Core Glossary
Core Glossary — 1 Thessalonians
This glossary lists every load-bearing theological term identified across the full analysis of 1 Thessalonians (07_semantic_analysis.md), organized by the curriculum’s five doctrines plus a cross-cutting “General/Reused” category. Risk tiers and review routing follow the same conventions as the baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json (Critical/High = human theologian review; Medium = native speaker review; Low = automated review).
1. The Return of Christ
| English Term | Greek (Transliteration) | Dogri Rendering (Transliteration) | Status | Risk | Chapters | Rationale / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Return of Christ / Coming (Parousia) | παρουσία (parousia) | प्रभु दा दुबारा आना (prabhu da dubara aana) | [NEW] | Critical | 2:19; 3:13; 4:15; 5:23 | Must NEVER be rendered with अवतार (avatar-descent), given the specific local salience of Kalki-avatar end-times expectation (Vishnu’s promised tenth avatar at the close of Kali Yuga) alongside the already-documented Raghunath Mandir Rama-avatar devotion. Christ’s parousia is his own unique, personal, bodily return — the SAME person who already came once (मानखे दा रूप लैना, baseline), returning visibly — not a first or repeated avatar-descent, and not one more cyclical divine intervention at an age’s end. |
| Descend (of Christ) | καταβήσεται (katabēsetai) | उप्परा ते उतरना (uppara te utarna) | [NEW] | Critical | 4:16 | Real, spatial, historical descent from heaven; must be read together with the parousia entry, not as a metaphor for inner enlightenment or avatar-descent. |
| Shout of Command | κέλευσμα (keleusma) | हुकम दी हांक (hukam di haank) | [NEW] | Medium | 4:16 | Sovereign summons; must not be softened to a mere invitation. |
| Archangel’s Voice | φωνὴ ἀρχαγγέλου (phōnē archangelou) | महादूत दी अवाज़ (mahadut di awaz) | [NEW] | Medium | 4:16 | Standard angelology; keep distinct from local spirit-messenger folklore. |
| Trumpet of God | σάλπιγξ θεοῦ (salpigx theou) | परमेश्वर दा तुरहा (Parmeshwar da turaha) | [NEW] | High | 4:16 | Must be kept structurally distinct from the shankh (conch shell) blown in Hindu temple ritual worship (Raghunath Mandir, Bahu Fort); the trumpet here is a summons/announcement of arrival, not a ritual-worship sound. |
| Clouds | νεφέλαι (nephelai) | बदल (badal) | [NEW] | Low | 4:17 | OT/NT theophany imagery; no known local syncretism risk. |
| Meeting (of the Lord) | ἀπάντησις (apantēsis) | मिलणी (milni) | [NEW] | Medium | 4:17 | Formal, honorific reception-and-escort imagery; must avoid महाराजा-style dynastic royal-court framing per baseline’s rejection of that title for Christ’s Lordship. |
| Caught Up (Rapture) | ἁρπαγησόμεθα (harpagēsometha, from ἁρπάζω harpazō) | उप्पर चुक्के जाणा (uppar chukke jana) | [NEW] | Critical | 4:17 | Bodily, sudden, decisive divine removal to meet Christ. Must NOT evoke merging with a mountain/deity (cf. Vaishno Devi cave devotional lore of the goddess entering/merging with the rock) or moksha-style dissolution into an impersonal absolute. This is bodily reunion with a personal Lord. |
| Always With the Lord | πάντοτε σὺν κυρίῳ (pantote syn kyriō) | हमेशा प्रभु कन्नै (hamesha prabhu kannai) | [NEW] | High | 4:17 | Pastoral climax of Hope-in-Grief doctrine; render with maximum warmth and unqualified assurance. |
| Crown of Boasting/Rejoicing | στέφανος καυχήσεως (stephanos kauchēseōs) | खुशी दा मुकुट (khushi da mukut) | [NEW] | Low | 2:19 | Eschatological reward-joy; keep distinct from merit-earning (कमाई गेई धरमीपन, rejected in baseline). |
2. Resurrection of Believers
| English Term | Greek (Transliteration) | Dogri Rendering (Transliteration) | Status | Risk | Chapters | Rationale / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fallen Asleep (death of believers) | κοιμωμένων / κοιμηθέντας (koimaomai) | (मौत दी नींद च) सुत्ते होए (maut di neend cha sutte hoye) | [NEW] | Critical | 4:13, 4:14, 4:15 | Hope-laden euphemism implying a future waking (resurrection), not annihilation. Must NOT be read through the North Indian śrāddha (ancestral death-rite) framework of ritually assisting the soul’s onward journey, and must NOT be confused with any transmigration/rebirth-transition concept. Mandatory translator note distinguishing this from finality and from reincarnation. |
| The Dead in Christ | νεκροὶ ἐν Χριστῷ (nekroi en Christō) | मसीह च मरे होए लोक (Masih cha mare hoye lok) | [NEW] | Critical | 4:16 | Specifically believers united to Christ, not the dead generally; must not be conflated with ancestral spirits who are objects of śrāddha rites. |
