Core Glossary
Core Glossary — 2 John (Koine Greek → Dogri)
This glossary consolidates every load-bearing theological term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md, citing terms from every verse of the book (2 John’s single chapter). Terms already fixed in the baseline Romans translation_memory.json are marked [BASELINE — REUSE EXACTLY] and must not be altered. New terms proposed for this curriculum are marked [NEW] and should be added to translation memory (with version increment) before Phase 2 processing begins, per the escalation procedure in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.
Part A — Reused Baseline Terms (2 John occurrences)
| English Term | Original Greek | Dogri Term | Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | 2 John Verses | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| grace | χάρις (charis) | बिना कमाई दित्ती दया | bina kamai ditti daya | Critical | Grace | 1:3 | Reuse exactly. Appears alongside ἔλεος (mercy) and εἰρήνη (peace); see Part B for the new ἔλεος term needed to avoid collision with दया, already claimed by this compound. |
| peace | εἰρήνη (eirēnē) | शान्ति | shanti | Medium | Peace with God | 1:3 | Reuse exactly. |
| God | θεός (theos) | परमेश्वर | Parmeshwar | Critical | Deity of Christ / God | 1:3, 1:4, 1:9 | Reuse exactly. In 1:9, “does not have God” — severity of the verdict must be preserved. |
| Father | πατήρ (patēr) | पिता | pita | Critical | Adoption / Sonship of Christ | 1:3, 1:4, 1:9 | Reuse exactly. |
| Jesus | Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous) | यीशु | Yishu | Critical | Lordship of Christ | 1:3, 1:7 | Reuse exactly. |
| Christ | Χριστός (Christos) | मसीह | Masih | Critical | Messianic Promise | 1:3, 1:7, 1:9 | Reuse exactly. |
| Son of God / Son | υἱὸς (θεοῦ) (huios [theou]) | परमेश्वर दा पुत्तर / पुत्तर | Parmeshwar da puttar / puttar | Critical | Sonship of Christ | 1:3, 1:9 | Reuse exactly. 1:3 uses “Son of the Father” construction — same doctrine, adapted phrase. |
| Incarnation (“coming in the flesh”) | ἐρχόμενον ἐν σαρκί (erchomenon en sarki) | मानखे दा रूप लैना | mankhe da roop laina | Critical | Incarnation | 1:7 | Reuse exactly. NEVER अवतार. This is 2 John’s central doctrinal warning; the false teachers deny precisely this. |
| fellowship (positive sense only) | κοινωνία (koinōnia) | संगत | sangat | Low | Christian Fellowship | — (not used in 2 John; κοινωνέω in 1:11 is a different, negative use — see Part B) | Do not reuse संगत for 1:11. The verb κοινωνέω in 1:11 describes sharing in evil works, not Christian fellowship. Using संगत there would wrongly import this term’s established positive associations. |
Part B — New Terms Proposed for This Curriculum
| English Term | Original Greek | Transliteration | Literal Meaning | Dogri Term | Dogri Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | 2 John Verses | Alternatives Rejected | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| truth | ἀλήθεια | alētheia | ”unhiddenness, that which is not concealed” | सच्चाई | sachai | High | Walking in Truth and Love | 1:1 (x2), 1:2, 1:3, 1:4 | सत्य (Vedantic “Ultimate Reality/impersonal absolute,” a competing philosophical category that would wrongly universalize/depersonalize the apostolic gospel-truth into a monist metaphysical claim) | The letter’s most frequent term (5x in vv.1–4 alone). Must consistently denote the specific, personal, apostolic truth about Christ and the conduct that flows from it — not an abstract philosophical category. |
| love | ἀγάπη | agapē | ”selfless, deliberate, willed love” | प्रेम | prem | High | Walking in Truth and Love | 1:1, 1:3, 1:5, 1:6 (x2) | भक्ति (devotional love directed at a deity through shrine worship/vow-offering; carries the same transactional-devotional risk the baseline already flags for grace/spiritual gifts); रास-लीला-associated romantic-love framing | Defined in 1:6 as obedient “walking according to Christ’s commandments” — love and obedience are functionally identified, not merely emotional. |
