Core Glossary
Core Glossary: 1 Chronicles
Language pair: English → French
Curriculum: 1 Chronicles
Generated: Phase 1, Step 1
Companion to: analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md
How to Read This Glossary
- Reused from baseline = the French rendering is already fixed in the Romans
translation_memory.jsonand MUST be applied without alteration. - NEW = no baseline entry exists; this glossary proposes the rendering for adoption into
translation_memory.jsonat the start of Phase 2, with risk tier assigned using the same Critical/High/Medium/Low framework asdoctrine_risk_registry.json. - Chapters column cites every chapter of 1 Chronicles where the term is load-bearing (not merely incidental).
A. Divine Names and Titles
| Term | Hebrew (translit.) | French rendering | Status | Risk | Doctrine link | Chapters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| God | Elohim | Dieu | Reused from baseline | Medium | God’s Faithfulness across Generations | All | Reuse baseline god exactly. |
| LORD (covenant name YHWH) | YHWH | le SEIGNEUR (small caps) | NEW | Critical | Davidic Covenant Reaffirmed; God’s Faithfulness across Generations | All (esp. 10, 16, 17, 21, 28, 29) | No baseline entry (Romans is NT-only). Ecumenical TOB/BJ convention chosen over Segond’s “l’Éternel” per baseline register instruction (§0.1 of 07_semantic_analysis.md). Segond-formed Protestant readers will expect “l’Éternel” — flag as a live denominational-register decision requiring sign-off before Phase 2 begins. |
| LORD of hosts / God of hosts | YHWH/Elohei Tzeva’ot | le SEIGNEUR des armées | NEW | High | God’s Faithfulness across Generations; Davidic Covenant Reaffirmed | 17 | Risk of a militaristic/nationalist misreading of “armées” in secular French; gloss as “souverain sur toutes les puissances” in teaching notes. |
| Lord (generic/Adonai/NT-styled address) | Adonai | Seigneur (no small caps) | Reused from baseline | High | Lordship of Christ (cross-curriculum) | Rare in 1 Chr. | Reserve for Adonai or NT-echoing confessional statements; do not conflate typographically with the YHWH entry above. |
| Father (of David’s son/typological) | Av | père | Reused from baseline (lowercase, non-titular use) | Critical (contextual) | Davidic Covenant Reaffirmed; (cross-ref Sonship of Christ) | 17 | See son_royal_typological below; do not capitalize as the baseline’s Trinity-specific “Père” here — this is the royal-adoptive formula, not the fixed NT title for God the Father. |
| Spirit (divine enablement, OT context) | Ruach | l’Esprit / par l’Esprit [de Dieu] | NEW (distinct from baseline holy_spirit) | High | Preparation for the Temple | 28 | Baseline’s holy_spirit → “Esprit Saint” is a fixed NT Trinitarian phrase; do not import it unqualified into this OT revelatory context without theologian review determining whether added Trinitarian framing is appropriate for teaching notes. |
B. Covenant and Kingship
| Term | Hebrew (translit.) | French rendering | Status | Risk | Doctrine link | Chapters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| covenant | berit | alliance | Reused from baseline | High | Davidic Covenant Reaffirmed | 11, 15, 16, 17, 22, 28 | Reuse baseline covenant exactly. |
| David | David | David | Reused from baseline | Low | All | All | Reuse baseline david exactly. |
| Israel | Yisra’el | Israël | Reused from baseline | Medium | Genealogy and Continuity; Unity themes | All | Reuse baseline israel exactly. |
| seed / descendant(s) | zera | descendance | Reused from baseline (seed_of_david) | High | Davidic Covenant Reaffirmed | 17 | Reuse baseline “descendance de David” pattern; do not force full Messianic phrase onto every generic occurrence — see 07 analysis v.11 note. |
| king | melek | roi | NEW (no baseline entry; NT register uses “Seigneur”/“Roi” differently) | Low | Davidic Covenant Reaffirmed | 3, 11, 14, 17, 18–20, 29 | Stable, standard term. |
| ruler / designated leader | nagid | chef / prince (désigné par Dieu) | NEW | High | Davidic Covenant Reaffirmed | 17 | Distinguish from melek; “prince” risks a hereditary-nobility misreading, “chef” needs qualification to retain the divine-designation nuance. |
| throne | kisse | trône | NEW | High | Davidic Covenant Reaffirmed | 17, 22, 28, 29 | Stable term; emphasis is on permanence/eternity of the promise, not the physical furniture. |
| kingdom | malkhut | royaume | NEW (conceptually related to baseline kingdom_of_god) | Medium | Davidic Covenant Reaffirmed; Preparation for the Temple | 17, 22, 28, 29 | Do not silently substitute the baseline’s fixed capitalized “Royaume de Dieu” NT phrase; here it is often “son royaume”/“mon royaume,” a related but distinct construction. |
| forever / eternal | olam / ad olam | pour toujours / à jamais | NEW | Critical | Davidic Covenant Reaffirmed; God’s Faithfulness across Generations | 16, 17, 22, 28 | Must retain maximal durative/eschatological force; do not weaken to “pendant longtemps.” Consistency required across all occurrences in this book and with any future Christological cross-reference to the baseline’s resurrection_of_christ/lordship_of_christ. |
| house (dynasty / temple / literal dwelling — triple sense) | bayit | maison | NEW | Critical | Davidic Covenant Reaffirmed; Preparation for the Temple | 17 (esp.), 22, 28 | The central wordplay of ch. 17: David’s literal house → God’s future “house” (Temple) → David’s dynastic “house.” French “maison” carries the same triple polysemy but the shift must be signaled by consistent verb/noun choice (“bâtir une maison”) across every occurrence — see 07 analysis vv. 1, 4, 10, 12, 14. |
| anoint | mashach | oindre | NEW | Medium-High | Davidic Covenant Reaffirmed | 11, 29 | Lexical root of “Messie” (baseline TM, reuse exactly for that separate term); distinguish from Catholic sacramental “onction” (anointing of the sick). |
| Father…Son (royal-adoptive covenant formula) | av…ben | père…fils | NEW, Critical cross-reference | Critical | Davidic Covenant Reaffirmed (cross-ref. Sonship of Christ, baseline) | 17 | Near-term referent Solomon; far-term fulfillment in Christ (Hebrews 1:5 quotes this verse). Must NOT use the baseline’s fixed “Fils de Dieu” phrase here (reserved for Christ’s unique eternal Sonship) while still preserving enough lexical continuity (“père”/“fils”) for the cross-curriculum NT link to remain visible. Requires human theologian review at every occurrence. |
| steadfast love / covenant mercy | chesed | fidélité (primary) / bonté (secondary gloss) | NEW | Critical | God’s Faithfulness across Generations; Davidic Covenant Reaffirmed | 16, 17 | No baseline equivalent; NOT interchangeable with baseline’s grace (unmerited initiating favor) — chesed is covenant-loyalty-in-an-existing-relationship. Do not render as bare “miséricorde” (skews toward forgiveness-of-guilt). |
| remember (covenant) | zakhar | se souvenir de [son alliance] | NEW | High | God’s Faithfulness across Generations | 16 | Active covenant fidelity, not passive cognitive recall. |
C. Genealogy and Continuity
