Linguistic Gap Analysis — Hebrews (Czech Destination Language)

Purpose and Method

This analysis identifies, for every doctrine assigned to the Hebrews curriculum, (a) which Czech vocabulary already exists and is usable, (b) where that vocabulary is structurally absent (missing vocabulary) versus where it exists but is contested by a competing everyday or rival-tradition meaning (crowded semantic neighborhoods requiring “fencing”), (c) which terms should be transliterated versus paraphrased, and (d) a ranked list of the highest-risk ambiguities for Phase 2 review routing.

This document does not contradict the baseline Romans translation_memory.json/bible_term_registry.json; it extends them. All established renderings (Bůh, Ježíš, Kristus, Pán, hřích, milost, víra, spasení, ospravedlnění, smlouva, atd.) are reused exactly as recorded in the baseline and are not re-argued here except where Hebrews introduces new interpretive pressure on them (e.g., “smlouva” at Heb 9:16-17).

The governing fact for this Language Package, per the baseline: Czech is one of the most secular societies in Europe. The dominant translation risk is therefore usually absence of a live conceptual framework, not a rival religious framework distorting meaning — except in the specific, identifiable cases below where secular Czech usage or Czech Catholic/cultural practice does actively compete with the biblical sense and must be “fenced off.”

Coverage spans Hebrews 1–13 in full. Chapters that do not generate new load-bearing vocabulary are explicitly marked “reviewed, no new terms” rather than silently omitted.

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1. Doctrine Vocabulary Matrix

For each doctrine assigned to this curriculum: available Czech terms, their weaknesses, and the recommended translation strategy.

1.1 The Superiority of Christ over Angels, Moses, and the Levitical Priesthood

Available Czech Terms	Weaknesses	Recommended Strategy
anděl (angel), lepší (better/superior), Mojžíš (Moses), velekněz (high priest), kněžství (priesthood)	“Anděl” carries strong folk-cultural trivialization (Christmas ornaments, cherub greeting cards, guardian-angel superstition) that undercuts the argument that angels are real, powerful, worshiping beings nonetheless categorically inferior to the Son. “Lepší” is doctrinally safe but must be used with iron consistency as Hebrews’ central rhetorical refrain (comparative superiority recurs ~13x across the whole book). “Velekněz”/“kněžství” risk collapsing onto the living Czech Catholic clerical office.	Use “lepší” invariantly for κρείττων throughout all 13 chapters. Pair “anděl” with brief teaching restoring seriousness (Heb 1:6 “worship him”) rather than assuming default reverence. Introduce “velekněz” with a first-use gloss explicitly stating Christ’s priesthood replaces rather than joins the historical/ongoing category.

1.2 Christ as the Great High Priest

Available Czech Terms	Weaknesses	Recommended Strategy
velekněz, kněžství, Melchisedech, řád, prostředník, původce/zakladatel (never vůdce), přiveden k dokonalosti	”Velekněz” collides with the living, ordained Czech Catholic/Orthodox priesthood (kněz); “kněžství” likewise. “Melchisedech” has zero cultural resonance — pure missing vocabulary requiring OT background injection. “Řád” is polysemous (monastic order/medal/order-as-sequence). “Prostředník” defaults to a paid commercial broker. “Vůdce” is FORBIDDEN for ἀρχηγός due to the fixed Czech historical link to “Führer.” “Dokonalý/zdokonalit” implies flawlessness-correction and risks corrupting Christ’s sinlessness if applied carelessly to τελειόω.	Every first substantive use of “velekněz” in a document must carry a plain-language gloss distinguishing Christ’s unique, unrepeated priesthood from any continuing human office. Melchizedek requires a standalone explanatory unit (Gen 14; Ps 110) before Heb 5-7 can be taught at all. “Řád” must always appear with a disambiguating phrase (“řád = kněžská linie/kategorie,” never left bare). “Prostředník” needs an explicit contrast note (“not a paid broker, but the one reconciling two parties at cost to himself”). Never use “vůdce” for ἀρχηγός/ἡγούμενοι anywhere in the curriculum — use “původce/zakladatel” and “vedoucí/představení” respectively.