| abide / remain | μένω | menō | ”to stay, remain, continue, dwell” | बणे रौना | bane rauna | High | Perseverance in the Teaching of Christ | 1:2, 1:9 (x2) | ठहरणा/स्थिति च रौना alone (risk of evoking a yogic/Vedantic sthiti — a static, contentless meditative-absorption state, rather than active, relational, doctrinal perseverance) | Structural keyword of the letter: truth abides in believers (1:2); one must abide in Christ’s teaching to have God (1:9). Consistency across both occurrences is essential. |
| commandment | ἐντολή | entolē | ”injunction, charge, order” | हुकम | hukam | Medium | Walking in Truth and Love | 1:4, 1:5, 1:6 | धरम (would trigger the same Dogra Rajput lineage/social-duty associations the baseline already forbids for νόμος/“law”) | Source shifts from “the Father” (1:4) to “his [Christ’s]” (1:6) — a quiet Christological claim; preserve this shift rather than flattening both to a generic “God’s commandment.” |
| teaching (of Christ) | διδαχή | didachē | ”instruction, doctrine” | शिक्षा | shiksha | High | Perseverance in the Teaching of Christ | 1:9 (x2), 1:10 | सिख (dangerous homograph/near-homophone with “Sikh,” the major religious community of neighboring Punjab — a serious, concrete confusion risk, not a generic register concern); गुरमत/गुरु-ग्यान (frames Christ’s teaching as one guru’s instruction among the region’s many venerated teachers) | The single doctrinal test governing both the “does not have God” verdict (1:9) and the hospitality instruction (1:10). Must render identically across 1:9–10. |
| deceiver | πλάνος | planos | ”wanderer, one who leads astray” (from πλανάω) | भरमाने वाला | bharmane wala | High | Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation | 1:7 (x2) | धोखेबाज़ (too colloquial/criminal-register for formal theological prose) | Root sense (“wanderer/one who causes wandering”) maps naturally onto भरम (delusion/confusion), giving a strong, faithful semantic fit. |
| antichrist | ἀντίχριστος | antichristos | ”against Christ, opposed to Christ” | मसीह-बिरोधी | Masih-birodhi | Critical | Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation | 1:7 | (no viable transliteration alternative considered adequate; a bare loan-word would obscure the term’s built-in meaning) | Must be taught as defined by denial of the Incarnation (1:7’s immediate context), not merely as “a powerful future enemy of God,” which is the likely folk-default reading absent explicit instruction. Directly escalates to human theologian review per the Critical tier. |
| confess | ὁμολογέω | homologeō | ”to say the same thing, acknowledge openly” | मन्नना | mannana | High | Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation | 1:7 | कहणा (mere “say,” too weak — loses the sense of formal, public doctrinal affirmation) | Parallels the weight the baseline places on the Romans 10:9 Lordship confession; confessing Christ’s coming in the flesh is the boundary-marking act of authentic faith in this letter. |
| world | κόσμος | kosmos | ”ordered system, the created/human world” | दुनिया | duniya | Medium-High | Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation | 1:7 | संसार (carries the strong Hindu/Buddhist connotation of the cyclical, illusory round of rebirth/māyā — a fundamentally different concept from κόσμος as the real, created, but morally fallen human sphere) | Low ambiguity once संसार is excluded; दुनिया is the safe, everyday-register choice already implicitly favored by the baseline’s broader avoidance of rebirth-cycle vocabulary (cf. its treatment of मुक्ति/resurrection). |
| share/partake in (evil works) | κοινωνέω | koinōneō | ”to share, participate, have partnership with” | साझा करना | sanjha karna | High | Hospitality and Doctrinal Discernment | 1:11 | संगत रखणा (the baseline’s positive Christian-fellowship term, reserved for κοινωνία in its positive doctrinal sense; reusing it here for sharing in evil works would badly confuse that established term) | Same Greek root as the baseline’s fellowship entry, but an intentionally different Dogri word is required here because the moral valence is opposite. This distinction must be recorded explicitly in translation memory to prevent Phase 2 pattern-matching from defaulting to संगत. |
