Core Glossary
Core Glossary: 1 Timothy — English → Kashmiri (Koshur)
Curriculum: 1 Timothy
Baseline authority: Romans Language Package (translation_memory.json, bible_term_registry.json, doctrine_risk_registry.json). Terms already recorded in the baseline are reused exactly and marked “Reused from Romans TM” below; they are not re-litigated here. New terms proposed for 1 Timothy must be added to translation_memory.json (version increment) before Phase 2 translation begins, per the AI Translation Requirements document’s Translation Memory Load and Enforcement Instructions.
Risk tiers follow the baseline’s definitions exactly: Critical (theologian review, every occurrence), High (theologian review), Medium (native speaker review), Low (automated review).
Section A — Terms Reused Exactly from the Romans Baseline
| Term (EN) | Kashmiri | Transliteration | Risk | Occurs in 1 Timothy | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| God | خُدا | Khudā | High | Throughout | No change |
| Lord | خُداوند | Khudāwand | Critical | 1:2,12,14; 6:3,14-15 | No change; reinforced by 6:15’s “Lord of lords” |
| Jesus | یِسوع | Yisū’ | Critical | Throughout | No change |
| Christ/Messiah | مسیح | Masīḥ | Critical | Throughout | No change |
| Gospel | انجیل | Injīl | High | 1:11 | No change |
| Grace | فضل | faz’l | Critical | 1:2,14; 6:21 | No change |
| Faith | ایمان | īmān | High | Throughout | No change; root for several new compounds below |
| Salvation | نجات | najāt | Critical | 1:15; 2:4 | No change; root for new sōtēr/Savior compound below |
| Apostle | رسول | rasūl | Critical | 1:1; 2:7 | No change |
| Called | سَدہ گیہ | sada gyi | High | 6:12 (parallel usage) | No change |
| Holy | پاک | pāk | High | 2:8; 4:5 (“sanctified”) | No change |
| Sanctification | پاکیزگی | pākīzagī | High | 4:5 (implied) | No change |
| Church | کلیسیا | kalīsiyā | Medium | 3:5,15; 5:16 | No change; root for new oikos theou/ekklēsia theou zōntos compounds |
| Holy Spirit | پاک روح | pāk rūḥ | Critical | 4:1 (implied) | No change |
| Father | باپت | bāpath | Critical | 1:2; 5:1 (household context, distinct sense) | No change; note 5:1’s “father” is an age-relational address, not the divine title |
| Kingdom of God | خُدایُک بادشاہت | Khudāyuk bādshāhat | Medium | — (thematic background to 6:15) | No change; root for new King-of-kings compound |
| Covenant | عہد | ’ahd | Medium | — (background only) | No change |
| Glory | جلال | jalāl | High | 1:17; 3:16 | No change |
| Spiritual Gifts | روحانی نعمتہ | rūḥānī ni’amat | Medium | 4:14 | No change |
| Thanksgiving | شکر | shukur | Low | 2:1; 4:3-4 | No change |
| Fellowship | رفاقت | rifāqat | Low | — (background) | No change |
| Prophet | پیغمبر | paighambar | Medium | 1:18; 4:14 (as “prophecy”) | No change |
| Prophecy | پیشن گوئی | pēshan go’ī | Medium | 1:18; 4:14 | No change |
| Intercession | منٛزبولی | manzbolī | Medium | 2:1 | No change; here of general public intercessory prayer, not the Spirit’s intercession (Romans 8:26-27) — context-flag |
| Mission (proclamation) | انجیلہ ہنٛز منادی | Injīla hanz munādī | Medium | 2:7 (“preacher”) | No change |
| Obedience of Faith (root) | ایمانہ منز فرمانبرداری | īmāna manz farmānbardārī | High | thematic root for hypotagē below | Root reused; new context-flag added |
| David | داؤد | Dā’ūd | Low | — (background) | No change |
| Israel | اسرائیل | Isrā’īl | Medium | — (background) | No change |
Section B — New Terms: Church Office (Overseers, Elders, Deacons)
| Term (EN) | Original (Greek) | Transliteration | Kashmiri | Kashmiri Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | Rationale / Alternatives Rejected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overseer (office) | ἐπίσκοπος | episkopos | نگران | nigrān | High | Qualifications for Leadership | Rejected: امام (Islamic prayer-leader office), پیر (Sufi master, already excluded for “Lord” in baseline). Must be introduced with explicit definition as a distinct NT office. |
| Office of overseer | ἐπισκοπή | episkopē | نگرانی | nigrānī | High | Qualifications for Leadership | Same rationale as above. |
| Elder (church office) | πρεσβύτερος | presbyteros | کلیسیا ہنٛز بزرگ | kalisiya hanz buzurg | High | Qualifications for Leadership | Bare بزرگ alone risks reading as a venerated Sufi elder figure (Rishi-order honorific); the کلیسیا ہنٛز qualifier is required at every occurrence naming the office (5:17,19), distinct from the age-based address (5:1-2, see Section E). |
| Council/body of elders | πρεσβυτέριον | presbyterion | بزرگَن ہنٛز جماعت | buzurgan hanz jamā’at | Medium | Qualifications for Leadership | Descriptive compound; no attested single fixed term. |
| Deacon (office) | διάκονος | diakonos | کلیسیا ہنٛز خدمتگار | kalisiya hanz khidmatgār | High | Qualifications for Leadership | Rejected: خادم (a Sufi shrine caretaker/attendant, Rishi-tradition specific role — never use). |
| Above reproach / blameless | ἀνεπίλημπτος / ἀνέγκλητος | anepilēmptos / anenklētos | بے اِلزام | be-ilzām | Medium | Qualifications for Leadership | ”No valid accusation stands,” not sinless perfection — teach distinction explicitly. |
| Husband of one wife | μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἄνδρα | mias gynaikos andra | اکہ زَنی ہند خٲوند | ikk zani hind khāwand | CRITICAL | Qualifications for Leadership | Directly collides with mainstream Islamic personal law permitting up to four wives; must be taught explicitly as a leadership standard, not softened. Confirm attestation with native speakers. |
| Sober-minded | νηφάλιος | nēphalios | ہوشمند | hoshmand | Low | Qualifications for Leadership | — |
| Self-controlled | σώφρων | sōphrōn | ضبطہٕ نفس والہٕ | zabt-e-nafs wāli | Medium | Qualifications for Leadership | Rejected: پرہیزگار (too close to Islamic disciplined-piety framing already flagged for righteousness in baseline). |
| Respectable / orderly | κόσμιος | kosmios | با سلیقہٕ | bā saliqa | Low | Qualifications for Leadership | — |
| Hospitable | φιλόξενος | philoxenos | مہمان نواز | mehmān nawāz | Low | Qualifications for Leadership | Positive cultural point of contact; no distortion risk. |
| Able to teach | διδακτικός | didaktikos | تعلیم دِنہٕ قابل | ta’līm dinh qābil | Medium | Sound Doctrine / Leadership | Anchor to سound-doctrine term (Section C) so “able to teach” implies teaching apostolic content specifically. |
| Not a lover of money | ἀφιλάργυρος | aphilargyros | زَری لالچی نہٕ | zari lālchi nah | Medium | Godliness and Contentment | Cross-reference 6:6-10. |
| Manage/lead (household) | προΐστημι | proistēmi | نگرانی کرُن | nigrānī karun | Medium | Qualifications for Leadership | Reuses نگران root for structural consistency between household and church management. |
| Dignity | σεμνότης / σεμνός | semnotēs / semnos | وقار / باوقار | waqār / bā-waqār | Low | Qualifications for Leadership | — |
| New convert | νεόφυτος | neophytos | نوٕ ایمان | nav īmān | Medium | Qualifications for Leadership | — |
| Devil (proper title) | διάβολος | diabolos | شیطان | Shaitān | High | Qualifications for Leadership / Spiritual Warfare | Shared Quranic vocabulary (Iblis/Shaitan); genuine point of contact but must not import full Quranic jinn-cosmology; clarify at first use. |
| Slanderous (adjective, distinct sense) | διάβολος (adj.) | diabolos | بہتان لگاونہٕ وٲل | bohtān lagāwun wāl | Medium | Qualifications for Leadership | Distinguish from the proper-title sense above within the same chapter (3:6-7 vs. 3:11). |
| Tested/approved | δοκιμάζω | dokimazō | پرکھُن | parkhun | Low | Qualifications for Leadership | — |
| Women/wives (ambiguous referent) | γυναῖκας | gynaikas | زَنانہٕ | zanāna | High | Qualifications for Leadership | Deliberately preserve source ambiguity (deacons’ wives vs. female deacons); flag for theologian review, do not resolve in translation. |