| Rise / Resurrection (future, of believers) | ἀναστήσονται (anastēsontai, from ἀνίστημι anistēmi) | मुर्दघरा चा जिंदा होणा (murdaghara cha jinda hona) | [Baseline TM — reuse exactly, extended sense] | Critical | 4:14, 4:16 | Extends the baseline’s Christ-resurrection phrase to believers’ own future bodily resurrection. Same phrase, same doctrine, never πुनर्जन्म (reincarnation). Translator note: this is not a new doctrine requiring new vocabulary — it is the same resurrection reality now promised to believers. |
| He Will Bring (God brings the dead with Christ) | ἄξει (axei, from ἄγω agō) | लेइयै आणा (leiyai aana) | [NEW] | High | 4:14 | Personal, relational act of God escorting deceased believers; not an impersonal transfer of merit/karma-residue. |
| Whether We Wake or Sleep | εἴτε γρηγορῶμεν εἴτε καθεύδωμεν (eite grēgorōmen eite katheudōmen) | चाहे जागदे रौंदे चाहे सुत्ते रौंदे | [NEW] | Medium | 5:10 | Note: καθεύδω here is a different Greek word from κοιμάομαι (4:13-15); keep Dogri vocabulary for the two “sleep” concepts distinguishable to avoid confusing moral wakefulness (ch.5) with the death-euphemism (ch.4). |
3. Sanctification
| English Term | Greek (Transliteration) | Dogri Rendering (Transliteration) | Status | Risk | Chapters | Rationale / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sanctification | ἁγιασμός (hagiasmos) | पवित्तरता (pavittarta) | [Baseline TM — reuse exactly] | High | 4:3, 4:4, 4:7 | Spirit’s ongoing work of making believers holy; distinct from ritual purification before temple worship/pilgrimage (baseline). |
| Holiness (state) | ἁγιωσύνη (hagiōsynē) | पवित्तरता (pavittarta) | [NEW, synonym of Baseline TM] | High | 3:13 | Near-synonym of ἁγιασμός; render to the same Dogri term family for consistency; flag nuance (state vs. process) only if pedagogically needed. |
| Sanctify Wholly / Completely | ἁγιάσαι…ὁλοτελεῖς (hagiasai…holoteleis) | पूरी तरह् पवित्तर करना (puri tarah pavittar karna) | [NEW] | High | 5:23 | God’s own complete sanctifying action; must not be read as attainable through ascetic self-effort or ritual purification. |
| Blameless | ἄμεμπτος / ἀμέμπτως (amemptos / amemptōs) | बेकसूर (bekasoor) | [NEW] | Medium-High | 3:13, 5:23 | Without fault to bring an accusation against; tied to the parousia’s arrival — a future-oriented moral standing, not present sinlessness by self-effort. |
| Sexual Immorality | πορνεία (porneia) | व्यभिचार (vyabhichar) | [NEW] | High | 4:3 | Broad NT moral-sin category; must not be diluted for cultural comfort, and must not be reframed as ritual pollution (भिट्ट, rejected in baseline for “sin”) or mere social-honor (izzat) impropriety. |
| Vessel (one’s own body) | σκεῦος (skeuos) | भांडा / अपना शरीर (bhanda / apna sharir) | [NEW] | Medium | 4:4 | Self-control over one’s own body in holiness and honor; interpretive ambiguity (body vs. wife) should be flagged for Phase 2, defaulting to “own body” unless BSI Dogri Bible has a settled rendering. |
| Brotherly Love | φιλαδελφία (philadelphia) | भाई-चारे दा प्यार (bhai-chare da pyar) | [NEW] | Medium | 4:9, 4:10 | Spiritual-family love among believers, available regardless of Dogra Rajput lineage/caste rank (izzat), not an honor-bound clan obligation. |
| Love | ἀγάπη (agapē) | प्यार (pyar) | [NEW] | Medium | 1:3, 3:6, 3:12, 4:9, 5:8, 5:13 | Selfless, committed love; must be distinguished from romantic love and from bhakti-style ecstatic devotional love directed at deities/shrines. |
| Quench the Spirit | σβέννυτε τὸ πνεῦμα (sbennyte to pneuma) | पवित्तर आत्मा गी गुल़ नेईं करना (pavittar aatma nu gul nahi karna) | [NEW] | High | 5:19 | Fire-quenching metaphor must not evoke ritual-lamp (diya/arti) imagery or Shakta goddess-power (शक्ति, already forbidden for Holy Spirit in baseline); the Spirit is the personal divine Third Person, being resisted, not a ritual flame or impersonal power-source. |
| Do Not Despise Prophecies | προφητείας μὴ ἐξουθενεῖτε (prophēteias mē exoutheneite) | भविष्यवाणियां गी हलके नेईं समझना | [Baseline TM for “prophecy”; NEW verb phrase] | Low | 5:20 | भविष्यवाणी reused exactly from baseline. |
| Test All Things | πάντα δοκιμάζετε (panta dokimazete) | हर गल्ल गी परखना | [NEW] | Medium | 5:21 | Communal discernment responsibility; same root δοκιμάζω as 2:4’s “approved by God” — keep terminology consistent. |
| Spirit, Soul, Body (whole person) | πνεῦμα, ψυχή, σῶμα (pneuma, psychē, sōma) | आत्मा, जीव, शरीर (aatma, jeev, sharir) | [NEW] | Critical | 5:23 | MANDATORY translator note: human “spirit” (आत्मा) here is a DIFFERENT referent from पवित्तर आत्मा (the divine Holy Spirit, baseline Critical term). Must not be taught through the lens of Hindu ātman (universal Self subject to transmigration); all three elements belong to one embodied person, preserved intact for bodily resurrection at Christ’s return — not liberated from embodiment via moksha. |
| Will of God | θέλημα τοῦ θεοῦ (thelēma tou theou) | परमेश्वर दी मरजी (Parmeshwar di marzi) | [NEW] | High | 4:3, 5:18 | Personal, purposive divine intention; never किस्मत (impersonal fate, rejected elsewhere in baseline). |
