Core Glossary

Core Glossary — Matthew 1–28 (English → Bodo)

This glossary extends the Romans Language Package baseline for the Matthew curriculum. Section A lists baseline terms reused exactly (no change permitted) as they recur across Matthew. Section B lists new terms required by Matthew’s distinctive vocabulary and doctrines, each with a proposed Bodo rendering, transliteration, risk tier, and a grounded reason citing the comparative-religion landscape documented in the baseline (Bathouism/Bathoubwrai/sijou/Kherai puja/doudini trance-mediumship; Brahma Dharma’s 1912 Sanskritized reform). Terms marked [PROVISIONAL] require confirmation by a Bodo-speaking theologian or native speaker before Phase 2 enforcement, per the same methodology the baseline itself uses for terms such as “fellowship,” “covenant,” and “adoption.”

Section A — Baseline Terms Reused Exactly (Romans → Matthew)

Term	Bodo Rendering	Transliteration	Risk (baseline)	Key Matthew Occurrences	Matthew-Specific Note
God	ईश्वर	Isor	Critical	throughout	Never बाथौबुरै.
Jesus	जिसु	Jisu	Critical	throughout	—
Messiah/Christ	मसीह	mosih	Critical	1:1,16-17; 16:16,20; 22:42; 24:5,23-24; 26:63,68; 27:17,22	Guard against reading as one figure among the Bathou pantheon or a Brahma Dharma reformer-figure.
Lord	प्रभु	probhu	Critical	3:3; 7:21-22; 8:2,6,8,21,25; 9:28; 12:8; 14:28,30; 15:22,25,27; 17:4,15; 18:21; 20:30-33; 21:3,9; 22:43-45; 24:42; 25:11,18,20-24,37,44; 26:22; 27:63; 28:6	Never बर’ऐ/बुरहा.
Son of God	ईश्वरनि गोरा	Isornni gwra	Critical	3:17; 4:3,6; 8:29; 14:33; 16:16; 17:5; 26:63; 27:40,43,54	Never used for believers — see new term “children of God” below.
Father (God as)	आफा	afa	Critical	5:16,45,48; 6:1-18; 7:11,21; 10:29,32-33; 11:25-27; 16:17; 18:14,19,35; 23:9; 26:39,42; 28:19	Warm, relational register per baseline.
Holy Spirit	पबित्र आत्था	pobitro aatha	Critical	1:18,20; 3:11,16; 4:1; 10:20; 12:18,28,31-32; 28:19	Always in full; never bare आत्था/देउ.
Holy	पबित्र	pobitro	High	1:18,20; 4:5; 6:9; 7:6; 27:52-53	—
Resurrection	जिउनाय सोलायनाय	jiunai solainai	Critical	12:40; 16:21; 17:9,23; 20:19; 22:23-33; 26:32; 27:53,63-64; 28:1-7	Never फिन जोनोम.
Righteousness	धार्मिकता	dharmikota	Critical	3:15; 5:6,10,20,45; 6:1,33; 13:43,49; 21:32	Encompasses both gift and Spirit-produced fruit in Matthew — teach both senses.
Salvation / save	फोरायनाय	phoraynai	Critical	1:21; 8:25; 9:21-22; 10:22; 14:30; 16:25; 18:11; 19:25; 24:13,22; 27:40,42,49	Ground-up teaching required per baseline; never मोक्ष.
Sin	गुनाह	gunah	High	1:21; 3:6; 6:12,14-15; 9:2-6,10-13; 12:31; 18:15,21; 26:28	—
Faith	बिश्वास	biswas	High	8:10,13,26; 9:2,22,29; 14:31; 15:28; 16:8; 17:20; 21:21-22	Object of faith must always be specified — usually Jesus’ power/authority.
Church	मण्डली	mwndoli	Medium	16:18; 18:17	Never नमासोलि.
Kingdom of God	ईश्वरनि राज्य	Isornni rajyo	Medium	6:33; 12:28; 19:24; 21:31,43	Distinct from “kingdom of heaven” (new term, Section B) — Matthew uses both; render each exactly as it occurs in the source.
Law	बिथान	bithan	Medium/High	5:17-18; 7:12; 12:5; 22:36,40; 23:23	Never धर्मनि नियम.
Prophet	भाबिष्यत सोंग्रा	bhabishyot songra	Low	1:22; 2:5,15,17,23; 3:3; 5:12,17; 8:17; 11:9,13; 12:17,39; 13:35,57; 21:4,11,26,46; 23:29-37; 24:11,15,24; 26:56; 27:9	Never ओझा.
Prophecy	भाबिष्यत रां	bhabishyot rang	Low	throughout fulfillment citations	—
Gospel	मंगल खबर	mangal khabor	High	4:23; 9:35; 24:14; 26:13	”Gospel of the kingdom” ties directly to new kingdom_of_heaven term.
Called/Calling	फिनायाव / फिनायनि सिम	phinaiyao / phinaini sim	High	22:14 (with election)	—
Election	ईश्वरनि सायख	Isornni saikho	High	22:14; 24:22,24,31	Never भागी.
Gentiles/nations	गैर-जुथुद	goir-juthud	Medium	4:15; 6:32; 10:5,18; 12:18,21; 20:19,25	NOTE: at 28:19 (“all nations”), the Greek ἔθνη is broader than this term’s usual “non-Jewish peoples” sense — see new term “all nations” in Section B.
Glory	महिमा	mohima	High	6:29; 16:27; 17:5; 19:28; 24:30; 25:31	—
Covenant	गोसाथारि	gwsathari	High	26:28	Founding New Covenant text.
David	दाऊद	Daud	Medium	1:1,6,17,20; 9:27; 12:3,23; 15:22; 20:30-31; 21:9,15; 22:42-45	—
Israel	इस्राएल	Israel	Medium	2:6,20-21; 8:10; 9:33; 10:6,23; 15:24,31; 19:28; 27:9,42	—
Apostle	गोदान जायगारि	godan jaigari	Medium	10:2	Distinguish from ordinary disciple (सिष्य, new term).
Intercession/Prayer	मोनसे नि थाखाय बिनयनाय	monse ni thakhai binoinai	Medium	5:44; 6:5-13; 26:39-44	—
Providence	ईश्वरनि सामलानाय	Isornni samlanai	High	6:26-32; 10:29-31	Never भागी.
Mission	मंगल खबरनि दायो	mangal khaborni dayo	Medium	9:37-38; 10:5-42; 24:14; 28:18-20	Frame as the church’s own ongoing calling.
Exhort/comfort root	गोसो होनाय	gwsw honai	Low	(root shared with “comforted,” new term)	—
Peace	सान्ति	santi	Medium	5:9; 10:13,34; 26:52-53 (implied)	—

Section B — New Terms Introduced by Matthew

B1. Kingdom and Messiahship

Term	English gloss	Bodo Rendering	Transliteration	Risk	Doctrine	Grounded Reason
kingdom_of_heaven	βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν	स्वर्गनि राज्य	swargoni rajyo	High	The Kingdom of Heaven	स्वर्ग collides with Brahma Dharma’s Hindu-influenced merited-afterlife concept (स्वर्ग attained via पुण्य) and generic regional Hindu heaven-cosmology; must be taught as God’s present-and-coming sovereign reign, not a merited post-mortem destination. Ground-up teaching required each first occurrence per lesson, same routing as फोरायनाय.
son_of_david	υἱὸς Δαυίδ	दाऊदनि गोरा	Daudni gwra	Critical	Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David	Distinct from दाऊदनि बेंसे (seed_of_david, physical lineage, baseline High risk); this is the messianic title. Must not be heard as one honorific elder-title among the Bathou pantheon’s several; ties directly to davidic_covenant (baseline High risk).
messianic_fulfillment / fulfill	πληρόω	सिद्ध जानाय	siddho janai	High	Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy	Matches baseline doctrine-registry phrasing exactly; structural refrain (10+ occurrences) requiring identical rendering throughout.
immanuel	Ἐμμανουήλ	इम्मानुएल (गि.: ईश्वर आमाजों दं)	Immanuel (gloss: Isor amajwng dwng)	Critical	Incarnation / Deity of Christ	Ties directly to baseline’s Critical incarnation/deity_of_christ entries; must not read as temporary spirit-indwelling parallel to doudini Kherai-trance possession.
virgin	παρθένος	कुमारी	kumari	High	Incarnation	Must not be assimilated to Hindu-mythological divine-birth motifs or Bathou/Kherai fertility-goddess (Mainao) narrative; unique historical miracle-sign.
son_of_man	υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου	मानसिनि गोरा	manwsini gwra	Critical	Authority of Jesus’ Teaching; Judgment and End of Age	Danielic double-sense (humility + end-time authority) must both be preserved; must not be flattened to “a human” nor assimilated to doudini medium-possession.