| Standing/rank (in service) | βαθμός | bathmos | درجہٕ | darja | Medium | Qualifications for Leadership | Must not be read as merit toward salvation (cf. Critical justification/imputed_righteousness); this is standing within community, not before God. |
| Boldness/confidence | παρρησία | parrēsia | دلیری | dilērī | Medium | Qualifications for Leadership | — |
| The trustworthy saying (formula) | Πιστὸς ὁ λόγος | pistos ho logos | یہٕ گَل سچ چھِ تہٕ پُوری قبولی جوگ | yi gal sach chhi tahi pūri qabūlī jog | Medium | Sound Doctrine | Fixed formula recurring 1:15; 3:1; 4:9; must render identically at every occurrence (consistency rule). |
Section C — New Terms: Sound Doctrine, False Teaching, Mystery
| Term (EN) | Original | Transliteration | Kashmiri | Kashmiri Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | Rationale / Alternatives Rejected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound/healthy doctrine | ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία | hygiainousa didaskalia | تندرست تعلیم | tandurust ta’līm | High | Sound Doctrine v. False Teaching | Rejected: صحیح تعلیم (invokes Islamic hadith-authentication science, Sahih Bukhari/Muslim — avoid). |
| Teach a different doctrine | ἑτεροδιδασκαλέω | heterodidaskaleō | دِگر تعلیم دِنہٕ | digar ta’līm dinah | High | Sound Doctrine v. False Teaching | Named opposite of سound doctrine; must consistently pair. |
| Myths | μῦθος | mythos | افسانہٕ | afsāna | Medium | Sound Doctrine v. False Teaching | Distinguish from legitimate OT narrative (baseline’s inspiration_of_scripture). |
| Genealogies (speculative) | γενεαλογία | genealogia | نسل نامہٕ | nasl-nāma | Low | Sound Doctrine v. False Teaching | Distinguish from doctrinally positive seed_of_david (Critical, baseline). |
| Blasphemer (Paul’s former state) | βλάσφημος | blasphēmos | کُفر گو | kufr go | High | Sound Doctrine / Paul’s Testimony | کفر is the gravest Islamic disbelief-category; clarify Paul describes hostility to Christ specifically, not full Islamic-technical kufr against Allah. |
| Shipwrecked (of faith) | ναυαγέω | nauageō | ایمانہٕ ہنٛز جہاز ٹُٹُن | īmāna hanz jahāz ṭuṭun | Medium | Sound Doctrine v. False Teaching | — |
| Handed over to Satan | παραδίδωμι τῷ Σατανᾷ | paradidōmi tō Satana | شیطانس حوالہٕ کرُن | Shaitānas hawāla karun | High | Sound Doctrine / Church Discipline | Corrective/redemptive discipline (cf. 1 Cor 5:5), not damnation or excommunication into ruin — clarify. |
| Mystery (of the faith / of godliness) | μυστήριον | mystērion | راز | rāz | High | Church as Pillar of Truth | Risk of Sufi rāz/sirr mystical-secret resonance (esoteric knowledge for initiates via a pir); clarify biblical mystery is now openly proclaimed to all believers. |
| Apostasy / falling away | ἀφίστημι | aphistēmi | ایمانہٕ کھوتہٕ الگ تھِیُن | īmāna khota alag thyun | High | Sound Doctrine v. False Teaching | — |
| Deceitful spirits | πνεύματα πλάνα | pneumata plana | گمراہ کُن روحہٕ | gumrāh kun rūha | High | Sound Doctrine v. False Teaching | — |
| Doctrines of demons | διδασκαλίαι δαιμονίων | didaskaliai daimoniōn | ناپاک روحَن ہنٛز تعلیمہٕ | nāpāk rūhan hanz ta’līma | CRITICAL | Sound Doctrine v. False Teaching | NEVER use جن/جنات (imports distinct Quranic jinn-cosmology); “unclean spirits” phrase parallels Gospel usage safely. |
| Forbidding marriage | κωλυόντων γαμεῖν | kōlyontōn gamein | نِکاح منع کرُن | nikāh mana’ karun | High | Sound Doctrine v. False Teaching | Clarify target is false asceticism, not commentary on Islamic marriage law. |
| Abstain from foods | βρωμάτων ἀπέχεσθαι | brōmatōn apechesthai | کهٕنہٕ-پیوَن پرَ منع کرُن | khyone-piwun par mana’ karun | Medium | Sound Doctrine v. False Teaching | Clarify target is false asceticism, not halal/haram law or legitimate fasting. |
| Knowledge falsely so-called | ψευδώνυμος γνῶσις | pseudōnymos gnōsis | جھوٹی علم | jhūṭī ‘ilm | High | Sound Doctrine v. False Teaching / Salvation | Cross-reference baseline’s Trika پرتیبھِجنا caution under salvation — knowledge-based liberation must not be read as a live alternative to apostolic doctrine. |
| Conscience | συνείδησις | syneidēsis | ضمیر | zamīr | Medium | Sound Doctrine v. False Teaching | Load-bearing recurring category (1:5,19; 3:9; 4:2); render consistently. |
| Clear/clean conscience | καθαρὰ συνείδησις | kathara syneidēsis | صاف ضمیر | sāf zamīr | Medium | Sound Doctrine v. False Teaching | Ensure not read as ritual purification (wuzu); this is moral integrity. |
Section D — New Terms: Christ as Mediator, Savior, Public Worship
| Term (EN) | Original | Transliteration | Kashmiri | Kashmiri Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | Rationale / Alternatives Rejected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mediator | μεσίτης | mesitēs | میانجی | miyānjī | CRITICAL | Christ as the One Mediator | Rejected: شفیع (Islamic intercessor category, e.g., Muhammad’s shafa’a — never use); وسیلہ (Sufi tawassul through saints — never use). Must teach Christ’s unique, exclusive, once-for-all mediatorship against both. |
| Ransom | ἀντίλυτρον | antilytron | فِدیہٕ | fidyah | CRITICAL | Christ as the One Mediator | فدیہ is a specific Islamic legal-ransom term (Quran 2:196 etc.); must teach this as Christ’s unique substitutionary self-giving, not a legal-compensatory payment category. |
| Savior | σωτήρ | sōtēr | نجات دِنہٕ وول | najāt dinh wol | CRITICAL | Christ as the One Mediator / Salvation | Applied to both “God our Savior” and “Christ Jesus” — an implicit deity-of-Christ signal; teach 4:10’s universal/particular distinction explicitly against both universalism and Trika self-recognition readings. |
| Petition/prayer generally | προσευχή / δέησις | proseuchē / deēsis | دُعا / التجا | du’ā / iltijā | High | Public Worship and Prayer | NEVER render προσευχή as نماز (the specific Islamic ritual prayer); دُعا (free supplication) is correct and safe. |
| Respectable apparel | καταστολὴ κόσμιος | katastolē kosmios | با سلیقہٕ لِباس | bā saliqa libās | Medium | Public Worship and Prayer | Positive modesty-norm point of contact; clarify passage’s emphasis is good works, not a legal dress code. |
| Quietness/silence (context-sensitive) | ἡσυχία | hēsychia | آرام دار زندگی / خاموشی | ārām dār zindagī / khāmoshī | High | Public Worship and Prayer | Two distinct senses (2:2 civil peace vs. 2:11-12 instructional silence) — do not collapse into one rendering. |
| Submission (context-sensitive) | ὑποταγή | hypotagē | فرمانبرداری | farmānbardārī | High | Public Worship and Prayer / Leadership | Reused root from baseline’s obedience_of_faith; occurs in both child-rearing (3:4) and gender-role (2:11-12) contexts — flag each separately. |
| To exercise authority / domineer | αὐθεντεῖν | authentein | اختیار چلاوُن | ikhtiyār chalāwun | High | Public Worship and Prayer | Genuinely disputed lexical range; render neutrally, flag for mandatory theologian review, do not resolve the exegetical debate through translation choice. |
| Saved through childbearing | σωθήσεται διὰ τῆς τεκνογονίας | sōthēsetai dia tēs teknogonias | اولاد ذَننہٕ ذریعہٕ بچاوُن | aulād zanune zariya bachāwun | CRITICAL | Public Worship and Prayer / Salvation | Must not contradict baseline’s Critical justification-by-faith-alone doctrine; teach standard interpretive options without implying childbearing earns salvation. |
Section E — New Terms: Church as Pillar of Truth, Christological Hymn (3:14-16)
| Term (EN) | Original | Transliteration | Kashmiri | Kashmiri Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | Rationale / Alternatives Rejected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Household of God | οἶκος θεοῦ | oikos theou | خُدایُک گھر | Khudāyuk ghar | Medium | Church as Pillar of Truth | Reuses خُدایُک possessive pattern from baseline’s kingdom_of_god. |
