Core Glossary
Core Glossary — Colossians
Per-term glossary, citing terms from every chapter (1–4). Status column indicates whether the term is a REUSE of the Romans baseline (rendering fixed, not open for revision) or a NEW Colossians-specific term (rendering proposed here for theologian sign-off).
Reused Terms (from Romans baseline — cited exactly, not re-derived)
| Term | Hungarian | Risk | Doctrine | Colossians Locations | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gospel | evangélium | High | Gospel | 1:5, 1:23, 4:3 | Standard reuse. |
| grace | kegyelem | Critical | Grace | 1:2, 1:6, 3:16, 4:6, 4:18 | Standard reuse; 4:6 uses the more general “gracious speech” register — flag but do not treat as full soteriological occurrence. |
| faith | hit | High | Faith | 1:4, 1:23, 2:5, 2:7, 2:12 | Standard reuse. |
| holy | szent | Medium | Sanctification | 1:2, 1:22, 3:12 | Standard reuse. |
| saints | szentek | High | Sainthood | 1:2, 1:4, 1:12, 1:26 | Standard reuse; corporate all-believers sense as in Romans 1:7. |
| church | egyház | Medium | Church as God’s People | 1:18, 1:24, 4:15, 4:16 | Standard reuse; 4:15’s house-church sense needs a supplementary note (see 08 NEW terms below is not required — flag in 07 instead). |
| peace | béke | Medium | Peace with God | 1:2, 1:20, 3:15 | Standard reuse; 1:20 intensifies to cosmic scope. |
| sin | bűn | Medium | Universal Human Accountability | 1:14, 2:11, 2:13 | Standard reuse. |
| glory | dicsőség | Medium | Deity of Christ | 1:11, 1:27, 3:4 | Standard reuse. |
| election | kiválasztás | Critical | Effectual Calling | 3:12 (ἐκλεκτοί) | Standard reuse; full baseline caution set applies (Reformed/Catholic fault line). |
| resurrection | feltámadás | Critical | Resurrection of Christ | 2:12, 3:1 | Standard reuse; must preserve σύν- (“with him”) compound sense — see 07 analysis. |
| kingdom_of_god | Isten országa | Medium | Kingdom Mission | 1:13, 4:11 | Standard reuse; 1:13 personalizes as “the kingdom of his beloved Son.” |
| lord | Úr | Critical | Lordship of Christ | 1:3, 1:10, 3:17, 3:23-24, 4:1 | Standard reuse for the divine referent; must be distinguished by capitalization from human “úr/uraitok” in 3:22-4:1 — see NEW term “human master” below. |
| jesus | Jézus | Critical | Lordship of Christ | 1:1, 1:3, 3:17 | Standard reuse. |
| god | Isten | Critical | Deity of Christ | throughout | Standard reuse. |
| holy_spirit | Szentlélek | Critical | Sanctification | 1:8 | Standard reuse (single occurrence: “your love in the Spirit”). |
| father | Atya | Critical | Adoption into God’s Family | 1:2, 1:3, 1:12, 3:17 | Standard reuse. |
| apostle | apostol | Low | Apostleship | 1:1 | Standard reuse. |
| son_of_god | Isten Fia | Critical | Sonship of Christ | 1:13 (as “his beloved Son”) | Standard reuse; Colossians favors “the Son of his love” phrasing over the fixed title — teaching note should still connect to baseline Sonship doctrine. |
| incarnation | megtestesülés | Critical | Incarnation | 1:22 (“body of his flesh”), 2:9 (“bodily”) | Standard reuse; 2:9 is the letter’s strongest statement of this doctrine — see NEW “fullness of deity bodily” below. |
| covenant | szövetség | Critical | Davidic Covenant / Covenant | (implicit background to 2:11 circumcision) | Standard reuse as background category; no direct lexical occurrence of διαθήκη in Colossians. |
New Terms Introduced in Colossians (proposed renderings; theologian review required per risk tier)
| Term (Greek) | Hungarian | Risk | Doctrine | Locations | Alternatives Rejected | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| image (εἰκών) | képmás | High | Supremacy of Christ / Incarnation | 1:15, 3:10 | ”hasonlóság” (mere resemblance — too weak) | Christ as the visible image of the invisible God; same word must be used for believers renewed “after the image of the Creator” (3:10) to preserve the textual link. |
| firstborn (πρωτότοκος) | elsőszülött | Critical | Supremacy of Christ over Creation | 1:15, 1:18 | none formally rejected; mandatory clarifying note required at every occurrence | Rank/heirship sense, not createdness. Direct collision risk with Jehovah’s Witnesses’ (Jehova Tanúi) reading of this verse, a documented minority presence in Hungary. Requires theologian-authored note at every occurrence per the hard rule on grounded Critical-risk reasons. |
| creation (κτίσις) | teremtés | Low | Supremacy of Christ over Creation | 1:15, 1:16, 1:23 | none | Standard. |
| cosmic powers (θρόνοι, κυριότητες, ἀρχαί, ἐξουσίαι) | trónok, uralmak, fejedelemségek, hatalmasságok | High | Supremacy of Christ over Creation | 1:16, 2:10, 2:15 | rendering as merely “angyalok” (angels) throughout — too narrow, collapses a fourfold technical list | Risk of validating independent interest in a populated spirit-world (Hungarian esoteric/occult subculture) rather than reading the list as already subordinated to Christ. |
| head (κεφαλή) | fej | Critical | Christ as Head of the Church | 1:18, 2:10, 2:19 | none | Christological only in Colossians (unlike Ephesians’ marital application); teaching material must not import Ephesians 5’s husband-as-head argument into a Colossians lesson without flagging the source difference. |
| body [corporate] (σῶμα) | test | Medium | Christ as Head of the Church | 1:18, 1:24, 2:19, 3:15 | none | Corporate-organic sense; contrast with entry below for the “substance” sense at 2:17. |
| body [substance/reality] (σῶμα, contrastive) | valóság / lényeg | High | Warning against False Teaching | 2:17 | ”test” (body) — rejected as nonsensical in this specific contrastive construction (“árnyék…test”) | Same Greek lexeme, distinct sense; mandatory context-flag to prevent mechanical mistranslation. |
| fullness (πλήρωμα) | teljesség | Critical | Fullness of Deity in Christ Bodily | 1:19, 2:9-10 | any rendering implying a distributed, hierarchical set of divine emanations (Gnostic pleroma) | The letter’s central anti-heresy term. Must be taught as total, undivided fullness located in Christ alone, opposite the Colossian heresy’s apparent emanation-hierarchy. Flag every occurrence for theologian review. |
| deity/divine nature (θεότης) | istenség | Critical | Fullness of Deity in Christ Bodily | 2:9 | conflating with “Isten” (God, the person) — rejected because Hungarian distinguishes personal “Isten” from abstract “istenség” and this distinction should be preserved | Paired with σωματικῶς (“bodily”) for the letter’s strongest anti-docetic statement; must retain full physical concreteness. |
| reconciliation (καταλλάσσω / ἀποκαταλλάσσω) | megbékít / megbékéltet | Critical | Reconciliation through the Cross | 1:20, 1:21-22 | kiengesztel/kiengesztelés — explicitly rejected due to collision with the Catholic Sacrament of Reconciliation (“a kiengesztelődés szentsége”) | Once-for-all, cosmic-scope, cross-accomplished reconciliation; must not be assimilated to an ongoing sacramental process. Flag every occurrence for theologian review. |
