Core Glossary

Core Glossary — Leviticus — English → Hindi

This glossary consolidates every load-bearing term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md, across all 27 chapters of Leviticus, cross-referenced to the baseline Romans/Galatians translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json where applicable. Terms marked [TM] MUST reuse the exact baseline Hindi rendering. Terms marked [NEW] are proposed additions for theologian ratification before Phase 2 begins. Risk tiers follow the baseline’s four-tier system (Critical/High/Medium/Low) and route to the same review tiers recorded in doctrine_risk_registry.json conventions.

A. Terms Reused Exactly from the Romans/Galatians Baseline

Term (Eng.)	Hebrew	Hindi (TM)	Risk	Doctrine	Chapters	Note
holy	קָדוֹשׁ qadosh	पवित्र	High	Holiness of God	11, 19, 20, 21, 22	Reuse exactly; formula “Be holy, for I am holy” is the doctrine’s anchor text
sanctification	— (verbal/nominal forms of קדש)	पवित्रीकरण	High	Priesthood/Holiness	20, 21, 22	Applies to both persons (priests, people) and God’s own name being “sanctified” (22:32)
sin	חַטָּאה chatta’ah	पाप	High	Sacrificial System	4, 5, 16	Reserved exclusively for chattah; do NOT use for avon or pesha (see Section C)
propitiation / atonement	כָּפַר, כַּפֹּרֶת kaphar, kapporet	प्रायश्चित्त	Critical	Atonement, Day of Atonement	1, 4, 16, 17	Reuse baseline caution verbatim: every occurrence requires theologian review; God provides the atonement, the worshipper does not perform it
mercy seat	כַּפֹּרֶת kapporet	प्रायश्चित्त का ढकना	High	Day of Atonement	16	Direct Exodus 25/Romans 3:25 background; reuse exactly
covenant	בְּרִית berit	वाचा	High	Sabbath, Covenant blessings/curses	2, 24, 26	”Salt of the covenant,” “remember my covenant”
redemption	גְּאֻלָּה ge’ulah	छुटकारा	High	Jubilee, Kinsman-redeemer	25	Never मुक्ति/मोक्ष
freedom	דְּרוֹר deror	स्वतंत्रता	Critical	Jubilee/Liberty	25	Reuse Galatians term for “proclaim liberty”; never मुक्ति/मोक्ष
glory	כָּבוֹד kavod	महिमा	High	Priesthood/Theophany	9	”Glory of the LORD appeared”
blessing	בְּרָכָה berakhah	आशीष	Medium	Covenant	26	Never आशीर्वाद (guru-reciprocal-favor connotation)
curse	קְלָלָה qelalah	श्राप / श्रापित	High	Covenant	26	Mandatory translator note distinguishing judicial pronouncement from liftable folk-curse (श्राप)
circumcision	מוּל mul	खतना	Medium	Covenant sign	12	Reuse exactly
firstfruits	בִּכּוּרִים bikkurim	पहले फल	Medium	Grain offering	2, 23	Guard against karma-fruit reading
worship / idolatry-adjacent	(various)	आराधना / मूर्तिपूजा	High	Molech worship	18, 20	Never पूजा for worship of YHWH
election / set apart	הִבְדַּלְתִּי hivdalti	परमेश्वर का चुनाव (conceptually linked)	High	Separation unto Holiness	20	Divine initiative, not karma/fate-based distinctiveness
mediator	—	मध्यस्थ	Medium	Priesthood/Mediation	(conceptual, all priestly chs.)	Extend baseline Moses-as-mediator concept to the priesthood generally

