Linguistic Gap Analysis
Linguistic Gap Analysis — Matthew — English → Dogri
1. Purpose and Method
This analysis identifies where Dogri’s existing vocabulary (as fixed by the Romans baseline Language Package) is sufficient for Matthew’s nine curriculum doctrines, where it is insufficient (missing vocabulary), and where the available vocabulary is technically present but dangerously shared with competing religious systems active in the Duggar region (crowded semantic neighborhoods). It produces the doctrine vocabulary matrix, the missing-vs-crowded inventory, the transliteration-vs-paraphrase decision table, and the ranked ambiguity list that fed the term choices already recorded in analysis/08_core_glossary.md and assets/bible_term_registry.json. A chapter-by-chapter coverage appendix (§6) confirms every chapter of Matthew 1–28 was reviewed, not only the core passage (Matthew 5:1-12).
Two structural risks recur throughout, both already named in the Romans baseline and equally live in Matthew:
- Linguistic gravity toward Hindi/Punjabi — Dogri’s close kinship with both neighbors makes it easy to reach for a fluent Hindi Christian loanword (e.g. सुसमाचार, मुक्ति, पुनर्जन्म, अवतार, शक्ति) instead of a Dogri-specific rendering. This risk is higher in Matthew than in Romans because Matthew is saturated with narrative, genealogical, and legal-teaching material that has centuries of settled Hindi/Sanskritic vocabulary already attached to it (guru-chela, dharma, avatar, tirtha-pilgrimage idiom).
- Duggar-specific comparative-religion collision — Raghunath Mandir (Rama-Vishnu avatar devotion), Bahu Fort (Kali/Bawe Wali Mata, blood-sacrifice/bali), Vaishno Devi (mannat vow-boon economy), and the local folk-martyr cult of Baba Jitto. Matthew intensifies this risk beyond Romans because it contains the Gospel’s own incarnation and virgin-birth narrative (ch. 1-2), an extended teaching corpus on law/righteousness that brushes against dharma, an entire eschatology discourse (ch. 24-25) that brushes against samsara/karma cosmology, and the crucifixion narrative itself (ch. 26-27), which sits closest of any New Testament text to the region’s own sacrificial and martyr-devotional categories.
2. Doctrine Vocabulary Matrix
| # | Doctrine | Available Dogri Terms | Weaknesses | Recommended Strategy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Kingdom of Heaven | परमेश्वर दा राज्य (baseline kingdom_of_god) | Matthew’s own “heaven” wording invites the literal calque स्वर्ग दा राज्य, which collides with स्वर्ग as a temporary, karma-earned heavenly abode in the rebirth cycle | Map “kingdom of heaven” onto the baseline’s existing kingdom_of_god term exactly; never translate “heaven” literally in this phrase; treat it as Matthew’s own reverential circumlocution for God’s name |
| 2 | Jesus as Promised Messiah and Son of David | मसीह (baseline), दाऊद दे वंश चा (baseline seed_of_david) | No existing term distinguishes the messianic title “Son of David” (a direct confessional address) from the lineage descriptor used in the genealogy; Dogra Rajput lineage-consciousness supplies ready genealogical-honor content without messianic content | New compound दाऊद दा पुत्तर for the title, kept structurally distinct from दाऊद दे वंश चा (lineage) and from परमेश्वर दा पुत्तर (divine Sonship); explicit teaching gloss required at each occurrence |
| 3 | Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy | भविष्यवाणी दा पूरा होना, नबी, भविष्यवाणी (all baseline) | Existing baseline vocabulary was built for Romans’ more compressed prophecy-argument; Matthew’s ~12 explicit formula-citations require the same phrase repeated at far higher density, raising risk of drift into ad hoc paraphrase across translators | Reuse baseline phrase verbatim at every fulfillment-formula occurrence (fulfillment_formula in registry); do not introduce a shorter “for Matthew” variant |
| 4 | The Authority of Jesus’ Teaching | अधिकार (new), व्यवस्था (baseline) | अधिकार carries ritual-eligibility connotations (who has “adhikar” to perform a rite, often caste-linked) in general Hindu usage; risk of Jesus’s authority being heard as one more ritually-qualified teacher among the शास्त्री | Retain अधिकार but pair consistently with explicit contrast to शास्त्री ते फरीसी’s derivative, citation-based teaching; theologian review at climactic occurrence (7:28-29) and capstone (28:18) |