1.3 The New Covenant versus the Old

Available Czech Terms	Weaknesses	Recommended Strategy
smlouva, nová smlouva, závěť, zastarat, vzor/předobraz, lepší	Baseline already flags “smlouva” as prone to reading as a commercial/employment contract. Hebrews intensifies this: no single Czech word spans both “covenant” and “last will/testament” the way διαθήκη does at 9:16-17 — a structural gap, not a nuance. “Zastarat” undersells the scale of what is being superseded (whole sacrificial system, not a piece of legislation). “Vzor/předobraz” (typology) names a reading method with no secular Czech interpretive analogue at all.	Retain “smlouva” as primary term (baseline consistency) but insert a mandatory translator’s note at every occurrence of Heb 9:16-17 explaining that the underlying Greek word covers both “covenant” (smlouva) and “last will” (závěť), and that the argument depends on this double sense the Czech text cannot show directly. Frame “zastarat” (Heb 8:13) with an explicit statement of scope (“the entire sacrificial system, not an administrative detail”). Teach τύπος/typology explicitly as an interpretive method in a dedicated explanatory unit before Heb 8-9 content is presented, not merely gloss the word each time it recurs.

1.4 The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice

Available Czech Terms	Weaknesses	Recommended Strategy
oběť, krev, vykoupení, jednou provždy, usmířit/vykonat oběť smíření, slitovnice, vylití krve, odstranění hříchu, vzít na sebe (hříchy)	“Oběť” is doubly loaded in ordinary Czech: it means both “offering” and “(crime/accident) victim” — the passive-casualty sense risks dominating in the reader’s mind over the intentional priestly-offering sense, especially since “oběť” recurs upwards of 15 times in chs. 9-10 alone. “Usmířit” defaults to interpersonal reconciliation (a couple “making up”), missing the forensic wrath-averting sense entirely. “Slitovnice” is essentially unknown outside Bible reading — pure missing vocabulary. “Vykoupení” carries a live commercial-buyout sense (share buybacks) that must be redirected toward bondage-deliverance.	Treat “oběť” as a term requiring active disambiguation at every occurrence in chs. 9-10 and 13, not merely a stable glossary entry — flag each occurrence for reviewer attention to whether “victim” could be misread. Render ἱλάσκομαι with the fuller phrase “vykonat oběť smíření” rather than the bare verb “usmířit” wherever the forensic sense is primary, reserving “usmířit” only where clearly glossed. Treat “slitovnice” (Heb 9:5) as requiring a standalone explanatory note tied to the Day of Atonement background — do not assume the word alone communicates anything. Keep “jednou provždy” lexically invariant at every occurrence (Heb 6, 7, 9, 10) as the doctrine’s fixed refrain.

1.5 The Danger of Apostasy and Warning Passages

Available Czech Terms	Weaknesses	Recommended Strategy
nevěřícnost/nedostatek víry, odpadnutí/odpadlictví, zatvrdit srdce, soud, zahynutí/zatracení	”Nevěra,” the seemingly obvious rendering of ἀπιστία, is FORBIDDEN — in contemporary Czech it overwhelmingly and near-exclusively denotes marital infidelity/adultery; using it here would produce an unintended and jarring claim about sexual betrayal. “Odpadnout” trivially means “to fall off” (a button) or “to drop out” (a competition) in ordinary Czech, radically understating the willful, decisive, post-knowledge rejection Hebrews describes. “Soud” defaults to a civil/criminal courtroom association.	Use “nevěřícnost” or the descriptive phrase “nedostatek víry / odmítání víry” for ἀπιστία — never “nevěra.” Render ἀφίστημι/παραπίπτω with the heaviest available scaffolding (“odpadnutí/odpadlictví” plus mandatory explanatory framing of willful, informed rejection), and route every occurrence to human theologian review given both the translation risk and the passage’s contested interpretive history even across Christian traditions generally. Draw out the personal, individual-mortality application of “soud” explicitly (Heb 9:27) rather than letting the courtroom association remain abstract/institutional.