| Holy Kiss | φίλημα ἅγιον (philēma hagion) | पवित्तर चुम्मा (pavittar chumma) | [NEW] | Medium | 5:26 | Cultural greeting custom; may need culturally-equivalent warm-greeting rendering for Dogri custom while retaining “holy” (chaste, family-affectionate) sense. |
4. Hope in Grief
| English Term | Greek (Transliteration) | Dogri Rendering (Transliteration) | Status | Risk | Chapters | Rationale / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hope | ἐλπίς (elpis) | आस (aas) | [NEW] | High | 1:3, 4:13, 5:8 | Confident expectation grounded in a specific promise (resurrection/parousia), never a vague wish, never boon-hope in the Vaishno Devi mannat sense, never fatalistic resignation. |
| Grieve | λυπέω (lypeō) | दुखी होना (dukhi hona) | [NEW] | Medium | 4:13 | Grief itself is affirmed as legitimate; only hopeless grief is addressed — must not be rendered as a blanket prohibition on sorrow. |
| Comfort/Encourage One Another | παρακαλεῖτε ἀλλήλους (parakaleite allēlous, from παρακαλέω) | हौसला देना (hausla dena) | [Baseline TM — reuse exactly, context-sensitive sense] | Low | 4:18, 5:11, 5:14 | Baseline’s context-sensitive “exhort” entry; here select the comfort/encouragement sense, not the moral-urging sense. |
| Endurance / Steadfastness (of hope) | ὑπομονή (hypomonē) | सब्र/धीर (sabar/dheer) | [NEW] | Medium | 1:3 | Active perseverance grounded in certain future hope; not fatalistic resignation (किस्मत). |
| Fainthearted | ὀλιγόψυχος (oligopsychos) | कमजोर दिलआं वाले (kamzor dilaan vale) | [NEW] | Low-Medium | 5:14 | Direct pastoral application of Hope-in-Grief to ongoing congregational life. |
| Always With the Lord | πάντοτε σὺν κυρίῳ (pantote syn kyriō) | हमेशा प्रभु कन्नै (hamesha prabhu kannai) | [NEW] | High | 4:17 | (Cross-listed under Return of Christ; this is the pastoral center of the Hope-in-Grief doctrine.) |
5. The Day of the Lord
| English Term | Greek (Transliteration) | Dogri Rendering (Transliteration) | Status | Risk | Chapters | Rationale / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day of the Lord | ἡμέρα κυρίου (hēmera kyriou) | प्रभु दा दिन (prabhu da din) | [NEW] | Critical | 5:2 | Must be a specific, historical, moral-judgment event tied to Christ’s person and return — NOT the end of a cosmic cycle (Kali Yuga) awaiting a Kalki-avatar figure, and NOT an astrologically auspicious/inauspicious date (cf. baseline’s rejection of ज्योतषी for “prophet”). To be taught together with parousia and harpazo as a unified, non-cyclical, Christ-centered eschatology. |
| Wrath | ὀργή (orgē) | परमेश्वर दा कहर (Parmeshwar da kahar) | [NEW] | High | 1:10, 2:16, 5:9 | Personal divine judgment against sin, not impersonal karmic retribution. |
| Times and Seasons | χρόνοι καὶ καιροί (chronoi kai kairoi) | समां ते वेले (samaan te vele) | [NEW] | Medium | 5:1 | Deliberately non-calculable; contrast explicitly with astrological (jyotish) date-calculation, already flagged as rejected in baseline. |
| Thief in the Night | κλέπτης ἐν νυκτί (kleptēs en nykti) | राती दा चोर (raati da chor) | [NEW] | Medium | 5:2, 5:4 | Suddenness metaphor; must not be read as an omen or inherently inauspicious sign. |
| Sudden Destruction | αἰφνίδιος ὄλεθρος (aiphnidios olethros) | अचानक नाश (achanak naash) | [NEW] | High | 5:3 | Genuine personal-moral divine judgment, not an impersonal disaster or bad-fortune event. |
| Sons of Light / Sons of the Day | υἱοὶ φωτός / υἱοὶ ἡμέρας (huioi phōtos / huioi hēmeras) | चाऽनणे दे पुत्तर, दिनै दे पुत्तर | [NEW] | Medium | 5:5 | Light/darkness dualism; avoid conflating “light” with goddess-light/lamp devotional imagery (temple aarti). |
| Watch and Be Sober | γρηγορέω / νήφω (grēgoreō / nēphō) | जागदे रौह्णा ते होशियार रौह्णा | [NEW] | Medium | 5:6, 5:8 | Must be kept lexically distinct from κοιμάομαι (death-euphemism, ch.4) — different Greek words, different Dogri vocabulary required to avoid learner confusion. |
| Appointed to Salvation, Not Wrath | οὐκ ἔθετο…εἰς ὀργὴν ἀλλὰ εἰς…σωτηρίας | परमेश्वरे कहर आस्तै नेईं, उद्धार हासल करने आस्तै थाप्पेआ | [NEW/Baseline-extended] | Critical | 5:9 | उद्धार reused exactly from baseline; direct assurance-of-salvation statement tied to Day-of-the-Lord doctrine. |
| Armor: Breastplate of Faith and Love, Helmet of the Hope of Salvation | θώραξ πίστεως καὶ ἀγάπης, περικεφαλαία ἐλπὶς σωτηρίας | भरोसे ते प्यार दी झिलम, उद्धार दी आस दा टोप | [NEW] | Medium | 5:8 | Faith/love/hope triad re-deployed as protective equipment for the present in view of the coming Day; भरोसा and उद्धार [Baseline TM]. |
6. General / Reused Baseline Terms (Cross-Cutting)
These terms recur throughout 1 Thessalonians and MUST use the exact baseline Romans rendering; no deviation permitted.