| Term | Hebrew (translit.) | French rendering | Status | Risk | Doctrine link | Chapters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| begot / fathered | holid | engendra | NEW | Medium | Genealogy and the Continuity of God’s People | 1–9 (genealogical formula throughout) | Keep this exact verb consistently across all nine genealogical chapters; do not vary with synonyms, to preserve the theological rhythm of unbroken generational continuity. |
| sons of / clans / families | bene / mishpachot | fils de / clans / familles | NEW | Low | Genealogy and the Continuity of God’s People | 1–9 | Standard, stable vocabulary. |
| nations / peoples | goyim | nations | NEW (do not conflate with baseline gentiles) | Medium | Genealogy and the Continuity of God’s People | 1 | Baseline’s “païens” is reserved for the NT covenant-outsider sense; ch. 1’s genealogical listing is ethnically descriptive only. |
| tribe | matteh / shevet | tribu | NEW | Low | Genealogy and the Continuity of God’s People | 2, and throughout | Stable term. |
| exile / captivity | galut / golah | exil / captivité | NEW | Medium | God’s Faithfulness across Generations | 3, 5 | Keep concrete-historical, not a vague suffering metaphor. |
| unfaithful / transgress | ma’al | être infidèle [à Dieu] | NEW | High | Genealogy and Continuity; God’s Faithfulness across Generations | 5, 10 | Retain relational/covenantal weight (like the baseline’s treatment of sin), not neutral legal transgression. |
| bless | barakh | bénir | NEW | Low-Medium | Genealogy and the Continuity of God’s People | 4 | Watch for prosperity-gospel over-reading in popular teaching of the Jabez prayer. |
| territory / border | gevul | territoire | NEW | Low | Genealogy and the Continuity of God’s People | 4 | Stable. |
| mighty men of valor | gibborei chayil | hommes vaillants | NEW | Low | Preparation for the Temple (military-material) | 7, 11, 12 | Stable martial-heroic register. |
D. Worship and the Levitical Order
| Term | Hebrew (translit.) | French rendering | Status | Risk | Doctrine link | Chapters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Levites | Leviyyim | lévites | NEW | Medium | Worship and the Levitical Order | 6, 9, 15, 16, 23, 25, 26 | Stable term; clarify priestly/non-priestly distinction in teaching notes, not lexically. |
| priest | kohen | prêtre | NEW | Critical/High | Worship and the Levitical Order | 6, 24 (and throughout) | Adopted over Segond’s “sacrificateur” per ecumenical TOB/BJ register; live collision risk with both Catholic sacerdotal and Protestant anti-sacerdotal readings — flag for human theologian review at every occurrence. |
| cities of refuge / pasture lands | arei miklat / migrash | villes de refuge / pâturages | NEW | Low-Medium | Worship and the Levitical Order | 6 | Avoid false-cognate “banlieue” for migrash. |
| gatekeepers | sho’arim | portiers | NEW | Low-Medium | Worship and the Levitical Order | 9, 26 | Functional term; do not trivialize toward modern “concierge” register. |
| storerooms / treasuries | lishkot / otzarot | chambres / trésors | NEW | Low | Worship and the Levitical Order; Preparation for the Temple | 9, 26, 29 | Stable. |
| medium / necromancer | ba’alat-ov | médium / nécromancienne | NEW | High | (Negative contrast to) Worship and the Levitical Order | 10 | Live contemporary occult category in French culture; frame clearly as covenant unfaithfulness. |
| inquire / seek [the LORD] | darash | chercher [le SEIGNEUR] | NEW | Critical (recurring) | Worship and the Levitical Order; God’s Faithfulness across Generations | 10, 13, 15, 16, 21, 22, 28 | Same French verb family (“consulter”) is also used idiomatically for occult consultation — must vary collocation deliberately: “chercher le SEIGNEUR” (positive) vs. “consulter une médium/nécromancienne” (negative). Flag every occurrence for native speaker review. |
| trumpets | chatzotzerot | trompettes | NEW | Low | Worship and the Levitical Order | 15 | Stable. |
| cymbals | metziltayim | cymbales | NEW | Low | Worship and the Levitical Order | 15, 25 | Stable. |
| harps / lyres | nevalim / kinnorot | harpes / lyres | NEW | Low | Worship and the Levitical Order | 15, 25 | Stable. |
| carry (the ark, properly) | nasa | porter | NEW | Medium | Worship and the Levitical Order | 15 | Verb choice should visibly contrast with the improper cart-transport of ch. 13. |
| give thanks / praise | yadah / halal | rendre grâce (may reuse baseline thanksgiving → “action de grâce” where sense matches) / louer, louange | Partially reused from baseline; NEW distinct term for halal | Low-Medium | Worship and the Levitical Order | 16, 25 | Keep the two Hebrew roots distinct in French; do not collapse “give thanks” and “praise” into one word. |
| anger / wrath (of God, re: ark holiness) | charah (root) | colère | NEW (supplements baseline holy) | Medium | Worship and the Levitical Order | 13 | Adds the danger/sanctity dimension not fully covered by baseline’s moral-purity-focused holy entry; avoid implying divine arbitrariness. |
| divisions / courses | machlekot | divisions (preferred) / classes (secondary) | NEW | Medium | Worship and the Levitical Order | 23, 24, 25, 26 | ”Classes” risks a modern schoolroom reading in French; prefer “divisions.” |
| service / ministry | avodah / sheret | service / ministère | NEW | Medium | Worship and the Levitical Order | 23 | Prefer “ministère” specifically where the Hebrew marks cultic sheret (priestly ministering), distinct from generic avodah labor. |
| lot (casting lots) | goral | sort (as in “tirer au sort”) | NEW | Medium | Worship and the Levitical Order | 24 | Frame as a God-directed procedure, not chance/gambling; parallels baseline’s caution on election/providence. |
| prophesy (with instruments) | naba (niphal) | prophétiser | NEW (reuses baseline prophecy root) | Medium-High | Worship and the Levitical Order | 25 | Unusual application to musical worship; gloss carefully to avoid a misreading as ordinary prediction. |
| wholehearted / with a whole heart | levav shalem / be-khol-levav | de tout son cœur / un cœur sans partage | NEW | Medium | Worship and the Levitical Order; Preparation for the Temple | 28 | Preserve the totalizing, undivided-devotion sense. |
E. Preparation for the Temple
| Term | Hebrew (translit.) | French rendering | Status | Risk | Doctrine link | Chapters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dedicate / consecrate (material wealth) | hiqdish | consacrer | NEW | Medium-High | Preparation for the Temple | 18 | Watch for collision with the Catholic liturgical sense of Eucharistic “consécration”; context (material wealth, not elements/persons) should be explicit. |
| census / numbering | saphar / mispar | recensement | NEW | Medium | Preparation for the Temple (negative example) | 21 | Keep the narrative’s moral framing (an act of prideful self-reliance) visible, not neutral bureaucracy. |
| angel | malakh | ange | NEW | Low | Preparation for the Temple | 21 | Stable. |
| plague / pestilence | dever | peste / fléau | NEW | Low-Medium | Preparation for the Temple | 21 | Stable. |
| threshing floor | goren | aire (de battage) | NEW | Medium | Preparation for the Temple | 21 | Keep concrete and specific — the literal, historical future Temple site. |
| altar | mizbeach | autel | NEW | Low | Preparation for the Temple | 21 | Stable. |
