Core Glossary
Jeremiah — Core Glossary (Phase 1, Step 1)
English → German Language Package | Consolidated Term Table
Curriculum: Jeremiah
Core passage: Jeremiah 31:31–34
Destination language: German
Baseline authority: Romans Language Package. Every row marked “Baseline reuse: YES” reuses the German rendering already fixed in translation_memory.json exactly, without modification. New rows (marked “Baseline reuse: NO — NEW”) establish this curriculum’s German-language terms for the first time and must be added to translation_memory.json at the appropriate version increment before Phase 2 translation begins, per the pipeline’s standing instructions.
Risk tiers follow the baseline’s fixed definitions: Critical (human theologian review, every occurrence) / High (human theologian review) / Medium (native speaker review) / Low (automated review sufficient).
A. The New Covenant
| # | Term (EN) | Original (Hebrew, translit.) | German rendering | Risk | Doctrine | Baseline reuse | Notes / Collision risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | new covenant | berit chadashah | neuer Bund | Critical | The New Covenant | Covenant term reuses baseline covenant→Bund; “new” is new | MANDATORY: never “Neues Testament.” German “Testament” now defaults to (a) the biblical-canon division or (b) a legal last will; only “Bund” preserves the living covenant-relationship sense the baseline already establishes. Single highest-density collision risk in this curriculum. |
| 2 | heart (as inward covenant location) | lev | Herz | High | The New Covenant | NO — NEW | Guard against reduction to the modern colloquial emotional-only sense; Hebrew lev = mind + will + affection integrated. |
| 3 | law / Torah (new-covenant content) | torah | Gesetz | High | The New Covenant | YES (baseline law) | Jeremiah’s torah carries the fuller “instruction/teaching” sense beyond German “Gesetz“‘s legal-code default; teach the Law/Gospel dialectic tension explicitly, do not silently resolve it. |
| 4 | know / know the LORD | yada | erkennen | High | The New Covenant; Individual Responsibility | NO — NEW | Must be glossed as relational-experiential covenant knowledge, not bare cognitive recognition. |
| 5 | forgive | salach | vergeben | Critical | The New Covenant | Consistent with pipeline’s Matt 9:2 authority_to_forgive_sins usage | Must match Gospel-package forgiveness vocabulary exactly for cross-document consistency; do not let colloquial “vergeben” (minor social apology) flatten the covenantal-atonement weight. |
| 6 | remember (no more) | zakar | nicht mehr gedenken | High | The New Covenant | NO — NEW | Teach as judicial/effectual non-remembrance, not literal divine memory-limitation. |
| 7 | iniquity | avon | Schuld | Medium | The New Covenant | NO — NEW | Distinguish from sin(Sünde); Jeremiah pairs both nouns for fullness, not redundancy. |
| 8 | sin | chata’ah | Sünde | Medium | The New Covenant; general | YES (baseline sin) | Colloquial German trivialization risk fully inherited from baseline. |
| 9 | covenant formula (“I their God, they my people”) | vehayiti lahem l’Elohim… | ”Ich werde ihr Gott sein, und sie werden mein Volk sein.” | Medium | The New Covenant | Partial (reuses baseline god→Gott) | Fixed liturgical-formula phrasing; keep verbatim-consistent at every recurrence (Jer 31:33; 32:38; cf. Lev 26:12; Ezek 36:28). |
| 10 | one heart and one way / everlasting covenant | lev echad vederekh echad; berit olam | ”ein Herz und einen Weg”; “ewiger Bund” | High | The New Covenant | Partial (Bund is baseline) | Direct expansion of 31:33; teach as reinforcement, not a separate promise. |
| 11 | heart to know me | lev lada’at oti | ”ein Herz, mich zu erkennen” | High | The New Covenant | Partial | Ch. 24’s anticipation of ch. 31; cross-reference for gradual-buildup teaching. |
| 12 | though I was their husband (v.32, disputed) | ba’alti vam | ”obwohl ich doch ihr Herr war” (MT-line) / “obwohl ich mich nicht mehr um sie kümmerte” (LXX/Heb 8:9-line) | High | The New Covenant | Partial (Herr is baseline) | Genuine MT/LXX divergence; present both traditions in teaching material, do not silently pick one — directly relevant to Hebrews 8:9. |
B. Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
| # | Term (EN) | Original (Hebrew, translit.) | German rendering | Risk | Doctrine | Baseline reuse | Notes / Collision risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | harlotry / spiritual adultery | zenut / ni’ufim | Hurerei / Ehebruch (metaphorical) | High | Covenant Unfaithfulness | NO — NEW | Must always be explicitly flagged as covenant-fidelity metaphor, recurring chs. 2, 3, 5, 13, 23. |
| 14 | broken cisterns / living water | be’erot nishbarim / mayim chayim | zerbrochene Zisternen / lebendiges Wasser | Medium | Covenant Unfaithfulness | Partial (“lebendiges Wasser” should match this pipeline’s John 4 usage) | Cross-document consistency required with John’s Gospel package. |
| 15 | backsliding / apostasy | meshuvah | Abfall / Untreue | Medium | Covenant Unfaithfulness | NO — NEW | — |
| 16 | return / repent | shuv | umkehren (narrative) / Buße (doctrinal summary) | High | Covenant Unfaithfulness; New Covenant | Partial (baseline repentance→Buße) | Shuv is more concretely relational-spatial than German “Buße“‘s fuller confessional-history weight; use “umkehren” in narrative contexts. |
| 17 | circumcise your heart | himmolu… orlot levavchem | ”Beschneidet euer Herz” | High | Covenant Unfaithfulness; New Covenant | Partial (baseline circumcision→Beschneidung) | Explicitly distinguish this spiritual metaphor from the Galatians package’s literal-rite argument and from Germany’s 2012 circumcision-law controversy context. |
| 18 | justice | mishpat | Recht | Medium | Covenant Unfaithfulness | NO — NEW | Keep distinct from baseline righteousness→Gerechtigkeit despite English overlap. |
| 19 | peace, peace (false comfort) | shalom shalom | Friede, Friede | Medium | Covenant Unfaithfulness; False Prophets | YES (baseline peace→Friede) | Shalom’s fuller well-being/wholeness range exceeds German “Friede” alone; supplement with teaching gloss. |
| 20 | Temple (this house) | habbayit hazzeh / beit YHWH | Tempel | Medium | Covenant Unfaithfulness | NO — NEW | Distinguish from baseline church→Gemeinde; note Matt 21:13 intertextual link. |
| 21 | burnt offering / sacrifice | olah / zevach | Brandopfer / Schlachtopfer | Medium | Covenant Unfaithfulness | NO — NEW | Teach obedience-over-ritual priority, not wholesale abolition of sacrifice. |
| 22 | queen of heaven | malkat hashamayim | Himmelskönigin | CRITICAL | Covenant Unfaithfulness / Idolatry | NO — NEW | Major German Catholic Marian-title collision (Regina caeli). Mandatory theologian review and explicit historical-distancing framing at every occurrence (7:18; 44:17-19, 25). |
| 23 | vanity / worthlessness (idols) | havalim | nichtige Götzen | Medium | Idolatry | NO — NEW | — |
