Core Glossary
08 Core Glossary — Revelation
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This glossary consolidates every load-bearing term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md across Revelation 1–22. It extends (never contradicts) the Romans baseline translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json. Terms already recorded in the baseline are marked REUSE and carry forward their exact recorded Burmese rendering and risk tier. New terms required by Revelation’s distinct vocabulary are marked NEW and assigned risk tiers using the same Critical/High/Medium/Low framework.
Doctrine key (per curriculum parameters): D1 = Return and Reign of Christ · D2 = Sovereignty of God over History · D3 = Perseverance and Faithful Witness under Persecution · D4 = Judgment of the Wicked and Vindication of the Saints · D5 = The New Heaven and New Earth · D6 = The Church as Bride of Christ · D7 = Worship of the Lamb · D8 = Symbolic and Apocalyptic Interpretation · D9 = Assurance of God’s Final Victory over Evil
Section A — Terms Reused Exactly from the Romans Baseline
| # | Term | Burmese Rendering | Risk | Doctrine(s) | Chapters | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A1 | God | ဘုရားသခင် | Critical | D2, D5, D7 | 1,4,5,7,11,12,19,20,21,22 | REUSE (translation_memory.json “god”) |
| A2 | Jesus | ယေရှု | Critical | D1, D7 | 1,12,14,17,19,22 | REUSE (“jesus”) |
| A3 | Lord | သခင် | Critical | D1, D7 | 1,4,11,17,19,22 | REUSE (“lord”); compound “King of kings and Lord of lords” (19:16) built on this exactly |
| A4 | Holy Spirit / Seven Spirits | သန့်ရှင်းသောဝိညာဉ်တော် | Critical | D2, D7 | 1,2-3,4,5,14,19,22 | REUSE (“holy_spirit”); “seven spirits” (1:4) qualifies this as fullness, never plural spirit-beings |
| A5 | Holy | သန့်ရှင်းသော | High | D5, D7 | 4,11,21,22 | REUSE (“holy”) |
| A6 | Saints | သန့်ရှင်းသူများ | Medium | D3, D4, D7 | 5,8,11,13,14,16,17,18,19,20 | REUSE (“saints”) |
| A7 | Church | အသင်းတော် | Medium | D3, D6 | 1,2-3,22 | REUSE (“church”) — seven churches |
| A8 | Salvation | ကယ်တင်ခြင်း | Critical | D4, D9 | 7,12,19 | REUSE (“salvation”) |
| A9 | Glory | ဘုန်းတော် | High | D2, D5, D7 | 1,4,5,7,15,18,19,21 | REUSE (“glory”) |
| A10 | Resurrection | ထမြောက်ခြင်း | Critical | D1, D4, D9 | 1,11,20 | REUSE (“resurrection”); “first resurrection” (20:5-6) built on this exactly |
| A11 | Kingdom of God | ဘုရားသခင်၏နိုင်ငံတော် | Medium | D1, D2 | 1,11,12,20,22 | REUSE (“kingdom_of_god”) |
| A12 | Covenant | ပဋိညာဉ် | High | D6 | 11 (ark of his covenant) | REUSE (“covenant”) |
| A13 | Sin | အပြစ် | High | D4 | 1,18 | REUSE (“sin”) |
| A14 | Gentiles / Nations | တစ်ပါးအမျိုးသား / လူမျိုးအပေါင်း | Medium | D5, D6 | 5,7,10,11,12,14,15,17,18,19,20,21,22 | REUSE (“gentiles”); Revelation extends usage to “all nations/peoples” universally |
| A15 | Apostle | တမန်တော် | Medium | D6 | 2-3, 18, 21 | REUSE (“apostle”) |
| A16 | Prophet / Prophecy | ပရောဖက် / ပရောဖက်ပြုချက် | Low | D8 | 1,10,11,16,19,22 | REUSE (“prophet”,“prophecy”) |
| A17 | Called / Election | ခေါ်တော်မူသော / ရွေးကောက်ခြင်း | High | D3, D9 | 17 (called, chosen, faithful) | REUSE (“called”,“election”) |
| A18 | Father | အဖ | Critical | D2 | 1,2-3,14 | REUSE (“father”) |
| A19 | Grace | ကျေးဇူးတော် | Critical | D9 | 1,22 | REUSE (“grace”) |
| A20 | Faith / Faithful | ယုံကြည်ခြင်း / သစ္စာရှိသော | Medium/High | D3 | 2-3,13,14,17,19,21 | REUSE (“faith”) |
| A21 | Righteousness / Imputed Righteousness | ဖြောင့်မတ်ခြင်း / ဖြောင့်မတ်ခြင်းအဖြစ် မှတ်တော်မူခြင်း | Critical | D6 | 19 (garments of the bride) | REUSE (“righteousness”,“imputed_righteousness”) |
| A22 | Power of God | ဘုရားသခင်၏တန်ခိုးတော် | High | D2 | 5,7,11,12,19 | REUSE (“power_of_god”) |
| A23 | Messiah / Christ | မေရှိယ / ခရစ်တော် | Critical | D1 | throughout | REUSE (“messiah”) |
| A24 | Son of God | ဘုရားသခင်၏သားတော် | Critical | D7 | 2 (“Son of God” title, 2:18) | REUSE (“son_of_god”) |
| A25 | David | ဒါဝိဒ် | Medium | D6 | 3,5,22 | REUSE (“david”) |
| A26 | Amen | အာမင် | Low | D2 | 1,5,7,19,22 | REUSE (per baseline system-prompt transliteration standard) |