| Church of the living God | ἐκκλησία θεοῦ ζῶντος | ekklēsia theou zōntos | زندہٕ خُدایُک کلیسیا | zinda Khudāyuk kalisiya | Medium | Church as Pillar of Truth | Reuses کلیسیا exactly; زندٕ root from baseline’s resurrection. |
| Pillar and foundation of truth | στῦλος καὶ ἑδραίωμα τῆς ἀληθείας | stylos kai hedraiōma tēs alētheias | حقیقتُک ستون تہٕ بنیاد | haqīqatuk sutūn tahi bunyād | High | Church as Pillar of Truth | Must teach church as upholding/displaying revealed truth, not self-generating authority equivalent to communal religious consensus (ijma’-adjacent risk) or superseding Scripture. |
| Mystery of godliness | μυστήριον τῆς εὐσεβείας | mystērion tēs eusebeias | خُداپرستی ہنٛز راز | Khudāparastī hanz rāz | CRITICAL | Church as Pillar of Truth / Incarnation | Introduces the incarnational hymn; full Critical weight of both راز and خُداپرستی entries applies. |
| God manifested in the flesh | Θεὸς ἐφανερώθη ἐν σαρκί | Theos ephanerōthē en sarki | خُدا منش رُوپ منز آمت | Khudā manūsh rūp manz āmat | CRITICAL | Incarnation | Reused exactly from baseline’s incarnation entry; full Critical treatment inherited. |
| Vindicated/justified in the Spirit | ἐδικαιώθη ἐν πνεύματι | edikaiōthē en pneumati | روحہٕ منز راستباز ثابت کرنہٕ گیہ | rūha manz rāstbāz sābit karnah gyi | High | Incarnation / Christology | Christ’s own vindication, not the believer’s justification (baseline’s justification) — distinguish the two uses of the same root. |
| Taken up in glory | ἀνελήμφθη ἐν δόξῃ | anelēmphthē en doxē | جلالہٕ منز اُبرِ گیہ | jalāla manz ubri gyi | Medium | Incarnation / Ascension | Reuses جلال exactly. |
Section F — New Terms: Ministry Formation, Household, Care for Widows
| Term (EN) | Original | Transliteration | Kashmiri | Kashmiri Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | Rationale / Alternatives Rejected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laying on of hands | ἐπίθεσις τῶν χειρῶν | epithesis tōn cheirōn | ہاتھ رکھُن | hāth rakhun | High | Qualifications for Leadership / Guarding the Deposit | Risk of conflation with Sufi bai’at (hand-clasping initiation transferring spiritual lineage from pir to murid); clarify this is corporate recognition of a Spirit-given gift, not power-transfer. |
| Gift (Spirit-given, ordination context) | χάρισμα | charisma | روحانی نعمتہ | rūḥānī ni’amat | Medium | Qualifications for Leadership | Reused exactly from baseline’s spiritual_gifts. |
| Progress | προκοπή | prokopē | ترقی | taraqqī | Low | Qualifications for Leadership | — |
| Widow / widow indeed | χήρα / ὄντως χήρα | chēra / ontōs chēra | بیوہٕ / حقیقی بیوہٕ | bewah / haqīqī bewah | Medium | Care for Widows | Distinguishes genuine dependents from those with family support. |
| Double honor | διπλῆς τιμῆς | diplēs timēs | دوگُنہٕ عزت | dogunah izzat | Medium | Care for Widows / Leadership | Includes material dimension per v.18 context. |
| Two or three witnesses | δύο ἢ τριῶν μαρτύρων | dyo ē triōn martyrōn | دُو یا ترٟہ گواہ | duo ya trih gawāh | Low | Qualifications for Leadership | Positive point of contact with Islamic evidentiary two-witness principle (shahada). |
| Bondservant/slave | δοῦλος | doulos | غُلام | ghulām | High | Household of Faith | Teach within first-century socio-economic context; distinguish social referent from devotional ‘abd Allah usage in Kashmiri Muslim naming/piety. |
| Master | δεσπότης | despotēs | مالِک | mālik | Low | Household of Faith | Reused exactly per baseline’s lord entry (reserved for ordinary human authority). |
| Yoke | ζυγός | zygos | جوا | juā | Low | Household of Faith | — |
Section G — New Terms: Godliness, Contentment, and Guarding the Deposit
| Term (EN) | Original | Transliteration | Kashmiri | Kashmiri Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | Rationale / Alternatives Rejected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Godliness | εὐσέβεια | eusebeia | خُداپرستی | Khudāparastī | High | Godliness and Contentment | Rejected as sole term: تقویٰ (already flagged in baseline as too works-oriented for righteousness); godliness is the fruit of justified faith, not its basis — teach distinction from baseline’s Critical righteousness/justification. |
| Godliness as means of gain | πορισμὸν εἶναι τὴν εὐσέβειαν | porismon einai tēn eusebeian | خُداپرستی مالہٕ ہنٛز ذریعہٕ ہیوٕتھ سمجھُن | Khudāparastī māla hanz zariya hyoth samajhun | High | Godliness and Contentment | Handle sensitively re: any community’s religious-economic practices (zakat, offerings, tithes) — target is Paul’s specific false teachers, not religious giving as such. |
| Godliness with contentment | εὐσέβεια μετὰ αὐταρκείας | eusebeia meta autarkeias | خُداپرستی تہٕ قناعت | Khudāparastī tahi qanā’at | CRITICAL | Godliness and Contentment | قناعت is a genuine point of contact with Islamic devotional ethics AND Sufi zuhd AND (for Pandit readers) Trika non-attachment; requires the same triple-frame differentiation the baseline gave grace. |
| Love of money as root of evils | ῥίζα πάντων τῶν κακῶν ἡ φιλαργυρία | rhiza pantōn tōn kakōn hē philargyria | روپیہٕ ہنٛز لالچ سٲری بدیُن ہنٛز جڑ | rupya hanz lālach sāri badyun hanz jaŕ | High | Godliness and Contentment | Preserve “a root of all sorts of evils,” not an absolute “the root of all evil.” |
| Man of God | ἄνθρωπε θεοῦ | anthrōpe theou | خُدایُک آدمی | Khudāyuk ādmī | Medium-High | Godliness and Contentment | Deliberately distinct from خُدا منش (incarnation phrase) to prevent visual/conceptual collision between the two compounds. |
| The good confession | ὁμολογία (καλή) | homologia (kalē) | اچھی اقرار | achhi iqrār | High | Christ as the One Mediator / Lordship | Explicitly continuous with baseline’s Romans 10:9 Lordship-confession consistency rule. |
| King of kings and Lord of lords | βασιλεὺς τῶν βασιλευόντων καὶ κύριος τῶν κυριευόντων | basileus tōn basileuontōn kai kyrios tōn kyrieuontōn | بادشاہَن ہنٛز بادشاہ تہٕ خُداوندَن ہنٛز خُداوند | bādshāhan hanz bādshāh tahi khudāwandan hanz khudāwand | CRITICAL | Christ as the One Mediator / Lordship | Reuses خُداوند exactly; teach as transcendent/eschatological sovereignty, explicitly not territorial-political, given Kashmir’s contested-sovereignty sensitivity (per baseline’s kingdom_of_god caution). |
| Guard the deposit | τὴν παραθήκην φύλαξον | tēn parathēkēn phylaxon | تُہنٛز امانت حفاظت کرُن | tuhanz amānat hifāzat karun | CRITICAL | Guarding the Deposit of Faith | Highest-priority new term in the letter. امانت is a major Islamic ethical-legal/Quranic category (Quran 33:72); clarify referent is the fixed content of apostolic doctrine entrusted to Timothy, not a general ethical trust or the Quranic cosmological “trust” offered to creation. Confirm with Kashmiri-speaking theologian before deployment. |
| Empty/profane chatter | κενοφωνία | kenophōnia | بیکار گَل | bekār gal | Low | Guarding the Deposit of Faith | — |
Risk Summary for New Terms Introduced by 1 Timothy
| Risk Tier | Count of New Terms | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 11 | Human theologian (every occurrence) |
| High | 27 | Human theologian |
| Medium | 22 | Native speaker review |
| Low | 15 | Automated review |
Critical-tier new terms requiring theologian review before any Phase 2 translation: husband of one wife (μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἄνδρα); doctrines of demons; mediator (μεσίτης); ransom (ἀντίλυτρον); Savior (σωτήρ); saved through childbearing (τεκνογονία); mystery of godliness; God manifested in the flesh (reused, inherited); godliness with contentment (αὐτάρκεια); King of kings and Lord of lords; guard the deposit (παραθήκη).