1.6 Faith of the Old Testament Saints

Available Czech Terms	Weaknesses	Recommended Strategy
víra/vírou, jistota, důkaz/přesvědčení, odměna, cizinci a příchozí	Baseline already flags “víra” as defaulting to generic belief/self-confidence with no automatic religious referent. Hebrews 11 intensifies the stakes: the 18-fold anaphoric refrain “by faith” (πίστει) must render identically every time or the chapter’s rhetorical accumulation collapses. “Jistota” alone reads as ordinary certainty (including financial security) and does not automatically carry Hebrews’ sense of confident, God-grounded assurance. “Přesvědčení” defaults to subjective personal/political opinion. “Odměna” is ordinary wage/prize vocabulary risking a merit-based misreading that would contradict the baseline Grace doctrine.	Lock “vírou” as the fixed, invariant rendering of every one of the ~18 occurrences of πίστει in chapter 11; treat any deviation as an automatic flag. Accompany “jistota” (Heb 11:1) and “přesvědčení” with explanatory glosses anchoring both to God’s own trustworthy character, not subjective confidence. Frame “odměna” (Heb 11:6) explicitly as grace-empowered response to faith, not a wage earned by merit, cross-referencing the baseline Romans Grace doctrine note. Each Hall-of-Faith figure (Abel through Samuel) needs at least a one-sentence narrative anchor given the general absence of assumed OT literacy.

1.7 Perseverance and Assurance

Available Czech Terms	Weaknesses	Recommended Strategy
vytrvalost, výchova (Boží)/kázeň, odpočinutí, sobotní odpočinutí, kotva, naděje, přísaha, zaslíbení	”Vytrvalost” is a positively-regarded secular self-improvement virtue word, risking a willpower-based misreading detached from God’s sustaining grace. “Kázeň” defaults to punitive/military discipline; leading with it risks portraying God’s fatherly correction as harsh punishment rather than loving formation. “Odpočinek”(casual) vs. “odpočinutí” (formal/liturgical) — even the more formal word risks flattening into vague funerary sentiment (“odpočívej v pokoji”) rather than a specific, forfeitable promised inheritance. “Sobota” ordinarily just names the weekday Saturday. “Naděje” defaults to vague optimism.	Ground “vytrvalost” explicitly in God’s sustaining grace at every occurrence, not bare self-discipline. Lead with “výchova” (formation/upbringing) for παιδεία, using “kázeň” only as a secondary clarifying gloss, with explicit correction against a punitive reading (Heb 12:5-11). Use “odpočinutí” (not casual “odpočinek”) for κατάπαυσις but pair it with explanation that this is a specific promise that can be forfeited through unbelief, not vague eternal-rest sentiment. Explain “sobotní odpočinutí” (Heb 4:9) as a theological pattern rooted in Genesis 2, not a reference to the weekday. Distinguish “naděje” from wishful optimism by anchoring it to God’s oath/promise (Heb 6:13-19) in the same explanatory unit.

1.8 Access to God through Christ’s Blood

Available Czech Terms	Weaknesses	Recommended Strategy
důvěra/smělý přístup, přistupovat (k Bohu), svědomí, sloužit, krev, opona (chrámu)	A literal rendering of παρρησία as “smělost” risks the negative connotation of audacity/impudence in ordinary Czech. “Svědomí” is thoroughly secular guilt/ethics vocabulary with no automatic tie to objective standing before God. “Sloužit” defaults to ordinary employment/state service. “Krev” carries only medical/violence associations absent active narrative build-up.	Render παρρησία as “důvěra” (confidence) paired with “smělý přístup” (bold access), always framed as confidence Christ has secured, never the believer’s own presumption. Explicitly distinguish “svědomí” cleansed by Christ’s blood from mere psychological guilt-resolution. Build the sacrificial-atonement weight of “krev” narratively across Heb 9-10, 12-13 rather than assuming it activates automatically.