B. New Terms Proposed for This Curriculum

Term (Eng.)	Hebrew (translit.)	Hindi Rendering	Risk	Doctrine	Chapters	Rendering Risk Note
YHWH / “the LORD”	יהוה YHWH	यहोवा	Critical	All doctrines (divine name)	All	Must be distinguished from `lord` [TM] = प्रभु, which the baseline reserves for Kyrios/Christ’s lordship (Romans 10:9). Using प्रभु throughout Leviticus for every “I am the LORD” occurrence would dilute the specific NT Christological force the baseline built around प्रभु. Recommend यहोवा (established in several Hindi OT traditions) for the tetragrammaton, reserving प्रभु for generic “Lord/master” address contexts if any arise
priest	כֹּהֵן kohen	याजक	High	Priesthood and Mediation	1–10, 13–14, 21–22	Distinguish from Hindu पुजारी/पंडित/ब्राह्मण caste-priesthood; Aaronic priesthood is a specific covenant office instituted once by God’s command, not a hereditary caste-religious status conferring innate ritual superiority
high priest	כֹּהֵן הַגָּדוֹל kohen ha-gadol	प्रधान याजक	High	Priesthood/Day of Atonement	16, 21	Graded-holiness office; unique Day of Atonement mediating role
anointed (priest)	מָשִׁיחַ (adj.) mashiach	अभिषिक्त	Critical	Priesthood/Messianic typology	4, 16	Same root as `messiah` [TM] = मसीह; must remain a generic adjective here, never confused with or diluted from the proper-noun Messianic title reserved for Christ
clean	טָהוֹר tahor	शुद्ध	Critical	Clean and Unclean	11–15, 20–22	Direct collision with Hindu ritual-purity (shuddhi) categories entangled with caste hierarchy; mandatory theological note: OT ceremonial clean/unclean is a temporary, typological pedagogy (cf. Acts 10:15; Hebrews 9:9-10) fulfilled in Christ, never a warrant for ongoing purity-based social hierarchy
unclean	טָמֵא tamei	अशुद्ध	Critical	Clean and Unclean	11–15, 20–22	See above; paired term
holy vs. common	קֹדֶשׁ / חֹל qodesh / chol	पवित्र / सामान्य	High	Clean and Unclean, Priesthood	10	Foundational fourfold taxonomy (10:10) governing chs. 11-22
scapegoat (goat for Azazel)	עֲזָאזֵל Azazel	अजाजेल के लिये बकरा / बलि का बकरा	Critical	Scapegoat and Substitution	16	Single highest collision-risk term in the book; mandatory theologian review and translator note distinguishing substitutionary bearing-away from magical impurity-transfer to an appeased spirit
burnt offering	עֹלָה olah	होमबलि	High	Sacrificial System	1, 6, 8, 9, 12, 14, 16, 23	होम is also the Vedic/Hindu fire-oblation term; established Hindi Bible usage retained, but pastoral/explanatory framing required in all teaching material
grain offering	מִנְחָה minchah	अन्नबलि	Medium	Sacrificial System	2, 6, 7, 9, 14, 23
peace/fellowship offering	שְׁלָמִים shelamim	मेलबलि	Medium	Sacrificial System	3, 7, 9	Positive resonance with TM `reconciliation` (मेल-मिलाप)
sin offering	חַטָּאת chattat	पापबलि	High	Sacrificial System	4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 14, 16	Compound with TM `sin` (पाप); never shorten to बलि alone
guilt/reparation offering	אָשָׁם asham	दोषबलि	High	Sacrificial System	5, 7, 14	Distinct from sin offering: addresses sin-as-debt requiring restitution
votive/vow offering & vow	נֵדֶר neder	मन्नत / प्रतिज्ञा	Critical	Sacrificial System, Vows (ch. 27)	7, 22, 23, 27	Major collision with Indian devotional shrine-vow culture (मन्नत माँगना/मानना, a transactional bargain); mandatory note distinguishing covenant-regulated voluntary devotion from bargaining with a deity
freewill offering	נְדָבָה nedavah	स्वेच्छाबलि	Low	Sacrificial System	7, 22, 23
offering (generic)	קָרְבָּן qorban	भेंट / बलिदान	Medium	Sacrificial System	throughout	Umbrella term; specific offering-type terms preferred where possible
blood	דָּם dam	लहू	High	Sacrificial System, Atonement	throughout, esp. 16, 17	Use consistently (not रक्त); “life is in the blood” (17:11) is the theological anchor
altar	מִזְבֵּח mizbeach	वेदी	Medium	Sacrificial System	throughout	Distinguish from Hindu havan-vedi; this altar is exclusively YHWH’s, at one location
tabernacle / tent of meeting	מִשְׁכָּן / אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד mishkan / ohel mo’ed	मिलापवाला तम्बू	Medium	Priesthood, Sacred Time	throughout	Established Hindi Bible term
Holy Place / Most Holy Place	קֹדֶשׁ / קֹדֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִׁים qodesh / qodesh qodashim	पवित्रस्थान / परम पवित्रस्थान	High	Priesthood, Day of Atonement	6, 16, 21	Graded spatial holiness, unfamiliar to open-access darshan expectations
veil/curtain	פָּרֹכֶת parokhet	बीचवाला पर्दा	Medium	Priesthood	16
incense	קְטֹרֶת qetoret	धूप	Medium	Priesthood, Day of Atonement	2, 16	Note: not generalizable devotional incense-offering; exclusive to prescribed tabernacle worship
anointing oil	שֶׁמֶן מִשְׁחָה shemen mishchah	अभिषेक का तेल	Critical	Priesthood and Mediation	8, 16, 21	Direct collision with Hindu murti-abhishekam (deity-image anointing); anoints a person to office by God’s initiative, not a devotional image-empowering rite
ordination/consecration	מִלֻּאִים milu’im	संस्कार / अभिषेक और नियुक्ति	High	Priesthood	8	Distinguish from Hindu upanayana/diksha initiation
laying on of hands	סָמַךְ יָד samak yad	हाथ रखना	Medium	Sacrificial System, Scapegoat	1, 4, 16	Identification with the offering; distinct from NT blessing/ordination sense
statute forever	חֻקַּת עוֹלָם chuqqat olam	सदा की विधि	Medium	Sacrificial System, Sacred Time	3, 16, 23
statute / ordinance	חֻקָּה / מִשְׁפָּט chuqqah / mishpat	विधि / नियम	Medium	(general legal vocabulary)	18, 19, 26	Distinct from `law` [TM] = व्यवस्था, reserved for Torah as a whole; these are specific statutes within it. Never धर्म
detestable thing	שֶׁקֶץ sheqets	घिनौनी वस्तु	Medium	Clean and Unclean	11	Dietary-category term
abomination	תּוֹעֵבָה to’evah	घृणित कार्य	High	Clean and Unclean, ethical prohibitions	18, 20	Stronger moral-category term than `sheqets`; do not soften
skin disease / “leprosy”	צָרַעַת tsaraat	कोढ़ / चर्मरोग	Critical	Clean and Unclean	13, 14	Severe social-stigma collision in Indian context (historic outcaste treatment of leprosy); requires medical-accuracy and pastoral-sensitivity notes
pronounce clean/unclean	טָהַר / טִמֵּא tihar / timme	शुद्ध/अशुद्ध ठहराना	Medium	Priesthood, Clean/Unclean	13, 14	Priest as authoritative diagnostician, not healer
isolate/quarantine	הִסְגִּיר hisgir	अलग करना / बन्द रखना	Medium	Clean and Unclean	13	Temporary protective, not permanently condemnatory
hyssop	אֵזוֹב ezov	जूफा	Medium	Clean and Unclean (cleansing rites)	14	Typological weight (Psalm 51:7); flag for cross-reference consistency
living/running water	מַיִם חַיִּים mayim chayim	बहता जल	Medium	Clean and Unclean	14, 15	Note but do not over-collapse with John 4/7’s “living water”
the life is in the blood	הַנֶּפֶשׁ בַּדָּם (17:11)	प्राण लहू में है	High	Sacrificial System, Atonement	17	Theological anchor verse for the whole sacrificial system
goat-demons	שְׂעִירִם se’irim	बकरे के समान मूरतें / भूत-प्रेत	Medium	Sacrificial System (polemic)	17	Anti-idolatry polemic
uncover nakedness (idiom)	גִּלָּה עֶרְוָה gilah ervah	अनुचित यौन संबंध बनाना	Medium	(ethical law)	18	Idiom; translate meaning, not literal image
Molech	מֹלֶךְ Molekh	मोलेक	Low	(ethical law, polemic)	18, 20	Transliterated proper name
love your neighbor as yourself	וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (19:18)	अपने पड़ोसी से अपने समान प्रेम रखना	Critical	Love of Neighbor	19	MUST be verified identical to Romans 13:9 / Galatians 5:14 renderings per baseline’s shared-citation verbatim-match rule; flag for Phase 2 cross-document reconciliation
neighbor	רֵעַ rea	पड़ोसी	Medium	Love of Neighbor	19
sojourner / stranger	גֵּר ger	परदेशी	Medium	Love of Neighbor	19, 25 (implicitly)	Positive migrant/refugee-ministry resonance
mediums and necromancers	אֹבוֹת וְיִדְּעֹנִים ovot v’yid’onim	भूतों से बात करनेवाले / तांत्रिक	High	(ethical/purity law)	20	Collision with active spirit-medium/tantric/ojha practices in India; firm but pastoral handling
blemish (priest/animal)	מוּם mum	दोष / शारीरिक खराबी	High	Priesthood, Sacrificial System	21, 22	Mandatory anti-ableist pastoral note: ceremonial-fitness category only, never a statement of a person’s worth or standing before God
profane / sanctify God’s name	חִלֵּל / קִדֵּשׁ אֶת שֵׁם ה׳	अशुद्ध करना / पवित्र ठहराना (नाम)	High	Holiness of God	22, 24	Corporate-witness dimension of sanctification
appointed feasts	מוֹעֲדֵי יְהוָה mo’adei YHWH	यहोवा के नियुक्त पर्व	High	Sabbath and Sacred Time	23	Distinguish from Hindu festival/muhurta calendar; historical covenant memorials fulfilled in Christ
holy convocation	מִקְרָא קֹדֶשׁ miqra qodesh	पवित्र सभा	Medium	Sacred Time	23
sabbath	שַׁבָּת shabbat	विश्रामदिन / सब्त	High	Sabbath and Sacred Time	16, 23, 25, 26	Distinguish from Hindu vrat/ekadashi periodic observance (devotee-initiated, merit/favor-oriented); sabbath is a sign of a covenant God himself instituted
Passover	פֶּסַח Pesach	फसह	Medium	Sacred Time	23	Established transliteration; typological link to Christ (1 Corinthians 5:7)
Day of Atonement	יוֹם כִּפֻּר Yom Kippur	प्रायश्चित्त का दिन	Critical	Day of Atonement	16, 23	Core-doctrine term; see full Part 1 treatment
lampstand	מְנוֹרָה menorah	दीवट	Low	(tabernacle furnishing)	24
bread of the Presence	לֶחֶם הַפָּנִים lechem ha-panim	उपस्थिति की रोटी	Low	(tabernacle furnishing)	24
blaspheme the Name	קִלֵּל אֶת הַשֵּׁם qillel et ha-shem	परमेश्वर के नाम की निन्दा	High	Holiness of God	24
eye for eye	עַיִן תַּחַת עַיִן ayin tachat ayin	आँख के बदले आँख	Medium	(judicial law)	24	Karma-collision risk parallel to Galatians `sowing_and_reaping`; judicial proportionality under a personal God’s law, not impersonal cosmic consequence
sabbath year	שְׁמִטָּה shemitah	देश का विश्रामवर्ष	Medium	Sabbath and Sacred Time	25
Jubilee	יוֹבֵל yovel	जुबली का वर्ष / छुटकारे का वर्ष	Critical	Sabbath and Sacred Time, Redemption	25	NEVER मुक्ति वर्ष — direct collision with the baseline’s absolute salvation/liberation prohibition
kinsman-redeemer	גֹּאֵל go’el	छुड़ानेवाला / निकट कुटुम्बी उद्धारक	High	Redemption/Jubilee	25	Typological forerunner of Christ as Redeemer
I will walk among you	וְהִתְהַלַּכְתִּי בְּתוֹכְכֶם	मैं तुम्हारे बीच चलता रहूँगा	High	Covenant, Holiness of God	26	Intimate covenant-presence language
vow (Ch. 27 formal treatment)	נֵדֶר neder	मन्नत / प्रतिज्ञा	Critical	(see Section B above, ch. 7/22/23 entry)	27	Fullest treatment; mandatory translator note
devoted thing / ban	חֵרֶם cherem	अर्पित वस्तु / सर्वनाश के लिये अर्पित	High	Vows and Consecration	27	Non-redeemable absolute consecration; distinct from ordinary redeemable vows
tithe	מַעֲשֵׂר ma’aser	दशमांश	Medium	Vows and Consecration	27	Established Hindi Christian term
valuation / redemption price	עֵרֶךְ erekh	मूल्य ठहराना	Medium	Vows and Consecration	27

C. Special Cross-Reference Findings for Theologian Review

YHWH vs. प्रभु (Lord). Leviticus’s incessant “I am the LORD” (אֲנִי יְהוָה) formula (occurring dozens of times, esp. chs. 18–26) should render the tetragrammaton as यहोवा, not प्रभु. The baseline reserves प्रभु for Kyrios/Christ’s exclusive NT Lordship (Romans 10:9); collapsing both into प्रभु would blur a distinction the baseline itself depends on. Action: ratify यहोवा as a new Critical-risk term before Phase 2.
The अधर्म exception. The baseline sin entry rejects अधर्म as an alternative for पाप (i.e., for Hebrew chattah/Greek hamartia). Leviticus 16:21’s three-word confession (avon, pesha, chattah) uses three distinct Hebrew words; rendering avon (“iniquity/guilt”) as अधर्म does not violate the baseline rule, since अधर्म there was rejected only as a chattah-substitute, not as a rendering for avon. Action: confirm this reading with the doctrinal team before use, since the baseline’s phrasing could be read more broadly.
The Jubilee/मुक्ति temptation. Leviticus 25’s “proclaim liberty” (deror) and “Jubilee” (yovel) are the OT concepts most likely to tempt a translator toward मुक्ति, given English “liberty/release” vocabulary. Action: hard-code स्वतंत्रता (deror) and जुबली का वर्ष/छुटकारे का वर्ष (yovel) into translation memory before Phase 2 segment work begins, cross-linking explicitly to the Galatians freedom Critical-risk entry.
The homabali (होमबलि) tension. Unlike Romans/Galatians, where बलि-family vocabulary was avoided for metaphorical “living sacrifice” language, Leviticus requires literal sacrificial vocabulary throughout, because God himself institutes real, repeated blood sacrifices. होमबलि (burnt offering) is established Hindi Bible usage, but होम is also the precise term for Vedic/Hindu fire-oblation (havan) — a stronger lexical overlap than बलि alone. Action: recommend a standing explanatory footnote/module distinguishing Leviticus’s God-instituted, historically-bounded, once-typological sacrificial system (fulfilled and ended in Christ, per Hebrews 9-10) from the open-ended, repeatable ritual logic of Vedic/Hindu yajna.
The मन्नत (vow) collision. Both ch. 7 (votive offerings) and ch. 27 (formal vow law) use נֵדֶר neder. India’s devotional shrine-vow culture (मन्नत माँगना/मानना) is a live, widespread practice involving conditional bargains with a deity. Leviticus’s neder is a regulated, voluntary act of devotion to a God already in covenant with the vower, with fixed, non-exploitative redemption values — structurally different from a bargaining transaction. Action: mandatory theologian-reviewed translator note on every occurrence in chs. 7, 22, 23, and especially 27.
The कोढ़ (tsaraat) social-stigma risk. India’s historical treatment of leprosy patients as ritually and socially outcaste creates a live pastoral hazard: teaching Leviticus 13-14 without care could inadvertently reinforce caste-adjacent exclusion logic rather than illuminate the book’s own point (a temporary ceremonial system, diagnosed and resolved through prescribed cleansing, fulfilled in Christ who touched and healed the unclean, cf. Mark 1:40-42). Action: mandatory pastoral framing note wherever ch. 13-14 material is taught.
The शुद्ध/अशुद्ध (clean/unclean) caste-purity risk. This is the single largest systemic collision in the book: Hindu shuddhi/ashuddhi purity categories are historically bound up with caste (varna/jati) hierarchy. Leviticus’s ceremonial clean/unclean system must be consistently framed as typological and time-bound (Acts 10:9-16; Hebrews 9:9-10), never as validating an ongoing social-purity hierarchy. Action: this note should appear at the head of every lesson module touching chs. 11-15, 20-22.
Love your neighbor as yourself (19:18) — verbatim-match requirement. Per the baseline’s 12_ai_translation_requirements.md “shared-citation verbatim-match rule,” this exact Hebrew clause is quoted in both Romans 13:9 and Galatians 5:14. Action: Phase 2 must retrieve the exact Hindi wording used in the Romans and Galatians documents for this citation and use it identically here; do not independently translate 19:18 without this cross-check.

