Core Glossary

Jeremiah — Core Glossary (Hmong Language Package, Baseline v1.0)

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Inherited = term already fixed in the Romans TM (assets/translation_memory.json); rendering reused verbatim, no change permitted.
New (Jeremiah) = term with no prior TM entry; rendering proposed here as a candidate for formal TM-revision review per 12_ai_translation_requirements.md §2.4.

Risk tiers follow the definitions fixed in assets/bible_term_registry.json’s registry_metadata.risk_tier_definitions (Critical / High / Medium / Low), unchanged.

#	English Term	Hebrew / Transliteration	Hmong Rendering	Risk	Status	Doctrine(s)	Chapters
1	God	אֱלֹהִים / Elohim; יְהוָה / YHWH	Vajtswv	Low	Inherited	General / Cross-cutting	all
2	Lord	אֲדֹנָי / Adonai	tus Tswv	Low	Inherited	General / Cross-cutting	all
3	Word of the LORD	דְּבַר־יְהוָה / devar-YHWH	Vajtswv Txoj Lus	Low	New (Jeremiah)	True Prophecy; General	all
4	Scripture	(referenced generically)	Vaj Lug Kub	Low	Inherited	General / Cross-cutting	—
5	Prophet	נָבִיא / nabi	tus Cev Vajtswv Lus	Critical	New (Jeremiah)	False Prophets vs. True Prophecy; Weeping Prophet	1, 20, 23, 26, 28, 36
6	False prophet	הַנְּבִיאִים… שָׁקֶר / hannevi’im … shaqer	tus Cev Vajtswv Lus Cuav	High	New (Jeremiah)	False Prophets vs. True Prophecy	6, 14, 23, 27-29
7	Divination	קֶסֶם / qesem	kev saib yaig / kev ua noaj	High	New (Jeremiah)	False Prophets vs. True Prophecy	27, 29
8	Dream (vs. word, discernment test)	חָלַם / chalam	npau suav	Medium	New (Jeremiah)	False Prophets vs. True Prophecy	23
9	”Peace, peace” (false-peace formula)	שָׁלוֹם שָׁלוֹם וְאֵין שָׁלוֹם / shalom shalom ve’en shalom	(ironic use of) kev thaj yeeb	High	Inherited (ironic reuse)	False Prophets vs. True Prophecy	6, 8
10	Peace (civic welfare, normal sense)	שָׁלוֹם / shalom	kev thaj yeeb	Low	Inherited	Hope of Restoration	29
11	Covenant	בְּרִית / berith	kev cog lus	Critical	New (Jeremiah)	The New Covenant; Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness	11, 14, 22, 31-35
12	New Covenant	בְּרִית חֲדָשָׁה / berith chadashah	Kev Cog Lus Tshiab	Critical	New (Jeremiah)	The New Covenant	31
13	Former/Sinai Covenant (contrastive)	הַבְּרִית… כָּרַתִּי / ha-berith … karati	Kev Cog Lus Qub	Medium	New (Jeremiah)	The New Covenant	31
14	Covenant formula (“I will be their God…”)	וְהָיִיתִי לָהֶם לֵאלֹהִים / vehayithi lahem le’Elohim	Kuv yuav ua nej tus Vajtswv, thiab nej yuav ua kuv haiv neeg	Critical	New (Jeremiah)	The New Covenant	24, 30, 31, 32
15	Promise	(cf. Rom epangelia)	lus cog tseg	Low	Inherited	The New Covenant (contrast term)	—
16	Heart	לֵב / לֵבָב; leb / lebab	lub siab	Critical	New (Jeremiah)	The New Covenant; Individual Responsibility	4, 17, 24, 31, 32
17	Circumcise the heart	עָרְלוֹת לְבַבְכֶם / orloth lebabkhem	kev txiav lub siab	High	New (Jeremiah)	The New Covenant	4
18	Circumcision (literal, Mosaic)	מִילָה / milah	kev txiav (raws li Txoj Kevcai Mauxes)	Medium	Inherited	The Law’s background	4
19	Law (Mosaic/Divine)	תּוֹרָה / torah	Txoj Kevcai (ntawm Vajtswv / Mauxes)	Critical	Inherited	The New Covenant	31
20	Know the LORD (relational)	יָדַע / yada	paub Vajtswv	Critical	New (Jeremiah)	The New Covenant	9, 24, 31
21	Foreknow / Predestine	יְדַעְתִּיךָ / yada (perfect)	twb paub ua ntej lawm	High	Inherited	God’s Sovereign Plans	1
22	Forgive iniquity	סָלַח / salach	zam txim	Critical	New (Jeremiah)	The New Covenant	31, 33, 36
23	Remember sin no more	זָכַר…לֹא / zakar … lo	yuav tsis nco qab lawv tej kev txhaum ntxiv li lawm	High	New (Jeremiah)	The New Covenant	31
24	Sin / iniquity / transgression	חַטָּאָה, עָוֺן, פֶּשַׁע / chattah, avon, pesha	txhaum / kev txhaum	High	Inherited	Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness; Individual Responsibility	all
25	Individual responsibility (“each will bear his own guilt”)	אִישׁ בְּעֲוֺנוֹ יָמוּת / ish be’avono yamuth	txhua tus yuav ris nws tus kheej lub txim	High	New (Jeremiah)	Individual Responsibility	31
26	Wrath of God	חֵמָה / אַף; chemah / aph	kev npau taws ntawm Vajtswv	High	Inherited	Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness	4, 6, 21, 25, 36, 42-44
27	Cup of wrath	כּוֹס הַחֵמָה / kos hachemah	lub khob cawv ntawm Vajtswv txoj kev npau taws	Medium-High	New (Jeremiah)	Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness	25
28	Idol	אֱלִיל / עָצָב; elil / atsav	dab mlom	High	Inherited	Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness	2, 7, 10, 16, 44
29	Spiritual harlotry (idolatry as adultery)	זָנָה / zanah	kev ua nkauj rau luag dab	High	New (Jeremiah)	Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness	2, 3, 5, 13, 23
30	Backsliding / apostasy	מְש׻ׁבָה / meshubah	kev tig rov qab tso Vajtswv tseg	Medium-High	New (Jeremiah)	Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness	2, 3, 8
31	Return / repent	שׁוּב / shuv	tig rov qab los cuag Vajtswv	Medium	New (Jeremiah)	Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness; Hope of Restoration	3, 4, 15, 24, 31
32	Child sacrifice (Topheth)	לְהַעֲבִיר בָּאֵשׁ / leha’avir ba’esh	kev muab menyuam fij rau dab	High	New (Jeremiah)	Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness	7, 19, 32
