Core Glossary
Core Glossary — Ephesians 1–6 (English → Czech)
This glossary consolidates every load-bearing theological term identified in analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md, organized first by terms reused exactly from the Romans baseline, then by new terms introduced in Ephesians, grouped by the nine curriculum doctrines. Risk ratings follow the Critical/High/Medium/Low framework established in the Romans baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json. All destination-language renderings are in formal, standard Czech, drawing on Bible kralická for established vocabulary and ČEP for accessible register, per the governing Language Package conventions.
Section A — Terms Reused Exactly from the Romans Baseline
These terms recur in Ephesians and MUST use the identical Czech rendering already fixed in translation_memory.json. No deviation permitted.
| English Term | Czech Rendering | Risk (Baseline) | Key Ephesians References |
|---|---|---|---|
| gospel | evangelium | High | 1:13; 3:6; 6:15, 19 |
| grace | milost | High | 1:2, 6–7; 2:5, 7–9; 4:7; 6:24 |
| faith | víra | High | 1:15; 2:8; 3:12, 17; 4:5, 13; 6:16, 23 |
| salvation | spasení | Critical | 1:13; 2:5, 8; 6:17 |
| apostle | apoštol | Low | 1:1; 2:20; 3:5; 4:11 |
| called / calling | povolaný / povolání | High | 1:18; 4:1, 4 |
| holy | svatý | Medium | 1:4; 5:27 |
| saints | svatí | High | 1:1, 15, 18; 3:8, 18; 5:3; 6:18 |
| sanctification (concept) | posvěcení | High | 5:26 (implied, cf. καθαρίζω) |
| adoption | přijetí za syna | Medium | 1:5 |
| resurrection (of Christ) | vzkříšení | Critical | 1:20 |
| lord | Pán | Critical | 1:2–3, 15, 17; 4:1, 5; 5:22; 6:1, 4–9, 21, 23–24 |
| son_of_god / sonship | Syn Boží | Critical | 1:5–6 (implied via υἱοθεσία and Christ’s unique Sonship), 4:13 |
| peace | pokoj | Medium | 1:2; 2:14–17; 4:3; 6:15, 23 |
| spiritual_gifts | duchovní dary | Medium | 4:7–13 |
| thanksgiving | díkůvzdání | Low | 1:16; 5:4, 20 |
| fellowship | společenství | Low | 3:9 (implied) |
| church | církev | Medium | 1:22; 3:10, 21; 5:23–25, 27, 29, 32 |
| kingdom_of_god | království Boží | Medium | 5:5 |
| sin | hřích | High | 2:1 |
| gentiles | pohané | Medium | 2:11; 3:1, 6, 8 |
| glory | sláva | Medium | 1:6, 12, 14, 17–18; 3:13, 16, 21 |
| power_of_god | moc Boží | Medium | 1:19; 3:7, 16, 20; 6:10 |
| covenant | smlouva | High | 2:12 |
| election | vyvolení | High | 1:4 |
| providence (concept) | Boží prozřetelnost | Medium | 1:11 (implied via πρόθεσις) |
| father | Otec | Critical | 1:2–3, 17; 2:18; 3:14; 4:6; 5:20; 6:2, 4, 23 |
| god | Bůh | Critical | throughout |
| holy_spirit | Duch svatý | Critical | 1:13; 2:18, 22; 3:5, 16; 4:3–4, 30; 5:18; 6:17–18 |
| jesus | Ježíš | Critical | throughout |
| exhort (concept) | povzbuzovat | Low | 6:22 (implied) |
Section B — New Terms Introduced in Ephesians (by Doctrine)
Doctrine 1: Salvation by Grace through Faith
| Greek Term | Czech Rendering | Risk | References | Risk Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| νεκρός (nekros) | mrtvý | Medium | 2:1, 5 | Metaphorical spiritual deadness has no automatic secular referent; requires narrative unpacking. |
| παράπτωμα (paraptōma) | provinění | High | 2:1, 5; 1:7 | No stable secular collision, but must be distinguished from baseline “hřích” to preserve Paul’s act/state distinction. |
| δῶρον (dōron) | dar | Low-Medium | 2:8 | Stable, low collision; conceptual risk (faith itself as gift) outweighs lexical risk. |
| ἔργα (erga) | skutky | High | 2:9–10 | The grace/works contrast is the letter’s central soteriological claim; any segment contrasting these terms requires theologian review per the Romans baseline’s grace-merit escalation rule. |
| ποίημα (poiēma) | dílo | Medium | 2:10 | Helpfully preserves “crafted work” connotation (root shared with “poem”); concept of being God’s handiwork needs unpacking. |
| κτίζω (ktizō) | stvořit | Medium | 2:10 | Reserved for divine creative acts in Czech Bible tradition; “new creation” doctrine still unfamiliar territory. |
| ἀπολύτρωσις (apolytrōsis) | vykoupení | High | 1:7 | Collides with commercial “vykoupit” (buy out shares/debt); must clarify Christ, not the believer, pays the price. |
| ἄφεσις (aphesis) | odpuštění | Medium | 1:7 | Stable, low collision. |
| σωτήρ (sōtēr) | spasitel | Critical | 5:23 | Shares “spasení’s” archaic-register risk; requires the same narrative unpacking. |
Doctrine 2: Election and Predestination in Christ
| Greek Term | Czech Rendering | Risk | References | Risk Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| προορίζω / προορισμός (proorizō) | předurčit / předurčení | High | 1:5, 11 | No secular collision, but the concept of a personal pre-temporal divine choice is wholly new; pair explicitly with baseline “vyvolení.” |
| πρόθεσις (prothesis) | záměr / plán | Medium | 1:9, 11; 3:11 | Low collision; reinforces baseline “prozřetelnost Boží.” |
| θέλημα (thelēma) | vůle | Low-Medium | 1:1, 5, 9, 11 | Must distinguish from generic willpower/intention. |
| ἀρραβών (arrabōn) | záruka | High | 1:14 | Collides with commercial product-warranty sense; connect explicitly to κληρονομία. |
| σφραγίζω / σφραγίς (sphragizō) | zapečetit / pečeť | Medium-High | 1:13; 4:30 | Archaic wax-seal/notary image; needs unpacking as ownership/security guarantee. |
| κληρονομία (klēronomia) | dědictví | High | 1:11, 14, 18; 5:5 | Ordinary civil-law “estate” association risks importing probate/contest assumptions. |
| συγκληρονόμος (synklēronomos) | spoludědic | High | 3:6 | Compounds κληρονομία’s collision risk; may wrongly suggest a divided inheritance. |
Doctrine 3: The Church as the Body of Christ
| Greek Term | Czech Rendering | Risk | References | Risk Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| κεφαλή (kephalē) | hlava | Medium-High | 1:22; 4:15; 5:23 | Risk is doctrinal (must convey organic/life-giving sense, not only hierarchical command) rather than lexical. |
| πλήρωμα (plērōma) | plnost | High | 1:23; 3:19; 4:13 | Abstract, low-frequency term; almost no secular collision but also almost no pre-existing recognition — must be taught, not merely translated. |
| σῶμα (sōma, in ecclesial sense) | tělo | Critical | 1:23; 4:4, 12, 16; 5:23, 30 | Czech “tělo” must do double duty for both σῶμα (church as body — positive) and σάρξ (flesh — negative); context-sensitive glossing required at every occurrence to avoid conflation. |
| θεμέλιος / ἀκρογωνιαῖος (themelios / akrogōniaios) | základ / úhelný kámen | Medium | 2:20 | Recognizable architectural metaphor; building-metaphor concept needs unpacking. |
| ναός (naos) | chrám | Medium | 2:21 | Strong architectural/heritage-tourism association for secular readers; living “temple of people” sense must be actively taught. |