| making peace (εἰρηνοποιέω) | békét szerez / békét teremt | High | Reconciliation through the Cross | 1:20 | none | Active accomplishment, not passive existing peace; root shared with baseline “béke.” |
| blood (αἷμα) | vér | Critical | Reconciliation through the Cross | 1:20 | abstraction to “halál” (death) alone — rejected as losing sacrificial-cultic resonance | Parallels baseline atonement/blood sensitivity from Romans 3:25. |
| cross (σταυρός) | kereszt | Medium | Reconciliation through the Cross | 1:20, 2:14 | none | Standard across traditions; devotional-practice differences (crucifix vs. empty cross) are not translation risks for the word itself. |
| mystery (μυστήριον) | titok | High | Warning against False Teaching / Union with Christ | 1:26-27, 2:2, 4:3 | none formally rejected; mandatory contrastive note required | Biblical “mystery” = now-disclosed plan, opposite valence from esoteric “secret knowledge”; relevant given Hungary’s esoteric subculture. |
| knowledge (ἐπίγνωσις / γνῶσις) | ismeret / megismerés | High | Warning against False Teaching | 1:9-10, 2:2-3, 3:10 | ”gnózis” (loanword) — explicitly rejected due to direct association with historic Gnosticism and contemporary esoteric “gnosis” spirituality | Paul affirms universally available knowledge in Christ against any elitist/esoteric counter-claim. |
| philosophy and empty deceit (φιλοσοφία καὶ κενὴ ἀπάτη) | filozófia és hiábavaló csalás | High | Warning against False Teaching | 2:8 | blanket “filozófia” alone without qualifier — rejected as anti-intellectualist overreach | Targets a specific syncretistic system, not reasoned inquiry generally. |
| human tradition (παράδοσις τῶν ἀνθρώπων) | emberi hagyomány | Critical | Warning against False Teaching | 2:8 | rendering or glossing that implies condemnation of church tradition as such — explicitly rejected | Direct collision risk with Catholic Szent Hagyomány (Sacred Tradition) as a jointly authoritative category; mandatory distinguishing note at every occurrence. |
| elemental spirits/principles (στοιχεῖα τοῦ κόσμου) | a világ elemei/erői | High | Warning against False Teaching and Syncretism | 2:8, 2:20 | resolving the ambiguity definitively toward either “physical elements” or “spirits” — rejected; ambiguity must be preserved with a gloss | Live syncretism risk given Hungarian folk-magic/esoteric subculture. |
| certificate of debt (χειρόγραφον τοῖς δόγμασιν) | adóslevél | High | Reconciliation through the Cross | 2:14 | overly literal “kézirat” (handwriting) alone — rejected as losing the legal-financial metaphor | Cancelled debt-document metaphor for forgiveness. |
| disarming/triumph over powers (ἀπεκδυσάμενος … θριαμβεύσας) | lefegyverezve … nyilvános diadalmenetben megszégyenítve | High | Reconciliation through the Cross / Supremacy of Christ | 2:15 | none; recommend explanatory gloss on Roman triumph custom in teaching material only | No direct Hungarian cultural equivalent to the Roman military triumph image. |
| worship of angels (θρησκεία τῶν ἀγγέλων) | angyalok tisztelete/imádása | Critical | Warning against False Teaching and Syncretism | 2:18 | rendering that would implicate ordinary Catholic angel devotion — explicitly guarded against via mandatory note | Distinguish condemned cultic angel-worship from mainstream Catholic angelology/devotion (guardian angels, Szent Mihály). |
| (false) humility / self-abasement (ταπεινοφροσύνη, negative sense) | alázatosság / önmegtagadás | High | Warning against False Teaching and Syncretism | 2:18, 2:23 | none; dual-valence context flag required against the positive sense below | Must be distinguished in teaching notes from the positive sense at 3:12. |
| humility (ταπεινοφροσύνη, positive sense) | alázatosság | Medium | Putting Off the Old Self and Putting On the New | 3:12 | none | Positive virtue; same Hungarian word as the negative sense above — context flag required. |
| self-made religion (ἐθελοθρησκία) | önkényes vallásosság | High | Warning against False Teaching and Syncretism | 2:23 | generic “vallásosság” alone — rejected as losing the self-devised/self-willed nuance | Rare Pauline coinage; no fixed Hungarian equivalent. |
| severity to the body (ἀφειδία σώματος) | a test sanyargatása | Critical | Warning against False Teaching and Syncretism | 2:23 | any gloss implying blanket condemnation of Catholic fasting/mortification practice — explicitly guarded against | Targets this system’s asceticism as spiritually valueless against the flesh, not bodily discipline as such. |
| old self / new self (παλαιὸς ἄνθρωπος / νέος ἄνθρωπος) | óember / újember | Critical | Putting Off the Old Self and Putting On the New | 3:9-10 | individualistic “régi/új énem” (my old/new self, psychologized) — rejected as losing the corporate, new-creation, union-with-Christ grounding | Established Károli-tradition rendering; must be taught as accomplished new-creation identity, not gradual self-improvement. |
| redemption (ἀπολύτρωσις) | megváltás | High | Reconciliation through the Cross | 1:14 | none | Standard across Hungarian tradition; keep exclusively theological register, distinct from civil/commercial usage. |
| forgiveness of sins (ἄφεσις τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν) | bűnök bocsánata | Medium | Reconciliation through the Cross | 1:14 | none | Standard. |
| hope (ἐλπίς) | reménység / remény | Medium | Union with Christ | 1:5, 1:23, 1:27 | colloquial “talán” (maybe)-adjacent weak sense — rejected | Must convey assured expectation, not wishful uncertainty. |
| inheritance (κληρονομία / κλῆρος) | örökség | Medium | Household Codes / Union with Christ | 1:12, 3:24 | none | Ties Ch.1’s “inheritance of the saints” to Ch.3’s household “reward of inheritance.” |
| idolatry (εἰδωλολατρία) | bálványimádás | High | Warning against False Teaching and Syncretism | 3:5 | none | Identifies covetousness/greed as a form of idol-worship; contemporary consumerism application worth surfacing pastorally. |
| household submission (ὑποτάσσω, wives) | alárendeli magát / engedjétek alá magatokat | Critical | Household Codes | 3:18 | reading implying inferior worth or intellect — explicitly guarded against via mandatory note | Voluntary, ordered relational posture, immediately constrained by the paired command to husbands; note the absence of κεφαλή (“head”) language here (contrast Ephesians 5). |
| household love (ἀγαπάω, husbands) | szeressétek | High | Household Codes | 3:19 | none | Self-giving love constraining the authority implied by the wives’ instruction. |
| slave (δοῦλος, household-code sense) | rabszolga | Critical | Household Codes | 3:22, 4:1 | ”szolga” (servant/employee) — explicitly rejected as historically euphemistic, obscuring literal Greco-Roman chattel slavery | Mandatory teaching note against any extension to justify contemporary labor exploitation or trafficking. |