33	Living sacrifice (contrast reference)	(cf. Rom thysia zōsa)	khoom fij uas muaj txoj sia nyob	High	Inherited	contrast term	—
34	Propitiation / atoning sacrifice (contrast reference)	(cf. Rom hilastērion)	qhov theej txhoj kev txhaum	Critical	Inherited	contrast term	—
35	Weeping / lament	בָּכָה / קִינָה; bakah / qinah	kev quaj ntsuag	Medium	New (Jeremiah)	Weeping Prophet and Cost of Ministry	8, 9, 13, 14, 16, 20, 31
36	Fire in my bones (compulsion to prophesy)	אֵש עָצֺר בְּעַצְמֹתָי / esh atsur be’atsmotai	zoo li muaj hluavtaws kub nyob hauv kuv pob txha	Medium	New (Jeremiah)	Weeping Prophet and Cost of Ministry	20
37	Conspiracy (against Jeremiah)	קֶשֶׁר / qesher	kev tuavtes ntxeev siab	Medium	New (Jeremiah)	Weeping Prophet and Cost of Ministry	11, 26, 37-38
38	Potter / clay	יוֹצֵר / חֹמֶר; yatsar / chomer	tus Kws Puab Av thiab cov Av Nplaum	High	New (Jeremiah)	God’s Sovereign Plans; Election (Rom 9 bridge)	18
39	Vessel of mercy/wrath (contrast reference)	(cf. Rom skeuos)	lub yias uas tau txais txiaj ntsim / kev npau taws	Medium	Inherited	contrast term	—
40	Plans / purposes of God	מַחְשָׁבוֹת / machshevoth	Vajtswv tej Homphiaj	High	New (Jeremiah)	God’s Sovereign Plans	29
41	Election / Choose (contrast reference)	(cf. Rom eklogē)	kev xaiv (Vajtswv xaiv raws li nws lub siab nyiam)	Critical	Inherited	God’s Sovereign Plans	—
42	Will of God	(cf. Rom thelēma theou)	Vajtswv lub siab nyiam	Medium	Inherited	God’s Sovereign Plans	29
43	Power (of God)	(cf. Rom dynamis)	hwjchim (always “Vajtswv hwjchim”)	High	Inherited	God’s Sovereign Plans	10, 32, 50-51
44	Instrument of judgment (pagan king as God’s tool)	עַבְדִּי נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּר / avdi Nevukhadretsar	tus uas Vajtswv siv ua cuab yeej `[TRANSLATOR REVIEW NEEDED]`	High	New (Jeremiah)	God’s Sovereign Plans	25, 27
45	Servant/slave (literal chattel sense)	עֶבֶד / eved	qhev	High	Inherited (literal-sense reuse)	Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness	34
46	Yoke	מוֹטָה / motah	tus quab	Medium	New (Jeremiah)	Judgment; Sovereign Plans	27, 28
47	Remnant	שְׁאָר / she’ar (cf. Rom hypoleimma)	cov seem	Low-Medium	Inherited	Hope of Restoration; Individual Responsibility	23, 24, 40-44
48	Restore the fortunes	שׁוּב שְׁבוּת / shuv shevut	kev coj rov qab los / kev pub kom vam meej dua	Medium	New (Jeremiah)	Hope of Restoration after Exile	29, 30-33
49	Captivity / exile	גָּלוּת / galah, golah	kev raug ntes coj mus rau lwm tebchaws	Low-Medium	New (Jeremiah)	Hope of Restoration after Exile	24, 29, 39-44, 52
50	Redemption (kinsman-redeemer)	גָּאַל / פָּדָה; ga’al / padah	kev txhiv	Medium	Inherited	Hope of Restoration; New Covenant background	31, 32
51	Righteous Branch (Messianic title)	צֶמַח צַדִּיק / tsemach tsaddiq	tus Ceg Ncaj Ncees	Critical	New (Jeremiah)	Hope of Restoration; New Covenant	23, 33
52	”The LORD is our righteousness”	יְהוָה צִדְקֵנוּ / YHWH Tsidqenu	Tus Tswv Yog Peb Txoj Kev Ncaj Ncees	Critical	New (Jeremiah)	New Covenant; Justification bridge	23, 33
53	Righteousness of God / righteous (bridge term)	(cf. Rom dikaiosynē theou)	Vajtswv txoj kev ncaj ncees / tus ncaj ncees	Critical	Inherited	New Covenant	22, 23, 33
54	Creator of all things	עֹשֵׂה הַכֹּל / oseh hakol	tus Tsim Ib Puas Tsav Yam	Low-Medium	New (Jeremiah)	Judgment; General	10
55	Trust in man vs. trust in the LORD	בָּטַח / batach	vam khom neeg / vam khom Vajtswv	Medium	New (Jeremiah)	Individual Responsibility	17
56	Sabbath	שַׁבָּת / shabbat	hnub Xanpataus	Low	New (Jeremiah, standard loanword)	The Law’s background	17
57	Sign-act (general category)	(various enacted prophecies)	tej txheej txheem qhia txog yav tom ntej	Low-Medium	New (Jeremiah)	True Prophecy	13, 16, 19, 24, 27-28, 32
58	Covenant with day and night (certainty-analogy)	בְּרִיתִי הַיּוֹם וּבְרִיתִי הַלָּיְלָה	kev cog lus nrog hnub thiab hmo ntuj	Medium	New (Jeremiah)	New Covenant	33
59	Rechabites (ancestral vow-keeping example)	בֵּית הָרֵכָבִים / beth ha-Rekhavim	cov Lekhaj	Medium	New (Jeremiah)	Individual Responsibility (contrast)	35
60	Certificate of divorce	סֵפֶר כְּרִיתֻת / sefer keritut	ntawv sib nrauj	Medium	New (Jeremiah)	Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness	3
61	Scroll / book	מְגִלָּה / סֵפֶר; megillah / sepher	phau ntawv	Low	New (Jeremiah)	True Prophecy	36
62	Nations / Gentiles	גּוֹיִם / goyim (cf. Rom ethnē)	lwm Haiv Neeg	Low	Inherited	God’s Sovereign Plans	1, 25, 46-51
63	Jew / house of Judah	בֵּית יְהוּדָה / beth Yehudah (cf. Rom Ioudaios)	cov Yudas	Low	Inherited	New Covenant; Future of Israel bridge	31
64	Israel / house of Israel	בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל / beth Yisrael (cf. Rom all_israel_will_be_saved)	cov Yixalayees	Low	Inherited	New Covenant; Future of Israel bridge	31
65	World	(general referent)	lub ntiajteb	Low	Inherited	General / Cross-cutting	25, 46-51
66	Boasting	(cf. Rom kauchēsis)	kev khav theeb	Low	Inherited	Individual Responsibility	9
67	Witness	(cf. Rom martys)	tus timkhawv	Low	Inherited	True Prophecy	—
68	Hardened heart / stubbornness (background)	(cf. Rom pōrōsis)	lub siab tawv	Medium	Inherited	Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness	2-11 (general)