| 24 | the living God | Elohim chayyim | der lebendige Gott | Medium | Idolatry | YES (baseline god→Gott, qualified) | — |
| 25 | can the leopard change its spots? | hayahafokh namer chavarburotav | ”Kann der Leopard seine Flecken wechseln?” | Low | Covenant Unfaithfulness | NO — NEW | Rhetorical idiom; connects forward to ch. 31’s answer. |
| 26 | linen waistband (sign-act) | ezor pishtim | Schurz aus Leinen / leinener Gürtel | Low | Covenant Unfaithfulness | NO — NEW | First of Jeremiah’s several Zeichenhandlungen (sign-acts); name the genre explicitly. |
| 27 | proclaim liberty/release | qara deror | Freilassung ausrufen | HIGH | Covenant Unfaithfulness | Disambiguate from baseline freedom→Freiheit | Never render as “Freiheit.” Concrete Torah manumission-statute term, categorically distinct from Pauline theological freedom; mandatory theologian review. |
| 28 | sword, famine, pestilence, captivity | cherev, ra’av, dever, shevi | Schwert, Hunger, Pest und Gefangenschaft | Medium | Covenant Unfaithfulness | NO — NEW | Fixed four-part formula; render identically at every recurrence (15:2; 21:9; 24:10; 27:8,13; 29:17-18; 34:17; 38:2; 42:17,22; 44:13). |
| 29 | almond rod / watching (wordplay) | maqqel shaqed / shoqed | Mandelstab / “ich wache” | Low | (General/Call narrative) | NO — NEW | Untranslatable pun; footnote required in teaching material. |
| 30 | boiling pot | sir nafuach | siedender Topf | Low | Judgment (imminent invasion) | NO — NEW | — |
C. The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry
| # | Term (EN) | Original (Hebrew, translit.) | German rendering | Risk | Doctrine | Baseline reuse | Notes / Collision risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | fountain of tears | meqor dim’ah | Quelle der Tränen | Medium | Weeping Prophet | NO — NEW | Connect to Luke 19:41 (Jesus weeping over Jerusalem), already in pipeline. |
| 32 | fire shut up in my bones | esh atsur be’atsmotai | Feuer in meinen Gebeinen | Medium | Cost of Faithful Ministry | NO — NEW | Central teaching image for this doctrine. |
| 33 | cursed be the day I was born | arur hayyom | Verflucht sei der Tag | High | Weeping Prophet | Disambiguate from baseline anathema→verflucht | Personal lament, NOT the Galatians 1:8-9 doctrinal curse-formula — flag to prevent conflation. |
| 34 | Magor-missabib (“Terror on Every Side”) | magor missabib | Schrecken um und um (retain Luther phrasing) | Medium | Cost of Faithful Ministry | NO — NEW | Proper-name epithet. |
| 35 | like a lamb led to slaughter | kekheves… yuval litvoach | ”wie ein Lamm, das zur Schlachtung geführt wird” | Medium | Cost of Faithful Ministry | NO — NEW | Intertextual bridge to Isa 53 / Acts 8:32; do not over-claim direct messianic typology of Jeremiah himself. |
| 36 | scroll | megillah | Schriftrolle | Low | Cost of Faithful Ministry | NO — NEW | — |
| 37 | Rachel weeping for her children | Rachel mevakkah al-baneha | ”Rahel weint um ihre Kinder” | Medium | Weeping Prophet (communal register) | NO — NEW | Direct Matthew 2:18 quotation; cross-reference. |
| 38 | Ephraim, my dear son | Efrayim ben yaqqir li | ”Efraim, mein liebster Sohn” | Low | Weeping Prophet → Restoration | NO — NEW | Model on pipeline’s existing “warm relational register” guidance (Rom 8/12). |
D. False Prophets versus True Prophecy
| # | Term (EN) | Original (Hebrew, translit.) | German rendering | Risk | Doctrine | Baseline reuse | Notes / Collision risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | false prophets / prophesying lies | nevi’ei hashaqer / shaqer | falsche Propheten / falsche Weissagung | HIGH | False Prophets vs. True Prophecy | YES (baseline prophet→Prophet, prophecy→Weissagung) | Must specify unauthorized divine-commissioning claim (“not sent”), not mere doctrinal disagreement. German context: contemporary Sektenbeauftragte discernment tradition gives this doctrine live pastoral relevance. |
| 40 | yoke (of Babylon) | ol | Joch | Medium | False Prophets / Sovereign Plans | NO — NEW | Distinguish from the NT’s positive “yoke of Christ” (Matt 11:29-30) — do not conflate. |
| 41 | Hananiah breaks the yoke (false sign-act) | vayishbor… et-hammotah | ”er brach… den Joch-Stab” | HIGH | False Prophets vs. True Prophecy | Partial | Anchor doctrine’s key narrative test-case (Jer 27-28) alongside ch. 23’s exposition. |
| 42 | prophet to the nations | navi lagoyim | Prophet für die Völker | High | False/True Prophecy; Sovereign Plans | Partial (prophet→Prophet; gentiles→Heiden) | Here goyim is neutral-descriptive; prefer “die Völker” over “Heiden” in this specific neutral sense per baseline’s own pejorative-connotation caution. |
E. God’s Sovereign Plans for His People
| # | Term (EN) | Original (Hebrew, translit.) | German rendering | Risk | Doctrine | Baseline reuse | Notes / Collision risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | potter / clay | yotser / chomer | Töpfer / Ton (Lehm) | High | Sovereign Plans | NO — NEW | Cross-reference Romans 9:20-21’s reuse of the same image. |
| 44 | God relents / relenting | venichamti (nacham) | “Es wird mich das Unheil leid sein”; “ich lasse mich das Böse leid sein” | CRITICAL | Sovereign Plans; Individual Responsibility | NO — NEW | Classic Reue Gottes anthropopathism; teach as covenant-relational responsiveness, never as contradicting divine immutability of character/purpose, never as pagan appeasement-magic. |
| 45 | plans for welfare, not harm; hope and a future | machshevot shalom… acharit vetiqvah | ”Pläne des Wohlergehens… Zukunft und Hoffnung” | HIGH | Sovereign Plans | Partial (shalom-breadth caution inherited) | Frequently decontextualized (parallel to pipeline’s Phil 4:13 caution); anchor to the seventy-year exilic context, never present as generic individual-prosperity promise. |
| 46 | cup of wrath | kos hachemah | Kelch des Zorns / Becher des Grimms | High | Sovereign Plans (universal judgment) | NO — NEW | Recurs 25:15-29 and returns at 51:7 against Babylon itself. |
| 47 | seventy years | shiv’im shanah | siebzig Jahre | Low | Sovereign Plans; Hope of Restoration | NO — NEW | Historically fulfilled (588/586–538 BC); concrete, not vague. |
| 48 | knew (foreknowledge, call narrative) | yeda’ticha | ”ich habe dich erkannt” | High | Sovereign Plans | Partial (erkennen, see row 4) | Elective, relational foreknowledge, not bare cognition. |
| 49 | concerning [nation] (oracle heading) | al / le + nation | ”Wort über [Land]“ | Low | Sovereign Plans (international scope) | NO — NEW | Standard German place-names (Ägypten, Moab, Edom, Damaskus, Elam, Babylon). |
| 50 | Babylon must fall / flee her midst | naflah Bavel / tse’u mittokhah | ”Babylon ist gefallen… zieht weg aus ihrer Mitte!” | Medium | Sovereign Plans; Hope of Restoration | NO — NEW | Direct intertextual bridge to Revelation 18:4. |