| atonement / propitiation | kipper | faire l’expiation / expier | NEW | Critical | Preparation for the Temple; (cross-ref. atonement/propitiation, baseline Romans 3:25) | 21 | Same flagging severity as baseline’s Romans 3:25 atonement language; do not soften to “réparer/compenser.” |
| prepare | kun | préparer | NEW | Low-Medium | Preparation for the Temple | 22, 28, 29 | Lexical anchor of the doctrine name itself; keep consistent across all three chapters. |
| rest (from enemies) | nuach / menuchah | repos | NEW | Medium | Preparation for the Temple | 22 | Not mere leisure/absence of conflict — a theological gift and precondition for sacred building, parallel to baseline’s caution on peace. |
| charge / command | tsavah | charger / ordonner | NEW | Low-Medium | Preparation for the Temple; Davidic Covenant Reaffirmed | 22, 28 | Solemn generational instruction. |
| plan / pattern | tavnit | plan / modèle | NEW | Critical | Preparation for the Temple | 28 | Must be anchored explicitly as Spirit-given revelation (28:12, 19), not human architectural design; echoes the Exodus tabernacle tavnit. |
| freewill offering | nedavah | offrande volontaire | NEW | Low-Medium | Preparation for the Temple | 29 | Keep the voluntary/willing nuance distinct from mandatory tithe language. |
| everything comes from you | ha-kol mi-yadekha | tout vient de toi | NEW | Medium | Preparation for the Temple | 29 | Preserve the absolute totalizing claim; do not soften “all” to “much/most.” |
| sojourners / temporary residents | gerim ve-toshavim | étrangers et résidents temporaires | NEW | Low-Medium | Preparation for the Temple (humility motif) | 29 | Keep the theological-humility-before-God sense distinct from contemporary immigration-status political framing. |
F. Reused Baseline Terms Appearing Throughout 1 Chronicles (No New Entry Needed)
| Term | French (baseline) | Risk (baseline) | Chapters where load-bearing |
|---|---|---|---|
| holy | saint | Medium | 6, 13, 15, 16, 23 |
| saints (if applied to corporate people-of-God sense) | saints (glossed “tous les croyants”) | High | (rare direct use; mainly relevant by doctrinal extension, cf. sainthood) |
| glory | gloire | Medium | 16, 29 |
| peace | paix | Low | 22 |
| prophet / prophecy | prophète / prophétie | Low | 17, 25 (extended sense), 29 |
| Messiah | Messie | Medium | (typological background to “anoint,” ch. 11, 29) |
| God (as above) | Dieu | Medium | All |
| Israel | Israël | Medium | All |
| David | David | Low | All |
Glossary Change Log for Phase 2 Handoff
All entries marked NEW above must be inserted into translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json before Phase 2 segment translation of 1 Chronicles begins, with the following priority for theologian sign-off before enforcement:
lord_yhwh(le SEIGNEUR) — Critical, book-wide.house_bayit(maison, triple sense) — Critical, concentrated in ch. 17, 22, 28.priest_kohen(prêtre) — Critical/High, concentrated in ch. 6, 24.chesed(fidélité) — Critical, concentrated in ch. 16, 17.royal_father_son_formula(père…fils, ch. 17:13) — Critical, requires explicit theologian calibration against baseline’sson_of_god/sonship_of_christ.seek_the_lord_darash(chercher le SEIGNEUR) — Critical (recurring), chs. 10, 13, 15, 16, 21, 22, 28.atonement_kipper(faire l’expiation) — Critical, ch. 21.tavnit_plan(plan/modèle) — Critical, ch. 28.
Critical Risk Terms
Son Of God
Approved rendering: Fils de Dieu
Transliteration: Fils de Dieu
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: envoyé de Dieu, homme divin
CRITICAL: full phrase required, conveying eternal, unique Sonship, not a divinely inspired man or messenger. [Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly, but with an ABSOLUTE PROHIBITION specific to this book: this fixed phrase must NEVER be applied to Solomon or any Davidic king at 17:13, 22:10, or 28:6. See the new royal_father_son_formula entry, which uses plain lowercase ‘père…fils’ for the near-term royal-adoptive sense while preserving the lexical bridge to Hebrews 1:5’s citation of this fixed NT phrase.]
Lord Yhwh
Approved rendering: le SEIGNEUR
Transliteration: le SEIGNEUR
Doctrine: The Covenant Name of God (YHWH)
Rejected alternatives: l’Éternel (Segond tradition), Yahvé (phonetic transliteration)
Original: יהוה
Category: God
NEW. No baseline equivalent exists — the Romans NT text never requires rendering the Tetragrammaton. Rendered ‘le SEIGNEUR’ (small capitals) per the ecumenical TOB/Bible de Jérusalem convention, matching this curriculum’s ecumenical register mandate, over the Segond tradition’s ‘l’Éternel’. BOOK-WIDE CRITICAL DECISION requiring theologian sign-off before Phase 2: Segond-formed Protestant readers will expect ‘l’Éternel’. Must stay typographically distinct from unmarked ‘Seigneur’ (Adonai; see baseline lord/lord_adonai). Occurs several hundred times throughout this book.
Lord Adonai
Approved rendering: Seigneur
Transliteration: Seigneur
Doctrine: The Covenant Name of God (YHWH) — contrastive entry
Original: אֲדֹנָי / κύριος (LXX)
Category: God
NEW cross-reference key confirming baseline reuse: reuses baseline’s ‘lord’ → ‘Seigneur’ exactly (unmarked, no small capitals), reserved for Adonai or NT-styled confessional address. Do not conflate typographically with lord_yhwh above; the distinction between unmarked ‘Seigneur’ and small-capitals ‘le SEIGNEUR’ is doctrinally load-bearing throughout this book.
House Bayit
Approved rendering: maison
Transliteration: maison
Doctrine: The ‘House’ Wordplay (Dynasty / Temple / Dwelling)
Rejected alternatives: dynastie (at v.10/12, would destroy the wordplay), lignée (at v.10/12, would destroy the wordplay), temple (at v.4/12, would destroy the wordplay)
Original: בַּיִת
Category: Kingship
NEW. Triple-sense wordplay across 17:1, 4, 10, 12, 14 (echoed in 22:6-10 and 28:2-6): David’s literal palace, the future Temple, and David’s dynastic line. French ‘maison’ carries the same triple polysemy as Hebrew bayit, but this must be engineered consistently, not assumed: the verb ‘bâtir’ and noun ‘maison’ MUST be used identically at every occurrence, or the chapter’s central theological reversal (David wants to build God a house; God will build David a house) is destroyed.
Royal Father Son Formula
Approved rendering: père…fils
Transliteration: père…fils
Doctrine: Royal Sonship Typology (Solomon and the Messianic Son)
Rejected alternatives: Fils de Dieu (baseline’s reserved, exclusively Christological phrase — FORBIDDEN here), fils adoptif (risks a modern legal-adoption register mismatch)
Original: אָב…בֵּן
Category: Christology
NEW, Critical cross-reference. Occurs at 17:13; echoed 22:10, 28:6. Near-term referent Solomon; Hebrews 1:5 quotes 17:13 directly of Christ. Must NOT use the baseline’s fixed ‘Fils de Dieu’ phrase (reserved for Christ’s unique eternal Sonship) at the near-term referent, but must preserve plain ‘père’/‘fils’ lexical continuity so the NT quotation link remains visible. Requires human theologian review at every occurrence to calibrate near-term vs. far-term sense without collapsing or overreading either. Also a Critical constraint for Islamic-heritage French readers: must never read as God ‘begetting’ a son (cf. Qur’an 112:3).
