Core Glossary
Core Glossary — 1 Thessalonians
English → Indonesian | Per-Term Translation Risk Reference
This glossary lists every load-bearing theological term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md, spanning all five chapters of 1 Thessalonians. Terms marked [Baseline reuse] carry forward the exact rendering recorded in the Romans Language Package translation_memory.json / bible_term_registry.json and must not be altered. Terms marked [NEW] are proposed additions specific to this curriculum, using the same risk framework (Critical / High / Medium / Low) and the same review-routing convention (Critical & High → human theologian; Medium → native speaker; Low → automated).
Part 1 — Baseline Terms Reused Exactly
| Term (English) | Indonesian Rendering | Risk | Chapters (1 Thess.) | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gospel | Injil | High | 1:5; 2:2,4,8,9; 3:2 | Baseline reuse | Anchor to Christ crucified and risen preached by the apostolic band. |
| Faith | iman | High | 1:3,8; 3:2,5,6,7,10; 5:8 | Baseline reuse | Trust in Christ specifically, not generic religious assent. |
| Grace | anugerah | High | 1:1; 5:28 | Baseline reuse | Never rahmat/pahala. |
| Peace | damai sejahtera | Medium | 1:1; 5:3,23 | Baseline reuse | Relational/covenantal peace, not mere absence of conflict. |
| Church | jemaat | Medium | 1:1; 2:14 | Baseline reuse | The gathered congregation, not building/institution. |
| Holy Spirit | Roh Kudus | Critical | 1:5,6; 4:8; 5:19 | Baseline reuse | Distinguish from Islamic Ruh al-Qudus (Gabriel). |
| God | Allah | Critical | throughout | Baseline reuse | Term itself not the risk; surrounding vocabulary is. |
| Lord | Tuhan | Critical | throughout | Baseline reuse | Exclusive, supreme Lordship of Christ. |
| Jesus | Yesus | Critical | throughout | Baseline reuse | Never Nabi Isa. |
| Resurrection [of Christ] | kebangkitan | High | 4:14 | Baseline reuse | Ground of the new doctrine “Resurrection of Believers” (see Part 2). |
| Saints | orang-orang kudus | Medium | 3:13 | Baseline reuse | Never wali; every believer, not a venerated elite. |
| Sanctification | pengudusan | Medium | 4:3,4,7; 5:23 | Baseline reuse | The letter’s explicit doctrinal thesis at 4:3. |
| Holy | kudus | Medium | 2:10; 3:13; 4:4,7; 5:23,26 | Baseline reuse | Moral/relational, not ritual purity. |
| Election/chosen | pemilihan | Medium | 1:4 | Baseline reuse | Never takdir. |
| Called/calling | yang dipanggil / panggilan | Medium/High | 2:12; 4:7; 5:24 | Baseline reuse | Effectual calling into salvation and holy living. |
| Gentiles | bangsa-bangsa lain | Medium | 4:5 | Baseline reuse | Never orang kafir. |
| Glory | kemuliaan | Medium/High | 2:12,20 | Baseline reuse | God’s radiant honor; also anticipated at Christ’s coming. |
| Thanksgiving | ucapan syukur | Low | 1:2; 2:13; 3:9; 5:18 | Baseline reuse | Minimal doctrinal risk. |
| Kingdom of God | Kerajaan Allah | Medium | 2:12 | Baseline reuse | God’s reign, not a political/national kingdom. |
| Apostle | rasul | Critical | 2:6 | Baseline reuse | Distinguish from the closed Islamic prophetic line. |
| Father | Bapa | Critical | 1:1,3; 3:11,13 | Baseline reuse | Relational/adoptive, not physical parentage. |
| Son of God | Anak Allah | Critical | 1:10 | Baseline reuse | Eternal relational Sonship, directly tied here to the Parousia. |
| Sin | dosa | Medium | 2:16 | Baseline reuse | Relational offense against a personal God. |
| Exhort [entreaty/edification senses] | memohon / menasihati | Low | 2:12; 5:11,14 | Baseline reuse | See Part 2 for the newly tracked consolation sense (4:18). |
| Prophecy | nubuat | Low | 5:20 | Baseline reuse | Distinct from astrological prediction. |
Part 2 — New Terms Introduced by This Curriculum
| Term (English) | Greek | Indonesian Rendering | Doctrine | Risk | Chapters | Grounded Risk Reason | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Return of Christ / Coming | παρουσία (parousia) | kedatangan (kedatangan Tuhan Yesus) | The Return of Christ | High | 2:19; 3:13; 4:15; 5:23 | Collides with the Islamic hadith doctrine of Nuzul Isa — Jesus’s return there is as a subordinate prophet under other authority who fights the Dajjal, later dies, and is raised only at the general resurrection. The biblical parousia is the personal, glorious return of the divine, already-risen, reigning Lord to gather and glorify his own. Every occurrence requires a distinguishing note. | Human theologian |