| 51 | nothing too hard for the LORD | hayippale me’itti kol-davar | ”Sollte mir etwas unmöglich sein?” | Medium | Sovereign Plans; Hope of Restoration | NO — NEW | Paired with the field-purchase sign-act (ch. 32). |
| 52 | consecrated / set apart (prophetic call) | hiqdashticha | geheiligt / berufen | Medium | Sovereign Plans | YES (baseline holy, called) | — |
F. Individual Responsibility
| # | Term (EN) | Original (Hebrew, translit.) | German rendering | Risk | Doctrine | Baseline reuse | Notes / Collision risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53 | each shall die for his own sin | ish ba’avono yamut (31:29-30) | “Jeder wird für seine eigene Schuld sterben.” | High | Individual Responsibility | Partial (Schuld, row 7) | Grounds the New Covenant’s shift away from proverbial inherited/collective guilt language; teach alongside 31:33-34. |
| 54 | the Rechabites (obedience example) | beit haRekhavim | Rechabiter | Low | Individual Responsibility | NO — NEW | Positive contrastive object-lesson; transliterated proper name. |
| 55 | the heart is deceitful above all things | aqov hallev mikkol | ”Das Herz ist trügerisch, mehr als alles andere.” | HIGH | Individual Responsibility; New Covenant | Partial (Herz, row 2) | Must be taught paired with 31:33 as diagnosis-and-cure, never in isolation. |
| 56 | trust in man vs. trust in the LORD | batach be’adam / batach ba-YHWH | vertrauen | Low | Individual Responsibility | Partial (concept-family of faith→Glaube) | — |
G. Hope of Restoration after Exile
| # | Term (EN) | Original (Hebrew, translit.) | German rendering | Risk | Doctrine | Baseline reuse | Notes / Collision risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 57 | remnant | she’erit | Überrest | HIGH | Hope of Restoration | NO — NEW | Avoid bare “Rest” (sounds like generic mathematical leftover); technical theological term carrying forward hope. |
| 58 | Branch of Righteousness | tsemach tsedaqah | Spross der Gerechtigkeit | CRITICAL | Hope of Restoration; Sovereign Plans | YES (baseline righteousness→Gerechtigkeit) | Messianic-royal title (23:5; 33:15); mandatory theologian review given baseline’s full Gerechtigkeit doctrinal weight. |
| 59 | The LORD is our righteousness | YHWH Tsidqenu | ”Der HERR ist unsere Gerechtigkeit” (also as name: Jahwe-Zidkenu) | CRITICAL | Hope of Restoration; New Covenant | YES (baseline lord→Herr + righteousness→Gerechtigkeit) | 23:6; 33:16; highest doctrinal-density phrase outside the core passage. Mandatory theologian review every occurrence. |
| 60 | ”no longer shall they say… but…” (new exodus formula) | lo-ye’amer od… ki im | ”Man wird nicht mehr sagen… sondern…” | Medium | Hope of Restoration | NO — NEW | 16:14-15; 23:7-8; render identically at both occurrences. |
| 61 | I am with you to save you | ittecha ani lehoshi’echa | ”Ich bin mit dir, um dich zu retten.” | High | Hope of Restoration | YES (baseline salvation→Rettung) | Apply baseline’s full Rettung/Heil/Erlösung reviewer discipline. |
| 62 | Jacob’s trouble | et-tsarah hi le-Ya’aqov | die Zeit der Not Jakobs | Medium | Hope of Restoration | NO — NEW | Opens chs. 30-33 as a literary unit (Book of Consolation). |
| 63 | I will give them a heart to know me | lev lada’at oti | see row 11 | High | Hope of Restoration; New Covenant | Partial | — |
| 64 | good figs / bad figs (exile classification) | te’enim tovot / te’enim ra’ot | gute Feigen / schlechte Feigen | Low | Hope of Restoration | NO — NEW | Concrete agricultural sign-vision (ch. 24). |
| 65 | Jehoiachin’s release and honor | vayotse… et-Yehoyachin | ”Er gab ihm einen Platz an seinem Tisch.” | Medium | Hope of Restoration | NO — NEW | Deliberate hope-tinged closing image of the whole book (52:31-34). |
| 66 | covenant with day and night | beriti hayyom uveriti hallaylah | ”mein Bund mit dem Tag und mein Bund mit der Nacht” | Medium | Hope of Restoration; Sovereign Plans | Partial (Bund) | Cosmic-order guarantee-analogy for covenant permanence (33:20, 25). |
| 67 | seek the welfare/shalom of the city | dirshu et-shelom ha’ir | ”Sucht das Wohl der Stadt” | Medium | Hope of Restoration (exilic ethics) | Partial (shalom-breadth caution, row 19) | Foundational text for diaspora/minority-church civic engagement; relevant to contemporary German konfessionslos-majority context. |
H. Recurring/General Proper Names and Formulas (transliteration standards)
| # | Term (EN) | German form | Risk | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 68 | Jeremiah | Jeremia | Low | Standard German Bible form |
| 69 | Nebuchadnezzar | Nebukadnezar | Low | Standard German Bible form |
| 70 | Zedekiah | Zedekia | Low | Standard German Bible form |
| 71 | Jehoiakim | Jojakim | Low | Standard German Bible form |
| 72 | Jehoiachin / Coniah | Jojachin | Low | Standard German Bible form; note dual name in-text |
| 73 | Baruch | Baruch | Low | Standard German Bible form |
| 74 | Babylon | Babylon | Low | Standard |
| 75 | Egypt | Ägypten | Low | Standard, per existing pipeline convention |
| 76 | Israel | Israel | Medium | Reuses baseline israel entry and its post-Holocaust Staatsräson caution in full |
| 77 | David (Davidic covenant references, chs. 23, 33) | David | Low | Reuses baseline david entry exactly |
| 78 | declares the LORD (oracle formula) | “spricht der HERR” | Low | Reuses baseline lord→Herr within a stable formula |
| 79 | days are coming (eschatological formula) | “Siehe, es kommen Tage” | Low | Stable formulaic German |
| 80 | covenant (general) | Bund | High | Reuses baseline covenant entry and its full risk profile throughout |
Summary: New Terms Requiring Translation Memory Addition
The following terms are not present in the baseline Romans translation_memory.json and must be added at the next version increment before Phase 2 translation of Jeremiah begins: Herz (heart), erkennen (know/yada, in this specific relational sense), Schuld (iniquity/avon), Hurerei/Ehebruch (spiritual harlotry), Abfall/Untreue (backsliding), Himmelskönigin (queen of heaven — CRITICAL, mandatory framing), Recht (justice/mishpat), Töpfer/Ton (potter/clay), the Reue-Gottes relenting formula (CRITICAL), Pläne des Wohlergehens (plans for welfare — HIGH, decontextualization caution), Kelch des Zorns (cup of wrath), Überrest (remnant — HIGH), Spross der Gerechtigkeit and Jahwe-Zidkenu / “der HERR ist unsere Gerechtigkeit” (both CRITICAL), Freilassung (proclaim liberty — HIGH, mandatory disambiguation from Freiheit), Joch (yoke), and the fixed four-part “Schwert, Hunger, Pest und Gefangenschaft” formula.
Critical-risk German-specific collisions requiring mandatory theologian sign-off across this entire package: (1) neuer Bund vs. Neues Testament; (2) Himmelskönigin vs. Catholic Marian title; (3) Spross der Gerechtigkeit / Jahwe-Zidkenu (compounding two existing Critical baseline terms); (4) the Reue-Gottes relenting formula; (5) Freilassung vs. baseline Freiheit (Galatians package) disambiguation.