Notes on Glossary Governance

Rows 1, 2, 4, 9, 10, 15, 18, 19, 21, 26, 28, 33, 34, 39, 41, 42, 43, 45, 47, 50, 53, 62-67 reuse an existing Romans TM rendering verbatim; none of these strings may be altered by any Phase 2/3 generation process for this curriculum.
Rows marked Critical or High and “New (Jeremiah)” (5, 6, 7, 9*, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 20, 22, 23, 25, 27, 29, 32, 35, 38, 40, 44, 51, 52) are proposed baseline renderings pending formal TM-revision review; they are treated as binding for THIS Language Package (Baseline v1.0 for Jeremiah) but are not yet cross-curriculum-permanent in the sense the Romans TM’s terms are, since no prior Jeremiah package exists to have fixed them earlier. Once ratified, they become equally permanent.
Row 9 ("Peace, peace" false-peace formula) is a flagged ironic/negated reuse of an otherwise Low-risk Inherited term (kev thaj yeeb) — this is not a new lexical item but a new, high-risk usage context of an existing one, and must be handled per the teaching note in 07_semantic_analysis.md Chapter 6.
Row 44 carries an unresolved [TRANSLATOR REVIEW NEEDED] marker and must not be treated as a finalized rendering until human theologian review resolves it.
Three additional un-tabled [TRANSLATOR REVIEW NEEDED] flags from 07_semantic_analysis.md (the Baal/ba’al wordplay at 31:32; the massa “burden/oracle” pun at 23:33) are untranslatable puns with no proposed Hmong rendering at all, by design — they require footnote-only handling and must never be assigned a permanent glossary rendering.
This glossary, together with 07_semantic_analysis.md, covers every chapter of Jeremiah (1-52) per the full-book-coverage mandate; chapters contributing no new terms are documented as explicitly reviewed in §2 of 07_semantic_analysis.md rather than silently omitted.

Critical Risk Terms

Holy Spirit

Approved rendering: Vaj Ntsuj Plig
Transliteration: pneuma hagion (NT parallel; no direct Hebrew lexical counterpart in Jeremiah itself)
Doctrine: Sanctification and Life in the Spirit (Romans bridge doctrine)
Rejected alternatives: bare ntsuj plig (no Vaj prefix) — rejected, denotes an animistic wandering human soul

Inherited from Romans package. Retained in the Jeremiah TM because curriculum content may bridge forward to the NT fulfillment of the New Covenant’s Spirit-indwelling promise; the mandatory ‘Vaj’ prefix rule remains in force unchanged.

Law Mosaic Divine

Approved rendering: Txoj Kevcai (ntawm Vajtswv / Mauxes)
Transliteration: torah
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: bare ‘Txoj Kevcai’ without qualifier — rejected, collapses into kev cai dab qhuas (ancestral spirit-worship customs), ‘a new/different law’ framing at Jer 31:33 — rejected, inverts the doctrine’s continuity claim

Inherited from Romans package. The mandatory qualifier ‘(ntawm Vajtswv / Mauxes)’ must be attached even at Jer 31:33, precisely because the New Covenant’s point is that this is the SAME divinely-given Law, now internalized, not a replacement law.

Righteousness Of God Righteous

Approved rendering: Vajtswv txoj kev ncaj ncees / tus ncaj ncees
Transliteration: tsedeq / tsedaqah (Heb.); dikaiosynē theou (NT bridge)
Doctrine: The New Covenant (Righteous Branch / LORD Our Righteousness bridge)
Rejected alternatives: bare ‘kev ncaj ncees’ without the reckoning qualifier — rejected, reads as self-achieved moralism

Inherited from Romans package. Serves as the exact lexical root for two Jeremiah-specific NEW entries below (‘tus Ceg Ncaj Ncees’ and ‘Tus Tswv Yog Peb Txoj Kev Ncaj Ncees’); any drift from this fixed Romans phrase would sever the intended cross-Testament bridge.

Justify Reckon As Righteous

Approved rendering: ua kom ncaj ncees / raug suav tias ncaj ncees
Transliteration: dikaioō / logizomai (NT bridge; no direct single Hebrew lexical equivalent in Jeremiah, cited for consistency)
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: ‘ua zoo’ (do good) framing — rejected, reintroduces works-righteousness

Inherited from Romans package. Retained as the fixed forensic-imputation vocabulary that must anchor any teaching connecting Jer 31:33’s heart-writing to the doctrine of justification, so heart-transformation is not heard as self-achieved.

Election Choose

Approved rendering: kev xaiv (Vajtswv xaiv raws li nws lub siab nyiam)
Transliteration: eklogē (NT bridge)
Doctrine: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People
Rejected alternatives: hmoov (impersonal fate/fortune) vocabulary — PERMANENTLY FORBIDDEN, collapses personal divine choice into fatalism

Inherited from Romans package. Directly underlies Jeremiah’s potter/clay metaphor (ch.18) and ‘Vajtswv tej Homphiaj’ (plans of God, ch.29); the hmoov prohibition is extended without exception to both new Jeremiah terms.

Propitiation Atoning Sacrifice

Approved rendering: qhov theej txhoj kev txhaum
Transliteration: hilastērion (NT contrast reference)
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry (contrast reference)

Inherited from Romans package. Cited as the contrast term distinguishing Christ’s once-for-all, sufficient atonement from both Topheth’s atrocity and shamanic appeasement.

Prophet

Approved rendering: tus Cev Vajtswv Lus
Transliteration: nabi
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy; The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry
Rejected alternatives: bare ‘Yaj Saub’ (Hmong culture-hero/seer legend) — PERMANENTLY FORBIDDEN; imports an alternate folk-messianic narrative that could redirect covenant hope from Vajtswv/Yexus Khetos onto a nativist deliverer-figure

New — Jeremiah package. Descriptive phrase anchoring the prophetic office explicitly to Vajtswv, deliberately avoiding the Yaj Saub culture-hero legend. Even correct use of this term requires accompanying teaching to prevent the Yaj Saub narrative frame from being activated by proximity (e.g., messianic Branch language).

Covenant

Approved rendering: kev cog lus
Transliteration: berith
Doctrine: The New Covenant; Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Rejected alternatives: ‘lus cog tseg’ (promise) used interchangeably — rejected, collapses covenant-ratification weight into a general pledge, ritual-oath vocabulary from ua neeb/txiv neeb ancestor-spirit-invocation practice — FORBIDDEN, must never attach

New — Jeremiah package. Hmong customary ‘cog lus’ pacts (betrothal, clan-alliance oaths) are typically bilateral and revocable by mutual breach; God’s covenant, though violated by Israel (31:32), is unilaterally sustained by God’s own initiative. [TRANSLATOR REVIEW NEEDED: confirm no ritual-oath vocabulary from ancestor-spirit invocation practice inadvertently attaches to this term in any generated teaching content.]

