Core Glossary
Core Glossary — Titus
Section A: Reused Baseline Terms (Romans Translation Memory v1)
These renderings are FIXED by the baseline and must be used exactly as recorded; they are listed here only to confirm their occurrence in Titus and must not be re-derived.
| English term | Bodo rendering | Transliteration | Risk (baseline) | Titus occurrences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| God | ईश्वर | Isor | Critical | 1:1,3,4; 2:11,13; 3:4,8 (frequent) |
| Jesus | जिसु | Jisu | Critical | 1:1,4; 2:13; 3:6 |
| Christ | मसीह | mosih | Critical | 1:1,4; 2:13; 3:6 |
| Lord | प्रभु | probhu | Critical | (implicit in Christ’s titles) |
| Father | आफा | afa | Critical | 1:4 |
| Holy Spirit | पबित्र आत्था | pobitro aatha | Critical | 3:5 |
| grace | मोफादांनाय दान | mwphwdangnai daan | Critical | 1:4; 2:11; 3:7,15 |
| faith | बिश्वास | biswas | High | 1:1,4,13; 2:2,10; 3:15 |
| salvation/save | फोरायनाय | phoraynai | Critical | 3:5 (verb root) |
| righteousness | धार्मिकता | dharmikota | Critical | 3:5 |
| justification/justified | धार्मिक होनाय राव | dharmik honai rao | Critical | 3:7 |
| holy | पबित्र | pobitro | High | 1:8; 2:3; 3:5 |
| sanctification (root) | पबित्रनाय | pobitronai | High | 2:14 (पबित्र खालामनाय, verb form) |
| apostle | गोदान जायगारि | godan jaigari | Medium | 1:1 |
| called/calling | फिनायाव / फिनायनि सिम | phinaiyao / phinaini sim | High | (not directly lexicalized in Titus, retained for doctrinal consistency) |
| law | बिथान | bithan | Medium/High | 3:9 |
| sin | गुनाह | gunah | High | 3:11 |
| glory | महिमा | mohima | High | 2:13 |
| election/elect | ईश्वरनि सायख | Isornni saikho | High | 1:1 |
| promise/promised | थारायनाय | tharainai | High | 1:2 |
| exhort | गोसो होनाय | gwsw honai | Low | 1:9; 2:15 |
| church (as concept, background) | मण्डली | mwndoli | Medium | 1:5 (implicit, elders “in every town”) |
| peace | सान्ति | santi | Medium | 1:4 |
| adoption (cross-referenced for heirs) | गोसोआव फैनाय | gwswao phoinai | High | 3:7 (conceptual background) |
| resurrection (root reused for regeneration/renewal morphology) | जिउनाय सोलायनाय | jiunai solainai | Critical | 3:5 (root reused, not the same doctrine) |
| gentiles (root reused for “people for his own possession”) | गैर-जुथुद | goir-juthud | Medium | 2:14 (root reused) |
| David (root बेंसे reused for genealogies) | दाऊद | Daud | Medium | 3:9 (root reused) |
Section B: New Titus Terms by Curriculum Doctrine
Doctrine 1: Grace That Trains for Godly Living
| English term | Original | Transliteration | Bodo rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Notes / Rejected alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| appeared/epiphany | ἐπεφάνη / ἐπιφάνεια | epephanē / epiphaneia | दैखा जानाय | daikha janai | High | Must be used identically at 2:11, 2:13, 3:4 to preserve the letter’s three-epiphany structure. Rejected: a different verb per occurrence, which would obscure the literary pattern. |
| train/discipline (as a child) | παιδεύουσα | paideuousa | गुरगुरै सिखायनाय | gurgurai sikhainai | High | The formative-discipline nuance is the doctrinal point of the curriculum’s title doctrine; must not flatten to generic “teaches.” Provisional — confirm naturalness with native speaker. |
| self-controlled/self-control | σώφρων / σωφρόνως | sōphrōn / sōphronōs | गोसो थुलुंनाय / गोसो थुलुंग्रा | gwsw thulungnai / gwsw thulungra | High | Recurs at 1:8; 2:2,4,5,6,12 — the letter’s dominant character term. Provisional compound built on गोसो (heart/mind), reused from baseline’s गोसो होनाय, गोसो जोंथानाय family. |
| train (young women) | σωφρονίζωσιν | sōphronizōsin | गोसो थुलुंनो सिख्रोंनाय | gwsw thulungnw sikhrwnnai | Medium | Causative of the self-control root above; distinct verb from παιδεύω. |
| godliness | εὐσέβεια | eusebeia | ईश्वर मानोन | Isor manwn | High | Must be distinguished from both Bathou ritual reverence toward Bathoubwrai/the Kherai pantheon and Brahma Dharma’s reformed devotional ethic. Rejected: भक्ति (bhakti) — too closely tied to Hindu/Brahma Dharma devotionalism. |
| ungodliness | ἀσέβεια | asebeia | ईश्वर मानोन-गैया | Isor manwn-gaiya | High | Negation of the above; the renounced condition in 2:12. |
| worldly passions | κοσμικαὶ ἐπιθυμίαι | kosmikai epithymiai | फिथिरनि मोनलोभ | phithirni mwnlobh | Medium | Desires structured by a God-excluding world-order, not neutral bodily appetite. |
| hope | ἐλπίς | elpis | आस | aas | High | Must convey confident expectation grounded in God’s promise-keeping character (1:2’s “God who never lies”), not vague wishing or fatalistic भागी-style hope. Structural term: 1:2, 2:13, 3:7. |
| eternal | αἰώνιος | aiōnios | मोनथाय गैया | monthai gaiya | High | Native negation-compound (“without end”) deliberately preferred over the Sanskrit loan अनन्त, which carries Brahma Dharma’s Sanskritized-eternalism associations — same methodology as baseline’s मंगल खबर over सुसमाचार. |
| eternal life | ζωὴ αἰώνιος | zōē aiōnios | मोनथाय गैया जिउ | monthai gaiya jiu | Critical | Structural bookend of the whole letter (1:2 / 3:7); must be rendered identically both times. Not cyclical existence or absorption into an impersonal absolute. |
| present age | ὁ νῦν αἰών | ho nyn aiōn | दानि सोमोयाव | dani somoyao | Low | Sets up already/not-yet contrast with 2:13’s future hope. |
Doctrine 2: Qualifications for Elders
| English term | Original | Transliteration | Bodo rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Notes / Rejected alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| elder (church office) | πρεσβύτερος | presbyteros | मण्डलिनि प्राचीन | mwndolini prachin | High | Provisional. Deliberately uses the loanword प्राचीन (attested across regional Indian-Christian Bible usage for the office of “elder”) rather than any native honorific-elder title, to avoid the बर’ऐ/बुरहा (Bathoubwrai) collision the baseline names explicitly. Rejected: any compound built on बुरहा/बर’ऐ. |
| overseer/bishop | ἐπίσκοπος | episkopos | देखा-रैखा लाग्रा | dekha-raikha lagra | High | Provisional descriptive compound (“one who takes on caretaking oversight”). In Titus functionally synonymous with elder — teach the synonymy explicitly rather than implying two separate offices. |
| steward of God | οἰκονόμος θεοῦ | oikonomos theou | ईश्वरनि नोगोर देखा-रैखा लाग्रा | Isorni nwgwr dekha-raikha lagra | Medium | Manager entrusted with God’s household affairs, not an owner. |
| above reproach | ἀνέγκλητος | anenklētos | दोष गैया | dosh gaiya | Medium | A public-reputation standard, not a claim of sinlessness. |
| husband of one wife | μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἀνήρ | mias gynaikos anēr | मोनसे सिबि सायथावनि सामलायग्रा | monse sibi saithabni samlaygra | High | May require explicit pastoral teaching given regional customary practices around plural or leviratic marriage in some Northeast Indian tribal contexts; not to be assumed as self-evidently already the local default. |
| insubordinate | ἀνυπότακτος | anypotaktos | मानोन-गैया | manwn-gaiya | Medium | Same root family as ὑποτάσσω (submit, 2:5,9; 3:1) with negation — reused for consistency at 1:6 and 1:10. |