| Day of the Lord | ἡμέρα κυρίου (hēmera kyriou) | hari Tuhan | The Day of the Lord | High | 5:2,4 | Collides with the generic Islamic Yaumul Qiyamah/Yaumuddin, where Allah alone judges via weighed deeds. Here the Day is specifically and personally identified with the Lord Jesus’s return described in 4:16–17, combining deliverance for believers with sudden judgment for the unready. Every occurrence requires a distinguishing note. | Human theologian |
| Hope | ἐλπίς (elpis) | pengharapan | Hope in Grief | High | 1:3; 4:13; 5:8 | Distinguish from Islamic raja’ (hope for Allah’s mercy held in uncertain tension with fear/khawf until deeds are weighed). Christian hope here is a certain expectation grounded in the already-accomplished historical resurrection of Christ (4:14), not an uncertain plea. Central to the curriculum’s pastoral doctrine. | Human theologian |
| Asleep [in death] | κοιμωμένων / κεκοιμημένων (koimōmenōn) | mereka yang telah meninggal (retaining the underlying “sleep” image in teaching) | Hope in Grief / Resurrection of Believers | Medium | 4:13,14,15; 5:10 | Euphemism presupposing a future waking (resurrection); risk of being misheard as soul-sleep, annihilation, or (in mixed audiences) reincarnation-adjacent categories if the underlying metaphor is lost. | Native speaker review |
| Caught up / Rapture | ἁρπαγησόμεθα (harpagēsometha) | diangkat | The Return of Christ | High | 4:17 | Collides with Quran 4:157–158, where Allah “raised” (rafa’a) Jesus to himself instead of allowing crucifixion — a well-known, specific Quranic image already flagged in the baseline jesus entry. Must be distinguished: this is the resurrected/glorified whole company of believers (living and dead) being gathered to the once-crucified-and-risen Lord, not an individual prophet’s escape from death. | Human theologian |
| Trumpet of God | σάλπιγγι θεοῦ (salpingi theou) | sangkakala Allah | The Return of Christ / The Day of the Lord | Critical | 4:16 | ”Sangkakala” is the established Indonesian term for the Islamic angel Israfil’s eschatological trumpet (nafkh as-sur, cf. Quran 39:68; 69:13), whose two blasts cause universal death then general resurrection-for-judgment. The biblical trumpet announces the Lord Jesus’s personal return to raise and gather believers specifically. Requires a distinguishing note at every occurrence. | Human theologian |
| Archangel | ἀρχαγγέλου (archangelou) | penghulu malaikat | The Return of Christ | Medium | 4:16 | A created angelic herald (cf. Michael, Jude 9), subordinate to Christ; must not be confused with the Holy Spirit or with Gabriel’s revelation-bearing role in Islamic doctrine (already flagged under baseline holy_spirit). | Native speaker review |
| Cry of command / signal | κελεύσματι (keleusmati) | tanda (suatu tanda / seruan) | The Return of Christ | Low/Medium | 4:16 | Christ’s own sovereign summons; low direct religious-vocabulary collision, but must be taught as personal and authoritative rather than an impersonal cosmic sign. | Native speaker review |
| Meet [the Lord] | ἀπάντησιν (apantēsin) | menyongsong | The Return of Christ | Medium | 4:17 | Hellenistic “welcome a dignitary” nuance must be retained so the air-meeting is understood as the beginning of Christ’s triumphal return, not believers’ permanent destination. | Native speaker review |
| Clouds [theophanic] | νεφέλαις (nephelais) | awan-awan | The Return of Christ | Medium | 4:17 | Echoes OT glory-cloud theophany (Exod 19; Dan 7:13); risk of flattening to ordinary weather imagery if the theophanic weight is not taught. | Native speaker review |
| Word of the Lord / Word of God | λόγῳ κυρίου / λόγον θεοῦ (logō kyriou / logon theou) | firman Tuhan / firman Allah | Inspiration of Scripture (extends baseline doctrine) | High | 1:6,8; 2:13; 4:15 | Collides with the Islamic kalamullah doctrine (the Quran as Allah’s literal, uncreated, dictated speech). Here it denotes a proclaimed, Spirit-empowered apostolic message received by human hearers — not a fixed, eternal text-corpus. | Human theologian |
| Wrath to come | ὀργῆς (orgēs) | murka yang akan datang | The Day of the Lord (extends baseline salvation) | High | 1:10; 2:16; 5:9 | Must be distinguished from an Islamic deeds-weighing framework for escaping divine wrath; here deliverance is already secured through Christ’s death and resurrection (5:9–10), not pending judgment outcome. | Human theologian |
| Idols | εἰδώλων (eidōlōn) | berhala | (Conversion narrative, 1:9) | Medium | 1:9 | Broadly compatible with Islamic rejection of shirk (lowers risk), but must stay anchored to the specific conversion from pagan Thessalonian religion to “the living and true God” in Christ. | Native speaker review |