| 5 | Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees | धरमीपन (baseline, never bare धरम), व्यवस्था (baseline) | The entire doctrine sits on top of the baseline’s already-flagged धरम/izzat collision, but Matthew intensifies it: ch. 5’s antitheses directly contradict honor-culture retaliation norms, and “fulfill the Law” (5:17) invites a dharma-completion (duty-discharged) misreading | पूरा करना (new) explicitly chosen over any धरम-rooted verb for “fulfill”; धरमीपन reused exactly; all six antitheses require explicit teaching notes contrasting willed righteousness with inherited social/ritual duty |
| 6 | The Church and Church Discipline | कलीसिया, भेजेआ होया (baseline) | No existing vocabulary at all for “keys of the kingdom” or “bind and loose” — genuinely missing, not merely crowded | New descriptive compounds required (राज्य दियां कुंजियां; बंधना ते खोलना), fenced explicitly against priestly ritual-gatekeeping (Raghunath Mandir garbhagriha access) and folk spirit-binding practice respectively |
| 7 | The Great Commission | खरी खबर, राष्ट्र / गैर-यहूदी, पिता / पुत्तर / पवित्तर आत्मा (all baseline) | चेला (“disciple”), required for “make disciples of all nations,” is the single most crowded term in this entire curriculum (see §3) | Combine baseline terms exactly as recorded (गॉस्पेल-of-the-kingdom, Trinitarian formula); retain चेला but fence hard with mandatory teaching note distinguishing Jesus from a guru |
| 8 | Judgment and the End of the Age | कोई सीधा baseline equivalent; फैसला (new), मुर्दघरा चा जिंदा होना (baseline resurrection) | Matthew’s eschatology vocabulary (eternal life, eternal punishment, Gehenna, abomination of desolation) has no baseline precedent at all — Romans did not require this density of end-time material | Build an entirely new eschatological sub-glossary (see §3, §4) fenced against samsara/karma/atman-immortality frameworks at every entry |
| 9 | Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus | भरोसा (baseline faith), चेला (new) | “Reward” (misthos) sits directly on the baseline’s already-rejected मन्नत दा फल; “take up his cross” risks flattening into a generic burden-metaphor or assimilation to Baba Jitto’s folk-martyrdom | ईनाम (never फल) for reward; अपणी सल़ीब चुक्कना retained with full historical weight; explicit non-equation with Baba Jitto in every teaching unit touching the crucifixion or self-sacrifice imagery |
3. Missing Vocabulary vs. Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods
Matthew’s vocabulary needs divide cleanly into two categories that require different remediation strategies.
3.1 Missing Vocabulary (no serviceable Dogri term exists; new compounds required)
| Concept | Gap | Resolution |
|---|---|---|
| ”Kingdom of heaven” as Matthew’s own scribal circumlocution | Dogri has no established convention for treating “heaven” as a reverential stand-in for God’s name rather than a place-word | Absorbed into existing kingdom_of_god rendering; no literal “heaven” translation |
| Beatitude “blessed” (μακάριος) as declarative pronouncement | No Dogri word cleanly separates “blessed” (a present divine reckoning) from “fortunate” (luck) or “wealthy” (associative collision) | New term धन्न, deliberately distanced from both धन (wealth) and भाग्यशाली (fate-luck) |
| “Keys of the kingdom” / “bind and loose” | No existing ecclesial-authority vocabulary in the baseline (Romans has no equivalent scene) | New descriptive compounds, fenced against ritual gatekeeping and spirit-binding |
| Son of Man (Danielic judgment-authority title) | मानखे दा पुत्तर is compositionally available (built on baseline’s मानखे root) but the title’s apocalyptic authority sense has no precedent | Retain compound; flag every occurrence for theologian review against under-translation (hearing it as mere “a human being”) |
| Eternal life / eternal punishment / Gehenna / abomination of desolation / parousia | Entirely new eschatological register; Romans’ 8:28-39 providence material is adjacent but not equivalent | New compounds built throughout §4 below, each fenced against a specific samsara/karma/astrology collision |
| Ransom (λύτρον) as substitutionary payment | No existing Dogri commercial-transaction term conveys “payment securing release from bondage” without invoking either a shrine-offering or a literal ransom-for-hostage frame | New compound छुटकारे दी कीमत, explicitly fenced against votive/propitiatory blood-offering (Bahu Fort bali) |