| τέλειος ἀνήρ (teleios anēr) | dospělost / zralost (avoid literal “dokonalý”) | High | 4:13 | τέλειος means mature/complete, not sinlessly perfect; literal “perfect” risks implying an unreachable standard. |
| καταρτισμός / οἰκοδομή (katartismos / oikodomē) | vybavení, zdokonalení / budování | Medium | 4:12 | Reuse Romans baseline’s low-risk “vzájemné budování” register for consistency. |
Doctrine 4: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
| Greek Term | Czech Rendering | Risk | References | Risk Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| μεσότοιχον τοῦ φραγμοῦ (mesotoichon tou phragmou) | dělící stěna | High | 2:14 | No natural Czech idiom carries the Temple-court background; requires explicit historical explanation. |
| ἔχθρα (echthra) | nepřátelství | Medium | 2:14, 16 | Stable, low collision. |
| ἀποκαταλλάσσω / καινὸς ἄνθρωπος (apokatallassō / kainos anthrōpos) | smířit / jeden nový člověk | High | 2:15–16 | Creates a genuinely new corporate identity, a stronger claim than mere equal access; flag for native speaker review given Czech lands’ complex Jewish-Christian history. |
| μακράν / ἐγγύς (makran / eggys) | vzdálení / přiblíženi | Medium | 2:12–13, 17 | Needs Old Testament covenant background to land with force. |
| συμπολῖται / οἰκεῖοι (sympolitai / oikeioi) | spoluobčané / Boží rodina | Medium | 2:19 | Low lexical risk; theological content (equal, not second-class, standing) must be stated explicitly. |
| ἑνότης (henotēs) | jednota | Medium | 4:3, 13 | May default to generic civic/team-unity sense rather than Spirit-given unity. |
Doctrine 5: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
| Greek Term | Czech Rendering | Risk | References | Risk Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| μυστήριον (mystērion) | tajemství | Critical | 1:9; 3:3–9; 5:32; 6:19 | Highest-collision term in the curriculum: ordinary Czech “tajemství” evokes an intriguing withheld secret (detective novel, magic trick) — nearly the opposite of Paul’s sense of a plan now fully disclosed. Requires theologian review at every occurrence. |
| οἰκονομία (oikonomia) | pověření / úřad | High | 3:2, 9 | Must NOT render as “hospodářství” (national economy) — a near-comic mistranslation; use “commission/office” register instead. |
| πατριά (patria) | rod / rodina | Medium | 3:14–15 | Greek’s πατήρ/πατριά wordplay is untranslatable in Czech; note the lost connection to “Otec” explicitly. |
| ἀρχαί καὶ ἐξουσίαι ἐν τοῖς ἐπουρανίοις (archai kai exousiai) | mocnosti a vládcové (v nebesích) | High | 3:10 | Real spiritual hierarchy observing God’s wisdom; ties to Spiritual Warfare doctrine below. |
| ἐπουράνιος (epouranios) | nebeské oblasti / v nebesích | High | 1:3, 20; 2:6; 3:10; 6:12 | Default Czech association is the afterlife-destination sense of “nebe”; Ephesians’ recurring technical use names a present spiritual realm and must be taught as such across all five occurrences. |
Doctrine 6: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
| Greek Term | Czech Rendering | Risk | References | Risk Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| πανοπλία (panoplia) | plná zbroj / výstroj | High | 6:11, 13 | Vocabulary itself is not the problem; the real risk is a secular, materialist-leaning readership’s resistance to the premise of personal spiritual evil at all. |
| διάβολος (diabolos) | ďábel | Medium-High | 4:27; 6:11 | Risk of being read through the folkloric Czech “čert” (St. Nicholas Day devil, fairy tales) as a colorful legendary figure rather than a real spiritual enemy — folklore trivializing rather than a rival theology. |
| κοσμοκράτωρ / τὰ πνευματικὰ τῆς πονηρίας (kosmokratōr) | vládci tohoto světa / duchovní mocnosti zla | High | 6:12 | Doctrinal crux of this doctrine: requires theologian-level pastoral framing to establish these as real, not merely metaphorical for institutional injustice. |
| μεθοδεία (methodeia) | úklady / nástrahy | Low-Medium | 6:11 | Low collision; reinforces that opposition is calculated, not random. |
| πάλη (palē) | boj / zápas | Low-Medium | 6:12 | ”Zápas” (wrestling match) preserves the athletic-contest image well. |
| ζώνη, θώραξ, θυρεός, περικεφαλαία, μάχαιρα | pás (pravdy), pancíř (spravedlnosti), štít (víry), přilba (spasení), meč (Ducha) | Medium (cluster) | 6:14–17 | Individually low-risk; inherits the risk profile of the underlying theological nouns (spravedlnost, víra, spasení — all High/Critical baseline terms). |
| ῥῆμα θεοῦ (rhēma theou) | slovo Boží | Medium | 6:17 | Ties to baseline “inspiration_of_scripture” doctrine (Medium). |
Doctrine 7: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
| Greek Term | Czech Rendering | Risk | References | Risk Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ὑποτάσσω (hypotassō) | podřídit se / podřízenost | High | 5:21–24 | Risk of being read as endorsing domination if isolated from mutual (5:21) and self-giving (5:25) framing, OR dismissed as culturally regressive by egalitarian-minded secular readers; requires theologian review. |
| ἀγάπη in marital context (agapē) | láska | High | 5:25, 28, 33 | Same romantic-love collision as 2:4, but now applied to a specific interpersonal relationship where confusing divine self-giving love with romantic sentiment carries pastoral stakes. |
| δοῦλος (doulos) | otrok | High | 6:5–9 | Render literally rather than softened to “servant,” but requires a translator’s note on historical context to avoid readers concluding the text endorses slavery as an institution. |
| παιδεία καὶ νουθεσία (paideia kai nouthesia) | výchova a napomínání | Medium | 6:4 | Must not read as harsh punitive discipline; describes loving, Christ-centered formation. |
| τιμάω (timaō) | ctít | Low-Medium | 6:2–3 | Stable, minimal collision. |
| προσωπολημψία (prosōpolēmpsia) | stranění osobám | Medium | 6:9 | Reinforces the “no distinction” universality principle (High-risk in Romans baseline). |
Doctrine 8: Gifts for Building Up the Church
| Greek Term | Czech Rendering | Risk | References | Risk Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| εὐαγγελιστής (euangelistēs) | evangelista | Medium | 4:11 | Transliteration parallel to “evangelium”; stable but carries no automatic inherited meaning. |
| ποιμήν (poimēn) | pastýř | Medium | 4:11 | Recognizable mainly through Christmas nativity-scene/fairy-tale associations; leadership/care content needs active teaching. |
| διδάσκαλος (didaskalos) | učitel | High | 4:11 | Ordinary Czech word for a school teacher is the dominant, likely-exclusive default reading; must actively distinguish the spiritual-teaching office. |