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2. Missing Vocabulary vs. Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods

2.1 Missing Vocabulary (no live Czech equivalent exists at all — must be built from nothing)

Concept	Greek	Gap Type	Strategy
Melchizedek and his “order”	Μελχισέδεκ, τάξις	No cultural referent whatsoever	Standalone OT-background explanatory unit required before Heb 5-7
Mercy seat	ἱλαστήριον	Term unknown outside Scripture reading	”Slitovnice” + mandatory explanatory note tied to Day of Atonement
Typological reading method (type/antitype/shadow/copy)	τύπος, ἀντίτυπος, σκιά, ὑπόδειγμα	No secular interpretive analogue	Teach as an explicit method, once, before deploying the vocabulary chapter by chapter
Shedding of blood (compound)	αἱματεκχυσία	No single-word Czech equivalent (rare NT compound)	Descriptive phrase “vylití krve” with typographic/commentary emphasis as the passage’s summary principle
Covenant/will double sense	διαθήκη (dual sense)	Structural lexical gap — Czech splits into two unrelated words	Mandatory translator’s note at Heb 9:16-17; cannot be solved by word choice alone
Outside the camp/gate	ἔξω τῆς παρεμβολῆς/πύλης	Depends entirely on unassumable Levitical background (Lev 16:27)	Explanatory unit connecting Heb 13:11-13 back to the sin-offering pattern
Sabbath-rest as eschatological pattern	σαββατισμός	”Sobota” only names a weekday	Explicit teaching of the Genesis 2 pattern before Heb 4:9
Eternal Spirit (ambiguous referent)	Πνεῦμα αἰώνιον	Genuine interpretive ambiguity in the source, not merely a translation problem	Preserve ambiguity; flag rather than silently resolve toward either the Holy Spirit or Christ’s own spirit

2.2 Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods (a Czech word exists but is contested by a stronger competing sense — requires active “fencing”)

Czech Term	Dominant Competing Sense	Doctrine at Risk	Fencing Strategy
oběť	Crime/accident “victim”	Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice	Active per-occurrence disambiguation in chs. 9, 10, 13; never assume context alone resolves it
usmířit	Interpersonal “making up” after a quarrel	Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice / Propitiation	Prefer full phrase “vykonat oběť smíření” over the bare verb wherever the forensic sense is load-bearing
velekněz / kněžství	Living Czech Catholic/Orthodox ordained clergy	Christ as Great High Priest	Mandatory first-use gloss: unique, unrepeated, no successor
prostředník	Paid commercial broker (insurance, real estate)	New Covenant / Mediator	Explicit contrast note distinguishing Christ’s costly, self-giving mediation from a paid go-between
nevěra (FORBIDDEN for ἀπιστία)	Marital infidelity/adultery	Danger of Apostasy	Never use; substitute “nevěřícnost/nedostatek víry”
odpadnout	Trivial “falling off”/“dropping out”	Danger of Apostasy	Heaviest available scaffolding + mandatory theologian review
vůdce (FORBIDDEN for ἀρχηγός/ἡγούμενοι)	Historical title fixed to “Führer”	Christ as Great High Priest / Church leadership	Never use anywhere in the curriculum; use původce/zakladatel and vedoucí/představení
kázeň	Punitive/military discipline	Perseverance and Assurance	Lead with “výchova,” use “kázeň” only as secondary gloss
soud	Civil/criminal courtroom trial	Danger of Apostasy	Draw out personal, individual-mortality application explicitly
charakter (false cognate, avoided)	Personality/character traits	Superiority over Angels (Christology, Heb 1:3)	Never use; render χαρακτήρ as “otisk/věrný obraz”
smlouva	Commercial/employment contract	New Covenant versus Old	Retained per baseline, but supplemented with mandatory 9:16-17 translator’s note
řád	Monastic order / medal / general orderliness	Christ as Great High Priest (Melchizedek’s “order”)	Always paired with disambiguating phrase, never left bare
vykoupení	Commercial share buyout	Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice / Redemption	Anchor explicitly to bondage-deliverance, leveraging (but not relying solely on) Czech carol resonance
stánek	Market/festival stall	Superiority over Priesthood (Tabernacle)	Active correction toward sacred-architectural sense every occurrence
smělost (avoided for παρρησία alone)	Audacity/impudence	Access to God through Christ’s Blood	Prefer “důvěra / smělý přístup” combined phrase, never bare “smělost”
anděl	Christmas/greeting-card cherub trivialization	Superiority over Angels	Restore seriousness via Heb 1:6 worship-command framing
hřích (reused baseline)	“What a shame/pity” idiom	Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice; pervasive throughout	Ongoing vigilance given far higher frequency in Hebrews than in Romans
milost (reused baseline)	Judicial clemency/pardon	New Covenant / Access to God (Heb 4:16 “throne of grace”)	Joint explanation required with “trůn” at Heb 4:16 specifically