| human master (κύριος, household-code sense) | úr / uraitok / uruk (lowercase) | Critical | Household Codes | 3:22-24, 4:1 | capitalized “Úr” for the human referent — explicitly rejected; would confuse the human master with the divine Lord | Same Greek word as the divine title within one paragraph; Hungarian capitalization is the sole disambiguation tool and must be applied consistently and correctly at each occurrence. |
| justice and fairness (τὰ δίκαια καὶ ἡ ἰσότης) | igazságosság és méltányosság | High | Household Codes | 4:1 | none | Ethical constraint on masters; evidence against reading the code as unqualified endorsement of the master’s prerogative. |
| union “with him” compounds (σύν- prefix: συνταφέντες, συνηγέρθητε, συνεζωοποίησεν, ζωὴ κέκρυπται σὺν) | …vele együtt… | Critical | Union with Christ (Died and Raised With Him) | 2:12-13, 3:1, 3:3 | dropping the “-val/-vel együtt” (together with) compound in any occurrence — explicitly rejected as it collapses the specific union doctrine into generic resurrection-faith language | Must be rendered consistently across every occurrence in Ch. 2-3; this is the letter’s lexical signature for the Union with Christ doctrine. |
| filling up Christ’s afflictions (ἀνταναπληρῶ τὰ ὑστερήματα τῶν θλίψεων τοῦ Χριστοῦ) | kitöltöm, ami híja van a Krisztus szenvedéseinek | Critical | Supremacy and Sufficiency of Christ | 1:24 | any gloss implying supplementation of Christ’s atoning sufficiency — explicitly rejected | Refers to Paul’s apostolic/missionary suffering for the church, not a completion of the finished atonement already declared complete at 1:20. Direct collision risk with Catholic redemptive-suffering piety; flag for mandatory theologian review. |
| house church (ἐκκλησία κατ᾽ οἶκον) | házi gyülekezet / a házánál levő egyház | Medium | Church as God’s People | 4:15 | none | First-century home-based assembly sense, distinct from later Catholic parish-centered or Reformed congregational-polity institutional models. |
| fellow slave / fellow worker / fellow prisoner (σύνδουλος / συνεργός / συναιχμάλωτος) | szolgatárs / munkatárs / fogolytárs | Low | Christ-Centered Ministry | 4:7, 4:10-11 | none | Standard ministry-team vocabulary. |
Risk Summary (Colossians-specific additions)
| Risk Tier | Count of New Terms | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 13 | Human theologian (mandatory, every occurrence) |
| High | 15 | Human theologian |
| Medium | 8 | Native speaker review |
| Low | 2 | Automated review |
Note: This glossary must be merged into a future translation_memory.json version increment before Phase 2 segment translation begins on Colossians, per the Translation Memory Load and Enforcement Instructions in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md. All Critical and High risk new terms require theologian sign-off before being written into that file as enforceable entries.
Critical Risk Terms
Grace
Approved rendering: kegyelem
Transliteration: charis
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: kegyelem mint érdemek által gyarapítható, szentségek közvetítette adomány (tridenti értelmezés)
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
CRITICAL: the Reformed doctrine of irresistible, monergistic grace and the Catholic doctrine of infused, merit-cooperated grace remain live, entrenched positions in Hungary. Inherited from Romans package. Colossians occurrences: 1:2, 1:6, 3:16, 4:6, 4:18 — flag 4:6 (‘gracious speech’) as the general conversational register, not the full soteriological doctrine; do not over-theologize the idiom.
Election
Approved rendering: kiválasztás
Transliteration: eklogē / eklektoi
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: kiválasztás, mely emberi együttműködés nélkül értelmezhetetlen (szinergista olvasat kényszerítése), kiválasztás mint szabad akarat nélküli, vak végzet (fatalista félreolvasás)
Original: ἐκλεκτοί
Category: Salvation
CRITICAL: the sharpest internal Hungarian Reformed/Catholic doctrinal fault line. Inherited from Romans package. Colossians 3:12 (‘Isten kiválasztottjai, szentek és szeretettek’) reapplies this term as ethical motivation in a virtue-list context, not soteriological argument — must not be over-systematized in either direction; do not import the full Romans 9-11 apparatus.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: feltámadás
Transliteration: anastasis
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Original: ἀνάστασις / συνηγέρθητε
Category: Eschatology
Bodily, historical, once-for-all resurrection. Inherited from Romans package. CRITICAL EXTENSION for Colossians: the σύν- (‘with him’) compound prefix at 2:12 and 3:1 must be rendered explicitly (‘…vele együtt feltámadva/feltámadtatok’) — see union_with_him. Dropping the compound collapses the letter’s specific union doctrine into this generic resurrection sense.
Lord
Approved rendering: Úr
Transliteration: kyrios
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Exclusive, supreme lordship. Inherited from Romans package. CRITICAL EXTENSION for Colossians: 3:22-4:1 uses the identical Greek κύριος for a human household master; capitalized ‘Úr’ is reserved exclusively for the divine referent — see human_master for the mandatory disambiguation rule.
Jesus
Approved rendering: Jézus
Transliteration: Iēsous
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Standard across all Hungarian Bible traditions. Inherited from Romans package. Colossians occurrences: 1:1, 1:3, 3:17.
God
Approved rendering: Isten
Transliteration: theos
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: θεός
Category: God
Standard and unambiguous. Inherited from Romans package. Must be kept lexically distinct from the abstract ‘istenség’ (θεότης) introduced at 2:9 — see deity_divine_nature.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: Szentlélek
Transliteration: pneuma hagion
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: πνεῦμα
Category: God
Standard, personal third Person of the Trinity. Inherited from Romans package. Single occurrence in Colossians: 1:8 (‘your love in the Spirit’).
Father
Approved rendering: Atya
Transliteration: patēr
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
God as personal Father. Inherited from Romans package. Colossians occurrences: 1:2, 1:3, 1:12, 3:17.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: Isten Fia
Transliteration: huios theou
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Isten fia általános értelemben, minden hívőre alkalmazva
Original: ὁ υἱὸς τῆς ἀγάπης αὐτοῦ
Category: Christology
Unique, eternal, divine Sonship. Inherited from Romans package. Colossians favors ‘az ő szeretett Fia’ (the Son of his love, 1:13) over this fixed title; teaching material must explicitly connect the two phrasings so readers do not perceive a lesser or different category of sonship.
