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Core Glossary — Philippians (English–Hungarian)

This glossary extends the baseline Romans translation_memory.json/bible_term_registry.json. Terms marked “Reused (baseline)” carry over the exact baseline Hungarian rendering and risk tier and must not be altered. Terms marked “New (Philippians)” are proposed additions for this curriculum, to be added to translation memory in Phase 2 with incremented version number, pending theologian sign-off on Critical/High items per the baseline’s escalation rules.

Reused Terms (from Baseline Romans Package — apply exactly)

English TermHungarian RenderingRiskDoctrine CategoryKey Philippians PassagesStatus
GospelevangéliumHighGospel / Partnership in the Gospel1:5, 1:7, 1:12, 1:16, 1:27, 2:22, 4:3, 4:15Reused (baseline)
GracekegyelemCriticalGrace1:2, 1:7, 1:29, 4:23Reused (baseline)
FaithhitHighFaith / Righteousness by Faith vs Law1:25, 1:27, 2:17, 3:9, 4:6Reused (baseline)
RighteousnessigazságCriticalRighteousness by Faith vs Law1:11, 3:6, 3:9Reused (baseline)
SalvationüdvösségCriticalSalvation1:19, 1:28, 2:12Reused (baseline)
SaintsszentekHighSainthood1:1, 4:21-22Reused (baseline) — mandatory all-believers note applies
ChurchegyházMediumChurch as God’s People4:15Reused (baseline)
LordÚrCriticalLordship of Christ1:2, 1:14, 2:11, 2:19, 2:24, 2:29, 3:1, 3:8, 3:20, 4:1, 4:2, 4:4, 4:5, 4:10, 4:23Reused (baseline)
JesusJézusCriticalLordship of Christ / IncarnationthroughoutReused (baseline)
ChristKrisztusCriticalChristology (general)throughoutReused (baseline — established proper-name form per 12_ai_translation_requirements.md)
GodIstenCriticalGodthroughoutReused (baseline)
FatherAtyaCriticalAdoption / Trinitarian order1:2, 2:11, 4:20Reused (baseline)
Holy SpiritSzentlélekCriticalSanctification1:19 (“Spirit of Jesus Christ”), 2:1 (ambiguous — see analysis)Reused (baseline); flag 2:1 ambiguity for theologian review
GlorydicsőségMedium/HighDeity of Christ1:11, 2:11, 3:19, 3:21, 4:19, 4:20Reused (baseline)
PeacebékeMediumPeace with God1:2, 4:7, 4:9Reused (baseline)
FellowshipközösségLow/High (context-dependent)Partnership in the Gospel1:5, 2:1, 3:10, 4:15Reused (baseline); risk elevates to High where combined with sufferings (3:10) or gospel-partnership (1:5)
ThanksgivinghálaadásLowThanksgiving1:3, 4:6Reused (baseline)
LawtörvényHighRighteousness by Faith vs Law3:5, 3:6, 3:9Reused (baseline)
ResurrectionfeltámadásCriticalResurrection of Christ3:10, 3:11, 3:21Reused (baseline)
Power of GodIsten erejeMediumPower of God3:10, 3:21Reused (baseline)
MessiahMessiásCriticalMessianic Promise(implicit in “Krisztus” usage)Reused (baseline)