This glossary (analysis/08_core_glossary.md) is the Phase-2-enforceable companion to analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md. Both must be loaded, alongside the baseline translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json, before any Jeremiah segment translation begins.
Critical Risk Terms
Righteousness
Approved rendering: Gerechtigkeit
Transliteration: Gerechtigkeit
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: Tugend
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE (exact copy): CRITICAL, Luther’s own Turmerlebnis term. JEREMIAH EXTENSION: reused in the messianic titles ‘Spross der Gerechtigkeit’ (23:5; 33:15) and ‘Der HERR ist unsere Gerechtigkeit’ (23:6; 33:16), the OT’s own anticipation of forensic imputation; also paired with ‘Recht’ (mishpat) as a fixed OT word-pair — never let ‘Gerechtigkeit’ silently absorb mishpat’s procedural-justice sense.
Lord
Approved rendering: Herr
Transliteration: Herr
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Meister, Chef
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE (exact copy): CRITICAL, no protective everyday-honorific alternative exists in German. JEREMIAH EXTENSION: occurs roughly 175 times via the oracle formula ‘spricht der HERR’ (ne’um-YHWH), a far higher frequency than in Romans, which increases (not decreases) the everyday-title flattening risk through reviewer fatigue; also compounds with ‘Gerechtigkeit’ in the Critical messianic title ‘Der HERR ist unsere Gerechtigkeit’ (23:6; 33:16).
Freedom
Approved rendering: Freiheit
Transliteration: Freiheit
Doctrine: Freedom in Christ
INHERITED FROM ROMANS/GALATIANS PACKAGE (exact copy): highest-density German-specific risk term generally. MANDATORY JEREMIAH-SPECIFIC RULE: this word must NEVER be used to render Jeremiah 34:8-22’s concrete Torah manumission statute (qara deror) — use ‘Freilassung’ exclusively for that referent. This entry exists in the Jeremiah translation memory specifically to make that exclusion enforceable at the glossary level, not because Jeremiah itself teaches the Pauline concept of freedom in Christ.
New Covenant
Approved rendering: neuer Bund
Transliteration: neuer Bund
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: Neues Testament
NEW. MANDATORY: render as ‘neuer Bund,’ never ‘Neues Testament.’ Modern German has split what was historically one word family (Bund/Testament both once translated berit/diathēkē); ‘Testament’ now defaults to either the biblical-canon division or a legal last will. Single highest-density German-specific collision risk in this entire curriculum and the book’s own theological center. Jeremiah 24:7; 31:31-34 (core passage); 32:37-41.
Forgive
Approved rendering: vergeben
Transliteration: vergeben
Doctrine: The New Covenant
NEW. Hebrew salach — exclusively divine forgiveness, never used of one human forgiving another in the Hebrew Bible. Must match this pipeline’s Matthew 9:2 forgiveness vocabulary (‘vergeben’) exactly for cross-document consistency. Guard against the weaker colloquial German sense (minor social apology) trivializing this covenantal-atonement climax. Jeremiah 31:34; 33:8; 36:3.
Queen Of Heaven
Approved rendering: Himmelskönigin
Transliteration: Himmelskönigin
Doctrine: The Queen of Heaven and Concrete Idolatry
Rejected alternatives: Königin des Himmels (identical collision, no improvement)
NEW. MAJOR GERMAN CATHOLIC-CONTEXT COLLISION: ‘Himmelskönigin’ is an established Catholic Marian title (Regina caeli). Mandatory theologian review and explicit historical-distancing framing required at every occurrence (7:18; 44:17-19, 25): this is a named 6th-century-BC ancient Near Eastern astral deity (likely Ishtar/Astarte), with zero textual connection to Marian doctrine, which postdates this text by roughly six centuries.
God Relents
Approved rendering: Es wird mich das Unheil leid sein / ich lasse mich das Böse leid sein
Transliteration: Es wird mich das Unheil leid sein / ich lasse mich das Böse leid sein
Doctrine: God’s Relenting Response to Repentance (Reue Gottes)
NEW. Jeremiah 18:7-10; 26:3, 13, 19; 42:10. Classic Reue Gottes anthropopathism, sitting inside a live German systematic-theological debate (open theism vs. classical theism on divine immutability). Mandatory theologian review every occurrence; frame as covenant-relational responsiveness compatible with unchanging divine character, never as pagan appeasement-magic.
Branch Of Righteousness
Approved rendering: Spross der Gerechtigkeit
Transliteration: Spross der Gerechtigkeit
Doctrine: The Messianic Branch of Righteousness and “The LORD Our Righteousness”
NEW. Jeremiah 23:5; 33:15. Specifically messianic-royal title; reuses baseline Critical ‘Gerechtigkeit’ exactly. Must be taught as directly continuous with, and fulfilled in, the NT’s presentation of Christ. Mandatory theologian review given the full doctrinal weight already documented for Gerechtigkeit in the baseline.
Lord Our Righteousness
Approved rendering: Der HERR ist unsere Gerechtigkeit (Jahwe-Zidkenu)
Transliteration: Jahwe-Zidkenu
Doctrine: The Messianic Branch of Righteousness and “The LORD Our Righteousness”
NEW. Jeremiah 23:6; 33:16. Combines baseline Critical ‘Herr’ and ‘Gerechtigkeit’ in a single divine-name/title formula — the single highest doctrinal-density phrase outside the core passage in this entire curriculum. Retain both the German gloss-translation and the transliterated Hebrew name side by side at every occurrence. Mandatory theologian review, every occurrence.
High Risk Terms
Covenant
Approved rendering: Bund
Transliteration: Bund
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE (exact copy): Relational covenant bond, established biblical German usage since Luther. JEREMIAH EXTENSION: this term carries even greater weight here than in Romans because the book’s central argument turns on old-covenant-breach (chs. 1-29) versus new-covenant-promise (chs. 30-33); apply the Bund/Testament disambiguation discipline established under ‘new_covenant’ to every bare occurrence of ‘Bund’ throughout this book as well, not only at 31:31.
Repentance
Approved rendering: Buße
Transliteration: Buße
Doctrine: Repentance
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE (exact copy): confessional history flagged. JEREMIAH EXTENSION: the underlying Hebrew shuv (return/turn back) is more concretely spatial-relational than German ‘Buße”s full Reformation-era confessional-sacramental weight; use ‘umkehren’ in narrative contexts (chs. 3-4, 18, 25:5) and reserve ‘Buße’ for formal doctrinal summary statements.
Gentiles
Approved rendering: Heiden
Transliteration: Heiden
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE (exact copy): pejorative connotation risk. JEREMIAH EXTENSION: Jeremiah 1:5’s ‘navi lagoyim’ (prophet to the nations) and the chs. 46-51 oracle headings use goyim in a neutral-descriptive sense; prefer ‘die Völker’ for these contexts and reserve ‘Heiden’ strictly for idolatry-contrast contexts (e.g., alongside ‘Israel’ in covenant-unfaithfulness passages).
Salvation
Approved rendering: Rettung
Transliteration: Rettung
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: Heil (Nazi-era contamination risk), Erlösung (more existential/liberation-flavored)
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE (exact copy). JEREMIAH EXTENSION: grounds ‘Ich bin mit dir, um dich zu retten’ (30:11), an assurance rooted in God’s abiding presence during exile; apply the full baseline Heil/Rettung/Erlösung reviewer discipline unchanged.