Incarnation
Approved rendering: megtestesülés
Transliteration: ho logos sarx egeneto
Doctrine: Incarnation
Original: σῶμα τῆς σαρκὸς αὐτοῦ / σωματικῶς
Category: Christology
The eternal Son permanently assuming human nature. Inherited from Romans package. Colossians 2:9’s ‘πλήρωμα τῆς θεότητος … σωματικῶς’ is the letter’s strongest statement of this doctrine — σωματικῶς (‘testileg’) must never be softened toward a merely symbolic or spiritual indwelling.
Covenant
Approved rendering: szövetség
Transliteration: diathēkē
Doctrine: Covenant
Rejected alternatives: szövetség kizárólag jogi vagy politikai szerződésként
Original: (implicit background to περιτομή, 2:11)
Category: Covenant
A relational covenant bond. Inherited from Romans package. No direct lexical occurrence of διαθήκη in Colossians; retained as background category to 2:11’s circumcision language — see circumcision.
Firstborn
Approved rendering: elsőszülött
Transliteration: prōtotokos
Doctrine: Supremacy of Christ over Creation
Rejected alternatives: az elsőként teremtett lény értelmezése (Jehova Tanúi olvasat) — kifejezetten elutasítva
Original: πρωτότοκος
Category: Christology
Rank/heirship sense (per Ps 89:27 LXX), not birth order or createdness. CRITICAL: Jehovah’s Witnesses (Jehova Tanúi), a documented minority religious presence in Hungary, cite Col 1:15 to argue Christ is a created being, ‘God’s first creation.’ Mandatory clarifying note required at every occurrence (1:15, 1:18), anchored in 1:16’s ὅτι-clause that Christ himself is Creator, not a creature. Flag for mandatory theologian review.
All Things
Approved rendering: minden
Transliteration: ta panta
Doctrine: Supremacy of Christ over Creation
Rejected alternatives: ‘minden más’ (all other things) — the Hungarian New World Translation’s (Jehovah’s Witnesses) documented interpolation at Col 1:16-17, inserting a qualifier absent from the Greek πάντα; EXPLICITLY AND PERMANENTLY FORBIDDEN
Must render the Greek’s unqualified πάντα as ‘minden’ without any qualifier at 1:16-17. This is the single most consequential heterodox rendering choice documented in the Hungarian translation landscape for this passage. Any segment containing this construction must be flagged Critical and routed to human theologian review.
Creation Prepositions
Approved rendering: benne / általa / rá nézve (őérte)
Transliteration: en autō / dia autou / eis auton
Doctrine: Supremacy of Christ over Creation
Rejected alternatives: collapsing all three prepositions into a single preposition — weakens the deity claim of Christ as creation’s sphere, agent, and goal
Colossians 1:16 uses three distinct prepositions marking Christ as the sphere, agent, and goal of creation — a threefold claim of full deity, not redundant repetition. Preserve all three distinctly.
Before All Things
Approved rendering: mindenek előtt van
Transliteration: pro pantōn
Doctrine: Supremacy of Christ over Creation
Rejected alternatives: ‘legfontosabb’ (most important) — flattens to mere honorific rank, losing the pre-existence claim
1:17 preserves both temporal pre-existence and rank-supremacy senses simultaneously; essential to the letter’s full-deity argument.
Head
Approved rendering: fej
Transliteration: kephalē
Doctrine: Christ as Head of the Church
Original: κεφαλή
Category: Church
1:18, 2:10, 2:19. Exclusively Christological in Colossians (unlike Ephesians 5’s marital application). Teaching material must not import the husband-as-head argument into a Colossians lesson without flagging the source difference. Hungarian ‘fej’ also carries a live idiomatic extension into household authority (‘családfő’), a translation-adjacent risk requiring the same scope note.
Fullness
Approved rendering: teljesség
Transliteration: plērōma
Doctrine: Fullness of Deity in Christ Bodily
Rejected alternatives: any rendering implying a distributed, hierarchical set of divine emanations (Gnostic pleroma), ‘pléróma’ transliterated loanword — rejected as sounding more technical/Gnostic-adjacent to a Hungarian reader than the plain native word
Original: πλήρωμα
Category: Fullness of Deity in Christ Bodily
1:19, 2:9-10. The single highest-stakes term in the letter. Must be taught as total, undivided fullness located in Christ alone, opposite the Colossian heresy’s apparent chain-of-emanations cosmology. ‘Teljesség’ is a common, low-register, secular Hungarian word with zero inherent theological markedness — a mandatory theologian-authored explanatory note is required at every occurrence, not merely a glossary entry.
Deity Divine Nature
Approved rendering: istenség
Transliteration: theotēs
Doctrine: Fullness of Deity in Christ Bodily
Rejected alternatives: conflating with ‘Isten’ (God, the person) — Hungarian distinguishes personal ‘Isten’ from abstract ‘istenség’ and this distinction must be preserved, mirroring the Greek’s own θεός/θεότης distinction
Original: θεότης
Category: Fullness of Deity in Christ Bodily
2:9 only. Paired with σωματικῶς (‘bodily,’ ‘testileg’) for the letter’s strongest anti-docetic statement. Flag for mandatory theologian review.
Reconciliation
Approved rendering: megbékít / megbékéltet
Transliteration: apokatallaxai / apokatēllaxen
Doctrine: Reconciliation through the Cross
Rejected alternatives: kiengesztel/kiengesztelés — EXPLICITLY REJECTED due to collision with the Catholic Sacrament of Reconciliation (‘a kiengesztelődés szentsége’); this root is also the choice made in SZIT and must not be echoed
Original: ἀποκαταλλάξαι / ἀποκατήλλαξεν
Category: Reconciliation through the Cross
1:20, 1:21-22. Once-for-all, cosmic-scope, cross-accomplished reconciliation; must not be assimilated to an ongoing sacramental process. Flag every occurrence for mandatory theologian review.
Blood
Approved rendering: vér
Transliteration: haima
Doctrine: Reconciliation through the Cross
Rejected alternatives: abstraction to ‘halál’ (death) alone — rejected as losing sacrificial-cultic resonance
Original: αἷμα
Category: Reconciliation through the Cross
1:20. Parallels the baseline’s Romans 3:25 atonement/blood sensitivity; grounds reconciliation in a real, historical, bodily death.