New Covenant

Approved rendering: Kev Cog Lus Tshiab
Transliteration: berith chadashah
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: framing as a different God, different law, or discarding of the Sinai covenant’s content — rejected, must be taught as a new MODE of relationship with the same God and same moral law

New — Jeremiah package. The single most theologically load-bearing phrase in the book (Jer 31:31; core passage). Must always be taught with explicit language that God alone guarantees its continuation (31:35-37), never as a renegotiable, human-sustained pact.

Covenant Formula I Will Be Their God

Approved rendering: Kuv yuav ua nej tus Vajtswv, thiab nej yuav ua kuv haiv neeg
Transliteration: vehayithi lahem le’Elohim vehemah yihyu-li le’am
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: any paraphrased variation across occurrences — rejected, this is a fixed formula that must read identically every time

New — Jeremiah package. Occurs at Jer 24:7; 30:22; 31:1, 33; 32:38 (and cross-references Ex 6:7; Ezek 36:28; 37:27; Rev 21:3). Must be rendered character-for-character identically at every occurrence throughout this and any future curriculum content.

Heart

Approved rendering: lub siab
Transliteration: leb / lebab
Doctrine: The New Covenant; Individual Responsibility
Rejected alternatives: presenting God’s writing on the heart as a self-achieved moral resolution — rejected, must be taught as an act only God performs

New — Jeremiah package. Anchors the New Covenant’s central mechanism (Jer 31:33). Part of the crowded ‘siab’ semantic neighborhood (see also deceitful_heart, circumcise_the_heart, wash_heart_from_evil below); each compound must always retain its full fixed periphrasis, never abbreviated to bare ‘siab’ with the doctrinal sense left to context.

Know The Lord

Approved rendering: paub Vajtswv
Transliteration: yada (de’u eth-YHWH)
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: mere factual awareness that God exists — rejected, must be relational and covenantal, paralleling marital-intimacy usage of yada

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 9:23-24; 24:7; 31:34 (core passage). Must be taught as complementary to, but lexically distinct from, the inherited Romans TM ‘faith_believe’ entry — never merged into one term.

Forgive Iniquity

Approved rendering: zam txim
Transliteration: salach (eslach la’avonam)
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: achieved through ritual restitution — rejected, contradicts the Hebrew salach distinction (used exclusively of God forgiving)

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 31:34 (core passage); also 31:34, 33:8, 36:3. Already the standard Hmong Christian term for divine forgiveness, but must be explicitly taught as something only God does and only God can grant.

Righteous Branch

Approved rendering: tus Ceg Ncaj Ncees
Transliteration: tsemach tsaddiq
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile; The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: a merely botanical ‘sprout’ rendering without messianic force — rejected, must preserve the messianic/Davidic-kingship sense

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 23:5; 33:15. Must reuse the Romans-fixed ‘ncaj ncees’ root exactly so the Branch’s righteousness is understood in continuity with the forensic/relational righteousness vocabulary fixed for the whole Language Package.

Lord Our Righteousness

Approved rendering: Tus Tswv Yog Peb Txoj Kev Ncaj Ncees
Transliteration: YHWH Tsidqenu
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile; The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: any drift from the fixed Romans phrase ‘Vajtswv txoj kev ncaj ncees’ as its root — rejected, would sever the single clearest verbal bridge into the Romans Justification-by-Faith doctrine

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 23:6; 33:16 (reprised of Jerusalem itself). Must reuse the EXACT Romans TM phrase as its root.

High Risk Terms

Human Spirit Soul

Approved rendering: ntsuj plig
Transliteration: —
Doctrine: Anthropology (Romans bridge doctrine)
Rejected alternatives: Vaj Ntsuj Plig — forbidden for this referent, reserved exclusively for the Holy Spirit

Inherited from Romans package. Never capitalized/prefixed with ‘Vaj’; kept lexically distinct from the Holy Spirit entry.

Wrath Of God

Approved rendering: kev npau taws ntawm Vajtswv
Transliteration: chemah / aph
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Rejected alternatives: unqualified ‘npau taws’ associated only with capricious spirit/ancestor anger — rejected without explicit contrast teaching

Inherited from Romans package. Recurs at far higher density in Jeremiah’s sustained judgment-oracle genre (chs. 4, 6, 21, 25, 36, 42-44) than anywhere in Romans; the righteous/judicial-not-appeasable-by-ritual teaching note must be repeated at each major judgment oracle, not asserted once.

Idol

Approved rendering: dab mlom
Transliteration: elil / atsav
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Rejected alternatives: generic ‘statue’ softening — rejected, must not soften the term since Jeremiah condemns exactly this category

Inherited from Romans package. Actual Hmong term for spirit-images venerated in traditional religion; occurs at higher frequency and intensity in Jeremiah (chs. 2, 7, 10, 16, 44) than in Romans.

Sin Act And Condition

Approved rendering: txhaum / kev txhaum
Transliteration: chattah, avon, pesha
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry

Inherited from Romans package. Hmong custom frames wrongdoing chiefly as reparable social/ritual fault; Jeremiah’s covenant-lawsuit language requires teaching sin as an objective, God-ward guilt-condition, reinforced by the fact that only God can forgive it (‘zam txim,’ see below).

Foreknow Predestine

Approved rendering: twb paub ua ntej lawm / twm chaw ua ntej lawm
Transliteration: yada (perfect, of foreordaining knowledge)
Doctrine: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People
Rejected alternatives: hmoov (fate) vocabulary — rejected, same collision risk as election_choose

Inherited from Romans package. Used at Jer 1:5 (‘before I formed you in the womb I knew you’), a direct parallel to Romans 8:29.

Power

Approved rendering: hwjchim
Transliteration: dynamis (NT bridge); Heb. contexts of Jer 32:17, 27
Doctrine: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People
Rejected alternatives: bare, unqualified hwjchim — FORBIDDEN, identical to a shaman’s (txiv neeb) ritual power

Inherited from Romans package. Always qualify as ‘Vajtswv hwjchim’; recurs at very high density across the oracles against the nations (chs. 46-51) — the qualifier must never be dropped for meter/brevity in oracle-poetry contexts.

Salvation Save

Approved rendering: kev cawm dim / cawm
Transliteration: sōtēria / sōzō (NT bridge); Heb. yasha contexts
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
Rejected alternatives: unanchored ‘dim’ (escape) parallel to shamanic ua neeb soul-rescue — rejected without explicit anchoring

Inherited from Romans package. In Jeremiah’s restoration-hope material this must be anchored to God’s specific covenant promise and initiative, never left to parallel shamanic soul-rescue ritual.