| A27 | Hallelujah | ဟာလေလုယ | Low | D7 | 19 | REUSE (per baseline system-prompt transliteration standard) |
Section B — New Terms Introduced by Revelation
| # | Term | Greek / Transliteration | Burmese Rendering | Risk | Doctrine(s) | Chapters | Collision / Rationale Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B1 | Lamb | ἀρνίον / arnion | သိုးသငယ်တော် | Critical | D1, D6, D7 | 5,6,7,12,13,14,15,17,19,21,22 | Central Christological title; must never be confused with folk sacrificial-animal offering; honorific -တော် marks full deity, co-worthy of worship with God. Highest-priority term in this curriculum. |
| B2 | Beast (Antichrist figures) | θηρίον / thērion | သားရဲ | Critical | D3, D4, D8, D9 | 11,13,14,15,16,17,19,20 | Symbolic anti-God world-power/ruler; must never be rendered သတ္တဝါ (generic sentient being); direct dramatic foil to the Lamb. |
| B3 | Dragon | δράκων / drakōn | နဂါး | Critical | D8, D9 | 12,13,16,20 | Severe collision with Burmese Buddhist naga-guardian tradition (benevolent serpent-deities protecting pagodas); biblical dragon = defeated, wholly malevolent Satan. Mandatory translator note every occurrence. |
| B4 | Satan / Devil / Ancient Serpent | Σατανᾶς, διάβολος, ὁ ὄφις ὁ ἀρχαῖος | စာတန် / မာရ်နတ် / ရှေးဟောင်းမြွေ | Critical | D2, D8, D9 | 2-3,12,20 | မာရ်နတ် borrows the name of Māra, Buddhism’s tempter-deity overcome by the Buddha’s own unaided effort; biblical Satan is defeated by the Lamb’s blood and God’s judgment, not human self-attainment. |
| B5 | Worship (verb) | προσκυνέω / proskyneō | ကိုးကွယ်ခြင်း | Critical | D7 | 4,5,7,9,13,14,19,22 | Generic Burmese veneration verb used for Buddha images, nats, spirits; every occurrence must be anchored to its exclusive object (God/Lamb only; explicitly forbidden toward angels, 19:10; 22:8-9). |
| B6 | Idolater / Idol Worship | εἰδωλολάτρης / eidōlolatrēs | ရုပ်တုကိုးကွယ်သူ | Critical | D4 | 9,21,22 | Direct collision with Buddha-image veneration; requires the most careful pastoral framing (specific apocalyptic emperor/beast-image context) in the entire curriculum. |
| B7 | Image of the Beast | εἰκὼν τοῦ θηρίου | သားရဲ၏ ရုပ်တု | Critical | D4, D7 | 13,14,15,16,19,20 | Compelled worship of a political/imperial image; must not be read as blanket critique of all religious imagery outside its specific historical-apocalyptic setting. |
| B8 | Mark of the Beast | χάραγμα / charagma | သားရဲ၏အမှတ်တံဆိပ် | Critical | D4 | 13,14,16,19,20 | Direct opposite of God’s protective seal (ch.7); must be distinguished from Burmese protective tattoo/yantra markings sought for power or protection. |
| B9 | Lake of Fire | λίμνη τοῦ πυρός / limnē tou pyros | မီးအိုင် | Critical | D4 | 19,20,21 | Must never be conflated with ငရဲ (Buddhist temporary hell-realm within samsara); this is final, eternal, non-cyclical judgment. |
| B10 | Second Death | δεύτερος θάνατος / deuteros thanatos | ဒုတိယသေခြင်း | Critical | D4 | 2-3,20,21 | The terminus opposed to eternal inheritance; never a transitional stage in an ongoing rebirth cycle. |
| B11 | New (heaven, earth, Jerusalem, song, name) | καινός / kainos | အသစ် | High | D5 | 2-3,5,21,22 | Must convey qualitative, non-repeating eschatological renewal, not another turn of Buddhist cyclical world-ages (kappa). |
| B12 | New Jerusalem | Ἰερουσαλὴμ καινή | ယေရုရှလင်မြို့သစ် | Critical | D5, D6 | 3,21 | Final, once-for-all consummated city of God, not a rebuilt political capital nor a merit-attained “pure land.” |
| B13 | Bride | νύμφη / nymphē | သတို့သမီး | High | D6 | 19,21,22 | Corporate symbol for the redeemed people; must not be individualized or reduced to literal marriage custom alone. |
| B14 | Marriage / Marriage Supper of the Lamb | γάμος τοῦ ἀρνίου / δεῖπνον τοῦ ἀρνίου | သိုးသငယ်တော်၏ မင်္ဂလာဆောင်ပွဲ / ညစာပွဲတော် | Critical | D6, D7 | 19 | Consummation of Christ-Church relationship; wedding garments explicitly a granted gift (righteous acts credited, not self-woven). |