Human Tradition
Approved rendering: emberi hagyomány
Transliteration: paradosis tōn anthrōpōn
Doctrine: Warning against False Teaching and Syncretism
Rejected alternatives: any rendering or gloss implying condemnation of church tradition as such — EXPLICITLY REJECTED
Original: παράδοσις τῶν ἀνθρώπων
Category: Warning Against False Teaching
2:8. CRITICAL collision: Catholic doctrine holds Szent Hagyomány (Sacred Tradition) as jointly authoritative alongside Scripture. Mandatory distinguishing note at every occurrence stating Paul condemns a specific man-made deceptive system, not ecclesial tradition as a category. Flag for mandatory theologian review.
Worship Of Angels
Approved rendering: angyalok tisztelete/imádása
Transliteration: thrēskeia tōn angelōn
Doctrine: Warning against False Teaching and Syncretism
Rejected alternatives: any rendering or gloss that would implicate ordinary Catholic angel devotion — EXPLICITLY GUARDED AGAINST
Original: θρησκεία τῶν ἀγγέλων
Category: Warning Against False Teaching
2:18. CRITICAL collision: Hungarian Catholic popular piety includes accepted devotion to angels (guardian angels, ‘őrangyal,’ Szent Mihály). Mandatory teaching note distinguishing condemned cultic angel-worship from mainstream Catholic angelology. Flag for mandatory theologian review.
Severity To Body
Approved rendering: a test sanyargatása
Transliteration: apheidia sōmatos
Doctrine: Warning against False Teaching and Syncretism
Rejected alternatives: any gloss implying blanket condemnation of Catholic fasting/mortification practice — EXPLICITLY GUARDED AGAINST
Original: ἀφειδία σώματος
Category: Warning Against False Teaching
2:23. CRITICAL collision with Catholic ascetic devotional practice (‘önsanyargatás’). Mandatory teaching note preventing over-generalization; not a blanket condemnation of fasting (cf. Matthew 6:16-18). Flag for mandatory theologian review.
Union With Him
Approved rendering: …vele együtt…
Transliteration: syn- compounds: syntaphentes, synēgerthēte, synezōopoiēsen, kekryptai syn
Doctrine: Union with Christ
Rejected alternatives: dropping the ‘-val/-vel együtt’ (together with) compound in any occurrence — EXPLICITLY REJECTED as it collapses the specific union doctrine into generic resurrection-faith language, ‘hasonlóan hozzá’ (similarly to him) — rejected as weakening identification to mere resemblance
Original: σύν- compounds (συνταφέντες, συνηγέρθητε, συνεζωοποίησεν, κέκρυπται σὺν)
Category: Union with Christ
2:12-13, 3:1, 3:3. Must be rendered consistently across every occurrence; this is the letter’s lexical signature for the Union with Christ doctrine. Hungarian expresses the Greek σύν- prefix analytically, never as a fused compound verb, creating real risk of silent omission during segment-by-segment translation.
Old Self New Self
Approved rendering: óember / újember
Transliteration: palaios anthrōpos / neos anthrōpos
Doctrine: Putting Off the Old Self and Putting On the New
Rejected alternatives: individualistic ‘régi/új énem’ (my old/new self, psychologized) — rejected as losing the corporate, new-creation, union-with-Christ grounding
Original: παλαιὸς ἄνθρωπος / νέος ἄνθρωπος
Category: Putting Off the Old Self and Putting On the New
3:9-10. Established Károli-tradition rendering. Must be taught as accomplished new-creation identity, not gradual self-improvement; the indicative-imperative structure must be preserved in teaching material.
Household Submission
Approved rendering: engedjétek alá magatokat
Transliteration: hypotassesthe
Doctrine: Household Codes
Rejected alternatives: any reading implying inferior worth or intellect — EXPLICITLY GUARDED AGAINST
Original: ὑποτάσσεσθε
Category: Household Codes
3:18. Voluntary, ordered relational posture, immediately constrained by the paired command to husbands (household_love); note the absence of κεφαλή (‘head’) language here, unlike Ephesians 5. Flag for mandatory theologian review.
Slave
Approved rendering: rabszolga
Transliteration: doulos
Doctrine: Household Codes
Rejected alternatives: ‘szolga’ (servant/employee) — EXPLICITLY REJECTED as historically euphemistic, obscuring literal Greco-Roman chattel slavery; matches KG’s and EFO’s softened rendering, which must NOT be echoed
Original: δοῦλος
Category: Household Codes
3:22, 4:1. Mandatory teaching note against any extension to justify contemporary labor exploitation or trafficking. RÚF 2014 and SZIT’s ‘rabszolgák’ matches this fixed choice. Flag for mandatory theologian review.
Human Master
Approved rendering: úr / uraitok / uruk
Transliteration: kyrios (human referent)
Doctrine: Household Codes
Rejected alternatives: capitalized ‘Úr’ for the human referent — EXPLICITLY REJECTED; would confuse the human master with the divine Lord
Original: κύριος (human referent)
Category: Household Codes
3:22-24, 4:1. Same Greek word as the divine title within one paragraph; Hungarian capitalization (Úr/úr) is the sole disambiguation tool. 4:1’s ‘ὁ κύριος ἐν οὐρανῷ’ is capitalized, referring to Christ. Requires a dedicated production-QA checkpoint at every occurrence. Flag for mandatory theologian review.
Filling Up Afflictions
Approved rendering: kitöltöm, ami híja van a Krisztus szenvedéseinek
Transliteration: antanaplērō ta hysterēmata tōn thlipseōn tou Christou
Doctrine: Apostolic Suffering and the Sufficiency of the Cross
Rejected alternatives: any gloss implying supplementation of Christ’s atoning sufficiency — EXPLICITLY REJECTED
Original: ἀνταναπληρῶ τὰ ὑστερήματα τῶν θλίψεων τοῦ Χριστοῦ
Category: Supremacy and Sufficiency of Christ
1:24. Refers to Paul’s own apostolic, missionary suffering for the church, not a completion of the finished atonement already declared complete at 1:20 of the same chapter. CRITICAL collision with Catholic redemptive-suffering piety (‘megváltó szenvedés’), historically tied to indulgences and purgatory. Flag for mandatory theologian review at every occurrence.
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: evangélium
Transliteration: euangelion
Doctrine: Gospel
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Gospel
Standard term shared by Catholic and Reformed Hungarian Bibles alike; the specific proclamation of salvation through Christ crucified and risen. Inherited from Romans package. Colossians occurrences: 1:5, 1:23, 4:3; the gospel’s cosmic scope is expanded by the surrounding Christ-hymn (1:15-20) and must not be reduced to individual comfort alone.
Faith
Approved rendering: hit
Transliteration: pistis
Doctrine: Faith
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Personal trust in Christ. Inherited from Romans package. Colossians ties faith repeatedly to ‘in Christ’ (1:4, 2:5, 2:7) and directly to union with Christ in baptism at 2:12.