This glossary must be merged into translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json (version increment, per the AI Translation Requirements document) before Phase 2 segment translation of 1 Timothy begins. All Critical and High entries above additionally require corresponding new entries in doctrine_risk_registry.json prior to review routing.
Critical Risk Terms
Lord
Approved rendering: خُداوند
Transliteration: Khudāwand
Doctrine: The Good Confession and the Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: مالِک (reserved for ordinary human authority, e.g. 6:1-2’s masters)
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs 1:2,12,14; 6:3,14-15, culminating in 6:15’s ‘Lord of lords’ — reinforces baseline’s lordship_of_christ doctrine at maximum intensity; never softened toward a venerated Sufi pir.
Jesus
Approved rendering: یِسوع
Transliteration: Yisū’
Doctrine: The Good Confession and the Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: عیسیٰ (Quranic form, reserve only for explicit interfaith-dialogue contexts)
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Never عیسیٰ except in explicit interfaith-dialogue framing.
Messiah
Approved rendering: مسیح
Transliteration: Masīḥ
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs throughout 1 Timothy paired with یِسوع; shared Quranic title requiring the same content-not-vocabulary caution documented in the baseline.
Grace
Approved rendering: فضل
Transliteration: faz’l
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: شکتی پات (shaktipat), رحم (mercy, supporting synonym only)
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs 1:2,14; 6:21.
Salvation
Approved rendering: نجات
Transliteration: najāt
Doctrine: Salvation and the Savior of All People
Rejected alternatives: جنت (paradise alone), موکش (moksha), پرتیبھِجنا (pratyabhijna)
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs 1:15; 2:4; underlies 4:10’s Savior discussion.
Justification
Approved rendering: راستباز ٹھہرایہ گیہ
Transliteration: rāstbāz ṭharāyi gyi
Doctrine: Gender Roles in Public Worship
Rejected alternatives: معافی (forgiveness alone)
Original: δικαίωσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Not directly re-occurring in 1 Timothy’s Greek text but essential background for teaching 2:15 (childbearing) and 3:16 (Christ’s own vindication) without contradiction.
Righteousness
Approved rendering: راستبازی
Transliteration: rāstbāzī
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Rejected alternatives: تقویٰ (Islamic disciplined piety, works-oriented)
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Background doctrine required to teach 2:15 and 6:11 (pursuit of righteousness as fruit, not basis, of standing before God) without collapsing into godliness-as-merit.
Apostle
Approved rendering: رسول
Transliteration: rasūl
Doctrine: Apostolic Calling and Authority
Rejected alternatives: پیغمبر (prophet, distinct office)
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs 1:1; 2:7, grounding Paul’s authority to issue the letter’s instructions on doctrine and church order; repeated self-identification requires the Muhammad-title distinction to be restated at the letter’s opening.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: پاک روح
Transliteration: pāk rūḥ
Doctrine: Monotheism and Trinitarian Coherence
Rejected alternatives: روح القدس (bare, without qualification)
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Implicit at 4:1 (‘the Spirit expressly says’) and 3:16 (‘vindicated in the Spirit’); never render as an impersonal force, and never conflate with Ruh al-Qudus understood in mainstream Islamic exegesis as the angel Gabriel.
Father
Approved rendering: باپت
Transliteration: bāpath
Doctrine: Monotheism and Trinitarian Coherence
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package for the divine title (1:2). Note 5:1 uses بزرگ (not باپت) for the age-relational address to an older man, a distinct human-relational sense that must not be confused with the divine Fatherhood title.
Incarnation
Approved rendering: خُدا منش رُوپ منز آمت
Transliteration: Khudā manūsh rūp manz āmat
Doctrine: Incarnation and Deity of Christ (the Hymn of 3:16)
Rejected alternatives: اوتار (avatar, never use)
Original: Θεὸς ἐφανερώθη ἐν σαρκί
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Reused exactly at 3:16, the hymn’s opening line. Full inherited Critical treatment applies: mainstream Islamic theology reads this as shirk; Kashmir Shaivism’s spanda is impersonal and non-dualistic, not a unique personal assumption of flesh. Note some manuscripts read ‘he who’ rather than ‘God’; theologically immaterial given the letter’s other deity-of-Christ signals (2:5, 6:15-16).
Husband Of One Wife
Approved rendering: اکہ زَنی ہند خٲوند
Transliteration: ikk zani hind khāwand
Doctrine: Qualifications for Overseers (Bishops)
Original: μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἄνδρα
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:2 (overseers) and 3:12 (deacons). Directly collides with mainstream Islamic personal law permitting up to four wives; a Muslim-background reader will not read this as neutral. Must be taught explicitly as a leadership standard rooted in the creation ‘one flesh’ pattern, not a culturally arbitrary rule, and handled with particular pastoral sensitivity. Confirm attestation with native speakers before deployment.
Doctrines Of Demons
Approved rendering: ناپاک روحَن ہنٛز تعلیمہٕ
Transliteration: nāpāk rūhan hanz ta’līma
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare: Deceitful Spirits and Doctrines of Demons
Rejected alternatives: جن/جنات ہنٛز تعلیم (‘teachings of jinn’ — imports distinct Quranic jinn cosmology, never use)
Original: διδασκαλίαι δαιμονίων
Category: Spiritual Warfare
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 4:1. The descriptive ‘unclean spirits’ phrase, paralleling Gospel usage, avoids importing the Quranic populous created order of smokeless-fire beings (cf. Quran 72) in place of the biblical category of fallen, condemned demonic spirits opposed to God.
Saved Through Childbearing
Approved rendering: اولاد ذَننہٕ ذریعہٕ بچاوُن
Transliteration: aulād zanune zariya bachāwun
Doctrine: Gender Roles in Public Worship
Original: σωθήσεται διὰ τῆς τεκνογονίας
Category: Salvation
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 2:15. Must not be read as contradicting the Critical justification-by-faith-alone doctrine already established in the Romans baseline; teach standard interpretive options (preservation through the ordeal of childbirth; positive domestic framing against the false asceticism of 4:3; allusion to Genesis 3:15) with the shared premise that childbearing cannot be a means of earning righteousness before God.
Mediator
Approved rendering: میانجی
Transliteration: miyānjī
Doctrine: Christ as the One Mediator
Rejected alternatives: شفیع (Islamic category of Muhammad’s authorized eschatological intercession — never use), وسیلہ (tawassul, seeking nearness to God through a prophet or Rishi Sufi shrine-saint — never use)
Original: μεσίτης
Category: Christology
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 2:5. A neutral Persian-derived go-between term without competing Islamic religious-office weight; taught as Christ’s unique, historical, once-for-all mediatorship against both Islamic tawassul/shafa’a practice and any Trika guru-as-guide framework.
Ransom
Approved rendering: فِدیہٕ
Transliteration: fidyah
Doctrine: The Ransom for All (Atonement)
Original: ἀντίλυτρον
Category: Christology
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 2:6. فدیہ is a heavily used Islamic-Quranic legal-ransom term (Quran 2:196; qisas retaliation law); shared vocabulary is a genuine point of contact but must be explicitly taught as Christ’s unique, personal, substitutionary self-giving, not a legal-compensatory payment analogous to fiqh categories, following the pattern the baseline required for grace against Islamic deeds-weighing mercy.
Savior
Approved rendering: نجات دِنہٕ وول
Transliteration: najāt dinh wol
Doctrine: Salvation and the Savior of All People
Original: σωτήρ
Category: Salvation
New term (1 Timothy). Applied in 1 Timothy to both God the Father (1:1; 2:3; 4:10) and Christ Jesus (1:1,15). This dual application is an implicit deity-of-Christ signal that must not be flattened. 4:10’s ‘Savior of all people, especially of those who believe’ requires explicit teaching against a universalist misreading and against any Trika-adjacent reading of ‘Savior’ as an epistemic guide toward self-recognized divinity rather than personal rescue from real guilt before a distinct God.