| Tempter / Satan | ὁ πειράζων / ὁ Σατανᾶς (ho peirazōn / ho Satanas) | si penggoda / Iblis | (Spiritual opposition to gospel mission) | Medium | 2:18; 3:5 | Shared vocabulary with Islamic Iblis/Shaitan as rebellious spiritual adversary lowers risk, but the specific NT narrative role (hindering gospel mission, tempting toward apostasy under persecution) should not be assumed automatically equivalent to the Quranic Iblis narrative. | Native speaker review |
| Holiness [state, distinct from sanctification-process] | ἁγιωσύνῃ (hagiōsynē) | kekudusan | Sanctification (extends baseline) | Medium | 3:13 | New nuance within the baseline kudus-word-family: hagiōsynē (settled state) vs. hagiasmos (ongoing process, = baseline pengudusan). Translation memory must track both senses distinctly. | Native speaker review |
| Vessel | σκεῦος (skeuos) | tubuhnya (alt. bejana) | Sanctification | Medium | 4:4 | Exegetically ambiguous referent (one’s own body vs. spouse); primarily a translator decision point requiring a fixed, consistent choice, flagged for review rather than a religious-collision risk. | Native speaker review |
| Fornication / sexual immorality | πορνείας (porneias) | percabulan | Sanctification | Medium | 4:3 | Broadly compatible moral vocabulary with Islamic sexual ethics; must retain the specifically Christian ground of the command (belonging to God, sanctification) over a bare legal-code framing. | Native speaker review |
| Brotherly love | φιλαδελφίας (philadelphias) | kasih akan saudara | Sanctification / Mutual Edification | Low | 4:9 | Standard vocabulary, minimal risk. | Automated review |
| Sons/children of light | υἱοὶ φωτός (huioi phōtos) | anak-anak terang | The Day of the Lord | Medium | 5:5 | Standard NT light/darkness ethical-eschatological contrast; low direct collision, taught within its own NT sense. | Native speaker review |
| Sober / watchful | νήφωμεν / γρηγορῶμεν (nēphōmen / grēgorōmen) | sadar / berjaga-jaga | The Day of the Lord | Medium | 5:6,8,10 | Distinct sense of “sleep” (spiritual apathy, καθεύδωμεν) from the death-euphemism koimaō (4:13–15); translation memory must track both senses separately to avoid conflation. | Native speaker review |
| Thief in the night | κλέπτης ἐν νυκτί (kleptēs en nykti) | pencuri pada waktu malam | The Day of the Lord | Low | 5:2 | Metaphor for suddenness; context prevents any implication about the Lord’s character. | Automated review |
| Sudden destruction | αἰφνίδιος ὄλεθρος (aiphnidios olethros) | kebinasaan yang tiba-tiba | The Day of the Lord | Medium | 5:3 | Ties to wrath/Day of the Lord doctrine; must retain suddenness and inescapability for the unprepared. | Native speaker review |
| Breastplate of faith and love / Helmet of hope of salvation | θώρακα πίστεως καὶ ἀγάπης / περικεφαλαίαν ἐλπίδα σωτηρίας | baju zirah iman dan kasih / ketopong pengharapan keselamatan | The Day of the Lord / Hope in Grief | Medium | 5:8 | Composite image combining baseline faith (High) and salvation (Critical) with new hope (High); flag for consistent joint rendering across occurrences. | Native speaker review |
| Died for us [substitutionary] | ἀποθανόντος … ἵνα ζήσωμεν | yang telah mati bagi kita, supaya kita hidup | The Day of the Lord / Salvation | High | 5:10 | Atonement-adjacent language; per baseline escalation rules, atonement/substitution language always routes to theologian review. | Human theologian |
| Quench the Spirit | τὸ πνεῦμα μὴ σβέννυτε | jangan padamkan Roh itu | Sanctification (extends baseline Holy Spirit doctrine) | Critical | 5:19 | Inherits Critical status directly from baseline holy_spirit; additionally, “memadamkan” (extinguishing) risks being heard as suppressing a lesser spirit/jin rather than resisting the ministry of the divine Third Person of the Trinity. | Human theologian |
| Spirit, soul, and body | πνεῦμα καὶ ψυχὴ καὶ σῶμα | roh, jiwa, dan tubuh | Sanctification / The Return of Christ | Medium | 5:23 | Lowercase “roh” (human spirit) must stay typographically/doctrinally distinct from capitalized “Roh Kudus” (Holy Spirit); parallel Islamic anthropological vocabulary (ruh, nafs) should not be assumed equivalent in nuance. | Native speaker review |
| Holy kiss | φιλήματι ἁγίῳ (philēmati hagiō) | cium yang kudus | Christian Fellowship | Low/Medium | 5:26 | First-century family-greeting custom; needs a brief cultural note, not a religious-collision flag. | Native speaker review |