D. Risk Summary

Risk Tier	Count (new + reused terms above)	Review Routing
Critical	13	Human theologian — every occurrence
High	24	Human theologian
Medium	26	Native speaker review
Low	9	Automated review

Critical-risk terms requiring mandatory theologian review on every occurrence: यहोवा (YHWH), प्रायश्चित्त (propitiation/atonement), स्वतंत्रता (freedom/deror), अभिषिक्त (anointed, priestly), शुद्ध (clean), अशुद्ध (unclean), अजाजेल के लिये बकरा (scapegoat), कोढ़/चर्मरोग (skin disease), अभिषेक का तेल (anointing oil), मन्नत/प्रतिज्ञा (vow), जुबली का वर्ष (Jubilee), अपने पड़ोसी से अपने समान प्रेम रखना (love your neighbor as yourself), प्रायश्चित्त का दिन (Day of Atonement).

This glossary extends, and does not contradict, the baseline Romans/Galatians translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json. All items in Section B are proposed additions pending theologian ratification and incorporation into an updated translation_memory.json before Phase 2 segment translation begins.

Critical Risk Terms

God

Approved rendering: परमेश्वर
Transliteration: Parameśvara
Doctrine: Deity of Christ / The Holiness of God
Rejected alternatives: ईश्वर, भगवान
Original: אֱלֹהִים
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package, unmodified. परमेश्वर is the BSI OV standard, doctrinally precise; भगवान carries broad Hindu deity usage and is avoided. Used throughout Leviticus wherever Elohim occurs (distinct from YHWH, see yhwh entry).

Lord

Approved rendering: प्रभु
Transliteration: Prabhu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: स्वामी, ईश्वर

Inherited from Romans package, unmodified. प्रभु is reserved exclusively for κύριος/Kyrios and Christ’s NT Lordship confession (Romans 10:9). CRITICAL FOR THIS BOOK: प्रभु must NEVER be used for the Leviticus tetragrammaton (YHWH); use यहोवा instead (see yhwh entry). This entry is retained here specifically to police that boundary.

Jesus

Approved rendering: यीशु
Transliteration: Yīśu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ईसा, ईशू

Inherited from Romans package, unmodified. Used in teaching-material typological cross-references (e.g., Christ as fulfillment of the Day of Atonement, the sin offering, and the scapegoat), never appearing in the Hebrew source text itself but essential to accompanying doctrinal notes.

Holy Spirit

Approved rendering: पवित्र आत्मा
Transliteration: Pavitra Ātmā
Doctrine: Holiness/Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: ब्रह्म, परमात्मा, देव-आत्मा

Inherited from Romans package, unmodified. Relevant wherever teaching material contrasts the New Covenant’s Spirit-worked internal holiness with Leviticus’s external ceremonial system.

Propitiation

Approved rendering: प्रायश्चित्त
Transliteration: prāyaścitta
Doctrine: The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) / The Sacrificial System and Atonement
Rejected alternatives: तुष्टीकरण
Original: כָּפַר
Category: Atonement

Inherited from Romans package (Romans 3:25), unmodified. This is Leviticus’s single most theologically load-bearing word, occurring throughout chs. 1, 4, 16, 17. Mandatory theologian review every occurrence: God provides the atonement through his appointed mediator; it is never the worshipper’s self-performed penance (tapasya).

Freedom

Approved rendering: स्वतंत्रता
Transliteration: svatantratā
Doctrine: Jubilee and Redemption
Rejected alternatives: मुक्ति, मोक्ष
Original: דְּרוֹר
Category: Redemption

Inherited from Galatians package, unmodified. Leviticus 25:10’s ‘proclaim liberty’ (deror) is the direct Old Testament conceptual ancestor of the Galatians 5:1,13 freedom doctrine; reuse स्वतंत्रता verbatim, never re-derive independently. This is the single highest-stakes cross-curriculum consistency term in the book.

Messiah

Approved rendering: मसीह
Transliteration: Masīha
Doctrine: The Priesthood and Mediation
Rejected alternatives: अभिषिक्त व्यक्ति, देव-दूत
Original: מָשִׁיחַ (proper-noun title, contrasted with adjectival use in Leviticus)
Category: Priesthood

Inherited from Romans/Galatians package, unmodified. Anchors the distinction from anointed_priest (अभिषिक्त): मसीह must NEVER be used for the human high priest, and अभिषिक्त must never drift toward implying priestly Messianic status, even though both share the מָשִׁיחַ root.

Righteousness

Approved rendering: धार्मिकता
Transliteration: dhārmikatā
Doctrine: Economic Justice and Care for the Poor
Rejected alternatives: धर्म, पुण्य, न्याय

Inherited from Romans package, unmodified. Root shared with Leviticus 19:36’s ‘just weights and measures’ (न्यायी तराजू, tzedek root). Never धर्म.

Salvation

Approved rendering: उद्धार
Transliteration: uddhāra
Doctrine: Jubilee and Redemption
Rejected alternatives: मुक्ति, मोक्ष, छुटकारा

Inherited from Romans package, unmodified. Relevant wherever teaching material draws the typological line from Jubilee/atonement provision to ultimate salvation in Christ. NEVER मुक्ति/मोक्ष — reinforces the absolute prohibition also governing jubilee and freedom below.

Yhwh

Approved rendering: यहोवा
Transliteration: Yahovā
Doctrine: Divine Presence and the Glory of the LORD
Rejected alternatives: प्रभु
Original: יהוה
Category: God

NEW. The personal covenant name of God (יהוה), occurring dozens of times throughout Leviticus in the recurring ‘I am the LORD’ formula (esp. chs. 18-26). Must NOT be rendered प्रभु, which the baseline reserves exclusively for κύριος/Christ’s NT Lordship confession (Romans 10:9). Mandatory theologian review on every occurrence given volume and doctrinal-architecture stakes.

Anointed Priest

Approved rendering: अभिषिक्त
Transliteration: abhiṣikta
Doctrine: The Priesthood and Mediation
Original: הַכֹּהֵן הַמָּשִׁיחַ
Category: Priesthood

NEW. Shares its root with मसीह (Messiah); must remain strictly generic/adjectival for the human priestly office (Leviticus 4:3; 16:32), never a title implying Messianic identity. Keep visually distinct from मसीह in all teaching material.

Clean

Approved rendering: शुद्ध
Transliteration: śuddha
Doctrine: Clean and Unclean
Original: טָהוֹר
Category: Clean and Unclean

NEW. Single largest systemic collision in the book: direct overlap with Hindu shuddhi ritual-purity categories historically entangled with caste (varna/jati) hierarchy. Must be taught as typological, time-bound pedagogy (Acts 10:15; Hebrews 9:9-10), never as warrant for ongoing social-purity hierarchy.

Unclean

Approved rendering: अशुद्ध
Transliteration: aśuddha
Doctrine: Clean and Unclean
Original: טָמֵא
Category: Clean and Unclean

NEW. Direct negative pole of ‘clean’ above; identical caste-purity collision risk. Never implies persons are permanently or ontologically impure in a way reinforcing caste-adjacent exclusion.

Scapegoat

Approved rendering: अजाजेल के लिये बकरा / बलि का बकरा
Transliteration: Ajājela ke liye bakarā / bali kā bakarā
Doctrine: The Scapegoat and Substitution
Original: עֲזָאזֵל
Category: Scapegoat and Substitution

NEW. Single highest cross-cultural collision term in the book (Leviticus 16:8,10,26). Mandatory translator note every occurrence: (1) Azazel is not worshipped, fed, or appeased; (2) the goat does not magically absorb impersonal impurity — it dramatizes a substitution already accomplished by the first goat’s blood; (3) both goats together are ‘one sin offering’ (16:5), typologically anticipating Christ (Isaiah 53; Hebrews 9-10).

Bear Iniquities

Approved rendering: उठा ले जाना / अपने ऊपर ले जाना
Transliteration: uṭhā le jānā / apane ūpara le jānā
Doctrine: The Scapegoat and Substitution
Original: נָשָׂא
Category: Scapegoat and Substitution

NEW. Renders Hebrew nasa (Leviticus 16:22), the identical verb used of the Suffering Servant ‘bearing’ (Isaiah 53:4,12). Must remain recognizably the same theological motion for later Christ-typology; avoid wording suggesting magical impersonal-impurity absorption.

Day Of Atonement

Approved rendering: प्रायश्चित्त का दिन
Transliteration: prāyaścitta kā dina
Doctrine: The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)
Rejected alternatives: योम किप्पूर (bare transliteration, opaque)
Original: יוֹם כִּפֻּר
Category: Day of Atonement

NEW. Core-doctrine term of this curriculum (Leviticus 16; 23:26-32). The annual repetition (16:34) is itself the argument for the rite’s insufficiency, resolved in Hebrews 9-10’s ‘once for all.’ Must remain recoverable for follow-on Hebrews-based lessons.

Vow

Approved rendering: मन्नत / प्रतिज्ञा
Transliteration: mannata / pratijñā
Doctrine: Vows and Consecration
Original: נֵדֶר
Category: Vows and Consecration

NEW. मन्नत is deeply embedded in Indian devotional shrine-bargaining culture (‘if you grant X, I will give/do Y’). Leviticus’s neder (7:16; 22:18-23; 27) is structurally different: voluntary devotion to a God already in covenant, regulated by fixed, non-exploitative redemption values. Mandatory translator note every occurrence.