| δόμα / δωρεά (doma / dōrea) | dar | Medium | 4:7–8 | Reuse Romans baseline “duchovní dary” register for lexical consistency. |
Doctrine 9: Walking in Newness of Life
| Greek Term | Czech Rendering | Risk | References | Risk Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| περιπατέω (peripateō) | žít (favor over literal “chodit”) | Medium | 2:2, 10; 4:1, 17; 5:2, 8, 15 | ČEP’s “žít” is clearer but loses the recurring “walking” image threaded through the whole letter; flag the pattern for cross-document consistency. |
| παλαιὸς ἄνθρωπος / καινὸς ἄνθρωπος (palaios anthrōpos / kainos anthrōpos) | starý člověk / nový člověk | High | 4:22–24 | Risk of registering as a vague self-improvement idiom rather than Paul’s specific claim of a decisive Christ-wrought identity change; echoes Romans 6’s “old self” (already High-rated). |
| ἀνανεόω (ananeoō) | obnovit | Medium | 4:23 | Everyday collision with contract/subscription renewal; distinguish from deep Spirit-wrought inner renewal. |
| λυπέω (τὸ Πνεῦμα) (lypeō) | zarmoutit | Medium-High | 4:30 | Assumes prior teaching on the Spirit’s full personhood (baseline Critical doctrine). |
| χαρίζομαι (charizomai) | odpustit | Medium | 4:32 | Reinforce etymological link to χάρις/“milost.” |
| τέκνα φωτός (tekna phōtos) | děti světla | Medium | 5:8 | Transparent poetic metaphor; connect explicitly to old-self/new-self teaching. |
| πληροῦσθε ἐν πνεύματι (plērousthe en pneumati) | naplněni Duchem | High | 5:18 | Everyday “naplněný” (filled with food/emotion/schedule) may trivialize or, alternately, invite unevaluated charismatic-experience assumptions; requires concrete behavioral explanation (5:19–21). |
| πορνεία, ἀκαθαρσία, πλεονεξία (porneia, akatharsia, pleonexia) | smilstvo, nečistota, chamtivost | Medium | 5:3–5 | Needs relational, gospel-shaped framing (5:1–2) to avoid landing as bare moralism. |
| εἰδωλολάτρης (eidōlolatrēs) | modloslužebník | Medium-High | 5:5 | No literal-idolatry framework exists for the reader to extend metaphorically from; must be taught from scratch. |
| μιμητής (mimētēs) | následovník / napodobitel | Medium | 5:1 | Low collision; theological weight (imitating character, not behavior-copying) needs brief unpacking. |
| ἐνδυναμόω (endynamoō) | posílit se | Medium | 6:10 | Preserve passive sense — strengthened by God, not self-generated. |
| πρεσβεύω (presbeuō) | vyslanec / velvyslanec | Medium | 6:20 | Well-understood diplomatic vocabulary; theological content (representing Christ while imprisoned) needs brief framing, term itself low-risk. |
| προσευχή, δέησις (proseuchē, deēsis) | modlitba, prosba | Low-Medium | 6:18 | Reuses baseline “prayer_and_intercession” register (Medium); no dominant rival intercessory framework in secular Czech culture. |
Risk Summary (New Ephesians Terms Only)
| Risk Tier | Count | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 3 (μυστήριον, σωτήρ, σῶμα-in-ecclesial-sense/σάρξ double-duty) | Human theologian |
| High | 22 | Human theologian |
| Medium | 30 | Native speaker |
| Low / Low-Medium | 9 | Automated / native speaker spot-check |
Note: The overall risk profile of Ephesians follows the same governing pattern established in the Romans baseline for this Language Package — the dominant hazard is not a competing theological system but the collision between stable, well-formed Czech Bible-tradition vocabulary and an unrelated, mundane secular meaning (bureaucratic “žádost,” commercial “vykoupit”/“záruka,” economic “hospodářství,” professional “učitel,” narrative-suspense “tajemství”) that will be the reader’s only default association. The single highest-priority new term for this curriculum is μυστήριον / tajemství, whose secular meaning runs in nearly the opposite direction from Paul’s usage, exceeding even the risk profile of the Romans baseline’s highest-risk terms.
See analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md for full verse-by-verse and chapter-by-chapter derivation of every entry in this glossary.
Critical Risk Terms
Righteousness
Approved rendering: spravedlnost
Transliteration: dikaiosynē
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: spravedlnost výhradně v moderním občanském/právním smyslu
Inherited from Romans package. Reused in Ephesians 6:14 (‘breastplate of righteousness’); the armor-piece rendering inherits this term’s full Critical risk profile rather than introducing new lexical risk.
Salvation
Approved rendering: spasení
Transliteration: sōtēria
Doctrine: Salvation
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians 1:13; 2:5, 8; 6:17. The Greek perfect tense in 2:5, 8 (‘you have been saved’) must be rendered so as not to imply salvation is a future-only hope; still carries the archaic-register risk documented in the baseline.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: vzkříšení
Transliteration: anastasis
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Original: ἀνάστασις
Category: Eschatology
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians 1:20 names Christ’s own historical resurrection, distinct from the new compound ‘made alive/raised with Christ’ vocabulary of 2:5-6; keep the two carefully distinguished.
Lord
Approved rendering: Pán
Transliteration: kyrios
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: pán s malým ‘p’ ve smyslu běžného zdvořilostního oslovení (pane)
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Appears throughout Ephesians (1:2-3, 15, 17; 4:1, 5; 5:22; 6:1, 4-9, 21, 23-24), including the household code where ‘Pán’ also names Christ as master over both slave and master (6:9); capitalization alone remains a fragile signal.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: Syn Boží
Transliteration: huios theou
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Original: υἱὸς θεοῦ
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Implicit background for Ephesians 1:5-6’s adoption language and 4:13’s ‘fullness of Christ’; must not be confused with believers’ adoptive sonship.
Father
Approved rendering: Otec
Transliteration: patēr
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Frequent in Ephesians (1:2-3, 17; 2:18; 3:14; 4:6; 5:20; 6:2, 4, 23); 3:14-15’s father/family wordplay is untranslatable in Czech and must be flagged with a note.
God
Approved rendering: Bůh
Transliteration: theos
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Standard and unambiguous throughout Ephesians.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: Duch svatý
Transliteration: pneuma hagion
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians 1:13; 2:18, 22; 3:5, 16; 4:3-4, 30; 5:18; 6:17-18. Ephesians 4:30’s ‘grieve the Spirit’ and 5:18’s ‘be filled with the Spirit’ both presuppose the Spirit’s full personhood established by this term.