B2. The Beatitudes and Kingdom Character

Term	English gloss	Bodo Rendering	Transliteration	Risk	Doctrine	Grounded Reason
blessed	μακάριος	धिन्य [PROVISIONAL]	dhinyo	High	Kingdom of Heaven	Risk of this-worldly-prosperity reading, colliding with Bathou/Kherai household-prosperity ritual goals (Mainao) and Brahma Dharma merit-reward framing.
poor_in_spirit	πτωχοὶ τῷ πνεύματι	आत्मायाव गरीब	aatmayao gorib	Medium	Kingdom of Heaven	Risk of collapsing to literal economic poverty if आत्मायाव dropped.
meek	πραΰς	नम्र [PROVISIONAL]	nomro	Medium	Discipleship	Risk of being heard as social weakness rather than strength under God’s control (cf. Jesus’ self-description, 11:29; 21:5).
inherit_the_earth	κληρονομέω τὴν γῆν	हादोखौ आदाबथि लाबनाय	hadokhou adabathi labnai	High	Kingdom of Heaven / End of Age	हा (“earth”) is one of the five sacred Bathou elements (sijou plant’s five branches); also risks Bodoland territorial-political misreading.
pure_in_heart	καθαροὶ τῇ καρδίᾳ	गोसोनि पबित्रता	gwsoni pobitrota	High	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	Deliberately built on पबित्र, not साफ, to preserve baseline’s ritual-vs-moral purity distinction; central to Matt 23’s inside/outside contrast.
children_of_god	υἱοὶ θεοῦ (plural, believers)	ईश्वरनि फिसा	Isornni phisa	High	Kingdom of Heaven / Adoption	MUST remain visually/lexically distinct from ईश्वरनि गोरा (Son of God, Christ’s unique Sonship, Critical baseline term).
persecuted	διωγμός / διώκω	उपद्रोब खालनाय	uprodrob khalnai	High	Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus	Live pastoral reality for Bodo converts facing family/clan pressure to return to Bathou or Brahma Dharma practice, not merely a historical scenario.
reward	μισθός	बदला	bodola	High	Discipleship; Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	Strong pull toward merit-transaction reading (Brahma Dharma पुण्य-reward ethic; Bathou/Kherai reciprocal-offering logic) — same collision class as baseline’s grace entry.
mercy/merciful	ἔλεος / ἐλεήμων	दया / दयालु	doya / doyalu	High	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	Related to but distinct from grace; risk of reciprocal-exchange reading; corrective anchor text is 9:13/12:7 (Hosea 6:6 quotation).
righteousness_exceeding	περισσεύῃ … δικαιοσύνη	फरीसीखौनिख्रुइ गोबां धार्मिकता	Pharisikhounikhrui goban dharmikota	Critical	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees (doctrine anchor)	Risk of legalistic misreading intensified by Brahma Dharma’s own rule-intensification reform history; must be taught as heart-level, Spirit-produced righteousness.

B3. Repentance, Baptism, Forgiveness

Term	English gloss	Bodo Rendering	Transliteration	Risk	Doctrine	Grounded Reason
repent	μετανοέω	गुनाहनिफ्राय सोलायनाय	gunahnifrai solainai	Critical	Kingdom of Heaven; Judgment	Built in structural parallel to जिउनाय सोलायनाय (resurrection); must convey inward transformation, not external ritual regret or Brahma Dharma’s incremental-reform ethic.
baptism/baptize	βάπτισμα / βαπτίζω	बाप्तिस्मो	baptismo	Critical	Great Commission	Must not be confused with Bathou/Kherai household ritual water-purification or ओझा ritual bathing; recurs identically at 28:19.
forgive/forgiveness	ἀφίημι / ἄφεσις	माफ खालामनाय / माफनाय	maph khalamnai / maphnai	High	The Church and Church Discipline; Judgment	Distinct from, and narrower than, justification (धार्मिक होनाय राव); must not read as ritual absolution by a specialist.
defile	κοινόω	अपबित्र खालामनाय	opobitro khalamnai	High	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	Reframes purity as heart-level; must be distinguished from Bathou/Kherai’s external ritual purification practice.

B4. Authority, Discipleship, and the Church

Term	English gloss	Bodo Rendering	Transliteration	Risk	Doctrine	Grounded Reason
authority	ἐξουσία	अधिकार	odhikar	High	Authority of Jesus’ Teaching (doctrine anchor)	Must not be read as delegated ritual authority (doudini’s temporary trance-authority) or customary clan/elder authority; climaxes at 28:18.
disciple	μαθητής	सिष्य [PROVISIONAL]	sishyo	High	Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus	Collides with the guru-sishyo paradigm central to Brahma Dharma’s reform movement; object (Christ) must always be explicit.
follow	ἀκολουθέω	उदांनाय [PROVISIONAL]	udangnai	High	Discipleship	Object-specification risk parallel to बिश्वास; unspecified “following” risks generic guru-discipleship reading.
take_up_cross	σταυρός (bear one’s own)	क्रुस	krus	Critical	Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus (doctrine anchor)	Must retain literal self-denial/death-identification sense, not soften into generic “burden.”
lose_life_find_life	ἀπολέσῃ/εὑρήσει	जिउ एरनाय आरो जिउ मोननाय	jiu erenai aro jiu monnai	High	Discipleship	Paradox must not collapse into either bare self-sacrifice ethics or self-help “self-discovery” framing.
church_discipline (bind_and_loose)	δέω / λύω	बादा होनाय आरो एराबनाय	bada honai aro erabnai	Critical	The Church and Church Discipline (doctrine anchor)	Direct collision with ओझा folk-ritual binding/warding charms (sympathetic magic); must be taught as Christ-derived declarative spiritual authority, not ritual power.
keys_of_kingdom	κλεῖδας τῆς βασιλείας	राज्यनि साबियारि	rajyoni sabiyari	High	The Church and Church Discipline	Risk of being read as literal ritual object of power, echoing material/object-centered Bathou ritual practice (sijou).
confess	ὁμολογέω	स्वीकार खालामनाय	sikar khalamnai	High	Discipleship; Lordship of Christ	Parallels Romans 10:9 confession stakes already Critical in baseline.

B5. Worship, Hypocrisy, and Religious Practice

Term	English gloss	Bodo Rendering	Transliteration	Risk	Doctrine	Grounded Reason
worship	προσκυνέω	आराधना खालामनाय	aradhana khalamnai	Critical	Authority of Jesus’ Teaching; throughout	पूजा FORBIDDEN — it is the literal name of the Kherai ritual-offering system; using it would conflate Christian worship of Christ with Bathou/Kherai ritual practice. Add to Critical Forbidden Substitution list.
hypocrite	ὑποκριτής	कपटी	kopoti	Medium	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	Standard loanword; teaching note on outward-vs-inward religion, recurring ch. 6, 15, 23.
Pharisees/scribes	Φαρισαῖοι / γραμματεῖς	फरीसी / व्यवस्था गुरु	Pharisi / byabostha guru	Medium	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	Avoid mapping onto ओझा/doudini/Brahma Dharma reform-teacher roles; requires historical explanation, not cultural equivalence.
sabbath	σάββατον	सबथ (आरामनि दिन)	sabath (aramni din)	Medium	Authority of Jesus’ Teaching	No ready cultural institution parallels covenantal Sabbath; distinguish from Kherai puja’s periodic ritual-calendar observances.
mammon	μαμωνᾷ	मामोन	mamon	Medium	Discipleship	Resonance (not identity) with Kherai pantheon’s Mainao (wealth goddess) worth naming in teaching notes.
love	ἀγάπη / ἀγαπάω	मोसाथिनाय [PROVISIONAL]	mwsathinai	High	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees; Discipleship	Summary of the Law (22:37-40); must convey active covenantal love, not mere sentiment or clan-bounded (afad) reciprocal affection.