Anointing Oil

Approved rendering: अभिषेक का तेल
Transliteration: abhiṣeka kā tela
Doctrine: The Priesthood and Mediation
Original: שֶׁמֶן הַמִּשְׁחָה
Category: Priesthood

NEW. Direct collision with Hindu murti-abhishekam (ritual anointing of a deity’s image). Mandatory note: this anoints a PERSON to a God-commanded office, once, at God’s initiative (ch. 8; 21:10) — never a devotee’s ritual empowering/honoring of a divine image, and not repeatable at will.

Skin Disease

Approved rendering: कोढ़ / चर्मरोग
Transliteration: koṛha / carmaroga
Doctrine: Clean and Unclean
Original: צָרַעַת
Category: Clean and Unclean

NEW. Severe, live social-stigma collision (India’s historic outcaste treatment of leprosy). Dual mandatory note every occurrence: (1) tsaraat ≠ Hansen’s disease specifically; (2) the passage’s own point is a temporary, resolvable, mediator-administered system, not permanent exclusion (chs. 13-14).

Love Neighbor

Approved rendering: अपने पड़ोसी से अपने समान प्रेम रखना
Transliteration: apane paṛosī se apane samāna prema rakhanā
Doctrine: Love of Neighbor
Original: וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ
Category: Love of Neighbor

NEW — PROVISIONAL PENDING PHASE 2 CROSS-CHECK. Leviticus 19:18, quoted verbatim in Romans 13:9 and Galatians 5:14. Per the baseline’s shared-citation verbatim-match rule, this exact wording MUST be verified against and, if different, replaced by whatever Hindi wording those two documents actually use before Phase 2 finalizes this entry. Do not independently retranslate.

Jubilee

Approved rendering: जुबली का वर्ष / छुटकारे का वर्ष
Transliteration: jubalī kā varṣa / chuṭakāre kā varṣa
Doctrine: Jubilee and Redemption
Rejected alternatives: मुक्ति वर्ष
Original: יוֹבֵל
Category: Sacred Time

NEW. The fiftieth-year restoration (25:8-55). NEVER मुक्ति वर्ष — absolute prohibition per baseline’s मुक्ति/मोक्ष rule. Use जुबली का वर्ष (transliteration) or छुटकारे का वर्ष (TM redemption-linked) only.

Proclaim Liberty

Approved rendering: स्वतंत्रता की घोषणा करना
Transliteration: svatantratā kī ghoṣaṇā karanā
Doctrine: Jubilee and Redemption
Rejected alternatives: मुक्ति की घोषणा करना
Original: קְרָא דְרוֹר
Category: Sacred Time

NEW. Leviticus 25:10, reusing the Galatians freedom term (स्वतंत्रता) exactly. Genuinely strong OT-to-NT bridge to Galatians 5:1,13; foreground explicitly.

Anointed And Ordained Priest

Approved rendering: अभिषिक्त और नियुक्त (याजक)
Transliteration: abhiṣikta aura niyukta (yājaka)
Doctrine: The Priesthood and Mediation

NEW. Leviticus 16:32’s ‘the anointed one … whose hand is filled’ — the human high priest who mediates this atonement is himself only a shadow of the ultimate Anointed Mediator. Keep अभिषिक्त generic, never confused with मसीह.

Atonement Verb

Approved rendering: प्रायश्चित्त करना
Transliteration: prāyaścitta karanā
Doctrine: The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)

NEW. The verbal action-form of kaphar (16:6,10,11,16-18,20,24,27,30,32-34; 17:11). Same Critical caution as propitiation above: God’s own gracious provision applied by a divinely appointed mediator, never the worshipper’s self-performed act.

Gave It To Make Atonement

Approved rendering: मैंने इसे तुम्हें प्रायश्चित्त करने के लिये दिया है
Transliteration: maiṃne ise tumheṃ prāyaścitta karane ke liye diyā hai
Doctrine: The Sanctity of Blood and Life

NEW. Leviticus 17:11’s climactic clause: God, not the worshipper, is the giver and initiator of the entire atoning mechanism. Reinforces baseline propitiation note that God provides the propitiation; the sinner never performs it.

Be Holy For I Am Holy

Approved rendering: पवित्र बनो, क्योंकि मैं पवित्र हूँ
Transliteration: pavitra bano, kyoṃki maiṃ pavitra hūṃ
Doctrine: The Holiness of God and the Call to Be Holy

NEW. The book’s central theological formula (11:44-45; 19:2; 20:26). Always read as responsive holiness grounded in God’s prior character/action, never merit-earning ascetic attainment (guarding against tapasya-style reading).

High Risk Terms

Holy

Approved rendering: पवित्र
Transliteration: pavitra
Doctrine: The Holiness of God and the Call to Be Holy
Rejected alternatives: शुद्ध, निर्मल
Original: קָדוֹשׁ
Category: Holiness

Inherited from Romans package, unmodified. The book’s central formula ‘पवित्र बनो, क्योंकि मैं पवित्र हूँ’ (Leviticus 11:44-45; 19:2; 20:26) anchors this term’s doctrine. Must always read as holiness responsive to God’s prior character/action, never merit-earning ascetic (tapasya) attainment.

Sanctification

Approved rendering: पवित्रीकरण
Transliteration: pavitrikaraṇa
Doctrine: The Holiness of God and the Call to Be Holy
Rejected alternatives: सफाई, शुद्धिकरण
Original: קדש (verbal forms)
Category: Holiness

Inherited from Romans package, unmodified. In Leviticus extends beyond individual moral formation to a corporate dimension: God’s own name being ‘sanctified’ or ‘profaned’ before the nations (22:32; see profane_sanctify_name).

Sin

Approved rendering: पाप
Transliteration: pāpa
Doctrine: The Sacrificial System and Atonement
Rejected alternatives: अधर्म, अशुद्धता
Original: חַטָּאָה
Category: Ethics

Inherited from Romans package, unmodified. Reserved EXCLUSIVELY for Hebrew chatta’ah. Do NOT use for avon (see iniquity) or pesha (see transgression) — Leviticus 16:21’s threefold confession uses three distinct Hebrew words requiring three distinct Hindi words; अधर्म there renders avon, not chatta’ah, and does not violate this rule.

Mercy Seat

Approved rendering: प्रायश्चित्त का ढकना
Transliteration: prāyaścitta kā ḍhakanā
Doctrine: The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)
Original: כַּפֹּרֶת
Category: Atonement

Inherited from Romans package, unmodified. This is the direct Leviticus 16:14-15/Exodus 25 background of Romans 3:25’s hilastērion; foreground the intertextual link explicitly in teaching material.

Covenant

Approved rendering: वाचा
Transliteration: vācā
Doctrine: Covenant Blessings and Curses
Rejected alternatives: अनुबंध, समझौता
Original: בְּרִית
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package, unmodified. Governs ‘salt of the covenant’ (2:13), the covenant framework of chapter 26, and ‘remember my covenant’ (26:42-45).

Redemption

Approved rendering: छुटकारा
Transliteration: chuṭakārā
Doctrine: Jubilee and Redemption
Rejected alternatives: मुक्ति, मोक्ष
Original: גְּאֻלָּה
Category: Redemption

Inherited from Romans/Galatians package, unmodified. Governs the Jubilee/kinsman-redeemer material of chapter 25 and vow-redemption in chapter 27. NEVER मुक्ति/मोक्ष.

Glory

Approved rendering: महिमा
Transliteration: mahimā
Doctrine: Divine Presence and the Glory of the LORD
Rejected alternatives: देव-ज्योति, प्रकाश
Original: כָּבוֹד
Category: Holiness

Inherited from Romans package, unmodified. Governs Leviticus 9:23-24’s theophany confirming the newly inaugurated sacrificial/priestly system. Avoid light-metaphor conflation with Hindu divine-radiance/darshan concepts.

Curse

Approved rendering: श्राप / श्रापित
Transliteration: śrāpa / śrāpita
Doctrine: Covenant Blessings and Curses
Original: קְלָלָה
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Galatians package, unmodified. Governs Leviticus 26:14-39’s extended covenant-curse block. Mandatory translator note every occurrence distinguishing God’s fixed judicial covenant-pronouncement from popular Hindi श्राप (a curse reversible by counter-ritual); curses here lift only through covenant repentance (26:40-45), never ritual counter-measure.

Worship

Approved rendering: आराधना
Transliteration: ārādhanā
Doctrine: Sexual Ethics and Idolatrous Worship
Rejected alternatives: पूजा
Original: (implied by cultic vocabulary; contrasted with idolatry throughout)
Category: Ethics

Inherited from Romans package, unmodified. Never पूजा for worship of YHWH throughout Leviticus’s entire sacrificial apparatus — it is exclusive worship of the one true God, never one ritual option among several possible objects of devotion.

Idolatry

Approved rendering: मूर्तिपूजा
Transliteration: mūrtipūjā
Doctrine: Sexual Ethics and Idolatrous Worship
Original: (implied; cf. goat-demons, Molech worship)
Category: Ethics

Inherited from Romans package, unmodified. Governs Leviticus 17:7; 18:21; 19:4; 20:2-5; 26:1. Handle pastorally but do not soften the prohibition or its judicial consequences.

Grace

Approved rendering: अनुग्रह
Transliteration: anugraha
Doctrine: The Sacrificial System and Atonement
Rejected alternatives: कृपा, दया, वरदान, भाग्य, कर्म-फल, पुण्य

Inherited from Romans package, unmodified. Relevant to teaching notes emphasizing that Leviticus’s atonement provision is God’s own gift, never self-performed merit — directly counters the tapasya/karma-merit framing risked throughout the sacrificial and vow material.

Election

Approved rendering: परमेश्वर का चुनाव
Transliteration: Parameśvara kā cunāva
Doctrine: Election and Separation unto God
Rejected alternatives: भाग्य, नियति, किस्मत

Inherited from Romans package, unmodified. Conceptually links to Leviticus 20:24,26’s ‘I have set you apart’ (see election_separation, new term below); grounds Israel’s distinctiveness in divine sovereign choice, never karma/fate.