Living Sacrifice

Approved rendering: khoom fij uas muaj txoj sia nyob
Transliteration: thysia zōsa (NT contrast reference)
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry (contrast reference)

Inherited from Romans package. Cited in Jeremiah curriculum ONLY as a contrast reference to sharply distinguish Christian ethical devotion from the Topheth child-sacrifice atrocity (see ‘child_sacrifice_topheth’ below); never to be blended with it.

Servant Slave Doulos

Approved rendering: qhev
Transliteration: eved (literal chattel sense in Jer 34; contrast to Romans’ willing-bondservice metaphor)
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Rejected alternatives: koom tes (co-worker/partner) softening — rejected

Inherited from Romans package, reused here in its LITERAL chattel-bondage sense (Jer 34:8-22’s Sabbatical manumission law, reneged upon) — a valuable teaching contrast against Romans 1:1’s honored voluntary bondservice-to-Christ sense. Must not be dignified with the Romans willing-bondservice connotation when applied to literal slaves in Jer 34.

All Israel Will Be Saved

Approved rendering: tag nrho cov Yixalayees yuav dim
Transliteration: pas Israēl sōthēsetai (NT bridge)
Doctrine: The New Covenant (Future-of-Israel bridge)
Rejected alternatives: flattening to generic clan/lineage-continuity language — rejected

Inherited from Romans package. Cited as the direct forward bridge from Jer 31:31’s ‘house of Israel and house of Judah’ (see house_of_israel_and_judah below) to Romans 11:26’s climactic claim; both houses, historically split, are in view as one restored people.

False Prophet

Approved rendering: tus Cev Vajtswv Lus Cuav
Transliteration: hannevi’im … shaqer
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: dropping the ‘Cuav’ (false/counterfeit) qualifier — FORBIDDEN, erases the entire doctrinal contrast

New — Jeremiah package. The ‘Cuav’ qualifier is structurally non-negotiable, identical in enforcement discipline to the Romans TM’s ‘Vaj’ prefix rule for the Holy Spirit. Real-world referent is the Hmong shamanic diviner (txiv neeb).

Divination

Approved rendering: kev saib yaig / kev ua noaj
Transliteration: qesem
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: neutral/descriptive-only presentation without condemnation framing — rejected, would present divination as a legitimate alternative revelation channel

New — Jeremiah package. Names actual, currently-practiced Hmong shamanic-divinatory practice; must always carry explicit condemnation framing (Jer 27, 29), never presented neutrally.

False Peace Formula

Approved rendering: (ironic/negated use of) kev thaj yeeb — “muaj kev thaj yeeb, muaj kev thaj yeeb,” tiamsis tsis muaj kev thaj yeeb li
Transliteration: shalom shalom ve’en shalom
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: presenting the phrase without explicit surrounding negation — rejected, risks being heard as literal and undermining the stable positive ‘peace’ entry elsewhere

New — Jeremiah package (flagged ironic reuse of the inherited Low-risk ‘peace’ entry). Occurs at Jer 6:14, 8:11. Surrounding narration must make the irony unmistakable so hearers do not conclude ‘kev thaj yeeb’ itself is suspect elsewhere in Scripture.

Covenant Broken

Approved rendering: tsis ua raws li kev cog lus / muab kev cog lus tsis quav ntsej
Transliteration: heferu eth-berithi
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry; The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: framing as a minor lapse — rejected, must preserve the weight of serious legal-relational breach

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 11:1-13; 31:32; ch.34. Sets up the New Covenant’s God-sustained solution to Israel’s covenant-breaking.

I Was Their Husband

Approved rendering: kuv yog lawv tus Tswv/txiv
Transliteration: ve’anokhi ba’alti bam
Doctrine: The New Covenant; Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Rejected alternatives: reproducing the Hebrew ba’al/Baal wordplay by echoing the transliteration ‘Npa-as’ — FORBIDDEN, would associate YHWH’s covenant-headship with the condemned idol Baal

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 31:32. Rendered plainly using the established ‘tus Tswv’ (lord) or ‘tus txiv’ (husband), with a translator’s footnote explaining the underlying Hebrew wordplay rather than attempting to reproduce it.

Circumcise The Heart

Approved rendering: kev txiav lub siab
Transliteration: himmolu … orloth lebabkhem
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: a literal rite performed on the physical heart — rejected, must remain figurative

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 4:4. Must be explicitly taught as figurative (removal of moral stubbornness) and linked forward to Jer 31:33’s heart-transformation promise.

Deceitful Heart

Approved rendering: lub siab (uas dag ntxias tshaj plaws)
Transliteration: aqov ha-leb mikol
Doctrine: Individual Responsibility; The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: teaching Jer 17:9 in isolation, without forward reference — rejected, leaves hearers in unresolved anthropological despair

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 17:9. Must always be taught in tandem with Jer 31:33’s promise of divine heart-transformation; the two passages are a matched pair in this Language Package.

Remember Sin No More

Approved rendering: yuav tsis nco qab lawv tej kev txhaum ntxiv li lawm
Transliteration: zakar (chattatam lo ezkor-od)
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: implying divine memory failure — rejected, must be taught as a sovereign covenantal choice not to prosecute the sin again, not forgetfulness

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 31:34 (core passage). Requires a teaching note distinguishing covenantal non-remembrance (legal non-prosecution) from ordinary forgetfulness.

Individual Responsibility

Approved rendering: txhua tus yuav ris nws tus kheej lub txim
Transliteration: ish be’avono yamuth
Doctrine: Individual Responsibility
Rejected alternatives: denying any real corporate/intergenerational consequence of sin at all — rejected, overcorrects against Scripture’s own affirmation of corporate consequences (e.g., the corporate exile itself), assimilating back into fatalistic ancestral-debt logic — rejected, the doctrine is designed to correct this framework, not restate it

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 31:29-30, immediately preceding the core passage. Directly collides with strong Hmong clan-based corporate/intergenerational liability beliefs (ancestral curses, unresolved ritual debts); requires a dedicated two-sided contrast-teaching note every time it is taught, not a single passing gloss.

Spiritual Harlotry

Approved rendering: kev ua nkauj rau luag dab
Transliteration: zanah
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Rejected alternatives: dropping the ‘rau luag dab’ (toward another’s spirits) qualifier — rejected, would read as a private sexual-morality issue rather than covenant betrayal

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 2-3, 5, 13, 23. Must always be taught as a covenant-betrayal metaphor and kept distinct from the neutral noun ‘idol’ (dab mlom).