B6. Judgment and the End of the Age

Term	English gloss	Bodo Rendering	Transliteration	Risk	Doctrine	Grounded Reason
mysteries_of_kingdom	μυστήρια	राज्यनि सोलोंथाव राव	rajyoni solongthau rao	Medium	Kingdom of Heaven	Risk of collision with ओझा’s claimed secret ritual knowledge; must be taught as graciously revealed truth, not specialist esoteric lore.
end_of_the_age	συντέλεια τοῦ αἰῶνος	जुगनि जोबथाव	jugni jobthau	Critical	Judgment and the End of Age (doctrine anchor)	जुग (age/era) resonates with Hindu/Brahma Dharma cyclical-yuga cosmology; Matthew’s “end of the age” is linear and final, not cyclical — same collision class as baseline’s resurrection/rebirth caution.
blasphemy_against_holy_spirit	βλασφημία	पबित्र आत्थानि निंदा	pobitro aathani ninda	Critical	Judgment	The unforgivable sin; mandatory theologian review every occurrence.
woe	οὐαί	दुखनि रां	dukhoni rang	Medium-High	Judgment	Prophetic judgment-speech; must retain force of solemn divine indictment, not mere sadness.
parousia (Son of Man’s coming)	παρουσία	जिसुनि फिन फैनाय	Jisuni phin phoinai	Critical	Judgment and the End of Age (doctrine anchor)	Must not be read as repeatable avatar-descent (Brahma Dharma’s Hindu-influenced avatara theology) or doudini-style trance-descent of a deity into a medium.
watch/be_ready	γρηγορέω	जागोन थानाय	jagwn thanai	Medium	Judgment	Standard vigilance vocabulary; ties to providence/assurance doctrines already in baseline.
eternal_life	ζωὴ αἰώνιος	जोबथाव नङा जिउ	jobthau nonga jiu	Critical	Judgment; Kingdom of Heaven	Structural parallel to eternal_punishment; must be distinguished from मोक्ष (escape from rebirth-cycle) — positive, relational, embodied life, not liberation into an impersonal absolute.
eternal_punishment	κόλασις αἰώνιος	जोबथाव नङा सजा	jobthau nonga sodya	Critical	Judgment and the End of Age (doctrine anchor)	Must be taught as final and conscious, NOT a temporary purgation preceding rebirth — same collision class, opposite pole, as eternal_life.
hell/gehenna	γέεννα	नरक [heavy caveat required]	norok	Critical	Judgment	नरक in general Hindu/Brahma Dharma-influenced usage can denote a temporary punitive realm within a rebirth cosmology; caveat must be attached every occurrence, as with फोरायनाय.
ransom	λύτρον	फोरायनायनि दाम	phoraynaini dam	Critical	Judgment; Righteousness	Christ’s atoning death must not be assimilated to Bathou/Kherai reciprocal ritual-offering-for-protection logic — same collision class as baseline’s grace entry; mandatory theologian review.

B7. Mission and the Great Commission

Term	English gloss	Bodo Rendering	Transliteration	Risk	Doctrine	Grounded Reason
make_disciples	μαθητεύω	सिष्य मोहरै दानाय	sishyo mohrai danai	Critical	The Great Commission (doctrine anchor)	Verb-form of सिष्य (disciple); same guru-sishyo collision risk applies, intensified by imperative/programmatic force.
all_nations	πάντα τὰ ἔθνη (28:19)	सर्बां जाति/जुथुद	sarbang jati/juthud	High	Great Commission; Mission to the Nations	Broader than गैर-जुथुद (gentiles = specifically non-Jewish peoples); must preserve Matthew’s universal scope without narrowing to the Jew/Gentile axis.
harvest/laborers	θερισμός / ἐργάται	सोलेर / सेवारी	soleir / sewari	Medium	Great Commission	Frame evangelism as the church’s own present calling, not a foreign historical missionary project, per baseline mission-framing caution.

B8. Miscellaneous Narrative and Textual Terms

Term	English gloss	Bodo Rendering	Transliteration	Risk	Doctrine	Grounded Reason
transfigured	μεταμορφόω	रुप सोलायनाय	rup solainai	High	Deity of Christ	Distinct from incarnation (permanent) — temporary revelatory unveiling of pre-existing glory; must not be conflated with doudini altered-state ritual practice.
cornerstone	κεφαλὴ γωνίας	मुल हातर	mul hatwr	Medium	Fulfillment of Prophecy	Requires OT (Ps 118) background teaching, not a comparative-religion collision per se.
perfect/complete	τέλειος	पूरा	pura	Medium	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	Wholehearted covenant faithfulness, not flawless achievement nor Brahma Dharma perfectibility-through-reform.
oath	ὅρκος	कस्थम/सत्य राव	(descriptive)	Medium	Authority of Jesus’ Teaching	Standard concept; minor honor/truth-telling cultural note.

Cross-Reference Notes for Phase 2

All Section A terms must be pulled directly from translation_memory.json v1 (Romans baseline) with zero deviation. Do not re-derive.
All Section B terms are new entries to be added to a Matthew-specific extension of translation_memory.json before Phase 2 segment translation begins, each tagged with its risk tier for bible_term_registry.json-style enforcement and routed per doctrine_risk_registry.json-style review rules (Critical/High → human theologian; Medium → native speaker; Low → automated).
Terms marked [PROVISIONAL] (धिन्य, नम्र, सिष्य, उदांनाय, मोसाथिनाय) require native-speaker/theologian confirmation before Phase 2 enforcement and should be flagged exactly as the baseline flags “fellowship,” “covenant,” and “adoption.”
The following terms are proposed for the Critical Forbidden Substitution List (Matthew extension), parallel to the baseline’s existing list: पूजा (for worship — always आराधना), नरक used without the required non-rebirth caveat, फिन जोनोम (resurrection — carried over from baseline, applies equally to eternal_life/eternal_punishment contexts), मोक्ष (salvation/eternal life — carried over from baseline).

This glossary, together with 07_semantic_analysis.md, extends the Romans Language Package baseline (translation_memory.json v1) for the Matthew curriculum and is ready for incorporation into an updated translation memory file prior to Phase 2.

Critical Risk Terms

Righteousness

Approved rendering: धार्मिकता
Transliteration: dharmikota
Doctrine: Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees
Rejected alternatives: धर्म (bare cosmic-duty sense imported through Brahma Dharma reform teaching)
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package exactly. Matthew’s usage (3:15; 5:6,10,20,45; 6:1,33; 13:43,49; 21:32) spans both gift (forensic standing) and Spirit-produced fruit (lived character) — a wider range than Romans’ more strictly forensic usage. Because Brahma Dharma’s own reform program is built on this same Sanskrit dharma-root as a codified religious-duty system, both senses must be explicitly taught as flowing from grace, never as rule-achievement — this risk is intensified, not lessened, by Matthew’s ‘exceeding the Pharisees’ language (5:20).

Salvation

Approved rendering: फोरायनाय
Transliteration: phoraynai
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: मोक्ष (Brahma Dharma’s Hindu-derived liberation concept, never use), रैखाथि (Kherai-pantheon protection from misfortune, never use as a stand-alone gloss)
Original: σωτηρία / σῴζω
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package exactly. Matthew 1:21 (‘he will save his people from their sins’) is the book’s founding statement of this doctrine. Ground-up teaching required as in the baseline, since Bathouism has no developed eschatological salvation category and Brahma Dharma’s मोक्ष-language must never be used.

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 exactly. Never बाथौबुरै. This choice must be named and explained in every Matthew lesson introducing God, exactly as the baseline requires.

Jesus

Approved rendering: जिसु
Transliteration: Jisu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package exactly. Verify against a current printed Bodo Bible before finalizing, per the baseline’s own caveat.

Messiah

Approved rendering: मसीह
Transliteration: mosih
Doctrine: Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package exactly. Matthew’s genealogy (1:1) and Peter’s confession (16:16) make this the book’s programmatic title; never one figure among the Bathou pantheon or a Brahma Dharma reformer-figure.

Lord

Approved rendering: प्रभु
Transliteration: probhu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: बर’ऐ/बुरहा titles reserved for Bathoubwrai and Kherai-pantheon elder-deities, never use for Christ
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package exactly. Matthew’s ‘Lord of the Sabbath’ claim (12:8) is a direct claim to divine authority over a covenant institution and must never be softened by an honorific elder-title.

Son Of God

Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि गोरा
Transliteration: Isornni gwra
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: देवता गोरा (a lesser divine being’s son, an explicit downgrade)
Original: υἱὸς θεοῦ
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package exactly. Confessed at 3:17; 14:33; 16:16; 17:5; 26:63; 27:40,43,54. MUST remain lexically and doctrinally distinct from the new NEW term ‘children_of_god’ (ईश्वरनि फिसा), used exclusively for believers’ derivative sonship at 5:9.

Holy Spirit

Approved rendering: पबित्र आत्था
Transliteration: pobitro aatha
Doctrine: Virgin Birth and Incarnation
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 exactly. Always in full; never bare आत्था/देउ. Active at Jesus’ conception (1:18,20), baptism (3:16), and the Great Commission’s Trinitarian formula (28:19); also the direct object of the unforgivable sin (12:31-32).

Resurrection

Approved rendering: जिउनाय सोलायनाय
Transliteration: jiunai solainai
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Rejected alternatives: फिन जोनोम (rebirth into a new life-cycle, Brahma Dharma-absorbed reincarnation vocabulary, never use)
Original: ἀνάστασις / ἐγείρω
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package exactly. Predicted repeatedly in Matthew (12:40; 16:21; 17:9,23; 20:19) and fulfilled at 27:52-53; 28:1-10; must render identically at every occurrence per cross-document consistency rule.