Jesus
Approved rendering: Ježíš
Transliteration: Iēsous
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Standard and stable throughout Ephesians; formal doctrinal material must never echo the casual exclamatory register of colloquial ‘Ježíšmarjá.‘
Flesh
Approved rendering: tělo
Transliteration: sarx
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: σάρξ
Category: Anthropology
CRITICAL: Ephesians 2:3, 11. Standard Czech has no separate word distinguishing sarx (fallen nature, used negatively) from sōma (church as Christ’s body, used positively elsewhere in the letter) — both default to ‘tělo.’ Every occurrence must be context-glossed so readers do not conclude the physical body itself is condemned.
Made Alive With Christ
Approved rendering: spolu s Kristem obživil
Transliteration: syzōopoieō
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Rejected alternatives: jednoslovný ekvivalent (neexistuje)
Original: συζωοποιέω
Category: Salvation
CRITICAL: Ephesians 2:5. A rare compound coined for union-with-Christ theology; no natural one-word Czech equivalent exists. Must be taught narratively as an extension beyond mere rescue, not merely named.
Raised With Christ
Approved rendering: spolu vzkřísil
Transliteration: synegeirō
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Rejected alternatives: vzkříšení bez ‘spolu’ (ztrácí korporátní, aplikovaný smysl)
Original: συνεγείρω
Category: Salvation
CRITICAL: Ephesians 2:6. If the corporate ‘spolu’ (together with) is lost, readers may confuse this with Christ’s own historical resurrection (‘vzkříšení,’ already Critical in the baseline) and miss the present, applied sense central to this passage.
Savior
Approved rendering: spasitel
Transliteration: sōtēr
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: σωτήρ
Category: Christology
CRITICAL: Ephesians 5:23. Directly tied to the baseline’s Critical-rated ‘spasení’ and shares its archaic-register risk; must be accompanied by the same narrative unpacking (from what, to what, by whom).
Body Of Christ
Approved rendering: tělo
Transliteration: sōma
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ
Original: σῶμα
Category: Church
CRITICAL: Ephesians 1:23; 4:4, 12, 16; 5:23, 30. Czech ‘tělo’ must do double duty for sōma (church as body — positive) and sarx (flesh — negative); context-sensitive glossing required at every occurrence.
Mystery
Approved rendering: tajemství
Transliteration: mystērion
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Rejected alternatives: transliterace ‘mystérion’, tajemství uvedené bez doprovodné fráze ‘nyní zjevené’
Original: μυστήριον
Category: Mystery
CRITICAL: the single highest-collision term in this curriculum. Ordinary Czech ‘tajemství’ overwhelmingly means an intriguing withheld secret — nearly the opposite of Paul’s sense of a plan now fully disclosed. Requires theologian review and a mandatory accompanying gloss at every occurrence (1:9; 3:3-9; 5:32; 6:19).
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: evangelium
Transliteration: euangelion
Doctrine: Gospel
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians 1:13; 3:6; 6:15, 19. Still cannot be assumed to carry inherited meaning for a secular reader; must be actively defined at first use in this curriculum as well.
Grace
Approved rendering: milost
Transliteration: charis
Doctrine: Grace
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians 1:2, 6-7; 2:5, 7-9; 4:7; 6:24. Ephesians 2:5-9 is this letter’s central grace-versus-works statement; ‘milost’ must never register only as judicial clemency apart from unmerited divine favor.
Faith
Approved rendering: víra
Transliteration: pistis
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: víra v obecném slova smyslu (např. víra v sebe sama, víra ve výsledek)
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians 1:15; 2:8; 3:12, 17; 4:5, 13; 6:16, 23. The object of faith must remain explicit at every occurrence.
Called
Approved rendering: povolaný
Transliteration: klētos
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλητός
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians 1:18; 4:1, 4. Must be distinguished from ‘povolání’ as job/profession, the dominant secular association.
Calling
Approved rendering: povolání
Transliteration: klēsis
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: povolání výhradně ve smyslu civilního zaměstnání či profese
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians 1:18; 4:1, 4. Must convey a sovereign summons, not ‘what is your job.‘
Saints
Approved rendering: svatí
Transliteration: hagioi
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: svatí výhradně jako historické, kanonizované osobnosti vzdálené od běžného čtenáře
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians uses ‘svatí’ more densely than Romans (1:1, 15, 18; 3:8, 18; 5:3; 6:18); the Czech name-day calendar remains folk trivia detached from this corporate doctrine.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: posvěcení
Transliteration: hagiasmos
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: posvěcení výhradně jako rituální/symbolický akt (např. posvěcení stavby)
Original: ἁγιασμός
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. Underlies Christ’s cleansing of the church in Ephesians 5:26; must be distinguished from ceremonial building-dedication sense.
Sin
Approved rendering: hřích
Transliteration: hamartia
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: hřích s oslabeným, žertovným významem (např. to je hřích nechat to jídlo vyhodit)
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians 2:1 pairs ‘hřích’ with the new term ‘provinění’ (trespasses) to describe the totality of the pre-conversion condition.
Covenant
Approved rendering: smlouva
Transliteration: diathēkē
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Rejected alternatives: smlouva výhradně jako běžná obchodní nebo právní smlouva
Original: διαθήκη
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians 2:12 names Gentile exclusion from the ‘covenants of promise’ before Christ; still risks registering as an ordinary commercial contract.
Election
Approved rendering: vyvolení
Transliteration: eklogē
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: vyvolení v běžném, sekulárním smyslu úspěchu nebo výběru (např. sportovní výběr, výběrové řízení)
Original: ἐκλέγομαι / ἐκλογή
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians 1:4 grounds election specifically ‘in him’ (Christ); still risks registering as competitive secular selection.
Trespasses
Approved rendering: provinění
Transliteration: paraptōma
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Rejected alternatives: ztotožnění s hřích (ztrácí Pavlovo rozlišení mezi konkrétním proviněním a trvalým stavem), nadměrně právní/byrokratické vyznění (drobný přestupek)
Original: παράπτωμα
Category: Salvation
Ephesians 1:7; 2:1, 5. No Czech Bible-tradition term is as stable as ‘hřích’; must be distinguished from it to preserve Paul’s act/state distinction.
Desires Of Flesh
Approved rendering: žádost
Transliteration: epithymia
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: ἐπιθυμία
Category: Sin
Ephesians 2:3. The established Czech Bible-tradition rendering, but modern secular Czech overwhelmingly uses ‘žádost’ for a formal application or request (job application, petition for pardon) — a bureaucratic collision requiring active correction, parallel to the baseline’s treatment of ‘povolání.‘
Love Of God
Approved rendering: láska
Transliteration: agapē
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: God
Ephesians 2:4; 5:25, 28, 33. ‘Láska’ is the single ordinary Czech word for all love and overwhelmingly evokes romantic love first; used for both divine love (2:4) and marital love (5:25), where the two senses risk being confused in opposite directions and must be actively distinguished in the same teaching material.
Seated With Christ
Approved rendering: spolu s ním usadil (v nebesích)
Transliteration: synkathizō
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Rejected alternatives: vágní pocitová metafora (‘cítit se dobře’)
Original: συγκαθίζω
Category: Salvation
Ephesians 2:6. No ordinary Czech idiom conveys enthronement-by-union; risk of being read as a vague feel-good metaphor rather than the concrete doctrinal claim of shared authority and position in Christ.
