Core Glossary
Core Glossary — 2 Timothy (English → Dogri)
This glossary consolidates every load-bearing theological term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md, across all four chapters of 2 Timothy. It is organized in two parts:
- Part A — Terms reused exactly from the baseline Romans
translation_memory.json. These renderings are locked; do not alter. - Part B — New terms introduced by 2 Timothy’s specific content, proposed here for the first time, with risk tier, rationale, and collision notes. These must be added to
translation_memory.jsonandbible_term_registry.jsonbefore Phase 2 translation begins, per the Translation Memory Load and Enforcement Instructions in12_ai_translation_requirements.md.
Risk tiers follow the baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json framework: Critical (human theologian review, every occurrence) · High (human theologian review) · Medium (native speaker review) · Low (automated review sufficient).
Part A — Reused Baseline Terms (Locked, Do Not Alter)
| English Term | Dogri Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Key 2 Timothy Passages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gospel | खरी खबर | khari khabar | High | 1:8, 1:10, 2:8, 4:5 |
| Grace | बिना कमाई दित्ती दया | bina kamai ditti daya | Critical | 1:2, 1:9, 2:1 |
| Faith | भरोसा | bharosa | High | 1:5, 1:13, 2:18, 2:22, 3:8, 3:10, 3:15, 4:7 |
| Righteousness | धरमीपन | dharmipan | Critical | 2:22, 3:16, 4:8 |
| Salvation | उद्धार | uddhar | Critical | 2:10, 3:15, 4:18 |
| Apostle | भेजेआ होया | bhejea hoya | Medium | 1:1, 1:11 |
| Called / Calling | सद्देआ होया / सद्द | saddea hoya / sadd | High | 1:9 |
| Holy | पवित्तर | pavittar | High | 1:9 |
| Sanctification-family (holy living context) | पवित्तरता | pavittarta | High | contextual background for 2:21, 3:12 |
| Resurrection | मुर्दघरा चा जिंदा होना | murdaghara cha jinda hona | Critical | 2:8, 2:18 |
| Lord | प्रभु | prabhu | Critical | throughout (1:2, 1:8, 1:16, 1:18, 2:7, 2:19, 2:22, 2:24, 4:1, 4:8, 4:14, 4:17, 4:18, 4:22) |
| Son of God (Christological background) | परमेश्वर दा पुत्तर | Parmeshwar da puttar | Critical | doctrinal background to Christology throughout |
| Peace | शान्ति | shanti | Medium | 1:2, 2:22 |
| Thanksgiving (background) | धन्नवाद | dhannvaad | Low | 1:3 |
| Church (background) | कलीसिया | kalisiya | Medium | doctrinal background for 4:2, 4:5 |
| Kingdom of God | परमेश्वर दा राज्य | Parmeshwar da rajya | Medium | 4:1, 4:18 |
| Sin (background) | पाप | paap | High | doctrinal background for 3:6, 4:16 |
| Glory | महिमा | mahima | High | 2:10, 4:18 |
| Power of God | परमेश्वर दी सामर्थ | Parmeshwar di samarth | High | 1:8, 3:5 |
| Messiah / Christ | मसीह | masih | Critical | throughout |
| Prophet (background) | नबी | nabi | Low | OT background for 3:15, 3:16 |
| Prophecy (background) | भविष्यवाणी | bhavishyavani | Low | OT background for 3:15, 3:16 |
| Covenant (background) | नियम | niyam | High | OT background for Davidic-covenant references |
| Election | परमेश्वर दी चोन | Parmeshwar di chon | High | 2:10, 2:19 |
| Providence | परमेश्वर दा प्रबन्ध | Parmeshwar da prabandh | High | 4:17-18 |
| David / Seed of David | दाऊद / दाऊद दे वंश चा | Daud / Daud de vansh cha | Medium/High | 2:8 |
| Jesus | यीशु | Yishu | Critical | throughout |
| God | परमेश्वर | Parmeshwar | Critical | throughout |
| Holy Spirit | पवित्तर आत्मा | pavittar aatma | Critical | 1:14 |
| Father (background) | पिता | pita | Critical | 1:2 |
| Exhort | हौसला देना | hausla dena | Low | 4:2 (context-sensitive) |
| Imputed righteousness (doctrinal background) | गिनी गेई धरमीपन | gini gei dharmipan | Critical | doctrinal background for 3:16-17, 4:8 |
Part B — New Terms Introduced by 2 Timothy
B.1 Scripture, Inspiration, and Sufficiency
| English Term | Dogri Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Rationale / Collision Note | Key Passages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scripture / Sacred Writings | पवित्तर शास्तर | pavittar shastar | Critical | शास्तर alone is generic North Indian vocabulary for any authoritative religious/philosophical treatise, including the Sanskrit textual tradition historically commissioned by the Dogra royal court. पवित्तर must always accompany it. | 3:15, 3:16 |
| God-breathed | परमेश्वरे दे फूक कन्नै लिखी गेई | parmeshware de phook kannai likhi gei | Critical | Must not be confused with the Vedas’ apauruṣeya (eternal, impersonal, authorless sound) doctrine or guru-transmitted revelation. Personal, purposive divine authorship through human writers. | 3:16 |
| Profitable / Useful | फायदेमंद | fayedemand | Low | Standard vocabulary. | 3:16 |
| Teaching / Doctrine | सिखलाई | sikhlai | High | Prefer this Dogri-Punjabi cognate over उपदेश, which carries guru-updesh/spiritual-discourse resonance from regional Hindu and Sikh devotional practice. | 3:16, 4:2, 4:3 |
| Sound doctrine / sound teaching | खरी सिखलाई | khari sikhlai | High | Deliberately parallel to baseline खरी खबर (“gospel”); reuses खरी (“true/genuine”) to build a consistent Dogri-specific term family distinct from Hindi/Sanskrit loans. | 4:3 |
| Reproof | दोष दिखाना | dosh dikhana | Medium | — | 3:16, 4:2 |
| Correction | सुधारना | sudharna | Medium | — | 3:16 |
| Training / Discipline (paideia) | धरमीपन आस्तै सिखलाई | dharmipan aaste sikhlai | Medium | Descriptive phrase preferred over अनुशासन, which carries formal dharma-shastra/legalistic-code connotations. | 3:16 |
| Complete / Sufficient (artios) | पूरा ते तैयार | poora te tiyar | High | Key sufficiency term; must not imply Scripture is one helpful resource among several (e.g., alongside guru-instruction or shastra). | 3:17 |
| Man of God | परमेश्वर दा मनुक्ख | Parmeshwar da mankhu | High | NEVER महात्मा, गुरु, or साधु; an ordinary believer shaped by Scripture, not a spiritually elevated holy-man category. | 3:17 |
| Fully equipped | पूरी तरह तैयार कीता होया | poori tarah tiyar kita hoya | Medium | — | 3:17 |
| Pattern of sound words | खरी सिखलाई दा नमूना | khari sikhlai da namuna | High | Reuses खरी सिखलाई for consistency. | 1:13 |
B.2 The Charge to Preach and Judgment/Appearing
| English Term | Dogri Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Rationale / Collision Note | Key Passages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solemnly charge | गवाह रखियै हुकम देना | gavah rakhiyai hukam dena | High | Legally/covenantally weighted commission; must never be flattened to a casual request. | 4:1 |