Son Of David

Approved rendering: दाऊदनि गोरा
Transliteration: Daudni gwra
Doctrine: Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David
Original: υἱὸς Δαυίδ
Category: Christology

NEW TERM, distinct from seed_of_david (physical lineage). This is the messianic title, recurring at every major turning point (1:1; 9:27; 12:23; 15:22; 20:30-31; 21:9,15; 22:42-45). Must not be heard as one honorific elder-title among the several applied to Bathoubwrai and the Kherai pantheon’s elder figures; ties directly to the Davidic Covenant doctrine.

Immanuel

Approved rendering: इम्मानुएल (गि. ईश्वर आमाजों दं)
Transliteration: Immanuel (gloss: Isor amajwng dwng)
Doctrine: Virgin Birth and Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: देउनि आगोर (a deity temporarily descending into/speaking through a doudini, never use)
Original: Ἐμμανουήλ
Category: Christology

NEW TERM. ‘God with us,’ the sign-name of the incarnate Christ (1:23). Transliterated with the mandatory explanatory gloss ईश्वर आमाजों दं. Ties directly to incarnation and deity_of_christ; must be taught as God’s permanent, personal presence in Jesus, never a temporary spirit-indwelling comparable to a doudini’s Kherai-trance possession.

Son Of Man

Approved rendering: मानसिनि गोरा
Transliteration: manwsini gwra
Doctrine: The Son of Man
Original: υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου
Category: Christology

NEW TERM. Danielic title (Dan 7:13-14) carrying both genuine humility and end-time divine authority to judge and reign (8:20; 9:6; 12:8; 13:41; 16:27-28; 19:28; 24:27,30,37,44; 25:31; 26:64). Must not be flattened to mean merely ‘a human being,’ and must be sharply distinguished from a doudini’s temporary human vessel-status during Kherai trance — the Son of Man is the eternal Son himself, permanently possessing full humanity.

Righteousness Exceeding

Approved rendering: फरीसीखौनिख्रुइ गोबां धार्मिकता
Transliteration: Pharisikhounikhrui goban dharmikota
Doctrine: Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees
Rejected alternatives: धर्मनि निदान मानोन (rule-keeping obedience to a reformed religious code, a works-based misreading)
Original: περισσεύῃ … δικαιοσύνη
Category: Righteousness

NEW TERM, doctrine anchor. The greater, heart-level righteousness Jesus requires, exceeding the Pharisees’ external standard (5:20; cf. 6:1,33; 23:1-28). Risk of legalistic misreading is intensified, not lessened, by Brahma Dharma’s own historical project of intensifying and codifying religious conduct rules; must be taught as Spirit-produced, heart-level righteousness flowing from grace, never a call to stricter external rule-observance.

Repent

Approved rendering: गुनाहनिफ्राय सोलायनाय
Transliteration: gunahnifrai solainai
Doctrine: Repentance
Original: μετανοέω
Category: Salvation

NEW TERM, built in deliberate structural parallel to जिउनाय सोलायनाय (resurrection), both using the सोलायनाय (‘turning’) root. Called for by John (3:2), Jesus (4:17), and the towns of Galilee (11:20-21; 12:41). Must convey inward, God-directed transformation, not the external ritual regret/purification of pre-Kherai cleansing rites, nor Brahma Dharma’s incremental communal-reform ethic.

Baptism

Approved rendering: बाप्तिस्मो
Transliteration: baptismo
Doctrine: Baptism
Rejected alternatives: descriptive paraphrase e.g. ‘water ritual’ (rejected — would conflate with existing household purification rites)
Original: βάπτισμα / βαπτίζω
Category: Church

NEW TERM, transliterated following established regional Bible-translation convention (cf. Assamese বাপ্তিস্ম). Christian immersion signifying repentance, union with Christ, and entry into the church (3:6,11,13-17; 28:19). Must be sharply distinguished from household/courtyard ritual water-purification preceding Bathou and Kherai ceremonies and from any ओझा ritual bathing rite. Renders identically at 3:1-17 and the Trinitarian formula of 28:19.

Take Up Cross

Approved rendering: क्रुस
Transliteration: krus
Doctrine: Taking Up the Cross
Rejected alternatives: descriptive paraphrase e.g. ‘burden/wooden beam’ (rejected — would soften the literal self-denial/death-identification sense)
Original: σταυρός (bear one’s own)
Category: Discipleship

NEW TERM, transliterated (cf. Assamese ক্রুচ), doctrine anchor. Willing self-denial and identification with Christ’s own death, required of every disciple (10:38; 16:24). Must retain the sense of literal self-denial and identification with Christ’s own literal death; must never be softened into a generic metaphor for any hardship or burden — this is precisely why transliteration, not a descriptive rendering, is required.

Bind And Loose

Approved rendering: बादा होनाय आरो एराबनाय
Transliteration: bada honai aro erabnai
Doctrine: Binding and Loosing (Church Authority)
Original: δέω / λύω
Category: Church

NEW TERM, doctrine anchor. The church’s derived, declarative spiritual authority to exercise discipline and pronounce forgiveness or exclusion (16:19; 18:18). Direct collision with traditional Bodo folk-ritual binding/warding charms and counter-spells associated with the ओझा (a form of sympathetic ritual power); must be taught as Christ-derived declarative authority grounded in अधिकार, never as magical binding-spell power. Mandatory theologian review at every occurrence.

Worship

Approved rendering: आराधना खालामनाय
Transliteration: aradhana khalamnai
Doctrine: Worship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: पूजा (FORBIDDEN — the literal name of the Kherai ritual-offering system)
Original: προσκυνέω
Category: Worship

NEW TERM, added to the Critical Forbidden Substitution List. Bowing down in homage, directed to Jesus throughout Matthew (2:2,8,11; 8:2; 9:18; 14:33; 15:25; 20:20; 28:9,17) and demanded of Satan in the temptation (4:9-10). पूजा is FORBIDDEN — using it would directly conflate Christian worship of Christ with the Bathou/Kherai ritual-offering complex. आराधना is used instead, exactly parallel to the baseline’s choice of ईश्वर over बाथौबुरै. The Magi’s gift-giving worship (2:2-11) requires special care against an offering-for-favor misreading.

End Of The Age

Approved rendering: जुगनि जोबथाव
Transliteration: jugni jobthau
Doctrine: Judgment and the End of the Age
Original: συντέλεια τοῦ αἰῶνος
Category: Eschatology

NEW TERM, doctrine anchor. The final, linear culmination of history in judgment (13:39-43,49-50; 24:3; 28:20). जुग (age/era) is a Sanskrit loanword resonant with the Hindu/Brahma Dharma concept of cyclical yugas (recurring cosmic ages); Matthew’s phrase is linear and final — a one-time culmination, not a transition within an endlessly repeating cycle. Must be taught explicitly at every occurrence, directly paralleling the baseline’s resurrection/rebirth caution.

Blasphemy Against Holy Spirit

Approved rendering: पबित्र आत्थानि निंदा
Transliteration: pobitro aathani ninda
Doctrine: Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit
Original: βλασφημία
Category: Sin

NEW TERM. The unforgivable sin of attributing the Spirit’s work to evil (12:31-32). No ready native analogue: Bathou ritual impurity is always remediable through further ritual action and Brahma Dharma’s karma-ethic assumes continued opportunity for moral correction, unlike this doctrine’s finality. Requires very careful, theologically precise teaching to avoid false despair or false presumption; also distinguish from folk-taboo word-magic (a spoken curse carrying automatic binding power). Mandatory theologian review at every occurrence.

Parousia

Approved rendering: जिसुनि फिन फैनाय
Transliteration: Jisuni phin phoinai
Doctrine: Second Coming of Christ (Parousia)
Rejected alternatives: Greek transliteration ‘parousia’ (rejected — would require as much scaffolding as a paraphrase while adding unnecessary foreignness)
Original: παρουσία
Category: Eschatology

NEW TERM, doctrine anchor. Christ’s single, final, visible, personal return in glory to judge and consummate his kingdom (24:3,27,37,39; 25:31; 26:64). Must not be read as a repeatable avatar-style divine descent (a live risk given Brahma Dharma’s Hindu-influenced avatara theology, which envisions multiple divine descents across ages) nor comparable to a doudini’s ritual trance-descent of a deity into a human medium during Kherai puja.

Eternal Life

Approved rendering: जोबथाव नङा जिउ
Transliteration: jobthau nonga jiu
Doctrine: Eternal Life and Eternal Punishment
Rejected alternatives: मोक्ष-adjacent liberation framing (Brahma Dharma’s Hindu-influenced escape-from-rebirth concept, never use)
Original: ζωὴ αἰώνιος
Category: Eschatology

NEW TERM, doctrine anchor, built using the जोबथाव (‘end’) root for internal glossary consistency with end_of_the_age and eternal_punishment. Unending, personal, relational life with God in Christ (19:16,29; 25:46). Must be sharply distinguished from Brahma Dharma’s Hindu-influenced मोक्ष (liberation from the rebirth cycle) — positive, relational, embodied life, never escape from existence or merging into an impersonal absolute.