| B15 | Tabernacle / Dwell | σκηνή, σκηνόω / skēnē, skēnōsei | ကျိန်းဝပ်တော်မူခြင်း | High | D2, D5 | 21 | Permanent divine co-residence, not a temporary nat-visitation or impersonal cosmic presence. |
| B16 | Death (general) | θάνατος / thanatos | သေခြင်း | High | D4, D9 | 1,6,21 | Distinguished from a transition-point in samsaric rebirth; here, final abolition within linear history. |
| B17 | Blood (of Christ/the Lamb) | αἷμα / haima | အသွေးတော် | Critical | D7 | 1,5,7,12,19 | Atoning, substitutionary sacrifice; distinct from any ritual blood-offering in folk practice. |
| B18 | Seven Spirits | ἑπτὰ πνεύματα / hepta pneumata | ဝိညာဉ်တော်ခုနစ်ပါး | Critical | D2 | 1,3,4,5 | Symbolic fullness of the one Holy Spirit; never seven distinct spirit-beings akin to the 37 nats. |
| B19 | Firstborn of the Dead | πρωτότοκος τῶν νεκρῶν / prōtotokos tōn nekrōn | သေသူတို့တွင် သားဦးဖြစ်တော်မူသော | High | D1 | 1 | Rank/preeminence and guarantee of future resurrection, not literal birth order or repeated incarnation. |
| B20 | Son of Man | υἱὸς ἀνθρώπου / huios anthrōpou | လူသားတော် | Critical | D1, D7 | 1,14 | Daniel-7 exalted judge-king title; not a diminished-deity or merely-human title. |
| B21 | Hades | ᾍδης / Hadēs | မရဏာနိုင်ငံ | High | D1, D4 | 1,6,20 | Intermediate holding-place of the dead prior to final judgment; distinct from ငရဲ and from the lake of fire. |
| B22 | Keys of Death and Hades | κλεῖς τοῦ θανάτου καὶ τοῦ ᾍδου | သေခြင်းနှင့် မရဏာနိုင်ငံ၏ သော့တော် | High | D1, D9 | 1 | Christ’s exclusive sovereign authority even over death. |
| B23 | Testimony / Witness | μαρτυρία, μάρτυς / martyria, martys | သက်သေခံခြင်း / သက်သေခံ | High | D3 | 1,2-3,6,11,12,17,19,20 | Testimony to Christ maintained at cost of life; not merit-generating self-mortification. |
| B24 | The One Who Is, Who Was, Who Is Coming | ὁ ὢν καὶ ὁ ἦν καὶ ὁ ἐρχόμενος | ရှိတော်မူသော၊ ရှိခဲ့တော်မူသော၊ ကြွလာတော်မူမည့်သော | High | D2 | 1,4,11,16 | Personal divine sovereignty over the entire course of history, not an impersonal cyclical principle. |
| B25 | Overcomer / One Who Conquers | ὁ νικῶν / ho nikōn | အောင်နိုင်သူ | High | D3, D9 | 2-3, 21 | Victory secured by the Lamb’s blood and testimony (12:11), never self-attained mastery over defilements. |
| B26 | Endurance / Perseverance | ὑπομονή / hypomonē | ခံနိုင်ခြင်း | High | D3 | 1,2-3,13,14 | Spirit-sustained fidelity awaiting Christ’s return; distinct from khanti cultivated toward self-liberation. |
| B27 | Tribulation / Affliction | θλῖψις / thlipsis | ဒုက္ခဆင်းရဲခြင်း | High | D3 | 1,2-3,7 | Collision with ဒုက္ခ (dukkha), the Buddhist First Noble Truth term; here, historically-located persecution for Christ’s sake, not universal existential suffering resolved by self-practice. |
| B28 | Synagogue of Satan | συναγωγὴ τοῦ Σατανᾶ | စာတန်၏ တရားဇရပ် | High | D3 | 2-3 | Requires careful pastoral/historical framing of original polemical target. |
| B29 | Tree of Life | ξύλον τῆς ζωῆς / xylon tēs zōēs | အသက်ပင် | High | D5 | 2-3,22 | Reversal of Genesis 3’s curse; permanent restored access, not a generic vitality symbol or enlightenment-tree parallel. |
| B30 | Living Creatures | ζῷα / zōa | သက်ရှိသတ္တဝါ | High | D7 | 4,5,6,7,14,15,19 | သတ္တဝါ is the ordinary Buddhist term for sentient beings in samsara; must be marked as specific unique heavenly worship-beings. |
| B31 | Almighty | παντοκράτωρ / pantokratōr | အနန္တတန်ခိုးရှင် | High | D2 | 1,4,11,15,16,19,21 | Personal divine title of active power, not amulet/relic potency. |
| B32 | Worthy | ἄξιος / axios | ထိုက်တန်သော | Medium | D7 | 4,5 | |
| B33 | Slain (of the Lamb) | ἐσφαγμένος / esphagmenos | အသတ်ခံခဲ့သော | High | D7 | 5,13 | Retains violent, sacrificial, once-for-all death as ground of worship. |
| B34 | Book of Life | βιβλίον τῆς ζωῆς | အသက်စာစောင် | High | D4 | 3,13,17,20,21 | Granted by God through the Lamb, not a self-compiled merit-ledger. |
| B35 | Great White Throne | θρόνος λευκὸς μέγας | ရာဇပလ္လင်ဖြူကြီး | High | D4 | 20 | Final, ultimate, unappealable seat of divine judgment. |
| B36 | Judgment | κρίσις / krisis | တရားစီရင်ခြင်း | High | D4 | 14,16,18,19,20 | Personal divine verdict, not impersonal karmic accounting (ကံ). |