Election
Approved rendering: Erwählung
Transliteration: Erwählung
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE (exact copy): do not impose either Lutheran or German Reformed systematic tradition onto a mixed audience. JEREMIAH EXTENSION: underlies both God’s election of Israel/Judah as covenant people and of Jeremiah personally as prophet (1:5).
Law
Approved rendering: Gesetz
Transliteration: Gesetz
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE (exact copy): ‘Gesetz und Evangelium’ Lutheran hermeneutic. JEREMIAH EXTENSION: renders torah as the New Covenant’s promised content, ‘written on the heart’ (31:33). Jeremiah’s torah carries a fuller ‘instruction/teaching’ sense than German ‘Gesetz”s legal-code default; teach the tension (a gracious inward gift, not only a condemning external code) explicitly, do not silently resolve it.
Heart
Approved rendering: Herz
Transliteration: Herz
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: Verstand (too narrow — cognitive only), Gemüt (too narrow — emotional only), Wille (too narrow — volitional only)
NEW. Hebrew lev integrates mind, will, and moral decision-making; contemporary colloquial German risks a sentimental/emotional-only reading (‘von Herzen,’ ‘zu Herzen nehmen’). Mandatory gloss every occurrence: ‘das Herz meint hier den ganzen inneren Menschen.’ Jeremiah 17:9 (deceitful heart), 24:7, 31:33, 32:39.
Know The Lord
Approved rendering: erkennen
Transliteration: erkennen
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: kennen (too weak/generic acquaintance)
NEW. Hebrew yada = relational, experiential, covenantal knowledge (same verb as marital intimacy, Gen 4:1, and divine election, Amos 3:2). German ‘erkennen’ defaults to cognitive/epistemic recognition; mandatory relational gloss every occurrence, parallel to the baseline’s caution on ‘Glaube’ against generic-belief flattening. Jeremiah 9:23-24; 24:7; 31:34.
Remember No More
Approved rendering: nicht mehr gedenken
Transliteration: nicht mehr gedenken
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: vergessen (implies literal divine memory-limitation, not intended)
NEW. Hebrew zakar in covenant contexts triggers corresponding action, not mere mental recall; ‘not remembering’ sin is a judicial declaration of non-prosecution. Teach as effectual, relational non-remembrance, never literal amnesia. Jeremiah 31:34.
One Heart And Way
Approved rendering: ein Herz und einen Weg; ewiger Bund
Transliteration: ein Herz und einen Weg; ewiger Bund
Doctrine: The New Covenant
NEW. Jeremiah 32:39-40’s restatement/expansion of the New Covenant’s heart-transformation promise; teach as direct reinforcement of 31:33, not a separate promise. Reuses ‘Herz’ and ‘Bund.‘
Heart To Know Me
Approved rendering: ein Herz, mich zu erkennen
Transliteration: ein Herz, mich zu erkennen
Doctrine: The New Covenant
NEW. Jeremiah 24:7 combines both major new-covenant-anticipating terms (heart and know) prior to their fuller development in ch. 31 — flag as an important intra-book cross-reference demonstrating gradual thematic buildup.
Husband Disputed Reading
Approved rendering: obwohl ich doch ihr Herr war / obwohl ich mich nicht mehr um sie kümmerte
Transliteration: obwohl ich doch ihr Herr war / obwohl ich mich nicht mehr um sie kümmerte
Doctrine: The New Covenant
NEW. Jeremiah 31:32’s genuinely disputed clause: MT (‘though I was their husband/lord’) vs. the LXX tradition quoted in Hebrews 8:9 (‘I disregarded/rejected them’). Present both traditions explicitly in teaching material rather than silently choosing one, so students are not confused comparing Jeremiah 31 to Hebrews 8. Mandatory theologian review.
Harlotry
Approved rendering: Hurerei / Ehebruch
Transliteration: Hurerei / Ehebruch
Doctrine: The Marriage/Harlotry Metaphor for Covenant Unfaithfulness
NEW. Metaphorical covenant-unfaithfulness idiom figuring Israel’s idolatry as marital betrayal of YHWH. Must always be explicitly flagged as covenant-fidelity metaphor, recurring across chs. 2, 3, 5, 13, 23 — never taught as commentary on human sexual ethics as such.
Return Repent
Approved rendering: umkehren / Buße
Transliteration: umkehren / Buße
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry (General)
NEW. Hebrew shuv is more concretely spatial-relational than German ‘Buße”s full confessional-history weight. Use ‘umkehren’ in narrative contexts (chs. 3-4), reserve ‘Buße’ for formal doctrinal summary. See also inherited baseline ‘repentance’ entry above.
Circumcise Heart
Approved rendering: Beschneidet euer Herz (für den HERRN)
Transliteration: Beschneidet euer Herz (für den HERRN)
Doctrine: Circumcision of the Heart
NEW. Jeremiah 4:4; 9:25-26. Purely metaphorical, spiritual extension of the covenant-sign of circumcision with zero connection to the Galatians package’s literal-rite justification argument and zero connection to Germany’s 2012 religious-circumcision legal controversy. Explicit metaphor-vs-literal-rite disambiguation required on first occurrence.
Proclaim Liberty
Approved rendering: Freilassung ausrufen
Transliteration: Freilassung ausrufen
Doctrine: Covenant Law and the Proclamation of Release (Manumission)
Rejected alternatives: Freiheit ausrufen (FORBIDDEN — imports Pauline theological-freedom concept into a concrete manumission narrative)
NEW. MANDATORY DISAMBIGUATION FROM ‘freedom’/Freiheit (see that entry above). Jeremiah 34:8-22’s concrete Torah manumission-statute term (qara deror). Render as ‘Freilassung,’ never ‘Freiheit.’ Mandatory theologian review.
Cursed Be The Day
Approved rendering: Verflucht sei der Tag
Transliteration: Verflucht sei der Tag
Doctrine: The Cost of Faithful Ministry
NEW. Jeremiah 20:14, echoing Job 3. Shares a verb-root family with the baseline’s Critical-risk ‘anathema’→verflucht (Galatians 1:8-9), but is a completely distinct usage: personal lament, not a doctrinal curse-formula. Must not be cross-referenced with the Galatians usage as though related — flag explicitly to prevent conflation.
False Prophets
Approved rendering: falsche Propheten / falsche Weissagung
Transliteration: falsche Propheten / falsche Weissagung
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
NEW. Jeremiah 14; 23:9-40; 27-29. Must always specify an unauthorized divine-commissioning claim (‘nicht gesandt’), never mere doctrinal disagreement. German context: contemporary Sektenbeauftragte discernment tradition gives this unusual pastoral live-relevance; must not be weaponized inter-denominationally.
Hananiah Breaks Yoke
Approved rendering: er brach… den Joch-Stab
Transliteration: er brach… den Joch-Stab
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
NEW. Jeremiah 28. The clearest direct head-to-head confrontation of a true and false prophet in the book; anchor all ‘False Prophets versus True Prophecy’ teaching material on this narrative alongside ch. 23’s exposition.
Prophet To Nations
Approved rendering: Prophet für die Völker
Transliteration: Prophet für die Völker
Doctrine: Jeremiah’s Call and Divine Foreknowledge
Rejected alternatives: Prophet für die Heiden (pejorative connotation inappropriate to this neutral-descriptive sense)
NEW. Jeremiah 1:5. Here goyim is descriptively neutral; prefer ‘die Völker’ over ‘Heiden,’ reserving ‘Heiden’ for idolatry-contrast contexts per the baseline’s own risk note.