| English Term | Dogri Rendering | Risk (per baseline) | Chapters in 1 Thessalonians |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gospel | खरी खबर | High | 1:5; 2:2, 2:4, 2:8, 2:9; 3:2 |
| Grace | बिना कमाई दित्ती दया | Critical | 1:1; 5:28 |
| Faith | भरोसा | High | 1:3, 1:8; 3:2, 3:5, 3:6, 3:7, 3:10; 5:8 |
| Called / Calling | सद्देआ होया / सद्द | High | 2:12; 4:7; 5:24 |
| Holy | पवित्तर | High | throughout |
| Saints | पवित्तर लोक | High | 3:13 |
| Sanctification | पवित्तरता | High | 4:3, 4:4, 4:7; 5:23 |
| Resurrection | मुर्दघरा चा जिंदा होना | Critical | 1:10 (Christ); 4:14, 4:16 (extended to believers) |
| Lord | प्रभु | Critical | throughout |
| Son of God | परमेश्वर दा पुत्तर | Critical | 1:10 |
| Jesus | यीशु | Critical | throughout |
| Messiah/Christ | मसीह | Critical | throughout |
| God | परमेश्वर | Critical | throughout |
| Holy Spirit | पवित्तर आत्मा | Critical | 1:5, 1:6; 4:8; 5:19 |
| Father | पिता | Critical | 1:1, 1:3; 3:11, 3:13 |
| Glory | महिमा | High | 2:12, 2:20 |
| Election | परमेश्वर दी चोन | High | 1:4 |
| Power of God | परमेश्वर दी सामर्थ | High | 1:5 |
| Kingdom of God | परमेश्वर दा राज्य | Medium | 2:12 |
| Gentiles | गैर-यहूदी | Medium | 2:16; 4:5 |
| Church | कलीसिया | Medium | 1:1; 2:14 |
| Prophet | नबी | Low | 2:15 |
| Prophecy | भविष्यवाणी | Low | 5:20 |
| Thanksgiving | धन्नवाद | Low | 1:2; 5:18 |
| Exhort/Comfort | हौसला देना | Low (context-sensitive) | 2:11-12; 4:18; 5:11, 5:14 |
| Mission (proclamation) | प्रचार दा कम्म | Medium | 1:8; 2:2, 2:9 |
| Fellowship | संगत | Low | (implicit, corporate life passages) |
| Sin | पाप | High | 2:16 |
| Salvation | उद्धार | Critical | 5:8, 5:9 |
| Incarnation (background reference, not directly named but underlying 4:14’s “Jesus died and rose”) | मानखे दा रूप लैना | Critical | (background to 1:10, 4:14) |
Coverage Statement
This glossary cites load-bearing terms from every chapter of 1 Thessalonians (1–5), organized under the curriculum’s five doctrines (The Return of Christ, Resurrection of Believers, Sanctification, Hope in Grief, The Day of the Lord) plus a General/Reused category for baseline-consistent terms. All baseline Romans Language Package renderings are reused exactly per the hard rule; no baseline term has been altered, softened, or replaced. All new terms are flagged [NEW] with a risk tier and a specific, grounded cultural/doctrinal rationale, ready for Step 2 (Cultural Gap Analysis) and Step 3+ confirmation before entering Phase 2 translation memory.
Critical Risk Terms
Grace
Approved rendering: बिना कमाई दित्ती दया
Transliteration: bina kamai ditti daya
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: मन्नत दा फल (vow-granted boon at Vaishno Devi, never use), पुण्य (merit, never use)
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Recurs at 1:1; 5:28 opening/closing the letter. Must resist mannat vow-for-boon transactional logic.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: मुर्दघरा चा जिंदा होना
Transliteration: murdaghara cha jinda hona
Doctrine: Resurrection
Rejected alternatives: पुनर्जन्म (reincarnation, never use)
Original: ἀνάστασις / ἀνίστημι
Category: Eschatology
Inherited from Romans package, EXTENDED sense. Used of Christ’s own resurrection (1:10) and explicitly extended to believers’ future bodily resurrection (4:14, 4:16) — same phrase, same reality, never a new term. Risk amplified in this book because ch.4 is an explicit grief context, the exact moment a reincarnation substitution would most naturally intrude.
Lord
Approved rendering: प्रभु
Transliteration: prabhu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: महाराजा (Dogra dynastic royal title, avoid)
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Recurs throughout; subject of the cosmic parousia event (4:16). Never महाराजा.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दा पुत्तर
Transliteration: Parmeshwar da puttar
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: अवतार (avatar-descent, explicit downgrade, rejected)
Original: υἱὸς αὐτοῦ (θεοῦ)
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Introduced at 1:10 as the one believers wait for from heaven; sets up the parousia’s forbidden-substitution logic.
Jesus
Approved rendering: यीशु
Transliteration: Yishu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ईसा (reserve for interfaith-dialogue framing only)
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Used throughout.
Messiah
Approved rendering: मसीह
Transliteration: masih
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Used throughout in the combined title ‘our Lord Jesus Christ,’ densest at 5:23.
God
Approved rendering: परमेश्वर
Transliteration: Parmeshwar
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: भगवान (broad Hindu deity usage, avoid)
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Explicitly contrasted with idols at 1:9 (‘the living and true God’).
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: पवित्तर आत्मा
Transliteration: pavittar aatma
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: शक्ति (goddess-power, never use), परमात्मा alone (never use)
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Active in gospel-reception (1:5-6); warned against being quenched (5:19), a passage newly requiring extra fencing against ritual-lamp/aarti fire-metaphor drift, and against confusion with the human ‘spirit’ at 5:23 (see spirit_soul_body entry below).
Father
Approved rendering: पिता
Transliteration: pita
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Addressed at 1:1, 1:3; 3:11, 3:13.
Salvation
Approved rendering: उद्धार
Transliteration: uddhar
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: मुक्ति (liberation from rebirth, never use), मनोकामना पूरी होना (wish/boon granted, never use)
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Object of the ‘helmet of hope’ (5:8); believers’ appointed destiny in explicit contrast with wrath (5:9).
Incarnation
Approved rendering: मानखे दा रूप लैना
Transliteration: mankhe da roop laina
Doctrine: Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: अवतार (never use)
Original: (background doctrine underlying 1:10, 4:14: Jesus’ real human death and bodily resurrection)
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Background doctrine underlying 1:10 and 4:14’s claim ‘Jesus died and rose’; foundational for correctly distinguishing the parousia (Christ’s RETURN) from a fresh avatar-descent — the SAME person who already came once, returning, not descending anew.
Parousia Return Of Christ
Approved rendering: प्रभु दा दुबारा आना
Transliteration: prabhu da dubara aana
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: अवतार (NEVER use), आगमन alone (under-specified, borrowed Hindi register)
Original: παρουσία
Category: Eschatology
NEW, highest-stakes term in this curriculum. Recurs at 2:19; 3:13; 4:15; 5:23. Given popular Duggar expectation of Vishnu’s Kalki avatar at the close of Kali Yuga, alongside baseline’s documented Raghunath Mandir Rama-avatar devotion, this must be taught as the unique, personal, bodily return of the SAME person who already came once (मानखे दा रूप लैना) — never a first-time or repeated avatar-descent, never one more cyclical divine intervention.