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3. Transliteration vs. Paraphrase Decisions

Term	Decision	Rationale
Melchisedech	Transliterate	No Czech equivalent exists; proper name follows established Bible-tradition transliteration pattern (parallel to baseline’s “Mesiáš” treatment)
Abba (if recurring by cross-reference to Romans 8:15)	Transliterate, paired with “Otče”	Consistency with baseline; not independently generated new content in Hebrews but retained if quoted
Sion / nebeský Jeruzalém	Transliterate proper name + paraphrase qualifier	”Sion” transliterated; “nebeský” (heavenly) added to fence off contemporary geopolitical Jerusalem associations
Mesiáš / Kristus	Retain baseline distinction, do not merge	”Kristus” is the established Czech Bible proper-name form; “Mesiáš” carries the fuller OT-expectation content; Hebrews uses “Christ” more often as a name/title, so default to “Kristus” unless the OT-fulfillment argument is explicitly in view
ἱλαστήριον (mercy seat)	Paraphrase with explanatory apparatus, not bare transliteration	”Slitovnice” is an existing (if rare) Czech Bible word, not a transliteration target; needs explanatory note, not a new coined transliteration
χαρακτήρ	Paraphrase (“otisk/věrný obraz”), explicitly NOT transliterate/loanword	The Czech loanword “charakter” is a false cognate; transliteration would actively mislead
ἀρχηγός	Paraphrase (“původce/zakladatel”), explicitly NOT the natural-seeming “vůdce”	Historical collision overrides the more literal candidate rendering
διαθήκη (covenant/will wordplay)	Dual paraphrase (smlouva / závěť) + mandatory note, not a single transliteration	The Greek’s dual sense cannot be captured by any single Czech word or transliteration
σαββατισμός	Paraphrase (“sobotní odpočinutí”) rather than transliteration	A transliterated form would communicate nothing; “sobota” already exists and needs recontextualizing, not replacing
αἱματεκχυσία	Descriptive paraphrase (“vylití krve”), not transliteration	Rare NT-only compound; no established Czech Bible transliteration tradition exists for it, unlike “Mesiáš” or “Abba”
τύπος / ἀντίτυπος	Paraphrase with method-level teaching, not transliteration	These are common Greek words being used in a technical sense; transliterating them (“typos,” “antitypos”) would produce meaningless jargon for a general reader

General principle applied: transliteration is reserved for proper names and a small set of established Bible-tradition loanwords with existing recognition (Mesiáš, Abba, Amen, Haleluja per baseline). Newly-introduced technical Greek vocabulary in Hebrews (typology terms, ἱλαστήριον, αἱματεκχυσία) is paraphrased with mandatory explanatory scaffolding rather than transliterated, since transliteration would simply relocate the comprehension gap without resolving it for a low-biblical-literacy readership.

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4. Ranked List of Highest-Risk Ambiguities

Ranked by combined doctrinal severity and probability of misreading, given this Language Package’s documented risk profile (absence of framework > wrong rival framework, except where noted).

1. ἀφίστημι/παραπίπτω → “odpadnutí/odpadlictví” (Danger of Apostasy, Heb 3:12, 6:6, 10:26-31). Ordinary Czech “odpadnout” trivially means “fall off” or “drop out,” radically understating a willful, informed rejection of Christ. Compounded by contested interpretive history even within Christian tradition generally. Highest-severity because a soft rendering could either wrongly terrify readers over trivial lapses or, conversely, fail to communicate the passage’s real weight at all. Mandatory human theologian review, every occurrence.