| B37 | Seal (of God, on the saints) | σφραγίς / sphragis | ဘုရားသခင်၏တံဆိပ်တော် | High | D9 | 7,9 | Direct positive contrast to the beast’s mark; vocabulary must never overlap with B8. |
| B38 | Blasphemy | βλασφημέω / blasphēmeō | ဘုရားကိုပြစ်မှားခြင်း | High | D4 | 13,16,17 | |
| B39 | Prostitute / Harlot (symbolic) | πόρνη / pornē | ပြည့်တန်ဆာ | High | D6 | 17,19 | Symbolic corrupt counterfeit “bride,” deliberately contrasted with the true Bride of the Lamb. |
| B40 | Sorcerer | φαρμακός / pharmakos | မှော်ဆရာ | High | D4 | 9 (implied), 21,22 | Collision with weizza/occult-adept folk practice; condemned, not neutral cultural role. |
| B41 | Two Witnesses | δύο μάρτυρες / dyo martyres | သက်သေခံနှစ်ဦး | High | D3, D9 | 11 | Witness-unto-death followed by resurrection-vindication is the paradigm for the church’s calling. |
| B42 | Temple (of God) | ναός / naos | ဗိမာန်တော် | High | D5, D7 | 11,21 | Distinct from ဘုရားကျောင်း (pagoda); God’s own unique dwelling; in the New Jerusalem, this word describes its very absence, since God/Lamb are themselves the temple. |
| B43 | Word of God (Christological title) | Λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ / Logos tou theou | ဘုရားသခင်၏ နှုတ်ကပတ်တော် | Critical | D1, D7 | 19 | Full-deity Christological title, consistent with established Johannine Myanmar Bible usage. |
| B44 | King of Kings and Lord of Lords | βασιλεὺς βασιλέων καὶ κύριος κυρίων | ဘုရင်တို့၏ဘုရင်၊ အရှင်တို့၏အရှင် | Critical | D1 | 17,19 | Legitimate compound use of ဘုရင်, subordinating all earthly kings under Christ; distinct from baseline’s caution against ဘုရင် alone for “Lord.” |
| B45 | Millennium / Thousand Years | χίλια ἔτη / chilia etē | အနှစ်တစ်ထောင် | Medium | D1, D8 | 20 | Requires an interpretive note on the range of faithful millennial-view interpretations. |
| B46 | Abyss | ἄβυσσος / abyssos | အနက်ရှိုင်းသောတွင်း | Medium | D2, D8 | 9,11,17,20 | Temporary demonic holding-prison; distinct from ငရဲ and the lake of fire. |
| B47 | Babylon (symbolic) | Βαβυλών / Babylōn | ဗာဗုလုန် | Medium | D4 | 14,16,17,18 | Symbol for any/every corrupt anti-God world-system, not only the ancient empire. |
| B48 | River / Fountain of the Water of Life | πηγή/ποταμὸς ὕδατος τῆς ζωῆς | အသက်ရေစမ်း / အသက်ရေစီးရာမြစ် | Critical | D5, D9 | 21,22 | God’s free gift of eternal life; must not be assimilated to Burmese merit-transfer water-pouring ritual (ရေသွန်ချ). Ties to δωρεάν/grace doctrine. |
| B49 | Freely / As a Gift | δωρεάν / dōrean | အခမဲ့ / အလကားပေးသည် | Critical | D9 | 21,22 | Reinforces baseline grace-vs-merit distinction; eternal life is never merit-purchased. |
| B50 | Curse | κατάρα / katara | ကျိန်ခြင်း | Medium | D5, D9 | 22 | Tied to Genesis Fall-curse background; its removal signals full undoing of sin’s effects. |
| B51 | Reign (eternal, of the saints) | βασιλεύω / basileuō | နိုင်ငံစံတော်မူခြင်း | High | D1 | 20,22 | Believers share by grace in Christ’s own eternal reign. |
| B52 | Serve/Worship (cultic) | λατρεύω / latreuō | အမှုတော်ဆောင်ကိုးကွယ်ခြင်း | High | D7 | 7,22 | Eternal priestly worship-service rendered exclusively to God/Lamb. |
| B53 | Coming Quickly / Soon | ἔρχομαι ταχύ / erchomai tachy | အလျင်အမြန်ကြွလာမည် | Medium | D1, D9 | 2-3,22 | Certainty of Christ’s return from God’s redemptive-historical vantage, not date-setting license. |
| B54 | ”Come, Lord Jesus” | Ἔρχου, κύριε Ἰησοῦ | သခင်ယေရှု၊ ကြွလာတော်မူပါ | High | D3, D9 | 22 | The church’s answering prayer of longing; render with warmth, not mere liturgical formality. |
| B55 | Alpha and Omega / Beginning and End | Ἄλφα καὶ τὸ Ὦ / ἀρχὴ καὶ τέλος | အာလဖာနှင့် သြမေဂ / အစနှင့်အဆုံး | Medium | D2 | 1,21,22 | Transliteration retained per baseline pattern (cf. “Abba”); paired with plain-language gloss since Burmese script has no first/last-letter idiom. |
| B56 | Elder(s) (24) | πρεσβύτερος / presbyteros | အသက်ကြီးသူ | Medium | D7 | 4,5,7,11,14,19 | |
| B57 | Crown | στέφανος / stephanos | သရဖူ | Low | D3 | 2-3,4 | |