Potter Clay
Approved rendering: Töpfer / Ton (Lehm)
Transliteration: Töpfer / Ton (Lehm)
Doctrine: God’s Sovereignty over Nations and Individuals: The Potter and the Clay
NEW. Jeremiah 18:1-11. Cross-reference Romans 9:20-21’s reuse of the same image, while preserving Jeremiah’s own emphasis on responsive relenting (see ‘god_relents’) so readers do not import a purely deterministic reading.
Plans For Welfare
Approved rendering: Pläne des Wohlergehens… euch Zukunft und Hoffnung zu geben
Transliteration: Pläne des Wohlergehens… euch Zukunft und Hoffnung zu geben
Doctrine: God’s Plans for Welfare, Not Harm
NEW. Jeremiah 29:11, this book’s most popularly quoted and most frequently decontextualized verse, parallel to this pipeline’s existing Philippians 4:13 caution. Must be anchored to the seventy-year exilic context (chs. 25; 29:10), never presented as a generic individual-prosperity promise.
Cup Of Wrath
Approved rendering: Kelch des Zorns / Becher des Grimms
Transliteration: Kelch des Zorns / Becher des Grimms
Doctrine: Divine Judgment on the Nations, Including Babylon
NEW. Jeremiah 25:15-29; 51:7. Concrete metaphor, doctrinally weighty for universal divine judgment (including judgment on Babylon, God’s own judgment-instrument). Flag for theologian review on doctrinal, not lexical, grounds.
Foreknowledge Call
Approved rendering: ich habe dich erkannt
Transliteration: ich habe dich erkannt
Doctrine: Jeremiah’s Call and Divine Foreknowledge
Rejected alternatives: ich kannte dich (weaker, drifts toward mere acquaintance)
NEW. Jeremiah 1:5. Same erkennen/cognitive-flattening risk as ‘know_the_lord’; must be taught as elective, relational foreknowledge, not bare cognitive awareness.
Each Dies Own Sin
Approved rendering: Jeder wird für seine eigene Schuld sterben
Transliteration: Jeder wird für seine eigene Schuld sterben
Doctrine: Individual Responsibility
NEW. Jeremiah 31:29-30, immediately preceding the New Covenant oracle. Must be taught as the New Covenant’s direct narrative introduction — the shift from proverbial collective guilt to individual accountability is the logical hinge into 31:31-34.
Deceitful Heart
Approved rendering: Das Herz ist trügerisch, mehr als alles andere
Transliteration: Das Herz ist trügerisch, mehr als alles andere
Doctrine: Individual Responsibility
NEW. Jeremiah 17:9. Must be taught paired with 31:33 as diagnosis-and-cure — isolated use risks a purely pessimistic anthropology untethered from the New Covenant’s promised remedy.
Remnant
Approved rendering: Überrest
Transliteration: Überrest
Doctrine: The Preserved Remnant
Rejected alternatives: Rest (too generic/mathematical-sounding leftover)
NEW. Jeremiah 23:3; 42-44. Technical prophetic-theological term carrying forward hope (survival with future purpose), not a merely descriptive leftover. Never use bare ‘Rest’ for this referent.
I Am With You To Save
Approved rendering: Ich bin mit dir, um dich zu retten
Transliteration: Ich bin mit dir, um dich zu retten
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile (General)
NEW. Jeremiah 30:11. Reuses baseline ‘salvation’→Rettung; apply the full Heil/Rettung/Erlösung reviewer discipline documented in the baseline.
Medium Risk Terms
God
Approved rendering: Gott
Transliteration: Gott
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE (exact copy): risk field retained at baseline value per inheritance rule. JEREMIAH EXTENSION: central party to the fixed covenant formula ‘Ich werde ihr Gott sein, und sie werden mein Volk sein’ (31:33; 32:38); reviewers should apply elevated, near-Critical scrutiny to this book’s covenant-formula and Queen-of-Heaven-contrast occurrences even though the inherited field value remains Medium.
Holy
Approved rendering: heilig
Transliteration: heilig
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: rein
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE (exact copy). JEREMIAH EXTENSION: applied to Jeremiah’s own prophetic consecration before birth (1:5, ‘hiqdashticha’) — set apart for a vocation, not ritual purity alone.
Called
Approved rendering: berufen
Transliteration: berufen
Doctrine: Divine Calling
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE (exact copy). JEREMIAH EXTENSION: grounds Jeremiah’s own call narrative (1:4-10); context-sensitivity caution applies as in Romans.
Circumcision
Approved rendering: Beschneidung
Transliteration: Beschneidung
Doctrine: Circumcision and New Creation
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE (exact copy): avoid resonance with Germany’s 2012 circumcision-law controversy. JEREMIAH EXTENSION: the literal-rite sense is not directly discussed in Jeremiah; the book’s own usage (4:4; 9:25-26) is a metaphorical extension to the heart — see the separate ‘circumcise_heart’ entry below, which must be kept distinct from this literal-rite baseline term in teaching material.
Israel
Approved rendering: Israel
Transliteration: Israel
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE (exact copy): post-Holocaust Staatsräson caution. JEREMIAH EXTENSION: ‘house of Israel’ (beit Yisra’el) in 31:31 must be kept explicitly as the covenant-people referent of Jeremiah’s own 6th-century-BC audience, not a claim about 21st-century geopolitics; this caution applies with particular force to restoration-hope material (chs. 30-33, 50).
Sin
Approved rendering: Sünde
Transliteration: Sünde
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE (exact copy): colloquial trivialization risk. JEREMIAH EXTENSION: paired with ‘Schuld’ (iniquity/avon) in 31:34’s climactic forgiveness promise for rhetorical fullness, not redundancy — keep the two German nouns distinguishable in teaching material.
Iniquity
Approved rendering: Schuld
Transliteration: Schuld
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: Missetat
NEW. Hebrew avon = accumulated moral guilt and its resultant liability, broader than a single sinful act. Distinguish from ‘Sünde’ (sin/chata’ah) — Jeremiah pairs both nouns at 31:34 for rhetorical fullness. Also grounds ‘each shall die for his own Schuld’ (31:29-30, see ‘each_dies_own_sin’).
Covenant Formula
Approved rendering: Ich werde ihr Gott sein, und sie werden mein Volk sein
Transliteration: Ich werde ihr Gott sein, und sie werden mein Volk sein
Doctrine: The New Covenant
NEW. The fixed OT ‘covenant formula’ (cf. Exod 6:7; Lev 26:12; Ezek 36:28), recurring at Jeremiah 31:33 and 32:38. Render verbatim-identically at every recurrence for pedagogical recognizability.
Broken Cisterns Living Water
Approved rendering: zerbrochene Zisternen / lebendiges Wasser
Transliteration: zerbrochene Zisternen / lebendiges Wasser
Doctrine: The Marriage/Harlotry Metaphor for Covenant Unfaithfulness
NEW. Jeremiah 2:13’s water-supply contrast (idolatry vs. covenant fidelity). ‘Lebendiges Wasser’ must render identically to this pipeline’s John 4 usage for cross-document consistency.
Backsliding
Approved rendering: Abfall / Untreue
Transliteration: Abfall / Untreue
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry (General)
NEW. Israel’s characteristic covenant-breaking pattern (meshuvah, from the root shuv), the negative counterpart of the positive repentance vocabulary of ch. 3.