Child Sacrifice Topheth

Approved rendering: kev muab menyuam fij rau dab
Transliteration: leha’avir ba’esh
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Rejected alternatives: any assimilation into the positive sacrificial-offering vocabulary (living_sacrifice, propitiation_atoning_sacrifice) — FORBIDDEN, this is condemned atrocity, never a positive referent

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 7:31; 19:5; 32:35. Never appears without the ‘menyuam … rau dab’ object phrase; teaching content must explicitly state this is condemned, not merely differentiated in vocabulary.

Potter Clay

Approved rendering: tus Kws Puab Av thiab cov Av Nplaum
Transliteration: yatsar / chomer
Doctrine: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People
Rejected alternatives: flattening God’s sovereign freedom into impersonal fate (hmoov) — FORBIDDEN, compressing 18:1-10 into a bare ‘God shapes people like clay’ statement without the response-conditioned reversal — rejected, erases human responsibility

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 18:1-10. Directly underlies the Election/Sovereignty doctrine already Critical in Romans; Jer 18:7-10’s explicitly conditional language (the potter responds to the clay’s repentance/rebellion) must be preserved in every retelling.

Plans Of God

Approved rendering: Vajtswv tej Homphiaj
Transliteration: machshevoth (machshevoth shalom)
Doctrine: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People
Rejected alternatives: hmoov (fate/fortune) vocabulary — PERMANENTLY FORBIDDEN, extends the Romans election_choose prohibition

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 29:11, the signature verse for this doctrine. The single most tempting site in the book for hmoov substitution, since the English ‘plans for you’ idiom sounds naturally fortune-adjacent; must never be detached from its actual context (seventy years of exile before restoration) lest it drift toward prosperity-gospel framing.

Instrument Of Judgment Nebuchadnezzar

Approved rendering: tus uas Vajtswv siv ua cuab yeej [TRANSLATOR REVIEW NEEDED]
Transliteration: avdi Nevukhadretsar
Doctrine: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People
Rejected alternatives: bare ‘qhev’ (bondservant) reused from Romans — rejected, would wrongly dignify an unbelieving foreign king with the Romans baseline’s honored, willing-bondservice connotation

New — Jeremiah package, UNRESOLVED. Jer 25:9; 27:6, God calling pagan king Nebuchadnezzar His ‘servant.’ No candidate rendering has been ratified. Must not be resolved unilaterally by any Phase 2 generation process; escalate to human theologian + native speaker review before any content touches Jer 25 or 27 using this referent.

Medium Risk Terms

Circumcision

Approved rendering: kev txiav (raws li Txoj Kevcai Mauxes)
Transliteration: milah
Doctrine: The New Covenant (background)

Inherited from Romans package. Literal-rite background for the metaphorical ‘circumcise the heart’ entry (Jer 4:4), which is a separate, new entry below.

Vessel Of Mercy Wrath

Approved rendering: lub yias uas tau txais txiaj ntsim / kev npau taws
Transliteration: skeuos (NT bridge)
Doctrine: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People (contrast reference)

Inherited from Romans package. Cited as the NT parallel to Jeremiah’s potter/clay metaphor (ch.18) for cross-Testament teaching continuity.

Hardening

Approved rendering: lub siab tawv
Transliteration: pōrōsis (NT bridge)
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry (background)

Inherited from Romans package. Idiom-based (‘hardened liver/heart’); general background term for Jeremiah’s covenant-unfaithfulness material, chs. 2-11.

Redemption

Approved rendering: kev txhiv
Transliteration: ga’al / padah
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile

Inherited from Romans package. Strong positive continuity with Hmong debt-redemption custom; Jeremiah’s literal field-purchase kinsman-redemption narrative (ch.32) provides a vivid concrete illustration Romans lacks.

Will Of God

Approved rendering: Vajtswv lub siab nyiam
Transliteration: thelēma theou (NT bridge)
Doctrine: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People

Inherited from Romans package. Reinforces ‘Vajtswv tej Homphiaj’ (plans of God, Jer 29:11) as a parallel expression.

Conscience

Approved rendering: tej kev paub zoo paub phem hauv lub siab
Transliteration: syneidēsis (NT bridge)
Doctrine: Individual Responsibility

Inherited from Romans package. Part of the crowded ‘siab’ (heart/liver) semantic neighborhood; kept terminologically distinct from the New-Covenant heart-writing entry below.

Faith Believe

Approved rendering: kev ntseeg / ntseeg
Transliteration: pistis / pisteuō (NT bridge)
Doctrine: The New Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Must be taught as complementary to, but lexically distinct from, the new Jeremiah entry ‘know_the_lord’ (paub Vajtswv) below — the two should never be merged into one term.

Mercy

Approved rendering: txoj kev khuv leej
Transliteration: eleos (NT bridge); Heb. rachamim/chesed
Doctrine: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People
Rejected alternatives: txiaj ntsim (grace) used interchangeably for mercy — rejected, mercy and grace are theologically distinct emphases

Inherited from Romans package. Kept lexically distinct from txiaj ntsim (grace); relevant to Jeremiah’s restoration-hope material, where God’s mercy toward a covenant-breaking people is repeatedly in view (e.g., Jer 30-33).

Dream Vs Word

Approved rendering: npau suav
Transliteration: chalam
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy

New — Jeremiah package. Discernment-criterion term (Jer 23:28); comprehension-level only, no direct collision, but must be taught alongside ‘false_prophet’ as part of the same discernment framework.

Former Covenant

Approved rendering: Kev Cog Lus Qub
Transliteration: ha-berith asher karati
Doctrine: The New Covenant (contrastive)
Rejected alternatives: teaching it as discarded or worthless — rejected, its moral content is fulfilled/internalized, not nullified, by the New Covenant

New — Jeremiah package. Contrastive term only, used at Jer 31:32.

Cutting A Covenant Idiom

Approved rendering: kev cog lus uas kuv tau cog
Transliteration: karath berith / karati
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: a literal ‘cutting’ verb — rejected, would suggest unrelated violence with no ratification association in Hmong

New — Jeremiah package. Non-literal paraphrase of the Hebrew ratification idiom (rooted in a sacrificial rite, cf. Gen 15); the sacrificial-ratification background (anticipating Christ’s blood, Luke 22:20) is reserved for a teaching note, never a literal verb.

Trust Man Vs Trust Lord

Approved rendering: vam khom neeg / vam khom Vajtswv
Transliteration: batach
Doctrine: Individual Responsibility

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 17:5-8. Clear contrastive idiom reinforcing covenant-loyalty exclusivity.

Return Repent

Approved rendering: tig rov qab los cuag Vajtswv
Transliteration: shuv
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry; Hope of Restoration after Exile

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 3, 4, 15, 24, 31. Must be distinguished from the inherited Romans ‘renewal_of_the_mind’ entry (ongoing Spirit-wrought transformation) — this is a decisive turning/return act.