| Talents (entrusted stewardship) | Dogri “talent” as skill has no bearing on the parable’s monetary-stewardship sense | Rendered रुपियां दी थैली (a sum of money), explicit anti-anachronism note for translators |
3.2 Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods (a Dogri/Hindi term exists but is already occupied by a competing religious concept and must be fenced, not filled)
| Dogri Term | Competing Occupant | Doctrine at Risk | Fencing Strategy |
|---|---|---|---|
| स्वर्ग | Temporary, merit-earned heavenly abode within the rebirth cycle (popular Duggar Hindu cosmology) | Kingdom of Heaven; Treasure in Heaven (6:19-21) | Never use स्वर्ग for “kingdom of heaven” (map to परमेश्वर दा राज्य instead); where स्वर्ग must appear (6:19-21, “treasure in heaven”), attach a mandatory teaching gloss that this treasure, unlike स्वर्ग itself in popular belief, never decays or runs out |
| अवतार | Rama as Vishnu’s avatar, centered on the Dogra-royal-patronized Raghunath Mandir | Incarnation; Son of God; Son of Man; Transfiguration | Absolute forbidden-substitution status carried forward unchanged from baseline; reinforced across every Christological title in Matthew, not only 1:18-23 |
| पूजा | Idol/image worship, darshan, at Raghunath Mandir, Vaishno Devi, Bahu Fort | Worship of Christ (2:11; 14:33; 28:9,17) | Forbidden; use अग्गे झुकना / मथा टेकना, with context supplying worship-level reverence distinct from ordinary respectful bowing |
| मन्नत / व्रत | The Vaishno Devi vow-boon economy (pledge/offering in exchange for a granted wish) | Grace (baseline); Reward (misthos); Fasting (6:16-18) | मन्नत already forbidden in baseline for grace; extended here to forbid वृत for Christian fasting and to forbid फल for misthos-reward — all three collision points share one underlying transactional logic and must be fenced as a single family |
| शक्ति | Shakta goddess-power, Vaishno Devi, Bahu Fort Kali shrine | Holy Spirit; Power of God (both baseline) | Carried forward unchanged; no new Matthew occurrence introduces a fresh risk, but density of Holy-Spirit references at the conception (1:18,20), baptism (3:16), and blasphemy warning (12:31-32) raises the stakes of consistent avoidance |
| धरम | Dogra Rajput inherited caste/lineage social duty and honor obligation (izzat) | Law; Righteousness; Fulfill the Law; Tradition of the Elders | Carried forward unchanged from baseline for व्यवस्था/धरमीपन; newly extended to “fulfill the Law” (5:17, पूरा करना chosen specifically to avoid a dharma-completion reading) |
| चेला | Guru-chela discipleship bond across Hindu, Sikh, and Sufi devotional traditions common in the Duggar region | Disciple; Great Commission | Not forbidden (no viable substitute exists) but the single highest-density fencing requirement in the whole curriculum — mandatory teaching note at first occurrence in every doctrinal unit that Jesus is not one guru among many |
| नरक | A temporary punitive realm within samsara, exited once karma is exhausted | Hell/Gehenna; Eternal Punishment | Never used bare; always paired with सदा दी अग्गी (“everlasting fire”) qualifier, parallel to the baseline’s resurrection/पुनर्जन्म methodology |
| दर्शन | Ritual viewing of a deity’s image at a temple, mediated by priest/pilgrimage | ”See God” Beatitude (5:8); Transfiguration (17:1-8) | दर्शन itself never used as the rendering; परमेश्वर गी देखणा chosen instead, with explicit contrast to मंदिर-based दर्शन practice |
| सिद्ध | Ascetic-attainment / siddha meditative state (Hindu-Sikh yogic tradition) | Perfect (5:48) | Forbidden; पूरे chosen instead, conveying Christlike moral wholeness rather than an attained meditative state |
| ज्योतषी | Astrologer/fortune-teller, a widely consulted figure in regional folk practice | Prophet; False Prophet; apocalyptic sign material (ch. 24) | Carried forward from baseline; newly extended to the abomination-of-desolation and parousia material, where apocalyptic content is especially vulnerable to conflation with astrological doomsday prediction |
| महाराजा | The historic Dogra royal dynastic title (Gulab Singh, Ranbir Singh), patrons of Raghunath Mandir | Lord; King of the Jews | Carried forward from baseline; extended explicitly to “King of the Jews” (2:2; 27:11,29,37), where राजा (plain royal term) is used instead so Christ’s kingship is not read as a rival dynastic-political claim |