| elder/overseer virtue-vice list (arrogant, quick-tempered, drunkard, violent, greedy for gain / hospitable, lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, disciplined) | αὐθάδης, ὀργίλος, πάροινος, πλήκτης, αἰσχροκερδής / φιλόξενος, φιλάγαθος, σώφρων, δίκαιος, ὅσιος, ἐγκρατής | see 07_semantic_analysis.md ch.1 | गर्व लाग्रा, गुसा जायग्रा, मद जायग्रा, मार-सोर खालामग्रा, बेया फायदा नांगुनग्रा / बाहागारिखौ आदर खालामग्रा, मोजाङखौ मोसोंग्रा, गोसो थुलुंग्रा, धार्मिक, पबित्र, गोसो थुलुंग्रा | Medium | Standard Greco-Roman virtue-list genre; note ὅσιος (“devout”) and ἅγιος (baseline “holy,” πबित्र) are distinct Greek words collapsed into one Bodo term — flag minor nuance loss. | |
| sound doctrine / the trustworthy word as taught | ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία / ὁ κατὰ τὴν διδαχὴν πιστὸς λόγος | hygiainousa didaskalia / ho kata tēn didachēn pistos logos | मोजाङ सिख्रोंनाय | mojang sikhrwnnai | High | Governs chapters 1-2; must remain the SAME Bodo phrase every time “sound doctrine/teaching” occurs across the letter. |
| rebuke | ἐλέγχω | elenchō | गलती फोरमायनाय | galti formainai | Medium | Firm doctrinal/moral correction, not harsh personal attack; recurs 1:9, 1:13, 2:15. |
Doctrine 3: Sound Doctrine and Good Works
| English term | Original | Transliteration | Bodo rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Notes / Rejected alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sound doctrine (see above) | — | — | मोजाङ सिख्रोंनाय | mojang sikhrwnnai | High | Cross-referenced from Doctrine 2. |
| good works | καλὰ / ἀγαθὰ ἔργα | kala / agatha erga | मोजाङ खामानि | mojang khamani | Critical | The letter’s dominant ethical refrain (2:7,14; 3:1,8,14). Must always be taught as FRUIT of grace (2:14, 3:8), never GROUND of salvation (3:5) — the single most important consistency rule for this curriculum. |
| model of good works | τύπος καλῶν ἔργων | typos kalōn ergōn | मोजाङ खामानिनि आदर्श | mojang khamanini adorsho | Medium | Titus as exemplar (2:7). |
| unfit for any good work | πρὸς πᾶν ἔργον ἀγαθὸν ἀδόκιμος | pros pan ergon agathon adokimos | मोजाङ खामानिनि थाखाय देम्थि गैया | mojang khamanini thakhai demthi gaiya | Medium | Negative foil, closing ch.1 (1:16). |
| ready for every good work | ἕτοιμοι πρὸς πᾶν ἔργον ἀγαθόν | hetoimoi pros pan ergon agathon | मोजाङ खामानिनि थाखाय सज्जि थानाय | mojang khamanini thakhai sajji thanai | Medium | Links civic submission (3:1) with good works, not opposition. |
| careful to devote themselves to good works | φροντίζωσιν καλῶν ἔργων προΐστασθαι | phrontizōsin kalōn ergōn proistasthai | मोजाङ खामानिखौ गोहोमथिजों लानाय | mojang khamanikhou gohomthijw lanai | Critical | Climactic works-as-fruit statement (3:8), immediately following the grace/regeneration passage (3:4-7). |
| adorn the doctrine | κοσμῶσιν τὴν διδασκαλίαν | kosmōsin tēn didaskalian | सिख्रोंनायखौ सिङार खालामनाय | sikhrwnnaikhou singar khalamnai | Medium | Conduct that makes sound teaching attractive/credible (2:10). |
| trustworthy saying | πιστὸς ὁ λόγος | pistos ho logos | बिश्वासजाबाय राव | biswasjabai rao | High | Marks 3:4-7 as a fixed, creed-like summary statement — teach it as a memorizable doctrinal core. |
| excellent and profitable | καλὰ καὶ ὠφέλιμα | kala kai ōphelima | मोजाङ आरो फायदा होनाय | mojang aro phaida honai | Low | Closing practical-benefit statement (3:8). |
Doctrine 4: Salvation by Grace not Works
| English term | Original | Transliteration | Bodo rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Notes / Rejected alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Savior | σωτήρ | sōtēr | फोरायग्रा | phoraygra | Critical | Occurs 6 times in Titus, applied to both God the Father (1:3; 2:10; 3:4) and Jesus Christ (1:4; 2:13; 3:6) — reinforces Christ’s deity. Built on the फोराय- root (reused from baseline फोरायनाय) for morphological consistency. NEVER a protective-deity title from the Bathou/Kherai pantheon (compare baseline’s rejection of रैखाथि for “salvation”). |
| redeem | λυτρόω | lytroō | दाम होनायजों जागायनाय | dam honaijw jagainai | Critical | MUST NOT use मुक्ति — etymologically and functionally tied to मोक्ष, Brahma Dharma’s forbidden liberation category (per baseline’s salvation entry). Ransom-price rescue from lawlessness’s bondage (2:14). |
| not by works | οὐκ ἐξ ἔργων | ouk ex ergōn | मोजाङ खामानिनि थाखाय नङा | mojang khamanini thakhai nanga | Critical | Direct denial of works as the ground of salvation; parallels Romans 4:4-5, 11:5-6 (baseline Critical grace doctrine) — apply the same “apart from merit and apart from ritual exchange” teaching frame given the same two live comparative currents (Bathou reciprocal-offering logic and Brahma Dharma merit ethic). |
| mercy | ἔλεος | eleos | रहम | roham | High | Must be taught alongside, not collapsed into, grace (मोफादांनाय दान): mercy is relief from deserved judgment; grace is a gift beyond desert. Both terms occur together in 3:5. |
| goodness | χρηστότης | chrēstotēs | मोजाङनाय | mojangnai | Medium | God’s active kind disposition (3:4), distinct from and complementary to grace and mercy. |
| loving-kindness (toward mankind) | φιλανθρωπία | philanthrōpia | मानसिखौ मोसोंनाय | manwsikhou mwswnnai | Medium | Builds on the new love-root (see below); God’s benevolent love directed at humanity as such. |
| love | ἀγάπη | agapē | मोसोंनाय | mwswnnai | Medium | New root term for this curriculum (not present in the Romans baseline); provisional, confirm naturalness with native speaker. Used across 2:2,4; 3:4. |
| justified [by grace] | δικαιωθέντες [τῇ χάριτι] | dikaiōthentes [tē chariti] | धार्मिक होनाय [मोफादांनाय दानजों] | dharmik honai [mwphwdangnai daanjw] | Critical | Reuses baseline धार्मिक होनाय राव exactly. Grammatically ties justification to grace alone (3:7), not to the preceding washing/works described in the same sentence. |
| heir | κληρονόμος | klēronomos | जायगीरि लाग्रा | jaygiri lagra | High | Cross-references baseline “adoption” doctrine; full inheritance-by-legal-declaration is not a ready-made category in traditional Bodo clan (afad) kinship, where inheritance runs through birth lineage — requires the same ground-up teaching the baseline flagged for adoption. |
Doctrine 5: Regeneration by the Holy Spirit
| English term | Original | Transliteration | Bodo rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Notes / Rejected alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| regeneration | παλιγγενεσία | palingenesia | नोतुन जिउनाय होनाय | notun jiunai honai | CRITICAL | Highest-risk term in the entire book. Greek literally = “again-birth.” This is precisely the semantic territory the baseline forbids for “resurrection” (फिन जोनोम, rebirth/reincarnation vocabulary absorbed into Bodo religious discourse via Brahma Dharma’s Hindu-influenced reform teaching). A translator following the etymology naively risks producing a phrase indistinguishable from a Christianized reincarnation doctrine. The chosen rendering deliberately avoids जोनोम (birth) entirely and instead reuses जिउनाय (life/living), the same root used in the baseline’s resurrection term जिउनाय सोलायनाय, to signal continuity of method: a one-time, non-cyclical, Spirit-given new life, not a repeatable birth-cycle. Rejected: फिन जोनोम (forbidden); any compound using जोनोम alone. |