| B58 | Living creatures’ worship refrain “Holy, Holy, Holy” | ἅγιος ἅγιος ἅγιος | သန့်ရှင်း၊ သန့်ရှင်း၊ သန့်ရှင်းတော်မူပါ | High | D7 | 4 | Built on REUSE baseline “holy” |
| B59 | Scroll / Seal (of the seven-sealed scroll) | βιβλίον / σφραγίς | စာစောင် / တံဆိပ် | Medium | D2, D8 | 5,6,8 | Distinct sense from B37 (God’s protective seal) and B34 (book of life) — context-dependent. |
| B60 | Four Horsemen (symbolic) | ἵππος λευκός/πυρρός/μέλας/χλωρός | မြင်းဖြူ / မြင်းနီ / မြင်းနက် / မြင်းညို | Medium | D2, D8 | 6 | Requires apocalyptic-symbolic interpretive note, not literal-animal reading. |
| B61 | Souls (of the martyrs, conscious intermediate state) | ψυχαί / psychai | ဝိညာဉ်များ | High | D4 | 6 | Affirms continuing conscious personal existence after death awaiting resurrection; touches anatta (no-self) collision. |
| B62 | 144,000 / Great Multitude | (numeric symbol) / ὄχλος πολύς | တစ်သိန်းလေးသောင်းလေးထောင် / လူအုပ်ကြီး | Medium | D5, D6 | 7 | Symbolic completeness numbers; universal, unqualified scope of redeemed multitude must be retained. |
| B63 | White Robes | στολαὶ λευκαί | ဝတ်လုံဖြူများ | Medium | D4 | 6,7,19 | Purity as gift (“washed in the blood of the Lamb”), not self-achieved. |
| B64 | Trumpet / Bowl (sequential judgments) | σάλπιγξ / φιάλη | တံပိုးခရာ / ဖလား | Low | D2, D4 | 8,9,15,16 | |
| B65 | Incense / Prayers of the Saints | θυμιάματα…προσευχαὶ τῶν ἁγίων | နံ့သာပေါင်း…သန့်ရှင်းသူများ၏ ဆုတောင်းချက်များ | Medium | D2 (reuse “intercession” background) | 8 | Direct prayers received by God, not ritual merit-generating incense. |
| B66 | Apollyon / Destroyer | Ἀπολλύων / Apollyōn | အပေါလျုန် | Low | D9 | 9 | |
| B67 | Ancient Serpent (title cluster w/ B4) | ὁ ὄφις ὁ ἀρχαῖος | ရှေးဟောင်းမြွေ | Critical | D9 | 12 | See B4. |
| B68 | Accuser | κατήγορος / katēgoros | စွပ်စွဲသူ | Medium | D9 | 12 | Power to condemn broken by the Lamb’s blood. |
| B69 | Mystery | μυστήριον / mystērion | နက်နဲသောအရာ / လျှို့ဝှက်ချက် | Medium | D8 | 17 | Requires divinely-given interpretation, not private speculation. |
| B70 | Fall (of Babylon) | πτῶσις / ptōsis | ကျဆုံးခြင်း | Low | D4 | 18 | |
| B71 | Number of the Beast (666) | ἀριθμὸς τοῦ θηρίου | သားရဲ၏ အရေအတွက် (၆၆၆) | Medium | D8 | 13 | Numeral-convention note per baseline citation rule (Arabic in working cache; Myanmar numerals in print). |
| B72 | Eternal Gospel | εὐαγγέλιον αἰώνιον | ထာဝရသတင်းကောင်း | High | D2 | 14 | Built on REUSE baseline “gospel.” |
| B73 | Harvest / Sickle / Winepress of Wrath | θερισμός/δρέπανον/ληνὸς τοῦ θυμοῦ | စပါးရိတ်သိမ်းခြင်း / တံစဉ် / ဘုရားသခင်၏ အမျက်တော်စက်ရံ | Medium | D4 | 14 | Apocalyptic harvest-judgment imagery. |
| B74 | Song of Moses and of the Lamb | ᾠδὴ Μωϋσέως καὶ ᾠδὴ τοῦ ἀρνίου | မောရှေ၏သီချင်းနှင့် သိုးသငယ်တော်၏သီချင်း | Medium | D7 | 15 | |
| B75 | Armageddon | Ἁρμαγεδών / Harmagedōn | ဟာမေဂေဒုန် | Low | D1, D4 | 16 | Native-speaker review recommended for spelling convention. |
| B76 | Gog and Magog | Γὼγ καὶ Μαγώγ | ဂေါဂနှင့်မာဂေါဂ | Low | D4 | 20 | |
| B77 | Precious Stone / Gate / Wall / Foundation | λίθος τίμιος / πύλη / τεῖχος / θεμέλιος | ကျောက်မျက်ရတနာ / မြို့တံခါး / မြို့ရိုး / အုတ်မြစ် | Low/Medium | D5, D6 | 21 | |
| B78 | Measure / Gold | μέτρον / χρυσός | တိုင်းတာခြင်း / ရွှေ | Low | D5 | 21 | |
| B79 | Sword (from Christ’s mouth) | ῥομφαία / rhomphaia | ထား | Medium | D1, D4 | 19 | Symbolic spoken judging authority, not literal weaponry. |
| B80 | Rider on the White Horse (Christ’s return) | ἵππος λευκός (19:11) | မြင်းဖြူစီးနင်းကြွလာတော်မူသောအရှင် | Critical | D1 | 19 | Must be distinguished in teaching from the unrelated first-seal white horse of ch.6. |
Section C — Risk-Tier Summary
| Risk Tier | Count (New Terms, Section B) | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 17 | Human theologian review mandatory for every occurrence |
| High | 33 | Human theologian review mandatory |
| Medium | 24 | Native speaker review recommended |
| Low | 20 | Automated review sufficient |
(Counts reflect the 80 new-term entries in Section B; several terms carry compound risk notes and are cross-tabulated in 07_semantic_analysis.md.)