Confession Of Faith

Approved rendering: अंगीकार करना
Transliteration: aṅgīkāra karanā
Doctrine: The Scapegoat and Substitution
Rejected alternatives: स्वीकार करना

Inherited from Romans package (Romans 10:9-10 confession-unto-salvation verb), unmodified. Reused here for Leviticus 5:5 and 16:21’s confession of sin over the scapegoat’s head: open, personal, specific acknowledgment, not vague admission — same verb force across both contexts.

Sowing And Reaping

Approved rendering: मनुष्य जो कुछ बोता है, वही काटेगा
Transliteration: manuṣya jo kucha botā hai, vahī kāṭegā
Doctrine: Judicial Justice and Retribution

Inherited from Galatians package, unmodified. Cited as the parallel caution for Leviticus 24:19-22’s lex talionis (eye_for_eye): both proverb-like formulas risk being heard as impersonal karma (‘जैसा कर्म वैसा फल’) rather than a personal God’s judicial/harvest reality.

New Creation

Approved rendering: नई सृष्टि
Transliteration: naī sṛṣṭi
Doctrine: Clean and Unclean
Rejected alternatives: पुनर्जन्म

Inherited from Galatians package, unmodified. Relevant to teaching notes on the typological fulfillment of Leviticus’s clean/unclean system (Acts 10; Hebrews 9:9-10; 2 Corinthians 5:17). Never पुनर्जन्म.

Law

Approved rendering: व्यवस्था
Transliteration: vyavasthā
Doctrine: Divine Origin and Authority of the Law
Rejected alternatives: धर्म, शरीयत, नियम
Original: תּוֹרָה
Category: Priesthood

Inherited from Romans package, unmodified. Refers to the Mosaic Law/Torah as a totality, of which Leviticus’s sacrificial/holiness instructions form a major part. NEVER धर्म. Distinct from statute_ordinance (विधि/नियम) below, which names specific statutes within the Torah, not the totality.

Priest

Approved rendering: याजक
Transliteration: yājaka
Doctrine: The Priesthood and Mediation
Original: כֹּהֵן
Category: Priesthood

NEW. Must be distinguished from Hindu पुजारी/पंडित/ब्राह्मण caste-priesthood; the Aaronic priesthood is a specific covenant office instituted once by God’s command, not a hereditary caste-religious status conferring innate ritual superiority.

High Priest

Approved rendering: प्रधान याजक
Transliteration: pradhāna yājaka
Doctrine: The Priesthood and Mediation
Original: כֹּהֵן הַגָּדוֹל
Category: Priesthood

NEW. Graded-holiness office culminating in the unique Day of Atonement mediating role (ch. 16) and priestly qualification standards (ch. 21). Not a guru-lineage headship; God-appointed, functionally unique among the priests.

Holy Common Distinction

Approved rendering: पवित्र / सामान्य
Transliteration: pavitra / sāmānya
Doctrine: Clean and Unclean
Original: קֹדֶשׁ / חֹל
Category: Clean and Unclean

NEW. The foundational fourfold taxonomy of Leviticus 10:10 (holy/common, clean/unclean) governing chs. 11-22. Covenant-administrative categories assigned/lifted by God’s own instruction through the priest, not inherent metaphysical qualities of persons.

Unauthorized Fire

Approved rendering: पराई आग / अनुचित आग
Transliteration: paraī āga / anucita āga
Doctrine: Unauthorized Worship and Holy Fear
Original: אֵשׁ זָרָה
Category: Holiness

NEW. Nadab and Abihu’s fatal deviation (10:1-2), explicitly cited in 16:1. Retain life-or-death gravity; teach as the seriousness of holiness on God’s own prescribed terms, not arbitrary divine cruelty.

Burnt Offering

Approved rendering: होमबलि
Transliteration: homabali
Doctrine: The Sacrificial System and Atonement
Original: עֹלָה
Category: Sacrificial System

NEW. होम is also the precise Vedic/Hindu fire-oblation (havan/yajna) term — the strongest single lexical overlap in the book. Standing explanatory note required distinguishing God-instituted, historically-bounded, typological sacrifice (fulfilled/ended in Christ, Hebrews 9-10) from open-ended repeatable yajna.

Sin Offering

Approved rendering: पापबलि
Transliteration: pāpabali
Doctrine: The Sacrificial System and Atonement
Rejected alternatives: बलि (bare, loses sin-specific referent)
Original: חַטָּאת
Category: Sacrificial System

NEW. Compound of TM sin (पाप); required even of the high priest before he may mediate for others (Leviticus 4; 16:3,6,11). Never shorten to बलि alone.

Guilt Offering

Approved rendering: दोषबलि
Transliteration: doṣabali
Doctrine: The Sacrificial System and Atonement
Original: אָשָׁם
Category: Sacrificial System

NEW. Distinct from पापबलि: asham addresses sin construed as an incurred debt requiring restitution plus a premium (Leviticus 5; 7; 14). Do not conflate the two.

Blood

Approved rendering: लहू
Transliteration: lahū
Doctrine: The Sanctity of Blood and Life
Rejected alternatives: रक्त (clinical register)
Original: דָּם
Category: Sacrificial System

NEW. Use लहू consistently, never the clinical रक्त, across all 27 chapters. Central to Leviticus 17:11 and to the whole book’s connection to Christ’s atoning blood (Hebrews 9:22).

Life In The Blood

Approved rendering: प्राण लहू में है
Transliteration: prāṇa lahū meṃ hai
Doctrine: The Sanctity of Blood and Life
Original: כִּי נֶפֶשׁ כָּל בָּשָׂר דָּמוֹ הוּא / הַדָּם הוּא הַנֶּפֶשׁ
Category: Atonement

NEW. Leviticus 17:11’s theological anchor verse for the entire sacrificial system. Render with maximal clarity; do not paraphrase away.

Holy Place

Approved rendering: पवित्रस्थान / परम पवित्रस्थान
Transliteration: pavitrasthāna / parama pavitrasthāna
Doctrine: The Priesthood and Mediation
Original: הַקֹּדֶשׁ / קֹדֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִׁים
Category: Priesthood

NEW. Graduated zones of sanctuary holiness (Leviticus 16:2-3) unfamiliar to readers accustomed to open temple-darshan access. Teach the restricted/mediated-access contrast deliberately.

Ordination

Approved rendering: संस्कार / अभिषेक और नियुक्ति
Transliteration: saṃskāra / abhiṣeka aura niyukti
Doctrine: The Priesthood and Mediation
Original: מִלֻּאִים
Category: Priesthood

NEW. Must not be assimilated to Hindu upanayana (sacred-thread investiture) or diksha (guru-initiation), both understood as lineage-transmitted or self-attained spiritual attainment. This is God’s own appointment through Moses (ch. 8).

Abomination

Approved rendering: घृणित कार्य
Transliteration: ghṛṇita kārya
Doctrine: Sexual Ethics and Idolatrous Worship
Original: תּוֹעֵבָה
Category: Clean and Unclean

NEW. Strongest available moral-category term (chs. 18, 20). Must not be softened or euphemized.

Mediums Necromancers

Approved rendering: भूतों से बात करनेवाले / तांत्रिक
Transliteration: bhūtoṃ se bāta karanevāle / tāntrika
Doctrine: Prohibition of Mediums, Necromancy, and Occult Practice
Original: אֹבוֹת וְיִדְּעֹנִים
Category: Ethics

NEW. Directly names live occult-intermediary practices still active in parts of India (spirit-mediums, tantric ritual specialists, ojha/bhagat exorcist-healers). Handle firmly but pastorally (19:31; 20:6,27).

Blemish

Approved rendering: दोष / शारीरिक खराबी
Transliteration: doṣa / śārīrika kharābī
Doctrine: Priestly Qualification and Holiness
Original: מוּם
Category: Priesthood

NEW. Ceremonial-fitness category restricting altar-service function (21:17-23; 22:19-25). Mandatory anti-ableist note: never a statement of a person’s worth or standing before God — 21:22 shows a blemished priest ‘shall eat the bread of his God.‘

Profane Sanctify Name

Approved rendering: अशुद्ध करना / पवित्र ठहराना (नाम)
Transliteration: aśuddha karanā / pavitra ṭaharānā (nāma)
Doctrine: Reverence for the Divine Name
Original: חִלֵּל / קִדֵּשׁ אֶת שֵׁם יהוה
Category: Holiness

NEW. Israel’s obedience/disobedience ‘profanes’ or ‘sanctifies’ God’s name before the nations (22:2,32) — a corporate-witness dimension distinct from personal sanctification.

Appointed Feasts

Approved rendering: यहोवा के नियुक्त पर्व
Transliteration: Yahovā ke niyukta parva
Doctrine: Sabbath and Sacred Time
Original: מוֹעֲדֵי יְהוָה
Category: Sacred Time

NEW. Distinguish from India’s astrologically-determined festival/muhurta calendar; these are historical covenant memorials pointing forward to Christ (Colossians 2:16-17), ch. 23.

Sabbath

Approved rendering: विश्रामदिन / सब्त
Transliteration: viśrāmadina / sabta
Doctrine: Sabbath and Sacred Time
Original: שַׁבָּת
Category: Sacred Time

NEW. Distinguish from Hindu vrat/ekadashi-style devotee-initiated merit/favor observance; a sign of a covenant God himself instituted and initiated (16:31; 23; 25; 26:2).

Sabbath Of Solemn Rest

Approved rendering: विश्राम का परम सब्त / अति पवित्र विश्रामदिन
Transliteration: viśrāma kā parama sabta / ati pavitra viśrāmadina
Doctrine: The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)

NEW. Intensive sabbath form (shabbat shabbaton) anchoring Sacred Time doctrine specifically to the Day of Atonement (16:31; 23:32).

Blaspheme Name

Approved rendering: परमेश्वर के नाम की निन्दा
Transliteration: Parameśvara ke nāma kī nindā
Doctrine: Reverence for the Divine Name
Original: קִלֵּל / נָקַב אֶת הַשֵּׁם
Category: Holiness

NEW. Judicial-gravity offense (24:11-16); doctrinally linked to profane_sanctify_name.