| evil works | ἔργα πονηρά | erga ponēra | ”wicked/evil deeds” | बुरे कम्म | bure kamm | High | Hospitality and Doctrinal Discernment | 1:11 | बुरे कर्म (“karma” — carries the entire Hindu doctrinal framework of action generating destiny/rebirth, an entirely different moral-metaphysical mechanism than biblically culpable evil deeds) | कम्म (plain “work/deed”) is already used safely in the baseline (प्रचार दा कम्म, “the work of proclamation”); reuse that safe register rather than reaching for कर्म. |
| elder | πρεσβύτερος | presbyteros | ”older man, elder” | कलीसिया दा बुजुर्ग | kalisiya da buzurg | Medium | (Authorial self-identification; supports Doctrinal Discernment doctrine) | 1:1 | पंच/सरपंच (village-panchayat elder/headman — a customary secular-legal village authority role, not the intended pastoral-spiritual office) | The author’s chosen self-designation, signaling recognized pastoral authority behind the letter’s warnings. |
| (elect/dear) lady | κυρία | kyria | ”lady, mistress” (fem. of κύριος) | आदरणीय बीबी | aadarniya bibi | Medium | (Address form; supports Walking in Truth and Love doctrine) | 1:1, 1:5 | महारानी (a Dogra dynastic queen-title, echoing the same risk already flagged for महाराजा/“Lord” in the baseline — avoid any dynastic-royal register here) | Translator note required: κυρία shares its root with κύριος (baseline lord, प्रभु) but must never be rendered with प्रभु or any Lordship-implying term; this is a social honorific for a woman, unrelated in referent to Christ’s Lordship despite the shared Greek root. |
| elect / chosen (adjective, of persons) | ἐκλεκτή | eklektē | ”chosen, selected” | चुणी गेई | chuni gei | Medium | (Supports Effectual Calling / Election doctrine, per baseline election entry) | 1:1, 1:13 | — | Adjectival form parallel to the baseline’s election noun entry (परमेश्वर दी चोन); apply consistently to both the “elect lady” (1:1) and “elect sister” (1:13). |
| go on ahead / transgress | προάγω | proagō | ”to go before, go ahead of, lead forward” | अग्गे लंघ जाणा | agge langh jana | High | Perseverance in the Teaching of Christ | 1:9 | (no softer alternative accepted — any rendering suggesting authentic progress/advancement would invert the verse’s meaning) | Must be clearly framed as departure/transgression, not legitimate spiritual advancement — a live risk given regional narratives of staged spiritual progress toward moksha/liberation through successive practice. |
| full reward | μισθὸς πλήρης | misthos plērēs | ”a full/complete wage or reward” | पूरा इनाम | pura inaam | High | Perseverance in the Teaching of Christ | 1:8 | फल/करम-फल-adjacent language (फल risks evoking कर्म-फल, “the fruit of karma” — a deterministic action-to-destiny mechanism entirely unlike the gracious eschatological reward in view) | इनाम (a common Persian-origin loanword already naturalized in Dogri/Punjabi for “reward/prize”) avoids the करम-फल collision cleanly. |
| mercy | ἔλεος | eleos | ”compassion, pity toward the needy/guilty” | करुणा | karuna | Medium-High | (Supports Grace doctrine; distinct from χάρις in the same verse) | 1:3 | दया alone (already fully claimed by the baseline’s grace compound, बिना कमाई दित्ती दया; reusing it for ἔλεος in the same verse as χάρις would collapse two distinct Greek terms into a repetitive, confusing Dogri phrase) | करुणा carries a secondary Buddhist/Jain compassion-virtue association; acceptable here since the required sense (God’s compassionate disposition toward the needy) is compatible, but flag for confirmation against the BSI Dogri Bible if available. |
| receive into the house (hospitality) | λαμβάνετε … εἰς οἰκίαν | lambanete … eis oikian | ”take/receive … into a house” | घर च लैणा (positive) / घर च नेईं लैणा (negated, as in 1:10) | ghar ch laina / ghar ch nein laina | High / Culturally Critical | Hospitality and Doctrinal Discernment | 1:10 | — | Major cultural collision: conflicts directly with the deeply held North Indian/Duggar hospitality norm “Atithi Devo Bhava” (अतिथि देवो भव, “the guest is to be honored as God”) and with Dogra Rajput izzat-culture hospitality expectations. Must be taught as a narrow, doctrine-specific exception (tied strictly to denial of the Incarnation, 1:7) — never as generalized license for inhospitality to strangers. Requires human theologian AND native-speaker cultural review. |