New Terms Introduced by Philippians

English TermOriginal (Greek)TransliterationHungarian RenderingRiskDoctrine CategoryKey PassagesAlternatives RejectedNotes
Form of Godμορφὴ θεοῦmorphē theouIsten formájaCriticalIncarnation / Deity of Christ2:6”Isten képmása” (implies derivative likeness, risks Arian-adjacent reading)Christ’s pre-existent, essential, undiminished deity; affirmed identically across Hungarian Catholic and Reformed traditions
A thing to be graspedἁρπαγμόςharpagmoszsákmány(nak tekinteni)HighIncarnation2:6”ragadomány” (older Károli form, acceptable but less current)Christ’s deity was not something illegitimately seized; He also did not relinquish deity — He set aside its outward privileges
Equal with Godἴσα θεῷisa theōIstennel egyenlőCriticalDeity of Christ2:6none permittedNo subordinationist qualification allowed
Emptied himself (Kenosis)ἑαυτὸν ἐκένωσενheauton ekenōsenmegüresítette önmagátCriticalThe Incarnation and Self-Emptying of Christ (Kenosis)2:7”önmagát megalázta” (conflates with v.8’s distinct verb); a heretical “attribute-divesting” kenotic-theology readingTheological name for the doctrine: kenózis. Addition of human nature, not subtraction of divine nature
Form of a servantμορφὴν δούλουmorphēn doulouszolgai formaHighIncarnation2:7noneReal, essential servant-status, paralleling and contrasting “form of God”
Likeness of menὁμοίωμα ἀνθρώπωνhomoiōma anthrōpōnemberekhez hasonlóvá lettCriticalIncarnation / Humanity of Christ2:7rendering implying mere outward semblance (docetic risk)Genuine, full humanity; reinforces baseline incarnation doctrine
Outward fashionσχῆμαschēmakülső megjelenés/módMediumIncarnation2:7noneComplements, does not undercut, genuine humanity
Humbled himselfἐταπείνωσεν ἑαυτόνetapeinōsen heautonmegalázta magátCriticalUnity and Humility in the Church / Incarnation2:8conflating with v.7’s “megüresítette”Distinct verbal moment from v.7’s kenosis; grounds imitable humility
Death of the crossθάνατος σταυροῦthanatos stauroukereszthalálCriticalIncarnation / Atonement2:8none”Cross” = kereszt; historical, atoning death, no crucifix-imagery implication either direction
Highly exaltedὑπερύψωσενhyperypsōsenfelette felmagasztaltaCriticalLordship of Christ2:9rendering implying merit-earned rewardThe Father’s sovereign vindicating act
Humility / lowliness of mindταπεινοφροσύνηtapeinophrosynēalázatosságCriticalUnity and Humility in the Church2:3ascetic-technique-only reading (Catholic devotional risk); generic self-deprecationChrist-patterned, other-directed self-giving, not low self-esteem
Same mind / think the same thingτὸ αὐτὸ φρονεῖνto auto phroneinegyet gondolkodni / egyet érteni lelkületbenHighUnity and Humility in the Church2:2, 2:5, 4:2reduction to mere doctrinal-opinion agreementWhole-orientation shared disposition, not intellectual consensus only
Selfish ambition / strifeἐριθείαeritheiaönzés/versengésMediumUnity and Humility in the Church2:3political-factionalism-only readingAny self-promoting motive excluded from congregational life
Empty conceit / vaingloryκενοδοξίαkenodoxiahiú dicsőségvágy / üres önmagasztalásHighUnity and Humility in the Church2:3noneDeliberate literary contrast with ekenōsen (v.7) — “empty” self-glorification vs. self-emptying
Joyχαρά / χαίρωchara / chairōöröm / örüljetekHighJoy in Suffering and Imprisonment1:4, 1:18, 1:25, 2:2, 2:17-18, 2:28-29, 3:1, 4:1, 4:4, 4:10”boldogság” (happiness — circumstance-dependent, forbidden)Joy present within, not despite the absence of, suffering
Chains/imprisonmentδεσμοίdesmoibilincsek / fogságHighJoy in Suffering and Imprisonment1:7, 1:13-14, 1:17spiritualized-metaphor-only readingPaul’s literal Roman custody; concrete historical setting of the letter
Suffering (as gift of grace)πάσχω / ἐχαρίσθηpaschō / echaristhēszenvedés (kegyelmi ajándékként)HighJoy in Suffering and Imprisonment / Grace1:29-30rendering implying suffering itself is meritoriousSuffering for Christ explicitly named a grace-gift (χαρίζομαι root)
To live is Christ / to die is gainτὸ ζῆν Χριστός / τὸ ἀποθανεῖν κέρδοςto zēn Christos / to apothanein kerdosnekem az élet Krisztus, a meghalás nyereségHighJoy in Suffering and Imprisonment / Contentment1:21reducing “gain” to relief-from-pain onlyPositive, Christ-ward valuation of death, not merely escape
Fleshσάρξsarxtest (fallen nature/effort sense — mandatory disambiguation note)HighRighteousness by Faith versus the Law3:3-4unmarked “test” without disambiguation from sōmaNotably absent from baseline Romans glossary despite parallel usage there; gap closed here
Righteousness of the law / through faithδικαιοσύνη ἐκ νόμου / διὰ πίστεωςdikaiosynē ek nomou / dia pisteōstörvényből való igazság / hit által való igazságCriticalRighteousness by Faith versus the Law3:6, 3:9resolving the Reformed/Catholic fault line in either directionIdentical fault line to baseline justification/imputed_righteousness; route to theologian review
Loss / rubbishζημία / σκύβαλαzēmia / skybalakár / szemétMediumRighteousness by Faith versus the Law3:7-8over-softened euphemism losing rhetorical forceDeliberately visceral devaluation of former credentials
Fellowship of his sufferingsκοινωνία [τῶν] παθημάτων αὐτοῦkoinōnia pathēmatōn autouszenvedéseiben való részesedésHighRighteousness by Faith versus the Law (union with Christ)3:10redemptive-suffering / “offering up” merit-addition reading (Catholic collision risk); any reading that dilutes it to bare metaphorParticipatory identification with Christ’s pattern, no additive/meritorious dimension; route to theologian review
Press on / pursueδιώκωdiōkōtörekszem / futok célom feléHighPressing on toward the Goal in Christ3:12, 3:14none (distinguish from “persecute” sense in 3:6 by context)Athletic-race metaphor for sanctified pursuit of Christ
PrizeβραβεῖονbrabeiondíjHighPressing on toward the Goal in Christ3:14merit-earned-reward-for-righteousness readingConsummation of calling, not earned soteriological reward
GoalσκοπόςskoposcélMediumPressing on toward the Goal in Christ3:14noneEchoes skopountes (2:4)
Mature/perfectτέλειοιteleioiérettekMediumPressing on toward the Goal in Christ3:15”tökéletesek” (risks sinless-perfectionism reading Paul explicitly disclaims in 3:12)
Citizenship in heavenπολίτευμαpoliteumapolgárjogunk a mennyben vanHighCitizenship in Heaven1:27 (verb form), 3:20”hazánk a mennyben van” (risks competing nationalist “haza” resonance in Hungarian cultural memory)Roman-colony civic background required in teaching notes
Enemies of the crossἐχθροὶ τοῦ σταυροῦechthroi tou stauroua kereszt ellenségeiMediumCitizenship in Heaven / Righteousness by Faith3:18noneReuses stauros = kereszt established at 2:8
CrossσταυρόςstauroskeresztCriticalIncarnation / Atonement2:8, 3:18noneNew standalone entry; absent from baseline Romans glossary though implied there. No crucifix-imagery implication either Catholic or Reformed direction
ContentmentαὐτάρκειαautarkeiaelégedettségHighContentment in All Circumstances4:11unmarked rendering without Stoic-contrast notePauline Christ-dependent contentment, deliberately repurposing a Stoic self-sufficiency term
Strengthens meἐνδυναμοῦντι [με]endynamounti [me]aki megerősít engemHighContentment in All Circumstances4:13decontextualized “prosperity”/general-empowerment readingMust be taught together with 4:11-12’s contentment context
Partnership in the gospelκοινωνία εἰς τὸ εὐαγγέλιονkoinōnia eis to euangelionaz evangélium ügyében való közösségHighPartnership in the Gospel1:5reduction to purely abstract spiritual solidarityIncludes concrete financial/missional partnership
Partnership in giving and receivingκοινωνία εἰς λόγον δόσεως καὶ λήμψεωςkoinōnia eis logon doseōs kai lēmpseōsaz adás és elfogadás dolgában való közösségMediumPartnership in the Gospel4:15noneConcrete commercial-bookkeeping idiom applied to gospel support
Sacrifice / service (liturgical vocabulary)θυσία / λειτουργίαthysia / leitourgiaáldozat / szolgálatHighPartnership in the Gospel / Unity2:17, 2:25, 2:30, 4:18transliterated “liturgia” for leitourgia (imports formal ritual-liturgical connotation)Genuine Eucharistic-sacrifice collision risk for Catholic readers; render leitourgia as szolgálat, not liturgia
Poured out as a drink offeringσπένδομαιspendomaiitaláldozatként kiöntetemHighJoy in Suffering / Partnership in the Gospel2:17conflation with Eucharistic/sacramental categoriesPaul’s personal, non-sacramental self-offering metaphor
Bishops/overseersἐπίσκοποιepiskopoipüspökökHighChurch as God’s People (polity)1:1assuming either modern Catholic sacramental-hierarchical or modern Reformed administrative office as the text’s referentFirst-century local congregational overseers; genuine live collision since both modern Hungarian denominations use “püspök” as a real, differently-structured office today
DeaconsδιάκονοιdiakonoidiakónusokMediumChurch as God’s People (polity)1:1assuming Catholic sacramental minor-order or Reformed non-sacramental office as the sole referentCongregational servant-office
Servant/slaveδοῦλος/δοῦλοιdoulos/douloiszolga(i)HighUnity and Humility / Incarnation1:1, 2:7”rabszolga” in the salutation register (concept retained, term softened for register)Title of honor because Christ took the same status-word first (2:7)
Day of Christἡμέρα Χριστοῦhēmera ChristouKrisztus napjaMediumEschatology1:6, 1:10, 2:16noneConsistent rendering required across curriculum documents
LoveἀγάπηagapēszeretetMediumUnity and Humility1:9, 2:1-2noneStandard vocabulary; new to this Language Package’s explicit glossary though present throughout Romans too
Book of lifeβίβλος ζωῆςbiblos zōēsaz élet könyveMediumAssurance / Election (overlap)4:3resolving assurance-of-salvation fault line by implicationTouches the same Reformed/Catholic assurance and baseline election fault line
Children of Godτέκνα θεοῦtekna theouIsten gyermekeiMediumAdoption into God’s Family2:15noneDistinct from Christ’s unique eternal Sonship per baseline son_of_god note
Good pleasureεὐδοκίαeudokiajó tetszés/akaratHighProvidence / Effectual Calling (overlap)2:13noneOverlaps baseline Romans 8:28-30 fault line; route to theologian review