Section D — Highest-Priority Collision Points for Phase 2 Theologian Briefing
- Lamb (သိုးသငယ်တော်) vs. Worship (ကိုးကွယ်ခြင်း) — the doctrinal center of the whole curriculum: exclusive worship extended to a slain-yet-reigning divine figure.
- Dragon (နဂါး) / Satan (မာရ်နတ်) — the two most severe syncretism risks in the entire book, given Burmese naga-guardian veneration and the Māra/Satan name-overlap.
- Lake of Fire (မီးအိုင်) / Second Death (ဒုတိယသေခြင်း) vs. ငရဲ and samsaric rebirth — final, non-cyclical judgment must never be assimilated to Buddhist hell-realm cosmology.
- Idolater / Image of the Beast (ရုပ်တုကိုးကွယ်သူ / သားရဲ၏ရုပ်တု) — requires the most careful pastoral framing given Buddha-image veneration; mandatory theologian sign-off before any Phase 2 publication.
- Tribulation (ဒုက္ခဆင်းရဲခြင်း) — collision with the Buddhist First Noble Truth term; requires consistent translator notes distinguishing persecution-for-Christ from universal existential suffering.
- New Heaven and New Earth (အသစ်) — must be taught against Buddhist cyclical cosmology (kappa world-ages) at every occurrence.
This glossary must be loaded alongside the Romans baseline translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json before any Phase 2 Revelation segment translation begins. All Section A terms are enforced exactly as recorded in the baseline; all Section B terms must be added to translation memory (with version increment) before Phase 2 processing proceeds, per 12_ai_translation_requirements.md §“Translation Memory Load and Enforcement Instructions.”
Critical Risk Terms
Father
Approved rendering: အဖ
Transliteration: a-pha
Doctrine: Deity and Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ဗြဟ္မာ
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. His name is written on the foreheads of the redeemed (14:1); shares his throne with the Lamb (3:21; 22:1,3).
God
Approved rendering: ဘုရားသခင်
Transliteration: Phayarthakhin
Doctrine: The Sovereignty of God over History
Rejected alternatives: ဘုရား, နတ်သခင်
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Always paired with active verbs of sovereign action (creating, judging, dwelling) in Revelation; never ဘုရား alone or နတ်သခင်.
Grace
Approved rendering: ကျေးဇူးတော်
Transliteration: kyayzu-taw
Doctrine: Grace and the Free Gift of Life
Rejected alternatives: ကုသိုလ်, ကံကောင်းခြင်း, ဝါသနာတော်
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Frames the whole book (1:4; 22:21) and directly grounds the ‘freely gift’ (δωρεάν) doctrine of Rev 21:6, 22:17. Never ကုသိုလ်.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: သန့်ရှင်းသောဝိညာဉ်တော်
Transliteration: thangyinthaw weinnyin-taw
Doctrine: The Sovereignty of God over History
Rejected alternatives: နတ်ဝိညာဉ်, ဝိညာဉ်
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. The ‘seven spirits’ image (1:4) must never fragment this into multiple spirit-beings resembling the 37 nats.
Imputed Righteousness
Approved rendering: ဖြောင့်မတ်ခြင်းအဖြစ် မှတ်တော်မူခြင်း
Transliteration: pyaungmat-chin a-phyit hmat-taw-mu-chin
Doctrine: The Church as Bride of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ကုသိုလ်စုဆောင်းခြင်း
Original: ἐλογίσθη…εἰς δικαιοσύνην (conceptual echo, Rev 19:8)
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Reinforces Rev 19:8’s granted righteousness against any self-accumulated merit reading.
Jesus
Approved rendering: ယေရှု
Transliteration: Yayshu
Doctrine: Deity and Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ရှင်ယေရှု
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Consistent form throughout, including Revelation’s closing invocation ‘Come, Lord Jesus’ (22:20).
Lord
Approved rendering: သခင်
Transliteration: thakhin
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ဘုရင်, ဆရာသခင်
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Basis of the compound title ‘Lord of lords’ (17:14; 19:16).