Eternal Punishment

Approved rendering: जोबथाव नङा सजा
Transliteration: jobthau nonga sodya
Doctrine: Eternal Life and Eternal Punishment
Rejected alternatives: any annihilationist or temporary-purgation softening, never use
Original: κόλασις αἰώνιος
Category: Eschatology

NEW TERM, doctrine anchor, built in deliberate structural parallel with eternal_life (25:46). Must be taught as final and conscious, explicitly NOT a temporary purgation preceding another rebirth, which is the expectation a hearer shaped by Brahma Dharma’s karma-and-rebirth framework might otherwise import. Preserve strict grammatical parallelism with eternal_life at every occurrence of the paired verse (25:46).

Hell Gehenna

Approved rendering: नरक
Transliteration: norok
Doctrine: Hell (Gehenna)
Original: γέεννα
Category: Eschatology

NEW TERM, used ONLY with a mandatory caveat attached at every occurrence — added to the Critical Forbidden Substitution List as ‘use only with caveat,’ not an outright ban, since no better-attested alternative exists. नरक, a Sanskrit/Hindi loanword, can denote in general regional Hindu (and Brahma Dharma-influenced) usage a temporary punitive realm within an ongoing rebirth cosmology. Matthew’s γέεννα (5:22,29-30; 10:28; 18:9; 23:15,33; 25:41,46) must be taught explicitly as real, conscious, and final judgment — never a way-station before rebirth.

Ransom

Approved rendering: फोरायनायनि दाम
Transliteration: phoraynaini dam
Doctrine: Atonement and Ransom
Original: λύτρον
Category: Christology

NEW TERM, doctrine anchor for the Passion. The price of Christ’s substitutionary, atoning death, given for many (20:28; cf. 26:26-28). Must NOT be assimilated to the reciprocal offering-for-protection logic of Bathou/Kherai ritual exchange — the same collision class flagged Critical for grace in the baseline — nor to any notion of appeasing an angry deity through repeated ritual payment. A once-for-all, sufficient price paid by God himself.

Make Disciples

Approved rendering: सिष्य मोहरै दानाय
Transliteration: sishyo mohrai danai
Doctrine: The Great Commission
Original: μαθητεύω
Category: Mission

NEW TERM, doctrine anchor. The imperative act of forming disciples of Christ among all nations (28:19). Verb-form of सिष्य; the same guru-sishyo collision risk applies, intensified by the imperative, programmatic force of the Commission itself. Jesus must always be the explicit object.

High Risk Terms

Gospel

Approved rendering: मंगल खबर
Transliteration: mangal khabor
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: सुसमाचार (Hindi loan, avoid as default)
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package exactly. In Matthew appears as ‘gospel of the kingdom’ (4:23; 9:35; 24:14) and at the Great Commission’s founding narrative (26:13); teach as a unit with kingdom_of_heaven, never as a call to Brahma Dharma-style religious reform.

Faith

Approved rendering: बिश्वास
Transliteration: biswas
Doctrine: Faith and Little Faith
Rejected alternatives: भरोसा (generic trust, too weak alone)
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package exactly. Matthew’s repeated ‘little faith’ (ὀλιγόπιστος) is rendered गुबुन बिश्वास, keeping the बिश्वास root (6:30; 8:26; 14:31; 16:8; 17:20; 21:21-22). The object of faith (Jesus’ own power/authority to heal and save) must always be explicit in context, or बिश्वास risks reading as generic devotion transferable to Bathoubwrai or the Kherai pantheon.

Sin

Approved rendering: गुनाह
Transliteration: gunah
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: दोष (fault/blame, too weak/civic)
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin

Inherited from Romans package exactly. Distinguish from ritual impurity addressed through Bathou/Kherai cleansing rites (see also ‘defile,’ below, for Matthew’s own heart-versus-ritual teaching in 15:11-20).

Father

Approved rendering: आफा
Transliteration: afa
Doctrine: Providence and Care of God
Rejected alternatives: बाथौबुरै (reserve strictly for describing traditional belief, never for the biblical Father)
Original: πατήρ
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package exactly. God as personal Father, addressed with special intimacy throughout the Sermon on the Mount and the Lord’s Prayer (5:16,45,48; 6:1-18; 7:11,21; 23:9; 26:39,42; 28:19).

Holy

Approved rendering: पबित्र
Transliteration: pobitro
Doctrine: Hypocrisy and Inward Righteousness
Rejected alternatives: साफ (physically clean, ritual-purity sense only)
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification

Inherited from Romans package exactly. Root for the new term ‘pure_in_heart’ (गोसोनि पबित्रता, 5:8); साफ must be reserved for physical/ritual cleanliness, never substituted here.

Law

Approved rendering: बिथान
Transliteration: bithan
Doctrine: Sabbath and the Law
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 exactly (baseline listed Medium; elevated to High here given Matthew’s sustained legal controversies with the Pharisees across chs. 5, 12, 15, 19, 22-23). Jesus claims to fulfill, not abolish, this Law (5:17-18).

Called

Approved rendering: फिनायाव
Transliteration: phinaiyao
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: मिनतिनाय (a plea/invitation, too weak)
Original: κλητός
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package exactly. Matthew 22:14 pairs ‘called’ with election (‘many are called, but few are chosen’).

Calling

Approved rendering: फिनायनि सिम
Transliteration: phinaini sim
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package exactly. Kept structurally parallel to फिनायाव for teaching consistency across both curricula.

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 exactly. ‘The elect’ gathered at the Son of Man’s coming (24:22,24,31) and named in the wedding-feast parable (22:14). Never भागी.

Glory

Approved rendering: महिमा
Transliteration: mohima
Doctrine: Transfiguration and the Glory of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package exactly. Displayed in the Transfiguration (17:5) and at Christ’s coming (16:27; 19:28; 24:30; 25:31). Must not be assimilated to a doudini’s trance-radiance or oracular authority during Kherai puja.

Covenant

Approved rendering: गोसाथारि
Transliteration: gwsathari
Doctrine: New Covenant in Christ’s Blood
Original: διαθήκη
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package exactly. Matthew’s climactic use is at the Last Supper (26:28, ‘this is my blood of the covenant’) — the New Covenant’s founding text, connecting explicitly to the Davidic covenant and the forgiveness of sins it secures.

Providence

Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि सामलानाय
Transliteration: Isornni samlanai
Doctrine: Providence and Care of God
Rejected alternatives: भागी (fate, never use)
Original: cf. Matthew 6:26-32; 10:29-31
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package exactly. Matthew 6:25-34 (‘not even a sparrow falls’) and 10:29-31 (‘hairs of your head’) are the key texts, specifically vulnerable to being reheard as impersonal-fate assurance rather than a personal Father’s relational promise — the exact caution the baseline applies to Romans 8:28.

Seed Of David

Approved rendering: दाऊदनि बेंसे
Transliteration: Daudni bense
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: σπέρμα Δαυίδ (concept underlying 1:1-17)
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package exactly. Physical descent from David, foundational to Matthew’s opening genealogy (1:1-17). Distinct from the NEW messianic royal title son_of_david (दाऊदनि गोरा) — this term names lineage fact, that term names messianic office; keep lexically distinct.

Kingdom Of Heaven

Approved rendering: स्वर्गनि राज्य
Transliteration: swargoni rajyo
Doctrine: The Kingdom of Heaven
Original: βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν
Category: Kingdom

NEW TERM. God’s present-and-coming sovereign reign, inaugurated by Jesus; Matthew’s preferred phrase (32x), first at 3:2, closing the Beatitudes at 5:3,10. स्वर्ग collides with Brahma Dharma’s Hindu-influenced merited-afterlife concept (स्वर्ग attained via पुण्य) and generic regional Hindu heaven-cosmology. Must be taught from the ground up, every first occurrence per lesson, as God’s reign breaking into history — never a place one goes after death. Render only where Matthew’s Greek has οὐρανῶν; render kingdom_of_god (ईश्वरनि राज्य) where the Greek has θεοῦ — do not harmonize.

Fulfill

Approved rendering: सिद्ध जानाय
Transliteration: siddho janai
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy
Original: πληρόω
Category: Scripture

NEW TERM, matching the baseline doctrine-registry phrasing for fulfillment_of_prophecy exactly. Structural refrain (1:22; 2:15,17,23; 4:14; 5:17; 8:17; 12:17; 13:35; 21:4; 26:56; 27:9) requiring identical rendering at every occurrence; must not be assimilated into Brahma Dharma’s own progressive-reform narrative of Bodo religious history.

Virgin

Approved rendering: कुमारी
Transliteration: kumari
Doctrine: Virgin Birth and Incarnation
Original: παρθένος
Category: Christology

NEW TERM. Mary’s virginal conception (1:23, citing Isaiah 7:14). Must not be assimilated to Hindu-mythological divine-birth motifs (relevant given Brahma Dharma’s Hindu-influenced background) nor to any Bathou/Kherai fertility-goddess (Mainao) narrative; a unique historical sign validating the incarnation.