Kinsman Redeemer

Approved rendering: छुड़ानेवाला / निकट कुटुम्बी उद्धारक
Transliteration: chuṛānevālā / nikaṭa kuṭumbī uddhāraka
Doctrine: Jubilee and Redemption
Original: גֹּאֵל
Category: Redemption

NEW. Redeeming next-of-kin (25:25-55); direct typological forerunner of Christ as Redeemer. Link explicitly to TM redemption (छुटकारा).

Walk Among You

Approved rendering: मैं तुम्हारे बीच चलता रहूँगा
Transliteration: maiṃ tumhāre bīca calatā rahūṃgā
Doctrine: Covenant Blessings and Curses
Original: וְהִתְהַלַּכְתִּי בְּתוֹכְכֶם
Category: Covenant

NEW. Intimate covenant-presence promise (26:11-12) as the reward of obedience — personal, relational nearness, not an impersonal reward mechanism.

Devoted Thing Cherem

Approved rendering: अर्पित वस्तु / सर्वनाश के लिये अर्पित
Transliteration: arpita vastu / sarvanāśa ke liye arpita
Doctrine: Vows and Consecration
Original: חֵרֶם
Category: Vows and Consecration

NEW. Absolute, non-redeemable consecration (27:28-29), distinct from ordinary redeemable vows (neder). No close parallel in Hindu vow-practice, where pledges remain negotiable.

Without Blemish

Approved rendering: निर्दोष / बिना दोष का
Transliteration: nirdoṣa / binā doṣa kā
Doctrine: The Sacrificial System and Atonement
Original: תָּמִים
Category: Sacrificial System

NEW. Physical soundness required of any sacrificial animal (1:3,10; 22:19-25). Must not be moralized into a statement about the worshipper’s own worth; typologically fulfilled in the sinless Christ (1 Peter 1:19).

Afflict Souls

Approved rendering: अपने प्राणों को दुःख देना / उपवास करना
Transliteration: apane prāṇoṃ ko duḥkha denā / upavāsa karanā
Doctrine: The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)
Original: עִנִּיתֶם אֶת נַפְשֹׁתֵיכֶם
Category: Day of Atonement

NEW. Whole-person humility (fasting) accompanying the Day of Atonement (16:29,31; 23:27,29,32). Must not be read as merit-earning ascetic self-mortification (tapasya); pair explicitly with the completed sacrificial action.

Once A Year

Approved rendering: वर्ष में एक बार
Transliteration: varṣa meṃ eka bāra
Doctrine: The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)
Original: אַחַת בַּשָּׁנָה
Category: Day of Atonement

NEW. Exegetical hinge connecting Leviticus 16 to Hebrews 9-10’s ‘once for all’ (16:34). Render with enough clarity to support the later contrast.

Election Separation

Approved rendering: मैंने तुम्हें अलग किया है
Transliteration: maiṃne tumheṃ alaga kiyā hai
Doctrine: Election and Separation unto God
Original: הִבְדַּלְתִּי אֶתְכֶם
Category: Holiness

NEW. God’s own initiative setting Israel apart (20:24,26). Conceptually links to baseline election; ground firmly in divine sovereign initiative, never karma/fate-based separateness.

Iniquity

Approved rendering: अधर्म
Transliteration: adharma
Doctrine: The Scapegoat and Substitution
Original: עָוֹן
Category: Ethics

NEW. Renders Hebrew avon specifically, one of three distinct words in Leviticus 16:21’s confession. The baseline’s rejection of अधर्म applies only to its use as a substitute for पाप (chatta’ah/hamartia); using it here for avon does NOT violate that rule — confirmed reading, flagged for theologian ratification before Phase 2 use.

Transgression

Approved rendering: अपराध
Transliteration: aparādha
Doctrine: The Scapegoat and Substitution
Original: פֶּשַ�ע
Category: Ethics

NEW. Renders Hebrew pesha specifically, the second of three distinct words in Leviticus 16:21’s confession. Keep lexically distinct from पाप (chatta’ah) and अधर्म (avon).

Unintentional Sin

Approved rendering: अनजाने में
Transliteration: anajāne meṃ
Doctrine: The Sacrificial System and Atonement

NEW. Provision for sins of ignorance/error (4:2,13,22,27), distinguished from deliberate defiant sin, which this offering does not cover (cf. Numbers 15:30-31). Must not blur into ‘any sin, deliberate or not.‘

If He Cannot Afford

Approved rendering: यदि वह सामर्थ न रखे
Transliteration: yadi vaha sāmarthya na rakhe
Doctrine: Universal Accessibility of Atonement

NEW. God’s atonement provision scales to economic ability (5:7,11) — access to atonement is never gated by wealth or class. Theologically load-bearing, not an administrative footnote.

Most Holy

Approved rendering: परम पवित्र
Transliteration: parama pavitra
Doctrine: Clean and Unclean

NEW. Superlative-holiness category (6:17-18,25) applied to certain offerings/objects, distinct from ordinary qodesh; establishes graded-holiness vocabulary used again in chs. 16, 21-22.

Cut Off From People

Approved rendering: अपने लोगों में से नाश किया जाना / अलग कर दिया जाना
Transliteration: apane logoṃ meṃ se nāśa kiyā jānā / alaga kara diyā jānā
Doctrine: The Sanctity of Blood and Life

NEW. Severe covenant-community penalty (7:20-27) for defiantly eating fat/blood while unclean; underscores the seriousness developed in ch. 17.

Days Of Purification

Approved rendering: उसके शुद्ध होने के दिन
Transliteration: usake śuddha hone ke dina
Doctrine: Purification Rites and Ritual Impurity

NEW. Time-bound ritual impurity following childbirth (ch. 12), not moral fault. Mandatory pastoral sensitivity: never imply childbirth or the mother is morally impure.

Medium Risk Terms

Blessing Of Abraham

Approved rendering: आशीष
Transliteration: āśīṣa
Doctrine: Covenant Blessings and Curses
Rejected alternatives: आशीर्वाद

Inherited from Galatians package, unmodified. Extended in this curriculum to a new key ‘blessing’ (see below) for Leviticus 26:3-13’s covenant-blessing list. Never आशीर्वाद (guru/elder reciprocal-favor connotation); this blessing is God’s own gracious initiative.

Blessing

Approved rendering: आशीष
Transliteration: āśīṣa
Doctrine: Covenant Blessings and Curses
Rejected alternatives: आशीर्वाद
Original: בְּרָכָה
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Galatians package’s blessing_of_abraham entry, reused exactly for Leviticus 26:3-13. Never आशीर्वाद.

Circumcision

Approved rendering: खतना
Transliteration: khatanā
Doctrine: Purification Rites and Ritual Impurity
Original: מוּל
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans/Galatians package, unmodified. Governs the eighth-day covenant sign in Leviticus 12:3.

Firstfruits

Approved rendering: पहले फल
Transliteration: pahale phala
Doctrine: The Sacrificial System and Atonement
Original: בִּכּוּרִים / רֵאשִׁית
Category: Sacrificial System

Inherited from Romans/Galatians package, unmodified. Governs the grain offering (2:12,14) and Feast of Firstfruits (23:10-14). Guard against any merit/karma-fruit reading.

Mediator

Approved rendering: मध्यस्थ
Transliteration: madhyastha
Doctrine: The Priesthood and Mediation
Original: (role concept; cf. Moses as mediator, Exodus/Galatians background)
Category: Priesthood

Inherited from Galatians package, unmodified. Extends the Moses-as-mediator concept to the entire Aaronic priesthood’s daily and annual mediating function throughout Leviticus.

Mercy

Approved rendering: दया
Transliteration: dayā
Doctrine: Covenant Blessings and Curses

Inherited from Galatians package, unmodified. Invoked in closing-blessing-type contexts; kept distinct from अनुग्रह (grace).

Grain Offering

Approved rendering: अन्नबलि
Transliteration: annabali
Doctrine: The Sacrificial System and Atonement
Original: מִנְחָה
Category: Sacrificial System

NEW. Bloodless offering (Leviticus 2; 6; 7; 9; 14; 23) representing worship from the fruit of labor. Keep visually distinct from होमबलि/पापबलि.

Peace Offering

Approved rendering: मेलबलि
Transliteration: melabali
Doctrine: The Sacrificial System and Atonement
Original: שְׁלָמִים
Category: Sacrificial System

NEW. Shares its root with the baseline reconciliation term (मेल-मिलाप); foreground this positive resonance deliberately — table-fellowship enacting restored relationship (Leviticus 3; 7; 9).

Offering Generic

Approved rendering: भेंट / बलिदान
Transliteration: bheṇṭa / balidāna
Doctrine: The Sacrificial System and Atonement
Original: קָרְבָּן
Category: Sacrificial System

NEW. Umbrella term (qorban); prefer specific offering-type terms (होमबलि, पापबलि, दोषबलि, मेलबलि, अन्नबलि, स्वेच्छाबलि) wherever a specific type is named.

Altar

Approved rendering: वेदी
Transliteration: vedī
Doctrine: The Sacrificial System and Atonement
Original: מִזְבֵּח
Category: Sacrificial System

NEW. Risk of collision with Hindu havan-vedi (fire-altar platform). This altar is exclusively YHWH’s, at a single tabernacle location, not a replicable domestic/temple furnishing.

Tabernacle

Approved rendering: मिलापवाला तम्बू
Transliteration: milāpavālā tambū
Doctrine: The Priesthood and Mediation
Original: מִשְׁכָּן / אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד
Category: Priesthood

NEW. Established Hindi Bible term for God’s tent-dwelling among his camped people; site of all sacrificial/priestly activity.

Veil

Approved rendering: बीचवाला पर्दा
Transliteration: bīcavālā pardā
Doctrine: The Priesthood and Mediation
Original: פָּרֹכֶת
Category: Priesthood

NEW. The curtain separating Holy Place from Most Holy Place (16:2,12,15); carries forward weight — torn at Christ’s death (Matthew 27:51).