| give a greeting (hospitality formula) | χαίρειν … λέγετε | chairein … legete | ”say to him, ‘rejoice/greetings‘“ | खुशी दी दुआ देणा (positive) / खुशी दी दुआ नेईं देणी (negated, as in 1:10) | khushi di dua dena / khushi di dua nein deni | High / Culturally Critical | Hospitality and Doctrinal Discernment | 1:10, 1:11 | नमस्ते बुलाना alone (too casual/generic; loses the sense of a formal, socially weighted blessing exchange) | Same cultural-collision profile as the hospitality entry above; withholding a customary greeting/blessing is a serious social-honor act in Dogri culture and must be explained pastorally, not merely translated literally. |
| children | τέκνα | tekna | ”born ones, offspring” | बच्चे | bache | Low-Medium | (Supports Adoption/Church-family doctrines by extension) | 1:1, 1:4, 1:13 | — | Ambiguous between literal children and spiritual/congregational “children” (members under the elect lady’s care); do not force a single reading — flag ambiguity in Phase 2 segment notes. |
| sister | ἀδελφή | adelphē | ”sister” | बहण | bahan | Low | (Christian Fellowship, by extension) | 1:13 | — | Standard term; low doctrinal risk. |
| joy | χαρά | chara | ”joy, gladness” | खुशी | khushi | Low | (Christian Fellowship, by extension) | 1:12 | — | Standard term; low doctrinal risk. |
| walk (habitual conduct) | περιπατέω | peripateō | ”to walk about, go on foot” (metaphor: to conduct oneself) | चलणा / जीणा (context-dependent) | chalna / jina | Low | Walking in Truth and Love | 1:4, 1:6 (x2) | A literal “walking” verb alone (risks a locomotion reading rather than lifestyle/conduct) | Must consistently signal ongoing lifestyle/conduct, not a single physical act, across all three occurrences. |
Risk Summary for This Curriculum
| Risk Tier | Count (New Terms, Part B) | Count (Reused Baseline Terms, Part A) | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical | 1 (antichrist) | 6 (grace, God, Father, Jesus, Christ, Son of God, Incarnation — note: 7 baseline rows, several Critical) | Human theologian |
| High | 12 (truth, love, abide/remain, teaching, deceiver, confess, share/partake-in-evil, evil works, go-on-ahead, full reward, receive-into-house, give-greeting) | 0 additional (peace is Medium; fellowship is Low) | Human theologian (High) |
| Medium-High | 2 (world, mercy) | — | Human theologian (treat as High for routing purposes given syncretism risk) |
| Medium | 5 (commandment, elder, lady/kyria, elect/chosen adjective) | 1 (peace) | Native speaker review |
| Low-Medium | 1 (children) | — | Native speaker review |
| Low | 3 (sister, joy, walk) | 1 (fellowship) | Automated review |
Total new terms proposed for Dogri translation memory: 18 Total baseline terms reused without modification: 8
All Critical and High/Medium-High tier new terms in this glossary must be added to translation_memory.json (with version increment and theologian-review flag per 12_ai_translation_requirements.md’s escalation rules) before any Phase 2 segment translation of 2 John begins.
Critical Risk Terms
Grace
Approved rendering: बिना कमाई दित्ती दया
Transliteration: bina kamai ditti daya
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: मन्नत दा फल (a boon granted in response to a vow, as sought at Vaishno Devi shrine; never use), पुण्य (merit earned through right action, never use)
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. In 2 John 1:3, grace appears alongside mercy (ἔλεος, rendered करुणा — see this file’s Section B) and peace (शान्ति) in a single greeting formula naming God the Father and Jesus Christ the Son jointly as source. Must not be conflated with the mannat (vow-for-boon) exchange economy surrounding the Vaishno Devi pilgrimage.