| To judge (the living and the dead) | न्याय करना / न्याय करने आळा | nyay karna / nyay karne aala | Critical | Risk of assimilation to Yama/Chitragupta karmic judgment mythology; teach as Christ’s unique, personal, final judgment. | 4:1 |
| The living and the dead | जिंदयां ते मुर्दयां | jindeyan te murdeyan | Critical | See above; universal scope, no lineage/honor-rank exemption. | 4:1 |
| Appearing (of Christ, epiphaneia) | परगट होना | pargat hona | High | Never अवतार; must not be conflated with avatar-descent or temple-darshan appearance. This is Christ’s final, climactic return. | 1:10, 4:1, 4:8 |
| Preach / Proclaim | प्रचार करना | prachar karna | Medium-High | Built on the baseline mission/evangelism root; prefer verb phrase over noun प्रचारक (see “Herald” below). | 4:2 |
| Herald (noun) | प्रचार करने वाला | prachar karne wala | Medium-High | Avoid single-word प्रचारक, which carries a contemporary socio-political organizational association in North India. | 1:11 |
| The word (of God) | बचन | bachan | Medium | Distinct from generic बात; shared usage with Sikh “bachan/shabad” tradition noted for translator awareness, not forbidden. | 4:2 |
| Be ready (in season, out of season) | हर वेल्लै त्यार रह् / वेल्ले-बेवेल्ले | har vellai tiyar reh / velle-bevelle | Medium/Low (idiom) | Translate meaning plainly; do not force a literal calque. | 4:2 |
| Rebuke | डांट | daant | Medium | — | 4:2 |
| Patience / Longsuffering | सब्र | sabr | Low-Medium | Widely shared regional loanword; confirm register against BSI Dogri Bible. | 4:2 |
B.3 Apostasy, False Teachers, and the Last Days
| English Term | Dogri Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Rationale / Collision Note | Key Passages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Last days | आखरी दिन | aakhri din | Critical | HIGH SALIENCE: 2 Tim 3’s vice-list resembles popular Kali Yuga descriptions in cyclical Hindu cosmology. Must be taught as linear, historical, one-time-consummation eschatology, never a cyclical decline-renewal framework. | 3:1 |
| Godliness / Form of godliness | परमेश्वर दे अनुसार जीवन | Parmeshwar de anusar jeevan | Critical | NEVER भक्ति (bhakti) as primary rendering — the central term of North Indian devotionalism (bhakti movement, temple bhakti at Raghunath Mandir/Vaishno Devi); avoids both a generic-devotion misreading and an inadvertent, inflammatory critique of bhakti practice itself. | 3:5, 3:12 |
| Myths / Fables | मनघड़ंत कहाणियां | mangharant kahaniyan | High | NEVER पुराण (Puranas) or कथा (sacred religious discourse, e.g. Ramkatha) — both carry strong positive sacred-narrative connotations. | 4:4 |
| Itching ears (idiom) | नई-नित्तियां गल्लां सुनने दी लालसा | nai-nittian gallan sunne di lalsa | Medium (idiom) | Preserve the theological point (craving novelty over soundness); avoid an unnatural literal calque. | 4:3 |
| Turn away | मूं फेरना | moon pherna | Medium | Reused consistently at 1:15 and 4:4 to mark the apostasy theme across the book. | 1:15, 4:4 |
| Deceivers / Impostors | धोकेबाज | dhokebaaz | Medium | — | 3:13 |
| Persecution | सताया जाना | sataya jana | High | Anchors “Perseverance under Suffering”; universal principle for all who live godly. | 3:12 |
| Devil | शैतान | shaitan | High | Personal, defeated evil being; distinct from generic bhoot-pret folk spirits and from माया (illusion) as impersonal principle. | 2:26 |
| Snare | फंदा | phanda | Medium | — | 2:26 |
| Repentance | मन फिराना | man phirana | Critical | Absent from baseline Romans package; must be distinguished from prāyaścitta (ritual/ascetic penance) and from mere पछतावा (regret without change of direction). | 2:25 |
| Knowledge of the truth | सच्चाई दी पछान | sachai di pachhan | High | Avoid primary rendering as ज्ञान (jñāna), the central term of jnana-yoga; qualify as personal recognition of gospel truth. | 2:25 |
| Resurrection already happened (false teaching) | (uses मुर्दघरा चा जिंदा होना, flagged as a corrupted claim) | — | Critical | Must be sharply distinguished from the true bodily future resurrection doctrine. | 2:18 |
B.4 Faithful Transmission and Guarding Sound Doctrine
| English Term | Dogri Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Rationale / Collision Note | Key Passages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entrusted deposit | सौंपी गेई अमानत | saumpi gei amanat | Medium | अमानत is a shared Indic-Persian loanword with Islamic ethical-legal resonance (amanah); core meaning is compatible; confirm against BSI Dogri Bible. | 1:12, 1:14 |
| Guard (the deposit) | निगाह रखणा | nigah rakhna | High | Central verb for “Guarding Sound Doctrine.” | 1:14 |
| Entrust (to faithful men) | सौंपणा | saumpna | High | Anchors “Faithful Transmission of the Gospel” — a multi-generational chain of entrusted teaching. | 2:2 |
| Faithful / Trustworthy (pistos, of people/sayings) | भरोसे-जोग्ग | bharose-jogg | High | Built on baseline भरोसा; used of both people (2:2) and God’s own character (2:13). | 2:2, 2:11, 2:13 |
| Rightly handling the word of truth | सच्चाई दे बचन गी ठीक ढंगै कन्नै समझाना | sachai de bachan gi theek dhangai kannai samjhauna | High | Positive craft-metaphor for careful doctrinal handling. | 2:15 |
| God’s foundation / seal | मजबूत नींह / मोहर | majboot neenh / mohar | Medium | God’s secure ownership of his true people amid false teaching. | 2:19 |
| Vessels for honor / dishonor | भांडे — आदर / निआदरी | bhande — aadar / niaadari | High | Directly engages Dogra Rajput izzat (honor) culture; teach as moral usefulness to God, not lineage/social honor-rank. | 2:20-21 |
B.5 Perseverance under Suffering and Assurance of Reward
| English Term | Dogri Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Rationale / Collision Note | Key Passages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Endure hardship / suffer | दुख सहणा | dukh sehna | High | Core “Perseverance under Suffering” verb, reused across chapters (1:8 [शेयर करना, “share in”], 2:3, 2:9, 4:5). | 1:8, 2:3, 2:9, 4:5 |
| Endure (for the elect’s sake) | सहन करना / झेलना | sehan karna / jhelna | High | Ties perseverance directly to election doctrine. | 2:10 |
| Be sober / watchful | होश च रहणा | hosh cha rehna | Medium | — | 4:5 |
| Evangelist | खरी खबर सुणाने वाले दा कम्म | khari khabar sunane wale da kamm | Medium-High | Built compositionally on baseline खरी खबर rather than an unrelated loanword. | 4:5 |