Works
Approved rendering: skutky
Transliteration: erga
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: ἔργα
Category: Salvation
Ephesians 2:9-10. The grace/works contrast is the letter’s central soteriological claim and must never be softened; per the Romans baseline’s grace-merit escalation rule, any segment contrasting ‘milost’ and ‘skutky’ requires human theologian review.
Redemption
Approved rendering: vykoupení
Transliteration: apolytrōsis
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: ἀπολύτρωσις
Category: Salvation
Ephesians 1:7. Modern Czech ‘vykoupit’ is an active commercial verb (vykoupit akcie = buy out shares; vykoupit se z dluhu = pay off one’s own debt), risking self-effort implications; must be actively taught with the corrective that Christ, not the believer, pays the price.
Course Of This World
Approved rendering: běh tohoto světa / vládce vzdušných mocností
Transliteration: aiōn / archōn tēs exousias tou aeros
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: αἰών / ἄρχων τῆς ἐξουσίας τοῦ ἀέρος
Category: Spiritual Warfare
Ephesians 2:2. Without explanation this reads as mythological flourish rather than a serious claim about Satan’s real authority; a materialist-leaning secular readership may read it as ancient cosmology rather than active spiritual reality — the central challenge of the Spiritual Warfare doctrine, recurring at 6:12.
Predestined
Approved rendering: předurčit / předurčení
Transliteration: proorizō / proorismos
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Original: προορίζω / προορισμός
Category: Election
Ephesians 1:5, 11. No competing secular meaning exists (unlike ‘vyvolení’), but the concept of a personal, gracious, pre-temporal divine choice is wholly unfamiliar and must be built from the ground up; pairs with baseline ‘vyvolení’ as the same doctrine extended ‘in Christ.‘
Sealed With Spirit
Approved rendering: zapečetit / pečeť
Transliteration: sphragizō / sphragis
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Original: σφραγίζω / σφραγίς
Category: Election
Ephesians 1:13; 4:30. Sealing (wax-seal, official stamp) is a recognizable but archaic image in Czech life; needs unpacking as a guarantee of ownership and security, not decoration.
Guarantee Deposit
Approved rendering: záruka
Transliteration: arrabōn
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Original: ἀρραβών
Category: Election
Ephesians 1:14. In contemporary Czech commerce, ‘záruka’ primarily means a product warranty; risks trivializing the Holy Spirit into a consumer-protection metaphor unless actively corrected and connected to ‘dědictví.‘
Inheritance
Approved rendering: dědictví
Transliteration: klēronomia
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Original: κληρονομία
Category: Election
Ephesians 1:11, 14, 18; 5:5. Ordinary Czech civil-law word for an estate; readers may import probate-law assumptions (contested wills, tax implications) rather than grasping an unconditional, Spirit-guaranteed grant.
Fellow Heirs
Approved rendering: spoludědic
Transliteration: synklēronomos
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: συγκληρονόμος
Category: Election
Ephesians 3:6. Compounds the ‘dědictví’ collision risk — the civil-law ‘estate’ association may unhelpfully suggest a divided or contested inheritance rather than the full, equal share Paul intends.
Head
Approved rendering: hlava
Transliteration: kephalē
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ
Original: κεφαλή
Category: Church
Ephesians 1:22; 4:15; 5:23. Lexically stable; risk is doctrinal — readers must grasp the organic, life-giving, body-sourced sense (ch. 4) before this metaphor is applied analogically to a contested contemporary social relationship (ch. 5).
Fullness
Approved rendering: plnost
Transliteration: plērōma
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ
Original: πλήρωμα
Category: Church
Ephesians 1:23; 3:19; 4:13. Abstract, low-frequency term in ordinary Czech; almost no secular collision but also almost no pre-existing recognition — must be taught as new content.
Mature Manhood
Approved rendering: dospělost / zralost
Transliteration: teleios anēr
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ
Rejected alternatives: dokonalý (implikuje bezchybnost, nikoli dospělost/úplnost)
Original: τέλειος ἀνήρ
Category: Church
Ephesians 4:13. teleios here means mature/complete, not flawless; a literal ‘dokonalý’ (perfect) rendering risks implying an unreachable standard of flawlessness rather than Paul’s actual goal of corporate growth toward maturity.
Dividing Wall
Approved rendering: dělící stěna
Transliteration: mesotoichon tou phragmou
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: μεσότοιχον τοῦ φραγμοῦ
Category: Unity
Ephesians 2:14. No natural Czech idiom carries the Jerusalem Temple-court background (the literal barrier separating Gentile and Jewish worshippers); requires explicit historical explanation.
One New Humanity
Approved rendering: smířit / jeden nový člověk
Transliteration: apokatallassō / kainos anthrōpos
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: ἀποκαταλλάσσω / καινὸς ἄνθρωπος
Category: Unity
Ephesians 2:15-16. A stronger claim than the Romans baseline’s parallel doctrine (Medium there) — reconciliation creates a genuinely new corporate identity, not merely equal access; flag for native speaker review given the Czech lands’ complex historical Jewish-Christian relations, in addition to the Critical/High theologian review this doctrine already requires.
Stewardship Commission
Approved rendering: pověření / úřad
Transliteration: oikonomia
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Rejected alternatives: hospodářství (znamená v moderní češtině národní ekonomiku/domácí hospodaření)
Original: οἰκονομία
Category: Mystery
Ephesians 3:2, 9. Must NEVER be rendered ‘hospodářství’ — a near-comic mistranslation entirely divorced from Paul’s sense of a divinely entrusted task.
Heavenly Places
Approved rendering: nebeské oblasti / v nebesích
Transliteration: epouranios
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Original: ἐπουράνιος
Category: Mystery
Ephesians 1:3, 20; 2:6; 3:10; 6:12. Default Czech association with ‘nebe’ is the popular afterlife-destination sense; must be taught as a recurring, present spiritual realm across all five occurrences, not reduced to ‘going to heaven when you die.‘
Rulers And Authorities
Approved rendering: mocnosti a vládcové
Transliteration: archai kai exousiai
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Original: ἀρχαί καὶ ἐξουσίαι
Category: Mystery
Ephesians 3:10, resumed at 6:12. Names a real spiritual hierarchy a materialist-leaning readership may be tempted to read purely metaphorically; ties directly to Spiritual Warfare.
Rooted Grounded Fullness Of God
Approved rendering: zakořeněni a založeni / celá plnost Boží
Transliteration: errizōmenoi kai tethemeliōmenoi / plērōma tou theou
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Original: ῥιζωθέντες καὶ τεθεμελιωμένοι / πλήρωμα τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Mystery
Ephesians 3:17, 19. Reuses ‘plnost’ from chapter 1; the scale of the claim — being filled with the fullness of God himself — is easily underestimated and should be flagged for careful, non-minimizing rendering.
Full Armor
Approved rendering: plná zbroj / výstroj
Transliteration: panoplia
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: πανοπλία
Category: Spiritual Warfare
Ephesians 6:11, 13. Military-equipment vocabulary itself is not foreign to Czech historical memory; the real risk is a secular, materialist-leaning readership’s resistance to the premise of personal spiritual evil at all.