King Of Kings Lord Of Lords
Approved rendering: بادشاہَن ہنٛز بادشاہ تہٕ خُداوندَن ہنٛز خُداوند
Transliteration: bādshāhan hanz bādshāh tahi khudāwandan hanz khudāwand
Doctrine: The Good Confession and the Lordship of Christ
Original: βασιλεὺς τῶν βασιλευόντων καὶ κύριος τῶν κυριευόντων
Category: Christology
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 6:15; reuses خُداوند exactly from the baseline. Must be taught as transcendent/eschatological sovereignty, explicitly not territorial-political, given Kashmir’s acute contested-sovereignty history — the same caution the baseline applied to kingdom_of_god language.
Mystery Of Godliness
Approved rendering: خُداپرستی ہنٛز راز
Transliteration: Khudāparastī hanz rāz
Doctrine: Incarnation and Deity of Christ (the Hymn of 3:16)
Original: μυστήριον τῆς εὐσεβείας
Category: Church as Pillar of Truth
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:16, introducing the Christological hymn. Combines the High-risk راز entry with the High-risk خُداپرستی entry; carries full Critical weight since it introduces the incarnational hymn.
Godliness With Contentment
Approved rendering: خُداپرستی تہٕ قناعت
Transliteration: Khudāparastī tahi qanā’at
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Original: εὐσέβεια μετὰ αὐταρκείας
Category: Godliness and Contentment
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 6:6. قناعت is a genuine point of contact with mainstream Islamic devotional ethics AND Sufi zuhd (ascetic detachment) AND, for Pandit-background readers, Trika non-attachment; requires the same triple-frame differentiation the baseline gave grace: Christian contentment flows from union with Christ and confidence in his fatherly provision (6:17-19), not from disciplined-submission achievement, ascetic renunciation technique, or non-dual recognition of desire’s illusory nature.
Guard The Deposit
Approved rendering: تُہنٛز امانت حفاظت کرُن
Transliteration: tuhanz amānat hifāzat karun
Doctrine: Guarding the Deposit of Faith
Original: τὴν παραθήκην φύλαξον
Category: Guarding the Deposit of Faith
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 6:20; the letter’s climactic charge. امانت is an exceptionally weighty term in Islamic ethics and law (the Quranic ‘trust’ of Quran 33:72, and everyday legal-fiduciary categories). This shared vocabulary is a genuine point of contact but must be explicitly clarified as the specific, fixed content of apostolic doctrine entrusted to Timothy for transmission and preservation — not a general ethical/legal trust-obligation, and not the innate human capacity some popular Islamic readings of Quran 33:72 suggest. Confirm with a Kashmiri-speaking theologian before wide deployment; treat with the same theologian-confirmation tier as the baseline’s imputed_righteousness entry.
High Risk Terms
God
Approved rendering: خُدا
Transliteration: Khudā
Doctrine: Monotheism and Trinitarian Coherence
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. In 1 Timothy applied to both ‘God our Savior’ (2:3; 4:10) and ‘the only God’ (1:17); the doxology’s monotheism must be taught as consistent with, not contradicting, the letter’s Trinitarian and Christological claims (2:5; 3:16; 6:15-16).
Gospel
Approved rendering: انجیل
Transliteration: Injīl
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs 1:11 (‘the glorious gospel of the blessed God’). Shared Quranic vocabulary (tahrif concerns) still applies unchanged.
Faith
Approved rendering: ایمان
Transliteration: īmān
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: یقین (certainty, too intellectual alone)
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Root for several 1 Timothy compounds: mystery of the faith, obedience/submission contexts, shipwrecked faith, apostasy, new convert.
Called
Approved rendering: سَدہ گیہ
Transliteration: sada gyi
Doctrine: The Good Confession and the Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: دعوت دِنہ (invited, too weak)
Inherited from Romans package. In 1 Timothy 6:12, parallel usage to the Romans salvation-confession sense: ‘called to eternal life’ at the moment of the good confession.
Holy
Approved rendering: پاک
Transliteration: pāk
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: صاف (physical/ritual cleanliness only)
Original: ἅγιος / ὅσιος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs 2:8 (‘holy hands’).
Sanctification
Approved rendering: پاکیزگی
Transliteration: pākīzagī
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἁγιάζω
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs 4:5 (‘sanctified by the word of God and prayer’), distinct from ritual purification and from the false ascetic dietary restriction condemned earlier in the same chapter.
Glory
Approved rendering: جلال
Transliteration: jalāl
Doctrine: Incarnation and Deity of Christ (the Hymn of 3:16)
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs 1:17 (doxology) and 3:16 (‘taken up in glory’), anchoring Christ’s own glorification distinct from the Father’s.
Obedience Of Faith
Approved rendering: ایمانہ منز فرمانبرداری
Transliteration: īmāna manz farmānbardārī
Doctrine: Gender Roles in Public Worship
Rejected alternatives: شریعتہ ہنٛز فرمانبرداری (rule-obedience)
Inherited from Romans package. Root reused for the new submission_household_context compound below; the two contexts (child-rearing, 3:4; gender roles, 2:11-12) must not be silently collapsed.
Overseer
Approved rendering: نگران
Transliteration: nigrān
Doctrine: Qualifications for Overseers (Bishops)
Rejected alternatives: امام (Islamic prayer-leader office), پیر (Sufi spiritual master)
Original: ἐπίσκοπος
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). A distinct, tested, corporately-affirmed New Testament church office (3:1-2); must be introduced with explicit definition at first use, following the same pattern the baseline required for رسول.
Office Of Overseer
Approved rendering: نگرانی
Transliteration: nigrānī
Doctrine: Qualifications for Overseers (Bishops)
Rejected alternatives: امام, پیر
Original: ἐπισκοπή
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). The office/function named in 3:1 (‘whoever aspires to the office of overseer’).
Elder Office
Approved rendering: کلیسیا ہنٛز بزرگ
Transliteration: kalisiya hanz buzurg
Doctrine: Elder Honor and Accountability
Rejected alternatives: bare بزرگ alone (reads as venerated Rishi-order Sufi elder honorific)
Original: πρεσβύτερος
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 5:17,19; the qualifying compound is required at every occurrence naming the office, distinct from the age-based address (5:1-2, see elder_age_address).
Deacon
Approved rendering: کلیسیا ہنٛز خدمتگار
Transliteration: kalisiya hanz khidmatgār
Doctrine: Qualifications for Deacons
Rejected alternatives: خادم (Sufi dargah shrine-caretaker/attendant in the Rishi tradition — never use)
Original: διάκονος
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:8-13, a recognized, tested church office of practical service alongside overseer.
Devil
Approved rendering: شیطان
Transliteration: Shaitān
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare: Deceitful Spirits and Doctrines of Demons
Rejected alternatives: جن/جنات (imports distinct Quranic jinn cosmology — never use for this sense)
Original: διάβολος
Category: Spiritual Warfare
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:6-7. Shared Quranic vocabulary (Iblis/Shaitan, Quran 2:34; 7:11-18), a genuine point of contact, but must not default into the fuller Quranic jinn cosmology; the biblical devil is a fallen angelic being with a distinct trajectory toward final judgment. Clarify at first use.
Mystery Of The Faith
Approved rendering: ایمانہٕ ہنٛز راز
Transliteration: īmāna hanz rāz
Doctrine: Qualifications for Deacons
Original: μυστήριον τῆς πίστεως
Category: Sound Doctrine
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:9. راز risks resonance with Sufi (including Rishi-order) devotional vocabulary of rāz/sirr — hidden divine truths disclosed only to advanced mystical initiates through a pir. Must state explicitly the biblical mystery is now openly proclaimed to all who believe, not an esoteric attainment reserved for a spiritual elite.
Women Wives Ambiguous
Approved rendering: زَنانہٕ
Transliteration: zanāna
Doctrine: Qualifications for Deacons
Rejected alternatives: a possessive construction like ‘their wives’ (would prematurely resolve the source ambiguity)
Original: γυναῖκας
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:11. A genuine, unresolved exegetical crux (deacons’ wives, or female deacons/deaconesses as a distinct office-class) — deliberately render as ambiguously as the Greek. Flag explicitly for theologian review; do not resolve in translation.