| बलि (blood sacrifice) | Bahu Fort Kali-shrine animal sacrifice offered to appease/petition the deity (Bawe Wali Mata) | New Covenant (body and blood, 26:26-28); Ransom (20:28) | Neither concept rendered with बलि-adjacent vocabulary; both fenced with explicit teaching notes distinguishing a once-for-all, self-giving atoning sacrifice received by faith from a propitiatory offering that appeases a deity in exchange for favor |
4. Transliteration vs. Paraphrase Decisions
| Term | Decision | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Messiah | Transliterate (मसीह) | Already the settled baseline term; no paraphrase risk; established across regional Bible translation |
| Immanuel | Transliterate + gloss (इम्मानुएल, परमेश्वर आसां सोगी) | Proper name functioning as a theological title (Isaiah 7:14 citation); transliteration preserves its status as a name while the gloss supplies the doctrinal content a bare transliteration would lose |
| Jesus / David / Israel | Transliterate (यीशु / दाऊद / इस्राएल) | Established regional Bible-translation convention, carried forward from baseline; proper names, not concepts requiring doctrinal precision |
| Son of Man | Paraphrase (मानखे दा पुत्तर) | A Danielic title, not a proper name; transliteration is unavailable (no Greek/Hebrew loanword tradition exists in Dogri for this phrase) and would communicate nothing; paraphrase built on the baseline’s established मानखे root |
| Church | Transliterate (कलीसिया) | Baseline term; regional Christian usage already established; avoids मंदिर (temple) collision entirely by not attempting a native paraphrase |
| Sabbath | Transliterate (सबत) | A specific Jewish institution without a native Dogri equivalent; transliteration avoids false equivalence with Hindu auspicious/inauspicious-day observance |
| Satan/Devil | Transliterate (शैतान) | Already intelligible across North Indian languages via Islamicate contact; explicitly preferred over भूत-प्रेत (generic folk ghost/spirit), which is too weak and animistic |
| Baptism | Transliterate (बपतिस्मा) | A specific Christian rite; transliteration prevents collision with स्नान (ritual purificatory bathing removing भिट्ट) |
| Ransom | Paraphrase (छुटकारे दी कीमत) | No transliteration tradition exists; a paraphrase is required specifically to avoid the votive-offering (बलि) collision a bare loanword could not prevent |
| Reward | Paraphrase (ईनाम) | Native Dogri word already carries the right “prize/recompense” sense without invoking the forbidden फल (vow-boon) family |
| Hell/Gehenna | Hybrid: native term + mandatory qualifier (नरक + सदा दी अग्गी) | Gehenna has no transliteration tradition in Dogri Bible usage; नरक alone collides with samsara-bound punitive realms, so the qualifier does the fencing work a pure transliteration or pure paraphrase could not do alone |
| Disciple | Retain native term with fencing, not transliteration (चेला) | No Greek/English transliteration is intelligible in Dogri; the native term is unavoidable, so the strategy is aggressive doctrinal fencing (mandatory teaching note) rather than lexical substitution |
| Abba | Transliterate (अब्बा) | Carried forward from baseline Romans; Aramaic term of intimacy preserved untranslated per regional Bible-translation pattern; no Matthew-specific occurrence but retained for cross-document consistency |
| Talents | Paraphrase (रुपियां दी थैली) | “Talent” as a monetary unit has no transliteration tradition in Dogri; paraphrase avoids the false-cognate trap of modern “talent” (skill) |
| Bridegroom | Native paraphrase, no transliteration needed (लाड़ा) | Ordinary vocabulary; low ambiguity; transliteration unnecessary and would be opaque |
5. Ranked List of Highest-Risk Ambiguities (Full Book)
Ranked by combined severity of doctrinal stakes and cultural-collision salience in the Duggar context.
- Kingdom of heaven → स्वर्ग collision. The single highest-frequency term in the book (~32 occurrences); a literal “heaven” calque would teach a merit-earned, temporary kingdom rather than God’s own present-and-future sovereign reign.
- Incarnation / Son of God / Son of Man → अवतार collision. Raghunath Mandir’s Rama-avatar devotion is a locally prestigious, everyday devotional category, not a distant abstraction; this risk touches at least five distinct Christological titles across the book (1:18-23; 3:17; 8-9; 16-17; 24-26).