Certificate Of Divorce

Approved rendering: ntawv sib nrauj
Transliteration: sefer keritut
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 3:8. Comprehension gap (ANE legal custom differs from Hmong divorce practice), not a doctrinal collision.

Trust In Temple False Security

Approved rendering: vam khom lub Tuam Tsev
Transliteration: batchu lakhem al-divre hashaqer
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 7:4-8 (Temple Sermon). Comprehension-level warning against ritual/institutional false-security.

Weeping Lament

Approved rendering: kev quaj ntsuag
Transliteration: bakah / qinah
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry
Rejected alternatives: allowing collapse into funerary ancestor-soul-guidance ritual function — rejected without an explicit disambiguating teaching note

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 8, 9, 13, 14, 16, 20, 31. Positive cultural bridge to the Hmong sung-lament tradition (kwv txhiaj), but that same tradition is entangled with funerary soul-guidance ritual; requires a teaching note at EVERY occurrence, not only on first introduction.

Forbidden Mourning Sign Act

Approved rendering: txwv tsis pub quaj ntsuag raws li kevcai
Transliteration: lo tispod … lo tibkeh
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 16:5-7. Inverse use of ‘weeping_lament’; needs a teaching note explaining this exceptional sign-act.

Fire In My Bones

Approved rendering: zoo li muaj ib qho hluavtaws kub nyob hauv kuv pob txha
Transliteration: esh atsur be’atsmotai
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 20:9. Vivid image of the involuntary, Spirit-compelled nature of true prophetic ministry, contrasted with the self-generated speech of false prophets.

Conspiracy

Approved rendering: kev tuavtes ntxeev siab
Transliteration: qesher
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 11:18-23; 26; 37-38. Reinforces the persecution/cost theme.

Yoke

Approved rendering: tus quab
Transliteration: motah
Doctrine: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People; Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 27-28. Positive agricultural-cultural bridge; ties judgment to sovereign-plans doctrine.

Sovereignty Formula Build Plant Pluck Break

Approved rendering: rho tawm thiab rhuav tshem, ua kom puas tsuaj thiab ua kom vau, tsim thiab cog
Transliteration: linthosh ve-lintots, leha’avid ve-laharos, livnoth ve-lintoa
Doctrine: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People
Rejected alternatives: framing as impersonal cosmic fatalism — rejected, must be taught as sovereign historical action exercised through the prophetic word

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 1:10, establishes Jeremiah’s mandate over ‘nations and kingdoms.‘

Consecrated Set Apart Prophetic Office

Approved rendering: raug muab cais tseg ua tus Cev Vajtswv Lus
Transliteration: hiqdashtikha
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry; God’s Sovereign Plans for His People
Rejected alternatives: conflating with the inherited Romans ‘sanctification’ entry — rejected, that concerns ongoing moral transformation of all believers, not a one-time prophetic office-appointment

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 1:5.

Restore The Fortunes

Approved rendering: kev coj rov qab los / kev pub kom vam meej dua
Transliteration: shuv shevut
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
Rejected alternatives: hmoov (‘fortune’-adjacent) vocabulary — PERMANENTLY FORBIDDEN, extends the Romans election_choose/will_of_god prohibition

New — Jeremiah package. Recurring formula (Jer 30:3,18; 31:23; 32:44; 33:7,11,26); must be taught as a deliberate, sovereign, covenant-keeping act of God, and its RECURRENCE across the book should be taught explicitly so learners recognize it as a fixed refrain.

Rechabites

Approved rendering: cov Lekhaj
Transliteration: beth ha-Rekhavim
Doctrine: Individual Responsibility
Rejected alternatives: teaching as equivalent to covenant faith-obedience toward God — rejected, risks a subtle works/ancestor-honor-based misreading of faith doctrine

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 35. Genuine positive point of contact with Hmong clan-based ancestral-vow-keeping custom; must be taught strictly as an analogy for steadfastness, with the object of fidelity (God’s covenant vs. a clan patriarch’s rule) explicitly non-interchangeable.

Burden Oracle Pun Massa

Approved rendering: [TRANSLATOR REVIEW NEEDED: untranslatable Hebrew pun massa “burden/oracle”; footnote required, no fixed Hmong rendering]
Transliteration: massa
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: a forced Hmong coined pun — rejected, would fabricate an artificial wordplay not present in the source

New — Jeremiah package, PERMANENT DESIGN DECISION (not a pending gap to be closed later). Jer 23:33-40. Render contextually per clause as either ‘load/burden’ or ‘oracle,’ with a translator’s footnote explaining the wordplay exists in Hebrew but cannot be reproduced.

Covenant With Day And Night

Approved rendering: kev cog lus nrog hnub thiab hmo ntuj
Transliteration: berithi hayom u-berithi hallaylah
Doctrine: The New Covenant

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 33:20-26. Extends ‘covenant’ into a creation-order certainty-analogy for God’s covenant promises.

Release Liberty Of Slaves

Approved rendering: kev tso cov qhev kom dawb noj dawb nyob
Transliteration: derror
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 34:8-22 (Sabbatical/Jubilee manumission proclamation, proclaimed then reneged upon). Distinct from the literal bondage-state term ‘servant_slave_doulos’ above.

Low Risk Terms

God

Approved rendering: Vajtswv
Transliteration: Elohim / El
Doctrine: General / Cross-cutting
Rejected alternatives: Ntuj (impersonal sky/heaven) — rejected, lacks personal deity sense, dab (spirit) — rejected, denotes false/lesser spirit

Inherited from Romans package. Established compound (king+lord).

Lord

Approved rendering: tus Tswv
Transliteration: YHWH (rendered per existing Hmong Bible tradition, never transliterated as a divine name)
Doctrine: General / Cross-cutting
Rejected alternatives: transliterated divine name (“Yehauvas”, NWT-style) — PERMANENTLY FORBIDDEN, severs direct identification and echoes sectarian divine-name-substitution pattern

Inherited from Romans package. Renders the Tetragrammaton (YHWH) throughout Jeremiah exactly as it renders kyrios in Romans; stable, mandatory.

Scripture

Approved rendering: Vaj Lug Kub
Transliteration: —
Doctrine: General / Cross-cutting

Inherited from Romans package. Settled compound term already used throughout the existing Hmong Bible tradition.

Nations Gentiles

Approved rendering: lwm Haiv Neeg
Transliteration: goyim
Doctrine: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People

Inherited from Romans package. Used throughout chs.1, 25, 46-51 (oracles against the nations).

Jew

Approved rendering: cov Yudas
Transliteration: beth Yehudah
Doctrine: The New Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Used at Jer 31:31 alongside cov Yixalayees (see house_of_israel_and_judah below).