Sound Doctrine
Approved rendering: تندرست تعلیم
Transliteration: tandurust ta’līm
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Rejected alternatives: صحیح تعلیم (invokes Islamic hadith-authentication science, Sahih al-Bukhari/Muslim — forbidden)
Original: ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία
Category: Sound Doctrine
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 1:10; 6:3. Doctrine that produces spiritual health, the letter’s central polemical category.
Different Doctrine
Approved rendering: دِگر تعلیم دِنہٕ
Transliteration: digar ta’līm dinah
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Original: ἑτεροδιδασκαλέω
Category: Sound Doctrine
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 1:3; 6:3. Named opposite of sound_doctrine; must consistently pair with تندرست تعلیم.
Blasphemer
Approved rendering: کُفر گو
Transliteration: kufr go
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Original: βλάσφημος
Category: Sound Doctrine
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 1:13, describing Paul’s pre-conversion state. کفر is among the gravest categories in Islamic theology (disbelief/repudiation of God); must clarify Paul describes his own past hostility to Christ specifically, not full Islamic-technical kufr against Allah, to avoid confusing theological cross-reading.
Handed Over To Satan
Approved rendering: شیطانس حوالہٕ کرُن
Transliteration: Shaitānas hawāla karun
Doctrine: Church Discipline
Original: παραδίδωμι τῷ Σατανᾷ
Category: Church Discipline
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 1:20. Reuses شیطان; must be taught as corrective, redemptive discipline (cf. 1 Corinthians 5:5), never as a curse or a declaration of damnation.
Apostasy
Approved rendering: ایمانہٕ کھوتہٕ الگ تھِیُن
Transliteration: īmāna khota alag thyun
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare: Deceitful Spirits and Doctrines of Demons
Original: ἀφίστημι / ἀποστασία
Category: Sound Doctrine
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 4:1. Anchors the eschatological dimension of Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching; must not be softened.
Deceitful Spirits
Approved rendering: گمراہ کُن روحہٕ
Transliteration: gumrāh kun rūha
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare: Deceitful Spirits and Doctrines of Demons
Original: πνεύματα πλάνα
Category: Spiritual Warfare
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 4:1; pair consistently with doctrines_of_demons in the same verse.
Forbidding Marriage
Approved rendering: نِکاح منع کرُن
Transliteration: nikāh mana’ karun
Doctrine: False Asceticism (Forbidding Marriage and Foods)
Original: κωλυόντων γαμεῖν
Category: Sound Doctrine
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 4:3. نکاح is the specific Islamic legal marriage-contract term; acceptable as a general gloss for ‘marriage,’ but must clarify Paul condemns a false ascetic teaching that marriage is spiritually inferior, not commentary on any particular legal marriage system.
False Knowledge
Approved rendering: جھوٹی علم
Transliteration: jhūṭī ‘ilm
Doctrine: Guarding the Deposit of Faith
Original: ψευδώνυμος γνῶσις
Category: Sound Doctrine
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 6:20. Cross-reference the baseline’s Trika pratyabhijna caution under salvation — any teaching framing salvation as attainment of special hidden knowledge must be named as the very error this verse warns against.
Prayer Petition
Approved rendering: دُعا / التجا
Transliteration: du’ā / iltijā
Doctrine: Public Worship and Prayer
Rejected alternatives: نماز (specific Islamic obligatory ritual prayer with fixed times/postures — never use)
Original: προσευχή / δέησις
Category: Public Worship and Prayer
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 2:1. دُعا preserves the correct distinction between free supplication and obligatory ritual prayer in both religious traditions this curriculum addresses.
Quietness Silence
Approved rendering: آرام دار زندگی / خاموشی
Transliteration: ārām dār zindagī / khāmoshī
Doctrine: Gender Roles in Public Worship
Rejected alternatives: using one Kashmiri word for both senses without noting the difference
Original: ἡσυχία
Category: Public Worship and Prayer
New term (1 Timothy). Two distinct senses: a peaceable civil life (2:2, آرام دار زندگی) and instructional silence in worship (2:11-12, خاموشی) — flag both occurrences separately.
Submission Household Context
Approved rendering: فرمانبرداری
Transliteration: farmānbardārī
Doctrine: Gender Roles in Public Worship
Original: ὑποταγή
Category: Public Worship and Prayer
New term (1 Timothy). Reuses the root from the baseline’s obedience_of_faith entry; occurs in both child-rearing (3:4) and gender-role (2:11-12) contexts — flag separately at each occurrence, do not silently collapse.
Exercise Authority Domineer
Approved rendering: اختیار چلاوُن
Transliteration: ikhtiyār chalāwun
Doctrine: Gender Roles in Public Worship
Rejected alternatives: resolving the ambiguity toward either ‘have authority’ or ‘domineer’ by lexical choice
Original: αὐθεντεῖν
Category: Public Worship and Prayer
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 2:12 (αὐθεντεῖν), a rare verb whose precise sense is genuinely disputed among interpreters; render neutrally to preserve rather than resolve the ambiguity, flag for mandatory human theologian review.
Vindicated In The Spirit
Approved rendering: روحہٕ منز راستباز ثابت کرنہٕ گیہ
Transliteration: rūha manz rāstbāz sābit karnah gyi
Doctrine: Incarnation and Deity of Christ (the Hymn of 3:16)
Original: ἐδικαιώθη ἐν πνεύματι
Category: Christology
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:16. Reuses the راستباز root from the baseline’s justification entry but applied to Christ’s own vindication, not the believer’s justification — must be distinguished from the baseline’s Critical justification doctrine to prevent conflating the two distinct uses of the same root.
Good Confession
Approved rendering: اچھی اقرار
Transliteration: achhi iqrār
Doctrine: The Good Confession and the Lordship of Christ
Original: ὁμολογία (καλή)
Category: Faith
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 6:12-13. Must be taught as thematically continuous with the Romans baseline’s mandated verbatim-consistent Romans 10:9 Lordship confession, not a new, separate confessional formula.
Pillar And Foundation Of Truth
Approved rendering: حقیقتُک ستون تہٕ بنیاد
Transliteration: haqīqatuk sutūn tahi bunyād
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Original: στῦλος καὶ ἑδραίωμα τῆς ἀληθείας
Category: Church as Pillar of Truth
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:15. Must be taught as the church upholding and displaying truth already revealed by God, not as an independent, self-generating authority equivalent to communal religious consensus (echoing, without directly naming, the Islamic legal concept of ijma’) or superseding Scripture’s own authority.
Laying On Of Hands
Approved rendering: ہاتھ رکھُن
Transliteration: hāth rakhun
Doctrine: Ordination and the Laying On of Hands
Original: ἐπίθεσις τῶν χειρῶν
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 4:14; 5:22. Risks conflation with bai’at (بیعت), the Sufi (including Rishi-order) initiation ritual of hand-clasping pledging a murid to a pir, understood as transmitting spiritual lineage and authority. Must clarify this act is corporate church recognition and commissioning of a Spirit-given gift already present, not a transfer of mystical power from one person to another.
Bondservant
Approved rendering: غُلام
Transliteration: ghulām
Doctrine: Household Codes: Bondservants and Masters
Original: δοῦλος
Category: Household of Faith
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 6:1-2. Must be taught within its first-century socio-economic context, not an endorsement of chattel slavery; handle carefully given the devotional resonance of ‘servant/slave of God’ (‘abd Allah) common in Kashmiri Muslim naming and piety — the social-institutional referent here is distinct from that devotional sense.
Godliness
Approved rendering: خُداپرستی
Transliteration: Khudāparastī
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Rejected alternatives: تقویٰ (already flagged in the baseline as too works-oriented a substitute for righteousness)
Original: εὐσέβεια
Category: Godliness and Contentment
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 4:7-8; 6:3,5,6,11. Must be taught as the fruit of justified faith, not a disciplined achievement that itself contributes to right standing before God.
Godliness As Gain
Approved rendering: خُداپرستی مالہٕ ہنٛز ذریعہٕ ہیوٕتھ سمجھُن
Transliteration: Khudāparastī māla hanz zariya hyoth samajhun
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Original: νομιζόντων πορισμὸν εἶναι τὴν εὐσέβειαν
Category: Godliness and Contentment
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 6:5. Handle sensitively; could otherwise be misheard as a veiled critique of any religious community’s economic practices (zakat, shrine offerings, church tithing) rather than Paul’s specific target of false teachers monetizing godliness itself.