| washing of regeneration | λουτρὸν παλιγγενεσίας | loutron palingenesias | नोतुन जिउनाय होनायनि साफनाय | notun jiunai honaini safnai | CRITICAL | The literal-washing component (साफनाय) is contextually appropriate here (it describes the symbolic washing of baptism), but must be paired with the regeneration modifier above so it is not read as mere ritual purification akin to Bathou/Kherai pre-ceremony cleansing rites. |
| renewal | ἀνακαίνωσις | anakainōsis | नोतुन सोलायनाय | notun solainai | High | Distinguishes the Spirit’s ONGOING renewing work from the ONCE-FOR-ALL regeneration moment; comparable in kind to baseline’s sanctification (पबित्रनाय) but a distinct term, reusing the सोलायनाय (“turning”) root from the resurrection term for morphological consistency. |
| poured out | ἐξέχεεν | execheen | दैनो होनाय | daino honai | Medium | Echoes Joel 2:28/Acts 2 Pentecost imagery; the Spirit’s regenerating work is generously given, not rationed or earned by ritual performance — contrast with any transactional framing of spirit-power familiar from Kherai practice. |
| his own mercy [ground of regeneration] | κατὰ τὸ αὐτοῦ ἔλεος | kata to autou eleos | बिनि रहमजों | bini rohamjw | High | Cross-reference to the mercy entry above; regeneration’s ground is God’s mercy, not human ritual or merit. |
Doctrine 6: Submission to Authority
| English term | Original | Transliteration | Bodo rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Notes / Rejected alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| submit/submission | ὑποτάσσω | hypotassō | मानोन खालामनाय | manwn khalamnai | High | The letter’s recurring relational-order term, applied to wives (2:5), slaves (2:9), and civil authorities (3:1) using the SAME root. Must be explicitly distinguished in teaching from “obedience of faith” (baseline बिश्वासनि मानोन, submission to Christ specifically) — same root family, different objects; must not be collapsed into implying that submission to human authority itself earns salvation-standing. |
| rulers, authorities | ἀρχαί, ἐξουσίαι | archai, exousiai | सरकार आरो अधिकारी | sarkar aro adhikari | High | Given the Bodoland Territorial Region’s recent history of armed political conflict over governing authority, this is a genuinely live, sensitive contemporary topic, not an abstract civics lesson. Teach pastorally, distinguishing submission-in-principle from endorsement of any specific historical administration. |
| be obedient [to civil authority] | πειθαρχέω | peitharcheō | राव मानोन खालामनाय | rao manwn khalamnai | Medium | Distinct Greek verb from ὑποτάσσω; general civic compliance. |
| authority [pastoral] | ἐπιταγή | epitagē | हुकुम | hukum | Medium | Delegated apostolic authority behind Titus’s pastoral correction (2:15) — distinguish from the civil-authority term above. |
| slave/servant [metaphorical, of Paul] | δοῦλος | doulos | सेवक | sebok | Medium | Title of honor (1:1), not degradation. |
| slave/bondservant [literal, household] | δοῦλος | doulos | दास | das | Medium-High | Historical first-century household-slavery institution; instructs transformed conduct within an existing social structure, not an endorsement of slavery as an institution; no direct indigenous Bodo institutional parallel — requires background teaching. |
| masters | δεσπότης | despotēs | मालिक | malik | Medium | Household-slavery counterpart term (2:9). |
Doctrine 7: Avoiding Divisive Controversies
| English term | Original | Transliteration | Bodo rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Notes / Rejected alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a divisive person | αἱρετικὸς ἄνθρωπος | hairetikos anthrōpos | मण्डली बुखियग्रा | mwndoli bukhiygra | High | Root of English “heretic,” but in context describes faction-driving, quarrelsome behavior over trivial disputes — must be sharply distinguished from Titus’s own commanded firmness against false teaching in ch.1 (principled doctrinal correction against real error, which this term does NOT condemn). |
| foolish controversies | μωραὶ ζητήσεις | mōrai zētēseis | बुद्धि गैया जगडा-सुनानाय | buddhi gaiya jagda-sunanai | Medium | Reuses बुद्धि गैया (foolish) root established at 3:3. |
| genealogies | γενεαλογίαι | genealogiai | बेंसेनि खौरां | bensenii khourang | Medium | Reuses baseline बेंसे (seed/lineage) root; ironic tension worth teaching against 1:6’s affirming instinct toward lineage and the baseline’s “seed of David” doctrine — here genealogical speculation is condemned as idle, not lineage-as-covenant-evidence generally. |
| dissensions, quarrels about the law | ἔρεις, μάχαι νομικαί | ereis, machai nomikai | जगडा, बिथाननि गेजेरनि जगडा | jagda, bithanni gejerni jagda | Medium | Reuses बिथान (law) root exactly. |
| unprofitable and worthless | ἀνωφελεῖς καὶ μάταιοι | anōpheleis kai mataioi | फायदा गैया आरो सारनाय गैया | phaida gaiya aro sarnai gaiya | Medium | Deliberate rhetorical opposite of 3:8’s “excellent and profitable” — render with related, negated vocabulary to preserve the contrast. |
| such a person is warped | ἐξέστραπται | exestraptai | गोरां जाबाय | gorang jabai | Medium | Same “turning astray” root family as 3:3’s πλανάω (led astray). |
| self-condemned | αὐτοκατάκριτος | autokatakritos | गोरा-गोरजों दोषी जानाय | gwra-gwrjw doshi janai | Medium | Distinct from, but built adjacent to, baseline’s गुनाह (sin), reused exactly at 3:11. |
| Jewish myths | μῦθοι Ἰουδαϊκοί | mythoi Ioudaikoi | कथा | kotha | Medium | Deliberately generic “tale/story” rather than पुराण (avoided due to its specific tie to Hindu scriptural genre, which would misleadingly broaden Paul’s specific critique of Jewish legendary material into an implied dismissal of a different tradition’s scripture). |
| the circumcision party | οἱ ἐκ τῆς περιτομῆς | hoi ek tēs peritomēs | खतना जुथुदनि सोर | khatna juthudni sor | Medium | Historical Jewish-Christian legalist faction; requires Old Testament/Second-Temple-Judaism background teaching given low assumed background literacy. |
Summary Risk Counts (New Titus Terms, Section B)
| Risk Tier | Count | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 11 | Human theologian (mandatory) |
| High | 16 | Human theologian (mandatory) |
| Medium | 27 | Native speaker review |
| Low | 3 | Automated review |
Highest-priority flag for Phase 2: regeneration/washing of regeneration (Titus 3:5) — see full reasoning in 07_semantic_analysis.md, Part A, Titus 3:5. This term must never be processed by automated translation without human theologian review, and must never surface फिन जोनोम or any जोनोम-rooted compound in back-translation.
Critical Risk Terms
God
Approved rendering: ईश्वर
Transliteration: Isor
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: बाथौबुरै (never use as the primary term for the biblical God; reserve strictly for describing traditional Bathou belief)
Original: θεός
Category: God
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Titus occurrences: 1:1,3,4; 2:11,13; 3:4,8. Titus explicitly calls ईश्वर ‘Savior’ (1:3; 2:10; 3:4) alongside Christ (1:4; 2:13; 3:6) — this reinforces, and must be taught as reinforcing, rather than dividing, the shared divine identity underlying the doctrine deity_of_christ_savior.