| Comfort/console [grief sense] | παρακαλεῖτε (parakaleite) | hiburlah (menghibur) | Hope in Grief | Medium | 4:18 | New third sense alongside baseline’s two recorded senses (entreaty = memohon; edification = menasihati) for this same Greek verb; must be tracked distinctly in translation memory so consolation contexts are not flattened into the edification sense. | Native speaker review |
Risk Summary for This Curriculum’s New Terms
| Risk | Count | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 2 (Trumpet of God; Quench the Spirit) | Human theologian |
| High | 7 (Return of Christ; Day of the Lord; Hope; Caught up/Rapture; Word of the Lord/God; Wrath to come; Died for us) | Human theologian |
| Medium | 16 | Native speaker review |
| Low | 3 | Automated review |
This glossary extends, and must never contradict, the baseline Romans Language Package translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json for Indonesian. All Part 1 terms are locked to baseline renderings. Part 2 terms are proposed for formal addition to translation memory in the next Language Package update (version increment required).
Critical Risk Terms
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: Roh Kudus
Transliteration: roh kudus
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Empowers gospel reception (1:5,6), is given as the ground of sanctification (4:8), and must not be ‘quenched’ by the church (5:19; see quench_the_spirit below). Every occurrence requires the standard distinguishing note from the Islamic Ruh al-Qudus (generally identified with the angel Gabriel).
God
Approved rendering: Allah
Transliteration: allah
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. The term itself is not the risk; risk lies in surrounding vocabulary (rasul, sangkakala, firman, kedatangan) throughout this book.
Lord
Approved rendering: Tuhan
Transliteration: tuhan
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Central to this letter’s eschatological vocabulary: ‘the Lord Jesus Christ’ throughout, ‘word of the Lord’ (4:15), ‘the Lord himself’ (4:16), ‘day of the Lord’ (5:2). Must convey exclusive, supreme Lordship; never a lord among lords.
Jesus
Approved rendering: Yesus
Transliteration: yesus
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Nabi Isa
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Never Nabi Isa. Foundational to 4:14’s claim that ‘Jesus died and rose again’ — directly contradicted by Quran 4:157’s denial of the crucifixion.
Apostle
Approved rendering: rasul
Transliteration: rasul
Doctrine: Apostleship
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package; doctrine-level risk is Critical in this book’s registry. Appears at 2:6, where Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy exercise apostolic-band authority and restraint. Every occurrence requires the distinguishing note from the closed Islamic prophetic line ending with Muhammad.
Father
Approved rendering: Bapa
Transliteration: bapa
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Appears repeatedly (1:1,3; 3:11,13). Relational/adoptive language, not physical parentage, which Islamic theology treats with extreme caution.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: Anak Allah
Transliteration: anak allah
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Original: υἱὸς αὐτοῦ
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Appears at 1:10, ‘to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead’ — directly linking Sonship to the Return of Christ doctrine central to this book, and compounding two Critical-risk claims (Sonship plus historical resurrection) in a single verse.
Salvation
Approved rendering: keselamatan
Transliteration: keselamatan
Doctrine: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Appears at 5:8 (‘helmet of the hope of salvation’) and 5:9 (‘God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation’), contrasted directly with wrath in an already-secured-deliverance framing. Every occurrence needs explicit framing distinguishing this from Islamic deeds-and-mercy soteriology.
Trumpet Of God
Approved rendering: sangkakala Allah
Transliteration: sangkakala allah
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Original: σάλπιγξ θεοῦ
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM, the single most theologically sensitive rendering in this book. Sangkakala is the established Indonesian term for the Islamic angel Israfil’s eschatological trumpet (nafkh as-sur, Quran 39:68; 69:13), whose two blasts cause universal death then general resurrection-for-judgment. The biblical trumpet (4:16) announces the Lord Jesus’s personal return to raise and gather believers specifically. Requires a distinguishing note at every occurrence; no paraphrase alternative exists.