| Ministry / Service (diakonia) | सेवा | seva | High | CULTURAL COLLISION FLAG: सेवा is also the standard word for devotional temple/gurdwara service (e.g., langar seva) across the wider Punjab-Dogra region, often understood as merit-generating. Must be taught as gospel-ministry entrusted by Christ, not generic religious volunteer service. | 4:5, 4:11 |
| Fulfill / carry out completely | पूरी तरह निबाहना | poori tarah nibahna | Medium | — | 4:5 |
| Crown of righteousness | धरमीपन दा मुकट | dharmipan da mukat | High | CULTURAL COLLISION FLAG: crown/mukat imagery is strongly associated with deity ornamentation (temple deities ceremonially crowned, e.g. at Vaishno Devi and Raghunath Mandir) and Dogra dynastic regalia. Teach as Christ’s eschatological reward, never a devotional or royal crown-object. | 4:8 |
| Righteous judge | धरमी न्यायी | dharmi nyayi | Critical | Built on धरमीपन and the judgment vocabulary of 4:1. | 4:8 |
| Savior | उद्धारकर्ता | uddharkarta | Critical | Built transparently on baseline उद्धार. NEVER तारणहार, a Vaishnava bhakti epithet (Rama/Krishna “ferrying” devotees across samsara), which would reintroduce the rebirth-cycle framework already forbidden for “salvation.” | 1:10 |
| Immortality | अमरता | amarta | Critical | HIGH SALIENCE: resonates with अमृत (mythological nectar of immortality, Samudra Manthan) and with “Amrit,” the Sikh baptismal initiation rite. Must be taught as unending resurrected life through Christ alone. | 1:10 |
| Heavenly kingdom | परमेश्वर दा राज्य + स्वर्गीय | Parmeshwar da rajya + swargiya | Medium-High | स्वर्ग (“heaven”) also names the temporary Hindu heavenly realm (svarga); the Christian “heavenly kingdom” is the believer’s permanent, eternal home, unlike impermanent svarga. | 4:18 |
| Rescued (from the lion’s mouth / from evil) | बचाना | bachana | Medium | Vivid deliverance imagery; distinct from, but supportive of, उद्धार. | 4:17-18 |
B.6 Supporting / Lower-Risk Terms
| English Term | Dogri Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Rationale / Collision Note | Key Passages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercy (eleos, distinct from grace) | दया | daya | Medium | Must not be collapsed into or confused with the full grace-compound (which already contains दया internally). | 1:2 |
| Conscience | जमीर | jamir | Medium | Prefer over अंतरात्मा, which carries ātman/soul-metaphysics associations. | 1:3 |
| Love (agapē) | प्रेम | prem | Medium | Carries devotional-bhakti resonance (prem bhakti); teach as committed, self-giving covenantal love, not romantic/ecstatic devotional passion. | 1:7, 2:22, 3:2-4, 4:8, 4:10 |
| Self-control | आपे उप्पर काबू | aape uppar kabu | Medium | — | 1:7 |
| Ashamed | शर्म करना / लजाना | sharam karna | High | Directly engages izzat (honor/shame) culture; public non-shame regarding the gospel carries real honor-cost. | 1:8, 1:12, 1:16 |
| Testimony / witness | गवाही | gavahi | Medium | — | 1:8 |
| Purpose (prothesis) | मनसा / इरादा | mansa / irada | Medium | Ties to baseline election/providence terms. | 1:9 |
| Promise | वादा | vada | Medium | — | 1:1 |
| Pure heart | साफ दिल | saaf dil | Medium | Distinct from ritual purity (शुद्ध), per baseline distinction for “holy.” | 2:22 |
| Gentleness (in correction) | नरमी | narmi | Medium | — | 2:25 |
| Depart from iniquity | बुराई थमां लांभे रहणा | burai thamā lambhe rehna | Medium | Avoid धरम-based constructions per baseline rule. | 2:19 |
| Difficult/perilous times | खतरनाक समां | khatarnak samā | Medium | — | 3:1 |
| Vice-catalogue terms (collective) | (rendered plainly per term, see 07_semantic_analysis.md §Ch.3) | — | Individually Low-Medium; collectively High (Kali Yuga resonance) | See “last days” entry above. | 3:2-5 |
| Libation / poured out | डोहलेआ जाना | dohlea jana | Medium | Avoid importing Hindu ritual libation connotations (arghya, tarpan) uncritically. | 4:6 |
| Fought the good fight / finished the race | लड़ाई लड़ी / दौड़ पूरी कीती | ladai ladi / daud poori kiti | Medium | Athletic-contest metaphor, cultural-metaphor flag for native speaker review. | 4:7 |
| Soldier / athlete / farmer metaphors | सिपाही / खिलाड़ी / किसान | sipahi / khiladi / kisan | Low-Medium | Cultural metaphor; flag for native speaker review per standard convention. | 2:3-6 |
Cross-Reference to Doctrine Coverage
| 2 Timothy Doctrine (per curriculum parameters) | Primary Glossary Terms |
|---|---|
| Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture | Scripture/Sacred Writings, God-breathed, Profitable, Man of God, Complete/Sufficient |
| Perseverance under Suffering | Endure hardship, Persecution, Share in suffering, Libation |
| Guarding Sound Doctrine | Sound doctrine, Guard/Entrusted deposit, Rightly handling the word of truth, Faithful/Trustworthy |
| Faithful Transmission of the Gospel | Entrust, Faithful (people), Pattern of sound words |
| The Charge to Preach the Word | Solemnly charge, Preach/Proclaim, The word, Be ready |
| Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days | Last days, Godliness/Form of godliness, Myths, Itching ears, Devil, Repentance |
| Assurance of Reward | Crown of righteousness, Righteous judge, Appearing, Savior, Immortality, Heavenly kingdom |
This glossary must be merged into translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json (new entries), and cross-referenced into an updated doctrine_risk_registry.json, before Phase 2 segment translation of 2 Timothy begins.
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, never use), पुण्य (merit earned through right action, never use)
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. 2 Tim 1:9 explicitly grounds the holy calling in grace ‘not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace’ — a direct statement resisting both merit (puṇya) and the Vaishno Devi mannat vow-for-boon exchange logic.
Righteousness
Approved rendering: धरमीपन
Transliteration: dharmipan
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: धरम (avoid Dogra Rajput lineage/honor-duty sense)
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. Anchors 2 Tim 3:16 (Scripture trains ‘in righteousness’) and 4:8 (‘crown of righteousness’).
Imputed Righteousness
Approved rendering: गिनी गेई धरमीपन
Transliteration: gini gei dharmipan
Doctrine: Justification by Faith
Rejected alternatives: कमाई गेई धरमीपन (earned righteousness, explicitly rejected)
Original: ἐλογίσθη αὐτῷ εἰς δικαιοσύνην
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. Doctrinal background for 2 Tim 3:16-17 and 4:8’s crown of righteousness — reward flows from credited standing, not merit accumulation; must be guarded against regional puṇya logic.