World

Approved rendering: lub ntiajteb
Transliteration: —
Doctrine: General / Cross-cutting

Inherited from Romans package. Used in the oracles-against-the-nations block, chs.25, 46-51.

Boasting

Approved rendering: kev khav theeb
Transliteration: kauchēsis (NT bridge)
Doctrine: Individual Responsibility

Inherited from Romans package. Used at Jer 9:23-24’s ‘let him who boasts, boast in this… that he knows me’ — direct thematic anticipation of 31:34’s ‘know the LORD.‘

Witness

Approved rendering: tus timkhawv
Transliteration: martys (NT bridge)
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy

Inherited from Romans package. Stable legal/testimonial term, applicable to the discernment/authentication vocabulary of the True-Prophecy doctrine.

Promise

Approved rendering: lus cog tseg
Transliteration: epangelia (NT bridge)
Doctrine: The New Covenant (contrast term)

Inherited from Romans package. Reserved for a general solemn pledge (e.g., Jer 29:10’s promise of return); must NEVER be used interchangeably with ‘kev cog lus’ (covenant, below), which carries full covenant-ratification weight.

Peace

Approved rendering: kev thaj yeeb
Transliteration: shalom
Doctrine: General / Cross-cutting; Hope of Restoration after Exile

Inherited from Romans package. Stable and positive in its normal usage (e.g., Jer 29:7’s ‘seek the welfare of the city’); see the separate flagged ‘false_peace_formula’ entry below for its High-risk IRONIC usage at Jer 6:14, 8:11, which must never be confused with this stable entry.

Creation

Approved rendering: tej uas raug tsim los
Transliteration: —
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry (background)

Inherited from Romans package. Background term for the Creator-vs-idols polemic of Jer 10.

Love

Approved rendering: kev hlub
Transliteration: agapē (NT bridge); Heb. ahavah/chesed contexts of Jer 31:3, 20
Doctrine: The New Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Reinforces the covenant-formula’s relational warmth ahead of Jer 31:31-34 (e.g., 31:3 ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love’; 31:20’s Ephraim as dear son).

Eternal Life

Approved rendering: txoj sia nyob mus ib txhis
Transliteration: zōē aiōnios (NT bridge)
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile (forward bridge)

Inherited from Romans package. Cited as the eschatological forward-bridge term for teaching Jeremiah’s restoration hope alongside its NT fulfillment.

Word Of The Lord

Approved rendering: Vajtswv Txoj Lus
Transliteration: devar-YHWH
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy; General

New — Jeremiah package. The formula introducing authoritative divine speech; must be kept distinct from Jeremiah’s own first-person lament speech throughout the book.

Oracle Formula Declares The Lord

Approved rendering: tus Tswv hais tias
Transliteration: ne’um YHWH
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy

New — Jeremiah package. Formal prophetic-oracle authentication formula occurring ~175x in Jeremiah; must be used consistently to mark direct divine speech, supporting the True-Prophecy doctrine’s authority claim.

Baal Deity Name

Approved rendering: Npa-as
Transliteration: Ba’al
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Rejected alternatives: echoing this transliteration in YHWH’s ‘husband’ self-description at Jer 31:32 — FORBIDDEN, see i_was_their_husband entry

New — Jeremiah package. Transliterated proper noun; Low risk as a name, but cross-referenced with the High-risk husband/ba’al wordplay caution above.

Good Figs Bad Figs

Approved rendering: cov txiv ncuav qoob zoo / cov txiv ncuav qoob phem
Transliteration: te’enim tovoth … ra’oth
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 24. Fig-fruit imagery, comprehension-level only; complicates a simplistic ‘exile = worst outcome’ reading.

Scroll Book

Approved rendering: phau ntawv
Transliteration: megillah / sepher
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 36. Illustrates that rejecting the written word of God does not nullify it — it is preserved and re-given. Baruch the scribe transliterated ‘Npalu.‘

Sabbath

Approved rendering: hnub Xanpataus
Transliteration: shabbat
Doctrine: The New Covenant (background)

New — Jeremiah package (standard existing Hmong Christian loanword). Jer 17:19-27.

Low-Medium Risk Terms

Remnant

Approved rendering: cov seem
Transliteration: she’ar
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile; Individual Responsibility

Inherited from Romans package. Teaching note required: Jeremiah’s post-judgment remnant that disobediently flees to Egypt (chs.42-44) must be distinguished from Romans 11’s remnant of God’s preserved elect — surviving judgment is not itself salvific.

Creator Of All Things

Approved rendering: tus Tsim Ib Puas Tsav Yam
Transliteration: oseh hakol
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 10:16. Stable descriptive title; strong cross-reference to Romans 1:20-25’s idolatry argument.

Captivity Exile

Approved rendering: kev raug ntes coj mus rau lwm tebchaws
Transliteration: galah, golah
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 24, 29, 39-44, 52. Descriptive historical-narrative term, comprehension-level only.

Sign Act General

Approved rendering: tej txheej txheem qhia txog yav tom ntej
Transliteration: (various: ezor, baqbuq, motah, etc.)
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy

New — Jeremiah package. Umbrella descriptive category for enacted prophecy (chs.13, 16, 19, 24, 27-28, 32); comprehension-gap only, since concrete objects are culturally unfamiliar but not doctrinally colliding.

House Of Israel And Judah

Approved rendering: cov Yixalayees thiab cov Yudas
Transliteration: beth Yisrael ve’eth beth Yehudah
Doctrine: The New Covenant

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 31:31 (core passage). Both houses, historically split, are in view as one restored people, paralleling Romans 11’s Future-of-Israel doctrine; bridges to the inherited ‘all_israel_will_be_saved’ entry.

Broken Flask Sign

Approved rendering: lub hwj dej tawg
Transliteration: baqbuq
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 19. Enacted sign of irreversible judgment; comprehension-gap only.

Medium-High Risk Terms

Wash Heart From Evil

Approved rendering: ntxuav lub siab kom tseg qhov phem
Transliteration: kabbesi mera’ah libbekh
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: implying a repeatable ritual washing — rejected, echoes the Romans TM’s baptism/sanctification ritual-cleansing cautions

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 4:14.

Cup Of Wrath

Approved rendering: lub khob cawv ntawm Vajtswv txoj kev npau taws
Transliteration: kos hachemah
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry

New — Jeremiah package, extends the inherited ‘wrath_of_god’ entry with cup-vessel imagery (Jer 25). Retains the same righteous/judicial (not capricious spirit-anger) caution.

Backsliding Apostasy

Approved rendering: kev tig rov qab tso Vajtswv tseg
Transliteration: meshubah
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry

New — Jeremiah package. Jer 2-3, 8. Risk is under-weighting habitual/repeated apostasy as a single lapse; must reinforce the repeated, habitual sense at each occurrence.

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