Jesus
Approved rendering: जिसु
Transliteration: Jisu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Titus occurrences: 1:1,4; 2:13; 3:6. Verify against a current printed Bodo Bible copy of Titus before Phase 2 finalization, as the baseline already required for Romans.
Messiah
Approved rendering: मसीह
Transliteration: mosih
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Titus occurrences: 1:1,4; 2:13; 3:6, always joined to जिसु as the proper name/title ‘Jesus Christ’.
Lord
Approved rendering: प्रभु
Transliteration: probhu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: बुरहा/बर’ऐ titles reserved for Bathoubwrai and the Kherai pantheon, never use for Christ
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Christ’s exclusive Lordship is doctrinally implicit throughout Titus’s high Christology (2:13; 3:4-6) even where κύριος is not the dominant title used in the Greek text; the underlying doctrine must still be preserved.
Father
Approved rendering: आफा
Transliteration: afa
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Rejected alternatives: बाथौबुरै (reserve strictly for describing traditional belief, never for the biblical Father)
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Titus occurrence: 1:4 salutation, ‘grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.‘
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: पबित्र आत्था
Transliteration: pobitro aatha
Doctrine: Regeneration by the Holy Spirit
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, copied exactly; must always appear in full. Titus 3:5 identifies पबित्र आत्था as the personal divine agent of regeneration and renewal — the third Person of the Trinity, never a spirit among the populated Bathou/Kherai spirit-world.
Grace
Approved rendering: मोफादांनाय दान
Transliteration: mwphwdangnai daan
Doctrine: Grace That Trains for Godly Living
Rejected alternatives: दान गोरोबनाय (reciprocal gift expecting return offering, rejected), पुण्य (Brahma Dharma merit-language, never use)
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Titus occurrences: 1:4; 2:11; 3:7,15. Titus uniquely personifies grace as the grammatical SUBJECT of a training/disciplining verb (2:11-12) — a role with no precedent in the Romans baseline usage; this doubles the risk surface beyond the baseline’s original Critical flag and requires an explicit teaching gloss the first time grace appears as an active-subject noun.
Salvation
Approved rendering: फोरायनाय
Transliteration: phoraynai
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace Not Works
Rejected alternatives: मोक्ष (Brahma Dharma’s Hindu-derived liberation concept, never use), रैखाथि (protection from the Kherai pantheon, never use as a stand-alone gloss for eternal salvation)
Original: σωτηρία / σῴζω
Category: Salvation
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Titus 3:5 (verb root फोरायलांबाय, ‘he saved’) reaffirms this as a genuine conceptual gap to be taught from the ground up, not a wrong-existing-word substitution problem, exactly as the baseline specified.
Righteousness
Approved rendering: धार्मिकता
Transliteration: dharmikota
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace Not Works
Rejected alternatives: धर्म (avoid the bare Sanskritic sense of cosmic duty imported through Brahma Dharma reform teaching)
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Titus 3:5 explicitly names ‘works done in righteousness’ (self-produced righteous acts) as excluded from the ground of salvation — even our best moral effort, using this exact term, is categorically excluded.
Justification
Approved rendering: धार्मिक होनाय राव
Transliteration: dharmik honai rao
Doctrine: Justification by Grace
Rejected alternatives: गुनाहनि माफ (forgiveness of sin alone, too narrow)
Original: δικαιωθέντες / δικαίωσις
Category: Salvation
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Titus 3:7’s Greek grammar ties this term explicitly to grace ALONE (τῇ ἐκείνου χάριτι), not to the washing/regeneration or good works described in the surrounding verses — the Bodo rendering must preserve this grammatical link.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: जिउनाय सोलायनाय
Transliteration: jiunai solainai
Doctrine: Regeneration by the Holy Spirit
Rejected alternatives: फिन जोनोम (rebirth into a new life-cycle, absorbed into Brahma Dharma from Hindu reincarnation teaching, never use)
Original: ἀνάστασις (root reused for morphological consistency)
Category: Eschatology
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. CROSS-REFERENCE CRITICAL: this root (जिउनाय, ‘life’) is deliberately reused to build Titus 3:5’s regeneration (नोतुन जिउनाय होनाय) and renewal (नोतुन सोलायनाय) terms. Titus itself contains no direct resurrection narration, but this entry is retained here because the morphological link is the entire safety mechanism protecting the regeneration doctrine below from collapsing into फिन जोनोम.
Great God And Savior
Approved rendering: नोंथांनि गोबां महान ईश्वर आरो फोरायग्रा, जिसु मसीह
Transliteration: nongthangni gobang mohan Isor aro phoraygra, Jisu Mosih
Doctrine: Deity of Christ as Great God and Savior
Rejected alternatives: ईश्वर, आरो फोरायग्रा जिसु मसीह (a two-referent split reading, e.g. ‘God, and the Savior, Jesus Christ’ — categorically rejected; this is the exact restructuring pattern used by Jehovah’s Witness New World Translation-style renderings of this verse and its 2 Peter 1:1 parallel, and must never be echoed)
Original: τοῦ μεγάλου θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ
Category: Christology
Titus 2:13’s Granville Sharp construction (one article governing two nouns joined by καί) identifies Jesus Christ as ONE referent, ‘our great God and Savior.’ The Bodo rendering must not loosen this into two referents, an easy misreading given the populated Bathou pantheon’s habit of naming several great elder-deities (बर’ऐ/बुरहा) together in sequence. Any back-translation implying two persons must be rejected and escalated to theologian review.
Savior
Approved rendering: फोरायग्रा
Transliteration: phoraygra
Doctrine: Deity of Christ as Great God and Savior
Rejected alternatives: a protective-deity title drawn from the Bathou/Kherai pantheon, never use
Original: σωτήρ
Category: Salvation
Built on the फोराय- root (reused from फोरायनाय) for morphological consistency. Occurs six times in Titus, applied interchangeably to God the Father (1:3; 2:10; 3:4) and Jesus Christ (1:4; 2:13; 3:6) — this reinforces, not divides, the shared divine identity. Require an explicit note wherever Father and Son are both called ‘Savior’ within a short span that this is one shared title, not two rescuer-figures.
Redemption
Approved rendering: दाम होनायजों जागायनाय
Transliteration: dam honaijw jagainai
Doctrine: Redemption from Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: मुक्ति (etymologically and functionally tied to मोक्ष, Brahma Dharma’s forbidden Hindu-derived liberation category, never use — already forbidden for ‘salvation’ in the Romans baseline)
Original: λυτρόω
Category: Salvation
Titus 2:14. Ransom-price rescue from bondage to lawlessness, distinct from फोरायनाय’s broader ‘rescue’ sense. CAUTION: this compound’s own literal ‘payment’ component risks being reheard as transactional, echoing the reciprocal-offering logic of Bathou/Kherai practice; every occurrence must be paired with an explicit ‘this is Christ’s own costly self-giving, not a payment we make or negotiate’ teaching gloss.
Not By Works
Approved rendering: मोजाङ खामानिनि थाखाय नङा
Transliteration: mojang khamanini thakhai nanga
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace Not Works
Rejected alternatives: any rendering implying merit accumulation (पुण्य) or ritual reciprocity, rejected
Original: οὐκ ἐξ ἔργων
Category: Salvation
Titus 3:5, direct denial of a works-basis for salvation. Parallels the Romans baseline’s Critical grace doctrine (4:4-5; 11:5-6); apply the identical ‘apart from merit and apart from ritual exchange’ teaching frame, since the same two live comparative currents apply here: Bathou/Kherai’s reciprocal-offering logic and Brahma Dharma’s accumulated-merit ethic.