Salvation
Approved rendering: उद्धार
Transliteration: uddhar
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: मुक्ति (liberation from rebirth, never use), मनोकामना पूरी होना (mannat wish-granting, never use)
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. Used at 2 Tim 2:10, 3:15, 4:18.
Savior
Approved rendering: उद्धारकर्ता
Transliteration: uddharkarta
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: तारणहार (a Vaishnava bhakti epithet for Rama/Krishna ‘ferrying’ devotees across samsara; never use — reintroduces the rebirth-cycle framework forbidden for salvation)
Original: σωτήρ
Category: Christology
NEW for 2 Timothy (1:10). Built transparently on the locked Critical term उद्धार so the two remain visibly linked.
Immortality
Approved rendering: अमरता
Transliteration: amarta
Doctrine: Immortality and Resurrection Life
Rejected alternatives: अमृत (mythological nectar of immortality, Samudra Manthan, never use), “Amrit” (the Sikh baptismal initiation rite amrit sanskar, never use or allude to)
Original: ἀφθαρσία
Category: Eschatology
NEW for 2 Timothy (1:10). HIGH SALIENCE RISK unique to Dogri’s Jammu-Punjab border context (absent from the Hindi-only baseline register). Must be taught as unending resurrection life through Christ alone.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: मुर्दघरा चा जिंदा होना
Transliteration: murdaghara cha jinda hona
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Rejected alternatives: पुनर्जन्म (reincarnation, never use)
Original: ἀνάστασις
Category: Eschatology
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. CRITICAL COMPOUNDED RISK: the identical phrase appears twice in close proximity — 2:8 as true doctrine and 2:18 describing Hymenaeus and Philetus’s refuted false claim that ‘the resurrection has already happened.’ Every occurrence at 2:18 requires a mandatory translator note marking it as refuted error, never left ambiguous alongside 2:8’s true doctrine.
Lord
Approved rendering: प्रभु
Transliteration: prabhu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: महाराजा (the historic Dogra dynastic royal title, never use)
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. Used throughout 2 Timothy (1:2, 1:8, 1:16, 1:18, 2:7, 2:19, 2:22, 2:24, 4:1, 4:8, 4:14, 4:17, 4:18, 4:22).
Judge Living And Dead
Approved rendering: जिंदयां ते मुर्दयां दा न्याय करने आळा
Transliteration: jindeyan te murdeyan da nyay karne aala
Doctrine: Christ’s Judgment of the Living and the Dead
Rejected alternatives: any phrasing implying a parallel to Yama’s judgment-court or Chitragupta’s karmic ledger, never use
Original: κρίνειν ζῶντας καὶ νεκρούς
Category: Eschatology
NEW for 2 Timothy (4:1). CRITICAL: this pairing risks reassimilation to the regional mythological frame of Yama (Hindu god of death) and Chitragupta’s karmic record-keeping. Must be taught as Christ’s own unique, personal, once-for-all final judgment.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दा पुत्तर
Transliteration: Parmeshwar da puttar
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: अवतार (avatar-descent, explicit downgrade, never use)
Original: υἱὸς θεοῦ
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly as doctrinal background undergirding ‘Christ Jesus’ throughout 2 Timothy.
Messiah
Approved rendering: मसीह
Transliteration: masih
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. Used constantly throughout 2 Timothy as ‘Christ Jesus.‘
Jesus
Approved rendering: यीशु
Transliteration: Yishu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ईसा (Muslim/Urdu-influenced context; reserve for interfaith-dialogue framing only)
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. Used constantly throughout 2 Timothy as ‘Christ Jesus’ or ‘the Lord Jesus.‘
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; reuse exactly. Used throughout, including as co-witness of the solemn charge (4:1).
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: पवित्तर आत्मा
Transliteration: pavittar aatma
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: शक्ति (goddess-power, never use), परमात्मा alone (Hindu universal Self, never use)
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. 2 Tim 1:14: the entrusted deposit is guarded ‘by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us’ — personal, indwelling Guardian, never impersonal life-force.
Father
Approved rendering: पिता
Transliteration: pita
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. 2 Tim 1:2 greeting formula.
Scripture
Approved rendering: पवित्तर शास्तर
Transliteration: pavittar shastar
Doctrine: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: शास्तर alone (generic North Indian term for any authoritative religious/philosophical treatise, including the Dogra-court-patronized Sanskrit textual tradition; never use unqualified)
Original: ἱερὰ γράμματα / γραφή
Category: Scripture
NEW for 2 Timothy (3:15, 3:16). पवित्तर must always accompany शास्तर to mark God’s unique inspired writings apart from the broader shastra tradition.
God Breathed
Approved rendering: परमेश्वरे दे फूक कन्नै लिखी गेई
Transliteration: parmeshware de phook kannai likhi gei
Doctrine: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: a bare abstract-noun ‘inspiration’ construction (risks softening into generic human religious insight)
Original: θεόπνευστος
Category: Scripture
NEW for 2 Timothy (3:16). Must never be assimilated to the Vedas’ apauruṣeya doctrine (eternal, impersonal, authorless sound) or guru-transmitted revelation; this is personal, purposive divine authorship through chosen human writers, once for all. No shortened form permitted.
Judge Of The Living And Dead
Approved rendering: जिंदयां ते मुर्दयां दा न्याय करने आळा
Transliteration: jindeyan te murdeyan da nyay karne aala
Doctrine: Christ’s Judgment of the Living and the Dead
Rejected alternatives: any construction evoking Yama/Chitragupta’s post-mortem karmic court, never use
Duplicate-key safeguard entry for 4:1; see judge_living_and_dead above (kept identical to avoid any drift between the two entry names).
Last Days
Approved rendering: आखरी दिन
Transliteration: aakhri din
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Rejected alternatives: any phrasing suggesting a repeating cyclical age (never allow assimilation to Kali Yuga cosmology)
Original: ἐσχάταις ἡμέραις
Category: Eschatology
NEW for 2 Timothy (3:1). HIGHEST-RANKED risk in the whole letter: the vice-catalogue that follows (3:2-5) closely resembles popular Kali Yuga descriptions within cyclical four-yuga Hindu cosmology. Must be taught as linear, historical, one-time eschatology, never a cyclical decline-and-renewal framework.
Godliness
Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दे अनुसार जीवन
Transliteration: Parmeshwar de anusar jeevan
Doctrine: True and False Godliness
Rejected alternatives: भक्ति (bhakti; the central term of North Indian devotionalism practiced at Raghunath Mandir and Vaishno Devi; never use as primary rendering)
Original: εὐσέβεια / μόρφωσις εὐσεβείας
Category: Apostasy
NEW for 2 Timothy (3:5, 3:12). NEVER भक्ति — would either sound like generic transferable deity-devotion or read as an inflammatory critique of Hindu bhakti practice itself, which is not Paul’s point.