- Worship of Christ → पूजा collision. Every scene of bowing/worship directed at Jesus (2:11; 14:33; 28:9,17) risks being heard as ordinary Duggar devotional practice at a shrine unless पूजा is consistently avoided.
- Hell/Gehenna and Eternal Punishment → नरक/samsara collision. Popular नरक is explicitly temporary and karma-exhausting; Matthew’s Gehenna and eternal-punishment material (5:22-30; 10:28; 18:9; 23:15,33; 25:46) is explicitly final — the two frameworks make opposite claims using the same base word.
- New Covenant (body and blood) → Bahu Fort bali collision. The Last Supper (26:26-28) uses blood-covenant language in a region with an active, ongoing blood-sacrifice tradition at the Kali shrine; the risk is not abstract but concretely local.
- Ransom → votive-offering collision. 20:28’s substitutionary-payment language sits adjacent to the same propitiatory-offering logic as #5, requiring separate but parallel fencing.
- Reward (misthos) → मन्नत दा फल collision. Every Beatitude-adjacent and Sermon-on-the-Mount reward text (5:12,46; 6:1-18; 10:41-42; 16:27) sits precisely on the grace/merit seam the baseline already protects for “grace” itself; Matthew multiplies the occurrences considerably beyond Romans.
- Disciple → guru-chela collision. The Great Commission’s climactic command (“make disciples of all nations,” 28:19) and the foundational calling narratives (ch. 4, 9-10) all depend on चेला, the single most religiously crowded term with no viable substitute.
- Blessed (μακάριος) → धन्न/धन/भाग्यशाली collision. Governs all nine Beatitudes in the core passage (5:3-11) itself; a phonetic slip toward धन (wealth) would invert the very point of blessings pronounced on the poor, mourning, and persecuted.
- Crucifixion / take up his cross → Baba Jitto folk-martyr collision. The region’s own genuine folk-martyr cult (self-sacrifice in protest against an exploitative landlord, venerated at Aghar Jitto) is admirable but categorically different from Christ’s unique atoning self-sacrifice; risk spans both the passion narrative (ch. 26-27) and the discipleship call (16:24).
- Eternal life → atman-immortality collision. 19:16-29 and 25:46 risk being heard as confirming an already-assumed natural immortality of the soul rather than a given, resurrection-secured gift.
- Treasure in heaven → स्वर्ग-impermanence collision. 6:19-21 makes a point (imperishability) that popular स्वर्ग theology directly contradicts (svarga is exhausted with merit), requiring one of the book’s most carefully worded teaching glosses.
- Keys of the kingdom / bind and loose → ritual gatekeeping and spirit-binding collision. 16:19 and 18:18 risk being heard as literal priestly sanctum-access control (Raghunath Mandir garbhagriha) or folk tantric spirit-binding rather than delegated gospel-proclamation and church-accountability authority.
- Authority (exousia) → caste-linked ritual-eligibility collision. The climactic 7:28-29 and capstone 28:18 texts risk being heard as one more ritually-qualified teacher’s derivative authority rather than Jesus’s own inherent, self-authenticating authority.
- Fulfill the Law (5:17) → dharma-completion collision. The book’s central hermeneutical claim about the Law’s fulfillment risks being absorbed into a duty-properly-discharged reading rather than Christ’s unique consummation of the whole Old Testament.
6. Full-Book Coverage Confirmation (Matthew 1–28)
Every chapter has been reviewed for load-bearing vocabulary. Chapters not listed with new terms below contributed no vocabulary beyond items already logged; they are recorded here as explicitly reviewed per the PRD full-coverage mandate.