Chesed
Approved rendering: fidélité
Transliteration: fidélité
Doctrine: God’s Faithfulness across Generations
Rejected alternatives: grâce (baseline term, wrong category — unmerited initiating favor, not covenant-loyalty), miséricorde (skews toward forgiveness-of-guilt, absent from the Hebrew root)
Original: חֶסֶד
Category: Covenant
NEW, no baseline equivalent. Occurs at 16:34, 41; 17:13. Covenant loyalty, steadfast love, faithful kindness — God’s promise-keeping love within an existing covenant relationship. Primary rendering ‘fidélité’; secondary gloss ‘bonté’ permitted only where warmth needs foregrounding (16:34, 41). This is the book’s single most theologically distinctive vocabulary contribution beyond the Romans baseline.
Priest Kohen
Approved rendering: prêtre
Transliteration: prêtre
Doctrine: Priesthood and Levitical Service
Rejected alternatives: sacrificateur (Segond tradition; archaic register mismatch with this curriculum’s ecumenical TOB/BJ target)
Original: כֹּהֵן
Category: Worship
NEW. Chs. 6, 24 and throughout. Adopted ‘prêtre’ over Segond’s ‘sacrificateur’ per this curriculum’s ecumenical register. Live risk: French Catholic readers may import the sacramental, ordination-based meaning; French Protestant readers may be uneasy seeing ‘prêtre’ used approvingly at all. Every occurrence must be contextually anchored as a hereditary Aaronic office, typologically fulfilled — not continued — in Christ’s unique priesthood. Flag every occurrence for human theologian review.
Seek The Lord Darash
Approved rendering: chercher [le SEIGNEUR]
Transliteration: chercher [le SEIGNEUR]
Doctrine: Seeking the LORD versus Illegitimate Divination
Rejected alternatives: consulter (used positively; idiomatically ambiguous with occult consultation — FORBIDDEN for the positive sense unless collocated with ‘le SEIGNEUR’)
Original: דָּרַשׁ
Category: Worship
NEW, recurring critical term. Chs. 10, 13, 15, 16, 21, 22, 28. The single Hebrew verb darash covers both legitimate covenant-seeking of God and illegitimate consultation of forbidden oracles. French ‘consulter’ is idiomatically used for both (‘consulter un voyant’); must deliberately vary collocation: ‘chercher le SEIGNEUR’ (positive) vs. ‘consulter une médium/nécromancienne’ (negative, see medium_necromancer). Flag every occurrence for native speaker review.
Ark Of The Covenant
Approved rendering: arche de l’alliance
Transliteration: arche de l’alliance
Doctrine: Holiness and the Danger of the Ark
Original: אֲרוֹן בְּרִית־יְהוָה
Category: Worship
NEW. Chs. 13, 15, 16, 17. The sacred chest, locus of God’s presence. ‘Arche’ is stable across French traditions; ‘alliance’ reuses the baseline term exactly; the covenant name YHWH within the full construction ‘arche de l’alliance du SEIGNEUR’ is rendered per lord_yhwh above. Central symbol connecting worship order to the Davidic covenant and temple preparation.
Atonement Kipper
Approved rendering: faire l’expiation / expier
Transliteration: faire l’expiation / expier
Doctrine: Atonement and Sacrifice
Rejected alternatives: réparer (loses the substitutionary-sacrificial sense; sounds like insurance restitution), compenser (same weakness)
Original: כִּפֵּר
Category: Temple
NEW. 21:26-27. God’s judgment averted by an accepted sacrificial offering. Directly parallels the baseline’s flagged Critical atonement/propitiation vocabulary (Romans 3:25); do not soften. The plague is stopped specifically through sacrificial atonement, not repentance alone.
Plan Pattern Tavnit
Approved rendering: plan / modèle
Transliteration: plan / modèle
Doctrine: The Temple Pattern as Divine Revelation
Rejected alternatives: plan (bare, unanchored — reduces revelation to ordinary architecture if used without explicit framing)
Original: תַּבְנִית
Category: Temple
NEW. 28:11-19, echoing the Exodus tabernacle pattern (Exodus 25:9). Must be anchored explicitly in surrounding prose as Spirit-given revelation (‘par l’Esprit… de la main du SEIGNEUR’, 28:12, 19), not human architectural design genius, at every occurrence.
Forever Olam
Approved rendering: pour toujours / à jamais
Transliteration: pour toujours / à jamais
Doctrine: The Davidic Covenant Reaffirmed
Rejected alternatives: pendant longtemps (fatally weakens the eschatological guarantee to mere dynastic longevity)
Original: עַד־עוֹלָם
Category: Kingship
NEW. 17:12, 14. Maximal durative/eschatological force guaranteeing the permanence of the Davidic throne. Must not be weakened; consistency required with any future Christological cross-reference to baseline’s resurrection_of_christ/lordship_of_christ doctrines.
High Risk Terms
Saints
Approved rendering: saints
Transliteration: les saints
Doctrine: Sainthood
Original: קְדֹשִׁים
Category: Church
HIGH RISK: in everyday and Catholic French, ‘les saints’ overwhelmingly evokes canonized saints venerated as intercessors, not the corporate people-of-God sense. Add a clarifying gloss (‘tous les croyants’) in teaching contexts. [Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly in 1 Chronicles. Rare direct occurrence in this book but doctrinally relevant by extension to the covenant community’s set-apart identity underlying Genealogy and Continuity.]
Lord
Approved rendering: Seigneur
Transliteration: Seigneur
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: maître, patron
‘Seigneur’ carries feudal-historical resonance in French, risking a distant, archaic-title reading rather than a living confession. [Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly in 1 Chronicles ONLY for Adonai or NT-styled confessional address (unmarked, no small capitals) — see the new lord_adonai cross-reference entry below. Do NOT use this unmarked form for the covenant name YHWH; see lord_yhwh, a new, typographically distinct entry, for that referent. This dual usage is a book-wide Critical typographic distinction requiring theologian sign-off.]
Grace
Approved rendering: grâce
Transliteration: grâce
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: faveur, mérite
Unmerited, initiating favor, apart from any ecclesial mediation or merit. [Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly in 1 Chronicles ONLY where this specific NT sense is genuinely present (rare in this book). CRITICAL CAUTION: do NOT use ‘grâce’ to render Hebrew chesed (covenant-loyalty-in-an-existing-relationship, 16:34, 41; 17:13); see the new chesed entry (‘fidélité’), which is a doctrinally distinct category not interchangeable with this term.]
Election
Approved rendering: élection
Transliteration: élection
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: chance, destin
God’s sovereign, personal choice; risks a political/democratic misreading in French. [Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly ONLY for that NT effectual-calling sense. ABSOLUTE PROHIBITION specific to this book: do NOT use ‘élection’ to render Hebrew nagid (17:7, divinely designated ruler); see the new ruler_nagid entry (‘chef désigné par Dieu’), which sidesteps the political-election collision entirely rather than attempting to fence ‘élection’ a second time.]
