terms are existing Sanskrit/Assamese loans already in general Bodo religious usage, offering readability advantages over a wholly invented compound, but both sit adjacent to forbidden or risky associations (Hindu-temple/Brahma Dharma; मोक्ष). Flagged explicitly for theologian confirmation before Phase 2, with an invented-compound fallback identified for each (थानाय जायगा-based alternative for temple already partially used at Eph 2:22; दाम होनाय फोरायनाय as the redemption fallback).
Office-titles — paraphrase, deliberately avoiding an available Sanskritic loan	Paraphrase, avoiding loan	teacher (सिखा होगोरा, avoiding गुरु)	गुरु is readily available and would be instantly understood, but its centrality to Brahma Dharma’s own teacher-centered reform structure makes it the single clearest case in this curriculum of “available but forbidden by association,” parallel to the baseline’s treatment of बाथौबुरै for “God.”
Anatomical/functional terms — plain paraphrase, explicitly not an honorific title	Paraphrase	head (बोथोर, not बर’ऐ/बुरहा)	Consistent with the baseline’s Lord/प्रभु decision: any honorific elder-title would risk placing Christ (or, here, Christ’s headship of the church) inside the existing Bathou pantheon structure.

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4. Ranked List of Highest-Risk Ambiguities in Ephesians

Ranked by combined severity of doctrinal distortion risk and likelihood of collision with Bathouism or Brahma Dharma, for Phase 2 review prioritization. All Rank 1-8 items require mandatory human theologian review; Rank 9-11 require native speaker review with theologian awareness.

1. “Filled with the Spirit” (Eph 5:18) — पबित्र आत्थाजों भोरनाय. Single highest-priority ambiguity in the curriculum: the closest available cultural analogy (doudini possession during Kherai trance) is structurally the opposite of the doctrine being taught (continuous vs. episodic, universal vs. specialist, morally transformative vs. oracular). The word choice alone cannot carry this distinction; it depends entirely on accompanying teaching notes.

2. “Principalities and powers / spiritual forces of evil” (Eph 2:2; 6:12) — दुष्ट सासोन आरो अधिकार cluster. Direct engagement with the Bathou deu-world’s moral status (neutral/benevolent in traditional cosmology vs. hostile-to-God in Ephesians); mishandling risks either misrepresenting Bathou belief wholesale or flattening Paul’s specific cosmology into vague metaphor.

3. “Mystery” (μυστήριον, Eph 1:9; 3:3-9; 5:32; 6:19) — ईश्वरनि रहस्य. Recurs four times across three doctrinal domains (salvation-history, church, marriage), multiplying the collision risk with doudini-disclosed “mysteries” every time it appears; requires the once-hidden/now-public distinction restated at each occurrence, not assumed after the first.

4. “Predestination” vs. “election” (Eph 1:5,11 vs. 1:4) — आगोबानो थारायनाय vs. ईश्वरनि सायख. Two genuinely distinct theological ideas (choice of persons vs. fixing of destiny) sharing surface similarity in English and both vulnerable to collapsing into भागी (fate); Bodo has no native precedent for either distinction.

5. Human master vs. Christ’s Lordship (Eph 6:5-9 vs. throughout) — मालिक vs. प्रभु. A single Greek word (κύριος) used by Paul himself in two deliberately distinct senses within the same letter; the highest-consequence “flip a single word” error possible in this curriculum, since getting it wrong in either direction either deifies a slave-owner or cheapens Christ’s exclusive Lordship established throughout Romans and the rest of Ephesians.

6. गुदि’s triple duty (incarnation / corporate body / one flesh) — मसीहनि गुदि / (corporate) / मोनसे गुदि. A single root serving three theologically load-bearing but distinct senses within one letter; without consistent qualification and footnoting, readers could conclude the church literally IS Christ’s physical body, or that marriage and incarnation share a doctrinal register they do not.

7. “Redemption” (Eph 1:7,14) — मुक्ति vs. मोक्ष phonetic-doctrinal collision. Even where denotation is correctly taught, phonetic proximity to Brahma Dharma’s forbidden liberation-from-rebirth term creates a standing risk of mis-hearing in oral teaching contexts (sermons, audio curriculum) that a purely textual review might miss.

8. “Idolatry” extended to covetousness (Eph 5:5) — मूर्ति पूजा गोरा. Literal “idol worship” glosses risk two opposite failures: either inaccurately implying Bathou’s aniconic sijou-based worship involves idols (it does not), or being dismissed by Bathou-background hearers as inapplicable to them, thereby losing Paul’s deliberate extension of the term to greed and misplaced ultimate devotion generally.

9. “One new humanity” corporate (Eph 2:15) vs. “old self”/“new self” individual (Eph 4:22,24) — मोनसे गोदान मानुष shared root across two distinct doctrinal registers (ethnic-reconciliation ecclesiology vs. individual ethical renewal); disambiguation depends entirely on context and mandatory translator notes rather than on lexical distinction.

10. “Temple” metaphor (Eph 2:21) — पबित्र मन्दिर. Necessary substitute for the forbidden नमासोलि, but imports its own Hindu-temple/Brahma Dharma associations; must be consistently taught as figurative language for the gathered people of God, never a literal sacred structure.

11. Sevenfold unity confession (Eph 4:4-6) — combination of seven already-Critical/High baseline and new terms in a single compressed rhetorical unit. No individual term is newly ambiguous, but the cumulative density of Critical-tier vocabulary in three consecutive verses creates elevated risk of a single slip propagating across the whole confession; recommend reviewing as one indivisible segment rather than seven discrete glosses.

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Summary for Phase 2 Handoff

• 7 new Critical-risk terms requiring mandatory theologian review before first use: predestination, gift of salvation, works (ground/fruit pair), body of Christ, one new humanity, mystery, principalities/powers cluster, marriage mystery, idolatry, old self, made/raised-together-with-Christ, filled with the Spirit, sons of wrath by nature, master-according-to-the-flesh (see full list in bible_term_registry.json).
• No new items should be added to the FORBIDDEN SUBSTITUTIONS list in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md without explicit theologian sign-off, but this analysis recommends the following be added in the next revision: (1) मालिक vs. प्रभु for Eph 6:5-9; (2) मोक्ष forbidden as a substitute for मुक्ति in “redemption”; (3) generic देउ forbidden as a substitute anywhere in the principalities/powers cluster.
• This document, together with analysis/08_core_glossary.md, should be treated as the working basis for the next translation_memory.json version increment prior to Phase 2 segment translation of Ephesians.