Descend Katabaino
Approved rendering: उप्परा ते उतरना
Transliteration: uppara te utarna
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Original: καταβήσεται (καταβαίνω)
Category: Eschatology
4:16. Real, spatial, historical descent from heaven; must be read together with parousia, never as inner-enlightenment metaphor or cyclical avatar-descent.
Caught Up Harpazo
Approved rendering: उप्पर चुक्के जाणा
Transliteration: uppar chukke jana
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: moksha-adjacent dissolution language (never use), merger-with-deity/rock phrasing evoking Vaishno Devi cave lore (never use)
Original: ἁρπαγησόμεθα (ἁρπάζω)
Category: Eschatology
4:17. Bodily, sudden, decisive divine removal by a personal God to meet a personal, returning Lord. Must NOT evoke the goddess entering/merging with the rock at the Vaishno Devi cave shrine, nor moksha-style dissolution into an impersonal absolute.
Fallen Asleep Koimao
Approved rendering: (मौत दी नींद च) सुत्ते होए
Transliteration: (maut di neend cha) sutte hoye
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers
Rejected alternatives: bare सुत्ते होए without qualifier (rejected, trivializes and risks śrāddha-adjacent drift), any phrase implying the soul’s onward ritual journey (never use)
Original: κοιμωμένων / κοιμηθέντας (κοιμάομαι)
Category: Resurrection
4:13, 4:14, 4:15. Hope-laden euphemism implying a future waking (bodily resurrection), NOT annihilation and NOT the North Indian śrāddha framework of ritually assisting the departed soul’s onward journey, and NOT rebirth-transition. This risk is amplified because the passage’s explicit subject is grief over the recently dead — the exact context in which a substitution would most naturally and comfortingly intrude. Mandatory translator note required at every occurrence.
Dead In Christ
Approved rendering: मसीह च मरे होए लोक
Transliteration: Masih cha mare hoye lok
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers
Rejected alternatives: मरे होए लोक alone, unqualified (never drop ‘in Christ’)
Original: νεκροὶ ἐν Χριστῷ
Category: Resurrection
4:16. Specifically believers united to Christ, never the dead generally; must not be conflated with ancestral dead who are objects of śrāddha veneration/propitiation.
Spirit Soul Body
Approved rendering: आत्मा, जीव, शरीर
Transliteration: aatma, jeev, sharir
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: Hindu ātman/transmigration framing (never use)
Original: πνεῦμα καὶ ψυχὴ καὶ σῶμα
Category: Sanctification
5:23. MANDATORY translator note: human ‘spirit’ (आत्मा) here is a DIFFERENT referent from पवित्तर आत्मा (the divine Holy Spirit, baseline Critical term) even though both use आत्मा. All three elements belong to ONE temporal, bodily-resurrection-bound person, kept intact for Christ’s return, not liberated from embodiment via moksha.
Day Of The Lord
Approved rendering: प्रभु दा दिन
Transliteration: prabhu da din
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: युग/युग दा खात्मा (Kali Yuga cycle-end framing, never use), any Kalki-avatar-arrival framing (never use)
Original: ἡμέρα κυρίου
Category: Eschatology
5:2. Must be a specific, historical, moral-judgment event tied to Christ’s own person and return — NOT a Kali Yuga cycle-transition awaiting Kalki, and NOT an astrologically calculable date. Must be taught together with parousia and harpazo as one unified, non-cyclical, Christ-centered eschatology.
Appointed To Salvation Not Wrath
Approved rendering: परमेश्वरे कहर आस्तै नेईं, उद्धार हासल करने आस्तै थाप्पेआ
Transliteration: Parmeshware kahar aastai nahi, uddhar hasal karne aastai thappea
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: any conditional or merit-based softening (never use)
Original: οὐκ ἔθετο ἡμᾶς εἰς ὀργὴν ἀλλὰ εἰς περιποίησιν σωτηρίας
Category: Salvation
5:9. उद्धार reused exactly from baseline. Direct assurance-of-salvation statement tied to the Day-of-the-Lord doctrine; must not be softened into a conditional or merit-based hope.
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: खरी खबर
Transliteration: khari khabar
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: सुसमाचार (Hindi Christian loanword; avoid as default so this curriculum reads as Dogri, not Hindi with Devanagari spelling)
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Recurs at 1:5; 2:2, 2:4, 2:8-9; 3:2. Must convey an authoritative announcement, not generic good news.
Faith
Approved rendering: भरोसा
Transliteration: bharosa
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: श्रद्धा (generalized devotional reverence, too broad)
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Part of the recurring faith-love-hope triad (1:3; 3:2-10; 5:8). Object of faith must always be recoverable from context.
Called
Approved rendering: सद्देआ होया
Transliteration: saddea hoya
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: सद्दा दित्ता (invited, too weak)
Original: καλέω
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Recurs at 2:12; 4:7; 5:24. God’s own faithfulness guarantees the call (5:24); never किस्मत.
Calling
Approved rendering: सद्द
Transliteration: sadd
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Noun form; underlies the effectual-calling sense throughout the letter’s exhortations.
Holy
Approved rendering: पवित्तर
Transliteration: pavittar
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: शुद्ध (ritual purity, avoid)
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. Recurs throughout (Holy Spirit, saints, holy kiss, holy living).
Saints
Approved rendering: पवित्तर लोक
Transliteration: pavittar lok
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: साधु (ascetic holy man, never use)
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Used at 3:13 of all believers accompanying Christ at his parousia, not an ascetic elite.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: पवित्तरता
Transliteration: pavittarta
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: शुद्धिकरण (ritual purification, avoid as substitute)
Original: ἁγιασμός
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. Given concrete ethical content in 4:3-7 and completed wholly in 5:23; never ritual purification.
Glory
Approved rendering: महिमा
Transliteration: mahima
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Believers called into God’s kingdom and glory (2:12); Paul’s converts will be his glory at Christ’s coming (2:20). Avoid aarti/temple-splendor metaphors.