Lord Of Hosts
Approved rendering: le SEIGNEUR des armées
Transliteration: le SEIGNEUR des armées
Doctrine: The LORD of Hosts: Universal Divine Sovereignty
Rejected alternatives: le SEIGNEUR Tout-Puissant (loses military-sovereignty imagery entirely)
Original: יְהוָה צְבָאוֹת
Category: God
NEW. Occurs at 17:7. In secular French, ‘armées’ is unavoidably read as a military term, risking a nationalist/militaristic misreading of a title meant to convey cosmic sovereignty over all powers, not battlefield command. Gloss in teaching notes as ‘le Dieu souverain sur toutes les puissances.‘
Holy Spirit Ot
Approved rendering: l’Esprit
Transliteration: l’Esprit
Doctrine: The Temple Pattern as Divine Revelation
Rejected alternatives: Esprit Saint (premature Trinitarian import)
Original: רוּחַ
Category: God
NEW, distinct from baseline’s Trinity-specific fixed NT phrase ‘Esprit Saint’. Occurs at 28:12 (the Spirit-given Temple plan). Do not import ‘Esprit Saint’ unqualified into this OT revelatory context; render simply ‘l’Esprit’ or ‘par l’Esprit [de Dieu]’. Requires theologian review to decide whether explicit Trinitarian framing belongs in teaching notes.
Father Ot
Approved rendering: père
Transliteration: père
Doctrine: Royal Sonship Typology
Rejected alternatives: Père (capitalized, premature NT titular import)
Original: אָב
Category: God
NEW/contextual. Occurs at 17:13. Do not capitalize as the baseline’s fixed NT title for God the Father; this is the lowercase royal-adoptive covenant formula applied to the Davidic king. See royal_father_son_formula below.
Ruler Nagid
Approved rendering: chef (désigné par Dieu)
Transliteration: chef (désigné par Dieu)
Doctrine: Kingship as Divine Appointment
Rejected alternatives: prince (hereditary-nobility misreading), élection (political/democratic collision, baseline-forbidden)
Original: נָגִיד
Category: Kingship
NEW. Occurs at 17:7. Hebrew nagid is a divinely designated leader, distinct from full royal office (melek). ‘Prince’ risks a hereditary-nobility misreading suggesting David inherited the office; bare ‘chef’ loses the divine-designation nuance unless qualified. Must never be rendered via baseline’s ‘élection’ vocabulary.
Anoint Mashach
Approved rendering: oindre
Transliteration: oindre
Doctrine: Anointing and the Messianic Trajectory
Rejected alternatives: onction (risk of collision with the Catholic sacramental anointing of the sick)
Original: מָשַׁח
Category: Kingship
NEW. Occurs at 11:3, 29:22. Consecration ritual for kings (and priests); the lexical root of ‘Messie’ (baseline TM, reused exactly). Make the root connection explicit in teaching notes; distinguish from the unrelated Catholic sacramental ‘onction des malades’.
Remember Covenant
Approved rendering: se souvenir de [son alliance]
Transliteration: se souvenir de [son alliance]
Doctrine: God’s Faithfulness across Generations
Rejected alternatives: ne pas oublier (double-negative, weaker register)
Original: זָכַר בְּרִית
Category: Covenant
NEW. Occurs at 16:15. God’s active, ongoing covenant faithfulness, described as divine ‘remembering’ that never forgets. Must carry active covenantal-fidelity weight, not a passive cognitive-recall sense, which would trivialize the theological claim.
Unfaithful Maal
Approved rendering: être infidèle [à Dieu]
Transliteration: être infidèle [à Dieu]
Doctrine: Covenant Unfaithfulness and Exile
Rejected alternatives: transgresser (neutral-legal register, loses relational weight), se rendre coupable d’infidélité (acceptable secondary paraphrase)
Original: מָעַל
Category: Sin
NEW. Covenant betrayal, particularly idolatry, chs. 5, 10. Must retain relational, marriage-like betrayal weight, matching baseline’s relational (not neutral-legal) treatment of ‘sin’ (péché).
Medium Necromancer
Approved rendering: médium / nécromancienne
Transliteration: médium / nécromancienne
Doctrine: Seeking the LORD versus Illegitimate Divination
Original: בַּעֲלַת־אוֹב
Category: Sin
NEW. Ch. 10, Saul’s death. A forbidden occult practitioner. Modern French ‘médium’ names a live, contemporary occult category still practiced/marketed in France; frame clearly as covenant unfaithfulness, contrasted immediately with seek_the_lord_darash.
Prophesy With Instruments
Approved rendering: prophétiser
Transliteration: prophétiser
Doctrine: Prophetic Inspiration in Worship
Original: נִבָּא
Category: Worship
NEW, reuses baseline prophecy/prophète root. Ch. 25:1-3, musicians ‘prophesying’ with instruments — an unusual extension of prophetic vocabulary to musical worship-leadership. Gloss carefully as Spirit-empowered worship leadership, comparable conceptually (though not identically) to baseline’s spiritual_gifts doctrine, not ordinary ecstatic prediction.
Dedicate Consecrate
Approved rendering: consacrer
Transliteration: consacrer
Doctrine: Dedication of Wealth to God’s Service
Original: הִקְדִּישׁ
Category: Temple
NEW. Ch. 18:11. Formally consecrating material wealth/spoils for sacred use. Shares a root sense with baseline’s holy/sanctification cluster; risk of collision with the Catholic liturgical sense of Eucharistic ‘consécration’ — always collocate with the material object being dedicated (‘consacrer ces richesses/ce butin’), never with elements or persons.
Seed Offspring Generic
Approved rendering: descendance
Transliteration: descendance
Doctrine: The Davidic Covenant Reaffirmed
Rejected alternatives: descendance de David (the baseline’s fixed full phrase — premature at this specific verse)
Original: זֶרַע
Category: Covenant
NEW. 17:11. Generic ‘seed/offspring’ for Solomon before the dynastic-covenant promise is fully elaborated. Render as ‘ta descendance’/‘ta postérité’, not the fixed baseline phrase ‘descendance de David’, to avoid forcing a Messianic reading onto this verse alone (that comes at vv.12-14), while remaining lexically compatible for later cross-referencing.
Throne
Approved rendering: trône
Transliteration: trône
Doctrine: The Davidic Covenant Reaffirmed
Original: כִּסֵּא
Category: Kingship
NEW. 17:12; echoed 22, 28, 29. Royal authority and rule; in Davidic-covenant contexts, the eternally guaranteed reign ultimately fulfilled in Christ (cf. Luke 1:32-33). Emphasis is on permanence, not the physical furniture.
Medium Risk Terms
God
Approved rendering: Dieu
Transliteration: Dieu
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: אֱלֹהִים / יהוה
Category: God
Secularization risk: ‘Dieu’ is used as a casual interjection and, in academic/philosophical French, can be treated as an abstract deist concept rather than the personal, triune God of Scripture. In 1 Chronicles, ‘Elohim’ frequently co-occurs with the covenant name YHWH (see lord_yhwh below); keep the two distinguishable in French. [Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly in 1 Chronicles. Risk raised to Critical in this book’s own doctrine_risk_registry.json given the density of divine-name material — apply the higher standard.]
Holy
Approved rendering: saint
Transliteration: saint
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: pur
Original: קָדוֹשׁ
Category: Sanctification
Set apart for God and morally pure; ‘pur’ alone loses the set-apart sense. [Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly in 1 Chronicles. In this book, nuance further with anger_wrath_ot (colère) at 13:9-12 to convey holiness-as-danger, not merely moral purity — see that entry. This book’s own registry raises the applied risk to High given the ark-holiness narrative.]
Glory
Approved rendering: gloire
Transliteration: gloire
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: כָּבוֹד
Category: God
God’s radiant honor and presence. Secular ‘gloire’ (military, celebrity) risks a triumphalist, self-achieved reading rather than God’s own glory. [Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly in 1 Chronicles, load-bearing at 16:24-29 and 29:11’s doxology. This book’s registry raises applied risk to High given its doxological centrality.]
