Glossary Term
Risk: High- Approved rendering
- peewal
- Transliteration
- peewal
- Rejected alternatives
- nunɗal (fairness/justice, too civic)
Righteousness
peewal (‘straightness/uprightness’) is a plausible general-purpose rendering, but its exact currency for the specific theological sense of right standing before God should be reconfirmed with native speakers in the target dialect; it risks being heard as good moral character rather than a status received by faith.