Justice Mishpat
Approved rendering: Recht
Transliteration: Recht
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry (General)
NEW. Hebrew mishpat = procedural/legal justice, frequently paired with tsedaqah (righteousness) as a fixed OT word-pair (Jer 5, 9, 22). Must be kept distinguishable from ‘Gerechtigkeit’ (tsedaqah) — mishpat leans toward right process/verdict, tsedaqah toward right relational status.
Peace False Comfort
Approved rendering: Friede, Friede
Transliteration: Friede, Friede
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
NEW. The false prophets’ doubled false assurance of total well-being (shalom shalom) when none exists (Jer 6:14; 8:11). Reuses baseline ‘Friede’; supplement with a breadth-gloss distinguishing this from Romans 5:1’s narrower relational-peace sense.
Temple
Approved rendering: Tempel
Transliteration: Tempel
Doctrine: False Confidence in Religious Ritual and Institution
NEW. The Jerusalem Temple as physical building/cultic center (Jer 7:1-15). Distinguish from baseline ‘Gemeinde’ (church) — the Temple is a specific historical institution, not the NT ekklesia. Note the Matthew 21:13 intertextual link.
Burnt Offering Sacrifice
Approved rendering: Brandopfer / Schlachtopfer
Transliteration: Brandopfer / Schlachtopfer
Doctrine: False Confidence in Religious Ritual and Institution
NEW. Jeremiah 7:21-23 sharply relativizes ritual sacrifice beneath covenant obedience. Teach obedience-priority, never wholesale ritual-abolition, which the text does not claim.
Vanity Idols
Approved rendering: nichtige Götzen
Transliteration: nichtige Götzen
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry (General)
NEW. Idols as vapor/breath/emptiness (havalim), contrasted with ‘der lebendige Gott’ (Jer 10).
Living God
Approved rendering: der lebendige Gott
Transliteration: der lebendige Gott
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry (General)
NEW. Reuses baseline ‘Gott,’ qualified. The qualifier ‘lebendig’ should be preserved to counter the baseline’s own caution about ‘Gott’ being heard as cultural-historical vocabulary by the growing konfessionslos population. Jeremiah 10:10.
Sword Famine Pestilence Captivity
Approved rendering: Schwert, Hunger, Pest und Gefangenschaft
Transliteration: Schwert, Hunger, Pest und Gefangenschaft
Doctrine: The Fourfold Covenant-Curse Formula
NEW. Fixed four-part covenant-curse formula recurring roughly a dozen times (15:2; 21:9; 24:10; 27:8, 13; 29:17-18; 34:17; 38:2; 42:17, 22; 44:13). Render identically at every recurrence.
Fountain Of Tears
Approved rendering: Quelle der Tränen
Transliteration: Quelle der Tränen
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet’s Identificatory Grief
NEW. Jeremiah 9:1. Connect explicitly to Luke 19:41 (Jesus weeping over Jerusalem), already established in this pipeline, as a canonical cross-Testament parallel.
Fire In Bones
Approved rendering: Feuer in meinen Gebeinen
Transliteration: Feuer in meinen Gebeinen
Doctrine: The Cost of Faithful Ministry
Rejected alternatives: Feuer in meinen Knochen (too modernized; retain the elevated poetic ‘Gebeine’)
NEW. Jeremiah 20:9. Central teaching image for ‘The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry.‘
Magor Missabib
Approved rendering: Schrecken um und um
Transliteration: Schrecken um und um
Doctrine: The Cost of Faithful Ministry
NEW. Jeremiah 20:3, symbolic renaming of Pashhur. Retain the established Luther-tradition rendering for recognizability rather than attempting a new translation of the epithet.
Lamb To Slaughter
Approved rendering: wie ein Lamm, das zur Schlachtung geführt wird
Transliteration: wie ein Lamm, das zur Schlachtung geführt wird
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet’s Identificatory Grief
NEW. Jeremiah 11:19. Note the intertextual bridge to Isaiah 53/Acts 8:32 for teaching material, without over-claiming direct messianic typology of Jeremiah himself.
Rachel Weeping
Approved rendering: Rahel weint um ihre Kinder
Transliteration: Rahel weint um ihre Kinder
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet’s Identificatory Grief
NEW. Jeremiah 31:15, directly quoted in Matthew 2:18 regarding Herod’s slaughter of the innocents — note the cross-reference for teaching consistency.
Yoke
Approved rendering: Joch
Transliteration: Joch
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
NEW. Jeremiah 27; imposed political subjection to Babylon as divine discipline. Distinguish from the NT’s positive ‘yoke of Christ’ (Matthew 11:29-30) — never conflate despite identical German word.
Babylon Must Fall
Approved rendering: Babylon ist gefallen… zieht weg aus ihrer Mitte!
Transliteration: Babylon ist gefallen… zieht weg aus ihrer Mitte!
Doctrine: Divine Judgment on the Nations, Including Babylon
NEW. Jeremiah 50-51. Direct intertextual bridge to Revelation 18:4 (‘come out of her, my people’); note the LXX’s different placement/ordering of the Oracles Against the Nations relative to the MT.
Nothing Too Hard For Lord
Approved rendering: Sollte mir etwas unmöglich sein?
Transliteration: Sollte mir etwas unmöglich sein?
Doctrine: Sign-Acts as a Mode of Prophetic Communication
NEW. Jeremiah 32:17, 27. Rhetorical divine-omnipotence question paired with Jeremiah’s field-purchase sign-act, guaranteeing future restoration.
Consecrated Set Apart
Approved rendering: geheiligt / berufen
Transliteration: geheiligt / berufen
Doctrine: Jeremiah’s Call and Divine Foreknowledge
NEW. Jeremiah 1:5. Reuses baseline ‘heilig’ and ‘berufen’ exactly; risk inherited directly from those baseline entries.
New Exodus Formula
Approved rendering: Man wird nicht mehr sagen… sondern…
Transliteration: Man wird nicht mehr sagen… sondern…
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile (General)
NEW. Jeremiah 16:14-15; 23:7-8. Render identically at both occurrences; connects thematically to the New Covenant’s promised-surpassing-of-the-past pattern.
Jacobs Trouble
Approved rendering: die Zeit der Not Jakobs
Transliteration: die Zeit der Not Jakobs
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile (General)
NEW. Jeremiah 30:7. Opens the ‘Book of Consolation’ (chs. 30-33), of which the core passage is the centerpiece; teach this literary-unit framing explicitly.
Jehoiachin Release
Approved rendering: Er gab ihm einen Platz an seinem Tisch
Transliteration: Er gab ihm einen Platz an seinem Tisch
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile (General)
NEW. Jeremiah 52:31-34. The book’s deliberate, hope-tinged closing image of the exiled Davidic line receiving unexpected honor.
Covenant Day Night
Approved rendering: mein Bund mit dem Tag und mein Bund mit der Nacht
Transliteration: mein Bund mit dem Tag und mein Bund mit der Nacht
Doctrine: The New Covenant
NEW. Jeremiah 33:20, 25. Cosmic-order guarantee-analogy for covenant permanence; reuses baseline ‘Bund.‘
Seek Welfare Of City
Approved rendering: Sucht das Wohl der Stadt
Transliteration: Sucht das Wohl der Stadt
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile (General)
NEW. Jeremiah 29:7. Inherits the shalom-breadth caution documented under ‘peace_false_comfort.’ Foundational text for civic engagement in exile/diaspora, directly relevant to the German church’s own minority self-understanding within a majority-konfessionslos society.