Saints
Approved rendering: szentek
Transliteration: hagioi
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: szentek mint kizárólagosan kanonizált, közbenjárásra kért személyek (katolikus olvasat)
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
Corporate designation for all believers, not an ascetic/canonized elite. Inherited from Romans package. Recurs at 1:2, 1:4, 1:12, 1:26, 3:12 — each occurrence requires the corporate all-believers clarifying note given the Catholic-veneration/Reformed-rejection asymmetry.
Image
Approved rendering: képmás
Transliteration: eikōn
Doctrine: Supremacy of Christ over Creation
Rejected alternatives: hasonlóság (mere resemblance — too weak)
Original: εἰκών
Category: Christology
Christ as the visible image of the invisible God (1:15); the same Hungarian word must be used for believers renewed ‘after the image of the Creator’ (3:10) to preserve the textual link to Genesis 1:26-27’s imago Dei theme, already familiar to Hungarian readers.
Sustains All Things
Approved rendering: általa áll fenn minden / benne áll össze minden
Transliteration: synestēken
Doctrine: Supremacy of Christ over Creation
Rejected alternatives: collapsing into generic ‘gondviselés’ (providence) language in a way that merges Christ’s unique sustaining role with impersonal divine providence
Colossians 1:17 locates the Romans baseline’s general doctrine of divine providence (gondviselés) specifically and exclusively in the Person of Christ; connect but do not collapse the two in teaching material.
Cosmic Powers
Approved rendering: trónok, uralmak, fejedelemségek, hatalmasságok
Transliteration: thronoi, kyriotētes, archai, exousiai
Doctrine: Supremacy of Christ over Creation
Rejected alternatives: rendering as merely ‘angyalok’ (angels) throughout — too narrow, collapses a fourfold technical list
Original: θρόνοι, κυριότητες, ἀρχαί, ἐξουσίαι
Category: Christology
1:16, 2:10, 2:15. Risk of validating independent interest in a populated spirit-world (Hungary’s documented esoteric/occult subculture, ‘ezoterika’) rather than reading the list as already subordinated to and disarmed by Christ (2:15).
Body Substance
Approved rendering: valóság / lényeg
Transliteration: sōma (contrastive)
Doctrine: Warning against False Teaching and Syncretism
Rejected alternatives: ‘test’ (body) — rejected as nonsensical in this specific contrastive construction (‘árnyék…test’)
Original: σῶμα (contrastive with σκιά)
Category: Warning Against False Teaching
2:17 only. Same Greek lexeme as body_corporate but the opposite grammatical role (contrasted with σκιά, ‘shadow’ — old covenant regulations were a shadow anticipating Christ, the reality). Mandatory context-flag to prevent mechanical mistranslation.
Making Peace
Approved rendering: békét szerez / békét teremt
Transliteration: eirēnopoiēsas
Doctrine: Reconciliation through the Cross
Original: εἰρηνοποιήσας
Category: Reconciliation through the Cross
1:20. Active accomplishment, not passive existence, of peace; built on the established baseline ‘béke’ root.
Certificate Of Debt
Approved rendering: adóslevél
Transliteration: cheirographon tois dogmasin
Doctrine: Reconciliation through the Cross
Rejected alternatives: overly literal ‘kézirat’ (handwriting) alone — loses the legal-financial cancelled-debt metaphor
Original: χειρόγραφον τοῖς δόγμασιν
Category: Reconciliation through the Cross
2:14. Recommend a one-line modern-financial gloss (‘mint egy törölt adósságlevél’) in teaching notes only, not the base text.
Disarming Triumph
Approved rendering: lefegyverezve … nyilvános diadalmenetben megszégyenítve
Transliteration: apekdysamenos tas archas kai tas exousias / thriambeusas
Doctrine: Supremacy of Christ over Creation
Original: ἀπεκδυσάμενος τὰς ἀρχὰς καὶ τὰς ἐξουσίας / θριαμβεύσας
Category: Supremacy of Christ over Creation
2:15. θριαμβεύω alludes to the Roman military triumph custom; no direct Hungarian cultural equivalent — recommend an explanatory gloss in teaching material, not in the base text.
Redemption
Approved rendering: megváltás
Transliteration: apolytrōsis
Doctrine: Reconciliation through the Cross
Original: ἀπολύτρωσις
Category: Reconciliation through the Cross
1:14. Standard across Hungarian Christian tradition; keep exclusively theological register, distinct from civil/commercial ‘kármentés.‘
Mystery
Approved rendering: titok
Transliteration: mystērion
Doctrine: Warning against False Teaching and Syncretism
Original: μυστήριον
Category: Warning Against False Teaching
1:26-27, 2:2, 4:3. Risk: everyday Hungarian ‘titok’ carries connotations of something withheld or secretive, the opposite valence from the biblical μυστήριον, now openly disclosed to all. Mandatory contrastive note required, particularly given Hungary’s popular esoteric/occult subculture (‘titkos tanítások’).
Knowledge
Approved rendering: ismeret / megismerés
Transliteration: epignōsis / gnōsis
Doctrine: Warning against False Teaching and Syncretism
Rejected alternatives: ‘gnózis’ (transliterated loanword) — EXPLICITLY REJECTED due to direct association with historic Gnosticism and contemporary esoteric/New Age ‘gnózis’ spirituality in Hungarian religious vocabulary
Original: ἐπίγνωσις / γνῶσις
Category: Warning Against False Teaching
1:9-10, 2:2-3, 3:10. Paul affirms universally available knowledge in Christ against any elitist/esoteric counter-claim.
Philosophy Empty Deceit
Approved rendering: filozófia és hiábavaló csalás
Transliteration: philosophia kai kenē apatē
Doctrine: Warning against False Teaching and Syncretism
Rejected alternatives: blanket ‘filozófia’ alone without qualifier — rejected as anti-intellectualist overreach
Original: φιλοσοφία καὶ κενὴ ἀπάτη
Category: Warning Against False Teaching
2:8. Targets a specific syncretistic system, not reasoned inquiry generally; especially relevant given Hungary’s strong Catholic and Reformed academic-theological traditions (Debrecen, Sárospatak, Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem).
Elemental Spirits
Approved rendering: a világ elemei/erői
Transliteration: stoicheia tou kosmou
Doctrine: Warning against False Teaching and Syncretism
Rejected alternatives: resolving the ambiguity definitively toward either ‘physical elements’ or ‘spirits’ — rejected; the ambiguity must be preserved with a gloss
Original: στοιχεῖα τοῦ κόσμου
Category: Warning Against False Teaching
2:8, 2:20. Live syncretism risk given Hungary’s folk-magic and esoteric subculture (astrology, energy-healing, ‘ezoterika’).
False Humility
Approved rendering: alázatosság / önmegtagadás
Transliteration: tapeinophrosynē (negative sense)
Doctrine: Warning against False Teaching and Syncretism
Original: ταπεινοφροσύνη (negative sense)
Category: Warning Against False Teaching
2:18, 2:23. The false teachers’ showy, ascetic self-abasement. Same Hungarian word must carry both this negative sense and the positive virtue sense at 3:12 (humility_positive) — mandatory translator note distinguishing the two.