God
Approved rendering: परमेश्वर
Transliteration: Parmeshwar
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: भगवान (broad Hindu deity usage, avoid for doctrinal precision)
Original: θεός
Category: God
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. In 2 John 1:9, the severe verdict ‘does not have God’ must retain its full force in Dogri — departure from Christ’s teaching is loss of relationship with परमेश्वर himself, not a minor doctrinal variance, and must never be softened in translation.
Father
Approved rendering: पिता
Transliteration: pita
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. In 2 John, used of God as co-source (with the Son) of grace/mercy/peace (1:4, 1:3) and as one of the two persons possessed by the one who abides in Christ’s teaching (1:9).
Jesus
Approved rendering: यीशु
Transliteration: Yishu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ईसा (used in Muslim/Urdu-influenced contexts; reserve for interfaith-dialogue framing only)
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Confessed in 2 John 1:7 as having come in the flesh — this confession is the letter’s confessional boundary-marker of authentic faith.
Messiah
Approved rendering: मसीह
Transliteration: masih
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. This baseline entry (indexed under ‘messiah’) is the same term used for the title ‘Christ’ throughout 2 John (1:3, 1:7, 1:9). Must never be treated as one of several locally venerated divine or avatar figures.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दा पुत्तर
Transliteration: Parmeshwar da puttar
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: अवतार (an incarnate deity-descent, e.g. Rama as Vishnu’s avatar at Raghunath Mandir, an explicit downgrade and rejected)
Original: υἱὸς (τοῦ πατρός)
Category: Christology
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. 2 John 1:3 names the Son, alongside the Father, as co-source of grace/mercy/peace — an implicit deity claim. 1:9’s ‘has both the Father and the Son’ must be preserved as a single indivisible possession, never two separable relationships.
Incarnation
Approved rendering: मानखे दा रूप लैना
Transliteration: mankhe da roop laina
Doctrine: Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: अवतार (never use; Raghunath Mandir’s Rama-avatar devotion makes this the single highest-salience wrong word in the Duggar region)
Original: ἐρχόμενον ἐν σαρκί
Category: Christology
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. NEVER अवतार. This is 2 John’s doctrinal hinge (1:7): the deceivers are defined precisely by their refusal to confess Christ’s real, permanent coming in flesh. Using अवतार here would align the letter’s condemned false teaching with the region’s most locally prestigious devotional category rather than exposing it as error.
Lord
Approved rendering: प्रभु
Transliteration: prabhu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: महाराजा (a title strongly associated with the historic Dogra royal dynasty, avoid as the primary term for Christ’s Lordship)
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. Not used as a title anywhere in 2 John’s text itself, but recorded here because κυρία (‘lady,’ 1:1, 1:5) shares its Greek root with κύριος. प्रभु must NEVER be used to render κυρία — see kyria in Section B below — since κυρία is a purely social honorific for a woman, unrelated in referent to Christ’s Lordship despite the shared root.
Antichrist
Approved rendering: मसीह-बिरोधी
Transliteration: Masih-birodhi
Doctrine: Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: bare transliteration (e.g. एंटीक्राइस्ट) — would obscure the term’s built-in meaning ‘against Christ’ and sever its definitional link to 1:7
Original: ἀντίχριστος
Category: False Teaching
NEW CRITICAL TERM. Must always be taught bound to 1:7’s defining clause (denial of Christ’s coming in the flesh) — not as a generic future end-times supervillain figure, the likely folk-default reading absent explicit instruction, reinforced regionally by Hindi television/film treatments of Western apocalyptic fiction.
High Risk Terms
Truth
Approved rendering: सच्चाई
Transliteration: sachai
Doctrine: Walking in Truth and Love
Rejected alternatives: सत्य (Vedantic impersonal Ultimate Reality/monist absolute; a competing philosophical category that would wrongly universalize/depersonalize the apostolic gospel-truth into an impersonal metaphysical claim; never use)
Original: ἀλήθεια
Category: Truth and Love
NEW TERM for this curriculum. 2 John’s most frequent term (5 occurrences in 1:1-4 alone). Must consistently denote the specific, personal, apostolic truth about Christ and the conduct that flows from it — not an abstract philosophical category.