Shepherds Who Scatter
Approved rendering: Hirten, die zerstreuen
Transliteration: Hirten, die zerstreuen
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
NEW. Jeremiah 23:1-2. Royal/leadership metaphor set against the coming righteous Davidic shepherd-king. Cross-reference John 10’s Good Shepherd ‘I am’ statement, already in this pipeline.
Babylon
Approved rendering: Babylon
Transliteration: Babylon
Doctrine: Divine Judgment on the Nations, Including Babylon
NEW. The imperial power God uses as disciplinary instrument, later itself judged (chs. 20-52). Standard German proper-name form; teaching material must not let the name alone carry this double theological function without explanation.
Egypt
Approved rendering: Ägypten
Transliteration: Ägypten
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry (General)
NEW. Both the site of Israel’s foundational Exodus deliverance (background to 31:32) and, later, the place of the remnant’s disobedient flight and continued idolatry (chs. 42-44). Standard German proper-name form (Ägypten).
Low Risk Terms
Prophet
Approved rendering: Prophet
Transliteration: Prophet
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE (exact copy). JEREMIAH EXTENSION: Jeremiah’s own office (1:5); the book’s dominant human speaking-voice.
Prophecy
Approved rendering: Weissagung
Transliteration: Weissagung
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE (exact copy). JEREMIAH EXTENSION: contrasted throughout with false prophecy (shaqer, see ‘false_prophets’ entry); the true/false-prophecy contrast is one of this curriculum’s seven core doctrines.
David
Approved rendering: David
Transliteration: David
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE (exact copy). JEREMIAH EXTENSION: the royal line through which the messianic ‘Branch of Righteousness’ is promised (23:5; 33:15, 17, 21-22).
Peace
Approved rendering: Friede
Transliteration: Friede
Doctrine: Peace with God
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE (exact copy): baseline Romans 5:1 relational sense. JEREMIAH EXTENSION: Jeremiah’s underlying shalom carries a materially broader well-being/wholeness range (false comfort at 6:14/8:11; civic welfare at 29:7) that exceeds this narrower baseline sense — supplement with an explicit breadth-gloss in those specific Jeremiah contexts (see ‘peace_false_comfort’ and ‘seek_welfare_of_city’ below); the general term itself remains Low risk.
Leopard Spots
Approved rendering: Kann der Leopard seine Flecken wechseln?
Transliteration: Kann der Leopard seine Flecken wechseln?
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry (General)
NEW. Rhetorical-impossibility idiom (13:23); connects forward to ch. 31’s answer (a new heart) and should be taught alongside it.
Linen Waistband
Approved rendering: Schurz aus Leinen / leinener Gürtel
Transliteration: Schurz aus Leinen / leinener Gürtel
Doctrine: Sign-Acts as a Mode of Prophetic Communication
NEW. Jeremiah 13; first of Jeremiah’s several enacted sign-prophecies. Name the German technical genre term ‘Zeichenhandlung’ explicitly in teaching material.
Almond Rod Wordplay
Approved rendering: Mandelstab / “ich wache”
Transliteration: Mandelstab / “ich wache”
Doctrine: Jeremiah’s Call and Divine Foreknowledge
NEW. Untranslatable Hebrew pun (shaqed/shoqed, Jer 1:11-12); requires a translator’s footnote rather than a German pun substitute.
Boiling Pot
Approved rendering: siedender Topf
Transliteration: siedender Topf
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry (General)
NEW. Concrete household-object metaphor for imminent invasion from the north (Jer 1:13).
Scroll
Approved rendering: Schriftrolle
Transliteration: Schriftrolle
Doctrine: The Cost of Faithful Ministry
NEW. Jeremiah 36; Jehoiakim’s burning and the divine command to rewrite it demonstrates the word of God’s indestructibility despite human opposition.
Ephraim Dear Son
Approved rendering: Efraim, mein liebster Sohn
Transliteration: Efraim, mein liebster Sohn
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile (General)
NEW. Jeremiah 31:20. Model on this pipeline’s existing ‘warm, relational language within formal register’ guidance (Romans 8/12).
Seventy Years
Approved rendering: siebzig Jahre
Transliteration: siebzig Jahre
Doctrine: The Seventy-Year Prophetic Timeline
NEW. Jeremiah 25:11-12; 29:10. Concrete, historically-verified prophetic timeframe (c. 605/586-538 BC); anchors 29:11’s popular promise to its real historical wait.
Oracle Heading Formula
Approved rendering: Wort über [Land]
Transliteration: Wort über [Land]
Doctrine: Divine Judgment on the Nations, Including Babylon
NEW. Standard prophetic oracle-heading formula (chs. 46-49). Standard German place-names (Ägypten, Moab, Edom, Damaskus, Elam, Babylon).
Rechabites
Approved rendering: Rechabiter
Transliteration: Rechabiter
Doctrine: Individual Responsibility
NEW. Jeremiah 35. Transliterated proper clan-name; positive contrastive obedience example, no special German-specific handling required.
Trust In Man Vs Lord
Approved rendering: vertrauen
Transliteration: vertrauen
Doctrine: Individual Responsibility
NEW. Jeremiah 17:5, 7. Reuses the concept-family already established via baseline ‘faith’→Glaube; standard German, no new collision risk.
Good Bad Figs
Approved rendering: gute Feigen / schlechte Feigen
Transliteration: gute Feigen / schlechte Feigen
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile (General)
NEW. Jeremiah 24. Concrete agricultural sign-vision classifying the exiled community versus those remaining in the land.
Declares The Lord
Approved rendering: spricht der HERR
Transliteration: spricht der HERR
Doctrine: The New Covenant
NEW. Technical prophetic-speech marker (ne’um-YHWH), occurring roughly 175 times in Jeremiah — the highest concentration in the OT. Reuses baseline ‘Herr’ within a stable formula.
Days Are Coming
Approved rendering: Siehe, es kommen Tage
Transliteration: Siehe, es kommen Tage
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile (General)
NEW. Fixed prophetic-eschatological introduction formula (16:14; 23:5; 30:3; 31:31; 33:14). Retained in Luther 2017 and Einheitsübersetzung with identical wording.
Jeremiah Name
Approved rendering: Jeremia
Transliteration: Jeremia
Doctrine: N/A (proper name)
NEW. Standard German Bible-translation form of the prophet’s own name; also the required German book-title form (see analysis/12_ai_translation_requirements.md cross-reference rules).
Nebuchadnezzar Name
Approved rendering: Nebukadnezar
Transliteration: Nebukadnezar
Doctrine: N/A (proper name)
NEW. Standard German Bible-translation form.
Zedekiah Name
Approved rendering: Zedekia
Transliteration: Zedekia
Doctrine: N/A (proper name)
NEW. Standard German Bible-translation form; last king of Judah.
Jehoiakim Name
Approved rendering: Jojakim
Transliteration: Jojakim
Doctrine: N/A (proper name)
NEW. Standard German Bible-translation form; burned Jeremiah’s scroll (ch. 36).
Jehoiachin Name
Approved rendering: Jojachin
Transliteration: Jojachin
Doctrine: N/A (proper name)
NEW. Standard German Bible-translation form; also called Coniah in the text (22:24, 28); note the dual name explicitly in teaching material.
Baruch Name
Approved rendering: Baruch
Transliteration: Baruch
Doctrine: N/A (proper name)
NEW. Standard German Bible-translation form; Jeremiah’s scribe and collaborator (chs. 36, 45).
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