Repentance
Approved rendering: मन फिराना
Transliteration: man phirana
Doctrine: Repentance and Restoration of the Erring
Rejected alternatives: प्रायश्चित-type ritual/ascetic penance vocabulary (prāyaścitta, never use), पछतावा alone (mere regret/remorse without a change of direction, insufficient alone)
Original: μετάνοια
Category: Salvation
NEW for 2 Timothy (2:25). Entirely absent from the baseline Romans package; a fresh coinage combining change-of-mind with restoration to truth.
Righteous Judge
Approved rendering: धरमी न्यायी
Transliteration: dharmi nyayi
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Rejected alternatives: any construction evoking Yama/Chitragupta, never use
Original: ὁ δίκαιος κριτής
Category: Eschatology
NEW for 2 Timothy (4:8). Built on धरमीपन and the judgment vocabulary of 4:1; must retain the connection between righteous character and just verdict, not an arbitrary or karmic ruling.
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: खरी खबर
Transliteration: khari khabar
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: सुसमाचार (Hindi Christian loanword; avoid as the default rendering)
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. In 2 Timothy the gospel is the fixed apostolic message Timothy must guard (1:8), be unashamed of (1:8), and proclaim as the work of an evangelist (4:5).
Faith
Approved rendering: भरोसा
Transliteration: bharosa
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: श्रद्धा (generalized devotional reverence, too broad)
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. In 2 Timothy, faith is a multi-generational inheritance (1:5, Lois/Eunice) and the content Timothy was ‘assured of’ (3:14). Object must remain Christ Jesus, never generalized shraddha.
Assured Firmly Convinced
Approved rendering: भरोसे कन्नै निश्चा होना
Transliteration: bharose kannai nishcha hona
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: सिर्फ जाणकारी होना (mere information, loses the trust-grounded conviction sense)
Original: πιστόω (ἐπιστώθης)
Category: Faith
NEW for 2 Timothy (3:14, ἐπιστώθης). Must visibly share the भरोसा root, as the Greek shares the πίστις root, so learning and settled trust remain linked.
Called Calling
Approved rendering: सद्देआ होया / सद्द
Transliteration: saddea hoya / sadd
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: सद्दा दित्ता (invited, too weak), किस्मत (fate, never use)
Original: κλῆσις / κλητός
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. 2 Tim 1:9: ‘called us with a holy calling… according to his own purpose and grace.‘
Holy
Approved rendering: पवित्तर
Transliteration: pavittar
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: शुद्ध (ritual purity, avoid as substitute)
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. 2 Tim 1:9 ‘holy calling.‘
Sanctification
Approved rendering: पवित्तरता
Transliteration: pavittarta
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: शुद्धिकरण (ritual purification rites, avoid as substitute)
Original: ἁγιασμός (contextual, background to 2:21, 3:12)
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. Doctrinal background for ‘vessels for honor’ (2:20-21) and godly living under persecution (3:12).
Seed Of David
Approved rendering: दाऊद दे वंश चा
Transliteration: Daud de vansh cha
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: σπέρμα Δαυίδ
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. 2 Tim 2:8: ‘Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, descended from David’ — links resurrection and Davidic covenant in one verse; resonance with Dogra Rajput lineage-consciousness (izzat) must not reduce this to a mere genealogical honor claim.
Heavenly Kingdom
Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दा राज्य + स्वर्गीय
Transliteration: Parmeshwar da rajya + swargiya
Doctrine: Kingdom of God and Heavenly Hope
Rejected alternatives: स्वर्ग alone unqualified (risks the temporary Hindu heavenly realm svarga sense)
Original: τὴν βασιλείαν αὐτοῦ τὴν ἐπουράνιον
Category: Kingdom
NEW for 2 Timothy (4:18). स्वर्ग also names the temporary, rebirth-cycle-bound Hindu heavenly realm; the Christian heavenly kingdom must be taught as the believer’s permanent, eternal home.
Sin
Approved rendering: पाप
Transliteration: paap
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: भिट्ट (ritual impurity, avoid as substitute)
Original: ἁμαρτία / ἁμαρτωλός (background)
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. Background for ‘heaped up with sins’ (3:6) and Alexander’s opposition (4:14-16).
Glory
Approved rendering: महिमा
Transliteration: mahima
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. 2 Tim 2:10 (‘eternal glory’), 4:18 (closing doxology).
Power Of God
Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दी सामर्थ
Transliteration: Parmeshwar di samarth
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Rejected alternatives: शक्ति (goddess-power, Vaishno Devi/Bahu Fort Kali shrine association, never use)
Original: δύναμις θεοῦ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. 2 Tim 1:8 (power enabling gospel-sharing amid suffering) and 3:5 (false godliness ‘denying its power’).
Covenant
Approved rendering: नियम
Transliteration: niyam
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Rejected alternatives: समझौता (negotiated deal/contract, too transactional)
Original: διαθήκη (background)
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. Background to the Davidic covenant reference in 2:8 and ‘promise of life’ in 1:1.
Election
Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दी चोन
Transliteration: Parmeshwar di chon
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: किस्मत (fate, never use), मन्नत दा नतीजा (vow-outcome, never use)
Original: ἐκλεκτός / ἐκλογή
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. 2 Tim 2:10 (‘for the sake of the elect’) ties election to Paul’s endurance of suffering; 2:19 echoes ‘the Lord knows those who are his.‘
Providence
Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दा प्रबन्ध
Transliteration: Parmeshwar da prabandh
Doctrine: Providence
Rejected alternatives: किस्मत (fate, never use)
Original: ὁ Κύριός μοι παρέστη (cf. Romans 8:28’s theological category)
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. 2 Tim 4:17-18: the Lord ‘stood by’ and ‘rescued’ Paul — relational, personal care, never impersonal destiny.
Teaching Doctrine
Approved rendering: सिखलाई
Transliteration: sikhlai
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Rejected alternatives: उपदेश (guru-updesh/spiritual-discourse resonance from regional Hindu and Sikh devotional practice; never use)
Original: διδασκαλία / διδαχή
Category: Scripture
NEW for 2 Timothy (3:16, 4:2, 4:3). Dogri-Punjabi cognate preferred specifically to avoid the guru-updesh pluralism risk documented in doctrine_risk_registry.json.
Sound Doctrine
Approved rendering: खरी सिखलाई
Transliteration: khari sikhlai
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Rejected alternatives: उपदेश-based compounds (never use)
Original: ὑγιαινούσης διδασκαλίας
Category: Scripture
NEW for 2 Timothy (4:3). Deliberately parallel to खरी खबर (‘gospel’), building a consistent Dogri-specific term family distinct from Hindi/Sanskrit loans.
Complete Sufficient
Approved rendering: पूरा ते तैयार
Transliteration: poora te tiyar
Doctrine: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: सिद्ध (siddha; denotes a perfected yogic adept who attains supernatural power through spiritual discipline — an achievement-based category incompatible with Scripture’s Spirit-worked sufficiency; never use)
Original: ἄρτιος
Category: Scripture
NEW for 2 Timothy (3:17). Key sufficiency term; must never imply Scripture is one helpful resource among several (shastra, guru-updesh, shrine guidance).