Cross-Document Consistency Requirements

Per baseline 12_ai_translation_requirements.md §“Theological Consistency Rules Across Documents”:

  1. Philippians 2:11 (“Jézus Krisztus az Úr”) must remain structurally and terminologically identical in confession pattern to the baseline-mandated Romans 10:9 rendering (“Jézus az Úr”).
  2. “Kegyelem” (grace) must be rendered identically wherever it recurs in Philippians (1:2, 1:7, 1:29, 4:23) as in the baseline Romans package, with no Tridentine-only or strict-Calvinist-only framing.
  3. “Szentek” (saints) at Philippians 1:1 and 4:21-22 requires the same mandatory all-believers translator note as Romans 1:7.
  4. New Critical/High terms in this glossary (Isten formája, megüresítette önmagát, alázatosság, kereszt, autarkeia/elégedettség, polgárjogunk a mennyben, püspökök) must be added to translation_memory.json with an incremented version number before Phase 2 segment translation begins, per the baseline’s Translation Memory Load and Enforcement Instructions.

Critical Risk Terms

Grace

Approved rendering: kegyelem
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: kegyelem mint érdemek által gyarapítható, szentségek közvetítette adomány (tridenti értelmezés)
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Philippians 1:29 uniquely extends grace-vocabulary to suffering itself (see suffering_as_gift_of_grace below); preserve Paul’s own claim without adopting either a Tridentine merit framing or a Reformed-assurance-anxiety misreading.


Righteousness

Approved rendering: igazság
Doctrine: Salvation / Righteousness by Faith versus the Law
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Philippians 1:11 (‘the fruit of righteousness’), 3:6, and 3:9 apply the identical forensic-versus-infused fault line documented in the baseline.


Justification

Approved rendering: megigazulás
Doctrine: Salvation / Righteousness by Faith versus the Law
Rejected alternatives: fokozatos belső megszentelődés kizárólag, jogi kijelentés nélkül (tridenti értelmezés)

Inherited from Romans package for cross-document teaching-note consistency. The literal noun does not occur in Philippians, but Philippians 3:9’s righteousness-through-faith argument is doctrinally identical to Romans 3-5’s justification fault line; retain this exact rendering wherever teaching material cross-references it.


Salvation

Approved rendering: üdvösség
Doctrine: Salvation
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Philippians 2:12 (‘work out your salvation… it is God who works in you’) must not be translated so as to resolve the Reformed monergistic-outworking versus Catholic grace-enabled-cooperation reading in either direction.


Lord

Approved rendering: Úr
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package. Philippians 2:11’s confession ‘Jézus Krisztus az Úr’ must remain structurally and terminologically identical to the baseline-mandated Romans 10:9 confession pattern ‘Jézus az Úr.‘


Jesus

Approved rendering: Jézus
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ / Incarnation
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package; established Hungarian Bible-translation form, used throughout Philippians.


God

Approved rendering: Isten
Doctrine: God
Original: θεός
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package.


Holy Spirit

Approved rendering: Szentlélek
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον / πνεῦμα
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. Philippians 1:19 (‘the Spirit of Jesus Christ’) and 2:1’s genitive-ambiguous ‘κοινωνία πνεύματος’ (‘fellowship of the Spirit’) both require retaining the Spirit’s personal, divine agency; do not reduce 2:1 to a merely human ‘team spirit.‘


Father

Approved rendering: Atya
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family / Trinitarian order
Original: πατήρ
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. Philippians 2:11’s ‘Isten Atya dicsőségére’ preserves Trinitarian order: the Son’s exaltation glorifies the Father, not in competition.