Messiah
Approved rendering: မေရှိယ
Transliteration: Mei-shi-ya
Doctrine: The Return and Reign of Christ
Rejected alternatives: အရေးတော်ပုံလာမည့်သူ, မိတ္တေယျ
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Fulfilled exclusively in Jesus, the slain Lamb who is also the Lion of Judah and Root of David (5:5). Never မိတ္တေယျ.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: ထမြောက်ခြင်း
Transliteration: hta-myauk-chin
Doctrine: Judgment of the Wicked and Vindication of the Saints
Rejected alternatives: ပဋိသန္ဓေတည်ခြင်း, ပြန်လည်မွေးဖွားခြင်း
Original: ἀνάστασις
Category: Eschatology
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs in stages in Revelation (‘first resurrection,’ 20:5-6). Never ပဋိသန္ဓေတည်ခြင်း.
Righteousness
Approved rendering: ဖြောင့်မတ်ခြင်း
Transliteration: pyaungmat-chin
Doctrine: The Church as Bride of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ကုသိုလ်ကံ, သီလ
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. The Bride’s wedding garments (19:8) are explicitly ‘the righteous acts of the saints,’ granted not self-woven.
Salvation
Approved rendering: ကယ်တင်ခြင်း
Transliteration: kaetin-chin
Doctrine: Judgment of the Wicked and Vindication of the Saints
Rejected alternatives: နိဗ္ဗာန်ရောက်ခြင်း, လွတ်မြောက်ခြင်း
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Ascribed to God and the Lamb by the redeemed multitude (7:10; 12:10; 19:1). Never နိဗ္ဗာန်ရောက်ခြင်း.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: ဘုရားသခင်၏သားတော်
Transliteration: Phayarthakhin i tharadaw
Doctrine: Deity and Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ဗြဟ္မာ့သား, နတ်သား
Original: υἱὸς θεοῦ
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Explicit title at Rev 2:18.
High Risk Terms
Abba
Approved rendering: အဗ္ဘ
Transliteration: Abba
Doctrine: Adoption and Inheritance
Inherited from Romans package. Governs the register of warmth and intimacy applied to ‘Come, Lord Jesus’ (22:20), the church’s own answering cry of longing.
Called
Approved rendering: ခေါ်တော်မူသော
Transliteration: khaw-taw-mu-thaw
Doctrine: Election and Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: ဖိတ်ခေါ်ခြင်း
Original: κλητός
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Joined to ‘chosen and faithful’ at 17:14.
Covenant
Approved rendering: ပဋိညာဉ်
Transliteration: padi-nyin
Doctrine: The Church as Bride of Christ
Rejected alternatives: သဘောတူညီချက်
Original: διαθήκη
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Visually represented by the heavenly ark of the covenant (11:19).
Election
Approved rendering: ရွေးကောက်ခြင်း
Transliteration: ywaykauk-chin
Doctrine: Election and Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: ကံဇာတာ, ကံကြမ္မာ
Original: ἐκλογή
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Rev 17:14’s ‘chosen’ who stand with the Lamb; never ကံဇာတာ.
Glory
Approved rendering: ဘုန်းတော်
Transliteration: phon-taw
Doctrine: Deity and Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ဘုန်းကံ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Illuminates the New Jerusalem in place of sun and moon (21:23).
Gospel
Approved rendering: သတင်းကောင်း
Transliteration: thadin kaung
Doctrine: Gospel Proclamation to All Nations
Rejected alternatives: ဓမ္မသတင်း, ကောင်းသောအကြောင်းအရာ
Inherited from Romans package. Underlies ‘eternal gospel’ (ထာဝရသတင်းကောင်း, Rev 14:6); must not be reframed through သာသနာပြု’s Buddhist-institutional flavor.
Holy
Approved rendering: သန့်ရှင်းသော
Transliteration: thangyin-thaw
Doctrine: Sanctification and Holiness
Rejected alternatives: စင်ကြယ်သော
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. Foundational to the triple acclamation ‘Holy, holy, holy’ (4:8).
Law
Approved rendering: ပညတ်တရား
Transliteration: pyinnat tayar
Doctrine: Judgment of the Wicked and Vindication of the Saints
Rejected alternatives: ဝိနည်း
Inherited from Romans package. Background covenant term, not directly load-bearing in Revelation but retained for cross-document consistency.
Obedience Of Faith
Approved rendering: ယုံကြည်ခြင်း၏နာခံမှု
Transliteration: yunkyichin i nakhan-hmu
Doctrine: Perseverance and Faithful Witness under Persecution
Rejected alternatives: သီလလိုက်နာခြင်း
Inherited from Romans package. Background doctrine to endurance/testimony vocabulary throughout Revelation.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: ဘုရားသခင်၏တန်ခိုးတော်
Transliteration: Phayarthakhin i tankhoe-taw
Doctrine: The Sovereignty of God over History
Rejected alternatives: အနုဘော်တန်ခိုး
Original: δύναμις
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Ascribed to God in worship together with glory and might (7:12; 11:17; 19:1).
Providence
Approved rendering: ဘုရားသခင်၏ကြည့်ရှုစောင့်ရှောက်မှု
Transliteration: Phayarthakhin i kyi-shu-saung-shauk-hmu
Doctrine: The Sovereignty of God over History
Rejected alternatives: ကံ
Inherited from Romans package. Guards the seal/trumpet/bowl judgment sequences from being read as impersonal ကံ unfolding automatically.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: သန့်ရှင်းခြင်း
Transliteration: thangyin-chin
Doctrine: Sanctification and Holiness
Rejected alternatives: ရေချိုးသန့်စင်ခြင်း
Inherited from Romans package. Background doctrine to the derived holiness of God’s people, ceaselessly worshiped (4:8).