Blessed

Approved rendering: धिन्य
Transliteration: dhinyo
Doctrine: Beatitudes and Kingdom Blessing
Original: μακάριος
Category: Kingdom

[PROVISIONAL] NEW TERM. The paradoxical flourishing that belongs to those in God’s kingdom, even amid hardship (5:3-12). धिन्य readily suggests this-worldly prosperity/good fortune, colliding with Bathou household sijou-offering goals and the Kherai pantheon’s Mainao (goddess of wealth/rice). Each Beatitude must be taught as paradoxical, eschatological blessing, never a promise of material flourishing. Requires native-speaker/theologian confirmation before Phase 2 enforcement.

Inherit The Earth

Approved rendering: हादोखौ आदाबथि लाबनाय
Transliteration: hadokhou adabathi labnai
Doctrine: Beatitudes and Kingdom Blessing
Original: κληρονομήσουσιν τὴν γῆν
Category: Kingdom

NEW TERM. The eschatological renewal of creation shared by the meek under Christ’s reign (5:5). हा (‘earth’) is one of the five sacred elements (ha/earth, dwi/water, bar/air, or/fire, okhrang/sky) represented by the sijou plant’s five branches central to Bathou worship, risking an elemental-cosmology misreading; also risks a Bodoland territorial-political misreading given contemporary land/ethnic-territorial identity politics. Both risks must be named directly in teaching; never illustrate with sijou five-element imagery.

Pure In Heart

Approved rendering: गोसोनि पबित्रता
Transliteration: gwsoni pobitrota
Doctrine: Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees
Rejected alternatives: साफ-based rendering (physical/ritual cleanliness, never substitute)
Original: καθαροὶ τῇ καρδίᾳ
Category: Sanctification

NEW TERM. Inward, moral purity of motive, contrasted with the Pharisees’ outward-only purity (5:8; cf. 23:25-26). Deliberately built on पबित्र, never साफ, preserving the baseline’s reserved ritual-vs-moral purity distinction; substituting साफ would collapse the phrase into external Kherai/sijou ritual purification.

Children Of God

Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि फिसा
Transliteration: Isornni phisa
Doctrine: Beatitudes and Kingdom Blessing
Rejected alternatives: ईश्वरनि गोरा (forbidden here — reserved exclusively for Christ’s unique Sonship)
Original: υἱοὶ θεοῦ (plural, of believers)
Category: Salvation

NEW TERM. Believers’ derivative status as God’s children, given to peacemakers (5:9). MUST remain visibly distinct from ईश्वरनि गोरा (son_of_god), reserved exclusively for Christ’s unique, eternal, co-equal Sonship; conflating the two would blur Matthew’s own distinction (contrast 3:17/17:5 with 5:9). Also a genuine conceptual gap: Bodo clan (afad) inheritance runs through birth lineage, not a legal-adoptive category, so this must be taught, not assumed.

Persecuted

Approved rendering: उपद्रोब खालनाय
Transliteration: uprodrob khalnai
Doctrine: Persecution and Perseverance
Original: διωγμός / διώκω
Category: Discipleship

NEW TERM. Hostile pressure suffered because of faith or righteous conduct (5:10-12; 10:16-23; 24:9). A live, present-tense pastoral reality for Bodo converts facing family/clan pressure to return to household sijou observance or clan ritual participation, not a hypothetical ancient scenario; must be taught with direct pastoral application.

Reward

Approved rendering: बदला
Transliteration: bodola
Doctrine: Grace versus Merit
Original: μισθός
Category: Discipleship

NEW TERM. God’s gracious, promised recompense to his people (5:12,46; 6:1-6,16-18; 10:41-42; 16:27; 20:1-16). बदला strongly pulls toward a merit-transaction reading, the same collision class as the baseline’s Critical grace entry, given Brahma Dharma’s पुण्य-reward ethic and Bathou/Kherai’s reciprocal-offering logic. Must be taught as gracious recompense flowing from relationship, never earned payment, at every occurrence; the parable of the laborers (20:1-16) is the key teaching text, cross-referenced with Romans 4:4-5 and 11:5-6 already flagged in the baseline.

Mercy

Approved rendering: दया
Transliteration: doya
Doctrine: Mercy and Compassion
Original: ἔλεος / ἐλεήμων
Category: Ethics

NEW TERM. Active compassion toward those in need, extended without regard to merit (5:7; 9:13; 12:7; 23:23). Related to but distinct from grace (मोफादांनाय दान); risks the same reciprocal-exchange reading via Bathou/Kherai do-ut-des logic and Brahma Dharma’s पुण्य ethic. The corrective anchor text, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice’ (9:13; 12:7, quoting Hosea 6:6), must be taught alongside this term every occurrence.

Forgive

Approved rendering: माफ खालामनाय
Transliteration: maph khalamnai
Doctrine: Forgiveness of Sins
Original: ἀφίημι / ἄφεσις
Category: Church

NEW TERM. Gracious pardon of sin, both God’s own and the interpersonal forgiveness modeled on it (6:12,14-15; 9:2-6; 18:21-35; 26:28). Distinct from, and narrower than, justification (धार्मिक होनाय राव, baseline term); must not be read as ritual absolution performed by a religious specialist. The unforgiving-servant parable (18:21-35) shows forgiveness received obligates forgiveness extended, not a reciprocal merit exchange.

Defile

Approved rendering: अपबित्र खालामनाय
Transliteration: opobitro khalamnai
Doctrine: Hypocrisy and Inward Righteousness
Original: κοινόω
Category: Sanctification

NEW TERM, built by negating the baseline’s पबित्र. To make unclean; Jesus teaches that defilement comes from the heart, not external ritual observance (15:11,18,20). Must be distinguished from Bathou/Kherai’s own external, ritual purification practices — this is one of Matthew’s clearest heart-versus-ritual teaching texts.

Authority

Approved rendering: अधिकार
Transliteration: odhikar
Doctrine: The Authority of Jesus’ Teaching
Original: ἐξουσία
Category: Christology

NEW TERM, doctrine anchor. Jesus’ own inherent, divine authority to teach, heal, forgive, and command (7:29; 8:9; 9:6,8; 10:1; 21:23-27; 28:18). Must not be read as the delegated ritual authority of a doudini (temporarily granted by Bathoubwrai during trance) or the customary authority of village/clan elders. Every occurrence applied to Jesus should be paired with a source-clause (‘his own, from the Father’); climaxes at 28:18 (‘all authority in heaven and on earth’).

Disciple

Approved rendering: सिष्य
Transliteration: sishyo
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Original: μαθητής
Category: Discipleship

[PROVISIONAL] NEW TERM. A committed follower who has left former life to follow Jesus specifically. सिष्य directly collides with the guru-sishyo relationship pattern central to Brahma Dharma (built around Gurudev Kalicharan Brahma as guru-figure); every occurrence must make Jesus, not a generic guru-figure, the explicit referent. Retained (not coined fresh) because no better-attested alternative exists in current Bodo Christian usage; requires native-speaker confirmation before wide deployment.

Follow

Approved rendering: उदांनाय
Transliteration: udangnai
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Original: ἀκολουθέω
Category: Discipleship

[PROVISIONAL] NEW TERM. To go after Jesus as a disciple (4:20,22; 8:22; 9:9; 16:24; 19:21,27-29). The object must always be specified (following Jesus specifically), paralleling the baseline’s caution for बिश्वास; unspecified ‘following’ could otherwise be read as generic discipleship to any teacher/guru figure. Requires native-speaker confirmation.

Lose Life Find Life

Approved rendering: जिउ एरनाय आरो जिउ मोननाय
Transliteration: jiu erenai aro jiu monnai
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Original: ἀπολέσῃ / εὑρήσει
Category: Discipleship

NEW TERM. The paradox that losing one’s life for Christ’s sake is the way to truly gain it (10:39; 16:25). Must not be flattened into either pure self-sacrifice ethics divorced from resurrection hope, or a self-help ‘finding yourself’ reading.

Keys Of Kingdom

Approved rendering: राज्यनि साबियारि
Transliteration: rajyoni sabiyari
Doctrine: The Church and Church Discipline
Original: κλεῖδας τῆς βασιλείας
Category: Church

NEW TERM. Stewardship/authority entrusted to the church’s leadership (16:19). Risk of being read as a literal ritual object of power, echoing the material/object-centered character of Bathou worship (the sijou plant as a locus of ritual significance); must be taught as a metaphor for delegated spiritual authority, never a physical talisman.

Confess

Approved rendering: स्वीकार खालामनाय
Transliteration: sikar khalamnai
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Original: ὁμολογέω
Category: Discipleship

NEW TERM. Public acknowledgment of allegiance to Jesus before others (10:32). Parallels the stakes of Romans 10:9’s Lordship confession, already Critical in the baseline; ties discipleship directly to Christology.