Quench The Spirit
Approved rendering: jangan padamkan Roh itu
Transliteration: jangan padamkan roh itu
Doctrine: Quenching the Spirit
Rejected alternatives: jangan menghalangi pekerjaan Roh Allah (paraphrase, retained only as a teaching cross-check, never as the primary rendering)
Original: τὸ πνεῦμα μὴ σβέννυτε
Category: God
NEW TERM (5:19) inheriting Critical status directly from the baseline holy_spirit entry. ‘Memadamkan’ (extinguishing) must not be heard as suppressing a lesser created spirit, angel, or jin, but as resisting the ongoing ministry of the divine Third Person of the Trinity within the gathered congregation. Every occurrence requires the standard Roh Kudus distinguishing note plus this added caution.
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: Injil
Transliteration: injil
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: kabar baik
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. In 1 Thessalonians anchors the apostolic proclamation received ‘in power and in the Holy Spirit’ (1:5) and recurs through the ministry narrative (2:2,4,8,9; 3:2). Must remain anchored to the specific proclamation of Christ crucified and risen, never a generic label for a scripture supposedly given to Isa.
Faith
Approved rendering: iman
Transliteration: iman
Doctrine: Faith
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Appears in the faith/love/hope triad (1:3; 5:8) and as the subject of Paul’s pastoral concern for the church (3:2,5,6,7,10). Anchor to personal trust in Christ specifically, not generic religious assent.
Grace
Approved rendering: anugerah
Transliteration: anugerah
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: rahmat, pahala
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Appears in the epistolary greeting (1:1) and closing benediction (5:28). Never rahmat or pahala.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: kebangkitan
Transliteration: kebangkitan
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Original: ἀνάστασις / ἀνίστημι
Category: Eschatology
Inherited from Romans package. In 1 Thessalonians 4:14 grounds confidence about deceased believers in Christ’s own historical resurrection; extended at 4:16 into the new doctrine ‘Resurrection of Believers’ (see resurrection_of_believers below). Never render with a term for reincarnation or cyclical rebirth.
Called
Approved rendering: yang dipanggil
Transliteration: yang dipanggil
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλητός / καλέω
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Context-sensitive: 2:12 (called into God’s kingdom and glory), 4:7 (called to holiness, not impurity), 5:24 (‘he who calls you is faithful’).
Calling
Approved rendering: panggilan
Transliteration: panggilan
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Noun form of God’s sovereign, personal summons; never takdir (impersonal fate).
Glory
Approved rendering: kemuliaan
Transliteration: kemuliaan
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Appears at 2:12 (called into God’s kingdom and glory) and 2:20 (the Thessalonians as Paul’s ‘glory’ at Christ’s coming), directly linking glory to the Return of Christ.
Return Of Christ
Approved rendering: kedatangan (Tuhan Yesus)
Transliteration: kedatangan tuhan yesus
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: parusia (unused loanword), kehadiran
Original: παρουσία
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Never left as a bare ‘kedatangan’ in doctrinally load-bearing sentences; lock the full collocation ‘kedatangan Tuhan Yesus’. Collides with the Islamic hadith doctrine of Nuzul Isa, where Jesus returns as a subordinate prophet, fights the Dajjal, dies naturally, and is raised only at the general resurrection. ‘Kehadiran’ is explicitly rejected because it is the Jehovah’s Witness (NWT-Indo) rendering supporting an invisible, non-bodily 1914 ‘presence’ doctrine. Appears 2:19; 3:13; 4:15; 5:23; every occurrence requires a distinguishing note.
Day Of The Lord
Approved rendering: hari Tuhan
Transliteration: hari tuhan
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: ἡμέρα κυρίου
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Collides with the generic Islamic Yaumul Qiyamah/Yaumuddin (Day of Resurrection/Judgment), where Allah alone judges by weighing deeds. Must be explicitly cross-referenced back to the Return of Christ described in 4:16-17 at every occurrence (5:2,4) so the Day is understood as personally identified with the Lord Jesus, not a generic deeds-weighing day.
Hope
Approved rendering: pengharapan
Transliteration: pengharapan
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Original: ἐλπίς
Category: Faith
NEW TERM. Must be distinguished from Islamic raja’ (hope for Allah’s mercy held in uncertain tension with fear/khawf until deeds are weighed at judgment). Appears in the faith/love/hope triad (1:3), as the ground for grief that differs from unbelievers’ grief (4:13), and as spiritual armor (5:8). Grounded in the already-accomplished historical fact of Christ’s resurrection (4:14), not an uncertain wish.
Resurrection Of Believers
Approved rendering: kebangkitan orang-orang percaya (yang telah meninggal dalam Kristus)
Transliteration: kebangkitan orang-orang percaya
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers
Original: οἱ νεκροὶ ἐν Χριστῷ ἀναστήσονται
Category: Eschatology
NEW doctrine-level term extending baseline resurrection (kebangkitan). Islam affirms only a single, generic, universal end-times resurrection for judgment (Yaumul Qiyamah); this passage teaches a resurrection specific to believers, grounded in Christ’s own historical resurrection (4:14) and prioritized ahead of the living being gathered (4:16, ‘will rise first’). Preserve the sequencing adverb every occurrence.