Sin
Approved rendering: အပြစ်
Transliteration: a-pyit
Doctrine: Judgment of the Wicked and Vindication of the Saints
Rejected alternatives: အကုသိုလ်
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans package. Believers freed from sin’s guilt by Christ’s blood (1:5).
Medium Risk Terms
Adoption
Approved rendering: သားအဖြစ်လက်ခံခြင်း
Transliteration: thar-a-phyit let-khan-chin
Doctrine: Adoption and Inheritance
Rejected alternatives: ဝမ်းစုတင်ခြင်း
Inherited from Romans package. Underlies the overcomer’s granted inheritance-sonship at Rev 21:7.
Apostle
Approved rendering: တမန်တော်
Transliteration: tamantaw
Doctrine: The Church as Bride of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ဆရာတော်, ဆရာကြီး
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Underlies ‘apostles of the Lamb’ commemorated in the New Jerusalem’s foundations (21:14).
Church
Approved rendering: အသင်းတော်
Transliteration: athin-taw
Doctrine: The Church as Bride of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ဘုရားကျောင်း, ဘုရားရိပ်သာ
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Addressed as seven representative local congregations in chs. 2-3.
David
Approved rendering: ဒါဝိဒ်
Transliteration: Dawid
Doctrine: The Return and Reign of Christ
Original: Δαυίδ
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. The Lamb is identified as ‘Root of David’ and holds the ‘key of David’ (3:7; 5:5; 22:16).
Faith
Approved rendering: ယုံကြည်ခြင်း
Transliteration: yun-kyi-chin
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: သဒ္ဓါတရား
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Underlies ‘unbelieving’ (ἄπιστος, Rev 21:8) as ယုံကြည်ခြင်းမရှိသူများ, a category distinct from moral vices.
Gentiles
Approved rendering: တစ်ပါးအမျိုးသား
Transliteration: tabar-amyothar
Doctrine: Universal Scope of Redemption
Rejected alternatives: လူမျိုးခြား
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Extended in Revelation to describe the full universal scope of the redeemed (5:9; 7:9; 21:24), also rendered လူမျိုးအပေါင်း where universality is stressed.
Intercession
Approved rendering: အသနားခံခြင်း
Transliteration: a-thanar-khan-chin
Doctrine: Prayer and Intercession of the Saints
Rejected alternatives: နတ်ကိုးကွယ်ခြင်း
Inherited from Romans package. Underlies the saints’ prayers rising as incense before God’s throne (5:8; 8:3-4).
Israel
Approved rendering: ဣသရေလ
Transliteration: Israen
Doctrine: Universal Scope of Redemption
Inherited from Romans package. Background to the twelve tribes sealed (7:4-8) and named on the New Jerusalem’s gates (21:12).
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: ဘုရားသခင်၏နိုင်ငံတော်
Transliteration: Phayarthakhin i nainggan-taw
Doctrine: The Return and Reign of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ဘုန်းတော်နိုင်ငံ
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Eschatology
Inherited from Romans package. Consummated in the eternal reign of Christ and the saints (11:15; 22:5).
Mission
Approved rendering: သာသနာပြုလုပ်ငန်း
Transliteration: thathana-pyu lokngan
Doctrine: Gospel Proclamation to All Nations
Inherited from Romans package. Every occurrence requires a translator note clarifying that the ‘eternal gospel’ (14:6) is proclamation of a finished redemptive act, not Sasana-style institution-building.
Peace
Approved rendering: ငြိမ်သက်ခြင်း
Transliteration: nyein-thet-chin
Doctrine: The New Heaven and New Earth
Rejected alternatives: ကိလေသာငြိမ်းခြင်း
Inherited from Romans package. Background to the consummated peace of the new creation.
Saints
Approved rendering: သန့်ရှင်းသူများ
Transliteration: thangyin thu myar
Doctrine: Sanctification and Holiness
Rejected alternatives: ရဟန္တာ, ရှင်ရဟန်း
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Specifically those enduring persecution and martyrdom in Revelation (13:7,10; 17:6).
Low Risk Terms
Fellowship
Approved rendering: မိတ်သဟာယ
Transliteration: meikthahaya
Doctrine: The Church as Bride of Christ
Rejected alternatives: သူငယ်ချင်းဖွဲ့ခြင်း
Inherited from Romans package. Background to the corporate life of the seven churches.
Prophecy
Approved rendering: ပရောဖက်ပြုချက်
Transliteration: parawpeq-pyu-chet
Doctrine: Inspiration and Authority of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: ဗေဒင်စာတမ်း
Original: προφητεία
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Revelation identifies itself as ‘the words of the prophecy of this book’ (22:18-19), a closed, unalterable disclosure.
Prophet
Approved rendering: ပရောဖက်
Transliteration: parawpeq
Doctrine: Inspiration and Authority of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: ဗေဒင်ဆရာ
Original: προφήτης
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Contrasted sharply with the ‘false prophet’ who serves the beast (16:13; 19:20).
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: ကျေးဇူးတင်ခြင်း
Transliteration: kyayzu-tin-chin
Doctrine: Thanksgiving and Praise
Inherited from Romans package. Standard worship vocabulary at 4:9-11; 5:12-13; 19:1-6.
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