Self Made Religion
Approved rendering: önkényes vallásosság
Transliteration: ethelothrēskia
Doctrine: Warning against False Teaching and Syncretism
Rejected alternatives: generic ‘vallásosság’ alone — rejected as losing the self-devised/self-willed nuance
Original: ἐθελοθρησκία
Category: Warning Against False Teaching
2:23. Likely a Pauline coinage; no fixed Hungarian equivalent. Optional descriptive gloss ‘önmagunk kitalálta kegyesség’ available for teaching prose.
Idolatry
Approved rendering: bálványimádás
Transliteration: eidōlolatria
Doctrine: Sin, Idolatry, and the Wrath of God
Original: εἰδωλολατρία
Category: Sin
3:5. Identifies covetousness/greed as a form of idol-worship; contemporary consumerism application worth surfacing pastorally.
Wrath Of God
Approved rendering: Isten haragja
Transliteration: orgē tou theou
Doctrine: Sin, Idolatry, and the Wrath of God
Rejected alternatives: softening to mere ‘rosszallás’ (displeasure) — rejected
Original: ὀργὴ τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Sin
3:6. Standard across Hungarian Christian tradition; must not be softened. Shared risk across both major Hungarian traditions, not a point of internal division.
Household Love
Approved rendering: szeressétek
Transliteration: agapate
Doctrine: Household Codes
Original: ἀγαπᾶτε
Category: Household Codes
3:19. Self-giving love constraining the authority implied by household_submission; must always be taught paired with it.
Justice And Fairness
Approved rendering: igazságosan és méltányosan
Transliteration: ta dikaia kai hē isotēs
Doctrine: Household Codes
Original: τὰ δίκαια καὶ ἡ ἰσότης
Category: Household Codes
4:1. Ethical constraint on masters’ treatment of slaves; teaching material should highlight this as evidence against reading the code as unqualified endorsement of slaveholder prerogative.
Medium Risk Terms
Holy
Approved rendering: szent
Transliteration: hagios
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Set apart for God and morally pure. Inherited from Romans package. Colossians occurrences: 1:2, 1:22, 3:12.
Church
Approved rendering: egyház
Transliteration: ekklēsia
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Colossians 1:18, 1:24 apply this to the church as Christ’s body; 4:15’s ‘ἐκκλησία κατ’ οἶκον’ (house-church) sense needs a supplementary note distinguishing it from later institutional/parish or congregational polity models — see house_church.
Peace
Approved rendering: béke
Transliteration: eirēnē
Doctrine: Peace with God
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Relational, covenantal peace with God through justification. Inherited from Romans package. Colossians 1:20 expands this to cosmic scope (‘to reconcile to himself all things … making peace’); 3:15 applies it to community life.
Sin
Approved rendering: bűn
Transliteration: hamartia
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin
Moral transgression before a personal God. Inherited from Romans package. Colossians occurrences: 1:14, 2:11, 2:13.
Glory
Approved rendering: dicsőség
Transliteration: doxa
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
God’s radiant honor and presence. Inherited from Romans package. Colossians occurrences: 1:11, 1:27 (‘Christ in you, the hope of glory’), 3:4.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: Isten országa
Transliteration: basileia tou theou
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ υἱοῦ τῆς ἀγάπης αὐτοῦ
Category: Kingdom
God’s sovereign reign. Inherited from Romans package. Colossians 1:13 personalizes this as ‘az ő szeretett Fiának országa’ (the kingdom of his beloved Son); 4:11 repeats the personalized phrasing (‘Isten országáért’).
Power Of God
Approved rendering: Isten ereje
Transliteration: dynamis theou / kratos
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Original: δύναμις / κράτος
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Colossians 1:11 pairs δύναμις with the companion term κράτος (‘erő’, might/dominion), rendered together as empowerment for endurance (‘állhatatosság’ — see endurance_patience).
Mission
Approved rendering: misszió
Transliteration: apostolē / pempō
Doctrine: Mission to the Nations
Original: θύρα τοῦ λόγου / περιπατεῖτε πρὸς τοὺς ἔξω
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Colossians-specific phrases: ‘az ige (nyitott) ajtaja’ (4:3), ‘bölcsen viselkedjetek a kívülállókkal’ (4:5) — non-confrontational proclamation framing given Catholic-Reformed coexistence sensitivity.
Creation Verbs
Approved rendering: megteremtetett / teremtve van
Transliteration: ektisthē / ektistai
Doctrine: Supremacy of Christ over Creation
Rejected alternatives: flattening both the aorist (ἐκτίσθη) and perfect (ἔκτισται) to a single simple past — loses the ‘abiding result’ nuance
1:16’s aorist passive (completed past act) followed by perfect passive (settled, ongoing state) reinforces that creation is both a past event and an abiding fact grounded in Christ.
Body Corporate
Approved rendering: test
Transliteration: sōma
Doctrine: Christ as Head of the Church
Original: σῶμα
Category: Church
1:18, 1:24, 2:19, 3:15. Corporate-organic sense of the church as Christ’s body; distinguish carefully from the contrastive ‘substance/reality’ sense of the same Greek word at 2:17 — see body_substance.
Dwell Permanently
Approved rendering: lakozzék / lakjon
Transliteration: katoikēsai
Doctrine: Fullness of Deity in Christ Bodily
Rejected alternatives: ‘megjelenjen’ (appear) — implies a merely visiting/temporary presence
1:19, echoed at 2:9 and 3:16 (‘Krisztus szava lakozzék bennetek’). κατοικέω denotes permanent residence, not a passing visitation; retain the same verb across occurrences to preserve the theological echo.
Divine Good Pleasure
Approved rendering: úgy tetszett neki (Istennek) / elhatározta
Transliteration: eudokēsen
Doctrine: Fullness of Deity in Christ Bodily
1:19. Expresses the Father’s sovereign, gracious decision (implied subject) standing behind the fullness dwelling in Christ; clarify the implied subject (‘the Father’) in teaching notes since the Greek leaves it grammatically ambiguous.
Cross
Approved rendering: kereszt
Transliteration: stauros
Doctrine: Reconciliation through the Cross
Original: σταυρός
Category: Reconciliation through the Cross
1:20, 2:14. Standard across Catholic and Reformed Hungarian tradition; the devotional-practice difference (crucifix ‘feszület’ vs. empty cross) is not a translation risk for the word itself.
Forgiveness Of Sins
Approved rendering: bűnök bocsánata
Transliteration: aphesis tōn hamartiōn
Doctrine: Reconciliation through the Cross
Original: ἄφεσις τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν
Category: Reconciliation through the Cross
1:14. Standard; defines the content of redemption.