Caught Up
Approved rendering: diangkat
Transliteration: diangkat
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: harpage (unused loanword)
Original: ἁρπαγησόμεθα
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Appears at 4:17. Collides with Quran 4:157-158’s rafa’a (Allah ‘raised’ Jesus to himself instead of allowing crucifixion), already flagged under the baseline jesus entry. Must be distinguished: this is the sudden, corporate, decisive gathering of the whole resurrected/living company of believers to the once-crucified-and-risen Lord, not an individual prophet’s escape from death. Every occurrence requires this distinguishing note.
Word Of The Lord
Approved rendering: firman Tuhan / firman Allah
Transliteration: firman tuhan / firman allah
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture (Word of the Lord/Word of God)
Rejected alternatives: ajaran Tuhan
Original: λόγος κυρίου / λόγος θεοῦ
Category: Covenant
NEW TERM extending the baseline Inspiration of Scripture doctrine. Appears at 1:6,8; 2:13 (received ‘not as the word of men, but… the word of God, which is at work in you’); 4:15 (grounding the Return of Christ teaching). ‘Ajaran Tuhan’ (a paraphrase rendering, ‘teaching of the Lord’) is rejected because it weakens the note of authoritative divine proclamation into a generic-instruction register. Must be distinguished from the Islamic kalamullah doctrine (the Quran as Allah’s literal, uncreated, dictated speech) — this is a proclaimed, Spirit-empowered apostolic message received by human hearers.
Wrath To Come
Approved rendering: murka yang akan datang
Transliteration: murka yang akan datang
Doctrine: Wrath to Come and Deliverance
Rejected alternatives: selamat karena amal baik, diselamatkan berkat kebaikannya
Original: ὀργή
Category: Salvation
NEW TERM. Appears at 1:10 (‘delivers us from the wrath to come’), 2:16, and 5:9 (contrasted with salvation). Deeds-weighing framings circulating in informal evangelistic tract material are explicitly rejected per the baseline’s grace-not-merit rule; deliverance here is already secured through Christ’s death and resurrection (5:9-10), not a pending judgment outcome.
Died For Us
Approved rendering: yang telah mati bagi kita, supaya kita hidup
Transliteration: yang telah mati bagi kita, supaya kita hidup
Doctrine: Substitutionary Death of Christ
Original: ἀποθανόντος … ἵνα ζήσωμεν
Category: Salvation
NEW TERM. Appears at 5:10. Atonement-adjacent, purpose-clause language; per baseline escalation rules, atonement/substitution language always routes to theologian review regardless of surrounding vocabulary simplicity. Never hedge or soften the historical reality of Christ’s death; Islamic theology denies the crucifixion itself (Quran 4:157), making this the most historically-basic collision point in the letter.
Medium Risk Terms
Peace
Approved rendering: damai sejahtera
Transliteration: damai sejahtera
Doctrine: Peace with God
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Appears in the greeting (1:1) and the benediction ‘God of peace’ (5:23); requires special contextual care at 5:3 where ‘peace and safety’ is quoted ironically as a false claim being mocked, not an endorsed blessing.
Church
Approved rendering: jemaat
Transliteration: jemaat
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: gereja
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Designates the Thessalonian congregation ‘in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ’ (1:1); recurs at 2:14.
Saints
Approved rendering: orang-orang kudus
Transliteration: orang-orang kudus
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: wali
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Appears at 3:13, ‘with all his saints,’ anticipating Christ’s return. Never wali; every believer, not a venerated elite comparable to the Wali Songo venerated at Indonesian pilgrimage sites.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: pengudusan
Transliteration: pengudusan
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἁγιασμός
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. 4:3 states ‘this is the will of God, your sanctification’ — this letter’s explicit doctrinal thesis-statement, further connected to Christ’s return at 5:23. Track distinctly from the new state-sense term kekudusan (see holiness_state below); never conflate process and state.
Holy
Approved rendering: kudus
Transliteration: kudus
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: suci
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. Appears at 2:10; 3:13; 4:4,7; 5:23,26. Moral/relational holiness, not ritual purity.
Election
Approved rendering: pemilihan
Transliteration: pemilihan
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: takdir
Original: ἐκλογή
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Appears at 1:4: the Thessalonians’ faith-response is rooted in God’s prior election. Never takdir.