Election
Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दी चोन
Transliteration: Parmeshwar di chon
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: किस्मत (fate, never use), मन्नत दा नतीजा (boon-outcome, never use)
Original: ἐκλογή
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Names the Thessalonian church itself as personally chosen by God (1:4).
Power Of God
Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दी सामर्थ
Transliteration: Parmeshwar di samarth
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Rejected alternatives: शक्ति (goddess-power, avoid)
Original: δύναμις
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. The gospel’s accompanying power, distinct from rhetoric (1:5).
Sin
Approved rendering: पाप
Transliteration: paap
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: भिट्ट (ritual impurity, avoid)
Original: ἁμαρτία (implicit, cf. ἁμαρτωλός contexts) / ἁμαρτάνω
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans package. Underlies persecutors’ guilt (2:16) and the call to abstain from sexual immorality (4:3).
Trumpet Of God
Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दा तुरहा
Transliteration: Parmeshwar da turaha
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: शंख (conch, NEVER use)
Original: σάλπιγξ θεοῦ
Category: Eschatology
4:16. Must be kept structurally distinct from the shankh blown in Hindu temple ritual worship (Raghunath Mandir, Bahu Fort); this is a summons/announcement of Christ’s arrival, not a ritual-worship sound.
Always With The Lord
Approved rendering: हमेशा प्रभु कन्नै
Transliteration: hamesha prabhu kannai
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Original: πάντοτε σὺν κυρίῳ
Category: Hope
4:17. Pastoral climax of the core passage and the Hope-in-Grief doctrine; render with maximum warmth and unqualified assurance, no hedge-language.
He Will Bring Ago
Approved rendering: लेइयै आणा
Transliteration: leiyai aana
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers
Rejected alternatives: impersonal passive ‘is carried’ constructions implying karma-residue transfer (avoid)
Original: ἄξει (ἄγω)
Category: Resurrection
4:14. God’s personal, relational act of escorting deceased believers with Christ; not an impersonal transfer of merit or karmic momentum. The dead believer is a person God brings, not a force or accumulated result.
Holiness Hagiosyne
Approved rendering: पवित्तरता
Transliteration: pavittarta
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: शुद्धिकरण (ritual purification, avoid)
Original: ἁγιωσύνη
Category: Sanctification
3:13. Near-synonym of ἁγιασμός; rendered to the same Dogri term family as baseline’s sanctification for consistency. Flag the state-vs-process nuance only if pedagogically needed.
Sanctify Wholly
Approved rendering: पूरी तरह् पवित्तर करना
Transliteration: puri tarah pavittar karna
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: ascetic self-effort/tapasya-style completion framing (avoid)
Original: ἁγιάσαι ὁλοτελεῖς
Category: Sanctification
5:23. God’s own complete, climactic sanctifying action, with God (or ‘the God of peace’) as explicit grammatical subject; must not be read as attainable through ascetic self-effort or ritual purification.
Sexual Immorality Porneia
Approved rendering: व्यभिचार
Transliteration: vyabhichar
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: भिट्ट (ritual pollution, rejected in baseline for ‘sin’), izzat/social-propriety framing (avoid; this is moral sin, not honor management)
Original: πορνεία
Category: Sanctification
4:3-5. Broad NT moral-sin category; doctrinal content must not be diluted for cultural comfort. Scope note: covers the wider NT category, not only marital infidelity.
Quench The Spirit
Approved rendering: पवित्तर आत्मा गी गुल़ नेईं करना
Transliteration: pavittar aatma nu gul nahi karna
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: diya/ज्योत lamp-extinguishing imagery co-occurring in the same sentence (avoid)
Original: τὸ πνεῦμα μὴ σβέννυτε
Category: Sanctification
5:19. Fire-quenching metaphor must not evoke ritual-lamp (diya/arti) imagery or Shakta goddess-power (शक्ति, forbidden for Holy Spirit in baseline). The Spirit is the personal divine Third Person being resisted by unbelief/disorder, not a ritual flame or impersonal power-source. Keep the verb tied grammatically to पवित्तर आत्मा गी and avoid nearby lamp-nouns.
Will Of God Thelema
Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दी मरजी
Transliteration: Parmeshwar di marzi
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: किस्मत (impersonal fate, never use)
Original: θέλημα τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Sanctification
4:3; 5:18. Personal, purposive divine intention explicitly identified with sanctification and with continual joy/prayer/thanksgiving.
Hope Elpis
Approved rendering: आस
Transliteration: aas
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Rejected alternatives: मन्नत/उम्मीद-वारी (vow-hope tied to shrine devotion, avoid)
Original: ἐλπίς
Category: Hope
1:3; 4:13; 5:8. Confident expectation grounded in Christ’s resurrection, never a vague wish, never mannat-style boon-hope, never fatalistic किस्मत resignation. Every doctrinally load-bearing occurrence should carry an explicit grounding clause tying it to the resurrection.
Wrath Orge
Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दा कहर
Transliteration: Parmeshwar da kahar
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: कोप (goddess-anger, e.g. Kali, requiring propitiation, avoid), किस्मत-based impersonal-disaster framing (avoid)
Original: ὀργή
Category: Eschatology
1:10; 2:16; 5:9. Personal divine judgment against sin, never impersonal karmic retribution or fate; never goddess-anger requiring ritual propitiation.
Sudden Destruction
Approved rendering: अचानक नाश
Transliteration: achanak naash
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: बदकिस्मती/किस्मत-family vocabulary (never use)
Original: αἰφνίδιος ὄλεθρος
Category: Eschatology
5:3. Genuine personal-moral divine judgment against the unprepared, never an impersonal disaster or bad-fortune event.
Idols Eidola
Approved rendering: मूर्तियां
Transliteration: murtiyaan
Doctrine: Turning from Idols to the Living God
Original: εἴδωλα
Category: God
1:9. Requires pastoral care given the prominence of Duggar temple murti-worship (Raghunath Mandir, Bahu Fort, Vaishno Devi). Doctrinal content must not be softened, but should be framed as addressing converts’ own past experience, not an attack on present neighbors’ practice.