Man Of God
Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दा मनुक्ख
Transliteration: Parmeshwar da mankhu
Doctrine: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: महात्मा (‘great soul,’ title for revered Hindu ascetics/reformers, never use), गुरु (never use), साधु (renunciant holy-man, never use)
Original: ὁ τοῦ θεοῦ ἄνθρωπος
Category: Scripture
NEW for 2 Timothy (3:17). An ordinary believer wholly instructed by Scripture, not a spiritually elevated holy-man category; deliberately built from the plainest possible words to resist elevation.
Pattern Of Sound Words
Approved rendering: खरी सिखलाई दा नमूना
Transliteration: khari sikhlai da namuna
Doctrine: Faithful Transmission of the Gospel
Original: ὑποτύπωσις ὑγιαινόντων λόγων
Category: Scripture
NEW for 2 Timothy (1:13). Reuses खरी सिखलाई for consistency across the book.
Solemn Charge
Approved rendering: गवाह रखियै हुकम देना
Transliteration: gavah rakhiyai hukam dena
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Rejected alternatives: a bare हुकम (‘order’) without the witness clause; never abbreviate, since this risks flattening into a casual instruction
Original: διαμαρτύρομαι
Category: Ministry
NEW for 2 Timothy (4:1). Legally/covenantally weighted commission invoking God and Christ Jesus as witness; must never be flattened to a polite suggestion. Keep the full compound intact.
Appearing Epiphaneia
Approved rendering: परगट होना
Transliteration: pargat hona
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Rejected alternatives: अवतार (never use; forbidden already for Incarnation in the baseline, and equally forbidden here)
Original: ἐπιφάνεια
Category: Eschatology
NEW for 2 Timothy (1:10, 4:1, 4:8). Must be clearly distinguished from a deity’s repeatable avatar-descent or temple-darshan appearance; this is Christ’s singular, climactic manifestation(s), not an inaugurated or invisible event (guard against Jehovah’s Witness 1914-parousia-adjacent framing).
Preach Proclaim
Approved rendering: प्रचार करना
Transliteration: prachar karna
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Rejected alternatives: प्रचारक as a noun form here (contemporary socio-political organizational association in North India, avoid)
Original: κηρύσσω
Category: Ministry
NEW for 2 Timothy (4:2). Built on the baseline mission root; prefer the verb phrase over the noun.
Herald
Approved rendering: प्रचार करने वाला
Transliteration: prachar karne wala
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Rejected alternatives: प्रचारक (single-word noun, avoid for the same reason as above)
Original: κῆρυξ
Category: Ministry
NEW for 2 Timothy (1:11). One of Paul’s own offices, alongside apostle and teacher.
Myths
Approved rendering: मनघड़ंत कहाणियां
Transliteration: mangharant kahaniyan
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Rejected alternatives: पुराण (Puranas, never use), कथा (sacred religious discourse, e.g. Ramkatha/Satyanarayan katha, never use)
Original: μῦθοι
Category: Apostasy
NEW for 2 Timothy (4:4). Both forbidden alternatives carry strong positive sacred-narrative connotations that would invert Paul’s warning.
Persecution
Approved rendering: सताया जाना
Transliteration: sataya jana
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Original: διωγμός
Category: Suffering
NEW for 2 Timothy (3:12). Direct anchor for perseverance-under-suffering doctrine; universal principle, not exceptional or optional.
Devil
Approved rendering: शैतान
Transliteration: shaitan
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Devil
Rejected alternatives: भूत-प्रेत (folk ghosts/spirits, avoid as primary framing), माया (illusion, an impersonal metaphysical principle in Hindu philosophy, avoid as primary framing)
Original: διάβολος
Category: Apostasy
NEW for 2 Timothy (2:26). Must be taught as a personal, defeated evil being, distinct from folk-spirit belief and from impersonal illusion-principle.
Knowledge Of The Truth
Approved rendering: सच्चाई दी पछान
Transliteration: sachai di pachhan
Doctrine: Repentance and Restoration of the Erring
Rejected alternatives: ज्ञान (jñāna; central term of jnana-yoga’s path of liberating mystical insight, never use as primary rendering)
Original: ἐπίγνωσις ἀληθείας
Category: Apostasy
NEW for 2 Timothy (2:25). Qualify as personal recognition of gospel truth, not mystical/gnostic insight.
Guard The Deposit
Approved rendering: निगाह रखणा
Transliteration: nigah rakhna
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: φυλάξαι
Category: Church
NEW for 2 Timothy (1:14). Central verb for guarding sound doctrine.
Entrust To Faithful Men
Approved rendering: सौंपणा
Transliteration: saumpna
Doctrine: Faithful Transmission of the Gospel
Original: παράθου πιστοῖς ἀνθρώποις
Category: Church
NEW for 2 Timothy (2:2). Core verse for faithful transmission — a multi-generational chain of entrusted teaching; must not be read through the Hindu guru-paramparā model, in which content may develop across a lineage. 2 Timothy’s deposit is fixed, not evolving.
Faithful Trustworthy
Approved rendering: भरोसे-जोग्ग
Transliteration: bharose-jogg
Doctrine: Faithful Transmission of the Gospel
Original: πιστός
Category: Church
NEW for 2 Timothy (2:2, 2:11, 2:13). Built on baseline भरोसा; used of both people and God’s own character. Must not be read as a Dogra Rajput lineage-honor category.
Rightly Handling The Word
Approved rendering: सच्चाई दे बचन गी ठीक ढंगै कन्नै समझाना
Transliteration: sachai de bachan gi theek dhangai kannai samjhauna
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: ὀρθοτομέω
Category: Scripture
NEW for 2 Timothy (2:15). Positive craft-metaphor for careful doctrinal handling; anchors guarding sound doctrine as an active discipline, not merely avoidance.
Vessels Of Honor And Dishonor
Approved rendering: भांडे — आदर / निआदरी
Transliteration: bhande — aadar / niaadari
Doctrine: Honor, Shame, and Christian Witness
Original: σκεύη εἰς τιμὴν… εἰς ἀτιμίαν
Category: Church
NEW for 2 Timothy (2:20-21). Directly engages Dogra Rajput izzat (honor) culture; must be taught as moral usefulness to God, never social/lineage honor-rank.
Endure Hardship
Approved rendering: दुख सहणा
Transliteration: dukh sehna
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Original: κακοπαθέω / συγκακοπαθέω
Category: Suffering
NEW for 2 Timothy (1:8, 2:3, 2:9, 4:5). Core perseverance verb. Must be taught as Christ-empowered endurance grounded in resurrection hope and election, not assimilated to ascetic tapasya (self-generated merit through voluntary self-mortification).
Endure For The Elects Sake
Approved rendering: सहन करना / झेलना
Transliteration: sehan karna / jhelna
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Original: ὑπομένω… διὰ τοὺς ἐκλεκτούς
Category: Suffering
NEW for 2 Timothy (2:10). Ties perseverance directly to election doctrine.