Gentiles
Approved rendering: bangsa-bangsa lain
Transliteration: bangsa-bangsa lain
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Rejected alternatives: orang kafir
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Appears at 4:5, contrasting sanctified conduct with ‘the Gentiles who do not know God.’ Never orang kafir.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: Kerajaan Allah
Transliteration: kerajaan allah
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom
Inherited from Romans package. Appears at 2:12: believers called into God’s ‘own kingdom and glory.’ Distinguish from an earthly political kerajaan.
Sin
Approved rendering: dosa
Transliteration: dosa
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans package. Appears at 2:16 in a historically sensitive polemical statement requiring added interpretive care in teaching materials, distinct from the translation-term risk itself.
Asleep In Death
Approved rendering: mereka yang telah meninggal
Transliteration: mereka yang telah meninggal
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers
Rejected alternatives: tertidur (literal calque, risks soul-sleep misreading)
Original: κοιμωμένων / κεκοιμημένων
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Appears at 4:13,14,15 and 5:10. Established Indonesian Bible practice favors the plain ‘meninggal’ for clarity, but the underlying sleep-image and its resurrection-hope must be taught explicitly in surrounding material so it is not misheard as soul-sleep, annihilation, or reincarnation-adjacent categories.
Archangel
Approved rendering: penghulu malaikat
Transliteration: penghulu malaikat
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: arkanggelos (unused loanword)
Original: ἀρχάγγελος
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Established Indonesian Bible calque (cf. Michael, Jude 9) for a created angelic herald, subordinate to Christ, accompanying his descent (4:16). Must not be confused with the Holy Spirit or with Gabriel’s revelation-bearing role already flagged under the holy_spirit entry.
Cry Of Command
Approved rendering: tanda (seruan)
Transliteration: tanda seruan
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Original: κέλευσμα
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. An authoritative shouted summons (4:16), military/nautical usage in the source. Low direct religious-vocabulary collision, but must be taught as Christ’s own sovereign, authoritative command, not an impersonal cosmic sign.
Meet The Lord
Approved rendering: menyongsong
Transliteration: menyongsong
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: menyambut
Original: ἀπάντησις
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Hellenistic technical term (4:17) for a delegation going out to ceremonially welcome and escort home an arriving dignitary/king. ‘Menyambut’ (generic ‘receive/welcome’) is rejected as the primary rendering because it loses the ceremonial escort nuance. Must be taught so the air-meeting is understood as the beginning of Christ’s triumphal return, not believers’ permanent destination.
Clouds
Approved rendering: awan-awan
Transliteration: awan-awan
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Original: νεφέλαι
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Theophanic clouds (4:17) echoing Old Testament glory-cloud imagery (Exodus 19; Daniel 7:13). Risk of flattening to ordinary meteorological imagery if the theophanic weight is not taught.
Idols
Approved rendering: berhala
Transliteration: berhala
Doctrine: Conversion from Idolatry
Original: εἴδωλα
Category: Sin
NEW TERM. Appears at 1:9, ‘you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God.’ Broadly compatible with the Islamic rejection of shirk, lowering collision risk, but must stay anchored to the Thessalonians’ specific historical conversion narrative to the living and true God in Christ, not a generic anti-idolatry statement.
Tempter Satan
Approved rendering: si penggoda / Iblis
Transliteration: si penggoda / iblis
Doctrine: Spiritual Opposition to Gospel Mission
Original: ὁ πειράζων / ὁ Σατανᾶς
Category: Sin
NEW TERM. Appears at 2:18 (‘Satan hindered us’) and 3:5 (‘lest the tempter tempt you’). Shared vocabulary with the Islamic Iblis/Shaitan as a rebellious spiritual adversary lowers direct collision risk, but the specific NT narrative role (hindering gospel mission, tempting toward apostasy under persecution) should not be assumed automatically equivalent to the Quranic Iblis narrative; a brief clarifying gloss is advisable.
Holiness State
Approved rendering: kekudusan
Transliteration: kekudusan
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἁγιωσύνη
Category: Sanctification
NEW nuance within the baseline kudus word-family. Appears at 3:13, ‘establish your hearts unblameable in holiness (hagiosyne).’ Distinct from hagiasmos (the ongoing process, = baseline pengudusan); translation memory must track the process/state distinction and never conflate the two nouns.
Vessel
Approved rendering: tubuhnya
Transliteration: tubuhnya
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: bejana (footnote-only alternative)
Original: σκεῦος
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Appears at 4:4, an exegetically debated referent (one’s own body, or less commonly, one’s wife) in the command to sexual self-control. Primarily a translator decision point requiring a single, consistent choice; follow the primary reading (tubuhnya sendiri) with bejana retained only as a footnoted alternative for teaching transparency.
Fornication
Approved rendering: percabulan
Transliteration: percabulan
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: πορνεία
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Appears at 4:3, ‘that you abstain from sexual immorality.’ Broadly compatible moral vocabulary with Islamic sexual ethics, lowering collision risk, but must retain the specifically Christian ground of the command (belonging to God, sanctification) rather than a bare legal-code framing.