Living And True God
Approved rendering: जिंदा ते सच्चा परमेश्वर
Transliteration: jinda te sachcha Parmeshwar
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: θεὸς ζῶν καὶ ἀληθινός
Category: God
1:9. Direct contrastive description against lifeless images; the contrastive force (‘living,’ ‘true’) must be retained precisely.
The Tempter
Approved rendering: परखने वाला (शैतान)
Transliteration: parakhne vala (shaitan)
Doctrine: Spiritual Opposition
Rejected alternatives: māyā-adjacent impersonal-illusion framing (avoid)
Original: ὁ πειράζων
Category: Sin
2:18; 3:5. Satan as a personal, hostile spiritual agent actively opposing the church’s faith, never an impersonal force of temptation or illusion.
Affliction Thlipsis
Approved rendering: दुख-कश्ट / दुख-तकलीफ
Transliteration: dukh-kasht / dukh-takleef
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: karma-as-punishment framing (avoid)
Original: θλῖψις / ἀγών
Category: Sanctification
2:2; 3:3, 3:7. Suffering as a normal, expected part of Christian life and gospel proclamation, not evidence of personal sin or bad फल (fruit of past deeds).
Medium Risk Terms
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दा राज्य
Transliteration: Parmeshwar da rajya
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Original: βασιλεία
Category: Kingdom
Inherited from Romans package. Believers called into God’s own kingdom and glory (2:12); distinguish from the region’s recently-ended princely-state political history.
Gentiles
Approved rendering: गैर-यहूदी
Transliteration: gair-yahudi
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Rejected alternatives: विदेशी (foreigner, too broad)
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Used of persecutors (2:16) and of those ‘who do not know God’ whose conduct believers must not imitate (4:5).
Church
Approved rendering: कलीसिया
Transliteration: kalisiya
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: मंदर (temple, never use)
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. The letter’s addressee (1:1); compared to the churches of Judea (2:14).
Mission
Approved rendering: प्रचार दा कम्म
Transliteration: prachar da kamm
Doctrine: Mission to the Nations
Original: εὐαγγελίζω / ἀγών
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. The proclamation work that brought the gospel to Thessalonica amid struggle (1:8; 2:2, 2:9). Be sensitive to colonial-era mission-school associations.
Peace
Approved rendering: शान्ति
Transliteration: shanti
Doctrine: Peace with God
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Named in the greeting (1:1) and in the title ‘the God of peace’ at the letter’s climactic sanctification prayer (5:23).
Shout Of Command Keleusma
Approved rendering: हुकम दी हांक
Transliteration: hukam di haank
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Original: κέλευσμα
Category: Eschatology
4:16. Christ’s own sovereign, authoritative summons-cry; must not be softened to a mere call or invitation.
Archangels Voice
Approved rendering: महादूत दी अवाज़
Transliteration: mahadut di awaz
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Original: φωνὴ ἀρχαγγέλου
Category: Eschatology
4:16. Standard angelology; keep distinct from local spirit-messenger/deity-messenger folklore, and keep distinguishable from the Lord’s own voice/descent in the same verse (cf. JW conflation of Michael with Christ).
Meeting Apantesis
Approved rendering: मिलणी
Transliteration: milni
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: दरबार-based royal-reception vocabulary (avoid; Dogra dynastic court-reception protocol)
Original: ἀπάντησις
Category: Eschatology
4:17. Formal, honorific reception-and-escort of an arriving dignitary; keep the analogy generic, not महाराजा/दरबार-style royal-court framing.
Wake Or Sleep Katheudo
Approved rendering: चाहे जागदे रौंदे चाहे सुत्ते रौंदे
Transliteration: chahe jagde raunde chahe sutte raunde
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers
Original: γρηγορῶμεν / καθεύδωμεν
Category: Resurrection
5:10, echoing 5:6-7. DIFFERENT Greek word from κοιμάομαι (death-euphemism, 4:13-15); Dogri vocabulary must stay lexically distinct so learners do not confuse moral-laxity ‘sleep’ with the hope-laden death-‘sleep.‘
Vessel Skeuos
Approved rendering: भांडा / अपना शरीर
Transliteration: bhanda / apna sharir
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: σκεῦος
Category: Sanctification
4:4. Self-control over one’s own body in holiness and honor. Genuine interpretive ambiguity (body vs. wife) in the Greek itself; default to ‘own body’ (अपना शरीर) as primary teaching gloss, flag for Phase 2 theologian/native-speaker review unless BSI Dogri Bible has a settled rendering.
Brotherly Love Philadelphia
Approved rendering: भाई-चारे दा प्यार
Transliteration: bhai-chare da pyar
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: φιλαδελφία
Category: Sanctification
4:9-10. God-taught love of fellow believers as spiritual family, available regardless of Dogra Rajput lineage/caste rank (izzat), not an honor-bound clan obligation.
Love Agape
Approved rendering: प्यार
Transliteration: pyar
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: bhakti-style ecstatic devotional-love framing directed at deities/shrines (avoid)
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Sanctification
1:3; 3:6, 3:12; 4:9; 5:8, 5:13. Part of the recurring faith-love-hope triad; selfless, committed love, distinguished from romantic love and from devotional bhakti-love.
Test All Things
Approved rendering: हर गल्ल गी परखना
Transliteration: har gall gi parakhna
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: πάντα δοκιμάζετε
Category: Sanctification
5:21. Shares root δοκιμάζω with 2:4’s ‘approved by God’; keep terminology consistent across the book. Communal discernment, not astrological or fortune-telling verification.
Holy Kiss
Approved rendering: पवित्तर चुम्मा
Transliteration: pavittar chumma
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Original: φίλημα ἅγιον
Category: Church
5:26. Cultural greeting custom; may need a culturally-equivalent warm-greeting gesture for Dogri custom while retaining ‘holy’ (chaste, family-affectionate) sense to avoid a romantic misreading.
Grieve Lypeo
Approved rendering: दुखी होना
Transliteration: dukhi hona
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Original: λυπέω
Category: Hope
4:13. Grief itself is affirmed as legitimate; must not be rendered as a blanket prohibition on all sorrow — only hopeless grief (‘as others who have no hope’) is corrected; the qualifying clause must never be dropped.