Resurrection

Approved rendering: feltámadás
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Original: ἀνάστασις / ἐξανάστασις
Category: Eschatology

Inherited from Romans package. Philippians 3:10-11 extends this to present experiential transformation (‘feltámadásának ereje’) and 3:21 to the believer’s future glorified body; never render with a term suggesting cyclical rebirth.


Messiah

Approved rendering: Messiás
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package; largely implicit in Philippians’ consistent fused use of ‘Krisztus’ as proper name plus title (see new entry ‘christ’ below).


Son Of God

Approved rendering: Isten Fia
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Isten fia általános értelemben, minden hívőre alkalmazva

Inherited from Romans package. Not a literal phrase in Philippians 2:6 (‘Isten formája’ is used instead), but the doctrine is identically in view; Philippians 2:15’s ‘Isten gyermekei’ (children of God, adoptive believer-sonship) must be kept categorically distinct from this unique, eternal Sonship.


Imputed Righteousness

Approved rendering: beszámított igazság
Doctrine: Justification by Faith
Rejected alternatives: befogadott/beoltott igazság mint kizárólag belső átalakulás (tridenti értelmezés)

Inherited from Romans package for teaching-note consistency. Philippians 3:9’s ‘righteousness… through faith in Christ’ is doctrinally identical to this baseline category, though Philippians itself does not use the specific credited/imputed verb form found in Romans 4:3.


Christ

Approved rendering: Krisztus
Doctrine: Christology (General) / Messianic Promise
Rejected alternatives: egy felkent tanító (generic honorific; denies full deity and messianic identity)
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology

New standalone entry for this Language Package; the baseline Romans registry treats ‘Messiah’ but not ‘Christ’ as a distinct key. Established Hungarian Bible-translation form, used throughout Philippians as a proper name/title fused with Jesus, especially in the climactic confession at 2:11.


Form Of God

Approved rendering: Isten formája
Doctrine: The Incarnation and Self-Emptying of Christ (Kenosis) / Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Isten képmása (implies derivative/creaturely likeness, risks an Arian-adjacent reading)
Original: μορφὴ θεοῦ
Category: Incarnation

Philippians 2:6. Christ’s pre-existent, essential, undiminished deity, affirmed identically across Hungarian Catholic and Reformed traditions. Must never be softened toward mere ‘image’ language.


Equal With God

Approved rendering: Istennel egyenlő
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: any subordinationist qualification or softening
Original: ἴσα θεῷ
Category: Incarnation

Philippians 2:6. Full ontological equality with God the Father; no qualification permitted. Must never be rendered in a manner consistent with the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Újvilág fordítás’s subordinationist framing of this verse.


Kenosis

Approved rendering: megüresítette önmagát
Doctrine: The Incarnation and Self-Emptying of Christ (Kenosis)
Rejected alternatives: önmagát megalázta (conflates with the distinct verb of v.8), levetette isteni természetét / any phrase implying subtraction of the divine nature (heretical kenotic-theology reading)
Original: ἑαυτὸν ἐκένωσεν
Category: Incarnation

Philippians 2:7, doctrinal center of the core passage. Established modern Hungarian rendering, converged upon identically by KAR, RÚF, and SZIT. Retain the transliterated label ‘kenózis’ in teaching notes only, never inside the translated biblical text, to name the doctrine while excluding the heretical attribute-divesting reading. Orthodox sense: addition of a human nature, not subtraction of the divine nature.


Likeness Of Men

Approved rendering: emberekhez hasonlóvá lett
Doctrine: Incarnation / Humanity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: rendering implying only outward semblance without genuine human nature (docetic-adjacent misreading)
Original: ὁμοιώματι ἀνθρώπων
Category: Incarnation

Philippians 2:7. Affirms Christ’s genuine, full humanity; reinforces the baseline’s incarnation doctrine (megtestesülés).


Humbled Himself

Approved rendering: megalázta magát
Doctrine: Obedience of Christ unto Death / Unity and Humility in the Church
Rejected alternatives: megüresítette önmagát (v.7’s distinct verb; must not be conflated with this one)
Original: ἐταπείνωσεν ἑαυτόν
Category: Incarnation

Philippians 2:8. Verbal cognate of ‘alázatosság’ (v.3); a second, distinct movement from the incarnation itself (v.7) — Christ’s obedience unto the cross within His human life, and the pattern believers are commanded to imitate.


Cross

Approved rendering: kereszt
Doctrine: Incarnation / Atonement
Original: σταυρός
Category: Incarnation

Philippians 2:8 (‘kereszthalál’), 3:18 (‘a kereszt ellenségei’). New standalone entry absent from the baseline Romans glossary though implied there. Hungarian Catholic devotional tradition centers visually on the crucifix; Hungarian Reformed tradition is historically aniconic and word-centered. Both affirm the same historical, atoning death; carries no crucifix-imagery implication in either direction.


Highly Exalted

Approved rendering: felette felmagasztalta
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: rendering implying merit-earned reward for obedience (imports a merit-based soteriology into Christology)
Original: ὑπερύψωσεν
Category: Christology

Philippians 2:9. The Father’s own sovereign, vindicating act in response to the Son’s self-emptying and obedience; preserves the intensifying ὑπερ- prefix echoing ‘ὑπάρχων’ (v.6) and ‘ὑπερέχοντας’ (v.3).


Name Above Every Name

Approved rendering: minden névnél nagyobb név
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: ὄνομα τὸ ὑπὲρ πᾶν ὄνομα
Category: Christology

Philippians 2:9. Doctrinally continuous with the baseline’s Critical lordship_of_christ doctrine; consistency across curricula required per the baseline’s cross-document consistency rules.


Every Knee Shall Bow

Approved rendering: minden térd meghajol
Doctrine: Deity of Christ / Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: any rendering narrowing the universal scope of ‘every knee’
Original: πᾶν γόνυ κάμψῃ
Category: Christology

Philippians 2:10. Deliberate echo of Isaiah 45:23 (LXX), applying to Jesus the universal worship due to YHWH alone; must retain unqualified universal scope per the baseline validation rule on universality claims.