| Ch. | Load-bearing terms / doctrines present | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | seed_of_david, virgin_birth, immanuel, incarnation, jesus (naming), sin (1:21) | New terms present |
| 2 | king_of_the_jews, worship_of_christ (magi), fulfillment_formula | New terms present |
| 3 | baptism, repentance, kingdom_of_heaven, holy_spirit (descent), son_of_god (declared) | New terms present |
| 4 | temptation, satan_devil, kingdom_of_heaven (proclaimed), gospel_of_the_kingdom, fulfillment_formula, disciple (calling) | New terms present |
| 5 | Core passage. kingdom_of_heaven, blessed, poor_in_spirit, mourn_and_comfort, meek, inherit_the_earth, righteousness, merciful, pure_in_heart, see_god, peacemaker, sons_of_god_believers, persecuted_for_righteousness, for_my_sake, rejoice_and_be_glad, fulfill_the_law, law_and_the_prophets, oath, love_your_enemies, perfect | New terms present — theological anchor |
| 6 | hypocrite, mammon, fasting, treasure_in_heaven, father (Lord’s Prayer) | New terms present |
| 7 | judging_others, authority (climactic 7:28-29) | New terms present |
| 8 | son_of_man, faith (little faith), demon | New terms present |
| 9 | forgive_sins_authority, tax_collectors_and_sinners, disciple | New terms present |
| 10 | apostle, confess_deny_christ, persecuted_for_righteousness (extended), reward | New terms present |
| 11 | one_who_is_to_come, yoke_and_burden | New terms present |
| 12 | son_of_man, sabbath, blasphemy_against_holy_spirit, sign_of_jonah, demon, gentiles (mission citation) | New terms present |
| 13 | parable, mysteries_of_the_kingdom, kingdom_of_heaven (parables) | New terms present |
| 14 | faith (little faith), son_of_god (14:33), worship_of_christ | New terms present |
| 15 | tradition_of_the_elders, defile, faith (gentile woman) | New terms present |
| 16 | messiah, son_of_god, church, keys_of_the_kingdom, bind_and_loose, take_up_his_cross, deny_himself, sign_of_jonah (repeat) | New terms present |
| 17 | transfiguration, glory, son_of_man, faith | New terms present |
| 18 | church_discipline_procedure, cause_to_stumble, forgive_seventy_times_seven, bind_and_loose (18:18), kingdom_of_heaven (little children) | New terms present |
| 19 | marriage_and_divorce, eternal_life, kingdom_of_heaven | New terms present |
| 20 | son_of_man, ransom, son_of_david | New terms present |
| 21 | son_of_david, cornerstone, fulfillment_formula, kingdom_of_heaven (taken away) | New terms present |
| 22 | greatest_commandment, election, resurrection (Sadducee debate), messiah/son_of_david question, lord (Ps 110) | New terms present |
| 23 | scribes_and_pharisees, hypocrite, hell_gehenna | New terms present |
| 24 | end_of_the_age, abomination_of_desolation, coming_of_son_of_man, election, gospel_of_the_kingdom (24:14) | New terms present |
| 25 | talents, bridegroom, the_least_of_these, eternal_punishment, eternal_life | New terms present |
| 26 | new_covenant_body_blood, not_my_will_but_yours, thirty_pieces_of_silver, confess_deny_christ (Peter), son_of_man | New terms present |
| 27 | crucifixion, king_of_the_jews (inscription), temple_curtain_torn, resurrection (of saints), worship (mocking irony) | New terms present |
| 28 | resurrection, worship_of_christ, make_disciples_of_all_nations, baptizing_trinitarian_formula, all_authority_heaven_earth, i_am_with_you_always | New terms present |
Coverage confirmation: All 28 chapters of Matthew were reviewed for this gap analysis. No chapter was found to contribute zero load-bearing vocabulary; every chapter is represented above with either new terms or (where applicable) reuse of prior chapters’ terms under the same doctrine. This satisfies the PRD’s full-book coverage mandate independent of the core passage’s theological centrality.
7. Summary and Handoff
This gap analysis identifies 7 genuinely missing vocabulary items requiring new compound construction (kingdom-of-heaven circumlocution handling, blessed, keys of the kingdom / bind-and-loose, Son of Man’s apocalyptic sense, the full eschatological register, ransom, talents) and 12 crowded semantic neighborhoods requiring active fencing rather than new coinage (स्वर्ग, अवतार, पूजा, मन्नत/व्रत, शक्ति, धरम, चेला, नरक, दर्शन, सिद्ध, ज्योतषी, महाराजा, बलि). All resulting term decisions have already been carried forward into analysis/08_core_glossary.md and assets/bible_term_registry.json; this document records the reasoning trail that produced those decisions and must be consulted whenever a Phase 2 translator or reviewer questions why a given rendering was chosen over an apparently more fluent alternative.
See analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md for verse-level reasoning and analysis/08_core_glossary.md for the consolidated term table. See the baseline Romans translation_memory.json and doctrine_risk_registry.json for all reused terms and risk-tier conventions.