Love

Approved rendering: मोसाथिनाय
Transliteration: mwsathinai
Doctrine: Love of God and Neighbor
Original: ἀγάπη / ἀγαπάω
Category: Ethics

[PROVISIONAL] NEW TERM. Active, willed, covenantal love commanded toward God, neighbor, and enemy (5:44; 22:37-40). This is the summary of the whole Law (22:40); must be taught as active, willed, covenantal love modeled on God’s own character, never mere sentiment or the reciprocal-kinship affection bounded by clan (afad) loyalty. Requires native-speaker confirmation.

All Nations

Approved rendering: सर्बां जाति/जुथुद
Transliteration: sarbang jati/juthud
Doctrine: The Great Commission
Rejected alternatives: गैर-जुथुद (rejected here — too narrow, carries the specifically non-Jewish-peoples sense elsewhere in Matthew)
Original: πάντα τὰ ἔθνη
Category: Mission

NEW TERM. The universal scope of the Great Commission (28:19) — every people group without exception. Broader than गैर-जुथुद (gentiles); must preserve Matthew’s universal scope without narrowing it to the Jew/Gentile distinction, and must not be entangled with contemporary Bodoland ethnic-territorial identity politics.

Transfigured

Approved rendering: रुप सोलायनाय
Transliteration: rup solainai
Doctrine: Transfiguration and the Glory of Christ
Original: μεταμορφόω
Category: Christology

NEW TERM. The temporary revelatory unveiling of Christ’s already-present divine glory (17:2). Distinct from incarnation (a permanent assumption of human nature) — this is a temporary unveiling, not a change of nature or a repeatable deity-descent event, and must not be assimilated to a doudini’s altered ritual trance-state.

Will Of The Father

Approved rendering: आफानि मन
Transliteration: afani mon
Doctrine: Providence and Care of God
Rejected alternatives: भागी (fate, never use)
Original: θέλημα
Category: God

NEW TERM. God’s personal, relational intention, modeled by Jesus’ own submission in Gethsemane (7:21; 26:39,42). God’s will is personal, relational intention, never an impersonal fate/cosmic order, echoing the baseline’s caution against भागी for election/providence.

Medium Risk Terms

Church

Approved rendering: मण्डली
Transliteration: mwndoli
Doctrine: The Church and Church Discipline
Rejected alternatives: नमासोलि (Bathou/Kherai shrine site or worship ground, never use)
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package exactly. First named by Jesus at 16:18 and given disciplinary procedure at 18:15-20; must remain clearly distinct from नमासोलि.

Kingdom Of God

Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि राज्य
Transliteration: Isornni rajyo
Doctrine: The Kingdom of Heaven
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom

Inherited from Romans package exactly. Matthew’s rarer variant phrase (θεοῦ) alongside his preferred ‘kingdom of heaven’ (οὐρανῶν); render only where the Greek text itself uses θεοῦ (6:33; 12:28; 19:24; 21:31,43) to preserve Matthew’s own likely-stylistic distinction from the new term kingdom_of_heaven — do not harmonize the two.

Gentiles

Approved rendering: गैर-जुथुद
Transliteration: goir-juthud
Doctrine: Transfer of Kingdom Stewardship / Unity of Jew and Gentile
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package exactly. Contrasted with Israel in Matthew’s ministry-scope statements (4:15; 10:5-6,18; 12:18,21; 15:24; 20:19,25). IMPORTANT: at 28:19 the same Greek word ἔθνη is used in a broader, universal sense (‘all nations’) — do NOT use गैर-जुथुद there; use the new term all_nations instead.

David

Approved rendering: दाऊद
Transliteration: Daud
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: Δαυίδ
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package exactly. Foundational to Matthew’s opening genealogy (1:1-17) and the recurring Son of David title (see new term son_of_david).

Israel

Approved rendering: इस्राएल
Transliteration: Israel
Doctrine: Transfer of Kingdom Stewardship / Unity of Jew and Gentile
Original: Ἰσραήλ
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package exactly. The covenant people descended from Jacob (2:6,20-21; 8:10; 9:33; 10:6,23; 15:24,31; 19:28; 27:9,42).

Apostle

Approved rendering: गोदान जायगारि
Transliteration: godan jaigari
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Rejected alternatives: दूत (generic messenger, too weak)
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package exactly. The Twelve are named at 10:2; distinguish their unique, foundational commissioning from ordinary discipleship (see new term disciple, सिष्य).

Intercession

Approved rendering: मोनसे नि थाखाय बिनयनाय
Transliteration: monse ni thakhai binoinai
Doctrine: Prayer and Intercession
Original: προσεύχομαι (used intercessorily, e.g. 5:44)
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package exactly. Prayer offered on behalf of others, including one’s enemies (5:44) and Jesus’ own Gethsemane prayer (26:39-44). Distinguish from petitions traditionally carried to Bathoubwrai or the Kherai pantheon through a doudini or ओझा ritual specialist.

Mission

Approved rendering: मंगल खबरनि दायो
Transliteration: mangal khaborni dayo
Doctrine: Mission to the Nations
Original: cf. ἐργάται (9:37-38), ἀποστέλλω (10:5)
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package exactly. Covers the sending of the Twelve (ch. 10) and the Great Commission (28:18-20). Given the history of American Baptist mission work among the Bodo becoming entangled in local memory with colonial-era administration, frame evangelism as the church’s own ongoing calling, never a foreign historical project.

Peace

Approved rendering: सान्ति
Transliteration: santi
Doctrine: The Church and Church Discipline
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package exactly. Matthew 10:34’s paradoxical ‘I have not come to bring peace, but a sword’ describes the social cost of discipleship, not a contradiction of Christ’s peace-bringing mission; distinguish both this and the new term ‘peacemakers’ from household harmony sought through Bathou/Kherai offerings.

Poor In Spirit

Approved rendering: आत्मायाव गरीब
Transliteration: aatmayao gorib
Doctrine: Beatitudes and Kingdom Blessing
Original: πτωχοὶ τῷ πνεύματι
Category: Kingdom

NEW TERM. Recognition of one’s total spiritual need before God (5:3). गरीब alone risks being read as literal economic poverty; आत्मायाव (‘in spirit’) must always be retained together with it, never dropped in speech or paraphrase.

Meek

Approved rendering: नम्र
Transliteration: nomro
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Original: πραΰς
Category: Discipleship

[PROVISIONAL] NEW TERM. Strength held under God’s control, not weakness; used of Jesus himself (11:29; 21:5). नम्र may be heard as passivity or social weakness in a culture that also values honor and standing; must be taught as strength submitted to God, following Jesus’ own self-description. Requires native-speaker confirmation.

Peacemakers

Approved rendering: सान्ति होनाय मानुष
Transliteration: santi honai manwsw
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Original: εἰρηνοποιοί
Category: Discipleship

NEW TERM. Those who actively create reconciliation between people (5:9). Distinguish from mediated household-harmony functions traditionally sought through Bathou/Kherai ritual specialists; here peace is actively made by the believer’s own reconciling action, modeled on God’s character.

Hypocrite

Approved rendering: कपटी
Transliteration: kopoti
Doctrine: Hypocrisy and Inward Righteousness
Original: ὑποκριτής
Category: Ethics

NEW TERM. One who performs religious acts outwardly without inward sincerity (6:2,5,16; 15:7; 23:13-29). Standard loanword; teaching note should distinguish outward religious performance from inward sincerity, a theme recurring through chs. 6, 15, and 23.

Pharisees Scribes

Approved rendering: फरीसी / व्यवस्था गुरु
Transliteration: Pharisi / byabostha guru
Doctrine: Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees
Original: Φαρισαῖοι / γραμματεῖς
Category: History

NEW TERM. First-century Jewish socio-religious teaching classes, frequent opponents of Jesus. Avoid mapping onto existing Bodo religious-specialist roles (ओझा, doudini, or Brahma Dharma reform-teachers); requires historical explanation, not a ready cultural equivalent. Must not be reduced to a simplistic villain-caricature.

Sabbath

Approved rendering: सबथ (आरामनि दिन)
Transliteration: sabath (aramni din)
Doctrine: Sabbath and the Law
Original: σάββατον
Category: Covenant

NEW TERM. The weekly covenant day of rest, subject of controversy in Matthew 12. No ready Bodo cultural institution parallels the covenantal Sabbath; must be taught with Old Testament covenant background and distinguished from the Kherai puja’s own occasional ritual-calendar festival observances, which are occasional, not weekly.

Mammon

Approved rendering: मामोन
Transliteration: mamon
Doctrine: Wealth and Mammon
Original: μαμωνᾷ
Category: Ethics

NEW TERM, transliterated. Wealth personified as a rival master to God (6:24). Relevant given the Kherai pantheon’s Mainao (goddess of wealth/rice) — must be clear this teaching addresses wealth’s idolatrous pull generally, not a direct polemic against Mainao specifically, though the resonance is worth naming in teaching notes.