Love
Approved rendering: प्रेम
Transliteration: prem
Doctrine: Walking in Truth and Love
Rejected alternatives: भक्ति (devotional love directed at a deity through shrine worship/vow-offering; carries the same transactional-devotional risk the baseline already flags for grace/spiritual gifts, never use)
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Truth and Love
NEW TERM. Defined in 2 John 1:6 as obedient conformity to Christ’s commandments — love and obedience are functionally identified in this letter, not merely emotional or devotional feeling.
Abide
Approved rendering: बणे रौना
Transliteration: bane rauna
Doctrine: Perseverance in the Teaching of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ठहरणा / स्थिति च रौना used alone (risks evoking a yogic/Vedantic sthiti — a static, contentless meditative-absorption state — rather than active, relational, doctrinal perseverance; never use alone as the sole rendering)
Original: μένω
Category: Perseverance
NEW TERM. Structural keyword of the letter (μένω): truth abides in believers (1:2), and one must abide in Christ’s teaching to have God (1:9, used twice). Consistency across all three occurrences is essential.
Teaching
Approved rendering: शिक्षा
Transliteration: shiksha
Doctrine: Perseverance in the Teaching of Christ
Rejected alternatives: सिख (a dangerous homograph/near-homophone with ‘Sikh,’ the major religious community of neighboring Punjab — a concrete referential confusion risk, not merely a register concern; never use), गुरमत / गुरु-ग्यान (frames Christ’s teaching as one guru’s instruction among the region’s many venerated teachers; never use)
Original: διδαχή
Category: Perseverance
NEW TERM. The single doctrinal test governing both the ‘does not have God’ verdict (1:9) and the hospitality instruction (1:10); must render identically across 1:9-10.
Deceiver
Approved rendering: भरमाने वाला
Transliteration: bharmane wala
Doctrine: Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: धोखेबाज़ (too colloquial/criminal-register for formal theological prose)
Original: πλάνος
Category: False Teaching
NEW TERM. Built on भरम (delusion/confusion), giving a strong natural fit to πλάνος’s root sense. Must connote active, culpable misleading, not innocent error.
Confess
Approved rendering: मन्नना
Transliteration: mannana
Doctrine: Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: कहणा (mere ‘say,’ too weak — loses the sense of formal, public doctrinal affirmation)
Original: ὁμολογέω
Category: Christology
NEW TERM. Parallels the weight the baseline places on the Romans 10:9 Lordship confession; confessing Christ’s coming in the flesh is the boundary-marking act of authentic faith in this letter (1:7).
World
Approved rendering: दुनिया
Transliteration: duniya
Doctrine: Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: संसार (carries the strong Hindu/Buddhist connotation of the cyclical, illusory māyā round of rebirth — a fundamentally different concept than κόσμος as the real, created, but morally fallen human sphere; never use)
Original: κόσμος
Category: False Teaching
NEW TERM. The sphere of unbelief and opposition to God into which the deceivers of 1:7 have gone out.
Koinoneo Negative
Approved rendering: साझा करना
Transliteration: sanjha karna
Doctrine: Hospitality and Doctrinal Discernment
Rejected alternatives: संगत (reserved exclusively for the baseline’s positive doctrine of Christian fellowship/κοινωνία, Low risk; reusing it here for sharing in evil works would badly confuse that established term, never use)
Original: κοινωνέω
Category: Hospitality
NEW TERM. Same Greek root (κοινωνέω) as the baseline fellowship entry, but an intentionally DIFFERENT Dogri word is required in 1:11 because the moral valence is opposite — complicity in a false teacher’s evil works, not shared participation in Christ. This distinction must prevent Phase 2 pattern-matching from defaulting to संगत.