2. ἀπιστία → FORBIDDEN “nevěra” vs. correct “nevěřícnost/nedostatek víry” (Heb 3-4). A single wrong lexical choice produces an entirely different, unintended claim (marital infidelity) rather than a weaker version of the right claim. High probability of accidental substitution by a translator reaching for the “natural” cognate-adjacent word. Mandatory glossary lock; automatic flag on any occurrence of “nevěra” in Hebrews text.

3. διαθήκη double sense at Heb 9:16-17 (covenant/will wordplay). The passage’s entire logical argument (a death is necessary because a διαθήκη requires it) becomes a non-sequitur in Czech without the translator’s note, since “smlouva” never means “last will” in ordinary usage. This is a structural, not stylistic, gap. Mandatory translator’s note, no exceptions.

4. τελειόω → “přiveden k dokonalosti” (Christ’s perfection, Heb 2:10, 5:9, 7:28). A careless rendering using ordinary “zdokonalit” implies Christ was previously morally deficient, directly corrupting the doctrine of his sinlessness. High severity because the error is a doctrinal corruption, not merely a comprehension failure. Mandatory human theologian review.

5. ἀρχηγός → FORBIDDEN “vůdce” (Heb 2:10, 12:2) and ἡγούμενοι → FORBIDDEN “vůdce” (Heb 13:7, 17, 24). The word “Vůdce” (capitalized) is fixed in Czech historical memory as the translation of “Führer.” Using it of Christ or church leaders would be a severe, avoidable cultural misstep. Ranked slightly below #4 because the correct alternative is simple and non-ambiguous once flagged. Automatic flag on any occurrence of “vůdce” anywhere in Hebrews material.

6. ἱλάσκομαι/ἱλαστήριον → “usmířit”/“slitovnice” (Propitiation/Mercy Seat, Heb 2:17, 9:5). Ordinary “usmířit” defaults to interpersonal reconciliation, missing the forensic/wrath-averting sense entirely; “slitovnice” is essentially unknown vocabulary. Cross-curriculum flag: same Greek word as Romans 3:25, which the baseline package left undefined as a standalone term — creates a retroactive consistency risk across the whole pipeline. Human theologian review; cross-reference to Romans package required.

7. κύριος → “Pán” at Heb 1:10, 2:3, 7:14, 13:20. Reused baseline Critical risk; Hebrews’ repeated christological argument for deity depends on this term carrying its full exclusive weight, but “Pán/pane” is also the everyday honorific for “Mister/Sir.” Ranked here rather than higher because the baseline already documents mitigation strategy (explanatory note); the risk is inherited, not new.

8. ἀρχιερεύς/ἱερωσύνη → “velekněz”/“kněžství” (Christ as Great High Priest, chs. 2-10 pervasive). Unlike most crowded-neighborhood risks in this package, this ones’s competing association is a living, currently-practiced Czech institution (ordained Catholic/Orthodox clergy), not a defunct or purely secular sense — arguably the single most “rival-framework-like” risk in an otherwise low-competing-framework Language Package. Requires sustained vigilance across nearly the entire book, not a single-passage fix.

9. οἶδα-adjacent “oběť” (“sacrifice”/“victim” double meaning), recurring 15+ times across chs. 9, 10, 13. No single occurrence is as severe as #1-#6 individually, but the sheer frequency and the passive-casualty misreading risk (undermining the intentional, priestly nature of Christ’s self-offering) make this a persistent, cumulative risk across the Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice doctrine as a whole.

10. ὑπόστασις rendered two different ways within one book (“podstata” Heb 1:3 vs. “jistota” Heb 11:1). Lower severity than the above because both renderings are individually defensible and doctrinally safe; the risk is losing the conceptual link between Christ’s essential being and the believer’s confident hope, a comprehension-depth loss rather than a doctrinal corruption. Native speaker + theologian cross-reference note required at both occurrences.

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5. Full-Book Chapter Coverage Log

Confirming PRD full-book-coverage mandate: every chapter of Hebrews reviewed; chapters contributing no new load-bearing vocabulary are noted explicitly rather than omitted.