Devil
Approved rendering: ďábel
Transliteration: diabolos
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: διάβολος
Category: Spiritual Warfare
Ephesians 4:27; 6:11. Distinct from the folkloric Czech ‘čert’ (St. Nicholas Day devil, fairy tales); risk of being read through this folkloric lens as a colorful legendary character rather than a real personal spiritual enemy — a folklore-trivializing risk rather than a rival-theology risk.
World Rulers Spiritual Forces
Approved rendering: vládci tohoto světa / duchovní mocnosti zla
Transliteration: kosmokratōr / ta pneumatika tēs ponērias
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: κοσμοκράτωρ / τὰ πνευματικὰ τῆς πονηρίας
Category: Spiritual Warfare
Ephesians 6:12. Doctrinal crux of Spiritual Warfare for this Language Package: vocabulary is translatable without difficulty, but a secular readership may have no prior framework for taking claims about real, organized spiritual evil literally rather than as ancient metaphor for institutional injustice.
Submission
Approved rendering: podřídit se / podřízenost
Transliteration: hypotassō
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Rejected alternatives: podřízenost izolovaná od vzájemného rámce (5:21) a Kristovy sebeobětující lásky (5:25)
Original: ὑποτάσσω
Category: Household Codes
Ephesians 5:21-24. In an egalitarian-minded secular Czech society, risks being read as endorsing domination if isolated from the mutual (5:21) and self-giving (5:25) framing, or dismissed outright as culturally regressive; requires human theologian review.
Slave Bondservant
Approved rendering: otrok
Transliteration: doulos
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Rejected alternatives: služebník (zjemněný, historicky nepřesný překlad podle staršího BKR úzu)
Original: δοῦλος
Category: Household Codes
Ephesians 6:5-9. Render literally rather than softened; requires a translator’s note on historical context so readers do not conclude the text endorses slavery as an institution.
Teacher
Approved rendering: učitel
Transliteration: didaskalos
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: διδάσκαλος
Category: Church
Ephesians 4:11. Ordinary Czech word for a school teacher is the reader’s near-certain dominant default; the spiritual-teaching office must be actively distinguished from classroom instruction.
Old Self New Self
Approved rendering: starý člověk / nový člověk
Transliteration: palaios anthrōpos / kainos anthrōpos
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Rejected alternatives: vágní idiom ‘obrátit nový list’ bez vazby na spojení s Kristem
Original: παλαιὸς ἄνθρωπος / καινὸς ἄνθρωπος
Category: New Life
Ephesians 4:22-24. Without explicit teaching, risks registering as a vague self-improvement idiom rather than Paul’s specific claim of a decisive, Christ-wrought identity change, echoing the already-High-rated Romans baseline ‘christian_identity_in_christ’ doctrine.
Grieve The Spirit
Approved rendering: zarmoutit
Transliteration: lypeō
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: λυπέω
Category: New Life
Ephesians 4:30. Assumes prior teaching on the Holy Spirit’s full personhood (baseline Critical doctrine); this personal-relational framing needs reinforcement here.
Filled With Spirit
Approved rendering: naplněni Duchem
Transliteration: plērousthe en pneumati
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: πληροῦσθε ἐν πνεύματι
Category: New Life
Ephesians 5:18. Everyday ‘naplněný’ (filled with food, emotion, a schedule) risks trivializing the command, or alternately inviting unevaluated charismatic-experience assumptions the reader has no framework to assess; requires concrete behavioral anchoring in 5:19-21.
Idolater
Approved rendering: modloslužebník
Transliteration: eidōlolatrēs
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: εἰδωλολάτρης
Category: Sin
Ephesians 5:5. Literal idol-worship is foreign to contemporary Czech experience; the metaphorical extension (greed as idolatry) needs explicit teaching since the reader has no default idol-worship framework to extend from at all.
Medium Risk Terms
Holy
Approved rendering: svatý
Transliteration: hagios
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians 1:4; 5:27.
Adoption
Approved rendering: přijetí za syna
Transliteration: huiothesia
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: υἱοθεσία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians 1:5, tied directly to the newly introduced ‘dědictví’ (inheritance) vocabulary and should be taught alongside it.
Peace
Approved rendering: pokoj
Transliteration: eirēnē
Doctrine: Peace with God
Rejected alternatives: pokoj ve smyslu pouhého klidu či nepřítomnosti hluku
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians 2:14-17 uniquely extends ‘pokoj’ to reconciled human relationships (Jew/Gentile), not only peace with God; also 1:2; 4:3; 6:15, 23.
Spiritual Gifts
Approved rendering: duchovní dary
Transliteration: charismata
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts
Original: χαρίσματα
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians 4:7-13 uses related but distinct vocabulary (doma/dōrea); keep ‘duchovní dary’ as the consistent register.
Church
Approved rendering: církev
Transliteration: ekklēsia
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: kostel (budova) namísto společenství věřících
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians’ dense ecclesiology (1:22; 3:10, 21; 5:23-25, 27, 29, 32) makes the ‘církev’ vs. ‘kostel’ distinction especially load-bearing.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: království Boží
Transliteration: basileia tou theou
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians 5:5 ties exclusion from the kingdom to greed-as-idolatry; guard against the fairy-tale-kingdom association.
Gentiles
Approved rendering: pohané
Transliteration: ethnē
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Central to Ephesians 2:11; 3:1, 6, 8’s unity doctrine; carries a stronger charge than neutral ‘Gentiles.‘
Glory
Approved rendering: sláva
Transliteration: doxa
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: sláva ve smyslu světské slávy či úspěchu
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Frequent in Ephesians 1 (vv. 6, 12, 14, 17-18) and 3 (vv. 13, 16, 21); must be distinguished from worldly fame.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: moc Boží
Transliteration: dynamis theou
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Original: δύναμις θεοῦ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians 1:19; 3:7, 16, 20; 6:10, the latter tied to the strengthened_in_the_lord entry below.
Providence
Approved rendering: prozřetelnost Boží
Transliteration: pronoia
Doctrine: Providence
Rejected alternatives: prozřetelnost v obecném, neosobním smyslu osudu nebo štěstí
Original: πρόθεσις (cf. Ephesians 1:11’s inheritance-by-purpose language)
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Implicit in Ephesians 1:11’s ‘according to the purpose of him who works all things’; connects to the new term ‘záměr/plán’ (prothesis).
Prophet
Approved rendering: prorok
Transliteration: prophētēs
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Rejected alternatives: prorok ve smyslu věštce nebo jasnovidce
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians 2:20; 3:5; 4:11, listed alongside ‘apoštol’ as a foundational church office; risk of the popular fortune-telling/‘prorokovat budoucnost’ reading persists in this curriculum as in Romans.
Dead In Sin
Approved rendering: mrtvý
Transliteration: nekros
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: νεκρός
Category: Salvation
Ephesians 2:1, 5. Total spiritual deadness before regeneration. ‘Mrtvý’ is lexically unambiguous, but its metaphorical spiritual sense (dead while still walking around) is not native to secular Czech usage and requires narrative unpacking or it reads as strange exaggeration.