Evil Works
Approved rendering: बुरे कम्म
Transliteration: bure kamm
Doctrine: Hospitality and Doctrinal Discernment
Rejected alternatives: बुरे कर्म (कर्म carries the entire Hindu doctrinal framework of action generating destiny/rebirth, an entirely different moral-metaphysical mechanism than biblically culpable evil deeds; never use)
Original: ἔργα πονηρά
Category: Hospitality
NEW TERM. कम्म (plain ‘work/deed’) is already used safely in the baseline (प्रचार दा कम्म, ‘the work of proclamation’); reuse that safe register rather than reaching for कर्म.
Proago
Approved rendering: अग्गे लंघ जाणा
Transliteration: agge langh jana
Doctrine: Perseverance in the Teaching of Christ
Rejected alternatives: any rendering suggesting authentic spiritual progress/advancement — would invert 1:9’s condemnatory meaning into commendation, given regional narratives of staged progress toward moksha/liberation through successive practice; never use
Original: προάγω
Category: Perseverance
NEW TERM. Must be framed explicitly as departure/transgression from Christ’s teaching (1:9), never as legitimate spiritual advancement.
Full Reward
Approved rendering: पूरा इनाम
Transliteration: pura inaam
Doctrine: Eschatological Reward for Perseverance
Rejected alternatives: फल / करम-फल-adjacent language (फल risks evoking कर्म-फल, the deterministic Hindu doctrine of the ‘fruit’ of one’s actions shaping future rebirth, an entirely different moral-metaphysical mechanism than the gracious eschatological reward in view; never use)
Original: μισθὸς πλήρης
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM (1:8). इनाम, a naturalized Persian-origin loanword already common in Dogri/Punjabi, avoids the कर्म-फल collision cleanly.
Mercy
Approved rendering: करुणा
Transliteration: karuna
Doctrine: Grace, Mercy, and Peace from the Father and the Son
Rejected alternatives: दया alone (already fully claimed inside the baseline’s grace compound बिना कमाई दित्ती दया; reusing it here for ἔλεος in the same verse, 1:3, would collapse two distinct Greek terms into a repetitive, confusing triad; never use)
Original: ἔλεος
Category: God
NEW TERM (1:3). करुणा carries a secondary Buddhist/Jain compassion-virtue association, judged compatible here since the required sense (God’s compassionate disposition toward the needy) is consistent with it; flag for confirmation against the BSI Dogri Bible if available.
Receive Into House
Approved rendering: घर च नेईं लैणा (negated, as in 1:10) / घर च लैणा (positive form)
Transliteration: ghar ch nein laina / ghar ch laina
Doctrine: Hospitality and Doctrinal Discernment
Original: λαμβάνω εἰς οἰκίαν
Category: Hospitality
NEW TERM/PHRASE (1:10). MAJOR CULTURAL COLLISION: conflicts directly with ‘Atithi Devo Bhava’ (अतिथि देवो भव, ‘the guest is to be honored as God’) and Dogra Rajput izzat-culture hospitality expectations. Must be taught as a narrow, doctrine-specific exception tied strictly to denial of the Incarnation (1:7), never as generalized license for inhospitality to strangers. Requires human theologian AND native-speaker cultural review on every occurrence.
Give Greeting
Approved rendering: खुशी दी दुआ नेईं देणी (negated, as in 1:10-11) / खुशी दी दुआ देणा (positive form)
Transliteration: khushi di dua nein deni / khushi di dua dena
Doctrine: Hospitality and Doctrinal Discernment
Rejected alternatives: नमस्ते बुलाना alone (too casual/generic; loses the sense of a formal, socially weighted blessing exchange)
Original: χαίρειν λέγειν
Category: Hospitality
NEW TERM/PHRASE (1:10-11). Same cultural-collision profile as receive_into_house; withholding a customary greeting/blessing carries serious social-honor weight in Dogri culture and must be explained pastorally, never left as a bare, unglossed prohibition.
Medium Risk Terms
Peace
Approved rendering: शान्ति
Transliteration: shanti
Doctrine: Peace with God
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly. In 2 John 1:3, peace is named as the third of three distinct divine gifts (grace, mercy, peace) flowing jointly from the Father and the Son; must not be compressed or merged with the other two terms.