Messiah
Approved rendering: Messie
Transliteration: Messie
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: מָשִׁיחַ
Category: Christology
The Anointed One fulfilling OT promise, not one figure among several. [Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly in 1 Chronicles. Make the mashach/mashiach lexical root connection explicit in teaching notes at 11:3 and 29:22 without collapsing David’s own anointing into a premature full Messianic identification. This book’s registry raises applied risk to Critical given the typological weight ch. 17 places on this trajectory.]
Covenant
Approved rendering: alliance
Transliteration: alliance
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Rejected alternatives: contrat
Original: בְּרִית
Category: Covenant
Relational covenant bond, more than a legal contract. [Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly in 1 Chronicles, load-bearing at 11:3, 15:25-29, 16:15-17, 17:1-15, 22:9-10, 28:4-7. This book’s registry raises applied risk to High given the centrality of the Davidic Covenant Reaffirmed doctrine.]
Israel
Approved rendering: Israël
Transliteration: Israël
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: יִשְׂרָאֵל
Category: Covenant
Contemporary Middle East politics and France’s significant Jewish community make it easy to conflate biblical Israel with the modern nation-state; keep the referent historical/theological. [Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly in 1 Chronicles throughout, especially in the genealogical and covenant chapters.]
Seed Of David
Approved rendering: descendance de David
Transliteration: descendance de David
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Rejected alternatives: semence de David (archaic)
Original: זֶרַע דָּוִד / σπέρμα Δαυίδ
Category: Covenant
Physical descent from David through whom the covenant promise, and ultimately the Messiah, comes. [Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly in 1 Chronicles ONLY when the full Davidic-lineage phrase is explicitly in view (e.g., chapter summaries, cross-references to Romans 1:3). At 17:11’s generic first mention of Solomon, use the distinct new entry seed_offspring_generic (‘descendance’) instead, to avoid forcing a premature Messianic reading.]
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: Esprit Saint
Transliteration: Esprit Saint
Doctrine: Sanctification
Fixed, capitalized NT Trinitarian title for the third Person of the Trinity. [Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly ONLY for NT-context Trinitarian material. Do NOT import unqualified into 1 Chronicles 28:12’s OT revelatory context (‘ruach’); see the new holy_spirit_ot entry (‘l’Esprit’) for that referent, pending theologian ruling on whether added Trinitarian framing belongs in teaching notes.]
Father
Approved rendering: Père
Transliteration: Père
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
God as personal Father, capitalized as the fixed NT title. [Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly ONLY for that fixed titular NT sense. Do NOT capitalize or use this entry for 1 Chronicles 17:13’s lowercase royal-adoptive covenant formula (‘I will be his father’); see the new father_ot entry (‘père’, lowercase) for that referent.]
Sin
Approved rendering: péché
Transliteration: péché
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Culpable rebellion against God, not merely minor indulgence. [Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly in 1 Chronicles as background register for the new unfaithful_maal entry (‘être infidèle [à Dieu]’), which specifically renders covenant betrayal (chs. 5, 10) with marital-unfaithfulness weight, matching this term’s relational (not neutral-legal) framing.]
Gentiles
Approved rendering: païens
Transliteration: païens
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Rejected alternatives: étrangers
The NT covenant-outsider sense, carrying a pejorative connotation in modern French. [Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly ONLY for that NT sense. ABSOLUTE PROHIBITION specific to this book: do NOT use ‘païens’ to render Hebrew goyim in 1 Chronicles 1’s genealogical table of nations, which is neutral and ethnically descriptive, not covenant-contrastive; see the new nations_goyim entry (‘nations’) for that referent.]
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: Royaume de Dieu
Transliteration: Royaume de Dieu
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
God’s sovereign reign, the fixed capitalized NT phrase. [Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly ONLY for that fixed NT construction. Do NOT silently substitute for 1 Chronicles 17:14’s ‘my kingdom’ / 22:10’s ‘his kingdom’ (Hebrew malkhut, possessive, lowercase); see the new kingdom_malkhut entry (‘royaume’) for that grammatically distinct OT referent.]
Providence
Approved rendering: providence
Transliteration: providence
Doctrine: Providence
Rejected alternatives: destin, hasard
God’s personal, purposive care, not a deist abstraction, impersonal fate, or luck. [Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly in 1 Chronicles as the conceptual parallel underlying the new lot_goral entry (‘sort’, ch. 24), which must likewise be framed as a God-directed procedure, not chance or gambling.]
Kingdom Malkhut
Approved rendering: royaume
Transliteration: royaume
Doctrine: The Davidic Covenant Reaffirmed
Rejected alternatives: Royaume de Dieu (fixed NT phrase, wrong grammatical construction here)
Original: מַלְכוּת
Category: Kingship
NEW, conceptually related to baseline’s kingdom_of_god but grammatically distinct (17:14 ‘mon royaume’; 22:10 ‘son royaume’). Do not silently substitute the baseline’s fixed capitalized NT phrase where the Hebrew has a first- or third-person possessive construction. Keep lowercase.
Servant Of God
Approved rendering: serviteur
Transliteration: serviteur
Doctrine: The Davidic Covenant Reaffirmed
Original: עַבְדִּי
Category: Kingship
NEW. Occurs at 17:4, 7 (‘mon serviteur David’). A covenant title of honor for a chosen figure (Moses, David). ‘Serviteur’ must retain dignity (royal/covenantal office), not sound menial.
Shepherd Leadership
Approved rendering: faire paître / être le berger de [mon peuple]
Transliteration: faire paître / être le berger de [mon peuple]
Doctrine: The Davidic Covenant Reaffirmed
Rejected alternatives: gérer (bureaucratic register mismatch), diriger (loses the pastoral-care nuance)
Original: רָעָה
Category: Kingship
NEW. Occurs at 17:6. Pastoral leadership metaphor — God-appointed tender care of his people, not self-appointed rule. Keep the pastoral (not merely administrative) sense.
Name Shem
Approved rendering: nom
Transliteration: nom
Doctrine: The Davidic Covenant Reaffirmed
Rejected alternatives: réputation (loses the biblical name-theology thread)
Original: שֵׁם
Category: Kingship
NEW. Occurs at 17:8. Reputation/renown that God himself grants to David, paralleling God’s own ‘name’ later dwelling in the Temple. Keep ‘nom’ plain.
Plant Nata
Approved rendering: planter
Transliteration: planter
Doctrine: The Davidic Covenant Reaffirmed
Rejected alternatives: installer (flattens the agricultural rootedness image), établir (flattens the agricultural rootedness image)
Original: נָטַע
Category: Kingship
NEW. Occurs at 17:9. Agricultural metaphor for God’s covenant intention to give Israel settled, rooted security in the land. Preserve the rootedness image.
Begot Holid
Approved rendering: engendra
Transliteration: engendra
Doctrine: Genealogy and the Continuity of God’s People
Rejected alternatives: eut pour fils (breaks formula consistency), fut le père de (breaks formula consistency)
Original: הוֹלִיד
Category: Genealogy
NEW. Genealogical succession formula, chs. 1-9. Keep this exact verb consistently across all nine genealogical chapters; do not vary with synonyms, to preserve the theological rhythm of unbroken generational continuity.