Wrath
Approved rendering: hněv
Transliteration: orgē
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: ὀργή
Category: God
Ephesians 2:3. ‘Hněv’ is ordinary Czech for anger/temper and must be actively distinguished from that everyday emotional sense; God’s holy, settled judicial disposition inherited ‘by nature’ has no prior reader category.
Mercy
Approved rendering: milosrdenství
Transliteration: eleos
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: ἔλεος
Category: God
Ephesians 2:4. Stable Czech theological term with some residual devotional resonance, but its active content — compassion toward the specifically undeserving — still needs unpacking.
Gift Of Salvation
Approved rendering: dar
Transliteration: dōron
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: δῶρον
Category: Salvation
Ephesians 2:8. Lexically stable and low-collision; the risk is conceptual — Czech readers must grasp that even faith itself is included in the gift, not merely salvation’s outcome. Reserve unmodified ‘dar’ for this sense; use ‘duchovní dary’ register for ministry-gift contexts (4:7-8) to avoid flattening Paul’s distinctions.
Workmanship
Approved rendering: dílo
Transliteration: poiēma
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: ποίημα
Category: Salvation
Ephesians 2:10. Helpfully preserves the ‘crafted masterpiece’ connotation shared with the English root ‘poem’; the concept of being God’s handiwork rather than a self-improvement project needs unpacking.
Created New
Approved rendering: stvořit
Transliteration: ktizō
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Rejected alternatives: vytvořit/udělat (běžné lidské tvoření, nikoli božský akt)
Original: κτίζω
Category: Salvation
Ephesians 2:10. Reserved in Czech Bible tradition for divine creative acts; the ‘new creation in Christ’ doctrine remains unfamiliar territory needing explicit unpacking.
Forgiveness
Approved rendering: odpuštění
Transliteration: aphesis
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: ἄφεσις
Category: Salvation
Ephesians 1:7. Stable, recognizable, low-collision — one of the more secure terms in the chapter.
Disobedience
Approved rendering: neposlušnost
Transliteration: apeitheia
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: ἀπείθεια
Category: Sin
Ephesians 2:2; 5:6. Straightforward; should be distinguished from mere rule-breaking — this is characterological resistance to God.
Walk Conduct
Approved rendering: žít
Transliteration: peripateō
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: περιπατέω
Category: New Life
Ephesians 2:2, 10; 4:1, 17; 5:2, 8, 15. ČEP favors ‘žít’ (to live) over the literal ‘chodit’ (to walk); clearer but loses the recurring ‘walking’ image threaded through the whole letter — flag for cross-document consistency wherever it recurs.
Purpose Of God
Approved rendering: záměr / plán
Transliteration: prothesis
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Original: πρόθεσις
Category: Election
Ephesians 1:9, 11; 3:11. Low collision risk; reinforces the baseline’s ‘prozřetelnost Boží.‘
Foundation Cornerstone
Approved rendering: základ / úhelný kámen
Transliteration: themelios / akrogōniaios
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ
Original: θεμέλιος / ἀκρογωνιαῖος
Category: Church
Ephesians 2:20. Recognizable architectural-metaphor terms in Czech Bible tradition; low lexical risk, moderate conceptual risk since the building metaphor for the church needs unpacking.
Temple
Approved rendering: chrám
Transliteration: naos
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ
Original: ναός
Category: Church
Ephesians 2:21-22. Strong architectural/heritage-tourism association for secular Czech readers; the living, corporate ‘temple made of people’ sense must be actively taught against this default.
Equipping Building Up
Approved rendering: vybavení, zdokonalení / budování
Transliteration: katartismos / oikodomē
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: καταρτισμός / οἰκοδομή
Category: Church
Ephesians 4:12. Reuse the Romans baseline’s low-risk ‘vzájemné budování’ register for oikodomē to preserve cross-curriculum consistency.
Enmity
Approved rendering: nepřátelství
Transliteration: echthra
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: ἔχθρα
Category: Unity
Ephesians 2:14, 16. Stable and transparent with low collision risk.
Far Off Near
Approved rendering: vzdálení / přiblíženi
Transliteration: makran / eggys
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: μακράν / ἐγγύς
Category: Unity
Ephesians 2:12-13, 17. Straightforward spatial-relational metaphor; needs Old Testament covenant background to land with force.
Fellow Citizens Household
Approved rendering: spoluobčané / Boží rodina
Transliteration: sympolitai / oikeioi
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: συμπολῖται / οἰκεῖοι
Category: Unity
Ephesians 2:19. Transparent civic/familial metaphors with low collision risk; the theological content (equal standing, not second-class status) needs to be stated explicitly.
Unity
Approved rendering: jednota
Transliteration: henotēs
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: ἑνότης
Category: Unity
Ephesians 4:3, 13. Stable and common; risk of defaulting to a generic civic/organizational sense rather than the specific Spirit-given unity Paul describes.
Access
Approved rendering: přístup
Transliteration: prosagōgē
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: προσαγωγή
Category: Unity
Ephesians 2:18; 3:12. Common in everyday bureaucratic/technical Czech (internet access); the relational, filial sense (access to a Father) needs distinguishing — pair with ‘u Otce’ every time.
Family Lineage
Approved rendering: rod / rodina
Transliteration: patria
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Rejected alternatives: umělý český slovní pár napodobující řeckou slovní hru
Original: πατριά
Category: Mystery
Ephesians 3:14-15. The Greek pater/patria wordplay cannot be reproduced in Czech; flag with a translator’s note preserving the lost connection to ‘Otec’ rather than attempting an artificial pun.
Boldness Confidence
Approved rendering: smělost / důvěra
Transliteration: parrēsia
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Original: παρρησία
Category: Mystery
Ephesians 3:12. Should be rendered consistently with ‘přístup’ (access), to which it is tied at the climax of the chapter-3 prayer.
Armor Pieces
Approved rendering: pás pravdy, pancíř spravedlnosti, štít víry, přilba spasení, meč Ducha
Transliteration: zōnē, thōrax, thyreos, perikephalaia, machaira
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: ζώνη, θώραξ, θυρεός, περικεφαλαία, μάχαιρα
Category: Spiritual Warfare
Ephesians 6:14-17. Individually low-risk military vocabulary, but reuses ‘spravedlnost,’ ‘víra,’ and ‘spasení’ from the baseline (High/Critical there), so the armor metaphor inherits their full risk profile.
Word Of God Rhema
Approved rendering: slovo Boží
Transliteration: rhēma theou
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: ῥῆμα θεοῦ
Category: Spiritual Warfare
Ephesians 6:17. Low lexical risk; ties into the baseline’s Inspiration of Scripture doctrine (Medium).
Ambassador
Approved rendering: vyslanec / velvyslanec
Transliteration: presbeuō
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: πρεσβεύω
Category: Spiritual Warfare
Ephesians 6:20. Diplomatic vocabulary is well understood in modern Czech civic life; theological content (representing Christ’s authority while imprisoned) needs brief framing.