Incense

Approved rendering: धूप
Transliteration: dhūpa
Doctrine: The Priesthood and Mediation
Original: קְטֹרֶת
Category: Priesthood

NEW. Risk of being heard as generic devotional incense-burning (धूप/अगरबत्ती), ubiquitous in Hindu practice. Note required: this is a divinely prescribed, life-preserving veil before YHWH’s unique presence, not a repeatable devotional offering transferable to any deity/shrine.

Laying On Of Hands

Approved rendering: हाथ रखना
Transliteration: hātha rakhanā
Doctrine: The Sacrificial System and Atonement
Original: סָמַךְ יָד
Category: Sacrificial System

NEW. Identification of worshipper with the offering (1:4; 4:4). Distinguish from NT blessing/ordination sense of the same gesture.

Lay Both Hands

Approved rendering: दोनों हाथ रखना
Transliteration: donoṃ hātha rakhanā
Doctrine: The Scapegoat and Substitution

NEW. Distinct two-hand gesture for the scapegoat (16:21), marking a more intensive identification than the ordinary one-hand sacrificial gesture (4:4).

Statute Forever

Approved rendering: सदा की विधि
Transliteration: sadā kī vidhi
Doctrine: The Sacrificial System and Atonement
Original: חֻקַּת עוֹלָם
Category: Sacrificial System

NEW. Perpetual, binding covenant institution (3:17; 16:29,31,34; 23:14,21,31,41). Maintain rendering consistency across all recurring occurrences.

Statute Ordinance

Approved rendering: विधि / नियम
Transliteration: vidhi / niyama
Doctrine: Divine Origin and Authority of the Law
Rejected alternatives: धर्म
Original: חֻקָּה / מִשְׁפָּט
Category: Priesthood

NEW. Specific statutes/judgments within the Torah (chs. 18, 19, 26), distinct from law (व्यवस्था, the Torah as a totality). Never धर्म.

Detestable Thing

Approved rendering: घिनौनी वस्तु
Transliteration: ghinaunī vastu
Doctrine: Clean and Unclean
Original: שֶׁקֶץ
Category: Clean and Unclean

NEW. Dietary-category prohibition term (ch. 11), lower intensity than to’evah (see abomination). Keep visually distinct.

Pronounce Clean Unclean

Approved rendering: शुद्ध/अशुद्ध ठहराना
Transliteration: śuddha/aśuddha ṭaharānā
Doctrine: Clean and Unclean
Original: טִמֵּא / טִהַר
Category: Priesthood

NEW. The priest’s authoritative diagnostic verdict (chs. 13-14) — a diagnostician applying revealed criteria, not a healer performing a cure.

Isolate Quarantine

Approved rendering: अलग करना / बन्द रखना
Transliteration: alaga karanā / banda rakhanā
Doctrine: Clean and Unclean
Original: הִסְגִּיר
Category: Clean and Unclean

NEW. Temporary, protective, re-examinable confinement (ch. 13), never permanent exile or moral condemnation.

Hyssop

Approved rendering: जूफा
Transliteration: jūphā
Doctrine: Clean and Unclean
Original: אֵזוֹב
Category: Clean and Unclean

NEW. Used in cleansing rites (14:4,6,49-52); typological weight recurring in Numbers 19 and Psalm 51:7. Flag for cross-reference consistency.

Living Water

Approved rendering: बहता जल
Transliteration: bahatā jala
Doctrine: Clean and Unclean
Original: מַיִם חַיִּים
Category: Clean and Unclean

NEW. Flowing/fresh water for purification rites (14:5-6,50-52; 15:13). Note but do not over-collapse with John 4/7’s ‘living water.‘

Goat Demons

Approved rendering: बकरे के समान मूरतें / भूत-प्रेत
Transliteration: bakare ke samāna mūrateṃ / bhūta-preta
Doctrine: The Sanctity of Blood and Life
Original: שְׂעִירִם
Category: Ethics

NEW. Idolatrous field-sacrifice prohibition (17:7); render descriptively without sensationalizing occult vocabulary.

Uncover Nakedness

Approved rendering: अनुचित यौन संबंध बनाना
Transliteration: anucita yauna saṃbandha banānā
Doctrine: Sexual Ethics and Idolatrous Worship
Original: גִּלָּה עֶרְוָה
Category: Ethics

NEW. Formal legal idiom (ch. 18) for prohibited sexual relations; translate meaning, not literal image, per baseline idiom-handling rule.

Defile The Land

Approved rendering: देश को अशुद्ध करना
Transliteration: deśa ko aśuddha karanā
Doctrine: Sexual Ethics and Idolatrous Worship

NEW. Sin’s covenantal-territorial consequence (ch. 18), not merely private consequence.

Neighbor

Approved rendering: पड़ोसी
Transliteration: paṛosī
Doctrine: Love of Neighbor
Original: רֵעַ
Category: Love of Neighbor

NEW. Not restricted to ethnic kin within Leviticus 19 itself — 19:34 extends the same command to the ger. Keep this extension visible.

Sojourner

Approved rendering: परदेशी
Transliteration: paradeśī
Doctrine: Love of Neighbor
Original: גֵּר
Category: Love of Neighbor

NEW. Resident non-Israelite (19:33-34; 16:29); positive contemporary migrant/refugee-ministry resonance.

Leave Gleanings For Poor

Approved rendering: कंगालों के लिये खेत में बचा हुआ अन्न छोड़ना
Transliteration: kaṃgāloṃ ke liye kheta meṃ bacā huā anna choṛanā
Doctrine: Economic Justice and Care for the Poor

NEW. Structural provision for the poor (19:9-10) built into the holiness ethic itself.

Do Not Bear Hatred Take Vengeance

Approved rendering: बैर मत रखना / बदला मत लेना
Transliteration: baira mata rakhanā / badalā mata lenā
Doctrine: Love of Neighbor

NEW. Interior heart-ethic paired with external restraint (19:17-18), both grounding the neighbor-love command immediately following.

Just Weights And Measures

Approved rendering: न्यायी तराजू और नाप
Transliteration: nyāyī tarājū aura nāpa
Doctrine: Economic Justice and Care for the Poor

NEW. Commercial honesty as an expression of holiness (19:35-36); reuses TM righteousness root.

Holy Convocation

Approved rendering: पवित्र सभा
Transliteration: pavitra sabhā
Doctrine: Sabbath and Sacred Time
Original: מִקְרָא קֹדֶשׁ
Category: Sacred Time

NEW. Corporate, commanded gathering (ch. 23) — worship is communal, not merely private devotion.

Passover

Approved rendering: फसह
Transliteration: phasaha
Doctrine: Sabbath and Sacred Time
Original: פֶּסַח
Category: Sacred Time

NEW. Established Hindi Bible transliteration (23:5); typological link to Christ (1 Corinthians 5:7).

Eye For Eye

Approved rendering: आँख के बदले आँख
Transliteration: āṅkha ke badale āṅkha
Doctrine: Judicial Justice and Retribution
Original: עַיִן תַּחַת עַיִן
Category: Ethics

NEW. Judicial proportionality principle for courts (24:19-22), not private vengeance. Risks sounding like impersonal karma (‘जैसा कर्म वैसा फल’); see sowing_and_reaping caution.

Sabbath Year

Approved rendering: देश का विश्रामवर्ष
Transliteration: deśa kā viśrāmavarṣa
Doctrine: Sabbath and Sacred Time
Original: שַׁבָּת לָאָרֶץ / שְׁמִטָּה
Category: Sacred Time

NEW. Every seventh year the land rests (25:1-7); extends the sabbath principle to creation itself.

Walk In My Statutes

Approved rendering: मेरी विधियों पर चलना
Transliteration: merī vidhiyoṃ para calanā
Doctrine: Covenant Blessings and Curses

NEW. Covenant obedience as a walk/way of life, not isolated ritual acts (26:3).

Remember The Covenant

Approved rendering: वाचा को स्मरण रखना
Transliteration: vācā ko smaraṇa rakhanā
Doctrine: Covenant Blessings and Curses

NEW. Even after judgment, God’s covenant commitment persists (26:42-45); grounds hope in his character, not Israel’s performance.

Tithe

Approved rendering: दशमांश
Transliteration: daśamāṃśa
Doctrine: Vows and Consecration
Original: מַעֲשֵׂר
Category: Vows and Consecration

NEW. A tenth belonging to God as a fixed, structural act of worship and trust (27:30-33).

Valuation

Approved rendering: मूल्य ठहराना
Transliteration: mūlya ṭaharānā
Doctrine: Vows and Consecration
Original: עֵרֶךְ
Category: Vows and Consecration

NEW. The priest’s fair, non-arbitrary redemption assessment (27:2-25); orderly, non-exploitative provision.

Lot Casting

Approved rendering: चिट्ठी
Transliteration: ciṭṭhī
Doctrine: The Scapegoat and Substitution
Original: גּוֹרָל
Category: Day of Atonement

NEW. Assigns the two goats’ roles (16:8-10). Must be distinguished from भविष्यफल-style astrological fortune-telling; the outcome is God’s own determination (Proverbs 16:33), not chance or manipulation.

Pleasing Aroma

Approved rendering: सुखदायक सुगन्ध
Transliteration: sukhadāyaka sugandha
Doctrine: The Sacrificial System and Atonement
Original: רֵיחַ נִיחוֹחַ
Category: Sacrificial System

NEW. Anthropomorphic idiom for God’s acceptance of an offering (1:9,13,17). Must not imply God is nourished by or dependent on the offering (cf. Psalm 50:8-13).

Commanded Moses

Approved rendering: जैसा यहोवा ने मूसा को आज्ञा दी
Transliteration: jaisā Yahovā ne Mūsā ko ājñā dī
Doctrine: Divine Origin and Authority of the Law
Original: כַּאֲשֶׁר צִוָּה יְהוָה אֶת מֹשֶׁה
Category: Priesthood

NEW. Recurring formula asserting divine, not human, origin (8:36; 16:34; 27:34). Must not be assimilated to the Hindu shruti category. Consistency of rendering across all occurrences reinforces this cumulatively.