Nations Goyim
Approved rendering: nations
Transliteration: nations
Doctrine: Genealogical Inclusion of the Nations
Rejected alternatives: païens (baseline’s NT covenant-outsider term — FORBIDDEN here)
Original: גּוֹיִם
Category: Genealogy
NEW. Occurs in ch. 1’s genealogical table. Do NOT substitute baseline’s ‘gentiles’ → ‘païens’, reserved for the NT covenant-outsider sense; ch. 1’s listing is ethnically descriptive and universal-human-family framing only.
Exile Captivity
Approved rendering: exil / captivité
Transliteration: exil / captivité
Doctrine: Covenant Unfaithfulness and Exile
Rejected alternatives: déplacement (too vague, loses concrete-historical anchoring)
Original: גָּלוּת / גּוֹלָה
Category: Genealogy
NEW. The Babylonian deportation, chs. 3, 5, 9:1. Must be read as covenant-historical, concrete and datable, not a vague suffering metaphor.
Bless Barakh
Approved rendering: bénir
Transliteration: bénir
Doctrine: Genealogy and the Continuity of God’s People
Original: בָּרַךְ
Category: Genealogy
NEW. Jabez’s prayer, 4:9-10. To speak or grant favor, prosperity, and enlargement. Watch for prosperity-gospel over-reading in popular teaching contexts.
Levites
Approved rendering: lévites
Transliteration: lévites
Doctrine: Worship and the Levitical Order
Original: לְוִיִּם
Category: Worship
NEW. Descendants of Levi set apart for tabernacle/temple service, chs. 6, 9, 15, 16, 23, 25, 26. Stable term; clarify the priestly/non-priestly distinction in teaching notes, not lexically.
Cities Of Refuge
Approved rendering: villes de refuge / pâturages
Transliteration: villes de refuge / pâturages
Doctrine: Worship and the Levitical Order
Rejected alternatives: banlieue (false cognate for migrash; anachronistic modern-suburb connotation)
Original: עָרֵי מִקְלָט / מִגְרָשׁ
Category: Worship
NEW. Legal-asylum cities and Levitical support-land allotments, ch. 6. Avoid the false-cognate trap of ‘banlieue’ for migrash.
Gatekeepers
Approved rendering: portiers
Transliteration: portiers
Doctrine: Worship and the Levitical Order
Rejected alternatives: concierge (trivializing modern register)
Original: שׁוֹעֲרִים
Category: Worship
NEW. Levitical office guarding the sanctuary’s access points, chs. 9, 26. Functional, stable term; do not trivialize.
Carry Ark
Approved rendering: porter
Transliteration: porter
Doctrine: Holiness and the Danger of the Ark
Rejected alternatives: transporter (loses the on-the-shoulders, by-poles specificity)
Original: נָשָׂא
Category: Worship
NEW. Ch. 15, proper Levitical ark-transport, correcting ch. 13’s improper cart-method. Verb choice should visibly contrast with the improper cart-transport narrative.
Give Thanks Praise
Approved rendering: rendre grâce / louer, louange
Transliteration: rendre grâce / louer, louange
Doctrine: Worship and the Levitical Order
Original: יָדָה / הָלַל
Category: Worship
NEW/partially reused. Chs. 16, 25. Two distinct Hebrew roots (yadah/give thanks; halal/praise) used in parallel. May reuse baseline ‘thanksgiving’ → ‘action de grâce’ where the sense matches closely for yadah; use ‘louer/louange’ for halal. Do not collapse both roots into a single French word.
Anger Wrath Ot
Approved rendering: colère
Transliteration: colère
Doctrine: Holiness and the Danger of the Ark
Original: חָרוֹן / קָצַף
Category: Worship
NEW, supplements baseline’s moral-purity-focused ‘holy’ (saint). Ch. 13:9-12, the Uzza incident. Clarify this is covenantal holiness-as-danger, not a portrait of an arbitrary or capricious deity.
Divisions Courses
Approved rendering: divisions
Transliteration: divisions
Doctrine: Corporate Order in Worship
Rejected alternatives: classes (modern schoolroom register mismatch)
Original: מַחְלְקוֹת
Category: Worship
NEW. Chs. 23-26. Organized rotational service groups. Prefer ‘divisions’; ‘classes’ only as a secondary gloss if matching a specific French Bible tradition.
Service Ministry
Approved rendering: service / ministère
Transliteration: service / ministère
Doctrine: Worship and the Levitical Order
Original: עֲבֹדָה / שֵׁרֵת
Category: Worship
NEW. Ch. 23. Distinguishes broad labor/service (avodah) from specifically cultic ministering nearest the sacred objects (sheret). Prefer ‘ministère’ where the Hebrew marks cultic sheret; plain ‘service’ alone does not mark this distinction.
Lot Goral
Approved rendering: sort
Transliteration: sort
Doctrine: Corporate Order in Worship
Rejected alternatives: hasard (undermines the God-directed nature entirely)
Original: גּוֹרָל
Category: Worship
NEW. Ch. 24. A randomizing procedure understood as revealing, not generating, God’s choice. French ‘tirer au sort’ can sound like gambling; must be framed as a God-directed procedure, echoing baseline’s caution on election/providence.
Wholehearted
Approved rendering: de tout son cœur / un cœur sans partage
Transliteration: de tout son cœur / un cœur sans partage
Doctrine: Worship and the Levitical Order
Rejected alternatives: sincèrement (loses the totality nuance)
Original: לֵבָב שָׁלֵם / בְּכָל־לֵבָב
Category: Worship
NEW. Ch. 28:9, David’s charge to Solomon. Total, undivided devotion. Preserve the totalizing sense.
Tent Tabernacle
Approved rendering: tente / tabernacle
Transliteration: tente / tabernacle
Doctrine: Divine Presence in the Tabernacle
Original: אֹהֶל / מִשְׁכָּן
Category: Worship
NEW. 15:1; 17:1, 5. French ‘tabernacle’ also names the cabinet housing the consecrated Eucharistic host in Catholic liturgy; pair with ‘tente’ or explicit wilderness/mobile-sanctuary framing at first occurrence in each chapter, never let bare ‘tabernacle’ stand unqualified.
Census Numbering
Approved rendering: recensement
Transliteration: recensement
Doctrine: Census and Self-Reliance versus Trust in God
Original: סָפַר / מִסְפָּר
Category: Temple
NEW. Ch. 21:1-8. The sinful numbering of fighting men, driven by self-reliant pride. Keep the narrative’s negative moral framing visible, not a neutral bureaucratic term.
Plague Pestilence
Approved rendering: peste / fléau
Transliteration: peste / fléau
Doctrine: Atonement and Sacrifice
Original: דֶּבֶר
Category: Temple
NEW. Ch. 21. Divine judgment via disease, halted by sacrificial atonement. Keep the judgment-and-mercy narrative arc visible.
Threshing Floor
Approved rendering: aire (de battage)
Transliteration: aire (de battage)
Doctrine: Preparation for the Temple
Rejected alternatives: lieu (too abstract, loses the concrete future-Temple-site link)
Original: גֹּרֶן
Category: Temple
NEW. 21:15-30. Ornan’s/Araunah’s threshing floor, purchased by David, becoming the future Temple site. Keep concrete and specific.
Prepare Kun
Approved rendering: préparer
Transliteration: préparer
Doctrine: Preparation for the Temple
Original: כּוּן
Category: Temple
NEW. Chs. 22, 28, 29. Active material and administrative readiness for the temple project; the lexical anchor of the doctrine’s own name. Keep consistent across all three chapters.