Strengthened In The Lord
Approved rendering: posílit se
Transliteration: endynamoō
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: ἐνδυναμόω
Category: Spiritual Warfare
Ephesians 6:10. Ties to the baseline’s ‘moc Boží’; should preserve the passive sense of being strengthened by God, not self-generated strength.
Discipline And Instruction
Approved rendering: výchova a napomínání
Transliteration: paideia kai nouthesia
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Original: παιδεία καὶ νουθεσία
Category: Household Codes
Ephesians 6:4. Must not read as harsh punitive discipline; describes loving, Christ-centered formation.
Favoritism Partiality
Approved rendering: stranění osobám
Transliteration: prosōpolēmpsia
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Original: προσωπολημψία
Category: Household Codes
Ephesians 6:9. Reinforces the ‘no distinction’ universality principle already High-rated in the Romans baseline.
Washing Of Water
Approved rendering: očistit / omytí vodou
Transliteration: katharizō / loutron tou hydatos
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Original: καθαρίζω / λουτρὸν τοῦ ὕδατος
Category: Sanctification
Ephesians 5:26. Ties to the baptism concept flagged at 4:5; needs to be connected explicitly to that discussion for consistency.
Without Blemish
Approved rendering: beze skvrny a bez vady
Transliteration: aspilos / amōmos
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Original: ἄσπιλος / ἄμωμος
Category: Sanctification
Ephesians 5:27. Standard idiomatic phrase with low lexical risk.
Evangelist
Approved rendering: evangelista
Transliteration: euangelistēs
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: εὐαγγελιστής
Category: Church
Ephesians 4:11. A transliteration-based term parallel to ‘evangelium’; stable but carries no automatic inherited meaning for a secular reader.
Pastor Shepherd
Approved rendering: pastýř
Transliteration: poimēn
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: ποιμήν
Category: Church
Ephesians 4:11. Recognizable in Czech mainly through Christmas nativity-scene and fairy-tale associations, parallel to the baseline’s note on ‘království’ defaulting to fairy-tale associations; leadership/care content needs active teaching.
Gifts Of Christ
Approved rendering: dar
Transliteration: doma / dōrea
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: δόμα / δωρεά
Category: Church
Ephesians 4:7-8. Reuse the baseline ‘duchovní dary’ register established for Romans’ charismata, keeping vocabulary consistent across curricula.
Renewed Mind
Approved rendering: obnovit
Transliteration: ananeoō
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: ἀνανεόω
Category: New Life
Ephesians 4:23. Common in everyday Czech for renewing a contract, license, or subscription — this administrative-renewal association must be distinguished from deep, Spirit-wrought inner renewal.
Forgive One Another
Approved rendering: odpustit
Transliteration: charizomai
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: χαρίζομαι
Category: New Life
Ephesians 4:32. Reinforce the etymological link to charis/‘milost’ — forgiveness is grace enacted between believers, not mere social politeness.
Children Of Light
Approved rendering: děti světla
Transliteration: tekna phōtos
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: τέκνα φωτός
Category: New Life
Ephesians 5:8. A poetic, transparent metaphor; connect explicitly to the old-self/new-self teaching of chapter 4.
Sexual Immorality Impurity Greed
Approved rendering: smilstvo, nečistota, chamtivost
Transliteration: porneia, akatharsia, pleonexia
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: πορνεία, ἀκαθαρσία, πλεονεξία
Category: Sin
Ephesians 5:3-5. Stable Bible-tradition vocabulary; risk is that a secular reader may find such vice-lists moralistic without the surrounding relational, gospel-shaped framing (5:1-2).
Imitators Of God
Approved rendering: následovník / napodobitel
Transliteration: mimētēs
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: μιμητής
Category: New Life
Ephesians 5:1. Low collision risk; the theological weight (imitating God’s character, not mere behavioral copying) needs brief unpacking.
Abundant Riches
Approved rendering: nesmírné bohatství
Transliteration: hyperballon ploutos
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: ὑπερβάλλον πλοῦτος
Category: Salvation
Ephesians 2:7. Stable, non-collision phrase; risk is understating the eternal, cosmic-display purpose clause if compressed into a simple adjective.
Good Works Prepared
Approved rendering: dobré skutky / připravil předem
Transliteration: erga agatha / proetoimazō
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: ἔργα ἀγαθά / προετοιμάζω
Category: Salvation
Ephesians 2:10. Must be carefully sequenced after 2:9’s exclusion of works-as-basis, or readers may conclude Ephesians contradicts itself on works versus grace; ties to the providence/predestination vocabulary of chapter 1.
Low Risk Terms
Apostle
Approved rendering: apoštol
Transliteration: apostolos
Doctrine: Apostleship
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians 1:1; 2:20; 3:5; 4:11. Stable and unambiguous.
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: díkůvzdání
Transliteration: eucharistia
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians 1:16; 5:4, 20.
Fellowship
Approved rendering: společenství
Transliteration: koinōnia
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Original: κοινωνία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Implicit in Ephesians 3:9’s shared stewardship of the mystery.
Exhort
Approved rendering: povzbuzovat
Transliteration: parakaleō
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Implicit in Ephesians 6:22’s purpose for Tychicus’s mission.
Will Of God
Approved rendering: vůle
Transliteration: thelēma
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Original: θέλημα
Category: Election
Ephesians 1:1, 5, 9, 11. Stable and common; must be distinguished from generic willpower/intention in ordinary usage.
Schemes
Approved rendering: úklady / nástrahy
Transliteration: methodeia
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: μεθοδεία
Category: Spiritual Warfare
Ephesians 6:11. Low collision risk; reinforces that spiritual opposition is calculated, not random.
Struggle Wrestling
Approved rendering: boj / zápas
Transliteration: palē
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: πάλη
Category: Spiritual Warfare
Ephesians 6:12. ‘Zápas’ (wrestling match) preserves the athletic-contest image well for a Czech readership familiar with wrestling/combat sports.
Prayer Petition
Approved rendering: modlitba, prosba
Transliteration: proseuchē, deēsis
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: προσευχή, δέησις
Category: Spiritual Warfare
Ephesians 6:18. Reuses the register of the baseline’s Prayer and Intercession doctrine; no dominant rival intercessory framework exists in secular Czech culture.
Honor
Approved rendering: ctít
Transliteration: timaō
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Original: τιμάω
Category: Household Codes
Ephesians 6:2-3. Stable, transparent term with minimal collision risk.
Obey
Approved rendering: poslouchat
Transliteration: hypakouō
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Original: ὑπακούω
Category: Household Codes
Ephesians 6:1. Reinforce link to the baseline’s ‘poslušnost víry’ — obedience here flows from relationship ‘in the Lord,’ not bare compliance.
Boasting
Approved rendering: chlubit se
Transliteration: kauchaomai
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: καυχάομαι
Category: Salvation
Ephesians 2:9. Common, transparent Czech idiom with low collision risk; the specific theological stakes (excluding merit before God, not just excessive pride) should be named.
Kindness
Approved rendering: dobrotivost
Transliteration: chrēstotēs
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: χρηστότης
Category: Salvation
Ephesians 2:7. Stable, low-collision term but rare enough in everyday Czech that a brief gloss aids comprehension.
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