Humility

Approved rendering: alázatosság
Doctrine: Unity and Humility in the Church
Rejected alternatives: ascetic-technique-only reading (Catholic devotional risk), generic self-deprecation or low self-esteem
Original: ταπεινοφροσύνη
Category: Unity and Humility

Philippians 2:3. Directly load-bearing for this curriculum’s doctrine. Must be taught as Christ-patterned, other-directed self-giving per 2:6-8, not either tradition’s separate spiritual-formation framework.


Righteousness Of Law Vs Faith

Approved rendering: törvényből való igazság / hit által való igazság
Doctrine: Righteousness by Faith versus the Law
Rejected alternatives: resolving the Reformed/Catholic fault line in either direction
Original: δικαιοσύνη ἡ ἐκ νόμου / ἡ διὰ πίστεως
Category: Salvation

Philippians 3:6, 3:9. The clearest single-verse statement in Philippians of the identical Reformed (forensic, faith alone) versus Catholic (faith plus grace-enabled cooperation) fault line documented for baseline justification/imputed_righteousness. Route to theologian review at every occurrence.


Fruit Of Righteousness

Approved rendering: az igazság gyümölcse
Doctrine: Righteousness by Faith versus the Law
Rejected alternatives: implying righteousness itself is earned by producing good fruit
Original: καρπὸς δικαιοσύνης
Category: Salvation

Philippians 1:11 (καρπὸς δικαιοσύνης). The moral/relational produce that flows from right standing with God, not a means of producing that standing.


High Risk Terms

Gospel

Approved rendering: evangélium
Doctrine: Gospel / Partnership in the Gospel
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Reused exactly; in Philippians additionally the specific cause of the letter’s partnership language (1:5, 1:7, 1:12, 1:16, 1:27, 2:22, 4:3, 4:15).


Faith

Approved rendering: hit
Doctrine: Faith / Righteousness by Faith versus the Law
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package. Philippians 3:9 explicitly contrasts law-based and faith-based righteousness, recreating the Romans 3-5 fault line in miniature.


Saints

Approved rendering: szentek
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: szentek mint kizárólagosan kanonizált, közbenjárásra kért személyek (katolikus olvasat)
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package. Philippians 1:1 and 4:21-22 are further occurrences of the identical corporate, all-believers sense established at Romans 1:7; the mandatory all-believers translator note applies at every occurrence.


Glory

Approved rendering: dicsőség
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. Applied in Philippians to God’s own glory (1:11, 2:11, 4:20) and, at 3:21, extended eschatologically to the believer’s future glorified body (‘dicsőséges testéhez hasonlóvá’).


Fellowship

Approved rendering: közösség
Doctrine: Partnership in the Gospel / Christian Fellowship
Original: κοινωνία
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package, generally Low risk there; Philippians’ distinctive combinations elevate the doctrinal stakes within this book — with gospel-partnership (1:5), with the Spirit (2:1), and especially with Christ’s sufferings (3:10; see fellowship_of_his_sufferings below).


Law

Approved rendering: törvény
Doctrine: Righteousness by Faith versus the Law
Original: νόμος
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Philippians 3:5-6, 3:9 recreate Romans 7’s law-versus-faith tension in condensed form; do not assume either the Reformed ‘threefold use of the law’ framework or Catholic precept-observance culture as the text’s own background.


Incarnation

Approved rendering: megtestesülés
Doctrine: Incarnation

Inherited from Romans package. Philippians 2:7’s ‘emberekhez hasonlóvá lett’ (likeness of men) reinforces this doctrine; Philippians 2:6-8 is the fullest single Pauline treatment of the incarnation’s mechanics in the New Testament, supplying the new Critical-tier terms below (form_of_god, kenosis, form_of_a_servant, likeness_of_men).


Thing To Be Grasped

Approved rendering: zsákmány
Doctrine: The Incarnation and Self-Emptying of Christ (Kenosis)
Rejected alternatives: ragadomány (older Károli form, acceptable within the literary register but not the primary modern rendering)
Original: ἁρπαγμός
Category: Incarnation

Philippians 2:6. Christ’s deity was not something illegitimately seized, nor did He relinquish deity in becoming incarnate — He voluntarily set aside its outward privileges.


Form Of A Servant

Approved rendering: szolgai forma
Doctrine: The Incarnation and Self-Emptying of Christ (Kenosis)
Original: μορφὴν δούλου
Category: Incarnation

Philippians 2:7. Deliberate structural parallel/contrast to ‘Isten formája’; both forms named are equally real and essential, not illusory or merely titular.


Same Mind

Approved rendering: egyet gondolkodni
Doctrine: Unity and Humility in the Church
Rejected alternatives: reduction to mere doctrinal-opinion agreement
Original: τὸ αὐτὸ φρονεῖν
Category: Unity and Humility

Philippians 2:2, 2:5, 4:2. φρονέω denotes a whole orientation of mind/will, not just intellectual agreement; the same verb roots the ‘mind of Christ’ command in 2:5.


Empty Conceit

Approved rendering: hiú dicsőségvágy
Doctrine: Unity and Humility in the Church
Original: κενοδοξία
Category: Unity and Humility

Philippians 2:3 (κενοδοξία). Deliberate literary contrast with ‘megüresítette önmagát’ (v.7) — empty self-glorification is the photographic negative of Christ’s self-emptying; preserve this wordplay in teaching notes.


Servant Slave

Approved rendering: szolga
Doctrine: Unity and Humility in the Church / Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: rabszolga in the salutation register (concept of full ownership retained, harsher term avoided in the greeting formula)
Original: δοῦλος / δοῦλοι
Category: Unity and Humility

Philippians 1:1, 2:7. Paul and Timothy’s self-designation and the real, essential status Christ Himself genuinely took on; a title of honor precisely because Christ took the same status-word first.


Bishops Overseers

Approved rendering: püspökök
Doctrine: Church Polity: Overseers and Deacons
Rejected alternatives: assuming either the modern Catholic sacramental-hierarchical or the modern Reformed elected-administrative office as the text’s referent
Original: ἐπίσκοποι
Category: Church

Philippians 1:1. Genuine live Hungarian collision: both the Hungarian Catholic Church and the Hungarian Reformed Church use ‘püspök’ today as an actual, differently-structured office. Philippians 1:1’s plural, local, congregational episkopoi must not be silently equated with either modern office; mandatory translator/teaching note.