Endurance Hypomone
Approved rendering: सब्र/धीर
Transliteration: sabar/dheer
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Rejected alternatives: किस्मत-based fatalistic resignation (avoid)
Original: ὑπομονή
Category: Hope
1:3. Active perseverance that hope produces, part of the opening faith-love-hope triad; not fatalistic resignation.
Times And Seasons
Approved rendering: समां ते वेले
Transliteration: samaan te vele
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: साइत/मुहूर्त (jyotish astrological auspicious-timing calculation, never use)
Original: χρόνοι καὶ καιροί
Category: Eschatology
5:1. Must explicitly resist calculability, deliberately contrasted in teaching notes with jyotish date-calculation, a live regionally-consulted practice already flagged as rejected for ‘prophet’ (ज्योतषी) in the baseline.
Thief In The Night
Approved rendering: राती दा चोर
Transliteration: raati da chor
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: κλέπτης ἐν νυκτί
Category: Eschatology
5:2, 5:4. Emphasizes suddenness and need for readiness; must not be read as an omen or inherently inauspicious sign in local astrological framing.
Sons Of Light
Approved rendering: चाऽनणे दे पुत्तर, दिनै दे पुत्तर
Transliteration: chaanane de puttar, dinai de puttar
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: υἱοὶ φωτός / υἱοὶ ἡμέρας
Category: Eschatology
5:5. Light/darkness Hebraic idiom for believers’ identity; avoid conflating with goddess-light/lamp devotional imagery (temple aarti lamps).
Watch And Be Sober
Approved rendering: जागदे रौह्णा ते होशियार रौह्णा
Transliteration: jagde rauhna te hoshiyar rauhna
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: γρηγορέω / νήφω
Category: Eschatology
5:6, 5:8. DIFFERENT Greek word (γρηγορέω/νήφω) from κοιμάομαι, the death-euphemism of 4:13-15; must stay lexically distinct so learners do not confuse moral laxity with the hope-laden sleep of death.
Armor Of Faith Love Hope
Approved rendering: भरोसे ते प्यार दी झिलम, उद्धार दी आस दा टोप
Transliteration: bharose te pyar di jhilam, uddhar di aas da top
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: Dogra dynastic/military-symbol-specific armor framing (avoid)
Original: θώραξ πίστεως καὶ ἀγάπης, περικεφαλαία ἐλπὶς σωτηρίας
Category: Eschatology
5:8. Faith, love, hope redeployed as protective spiritual equipment for the present; भरोसा and उद्धार reused exactly from baseline. Dogra Rajput warrior heritage may resonate positively here, provided not tied to a specific historic Dogra military/dynastic symbol.
Full Assurance Plerophoria
Approved rendering: पूरा भरोसा/निश्चा
Transliteration: pura bharosa/nishcha
Doctrine: Gospel Power and Proclamation
Original: πληροφορία
Category: Faith
1:5. Related to but distinguishable from भरोसा (personal trust); modifies the degree of certainty accompanying gospel-reception.
Imitators Mimetai
Approved rendering: पैरू/नकल करने वाले
Transliteration: pairu/nakal karne vale
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Original: μιμηταί
Category: Church
1:6; 2:14. Positive discipleship-imitation of Paul, the Lord, and other suffering churches, not mere external mimicry.
Tested Approved By God
Approved rendering: परमेश्वर आसां परखे ते मंज़ूर कीते
Transliteration: Parmeshwar aasaan parakhe te manzoor keete
Doctrine: Apostolic Integrity
Original: δεδοκιμάσμεθα ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Faith
2:4. Paul’s ministry integrity validated by God’s own testing, not human approval-seeking; shares root δοκιμάζω with 5:21’s ‘test all things’ — keep terminology consistent.
Low Risk Terms
Prophet
Approved rendering: नबी
Transliteration: nabi
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: ज्योतषी (astrologer/fortune-teller, never use)
Original: προφήτης
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Referenced at 2:15 among those killed by persecutors of the gospel.
Prophecy
Approved rendering: भविष्यवाणी
Transliteration: bhavishyavani
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Original: προφητεία
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. To be honored, not despised, yet tested (5:20-21); distinct from astrological prediction.
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: धन्नवाद
Transliteration: dhannvaad
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία / εὐχαριστέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Paul’s habitual posture (1:2) and a command to the church ‘in everything’ (5:18).
Exhort
Approved rendering: हौसला देना
Transliteration: hausla dena
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, context-sensitive. In 4:18 select the comfort-in-grief sense, not moral urging; also at 2:11-12 (urging), 5:11, 5:14 (mutual encouragement).
Fellowship
Approved rendering: संगत
Transliteration: sangat
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Rejected alternatives: यारी-दोस्ती (casual friendship, too weak)
Original: κοινωνία (implicit)
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Implicit throughout the letter’s corporate-life passages.
Clouds Theophany
Approved rendering: बदल
Transliteration: badal
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Original: νεφέλαι
Category: Eschatology
4:17. OT/NT theophany imagery; no known local syncretism risk.
Crown Of Boasting
Approved rendering: खुशी दा मुकुट
Transliteration: khushi da mukut
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Original: στέφανος καυχήσεως
Category: Eschatology
2:19. Victor’s-wreath joy of presenting converts to Christ at his coming; keep distinct from merit-earning (कमाई गेई धरमीपन, rejected in baseline).
Fainthearted Oligopsychos
Approved rendering: कमजोर दिलआं वाले
Transliteration: kamzor dilaan vale
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Original: ὀλιγόψυχος
Category: Hope
5:14. Direct pastoral application of Hope-in-Grief to ongoing congregational life; low collision risk.
Medium-High Risk Terms
Blameless Amemptos
Approved rendering: बेकसूर
Transliteration: bekasoor
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἄμεμπτος / ἀμέμπτως
Category: Sanctification
3:13; 5:23. Without fault to bring an accusation against; a future-oriented moral standing anchored to the parousia, not present sinlessness achieved by self-effort or ritual merit.
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