Evangelist
Approved rendering: खरी खबर सुणाने वाले दा कम्म
Transliteration: khari khabar sunane wale da kamm
Doctrine: Ministry and Gospel Service
Original: εὐαγγελιστής
Category: Ministry
NEW for 2 Timothy (4:5). Built compositionally on the established खरी खबर to avoid introducing an unrelated loanword.
Ministry Service
Approved rendering: सेवा
Transliteration: seva
Doctrine: Ministry and Gospel Service
Original: διακονία
Category: Ministry
NEW for 2 Timothy (4:5, 4:11). CULTURAL COLLISION FLAG: सेवा is also the standard word for devotional temple/gurdwara service (e.g. langar seva), widely understood as merit-generating volunteer work. No safer native alternative exists; must be explicitly taught as gospel-ministry entrusted by Christ, never generic religious seva, in every teaching context.
Crown Of Righteousness
Approved rendering: धरमीपन दा मुकट
Transliteration: dharmipan da mukat
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Original: ὁ τῆς δικαιοσύνης στέφανος
Category: Eschatology
NEW for 2 Timothy (4:8). CULTURAL COLLISION FLAG: crown/mukat imagery is associated with deity-ornamentation (temple deities ceremonially crowned at Vaishno Devi and Raghunath Mandir) and Dogra dynastic regalia. Built on the locked धरमीपन; must always be contextually anchored to Christ’s eschatological gift, never a devotional idol-adornment or dynastic honor. Also guard against prosperity-gospel/Word-of-Faith paraphrase framing as a present-life material reward.
Ashamed
Approved rendering: शर्म करना / लजाना
Transliteration: sharam karna / lajana
Doctrine: Honor, Shame, and Christian Witness
Original: ἐπαισχύνομαι
Category: Ethics
NEW for 2 Timothy (1:8, 1:12, 1:16). Directly engages Dogra Rajput izzat culture; public non-shame regarding the gospel/a socially disgraced apostle is a genuine honor-cost confession, not a minor phrase.
Medium Risk Terms
Apostle
Approved rendering: भेजेआ होया
Transliteration: bhejea hoya
Doctrine: Apostleship
Rejected alternatives: दूत (generic messenger, too weak)
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. Paul’s self-designation (1:1, 1:11) grounds the authority behind his charge to Timothy.
Peace
Approved rendering: शान्ति
Transliteration: shanti
Doctrine: Peace with God
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. Greeting formula (1:2) and virtue list (2:22).
Church
Approved rendering: कलीसिया
Transliteration: kalisiya
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: मंदर (temple, never use)
Original: ἐκκλησία (background)
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. Background for the preaching charge (4:2) and evangelist’s work (4:5).
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दा राज्य
Transliteration: Parmeshwar da rajya
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ / αὐτοῦ
Category: Kingdom
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. 2 Tim 4:1 (‘his kingdom’), 4:18 (‘his heavenly kingdom’).
Mercy
Approved rendering: दया
Transliteration: daya
Doctrine: Grace
Original: ἔλεος
Category: God
NEW for 2 Timothy (1:2, 1:16, 1:18). Must not be collapsed into or confused with the full grace-compound बिना कमाई दित्ती दया, which already contains दया internally; keep the two visibly distinct.
Reproof
Approved rendering: दोष दिखाना
Transliteration: dosh dikhana
Doctrine: Scripture’s Fourfold Function
Original: ἐλεγμός / ἔλεγξον
Category: Scripture
NEW for 2 Timothy (3:16, 4:2).
Correction
Approved rendering: सुधारना
Transliteration: sudharna
Doctrine: Scripture’s Fourfold Function
Original: ἐπανόρθωσις
Category: Scripture
NEW for 2 Timothy (3:16). Scripture’s restorative, not merely punitive, function.
Training Discipline
Approved rendering: धरमीपन आस्तै सिखलाई
Transliteration: dharmipan aaste sikhlai
Doctrine: Scripture’s Fourfold Function
Rejected alternatives: अनुशासन (anushasan; carries formal dharma-shastra/legalistic-code connotations, avoid)
Original: παιδεία
Category: Scripture
NEW for 2 Timothy (3:16). Descriptive phrase keeps धरमीपन visibly central to Scripture’s training function.
Fully Equipped
Approved rendering: पूरी तरह तैयार कीता होया
Transliteration: poori tarah tiyar kita hoya
Doctrine: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture
Original: ἐξηρτισμένος
Category: Scripture
NEW for 2 Timothy (3:17). Scripture’s end goal: full readiness for every good work.
Word Of God
Approved rendering: बचन
Transliteration: bachan
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Rejected alternatives: बात (generic ‘talk,’ too weak)
Original: ὁ λόγος (τοῦ θεοῦ)
Category: Scripture
NEW for 2 Timothy (4:2). Distinct from generic बात; note shared usage with Sikh bachan/shabad tradition, and especially with Sant Mat/Radha Soami ‘inward sound-current’ literature, for translator awareness. Must always be anchored to the historically transmitted apostolic gospel message, never an inward mystical sound received from a living guru.
Rebuke
Approved rendering: डांट
Transliteration: daant
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Original: ἐπιτιμάω
Category: Ministry
NEW for 2 Timothy (4:2). One of three ministry postures, sharper than mere reproof.
Itching Ears
Approved rendering: नई-नित्तियां गल्लां सुनने दी लालसा
Transliteration: nai-nittian gallan sunne di lalsa
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Rejected alternatives: a literal calque of ‘ears itching’ (risks reading as comic/physical rather than figurative)
Original: κνηθόμενοι τὴν ἀκοήν
Category: Apostasy
NEW for 2 Timothy (4:3). Idiom; preserve the theological point (craving novelty over soundness), not the literal image.
Turn Away
Approved rendering: मूं फेरना
Transliteration: moon pherna
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Original: ἀποστρέφω
Category: Apostasy
NEW for 2 Timothy. Reused consistently at 1:15, 2:16-18 (by implication), 4:4, and 4:10 (Demas) to keep the apostasy theme visibly unified across the book.
Deceivers
Approved rendering: धोकेबाज
Transliteration: dhokebaaz
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Original: γόητες, πλάνοι
Category: Apostasy
NEW for 2 Timothy (3:13). The specific human agents of end-times apostasy.
Snare
Approved rendering: फंदा
Transliteration: phanda
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Devil
Original: παγίς
Category: Apostasy
NEW for 2 Timothy (2:26).
Entrusted Deposit
Approved rendering: सौंपी गेई अमानत
Transliteration: saumpi gei amanat
Doctrine: Faithful Transmission of the Gospel
Original: παραθήκη
Category: Church
NEW for 2 Timothy (1:12, 1:14). अमानत is a shared Indic-Persian loanword with Islamic ethical-legal resonance (amanah); core meaning compatible but confirm against BSI Dogri Bible before wide deployment.
Gods Foundation And Seal
Approved rendering: मजबूत नींह / मोहर
Transliteration: majboot neenh / mohar
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: ὁ στερεὸς θεμέλιος / ἡ σφραγίς
Category: Church
NEW for 2 Timothy (2:19). God’s unshakeable ownership of his true people amid false teaching; not an impersonal karmic ledger.