Joy

Approved rendering: öröm
Doctrine: Joy in Suffering and Imprisonment
Rejected alternatives: boldogság (happiness — implies favorable circumstances in ordinary Hungarian usage; forbidden)
Original: χαρά / χαίρω
Category: Joy and Suffering

Philippians 1:4, 1:18, 1:25, 2:2, 2:17-18, 2:28-29, 3:1, 4:1, 4:4, 4:10. Joy present within, not despite the absence of, suffering and imprisonment — a letter written from Roman custody. The imperative ‘always’ at 4:4 must retain its unqualified force.


Chains Imprisonment

Approved rendering: fogság
Doctrine: Joy in Suffering and Imprisonment
Rejected alternatives: spiritualized-metaphor-only reading
Original: δεσμοί
Category: Joy and Suffering

Philippians 1:7, 1:13-14, 1:17. Paul’s literal Roman custody, the concrete historical setting of the letter; must not be spiritualized away.


Suffering As Gift Of Grace

Approved rendering: szenvedés (kegyelmi ajándékként)
Doctrine: Suffering as a Gift of Grace / Grace
Rejected alternatives: rendering implying suffering itself is meritorious (Tridentine risk), rendering implying suffering is evidence against Reformed assurance of salvation

Philippians 1:29-30. Suffering for Christ’s sake explicitly named a charis-gift (ἐχαρίσθη); teaching note required connecting this to baseline ‘kegyelem’ without implying merit-accrual or diminished assurance.


To Live Is Christ Die Is Gain

Approved rendering: nekem az élet Krisztus, a meghalás nyereség
Doctrine: Joy in Suffering and Imprisonment / Contentment in All Circumstances
Rejected alternatives: reducing ‘gain’ (nyereség) to relief-from-pain only
Original: τὸ ζῆν Χριστός, τὸ ἀποθανεῖν κέρδος
Category: Joy and Suffering

Philippians 1:21. Radical Christ-centered valuation of both life and death, anticipating possible martyrdom; must retain a positive, Christ-ward valuation of death itself.


Flesh

Approved rendering: test
Doctrine: Righteousness by Faith versus the Law
Rejected alternatives: unmarked ‘test’ without disambiguation from sōma (physical body)
Original: σάρξ
Category: Righteousness by Faith

Philippians 3:3-4 (σάρξ). Closes a gap in the baseline Romans glossary. Hungarian renders both sarx (fallen nature/effort) and sōma (physical body, e.g. 3:21’s ‘dicsőséges testéhez’) as ‘test’; mandatory translator note required distinguishing the senses wherever both occur in the same unit.


Fellowship Of His Sufferings

Approved rendering: szenvedéseiben való részesedés
Doctrine: Fellowship in Christ’s Sufferings
Rejected alternatives: redemptive-suffering / ‘offering up’ merit-addition reading (Catholic devotional collision risk), any reading that dilutes it to bare metaphor with no participatory force
Original: κοινωνία [τῶν] παθημάτων αὐτοῦ
Category: Righteousness by Faith

Philippians 3:10. Genuine collision risk distinct from the justification axis: Catholic devotional tradition unites personal suffering redemptively with Christ’s passion; Reformed reading holds this strictly as pattern-identification with no additive/meritorious dimension. Translate Paul’s own participatory claim without resolving this either way; route to theologian review.


Press On Pursue

Approved rendering: törekszem
Doctrine: Pressing on toward the Goal in Christ
Original: διώκω
Category: Pressing on toward the Goal

Philippians 3:12, 3:14 (διώκω). Central athletic-race metaphor. Must not be confused with the term’s other common sense ‘persecute,’ used of Paul’s own pre-conversion activity at 3:6; translator note flagging the dual sense required.


Prize

Approved rendering: díj
Doctrine: Pressing on toward the Goal in Christ
Rejected alternatives: merit-earned-reward-for-righteousness reading
Original: βραβεῖον
Category: Pressing on toward the Goal

Philippians 3:14 (βραβεῖον). The consummation of the believer’s calling, not a merit-earned reward for righteousness, which Paul has already stated is received by faith (3:9).


Citizenship In Heaven

Approved rendering: polgárjogunk a mennyben van
Doctrine: Citizenship in Heaven
Rejected alternatives: hazánk a mennyben van (risks competing nationalist ‘haza’ resonance rooted in Hungary’s Trianon-era border trauma; confirmed as the rendering used by both KAR and RÚF, elevating this from theoretical to live risk)
Original: πολίτευμα
Category: Citizenship

Philippians 1:27 (verb form, πολιτεύεσθε), 3:20 (πολίτευμα). Roman-colony civic background required in mandatory teaching notes.


Contentment

Approved rendering: elégedettség
Doctrine: Contentment in All Circumstances
Rejected alternatives: unmarked rendering without a mandatory Stoic-contrast teaching note
Original: αὐτάρκεια
Category: Contentment

Philippians 4:11 (αὐτάρκεια). A Stoic self-sufficiency term Paul deliberately repurposes, relocating its source from the self to Christ. Bare ‘elégedettség’ does not itself carry this philosophical background; mandatory translator note contrasting Pauline Christ-dependent contentment with Stoic self-sufficiency required.


Strengthens Me

Approved rendering: aki megerősít engem
Doctrine: Contentment in All Circumstances
Rejected alternatives: decontextualized prosperity-gospel / general-achievement-empowerment reading
Original: ἐνδυναμοῦντι [με]
Category: Contentment

Philippians 4:13 (ἐνδυναμοῦντι). Must always be taught together with 4:11-12’s contentment context; explicitly reject the Word-of-Faith/prosperity-preaching tradition current in some independent Hungarian congregations.