Commandment
Approved rendering: हुकम
Transliteration: hukam
Doctrine: Walking in Truth and Love
Rejected alternatives: धरम (would trigger the same Dogra Rajput lineage-duty and honor/izzat associations the baseline already forbids for νόμος/law; never use)
Original: ἐντολή
Category: Truth and Love
NEW TERM. The stated source shifts from ‘the Father’ (1:4) to ‘his [Christ’s]’ (1:6) — preserve this quiet Christological claim rather than flattening both occurrences to one generic phrase.
Elder
Approved rendering: कलीसिया दा बुजुर्ग
Transliteration: kalisiya da buzurg
Doctrine: Ecclesiastical Office and Address
Rejected alternatives: पंच / सरपंच (village-panchayat elder/headman — a customary secular-legal village authority role in Dogra rural society, not the intended pastoral-spiritual office; never use)
Original: πρεσβύτερος
Category: Church
NEW TERM. The author’s self-designation (1:1), signaling recognized pastoral office/seniority behind the letter’s authority.
Kyria
Approved rendering: आदरणीय बीबी
Transliteration: aadarniya bibi
Doctrine: Ecclesiastical Office and Address
Rejected alternatives: महारानी (a Dogra dynastic queen-title, echoing the same royal-register risk already flagged for महाराजा/Lord in the baseline; never use), प्रभु (would falsely import Christ’s Lordship title onto a purely social address for a woman despite the shared Greek root κύριος/κυρία; never use)
Original: κυρία
Category: Church
NEW TERM. Polite/honorific address to a woman (1:1, 1:5), possibly a proper name or a personification of a local church. The individual-vs-congregation interpretive ambiguity is genuine and should not be forced to a single resolution in translation.
Elect
Approved rendering: चुणी गेई
Transliteration: chuni gei
Doctrine: Divine Election and Calling
Rejected alternatives: किस्मत (impersonal fate, never use, consistent with the baseline’s election entry)
Original: ἐκλεκτή
Category: Church
NEW TERM, adjectival, parallel to the baseline’s election noun (परमेश्वर दी चोन). Applied to the ‘elect lady’ (1:1) and the ‘elect sister’ (1:13); apply consistently to both.
Children
Approved rendering: बच्चे
Transliteration: bache
Doctrine: Divine Election and Calling
Original: τέκνα
Category: Church
NEW TERM (1:1, 1:4, 1:13). Ambiguous between literal offspring and spiritual/congregational members under the elect lady’s care; do not force a single reading — flag the ambiguity in Phase 2 segment notes rather than resolving it.
Low Risk Terms
Fellowship
Approved rendering: संगत
Transliteration: sangat
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Rejected alternatives: यारी-दोस्ती (casual friendship, too weak)
Original: κοινωνία
Category: Church
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, copied exactly, reserved STRICTLY for the positive sense. The noun κοινωνία does not occur in 2 John, but its verbal root κοινωνέω occurs in 1:11 in a NEGATIVE sense (sharing in a false teacher’s evil works). Do NOT reuse संगत for 1:11 — see koinoneo_negative in Section B below for the required distinct term.
Sister
Approved rendering: बहण
Transliteration: bahan
Doctrine: Christian Joy and Fellowship
Original: ἀδελφή
Category: Church
NEW TERM (1:13). Standard term, low doctrinal risk.
Joy
Approved rendering: खुशी
Transliteration: khushi
Doctrine: Christian Joy and Fellowship
Original: χαρά
Category: Church
NEW TERM (1:12). Ensure ‘complete’ (पूरी) is understood as joy brought to its full, intended measure, not merely ‘a lot.‘
Walk
Approved rendering: चलणा / जीणा (context-dependent)
Transliteration: chalna / jina
Doctrine: Walking in Truth and Love
Rejected alternatives: a literal locomotion-only walking verb used alone (risks a literalistic reading rather than the intended lifestyle/conduct sense)
Original: περιπατέω
Category: Truth and Love
NEW TERM (1:4, 1:6 x2). Must consistently signal ongoing lifestyle/conduct, not a single physical act, across all occurrences.
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