Good Works
Approved rendering: मोजाङ खामानि
Transliteration: mojang khamani
Doctrine: Good Works as the Fruit, Never the Ground, of Salvation
Original: καλὰ / ἀγαθὰ ἔργα
Category: Salvation
The letter’s dominant ethical refrain (2:7,14; 3:1,8,14; negative foil 1:16). The SAME Bodo compound serves both the condemned ‘works of righteousness we have done’ (3:5, via the negated compound above) and the commended ‘good works’ believers pursue as fruit (2:14; 3:1,8) — mandate a cross-reference tag at every occurrence pointing back to 3:5 (‘fruit, never ground’) so the distinction is never lost through independent segment-by-segment Phase 2 translation.
Careful To Devote To Good Works
Approved rendering: मोजाङ खामानिखौ गोहोमथिजों लानाय
Transliteration: mojang khamanikhou gohomthijw lanai
Doctrine: Good Works as the Fruit, Never the Ground, of Salvation
Original: φροντίζωσιν καλῶν ἔργων προΐστασθαι
Category: Salvation
Titus 3:8, the letter’s climactic works-as-fruit statement, arriving immediately after the grace/regeneration passage (3:4-7). The SEQUENCE (grace/regeneration THEN good works) is itself the doctrinal safeguard and must not be reordered or blurred in translation.
Regeneration
Approved rendering: नोतुन जिउनाय होनाय
Transliteration: notun jiunai honai
Doctrine: Regeneration by the Holy Spirit
Rejected alternatives: फिन जोनोम (forbidden — rebirth/reincarnation vocabulary absorbed into Bodo religious discourse via Brahma Dharma’s Hindu-influenced reform teaching), any जोनोम-rooted compound (forbidden without exception)
Original: παλιγγενεσία
Category: Salvation
HIGHEST-RISK TERM IN THE ENTIRE TITUS PACKAGE. Titus 3:5. παλιγγενεσία is etymologically ‘again-birth’ — precisely the semantic territory the Romans baseline forbids for resurrection. This rendering deliberately avoids जोनोम (birth) and reuses जिउनाय (life, from जिउनाय सोलायनाय, resurrection), signaling a one-time, non-cyclical, Spirit-given new life. MANDATORY: every occurrence requires human theologian review with zero exceptions; every back-translation must be automatically scanned for फिन जोनोम or any जोनोम-rooted output and rejected immediately if found.
Washing Of Regeneration
Approved rendering: नोतुन जिउनाय होनायनि साफनाय
Transliteration: notun jiunai honaini safnai
Doctrine: Regeneration by the Holy Spirit
Rejected alternatives: साफनाय standing alone (forbidden — reads as bare ritual purification akin to Bathou/Kherai pre-ceremony cleansing rites)
Original: λουτρὸν παλιγγενεσίας
Category: Salvation
Titus 3:5. The literal-washing component (साफनाय) is contextually appropriate (it describes the symbolic washing of baptism) but must ALWAYS be paired with the regeneration modifier as a single fixed unit, never standing alone.
Eternal Life
Approved rendering: मोनथाय गैया जिउ
Transliteration: monthai gaiya jiu
Doctrine: Hope of Eternal Life
Rejected alternatives: अनन्त जिउ (rejected for the same reason as ‘eternal’), मोक्ष-framed liberation language (forbidden)
Original: ζωὴ αἰώνιος
Category: Eschatology
Structural bookend of the whole letter (1:2 / 3:7); MUST be rendered identically at both occurrences — any variation breaks the literary bracket framing the entire letter’s argument. Not cyclical existence or absorption into an impersonal absolute; a personal, relational, unending life granted through Christ.
High Risk Terms
Faith
Approved rendering: बिश्वास
Transliteration: biswas
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: भरोसा (generic trust, too weak alone)
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Titus occurrences: 1:1,4,13; 2:2,10; 3:15. The object of faith must always be specified in context, exactly as the baseline requires.
Holy
Approved rendering: पबित्र
Transliteration: pobitro
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: साफ (physically clean, ritual-purity sense only)
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Titus occurrences: 1:8 (elder qualification); 2:3 (older women’s demeanor); 3:5 (root of 2:14’s ‘purify’). Note: ὅσιος (‘devout’) is a distinct Greek word sometimes collapsed into this same Bodo term in the elder virtue-list (1:8) — an accepted minor nuance loss that must be flagged for reviewers, not mistaken for an error.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: पबित्रनाय
Transliteration: pobitronai
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: साफनाय (ritual cleansing, avoid as a substitute)
Original: ἁγιασμός (verb form καθαρίσῃ used in the conceptually parallel 2:14)
Category: Sanctification
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Root reused for Titus 2:14’s ‘purify for himself a people’ (पबित्र खालामनाय, verb form); distinct from the external, occasional ritual purification performed before Bathou and Kherai ceremonies.
Called
Approved rendering: फिनायाव
Transliteration: phinaiyao
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: मिनतिनाय (a plea/invitation, too weak)
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Not directly lexicalized in the Titus text itself, but retained in this file for cross-curriculum doctrinal consistency with the baseline’s calling doctrine.
Calling
Approved rendering: फिनायनि सिम
Transliteration: phinaini sim
Doctrine: Divine Calling
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Retained for the same cross-curriculum consistency reason as ‘called’ above.
Sin
Approved rendering: गुनाह
Transliteration: gunah
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: दोष (fault/blame, too weak/civic)
Original: ἁμαρτάνει
Category: Sin
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Titus occurrence: 3:11, describing the self-condemned divisive person after repeated warning (‘is sinning and self-condemned’).
Glory
Approved rendering: महिमा
Transliteration: mohima
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Titus 2:13: the content of the ‘blessed hope’ awaited is ‘the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior.’ Avoid metaphors that could be read as describing a doudini’s Kherai-trance radiance or oracular authority.
Election
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि सायख
Transliteration: Isornni saikho
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: भागी (fate/fortune, too impersonal)
Original: ἐκλεκτῶν θεοῦ
Category: Salvation
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Titus 1:1: ‘the faith of God’s elect.’ Must not be reheard as impersonal fate, per the baseline’s original caution.
Adoption
Approved rendering: गोसोआव फैनाय
Transliteration: gwswao phoinai
Doctrine: Adoption and Heirship
Original: υἱοθεσία
Category: Salvation
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Serves as the conceptual background for Titus 3:7’s heirship language (जायगीरि लाग्रा); full inheritance-by-legal-declaration remains, as the baseline already noted, not a ready-made category in traditional Bodo clan (afad) kinship, where inheritance runs through birth.
Epiphany Appeared
Approved rendering: दैखा जानाय
Transliteration: daikha janai
Doctrine: The Threefold Epiphany of Grace, Glory, and God’s Kindness
Rejected alternatives: a different verb per occurrence (rejected — obscures the letter’s three-epiphany literary structure)
Original: ἐπεφάνη / ἐπιφάνεια
Category: Christology
Must be rendered identically at all three occurrences: Titus 2:11 (grace appeared), 2:13 (glory will appear), 3:4 (God’s kindness appeared). Lock as an immutable phrase-level unit, not just a lexical entry. Risk of conflation with the doudini’s repeatable Kherai-trance ‘appearing’/speaking of a deity through a human medium, which is a ritual event rather than a singular historical in-breaking.
Mercy
Approved rendering: रहम
Transliteration: roham
Doctrine: Mercy and Loving-Kindness of God
Rejected alternatives: collapsing रहम into मोफादांनाय दान (grace), rejected — these are distinct theological facets
Original: ἔλεος
Category: God
Titus 3:5. Mercy is relief from deserved judgment; grace is a gift beyond desert. Must be taught alongside, never collapsed into, grace; both terms occur together in the same verse and must retain this distinction against both Bathou reciprocal-offering practice and Brahma Dharma merit ethics.
Hope
Approved rendering: आस
Transliteration: aas
Doctrine: Hope of Eternal Life
Rejected alternatives: a भागी-style fatalistic-resignation framing, rejected
Original: ἐλπίς
Category: Faith
Structural term recurring at the letter’s opening (1:2) and near its close (2:13; 3:7). Must convey confident expectation grounded in God’s promise-keeping character (1:2’s ‘God who never lies’), not vague wishing or impersonal-fate resignation.