Sacrifice Service

Approved rendering: áldozat / szolgálat
Doctrine: Partnership in the Gospel
Rejected alternatives: liturgia (transliteration of leitourgia, imports formal ritual-liturgical connotation)
Original: θυσία / λειτουργία
Category: Partnership

Philippians 2:17, 2:25, 2:30, 4:18 (θυσία / λειτουργία). Genuine collision risk with Catholic Eucharistic sacrifice theology. Render leitourgia as ‘szolgálat,’ never ‘liturgia’; teaching note must clarify these are Paul’s personal, non-sacramental metaphors.


Drink Offering

Approved rendering: italáldozatként kiöntetem
Doctrine: Partnership in the Gospel / Joy in Suffering and Imprisonment
Rejected alternatives: conflation with Eucharistic/sacramental categories
Original: σπένδομαι
Category: Partnership

Philippians 2:17 (σπένδομαι). Paul’s personal, non-sacramental self-offering metaphor, echoing Old Testament libation practice, describing his possible martyrdom.


Good Pleasure

Approved rendering: jó tetszés
Doctrine: Providence and God’s Good Pleasure
Original: εὐδοκία
Category: Providence

Philippians 2:13 (εὐδοκία). Directly overlaps the baseline’s Critical Romans 8:28-30 providence/effectual-calling fault line. Translate Paul’s own bare claim without resolving monergism versus synergism; route to theologian review.


Partnership In The Gospel

Approved rendering: az evangélium ügyében való közösség
Doctrine: Partnership in the Gospel
Rejected alternatives: reduction to purely abstract spiritual solidarity
Original: κοινωνία εἰς τὸ εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Partnership

Philippians 1:5. Must retain the concrete, active-partnership sense, including financial partnership (confirmed at 4:15-16).


Obedient

Approved rendering: engedelmes
Doctrine: Obedience of Christ unto Death / Obedience of Faith

Philippians 2:8 (ὑπήκοος). Reuses the register of the baseline’s ‘hitből fakadó engedelmesség’ family; describes Christ’s own voluntary, complete obedience unto death, the ground of the believer’s obedience.


Sacrifice Acceptable Pleasing

Approved rendering: kedves, Istennek tetsző áldozat
Doctrine: Partnership in the Gospel

Philippians 4:18 (θυσία, δεκτή, εὐάρεστος). Describes the Philippians’ financial gift in sacrificial-cultic terms; same Eucharistic-collision caution as sacrifice_service applies.


Transform Conformed To Glory

Approved rendering: dicsőséges testéhez hasonlóvá
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ / Eschatological Hope: The Day of Christ

Philippians 3:21. Future eschatological hope, echoing the morphē word-family from the core passage (2:6-7) one final time; must not collapse this future glorification into the incarnation’s distinct kenotic moment.


Medium Risk Terms

Church

Approved rendering: egyház
Doctrine: Church as God’s People

Inherited from Romans package. Philippians 4:15 (‘no church shared with me…’) is a local, gathered-congregation sense consistent with Romans 16’s usage.


Peace

Approved rendering: béke
Doctrine: Peace with God
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Philippians 4:7’s guarding ‘Isten békessége’ is God’s own act, not psychological calm achievable by personal effort.


Power Of God

Approved rendering: Isten ereje
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Original: δύναμις
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. Philippians 3:10’s ‘feltámadásának ereje’ (the power of his resurrection) applies this term experientially to Christian living.


Providence

Approved rendering: gondviselés
Doctrine: Providence

Inherited from Romans package. Philippians 2:12-13 and 4:19 both touch God’s personal, purposive governance; 2:13’s ‘good pleasure’ (see below) directly overlaps the baseline’s Romans 8:28-30 fault line.


Outward Fashion

Approved rendering: külső megjelenés
Doctrine: Incarnation
Original: σχήματι
Category: Incarnation

Philippians 2:7 (σχῆμα). The outwardly observable manner of Christ’s human existence; complements, and must not be read as undermining, the genuine humanity affirmed by ‘emberekhez hasonlóvá lett.‘


Selfish Ambition

Approved rendering: önzés
Doctrine: Unity and Humility in the Church
Rejected alternatives: political-factionalism-only reading
Original: ἐριθεία
Category: Unity and Humility

Philippians 2:3 (ἐριθεία). Any self-promoting motive excluded from congregational life, not only party-strife.


Deacons

Approved rendering: diakónusok
Doctrine: Church Polity: Overseers and Deacons
Rejected alternatives: assuming Catholic sacramental minor-order or Reformed non-sacramental office as the sole referent
Original: διάκονοι
Category: Church

Philippians 1:1. Congregational servant-office, paired with overseers; note both traditions’ differing modern structures without adjudicating between them.


Loss Rubbish

Approved rendering: kár / szemét
Doctrine: Righteousness by Faith versus the Law
Rejected alternatives: over-softened euphemism (e.g. ‘haszontalan dolog’) losing Paul’s deliberately visceral rhetorical force
Original: ζημία / σκύβαλα
Category: Righteousness by Faith

Philippians 3:7-8 (ζημία / σκύβαλα). Paul’s deliberately shocking devaluation of his former credentials compared to knowing Christ.


Goal

Approved rendering: cél
Doctrine: Pressing on toward the Goal in Christ
Original: σκοπός
Category: Pressing on toward the Goal

Philippians 3:14 (σκοπός). Echoes ‘σκοποῦντες’ (‘looking to’) at 2:4; preserve this wordplay link in teaching notes.


Mature Perfect

Approved rendering: érettek
Doctrine: Pressing on toward the Goal in Christ
Rejected alternatives: tökéletesek (risks a sinless-perfectionism reading Paul explicitly disclaims two verses earlier, 3:12)
Original: τέλειοι
Category: Pressing on toward the Goal

Philippians 3:15 (τέλειοι). ‘Mature/complete in growth,’ not moral flawlessness.


Enemies Of The Cross

Approved rendering: a kereszt ellenségei
Doctrine: Citizenship in Heaven / Righteousness by Faith versus the Law
Original: ἐχθροὶ τοῦ σταυροῦ τοῦ Χριστοῦ
Category: Citizenship

Philippians 3:18. Reuses this package’s ‘kereszt’ rendering; those whose lives oppose the self-giving pattern the cross represents.