Wash With Water

Approved rendering: जल से स्नान करना / धोना
Transliteration: jala se snāna karanā / dhonā
Doctrine: The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)

NEW. Ritual washing required of those handling atonement’s instruments (16:24,26,28). Distinguish from Hindu ritual bathing (shuddhi); a specific, time-bound tabernacle regulation, not a repeatable purification technique offered to worshippers generally.

Burn Outside Camp

Approved rendering: जलाना
Transliteration: jalānā
Doctrine: The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)

NEW. Total, final disposal of sin-offering remains outside the camp (16:27), prefiguring Hebrews 13:11-12’s application to Christ’s suffering ‘outside the gate.‘

For The Lord

Approved rendering: यहोवा के लिये
Transliteration: Yahovā ke liye
Doctrine: The Scapegoat and Substitution

NEW. Designates the goat slaughtered as a sin offering, blood brought into the Most Holy Place (16:8-9). Uses यहोवा, never प्रभु.

Salt Of The Covenant

Approved rendering: वाचा का नमक
Transliteration: vācā kā namaka
Doctrine: Covenant Blessings and Curses

NEW. Preservative/binding sign accompanying every grain offering (2:13), echoing covenant permanence; reuse baseline covenant (वाचा) precisely.

Perpetual Fire

Approved rendering: निरन्तर जलती आग
Transliteration: nirantara jalatī āga
Doctrine: The Priesthood and Mediation

NEW. The altar fire must never go out (6:12-13) — continual mediation of Israel’s worship.

Priestly Garments

Approved rendering: एफ़ोद, चपरास/सीनाबन्द, अमामा, बागा, कमरबन्द
Transliteration: ephoda, caparāsa/sīnābanda, amāmā, bāgā, kamarabanda
Doctrine: The Priesthood and Mediation

NEW. Distinctive high-priestly vestments (ch. 8; cf. Exodus 28); established transliterated/descriptive Hindi Bible terms. Keep consistent.

Fire From Before The Lord

Approved rendering: यहोवा की ओर से आग
Transliteration: Yahovā kī ora se āga
Doctrine: Divine Presence and the Glory of the LORD

NEW. Miraculous, self-authenticating divine acceptance of the newly inaugurated system (9:24).

Low Risk Terms

Freewill Offering

Approved rendering: स्वेच्छाबलि
Transliteration: svecchābali
Doctrine: Thanksgiving and Freewill Offerings
Original: נְדָבָה
Category: Sacrificial System

NEW. Voluntary offering given with no prior obligation (Leviticus 7; 22; 23). Low risk.

Censer Firepan

Approved rendering: धूपदान
Transliteration: dhūpadāna
Doctrine: The Priesthood and Mediation

NEW. Instrument for carrying holy fire into the Most Holy Place (16:12).

Cedar Wood

Approved rendering: देवदार की लकड़ी
Transliteration: devadāra kī lakaṛī
Doctrine: Clean and Unclean

NEW. Paired with hyssop and scarlet yarn in cleansing rites (ch. 14).

Scarlet Yarn

Approved rendering: लाल रंग का सूत
Transliteration: lāla raṃga kā sūta
Doctrine: Clean and Unclean

NEW. Color associated with blood/atonement imagery elsewhere (Isaiah 1:18); ch. 14.

Molech

Approved rendering: मोलेक
Transliteration: Moleka
Doctrine: Sexual Ethics and Idolatrous Worship
Original: מֹלֶךְ
Category: Ethics

NEW. Transliterated proper name (18:21; 20:2-5); Canaanite deity demanding child sacrifice.

Feast Of Unleavened Bread

Approved rendering: अख़मीरी रोटी का पर्व
Transliteration: akhamīrī roṭī kā parva
Doctrine: Sabbath and Sacred Time

NEW. Seven-day exodus memorial (23:6-8).

Feast Of Weeks

Approved rendering: सप्ताहों का पर्व / पिन्तेकुस्त का पर्व
Transliteration: saptāhoṃ kā parva / pintekusta kā parva
Doctrine: Sabbath and Sacred Time

NEW. Harvest festival (23:15-21); NT Pentecost (Acts 2) occurs on this day.

Feast Of Trumpets

Approved rendering: तुरही फूंकने का पर्व
Transliteration: turahī phūṃkane kā parva
Doctrine: Sabbath and Sacred Time

NEW. Marks the seventh month’s sacred beginning, leading into the Day of Atonement (23:23-25).

Feast Of Booths

Approved rendering: झोपड़ियों का पर्व
Transliteration: jhopaṛiyoṃ kā parva
Doctrine: Sabbath and Sacred Time

NEW. Commemorates wilderness dependence on God’s provision (23:33-43).

Lampstand

Approved rendering: दीवट
Transliteration: dīvaṭa
Doctrine: The Priesthood and Mediation
Original: מְנוֹרָה
Category: Priesthood

NEW. Tabernacle furnishing, continually tended (24:2-4).

Bread Of Presence

Approved rendering: उपस्थिति की रोटी
Transliteration: upasthiti kī rotī
Doctrine: The Priesthood and Mediation
Original: לֶחֶם הַפָּנִים
Category: Priesthood

NEW. Twelve loaves symbolizing covenant fellowship (24:5-9).

Plus A Fifth

Approved rendering: उसका पाँचवाँ भाग बढ़ाकर
Transliteration: usakā pāṃcavāṃ bhāga baṛhākara
Doctrine: Vows and Consecration

NEW. Redemption-price penalty premium discouraging casual vow-breaking without forbidding release (27:13,15,19,27,31).

Congregation

Approved rendering: मण्डली / सभा
Transliteration: maṇḍalī / sabhā
Doctrine: The Priesthood and Mediation
Original: עֵדָה / קָהָל
Category: Priesthood

NEW. Assembled covenant community, corporately implicated in sin and atonement (ch. 4; 16:5,17,33).

Camp

Approved rendering: छावनी
Transliteration: chāvanī
Doctrine: The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)

NEW. Boundary marker between the holy community’s dwelling and the unclean ‘outside’ (16:26-28).

Wilderness

Approved rendering: जंगल / निर्जन प्रान्त
Transliteration: jaṃgala / nirjana prānta
Doctrine: The Scapegoat and Substitution

NEW. The place ‘outside’ where the scapegoat’s sin is banished, never to return (16:22).

Cloud

Approved rendering: बादल
Transliteration: bādala
Doctrine: The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)

NEW. Visible sign of God’s guarded, dangerous glory-presence over the mercy seat (16:2).

Sprinkle

Approved rendering: छिड़कना
Transliteration: chiṛakanā
Doctrine: The Sacrificial System and Atonement

NEW. Precise priestly ritual act (16:14-15), distinct from pouring or smearing — commanded, not improvised.

Do No Work

Approved rendering: कोई काम न करना
Transliteration: koī kāma na karanā
Doctrine: The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)

NEW. Complete cessation from ordinary activity marking the day as wholly given to God (16:29).

Goat For The Lord Generic

Approved rendering: बकरा
Transliteration: bakarā
Doctrine: The Scapegoat and Substitution

NEW. Generic male goat term (16:5); the two goats function as one unified sin offering (16:5) with two distinct roles.

Frankincense

Approved rendering: लोबान
Transliteration: lobāna
Doctrine: The Sacrificial System and Atonement

NEW. White resin incense burned as the memorial portion of the grain offering (2:1-2).

Leaven

Approved rendering: ख़मीर
Transliteration: khamīra
Doctrine: The Sacrificial System and Atonement

NEW. Forbidden in offerings burned on the altar (2:11); associated elsewhere with corruption/haste.

Fat Portion

Approved rendering: चरबी
Transliteration: carabī
Doctrine: The Sacrificial System and Atonement

NEW. Internal fat reserved exclusively for God, ‘all fat is the LORD’s’ (3:16).

Leader Ruler

Approved rendering: प्रधान / अधिकारी
Transliteration: pradhāna / adhikārī
Doctrine: The Sacrificial System and Atonement

NEW. Graduated offering scale by social role (4:22); the sin offering’s necessity, not its cost, is constant across every rank.

Holy Garments

Approved rendering: पवित्र वस्त्र
Transliteration: pavitra vastra
Doctrine: The Priesthood and Mediation

NEW. Distinct clothing set apart for tabernacle service (6:10-11; ch. 8).

Thanksgiving Offering

Approved rendering: धन्यवाद-बलि
Transliteration: dhanyavāda-bali
Doctrine: Thanksgiving and Freewill Offerings

NEW. Subtype of peace offering expressing gratitude (7:12-15); connects to baseline thanksgiving doctrine.

Wave Offering

Approved rendering: हिलाई हुई भेंट
Transliteration: hilāī huī bheṇṭa
Doctrine: The Sacrificial System and Atonement

NEW. Ceremonial gesture presenting a portion to God before priestly consumption (7:30).

Heave Offering

Approved rendering: उठाई हुई भेंट
Transliteration: uṭhāī huī bheṇṭa
Doctrine: The Sacrificial System and Atonement

NEW. Portion set aside exclusively for the priests (7:14,32-34).

Blood On Ear Thumb Toe

Approved rendering: कान की लोर, हाथ का अंगूठा, पाँव का अंगूठा
Transliteration: kāna kī lora, hātha kā aṃgūṭhā, pāṃva kā aṃgūṭhā
Doctrine: The Priesthood and Mediation

NEW. Symbolic consecration of hearing, doing, and walking to God’s service at Aaron’s ordination (8:23-24).

Carcass

Approved rendering: लोथ / मृत शरीर
Transliteration: lotha / mṛta śarīra
Doctrine: Clean and Unclean

NEW. Dead body of an animal; contact with death is a primary source of ritual uncleanness throughout the book (ch. 11).

Until Evening

Approved rendering: सांझ तक
Transliteration: sāṃjha taka
Doctrine: Clean and Unclean

NEW. Recurring formula marking the natural close of a day as the boundary of many purification periods (ch. 15).

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