Heir
Approved rendering: जायगीरि लाग्रा
Transliteration: jaygiri lagra
Doctrine: Adoption and Heirship
Original: κληρονόμος
Category: Salvation
Titus 3:7. Cross-references the baseline’s adoption doctrine; full inheritance-by-legal-declaration is not a ready-made category in traditional Bodo clan (afad) kinship, where inheritance runs through birth lineage — requires the same ground-up teaching the baseline flagged for adoption.
Renewal
Approved rendering: नोतुन सोलायनाय
Transliteration: notun solainai
Doctrine: Regeneration by the Holy Spirit
Original: ἀνακαίνωσις
Category: Sanctification
Titus 3:5. Distinguishes the Spirit’s ONGOING renewing work from the ONCE-FOR-ALL regeneration moment; comparable in kind to पबित्रनाय (sanctification) but a distinct term, reusing the सोलायनाय (‘turning’) root from the resurrection term for morphological consistency. Must not be collapsed with regeneration into one generic ‘spiritual renewal’ idea.
Eternal
Approved rendering: मोनथाय गैया
Transliteration: monthai gaiya
Doctrine: Hope of Eternal Life
Rejected alternatives: अनन्त (Sanskrit loan carrying Brahma Dharma’s Sanskritized-eternalism associations, rejected)
Original: αἰώνιος
Category: Eschatology
Native negation-compound (‘without end’) deliberately preferred over the Sanskrit loan, following the same methodology as the baseline’s preference for मंगल खबर over सुसमाचार.
Godliness
Approved rendering: ईश्वर मानोन
Transliteration: Isor manwn
Doctrine: Godliness and Self-Control as Fruit of Grace
Rejected alternatives: भक्ति (rejected — too closely tied to Hindu/Brahma Dharma devotionalism specifically, not generic Sanskrit-loan caution but a targeted doctrinal collision)
Original: εὐσέβεια
Category: Sanctification
Titus 1:1; 2:12. Must be distinguished from both Bathou ritual reverence toward Bathoubwrai/the Kherai pantheon and Brahma Dharma’s reformed devotional ethic; this is reverence produced by grace already given, not a precondition for receiving divine favor.
Ungodliness
Approved rendering: ईश्वर मानोन-गैया
Transliteration: Isor manwn-gaiya
Doctrine: Godliness and Self-Control as Fruit of Grace
Original: ἀσέβεια
Category: Sanctification
Titus 2:12, the condition renounced at conversion; negation of godliness, keeping the same root for teaching contrast.
Self Control
Approved rendering: गोसो थुलुंनाय
Transliteration: gwsw thulungnai
Doctrine: Godliness and Self-Control as Fruit of Grace
Original: σώφρων / σωφρόνως
Category: Sanctification
PROVISIONAL — confirm naturalness with native speaker before wide deployment. The letter’s dominant character term, recurring at 1:8; 2:2,4,5,6,12. Built on गोसो (heart/mind), reused from the baseline’s गोसो होनाय/गोसो जोंथानाय family. Must remain the SAME term family across all six occurrences — fragmenting into near-synonyms is the most common quality failure in existing informal Bodo devotional paraphrase of this passage.
Train Discipline
Approved rendering: गुरगुरै सिखायनाय
Transliteration: gurgurai sikhainai
Doctrine: Grace That Trains for Godly Living
Rejected alternatives: a generic ‘teaches’ verb (rejected — flattens and loses the formative, child-rearing disciplinary nuance that is the doctrine’s entire point)
Original: παιδεύουσα
Category: Sanctification
PROVISIONAL — confirm naturalness with native speaker; if rejected, fall back to a fuller descriptive paraphrase (‘teaches us the way a parent raises a child’) rather than an unconfirmed single compound. Titus 2:12, grace personified as a trainer/former of character — the theological engine of the curriculum’s title doctrine.
Purity To The Pure
Approved rendering: पबित्रसोरनि थाखाय गासैबो पबित्र
Transliteration: pobitrosorni thakhai gasaibo pobitro
Doctrine: Conscience and Inner Purity
Rejected alternatives: a साफ-based ritual-purity rendering, rejected — this concerns inward moral purity, not ceremonial cleanness
Original: καθαροῖς πάντα καθαρά
Category: Sanctification
Titus 1:15, ‘to the pure all things are pure.’ Reuses पबित्र for moral purity; must be distinguished from the external ritual-purity concerns of both Bathou/Kherai practice and Jewish ceremonial law.
Elder
Approved rendering: मण्डलिनि प्राचीन
Transliteration: mwndolini prachin
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders/Overseers
Rejected alternatives: any compound built on बुरहा/बर’ऐ (Bathoubwrai/Kherai pantheon honorific elder-titles), forbidden without exception
Original: πρεσβύτερος
Category: Church
PROVISIONAL. Titus 1:5. Deliberately uses the loanword प्राचीन (attested across regional Indian-Christian Bible usage for the office of ‘elder’) rather than any native honorific-elder title, to avoid the बर’ऐ/बुरहा collision the baseline names explicitly. Must be taught as synonymous with ‘overseer’ below (1:5→1:7), not a separate office.
Overseer
Approved rendering: देखा-रैखा लाग्रा
Transliteration: dekha-raikha lagra
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders/Overseers
Rejected alternatives: any compound built on बुरहा/बर’ऐ, forbidden without exception
Original: ἐπίσκοπος
Category: Church
PROVISIONAL. Titus 1:7, functionally synonymous with ‘elder’ (1:5) in Titus — teach the synonymy explicitly, do not let readers infer two distinct offices, especially since Bodo village religious life has multiple distinct traditional specialist roles (doudini, ओझा, headman) a reader could otherwise map these Greek terms onto.
Husband Of One Wife
Approved rendering: मोनसे सिबि सायथावनि सामलायग्रा
Transliteration: monse sibi saithabni samlaygra
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders/Overseers
Original: μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἀνήρ
Category: Church
Titus 1:6. May require explicit pastoral teaching given regional customary practices around plural or leviratic marriage in some Northeast Indian tribal contexts; must not be assumed as self-evidently already the local default.
Sound Doctrine
Approved rendering: मोजाङ सिख्रोंनाय
Transliteration: mojang sikhrwnnai
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine
Rejected alternatives: vocabulary implying ‘sound doctrine’ is one reformed teaching-system competing with others, rejected — this risks aligning it with Brahma Dharma’s own body of codified reform literature
Original: ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία / ὁ κατὰ τὴν διδαχὴν πιστὸς λόγος
Category: Church
Must remain the identical Bodo phrase at every occurrence across the letter: 1:9,13; 2:1,7,10. Requires an explicit ‘apostolic, not one-teaching-among-many’ framing note at its first occurrence (1:9).
Divisive Person
Approved rendering: मण्डली बुखियग्रा
Transliteration: mwndoli bukhiygra
Doctrine: Avoiding Divisive Controversies
Original: αἱρετικὸς ἄνθρωπος
Category: Church
Titus 3:10. Root of English ‘heretic,’ but in context describes faction-driving, quarrelsome behavior over trivial disputes. Must be sharply distinguished from Titus’s own commanded firmness against real false teaching in chapter 1 (principled doctrinal correction, which this term does NOT condemn) — a mistranslation here could wrongly forbid necessary evangelistic/apologetic engagement with Bathou or Brahma Dharma questions.
Submission
Approved rendering: मानोन खालामनाय
Transliteration: manwn khalamnai
Doctrine: Submission to Civil Authority
Original: ὑποτάσσω
Category: Household Code
The letter’s recurring relational-order term, applied to wives (2:5), household slaves (2:9), and civil authorities (3:1) using the SAME root. Must be explicitly distinguished from बिश्वासनि मानोन (baseline’s ‘obedience of faith,’ submission to Christ specifically) — same root family, different objects; must never be collapsed into implying that submission to human authority itself earns salvific standing.