Root Of All Evils
Approved rendering: روپیہٕ ہنٛز لالچ سٲری بدیُن ہنٛز جڑ
Transliteration: rupya hanz lālach sāri badyun hanz jaŕ
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Original: ῥίζα πάντων τῶν κακῶν ἡ φιλαργυρία
Category: Godliness and Contentment
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 6:10. Preserve the Greek’s nuance (‘a root of all sorts of evils’) rather than an absolute ‘the root of all evil,’ to avoid overstatement.
Medium Risk Terms
Church
Approved rendering: کلیسیا
Transliteration: kalīsiyā
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Rejected alternatives: مسجد (mosque, never use), مندر (temple, never use)
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs 3:5,15; 5:16; root for new compounds household_of_god and church_of_the_living_god below.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: خُدایُک بادشاہت
Transliteration: Khudāyuk bādshāhat
Doctrine: The Good Confession and the Lordship of Christ
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom
Inherited from Romans package. Thematic background to 6:15’s King-of-kings title; root for the new king_of_kings_lord_of_lords compound below.
Covenant
Approved rendering: عہد
Transliteration: ‘ahd
Doctrine: Covenant
Original: διαθήκη
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Background only in 1 Timothy.
Spiritual Gifts
Approved rendering: روحانی نعمتہ
Transliteration: rūḥānī ni’amat
Doctrine: Ordination and the Laying On of Hands
Rejected alternatives: کرامت (a Sufi saint’s miraculous charism)
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs 4:14, the gift recognized at Timothy’s ordination through the laying on of hands.
Prophet
Approved rendering: پیغمبر
Transliteration: paighambar
Doctrine: Ordination and the Laying On of Hands
Original: προφήτης
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs 1:18 (‘the prophecies previously made about you’).
Prophecy
Approved rendering: پیشن گوئی
Transliteration: pēshan go’ī
Doctrine: Ordination and the Laying On of Hands
Original: προφητεία
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs 1:18; 4:14, tied to Timothy’s ordination.
Intercession
Approved rendering: منٛزبولی
Transliteration: manzbolī
Doctrine: Public Worship and Prayer
Rejected alternatives: شفاعت (Sufi saint’s or prophet’s mediating intercession)
Original: ἔντευξις
Category: Public Worship and Prayer
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs 2:1 of general public intercessory prayer, distinct from the Spirit’s own intercession (Romans 8:26-27) — context-flag this distinction.
Mission
Approved rendering: انجیلہ ہنٛز منادی
Transliteration: Injīla hanz munādī
Doctrine: Apostolic Calling and Authority
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs 2:7 (‘a preacher and apostle… a teacher of the Gentiles’).
Israel
Approved rendering: اسرائیل
Transliteration: Isrā’īl
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: Ἰσραήλ
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Background only in 1 Timothy.
Elder Age Address
Approved rendering: بزرگ
Transliteration: buzurg
Doctrine: Care for Widows and the Household of Faith
Original: πρεσβύτερος
Category: Household of Faith
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 5:1-2, an older man or woman addressed with respect; no office is in view here, must not be confused with the qualified elder_office compound used at 5:17,19.
Council Of Elders
Approved rendering: بزرگَن ہنٛز جماعت
Transliteration: buzurgan hanz jamā’at
Doctrine: Ordination and the Laying On of Hands
Original: πρεσβυτέριον
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). The corporate body of elders who laid hands on Timothy (4:14); descriptive compound, no attested single fixed Kashmiri term exists.
Above Reproach
Approved rendering: بے اِلزام
Transliteration: be-ilzām
Doctrine: Qualifications for Overseers (Bishops)
Original: ἀνεπίλημπτος / ἀνέγκλητος
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:2 (ἀνεπίλημπτος), 3:10 (ἀνέγκλητος); must be taught as ‘no valid accusation stands,’ not sinless moral perfection.
Self Controlled
Approved rendering: ضبطہٕ نفس والہٕ
Transliteration: zabt-e-nafs wāli
Doctrine: Qualifications for Overseers (Bishops)
Rejected alternatives: پرہیزگار (Islamic disciplined-piety connotation, too works-oriented)
Original: σώφρων
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:2. Emphasis is inner self-mastery, not disciplined religious observance.
Able To Teach
Approved rendering: تعلیم دِنہٕ قابل
Transliteration: ta’līm dinh qābil
Doctrine: Qualifications for Overseers (Bishops)
Original: διδακτικός
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:2; should be anchored to the sound_doctrine term so ‘able to teach’ implies teaching apostolic content, not any religious instruction generally.
Not Lover Of Money
Approved rendering: زَری لالچی نہٕ
Transliteration: zari lālchi nah
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Original: ἀφιλάργυρος
Category: Godliness and Contentment
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:3; anticipates the fuller Godliness and Contentment doctrine developed in 6:6-10; cross-reference there.
Manage Household
Approved rendering: نگرانی کرُن
Transliteration: nigrānī karun
Doctrine: Qualifications for Overseers (Bishops)
Original: προΐστημι
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:4-5,12; reuses the نگران root for structural consistency between household and church management.
New Convert
Approved rendering: نوٕ ایمان
Transliteration: nav īmān
Doctrine: Qualifications for Overseers (Bishops)
Original: νεόφυτος
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:6; reuses ایمان root.
Puffed Up With Conceit
Approved rendering: غرورس منز ٲسُن
Transliteration: ghurūras manz āsun
Doctrine: Qualifications for Overseers (Bishops)
Original: τυφόω
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:6.
Slanderous Adjective
Approved rendering: بہتان لگاونہٕ وٲل
Transliteration: bohtān lagāwun wāl
Doctrine: Qualifications for Deacons
Rejected alternatives: شیطان (proper title, reserve for 3:6-7 only)
Original: διάβολος (adjectival)
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:11, describing a human vice (malicious speech); distinct rendering from the proper title of Satan within the same chapter, to prevent confusion between the two related but distinct uses of the same root.
Condemnation
Approved rendering: سزا / فیصلہٕ
Transliteration: sazā / faislah
Doctrine: Qualifications for Overseers (Bishops)
Original: κρίμα
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:6.
Good Testimony
Approved rendering: باہرَن ہنٛز اچھی گواہی
Transliteration: bāhran hanz achhi gawāhī
Doctrine: Qualifications for Overseers (Bishops)
Original: μαρτυρία καλή
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:7; frame positively (winsome public reputation), not as an us-versus-them boundary marker.
Greedy For Dishonest Gain
Approved rendering: بدنیتی سٟتی مالہٕ ہنٛز لالچ کرنہٕ وول
Transliteration: badniyati sāti māla hanz lālach karnah wol
Doctrine: Qualifications for Deacons
Original: αἰσχροκερδής
Category: Godliness and Contentment
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:8; cross-reference the fuller Godliness and Contentment ‘godliness as gain’ warning in chapter 6.
Conscience
Approved rendering: ضمیر
Transliteration: zamīr
Doctrine: Conscience and Christian Integrity
Original: συνείδησις
Category: Sound Doctrine
New term (1 Timothy). Load-bearing recurring category (1:5,19; 3:9; 4:2); render consistently throughout the letter for the good-conscience/seared-conscience contrast to register clearly.
Clean Conscience
Approved rendering: صاف ضمیر
Transliteration: sāf zamīr
Doctrine: Conscience and Christian Integrity
Original: καθαρὰ συνείδησις
Category: Sound Doctrine
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:9. صاف is reused from the baseline’s holy entry, where it is reserved for physical/ritual cleanliness; here it modifies conscience (a moral referent) — flag to ensure translators do not read this as ritual purification (wuzu) rather than moral integrity.
Standing Rank
Approved rendering: درجہٕ
Transliteration: darja
Doctrine: Qualifications for Deacons
Original: βαθμός
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:13; must not be read as spiritual merit accumulated toward salvation (colliding with the baseline’s Critical justification/imputed_righteousness entries) — this is standing within the church community, not standing before God.
Boldness
Approved rendering: دلیری
Transliteration: dilērī
Doctrine: Qualifications for Deacons
Original: παρρησία
Category: Faith
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:13.
Trustworthy Saying Formula
Approved rendering: یہٕ گَل سچ چھِ تہٕ پُوری قبولی جوگ
Transliteration: yi gal sach chhi tahi pūri qabūlī jog
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Original: Πιστὸς ὁ λόγος
Category: Sound Doctrine
New term (1 Timothy). Fixed formulaic marker (1:15; 3:1; 4:9) introducing settled apostolic teaching; must be rendered identically at every occurrence, per the consistency rule established for Romans 10:9/8:28 in the baseline.