Be Sober
Approved rendering: होश च रहणा
Transliteration: hosh cha rehna
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Original: νήφω
Category: Suffering
NEW for 2 Timothy (4:5).
Fulfill The Ministry
Approved rendering: पूरी तरह निबाहना
Transliteration: poori tarah nibahna
Doctrine: Ministry and Gospel Service
Original: πληροφορέω
Category: Ministry
NEW for 2 Timothy (4:5). Timothy’s ministry must be carried out to completion.
Rescued
Approved rendering: बचाना
Transliteration: bachana
Doctrine: Providence and Divine Deliverance
Original: ῥύομαι
Category: Salvation
NEW for 2 Timothy (4:17-18). Vivid deliverance imagery, distinct from but supportive of उद्धार.
Conscience
Approved rendering: जमीर
Transliteration: jamir
Doctrine: Conscience and Ministerial Integrity
Rejected alternatives: अंतरात्मा (carries ātman/soul-metaphysics associations from Hindu and Jain thought, avoid)
Original: συνείδησις
Category: Ethics
NEW for 2 Timothy (1:3). Shared regional loanword preferred for its neutrality.
Love Agape
Approved rendering: प्रेम
Transliteration: prem
Doctrine: Love and Christian Virtue in Ministry
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Ethics
NEW for 2 Timothy (1:7, 2:22, 3:2-4, 4:8, 4:10). Carries devotional-bhakti resonance (prem bhakti toward Krishna in North Indian devotional poetry); must be taught as committed, self-giving covenantal love, not romantic/ecstatic devotional passion.
Self Control
Approved rendering: आपे उप्पर काबू
Transliteration: aape uppar kabu
Doctrine: Love and Christian Virtue in Ministry
Original: σωφρονισμός
Category: Ethics
NEW for 2 Timothy (1:7). Part of the Spirit’s gift contrasted with a spirit of fear.
Testimony
Approved rendering: गवाही
Transliteration: gavahi
Doctrine: Honor, Shame, and Christian Witness
Original: μαρτύριον
Category: Faith
NEW for 2 Timothy (1:8).
Purpose
Approved rendering: मनसा / इरादा
Transliteration: mansa / irada
Doctrine: Election and Effectual Calling
Original: πρόθεσις
Category: God
NEW for 2 Timothy (1:9). God’s own eternal plan/resolve, not human works, as the ground of grace; ties to baseline election/providence terms.
Promise
Approved rendering: वादा
Transliteration: vada
Doctrine: Faithful Transmission of the Gospel
Original: ἐπαγγελία
Category: Covenant
NEW for 2 Timothy (1:1, ‘the promise of life’). The gospel is grounded in God’s promise, not human negotiation.
Pure Heart
Approved rendering: साफ दिल
Transliteration: saaf dil
Doctrine: Love and Christian Virtue in Ministry
Rejected alternatives: शुद्ध (ritual purity, avoid)
Original: καθαρὰ καρδία
Category: Ethics
NEW for 2 Timothy (2:22). Must be kept distinct from ritual purity, per the baseline’s established distinction for ‘holy.‘
Gentleness In Correction
Approved rendering: नरमी
Transliteration: narmi
Doctrine: Repentance and Restoration of the Erring
Original: πραΰτης
Category: Ethics
NEW for 2 Timothy (2:25). Tempers guarding sound doctrine with grace.
Depart From Iniquity
Approved rendering: बुराई थमां लांभे रहणा
Transliteration: burai thamā lambhe rehna
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: धरम-based constructions (avoid per baseline rule against धरम for righteousness/law categories)
Original: ἀποστήτω ἀπὸ ἀδικίας
Category: Ethics
NEW for 2 Timothy (2:19). Practical withdrawal from wrongdoing required of anyone who names Christ.
Perilous Times
Approved rendering: खतरनाक समां
Transliteration: khatarnak samā
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Original: καιροὶ χαλεποί
Category: Apostasy
NEW for 2 Timothy (3:1). Sets the tone for the vice-catalogue.
Libation Poured Out
Approved rendering: डोहलेआ जाना
Transliteration: dohlea jana
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Rejected alternatives: अर्घ / तर्पण (Hindu ritual libation/offering vocabulary, avoid)
Original: σπένδομαι
Category: Suffering
NEW for 2 Timothy (4:6). Must be explained as a metaphor for costly, faithful death, not a ritual offering to a deity.
Fought The Good Fight
Approved rendering: लड़ाई लड़ी / दौड़ पूरी कीती
Transliteration: ladai ladi / daud poori kiti
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Original: τὸν καλὸν ἀγῶνα ἠγώνισμαι, τὸν δρόμον τετέλεκα
Category: Suffering
NEW for 2 Timothy (4:7). Athletic-contest and race imagery; cultural metaphor, flag for native speaker review.
Low Risk Terms
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: धन्नवाद
Transliteration: dhannvaad
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία / εὐχαριστῶ
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. 1:3, Paul’s thanksgiving for Timothy.
Prophet
Approved rendering: नबी
Transliteration: nabi
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: ज्योतषी (astrologer/fortune-teller, never use)
Original: προφήτης (OT background)
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. Old Testament background for 3:15-16.
Prophecy
Approved rendering: भविष्यवाणी
Transliteration: bhavishyavani
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Original: προφητεία (OT background)
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. Old Testament background for 3:15-16.
David
Approved rendering: दाऊद
Transliteration: Daud
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: Δαυίδ
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. 2 Tim 2:8.
Exhort
Approved rendering: हौसला देना
Transliteration: hausla dena
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package; reuse exactly. 4:2 context leans toward the ‘urge/exhort’ sense.
Profitable Useful
Approved rendering: फायदेमंद
Transliteration: fayedemand
Doctrine: Scripture’s Fourfold Function
Original: ὠφέλιμος
Category: Scripture
NEW for 2 Timothy (3:16). Standard vocabulary, low risk.
Be Ready In Season
Approved rendering: हर वेल्लै त्यार रह् / वेल्ले-बेवेल्ले
Transliteration: har vellai tiyar reh / velle-bevelle
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Original: ἐπίστηθι εὐκαίρως ἀκαίρως
Category: Ministry
NEW for 2 Timothy (4:2). Idiom; translate the meaning plainly, do not force a literal calque.
Patience Longsuffering
Approved rendering: सब्र
Transliteration: sabr
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Original: μακροθυμία
Category: Ministry
NEW for 2 Timothy (4:2). Widely shared regional loanword; confirm register against BSI Dogri Bible before wide deployment.
Ministry Metaphors
Approved rendering: सिपाही / खिलाड़ी / किसान
Transliteration: sipahi / khiladi / kisan
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Original: στρατιώτης, ἀθλῶν, γεωργός
Category: Ministry
NEW for 2 Timothy (2:3-6). Soldier/athlete/farmer — standard cultural metaphors for disciplined, focused, patient ministry labor.
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