Rulers Authorities
Approved rendering: सरकार आरो अधिकारी
Transliteration: sarkar aro adhikari
Doctrine: Submission to Civil Authority
Original: ἀρχαί, ἐξουσίαι
Category: Civic Order
Titus 3:1. Given the Bodoland Territorial Region’s recent history of armed political conflict over governing authority, this is a genuinely live, sensitive contemporary topic, not an abstract civics lesson. Teach pastorally, distinguishing submission-in-principle from endorsement of any specific historical administration; do not soften the text itself.
Slave Literal
Approved rendering: दास
Transliteration: das
Doctrine: Household Submission — Bondservants
Original: δοῦλος [οἰκετικός]
Category: Household Code
Titus 2:9-10. Historical first-century household-slavery institution; must be explicitly taught as instructing transformed conduct within an existing social structure, not an endorsement of slavery as an institution. No direct indigenous Bodo institutional parallel exists, so background teaching is required.
Peculiar People
Approved rendering: नोंथांनि फोसावनाय जुथुद
Transliteration: nwngthangni fosabnai juthud
Doctrine: Redemption from Lawlessness
Original: λαὸς περιούσιος
Category: Church
Titus 2:14, ‘a people for his own possession,’ echoing Exodus 19:5 — Israel’s covenant identity extended to the church. Must be taught as identity rooted in Christ’s redeeming purchase, not ethnic/territorial belonging — a live sensitivity given Bodo identity’s contemporary ties to the Bodoland Territorial Region.
Trustworthy Saying
Approved rendering: बिश्वासजाबाय राव
Transliteration: biswasjabai rao
Doctrine: The Trustworthy Saying as Creedal Summary
Original: πιστὸς ὁ λόγος
Category: Teaching
Titus 3:8, marking 3:4-7 as a fixed, creed-like summary of the gospel; must be taught and memorized as a compact doctrinal core, and rendered consistently wherever the formula recurs across the curriculum.
Promise
Approved rendering: थारायनाय
Transliteration: tharainai
Doctrine: Hope of Eternal Life
Original: ἐπαγγέλλομαι
Category: Covenant
New fixed term for this Titus package, extending the baseline’s fulfillment-of-prophecy methodology (the Romans baseline did not require a standalone ‘promise’ entry). Titus 1:2: ‘God, who never lies, promised [eternal life] before the ages began.’ Ties Titus into the same fulfillment-of-prophecy doctrine the Romans baseline documents; God’s promise-keeping character grounds the confident-expectation sense required for आस (hope).
Medium Risk Terms
Apostle
Approved rendering: गोदान जायगारि
Transliteration: godan jaigari
Doctrine: Apostleship
Rejected alternatives: दूत (generic messenger, too weak)
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Titus occurrence: 1:1, Paul’s self-identification.
Law
Approved rendering: बिथान
Transliteration: bithan
Doctrine: Avoiding Divisive Controversies
Rejected alternatives: धर्मनि नियम (Brahma Dharma’s own codified religious-conduct rules, avoid as the primary gloss)
Original: νόμος / νομικός
Category: Covenant
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Titus occurrences: 3:9 (‘quarrels about the law’, बिथाननि गेजेरनि जगडा) and the root of 2:14’s ‘lawlessness’ (बिथान बेयान्नाय).
Church
Approved rendering: मण्डली
Transliteration: mwndoli
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders
Rejected alternatives: नमासोलि (Bathou/Kherai shrine site or worship ground, never use)
Original: ἐκκλησία (implicit, ‘in every town’)
Category: Church
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Titus 1:5 implicit background: elders are to be appointed ‘in every town,’ i.e., in every local मण्डली.
Peace
Approved rendering: सान्ति
Transliteration: santi
Doctrine: Peace with God
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Titus 1:4 salutation, ‘grace and peace from God the Father.‘
Gentiles
Approved rendering: गैर-जुथुद
Transliteration: goir-juthud
Doctrine: Redemption from Lawlessness
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Root (जुथुद, ‘people/nation’) reused in Titus 2:14’s compound नोंथांनि फोसावनाय जुथुद (‘a people for his own possession’).
David
Approved rendering: दाऊद
Transliteration: Daud
Doctrine: Genealogies and Myths
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Root बेंसे (‘seed/lineage’) reused in Titus 3:9’s ‘genealogies’ (बेंसेनि खौरां, negative sense) creating an intentional in-letter tension with 1:6’s approving instinct toward lineage — must be taught as two different evaluative uses of the same root, not silently harmonized.
Goodness
Approved rendering: मोजाङनाय
Transliteration: mojangnai
Doctrine: Mercy and Loving-Kindness of God
Original: χρηστότης
Category: God
Titus 3:4. God’s active, kind disposition, named alongside loving-kindness at the head of the 3:4-7 salvation summary; distinct from and complementary to grace and mercy.
Loving Kindness
Approved rendering: मानसिखौ मोसोंनाय
Transliteration: manwsikhou mwswnnai
Doctrine: Mercy and Loving-Kindness of God
Original: φιλανθρωπία
Category: God
Titus 3:4. God’s benevolent love directed at humanity as such; builds on the love-root (मोसोंनाय) also used at 2:2,4.
Love
Approved rendering: मोसोंनाय
Transliteration: mwswnnai
Doctrine: Godliness and Self-Control as Fruit of Grace
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Ethics
PROVISIONAL — confirm naturalness with native speaker. New root term for this curriculum, not present in the Romans baseline. Used at Titus 2:2 (older men), 2:4 (wives loving husbands and children), and as the root of loving-kindness (3:4).
Ready For Good Work
Approved rendering: मोजाङ खामानिनि थाखाय सज्जि थानाय
Transliteration: mojang khamanini thakhai sajji thanai
Doctrine: Good Works as the Fruit, Never the Ground, of Salvation
Original: ἑτοίμους… πρὸς πᾶν ἔργον ἀγαθὸν
Category: Ethics
Titus 3:1. Links civic submission with good works, not opposition or withdrawal.
Unfit For Good Work
Approved rendering: मोजाङ खामानिनि थाखाय देम्थि गैया
Transliteration: mojang khamanini thakhai demthi gaiya
Doctrine: Good Works as the Fruit, Never the Ground, of Salvation
Original: πρὸς πᾶν ἔργον ἀγαθὸν ἀδόκιμοι
Category: Ethics
Titus 1:16, the negative foil closing chapter 1’s rebuke of false teachers, describing a corrupted profession-without-works — not a separate merit-accounting failure.
Model Of Good Works
Approved rendering: मोजाङ खामानिनि आदर्श
Transliteration: mojang khamanini adorsho
Doctrine: Good Works as the Fruit, Never the Ground, of Salvation
Original: τύπος καλῶν ἔργων
Category: Ethics
Titus 2:7, Titus himself instructed to be a personal example/model of good works.
Unprofitable And Worthless
Approved rendering: फायदा गैया आरो सारनाय गैया
Transliteration: phaida gaiya aro sarnai gaiya
Doctrine: Avoiding Divisive Controversies
Original: ἀνωφελεῖς καὶ μάταιοι
Category: Ethics
Titus 3:9, deliberate rhetorical opposite of 3:8’s ‘excellent and profitable’ — render with related, negated vocabulary to preserve the contrast.
Poured Out
Approved rendering: दैनो होनाय
Transliteration: daino honai
Doctrine: Regeneration by the Holy Spirit
Original: ἐξέχεεν
Category: Salvation
Titus 3:6, echoing Joel 2:28/Acts 2 Pentecost imagery. The Spirit’s regenerating work is generously given, not rationed or earned by ritual performance — contrast with any transactional framing of spirit-power familiar from Kherai practice.