Children Of God

Approved rendering: Isten gyermekei
Doctrine: Identity as God’s Children
Original: τέκνα θεοῦ
Category: Adoption

Philippians 2:15 (τέκνα θεοῦ). Believers’ filial status and visible moral identity; kept categorically distinct from Christ’s unique, eternal Sonship (Isten Fia).


Day Of Christ

Approved rendering: Krisztus napja
Doctrine: Eschatological Hope: The Day of Christ
Original: ἡμέρα Χριστοῦ
Category: Eschatology

Philippians 1:6, 1:10, 2:16. Parallel to but distinct from Old Testament ‘day of the LORD’ language; consistent rendering required at every occurrence.


Book Of Life

Approved rendering: az élet könyve
Doctrine: Assurance of Salvation and the Book of Life
Rejected alternatives: teaching notes that resolve the underlying Reformed/Catholic assurance debate by implication
Original: βίβλος ζωῆς
Category: Assurance

Philippians 4:3 (βίβλος ζωῆς). Touches the same assurance territory as the baseline’s Critical Romans 8 doctrine and the Critical election fault line.


Love

Approved rendering: szeretet
Doctrine: Unity and Humility in the Church
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Unity and Humility

Philippians 1:9, 2:1-2 (ἀγάπη). New to this Language Package’s explicit glossary though present throughout Romans as well; keep distinct from generic ‘kedvesség’ or philia-type affection.


Encouragement

Approved rendering: buzdítás
Doctrine: Unity and Humility in the Church
Rejected alternatives: megnyugtatás (consolation — loses the exhortative force)
Original: παράκλησις
Category: Unity and Humility

Philippians 2:1 (παράκλησις). A calling-alongside grounded in shared experience of Christ’s comforting presence, reusing the register of the baseline’s ‘exhort’ (buzdítani).


Partnership Giving Receiving

Approved rendering: az adás és elfogadás dolgában való közösség
Doctrine: Partnership in the Gospel
Original: κοινωνία εἰς λόγον δόσεως καὶ λήμψεως
Category: Partnership

Philippians 4:15. Commercial-bookkeeping idiom applied to the Philippians’ material support of Paul; preserve the concrete idiom.


Same Soul United

Approved rendering: egy lélekkel
Doctrine: Unity and Humility in the Church
Rejected alternatives: generic ‘egység’ (unity), which loses the vivid compound image

Philippians 2:2 (σύμψυχοι). A vivid compound found only here in the New Testament; translator note advisable to preserve the image.


Knowledge Of Christ

Approved rendering: Krisztus megismerése
Doctrine: Righteousness by Faith versus the Law

Philippians 3:8 (γνῶσις Χριστοῦ). Relational, experiential knowing, the supreme value eclipsing all former credentials.


Boldness

Approved rendering: bátorság
Doctrine: Joy in Suffering and Imprisonment

Philippians 1:14, 1:20 (παρρησία). Confident, unashamed public speech, the desired outcome of Paul’s imprisonment among the believers.


Conformed To His Death

Approved rendering: halálához hasonlóvá válva
Doctrine: Fellowship in Christ’s Sufferings

Philippians 3:10 (συμμορφιζόμενος). Echoes morphē language from the core passage (2:6-7); the believer’s life patterned after Christ’s self-giving shape.


Circumcision

Approved rendering: körülmetélés
Doctrine: Righteousness by Faith versus the Law

Philippians 3:5 (περιτομή). Covenant sign of Israel, by metonymy confidence in ethnic/ritual heritage renounced as a ground of righteousness; requires OT covenant background note.


Blameless And Pure

Approved rendering: feddhetetlenek és tiszták
Doctrine: Identity as God’s Children

Philippians 2:15 (ἄμεμπτοι καὶ ἀκέραιοι). Visible moral integrity amid a crooked generation.


Word Of Life

Approved rendering: az élet igéje
Doctrine: Gospel

Philippians 2:16 (λόγος ζωῆς). The gospel content the Philippians hold fast; reuses the baseline gospel conceptual field.


Low Risk Terms

Thanksgiving

Approved rendering: hálaadás
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package. Philippians 1:3, 4:6.


Exhort

Approved rendering: buzdítani
Doctrine: Mutual Edification

Inherited from Romans package. Philippians 4:2’s appeal to Euodia and Syntyche and the related ‘encouragement’ (παράκλησις) of 2:1 draw on the same register.


Affection And Mercy

Approved rendering: szívbeli szeretet és könyörület
Doctrine: Unity and Humility in the Church

Philippians 2:1 (σπλάγχνα καὶ οἰκτιρμοί). Deeply felt, gut-level compassion modeled on Christ’s own compassion.


Knowledge

Approved rendering: ismeret
Doctrine: Unity and Humility in the Church

Philippians 1:9 (ἐπίγνωσις). Paired with discernment as the shape love should take, not blind sentiment.


Discernment

Approved rendering: megkülönböztető képesség
Doctrine: Unity and Humility in the Church

Philippians 1:10 (αἴσθησις). Practical wisdom to distinguish what truly matters.


Yokefellow

Approved rendering: igazi munkatársam
Doctrine: Unity and Humility in the Church

Philippians 4:3 (σύζυγος). Address to an unnamed co-worker; untranslatable wordplay noted only in teaching material.


Caesars Household

Approved rendering: a császár háza népéből valók
Doctrine: Citizenship in Heaven / Partnership in the Gospel

Philippians 4:22. Concrete historical evidence of the gospel’s reach into the heart of Roman imperial power; proper noun ‘Császár’ established form.


Grumbling And Disputing

Approved rendering: zúgolódás és vetekedés
Doctrine: Unity and Humility in the Church

Philippians 2:14 (γογγυσμός καὶ διαλογισμός). Negative behaviors excluded from the blameless life urged in context.


Proper Names Timothy Epaphroditus

Approved rendering: Timóteus, Epafroditosz
Doctrine: Partnership in the Gospel

Philippians 1:1, 2:19-30, 4:18. Established Hungarian Bible-translation forms of Paul’s named coworkers.

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