Semantic Analysis

Every term in this Language Package carries a semantic-drift profile unlike any other language in this pipeline, because the “translation” is really the same word observed across two thousand years of continuous use.

Terms narrowed or flattened by secular usage (drift downward from Paul’s sense)

• κλήση (calling): dominated in ordinary Modern Greek by the mundane senses of a phone call or legal summons, actively displacing the theological “divine calling” sense for a casual reader.
• Κύριος (Lord): dominated by the ordinary polite honorific “Mister/Sir,” actively displacing the Septuagint-rooted divine-name claim Paul makes in applying it to Jesus.
• εκλογή (election), διαθήκη (covenant), δικαίωση (justification), δόξα (glory), πρόνοια (providence): each has a dominant modern secular sense (elections, a legal will, personal vindication, fame, social welfare) that competes directly with the theological sense Romans requires.

Terms broadened or elevated by theological/liturgical usage (drift upward or sideways from Paul’s sense)

• σωτηρία (salvation), χάρη (grace) as a systematic category, δικαιοσύνη (righteousness) as a systematic category: each has been folded into the fuller Greek Orthodox theosis framework by later patristic reflection, adding real theological content beyond what Paul’s own argument in Romans states, without being wrong so much as additional.
• άγιος/άγιοι (holy/saints), κοινωνία (fellowship), ευχαριστία (thanksgiving): each shares its exact form with a specific liturgical or devotional practice (name-day sainthood, Holy Communion, the Eucharist), narrowing the word toward that specific practice rather than Romans’ more general sense.

Implication

Because Greek’s semantic drift runs in genuinely different directions for different terms, the glossary’s notes field cannot use one formula for the whole language the way some other Language Packages can (e.g. “always distinguish from Hindu concept X”). Each term’s notes specify which direction the drift runs and what corrective is needed, so a term is not treated as automatically safe simply because it is, technically, the New Testament’s own word.