Worldly Passions
Approved rendering: फिथिरनि मोनलोभ
Transliteration: phithirni mwnlobh
Doctrine: Grace That Trains for Godly Living
Original: κοσμικαὶ ἐπιθυμίαι
Category: Sanctification
Titus 2:12. Desires structured by a God-excluding world-order, renounced at conversion; distinguish from neutral bodily appetite.
Train Young Women
Approved rendering: गोसो थुलुंनो सिख्रोंनाय
Transliteration: gwsw thulungnw sikhrwnnai
Doctrine: Godliness and Self-Control as Fruit of Grace
Original: σωφρονίζωσιν
Category: Sanctification
Titus 2:4. Distinct verb from the training root above; a causative mentoring/training relationship among women specifically.
Conscience
Approved rendering: विवेक
Transliteration: bibek
Doctrine: Conscience and Inner Purity
Rejected alternatives: an impersonal dharmic/cosmic-order sensing mechanism, rejected — this is a God-given moral faculty answerable to a personal God, per Brahma Dharma’s reformed-ethic caution already established for related terms
Original: συνείδησις
Category: Sanctification
Titus 1:15, described as defiled in false teachers.
Steward Of God
Approved rendering: ईश्वरनि नोगोर देखा-रैखा लाग्रा
Transliteration: Isorni nwgwr dekha-raikha lagra
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders/Overseers
Original: οἰκονόμος θεοῦ
Category: Church
Titus 1:7. An elder as one entrusted with managing God’s household affairs, not an owner; emphasizes accountability, not personal authority.
Above Reproach
Approved rendering: दोष गैया
Transliteration: dosh gaiya
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders/Overseers
Original: ἀνέγκλητος
Category: Church
Titus 1:6,7. A public-reputation qualification standard, not a claim of sinlessness.
Insubordinate
Approved rendering: मानोन-गैया
Transliteration: manwn-gaiya
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders/Overseers
Original: ἀνυπότακτος
Category: Church
Titus 1:6 (elder-candidates’ children) and 1:10 (false teachers). Same root family as ὑποτάσσω/submission (2:5,9; 3:1) with negation — reused for consistency across all occurrences.
Rebuke
Approved rendering: गलती फोरमायनाय
Transliteration: galti formainai
Doctrine: Rebuking False Teachers
Original: ἐλέγχω
Category: Church
Titus 1:9,13; 2:15. Firm doctrinal/moral correction, not harsh personal attack. Must be explicitly distinguished from मण्डली बुखियग्रा (divisive person, 3:10) — the letter commands this and condemns that, using visually similar but distinct vocabulary.
Foolish Controversies
Approved rendering: बुद्धि गैया जगडा-सुनानाय
Transliteration: buddhi gaiya jagda-sunanai
Doctrine: Avoiding Divisive Controversies
Original: μωραὶ ζητήσεις
Category: Church
Titus 3:9. Reuses बुद्धि गैया (foolish) root established at 3:3.
Genealogies
Approved rendering: बेंसेनि खौरां
Transliteration: bensenii khourang
Doctrine: Genealogies and Myths
Original: γενεαλογίαι
Category: Church
Titus 3:9. Reuses the baseline’s बेंसे (seed/lineage) root; ironic tension with 1:6’s affirming instinct toward lineage — must be taught that genealogical speculation as idle controversy is condemned HERE specifically, not lineage-as-covenant-evidence generally (contrast with the Romans baseline’s ‘seed of David’ doctrine).
Dissensions Quarrels About Law
Approved rendering: जगडा, बिथाननि गेजेरनि जगडा
Transliteration: jagda, bithanni gejerni jagda
Doctrine: Avoiding Divisive Controversies
Original: ἔρεις, μάχαι νομικαί
Category: Church
Titus 3:9. Reuses बिथान (law) root exactly.
Jewish Myths
Approved rendering: कथा
Transliteration: kotha
Doctrine: Rebuking False Teachers
Rejected alternatives: पुराण (rejected — a term specifically tied to Hindu scriptural genre, which would misleadingly broaden Paul’s narrow critique of specific Jewish legendary material into an implied dismissal of a different tradition’s scripture)
Original: μῦθοι Ἰουδαϊκοί
Category: Church
Titus 1:14. Deliberately generic ‘tale/story’; requires a background note narrowing its reference to the specific body of Jewish legendary material Paul is targeting, since the genericness alone under-communicates that specificity.
Circumcision Party
Approved rendering: खतना जुथुदनि सोर
Transliteration: khatna juthudni sor
Doctrine: The Circumcision Party and Legalism
Original: οἱ ἐκ τῆς περιτομῆς
Category: Church
Titus 1:10. Historical Jewish-Christian legalist faction; requires Old Testament/Second-Temple-Judaism background teaching given low assumed background literacy. Comprehension risk, not syncretism risk.
Warped Self Condemned
Approved rendering: गोरां जाबाय, गोरा-गोरजों दोषी जानाय
Transliteration: gorang jabai, gwra-gwrjw doshi janai
Doctrine: Avoiding Divisive Controversies
Original: ἐξέστραπται / αὐτοκατάκριτος
Category: Church
Titus 3:11. Same ‘turning astray’ root family as 3:3’s πλανάω (led astray); ‘self-condemned’ built adjacent to, but distinct from, गुनाह (sin, reused exactly here).
Be Obedient Civil
Approved rendering: राव मानोन खालामनाय
Transliteration: rao manwn khalamnai
Doctrine: Submission to Civil Authority
Original: πειθαρχέω
Category: Civic Order
Titus 3:1. Distinct Greek verb (πειθαρχέω) from ὑποτάσσω; general civic compliance rather than the broader relational-submission structure.
Pastoral Authority
Approved rendering: हुकुम
Transliteration: hukum
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine
Original: ἐπιταγή
Category: Church
Titus 2:15. Delegated apostolic authority behind Titus’s pastoral correction; distinguish sharply from सरकार आरो अधिकारी (civil authority) — existing informal Bodo devotional paraphrase sometimes flattens both into one generic ‘authority’ word, which would blur this curriculum’s submission-to-authority doctrine.
Slave Metaphorical
Approved rendering: सेवक
Transliteration: sebok
Doctrine: Apostleship
Original: δοῦλος [θεοῦ]
Category: Church
Titus 1:1, Paul’s self-identification as God’s wholly-owned bondservant — a title of honor, not degradation.
Masters
Approved rendering: मालिक
Transliteration: malik
Doctrine: Household Submission — Bondservants
Original: δεσπότης
Category: Household Code
Titus 2:9. Household-slavery counterpart term to दास; low independent doctrinal risk beyond the paired entry.
Adorn Doctrine
Approved rendering: सिख्रोंनायखौ सिङार खालामनाय
Transliteration: sikhrwnnaikhou singar khalamnai
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine
Original: κοσμῶσιν τὴν διδασκαλίαν
Category: Teaching
Titus 2:10. Conduct that makes sound teaching attractive and credible to outsiders; reuses सिख्रोंनाय (teaching) and फोरायग्रा (Savior, in the surrounding clause).
Low Risk Terms
Exhort
Approved rendering: गोसो होनाय
Transliteration: gwsw honai
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Titus occurrences: 1:9; 2:15, part of Titus’s pastoral charge alongside रебuke (गलती फोरमायनाय).
Excellent And Profitable
Approved rendering: मोजाङ आरो फायदा होनाय
Transliteration: mojang aro phaida honai
Doctrine: Good Works in Civic and Practical Life
Rejected alternatives: a commercial-transaction term for ‘profitable’, rejected — risks echoing the reciprocal-exchange logic already flagged for grace
Original: καλὰ καὶ ὠφέλιμα τοῖς ἀνθρώποις
Category: Ethics
Titus 3:8, closing practical-benefit statement.
Present Age
Approved rendering: दानि सोमोयाव
Transliteration: dani somoyao
Doctrine: Grace That Trains for Godly Living
Original: ὁ νῦν αἰών
Category: Eschatology
Titus 2:12, sets up the already/not-yet contrast completed at 2:13.
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