Mysteries Of Kingdom

Approved rendering: राज्यनि सोलोंथाव राव
Transliteration: rajyoni solongthau rao
Doctrine: The Kingdom of Heaven
Original: μυστήρια
Category: Kingdom

NEW TERM. Hidden truths of the kingdom disclosed by Jesus in parables (13:11). Risk of collision with the ओझा’s own claim to secret ritual knowledge/lore; must be taught as revealed truth graciously disclosed by God, never esoteric knowledge reserved for a ritual-specialist elite.

Woe

Approved rendering: दुखनि रां
Transliteration: dukhoni rang
Doctrine: Hypocrisy and Inward Righteousness
Original: οὐαί
Category: Judgment

NEW TERM. Solemn prophetic judgment-speech pronounced against the Pharisees and scribes (23:13-29). Old Testament-style prophetic judgment-speech; must not be softened into mere expression of sadness — it carries the force of solemn divine indictment.

Watch Be Ready

Approved rendering: जागोन थानाय
Transliteration: jagwn thanai
Doctrine: Judgment and the End of the Age
Original: γρηγορέω
Category: Eschatology

NEW TERM. Vigilant readiness for Christ’s return (24:42-44; 25:13). Standard vigilance vocabulary; ties to the assurance/providence doctrines already in the baseline, applied here to eschatological readiness rather than present assurance.

Harvest Laborers

Approved rendering: सोलेर / सेवारी
Transliteration: soleir / sewari
Doctrine: Mission to the Nations
Original: θερισμός / ἐργάται
Category: Mission

NEW TERM. The image of a plentiful harvest needing workers, motivating the sending of the Twelve (9:37-38). Should be framed as the church’s own present calling, not a foreign historical missionary project, per the baseline’s mission-framing caution.

Cornerstone

Approved rendering: मुल हातर
Transliteration: mul hatwr
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy
Original: κεφαλὴ γωνίας
Category: Scripture

NEW TERM. Christ as the rejected-yet-foundational stone (21:42, citing Psalm 118). Requires Old Testament background teaching rather than posing a comparative-religion collision per se.

Perfect

Approved rendering: पूरा
Transliteration: pura
Doctrine: Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees
Original: τέλειος
Category: Ethics

NEW TERM. Wholehearted, mature covenant faithfulness modeled on God’s own character (5:48; 19:21). Must be taught as wholehearted covenant faithfulness, avoiding both a legalistic flawless-achievement misreading and confusion with Brahma Dharma’s perfectibility-through-reform ethic.

Oath

Approved rendering: सत्य राव
Transliteration: (descriptive)
Doctrine: The Authority of Jesus’ Teaching
Original: ὅρκος
Category: Ethics

NEW TERM. A sworn statement; Jesus forbids oath-taking in favor of simple truthfulness (5:33-37). Standard concept; minor honor/truth-telling cultural note rather than a comparative-religion collision.

Wrath

Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि गुसा
Transliteration: Isornni gusa
Doctrine: Judgment and the End of the Age
Original: ὀργή
Category: God

NEW TERM. God’s righteous, moral, judicial response to sin (‘wrath to come,’ 3:7). Must be taught as God’s personal, moral, judicial response to sin, tied to the Judgment and End of Age doctrine — never an impersonal cosmic disturbance.

Temptation

Approved rendering: फांसनाय
Transliteration: phansenai
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Original: πειρασμός / πειράζω
Category: Discipleship

[PROVISIONAL] NEW TERM. Testing or trial, as endured by Jesus in the wilderness (4:1-11) and prayed against in the Lord’s Prayer (6:13). Standard concept with low comparative-religion collision, but should be distinguished from fatalistic ‘testing by spirits’ folk-belief framings.

Judge

Approved rendering: सायख होनाय
Transliteration: saikho honai
Doctrine: Judgment and the End of the Age
Original: κρίνω
Category: Judgment

NEW TERM. To pass judgment; Jesus warns against human condemnation of others while affirming God’s own prerogative to judge (7:1-5). Draws on the same root as the baseline’s election term ईश्वरनि सायख; distinguish God’s prerogative to judge from human condemnation of others.

Yoke And Rest

Approved rendering: गुरार (yoke) / सान्ति मोननाय (rest)
Transliteration: gurar / santi monnai
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Original: ζυγός / ἀνάπαυσις
Category: Discipleship

NEW TERM. Jesus’ ‘easy’ yoke and promised rest, contrasted with legalistic, rule-intensive religious systems (11:28-30). Rest deliberately reuses the सान्ति-family rendering used for ‘comforted’ (5:4), since both describe God’s personal relational comfort; the yoke image contrasts with Brahma Dharma’s own codified rule-observance ethic.

Low Risk Terms

Prophet

Approved rendering: भाबिष्यत सोंग्रा
Transliteration: bhabishyot songra
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: ओझा (a traditional folk ritual specialist/diviner, never use)
Original: προφήτης
Category: Scripture

Inherited from Romans package exactly. Cited repeatedly in Matthew’s fulfillment formula (1:22; 2:5,15,17,23; 3:3; 5:12,17; 8:17; 11:9,13; 12:17,39; 13:35,57; 21:4,11,26,46; 23:29-37; 24:11,15,24; 26:56; 27:9). Never ओझा.

Prophecy

Approved rendering: भाबिष्यत रां
Transliteration: bhabishyot rang
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy
Original: προφητεία
Category: Scripture

Inherited from Romans package exactly. Distinct from divinatory pronouncements by a doudini in trance or an ओझा in folk-ritual practice.

Exhort

Approved rendering: गोसो होनाय
Transliteration: gwsw honai
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package exactly. Shares its root with the Beatitudes’ ‘comforted’ (5:4, cf. 11:28-29’s ‘rest’).

Referenced passages

MAT.5.6 MAT.23.1-28 MAT.1.23 MAT.3.17 MAT.14.33 MAT.16.16 MAT.17.5 MAT.28.18 MAT.7.21-22 MAT.8.25 MAT.9.28 MAT.12.8 MAT.21.3 MAT.24.42 MAT.25.11 MAT.28.6 MAT.1.1 MAT.1.16-17 MAT.9.27 MAT.12.23 MAT.15.22 MAT.20.30-31 MAT.22.42-45 MAT.27.54 MAT.1.18-25 MAT.12.40 MAT.16.21 MAT.20.19 MAT.28.1-10 MAT.8.20 MAT.9.6 MAT.13.41 MAT.16.27-28 MAT.19.28 MAT.25.31 MAT.26.64 MAT.3.2 MAT.4.17 MAT.11.20-21 MAT.12.41 MAT.3.6 MAT.28.19 MAT.10.38 MAT.16.24-25 MAT.16.19 MAT.18.18 MAT.2.2 MAT.8.2 MAT.9.18 MAT.15.25 MAT.20.20 MAT.13.39-43 MAT.24.1-51 MAT.25.1-46 MAT.12.31-32 MAT.24.3 MAT.19.16 MAT.25.31-46 MAT.5.22 MAT.10.28 MAT.18.9 MAT.25.41 MAT.20.28 MAT.26.26-28 MAT.28.16-20 MAT.8.10 MAT.14.31 MAT.15.28 MAT.16.8 MAT.17.20 MAT.21.21-22 MAT.6.25-34 MAT.10.29-31 MAT.6.1-18 MAT.15.1-20 MAT.5.17-18 MAT.12.1-14 MAT.22.36-40 MAT.17.1-8 MAT.26.26-29 MAT.1.1-17 MAT.1.20 MAT.21.9 MAT.6.33 MAT.13.1-52 MAT.18.1-4 MAT.1.22-23 MAT.4.14-16 MAT.5.17 MAT.8.17 MAT.12.17-21 MAT.13.35 MAT.21.4-5 MAT.26.56 MAT.27.9-10 MAT.5.1-12 MAT.5.10-12 MAT.10.16-23 MAT.24.9-13 MAT.5.12 MAT.10.41-42 MAT.16.27 MAT.20.1-16 MAT.5.7 MAT.9.13 MAT.12.7 MAT.23.23 MAT.6.12 MAT.9.2-6 MAT.18.21-35 MAT.26.28 MAT.5.1-2 MAT.7.28-29 MAT.8.9 MAT.10.1 MAT.21.23-27 MAT.4.18-22 MAT.8.18-22 MAT.10.16-39 MAT.16.24-26 MAT.19.16-30 MAT.16.18 MAT.18.15-20 MAT.5.43-48 MAT.22.34-40 MAT.8.11-12 MAT.21.33-43 MAT.6.5-13 MAT.26.36-46 MAT.9.37-38 MAT.10.5-42 MAT.24.14 MAT.28.18-20 MAT.6.19-24

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