Chapter	New/Load-Bearing Terms or Doctrines Introduced	Coverage Status
1	Son of God, radiance of glory (ἀπαύγασμα), exact imprint (χαρακτήρ), essential nature (ὑπόστασις — 1st sense), angel/worship, throne/scepter, prophet	Reviewed — high new-term density; see §1.1, §2.1, §2.2
2	Incarnation, propitiation (ἱλάσκομαι), pioneer/founder (ἀρχηγός), sympathize	Reviewed — Critical forbidden-substitution term introduced (ἀρχηγός)
3	House of God (οἶκος), unbelief (ἀπιστία), harden heart, holy calling, rest (κατάπαυσις, initial)	Reviewed — Critical forbidden-substitution term introduced (ἀπιστία)
4	Sabbath rest (σαββατισμός), living/active word, sympathize (continued), throne of grace anticipated	Reviewed — new missing-vocabulary term (σαββατισμός)
5	High priest, Melchizedek (introduced), perfected/τελειόω (introduced)	Reviewed — two Critical terms introduced
6	Once for all (ἅπαξ, introduced), anchor of hope, oath, promise, falling away (ἀφίστημι, introduced)	Reviewed — two High/Critical refrain terms introduced
7	Melchizedek (developed), order/τάξις, priesthood, mediator, oath, better, indestructible priesthood, tithe	Reviewed — dense priesthood vocabulary cluster; see §1.2
8	New Covenant, obsolete/growing old, pattern/type (τύπος, introduced), shadow, Jeremiah 31 quotation	Reviewed — foundational typology term introduced
9	Core passage. Covenant/will wordplay, mercy seat, cherubim, veil, tabernacle, sprinkle, defiled, dead works, redemption, shedding of blood, put away sin, bear sins, copies/antitype/true things, judgment, conscience	Reviewed in full depth per core-passage anchor status; highest term density in the book
10	Once for all (developed), sanctification, access/confidence (παρρησία), draw near, shrink back, destruction/perdition, judgment (developed), faith/endurance transition	Reviewed — Access to God doctrine’s primary chapter
11	Faith (18x anaphora), assurance/substance (ὑπόστασις — 2nd sense), evidence/conviction, reward, strangers and exiles, full roll of OT saints’ proper names	Reviewed — Faith of OT Saints doctrine’s primary chapter
12	Discipline/formation (παιδεία), endurance, Zion/heavenly Jerusalem, unshakeable kingdom, Father (discipline sense), church/assembly (12:23)	Reviewed — Perseverance doctrine’s primary chapter
13	Brotherly love, hospitality, leaders (ἡγούμενοι, forbidden-substitution risk), altar, outside the camp, sacrifice of praise, benediction (grace, peace, resurrection reprise)	Reviewed — closing chapter; reprises Resurrection and Covenant doctrines

No chapter of Hebrews is unreviewed. Chapters 1-2, 5-9, and 11-13 carry the highest new-term density; chapters 3-4 and 10 primarily develop terms introduced elsewhere rather than introducing large new clusters, but each still contains at least one Critical-risk item (unbelief in ch. 3; Sabbath rest in ch. 4; access/confidence and judgment in ch. 10) and is therefore treated as load-bearing, not merely transitional.

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6. Summary Recommendations for Phase 2

1. Adopt every term in §1-§3 above into an updated translation_memory.json (version increment) before any Hebrews segment translation begins, consistent with the Core Glossary (08) already produced.
2. Apply the ranked ambiguity list (§4) as the primary review-routing priority order within the Critical/High tiers already defined by the baseline risk framework — items #1-#6 above require human theologian review on every occurrence without exception.
3. Treat crowded-neighborhood terms (§2.2) as requiring per-occurrence disambiguation review, not merely a one-time glossary decision, given how frequently several of them recur across the whole book (oběť, hřích, kázeň, soud).
4. Treat missing-vocabulary terms (§2.1) as requiring standalone explanatory units delivered before the relevant chapter’s content, not merely inline glosses at first use.
5. Escalate the ἱλαστήριον/Romans 3:25 cross-curriculum inconsistency (§4, item 6) to the pipeline’s cross-curriculum consistency review process, since it affects both the Hebrews and Romans Language Packages simultaneously.