Rest Menuchah
Approved rendering: repos
Transliteration: repos
Doctrine: Rest as Divine Provision for Sacred Building
Original: נוּח / מְנוּחָה
Category: Temple
NEW. 22:9, 18. God-given peace and security, the necessary precondition for temple-building. Parallels baseline’s caution on ‘peace’ (la paix) — a theological gift, not mere leisure or self-achieved calm.
Charge Command
Approved rendering: charger / ordonner
Transliteration: charger / ordonner
Doctrine: Preparation for the Temple
Original: צִוָּה
Category: Temple
NEW. Chs. 22, 28. Solemn parental/royal instruction, especially David’s charge to Solomon; covenant-transmission language passed intentionally from one generation to the next.
Freewill Offering
Approved rendering: offrande volontaire
Transliteration: offrande volontaire
Doctrine: Stewardship and Freewill Giving
Original: נְדָבָה
Category: Temple
NEW. 29:1-9. A spontaneous, non-obligatory offering. Keep the voluntary/willing nuance distinct from mandatory-tithe language.
Everything From You
Approved rendering: tout vient de toi
Transliteration: tout vient de toi
Doctrine: Stewardship and Freewill Giving
Rejected alternatives: beaucoup vient de toi (softens the totalizing claim), la plupart vient de toi (softens the totalizing claim)
Original: הַכֹּל מִיָּדְךָ
Category: Temple
NEW. 29:14. Theology of total divine ownership. Preserve the totalizing ‘all’ (kol); do not soften.
Sojourners Temporary Residents
Approved rendering: étrangers et résidents temporaires
Transliteration: étrangers et résidents temporaires
Doctrine: Human Mortality and Transience before God
Original: גֵּרִים וְתוֹשָׁבִים
Category: Temple
NEW. 29:15. Human mortality/transience metaphor before God. Keep the theological humility-before-God sense distinct from contemporary French political sensitivity around immigration/‘étranger’ status.
Word Of God Revelation
Approved rendering: la parole de Dieu
Transliteration: la parole de Dieu
Doctrine: Inspiration of God’s Word through the Prophets
Original: דְּבַר הָאֱלֹהִים
Category: Worship
NEW. 17:3. Authoritative divine speech-event overturning Nathan’s own prior counsel (v.2) — Scripture’s authority over even a prophet’s personal judgment. Reinforces baseline’s Inspiration-of-Scripture doctrine framing; keep ‘Dieu’ per baseline TM.
Low Risk Terms
Peace
Approved rendering: paix
Transliteration: paix
Doctrine: Peace with God
Original: שָׁלוֹם
Category: Temple
Relational peace, not merely psychological calm. [Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly in 1 Chronicles. Parallels the caution attached to rest_menuchah (repos) at 22:9, 18 — both must convey covenant-security, not self-achieved calm.]
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: action de grâce
Transliteration: action de grâce
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Grateful acknowledgment of God’s goodness. [Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly in 1 Chronicles where the sense of yadah closely matches (16:4, 16:7-36); for the distinct root halal, use the new give_thanks_praise entry’s secondary term ‘louer/louange’ instead of collapsing both roots into this single word.]
Prophet
Approved rendering: prophète
Transliteration: prophète
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: voyant
Original: נָבִיא
Category: Worship
God’s spokesperson; avoid ‘voyant’ (fortune-teller connotation). [Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly in 1 Chronicles for Nathan (17:1-15) and Gad.]
Prophecy
Approved rendering: prophétie
Transliteration: prophétie
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Original: נְבוּאָה
Category: Worship
God-inspired declaration, not astrological prediction. [Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly in 1 Chronicles for Nathan’s oracle (17:3-15) and its confirming ‘vision’ (17:15).]
David
Approved rendering: David
Transliteration: David
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: דָּוִד
Category: Covenant
Standard proper name form across all French Bible traditions. [Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly in 1 Chronicles as the book’s central figure throughout.]
King Melek
Approved rendering: roi
Transliteration: roi
Doctrine: Kingship as Divine Appointment
Original: מֶלֶךְ
Category: Kingship
NEW. Stable, standard term for the monarchic office, distinct from nagid (see ruler_nagid). Load-bearing at 3, 11, 14, 17, 18-20, 29.
Sons Of Clans
Approved rendering: fils de / clans / familles
Transliteration: fils de / clans / familles
Doctrine: Genealogy and the Continuity of God’s People
Original: בְּנֵי / מִשְׁפְּחוֹת
Category: Genealogy
NEW. Tribal-genealogical kinship units, chs. 1-9. Standard, stable French genealogical vocabulary.
Tribe
Approved rendering: tribu
Transliteration: tribu
Doctrine: Genealogy and the Continuity of God’s People
Original: מַטֶּה / שֵׁבֶט
Category: Genealogy
NEW. One of the twelve tribal divisions of Israel, ch. 2 and throughout. Stable term.
Territory Gevul
Approved rendering: territoire
Transliteration: territoire
Doctrine: Genealogy and the Continuity of God’s People
Original: גְּבוּל
Category: Genealogy
NEW. Land allotment or boundary, ch. 4. Stable.
Storerooms Treasuries
Approved rendering: chambres / trésors
Transliteration: chambres / trésors
Doctrine: Worship and the Levitical Order
Original: לִשְׁכוֹת / אֹצָרוֹת
Category: Worship
NEW. Rooms for sacred vessels, tithes, and temple resources, chs. 9, 26, 29. Stable.
Trumpets
Approved rendering: trompettes
Transliteration: trompettes
Doctrine: Worship and the Levitical Order
Original: חֲצוֹצְרוֹת
Category: Worship
NEW. Ceremonial trumpets, ch. 15. Stable.
Cymbals
Approved rendering: cymbales
Transliteration: cymbales
Doctrine: Worship and the Levitical Order
Original: מְצִלְתַּיִם
Category: Worship
NEW. Percussion instruments, chs. 15, 25. Stable.
Harps Lyres
Approved rendering: harpes / lyres
Transliteration: harpes / lyres
Doctrine: Worship and the Levitical Order
Original: נְבָלִים / כִּנֹּרוֹת
Category: Worship
NEW. Stringed instruments, chs. 15, 25. Stable.
Angel Malakh
Approved rendering: ange
Transliteration: ange
Doctrine: Preparation for the Temple
Original: מַלְאָךְ
Category: Temple
NEW. Ch. 21. A heavenly being executing God’s judgment, personally administered, not impersonal fate.
Altar Mizbeach
Approved rendering: autel
Transliteration: autel
Doctrine: Preparation for the Temple
Original: מִזְבֵּח
Category: Temple
NEW. 21:26. Site/structure for offering sacrifice, prefiguring the Temple’s great altar. Stable.
Vision Chizzayon
Approved rendering: vision
Transliteration: vision
Doctrine: Inspiration of God’s Word through the Prophets
Original: חִזָּיוֹן
Category: Worship
NEW. 17:15. A mode of prophetic revelation confirming the whole Nathan oracle as authoritative. Stable term.
Mighty Men
Approved rendering: hommes vaillants
Transliteration: hommes vaillants
Doctrine: Military Valor and Divine Support
Original: גִּבּוֹרֵי חַיִל
Category: Kingship
NEW. Chs. 7, 11, 12. David’s elite warriors. Stable martial-heroic register in French Bible tradition.
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