Estranged Enemies
Approved rendering: elidegenedettek / ellenségek
Transliteration: apēllotriōmenous / echthrous
Doctrine: Reconciliation through the Cross
1:21. Describes humanity’s condition prior to reconciliation.
Wisdom Understanding
Approved rendering: bölcsesség / értelem
Transliteration: sophia / synesis
Doctrine: Warning against False Teaching and Syncretism
Original: σοφία / σύνεσις
Category: Warning Against False Teaching
1:9. Spiritual, Christ-centered wisdom, contrasted with the ‘philosophy’ condemned in chapter 2; link forward in teaching material to that critique.
Humility Positive
Approved rendering: alázatosság
Transliteration: tapeinophrosynē (positive sense)
Doctrine: Putting Off the Old Self and Putting On the New
Original: ταπεινοφροσύνη (positive sense)
Category: Putting Off the Old Self and Putting On the New
3:12. Positive virtue believers should cultivate; same Hungarian word as false_humility — context flag required at every occurrence.
Love Agape
Approved rendering: szeretet
Transliteration: agapē
Doctrine: Putting Off the Old Self and Putting On the New
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Putting Off the Old Self and Putting On the New
1:4, 1:8, 3:14. Elevated at 3:14 as ‘a tökéletesség köteléke’ (the bond of perfection), the completing, unifying virtue over all others listed.
Endurance Patience
Approved rendering: állhatatosság / hosszútűrés
Transliteration: hypomonē / makrothymia
Doctrine: Putting Off the Old Self and Putting On the New
1:11, recurring positively in the chapter 3 virtue list (3:12); keep consistent rendering across both occurrences.
Dominion Of Darkness
Approved rendering: a sötétség hatalma
Transliteration: exousia tou skotous
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἐξουσία τοῦ σκότους
Category: Sanctification
1:13. Distinguish this negative use of ἐξουσία from its neutral/positive uses in 1:11 and 1:16 — context-sensitive handling required, comparable to the baseline’s called/calling entries.
Circumcision
Approved rendering: körülmetélés
Transliteration: peritomē
Doctrine: Covenant
Original: περιτομή
Category: Covenant
2:11. Physical circumcision contrasted with ‘the circumcision of Christ’; connects to the baseline’s Critical-tier covenant doctrine — flag for cross-reference note, not independent Critical status.
Inheritance
Approved rendering: örökség
Transliteration: klēros / klēronomia
Doctrine: Household Codes
Original: κλῆρος / κληρονομία
Category: Household Codes
1:12, 3:24. Ties chapter 1’s ‘inheritance of the saints in light’ to chapter 3’s household ‘reward of the inheritance’ from the Lord; must not be read as endorsing servitude as spiritually meritorious in itself.
Hope
Approved rendering: reménység / remény
Transliteration: elpis
Doctrine: Union with Christ
Rejected alternatives: colloquial weak-optimism sense (‘talán,’ maybe) — rejected
Original: ἐλπίς
Category: Union with Christ
1:5, 1:23, 1:27. Must convey assured expectation grounded in Christ’s present indwelling, not wishful uncertainty.
House Church
Approved rendering: házi gyülekezet / a házánál levő egyház
Transliteration: ekklēsia kat’ oikon
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Original: ἐκκλησία κατ᾽ οἶκον
Category: Church
4:15. First-century home-based assembly sense, distinct from later Catholic parish-centered or Reformed congregational-polity institutional models; teaching note required.
Low Risk Terms
Apostle
Approved rendering: apostol
Transliteration: apostolos
Doctrine: Apostleship
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Established, unambiguous term. Inherited from Romans package. Colossians 1:1 (Paul’s self-designation).
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: hálaadás
Transliteration: eucharistia
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία
Category: Faith
Standard term. Inherited from Romans package. Colossians occurrences: 1:3, 1:12, 3:15, 3:17, 4:2.
Creation
Approved rendering: teremtés
Transliteration: ktisis
Doctrine: Supremacy of Christ over Creation
Original: κτίσις
Category: Christology
The created order/totality of created things. Standard; no live syncretism risk in Hungarian culture. Occurrences: 1:15, 1:16, 1:23.
Blameless
Approved rendering: feddhetetlen / hibátlan
Transliteration: amōmous kai anegklētous
Doctrine: Reconciliation through the Cross
1:22. Standard forensic-moral language describing the intended outcome of reconciliation, alongside baseline ‘szent.‘
Fellow Workers
Approved rendering: szolgatárs / munkatárs / fogolytárs
Transliteration: syndoulos / synergos / synaichmalōtos
Doctrine: Christ-Centered Ministry
Original: σύνδουλος / συνεργός / συναιχμάλωτος
Category: Christ-Centered Ministry
4:7, 4:10-11. Standard ministry-team vocabulary; συναιχμάλωτος should retain the weight of real imprisonment for the gospel.
Paul
Approved rendering: Pál
Transliteration: Paulos
Doctrine: Proper Names
1:1. Established Hungarian Bible-translation form; consistent with the Romans baseline.
Timothy
Approved rendering: Timóteus
Transliteration: Timotheos
Doctrine: Proper Names
1:1. Established form.
Epaphras
Approved rendering: Epafrás
Transliteration: Epaphras
Doctrine: Proper Names
1:7, 4:12.
Tychicus
Approved rendering: Tichikus
Transliteration: Tychikos
Doctrine: Proper Names
4:7.
Onesimus
Approved rendering: Onézimus
Transliteration: Onēsimos
Doctrine: Proper Names
4:9.
Aristarchus
Approved rendering: Arisztárkhusz
Transliteration: Aristarchos
Doctrine: Proper Names
4:10.
Mark
Approved rendering: Márk
Transliteration: Markos
Doctrine: Proper Names
4:10.
Justus
Approved rendering: Jusztusz
Transliteration: Ioustos
Doctrine: Proper Names
4:11 (‘Jesus called Justus’).
Demas
Approved rendering: Démász / Démás
Transliteration: Dēmas
Doctrine: Proper Names
4:14.
Luke
Approved rendering: Lukács
Transliteration: Loukas
Doctrine: Proper Names
4:14.
Nympha
Approved rendering: Nimfa
Transliteration: Nympha(s)
Doctrine: Proper Names
4:15.
Archippus
Approved rendering: Arkhippusz
Transliteration: Archippos
Doctrine: Proper Names
4:17.
Colossae
Approved rendering: Kolossé
Transliteration: Kolossai
Doctrine: Proper Names
1:2. Also fixes the destination-language book name convention for citations (‘Kol’ abbreviation) — see 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.
Laodicea
Approved rendering: Laodicea
Transliteration: Laodikeia
Doctrine: Proper Names
2:1, 4:13, 4:15-16.
Hierapolis
Approved rendering: Hierápolis
Transliteration: Hierapolis
Doctrine: Proper Names
4:13.
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