Myths
Approved rendering: افسانہٕ
Transliteration: afsāna
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Original: μῦθος
Category: Sound Doctrine
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 1:4; 4:7. Distinguish from legitimate Old Testament narrative so readers do not infer Paul is dismissing the Hebrew Scriptures themselves.
Shipwrecked Faith
Approved rendering: ایمانہٕ ہنٛز جہاز ٹُٹُن
Transliteration: īmāna hanz jahāz ṭuṭun
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Original: ναυαγέω
Category: Sound Doctrine
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 1:19.
Abstain From Foods
Approved rendering: کهٕنہٕ-پیوَن پرَ منع کرُن
Transliteration: khyone-piwun par mana’ karun
Doctrine: False Asceticism (Forbidding Marriage and Foods)
Original: βρωμάτων ἀπέχεσθαι
Category: Sound Doctrine
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 4:3. Must clarify this targets false ascetic theology, not halal/haram dietary law nor legitimate voluntary fasting.
Respectable Apparel
Approved rendering: با سلیقہٕ لِباس
Transliteration: bā saliqa libās
Doctrine: Public Worship and Prayer
Original: καταστολὴ κόσμιος
Category: Public Worship and Prayer
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 2:9. A genuine positive point of contact with regional modesty norms including Islamic purdah/hijab conventions, but the passage’s true emphasis (2:9-10) is that good works, not garments, are the true adornment; must not be read as endorsing a specific legal dress code.
Taken Up In Glory
Approved rendering: جلالہٕ منز اُبرِ گیہ
Transliteration: jalāla manz ubri gyi
Doctrine: Incarnation and Deity of Christ (the Hymn of 3:16)
Original: ἀνελήμφθη ἐν δόξῃ
Category: Christology
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:16, the hymn’s final clause; reuses جلال exactly.
Household Of God
Approved rendering: خُدایُک گھر
Transliteration: Khudāyuk ghar
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Original: οἶκος θεοῦ
Category: Church as Pillar of Truth
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:15; reuses the خُدایُک possessive pattern from the baseline’s kingdom_of_god entry.
Church Of The Living God
Approved rendering: زندہٕ خُدایُک کلیسیا
Transliteration: zinda Khudāyuk kalisiya
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Original: ἐκκλησία θεοῦ ζῶντος
Category: Church as Pillar of Truth
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:15; reuses کلیسیا exactly and زندٕ from the baseline’s resurrection root.
Widow
Approved rendering: بیوہٕ / حقیقی بیوہٕ
Transliteration: bewah / haqīqī bewah
Doctrine: Care for Widows and the Household of Faith
Original: χήρα / ὄντως χήρα
Category: Care for Widows
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 5:3-16. Distinguishes genuinely dependent widows (حقیقی بیوہٕ) from those with family support; the church’s care is a safety net, not a substitute for family duty.
Double Honor
Approved rendering: دوگُنہٕ عزت
Transliteration: dogunah izzat
Doctrine: Elder Honor and Accountability
Original: διπλῆς τιμῆς
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 5:17. Likely includes a material/financial dimension (v.18’s laborer-wages citation), not honor in a purely sentimental sense.
Man Of God
Approved rendering: خُدایُک آدمی
Transliteration: Khudāyuk ādmī
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Rejected alternatives: خُدا منش (rejected: risks visual/phonetic collision with the incarnation phrase خُدا منش رُوپ منز آمت)
Original: ἄνθρωπε θεοῦ
Category: Godliness and Contentment
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 6:11. Deliberately rendered with آدمی rather than منش, so translators keep this title and the doctrine of the Incarnation clearly distinct compounds.
Low Risk Terms
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: شکر
Transliteration: shukur
Doctrine: Public Worship and Prayer
Original: εὐχαριστία
Category: Public Worship and Prayer
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs 2:1; 4:3-4.
Fellowship
Approved rendering: رفاقت
Transliteration: rifāqat
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Inherited from Romans package. Background only in 1 Timothy.
David
Approved rendering: داؤد
Transliteration: Dā’ūd
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: Δαυίδ
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Background only in 1 Timothy.
Sober Minded
Approved rendering: ہوشمند
Transliteration: hoshmand
Doctrine: Qualifications for Overseers (Bishops)
Original: νηφάλιος
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:2,11.
Respectable Orderly
Approved rendering: با سلیقہٕ
Transliteration: bā saliqa
Doctrine: Qualifications for Overseers (Bishops)
Original: κόσμιος
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:2.
Hospitable
Approved rendering: مہمان نواز
Transliteration: mehmān nawāz
Doctrine: Qualifications for Overseers (Bishops)
Original: φιλόξενος
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:2; a genuine positive point of contact, hospitality highly valued in both Kashmiri Muslim and Pandit cultural traditions.
Not A Drunkard
Approved rendering: شرابی نہٕ
Transliteration: sharābī nah
Doctrine: Qualifications for Overseers (Bishops)
Original: πάροινος
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:3; reinforces an existing point of convergence with Islamic alcohol prohibition — clarify the qualification is about self-mastery and reputation, not merely legal abstinence.
Not Violent
Approved rendering: مارُک نہٕ
Transliteration: mārukh nah
Doctrine: Qualifications for Overseers (Bishops)
Original: πλήκτης
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:3.
Gentle
Approved rendering: نرم مزاج
Transliteration: naram mizāj
Doctrine: Qualifications for Overseers (Bishops)
Original: ἐπιεικής
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:3.
Peaceable
Approved rendering: جھگڑہٕ خور نہٕ
Transliteration: jhagra khor nah
Doctrine: Qualifications for Overseers (Bishops)
Original: ἄμαχος
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:3.
Dignity
Approved rendering: وقار / باوقار
Transliteration: waqār / bā-waqār
Doctrine: Qualifications for Overseers (Bishops)
Original: σεμνότης / σεμνός
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:4,8,11.
Outsiders
Approved rendering: باہرہٕ لوکہ
Transliteration: bāhri lūkh
Doctrine: Qualifications for Overseers (Bishops)
Original: οἱ ἔξωθεν
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:7; sensitive category given Kashmir’s tightly interwoven religious-communal fabric — frame positively.
Disgrace
Approved rendering: بدنامی
Transliteration: badnāmī
Doctrine: Qualifications for Overseers (Bishops)
Original: ὀνειδισμός
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:7.
Snare
Approved rendering: پھاندہٕ
Transliteration: phāndah
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare: Deceitful Spirits and Doctrines of Demons
Original: παγίς
Category: Spiritual Warfare
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:7.
Double Tongued
Approved rendering: دوہ زبانہٕ
Transliteration: doh zabāna
Doctrine: Qualifications for Deacons
Original: δίλογος
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:8.
Tested Approved
Approved rendering: پرکھُن
Transliteration: parkhun
Doctrine: Qualifications for Deacons
Original: δοκιμάζω
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 3:10; to test with a view to approval, not merely interrogation.
Speculative Genealogies
Approved rendering: نسل نامہٕ
Transliteration: nasl-nāma
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Original: γενεαλογία
Category: Sound Doctrine
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 1:4. Distinguish from the doctrinally positive, load-bearing seed_of_david category (Critical in the Romans baseline).
Empty Chatter
Approved rendering: بیکار گَل
Transliteration: bekār gal
Doctrine: Guarding the Deposit of Faith
Original: κενοφωνία
Category: Sound Doctrine
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 6:20.
Progress
Approved rendering: ترقی
Transliteration: taraqqī
Doctrine: Ordination and the Laying On of Hands
Original: προκοπή
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 4:15.
Two Or Three Witnesses
Approved rendering: دُو یا ترٟہ گواہ
Transliteration: duo ya trih gawāh
Doctrine: Church Discipline
Original: ἐπὶ δύο ἢ τριῶν μαρτύρων
Category: Church Leadership
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 5:19. A genuine positive point of contact with Islamic evidentiary law’s own two-witness principle (shahada); no distortion risk, may be noted as common ground.
Master
Approved rendering: مالِک
Transliteration: mālik
Doctrine: Household Codes: Bondservants and Masters
Original: δεσπότης
Category: Household of Faith
New term (1 Timothy), reusing exactly the term the Romans baseline reserved for ordinary human authority, distinct from خُداوند used exclusively of Christ. Occurs 6:1-2.
Yoke
Approved rendering: جوا
Transliteration: juā
Doctrine: Household Codes: Bondservants and Masters
Original: ζυγός
Category: Household of Faith
New term (1 Timothy). Occurs 6:1.
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