Sons Of Light
Approved rendering: anak-anak terang
Transliteration: anak-anak terang
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: orang-orang terang
Original: υἱοὶ φωτός
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Appears at 5:5, believers’ identity contrasted with ‘night’ and ‘darkness.’ The Hebraic idiom ‘anak-anak’ (preserving ‘characterized by/belonging to’) is preferred over the more generic ‘orang-orang.’ Should be taught within its own NT ethical-eschatological sense, not confused with unrelated esoteric movements historically active in Indonesia bearing similar names.
Sober Watchful
Approved rendering: sadar / berjaga-jaga
Transliteration: sadar / berjaga-jaga
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: waspada
Original: νήφω / γρηγορέω
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Appears at 5:6,8,10. This spiritual-apathy sense of ‘sleep’ (katheudo) is distinct from the death-euphemism ‘sleep’ (koimao) of 4:13-15; translation memory must track the two senses separately to avoid conflation. Ground in the believer’s already-secured ‘children of light’ identity, not an anxious, uncertain-outcome tone resembling folk taqwa vigilance.
Sudden Destruction
Approved rendering: kebinasaan yang tiba-tiba
Transliteration: kebinasaan yang tiba-tiba
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: αἰφνίδιος ὄλεθρος
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Appears at 5:3. Ties directly to the wrath-to-come/Day of the Lord doctrine; must retain suddenness and inescapability for the unprepared.
Armor Of Faith Love Hope
Approved rendering: baju zirah iman dan kasih / ketopong pengharapan keselamatan
Transliteration: baju zirah iman dan kasih / ketopong pengharapan keselamatan
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: θώραξ πίστεως καὶ ἀγάπης / περικεφαλαία ἐλπὶς σωτηρίας
Category: Eschatology
NEW composite TERM (5:8) joining baseline faith (High) and salvation (Critical) with the newly tracked hope (High). Flag for consistent joint rendering across every occurrence; all three component terms must render consistently with their individually established renderings.
Spirit Soul Body
Approved rendering: roh, jiwa, dan tubuh
Transliteration: roh, jiwa, dan tubuh
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: πνεῦμα καὶ ψυχὴ καὶ σῶμα
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Appears at 5:23, kept ‘blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.’ Lowercase ‘roh’ (human spirit) must stay typographically and doctrinally distinct from capitalized ‘Roh Kudus’ (Holy Spirit); parallel Islamic anthropological vocabulary (ruh, nafs) should not be assumed automatically equivalent in nuance.
Holy Kiss
Approved rendering: cium yang kudus
Transliteration: cium yang kudus
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Original: φίλημα ἅγιον
Category: Church
NEW TERM. Appears at 5:26. A first-century cultural greeting practice among believers expressing family affection, not romantic intimacy. Requires a brief cultural-context note rather than a religious-collision flag.
Comfort Console Grief
Approved rendering: hiburlah (menghibur)
Transliteration: hiburlah menghibur
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith
NEW tracked sense of the Greek parakaleo at 4:18, distinct from the baseline’s two recorded senses of this same verb (entreaty = memohon; edification = menasihati, reused at 5:11,14). Must be tracked distinctly in translation memory so consolation-in-grief contexts are not flattened into the edification sense.
Low Risk Terms
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: ucapan syukur
Transliteration: ucapan syukur
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Frequent throughout (1:2; 2:13; 3:9; 5:16-18); standard, low-risk vocabulary shared broadly across Indonesian religious usage.
Exhort
Approved rendering: memohon / menasihati
Transliteration: memohon / menasihati
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package (entreaty/edification senses). Appears at 2:12 (entreaty), 5:11,14 (edification: ‘encourage/build up one another’). See comfort_console_grief below for a third, distinct consolation sense at 4:18 not covered by this baseline entry.
Prophecy
Approved rendering: nubuat
Transliteration: nubuat
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Original: προφητεία
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Appears at 5:20, ‘do not despise prophecies,’ within the church’s corporate discernment of the Spirit’s ongoing ministry.
Brotherly Love
Approved rendering: kasih akan saudara
Transliteration: kasih akan saudara
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: φιλαδελφία
Category: Church
NEW TERM. Appears at 4:9, ‘taught by God to love one another.’ Standard vocabulary, minimal doctrinal risk.
Thief In The Night
Approved rendering: pencuri pada waktu malam
Transliteration: pencuri pada waktu malam
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: κλέπτης ἐν νυκτί
Category: Eschatology
NEW TERM. Appears at 5:2. Metaphor for suddenness; context prevents any implication about the Lord’s own character.
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