Core Glossary

Core Glossary: 2 Peter (English → Kashmiri)

Curriculum: 2 Peter Destination language: Kashmiri (Koshur), Perso-Arabic script Companion document to: analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md Purpose: Per-term glossary citing every load-bearing theological term from every chapter of 2 Peter, with risk tier, doctrine category, and translation rationale. Terms marked “Reused from Romans baseline” MUST use the exact rendering already fixed in translation_memory.json; no deviation permitted. Terms marked “New” are proposed for addition to translation memory before Phase 2 begins.

Risk tier definitions (unchanged from baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json):

Critical — mistranslation destroys essential doctrine; human theologian review required for every occurrence.
High — significant theological confusion/syncretism risk; human theologian review required.
Medium — reduces clarity but preserves essential meaning; native speaker review recommended.
Low — minor imprecision; automated review sufficient.

Section 1 — Terms Reused Exactly from the Romans Baseline

#	English Term	Kashmiri Rendering	Transliteration	Risk	Doctrine Category	2 Peter Refs	Notes
1	apostle	رسول	rasūl	Critical	Apostleship	1:1, 3:2	Must explicitly distinguish Peter’s/Paul’s NT office from Muhammad’s title (Rasūlullāh).
2	faith	ایمان	īmān	High	Faith	1:1, 1:5	Object must remain trust in Christ specifically.
3	righteousness	راستبازی	rāstbāzī	Critical	Salvation	1:1, 2:5, 2:21, 3:13	Reused across both individual (2:21) and cosmic-eschatological (3:13) senses.
4	grace	فضل	faz’l	Critical	Grace	1:2, 3:18	Guard against both Islamic deeds-weighing mercy and Trika shaktipat framings.
5	peace	امن	amn	Medium	Peace with God	1:2	Handle with regional-conflict sensitivity per baseline.
6	holy	پاک	pāk	High	Sanctification	1:18, 1:21, 2:21, 3:11	Moral/relational set-apartness, not ritual purity.
7	holy_spirit	پاک روح	pāk rūḥ	Critical	Inspiration of Scripture	1:21	Never bare روح القدس; must be stated as a divine Person, not the angel Gabriel.
8	god	خُدا	Khudā	Critical	Deity of Christ	1:1, 1:2, 1:17, 1:21, 3:5	Consistently Trinitarian/Christ-centered framing required.
9	jesus	یِسوع	Yisū’	Critical	Lordship of Christ	throughout	Never عیسیٰ except explicit interfaith-dialogue framing.
10	messiah/christ	مسیح	Masīḥ	Critical	Messianic Promise	throughout	Shared Quranic title; content must be explicitly taught, not assumed shared.
11	lord	خُداوند	Khudāwand	Critical	Lordship of Christ	1:2, 1:8, 1:11, 1:14, 1:16, 2:1, 2:20, 3:2, 3:8, 3:9, 3:10, 3:18	Exclusive supreme Lordship; never softened to “master/pir.”
12	son_of_god	خُدایہ ہند پُتر	Khudāya hind putr	Critical	Sonship of Christ	1:17	Intensified in this book by the direct heavenly-voice testimony.
13	father	باپت	bāpath	Critical	Adoption / Sonship of Christ	1:17	God the Father as speaker at the Transfiguration.
14	prophet	پیغمبر	paighambar	Medium	Inspiration of Scripture	1:19, 1:20, 1:21, 2:1, 2:16, 3:2	Base for several new compound terms below.
15	prophecy	پیشن گوئی	pēshan go’ī	Medium	Fulfillment of Prophecy / Inspiration	1:19, 1:20, 1:21, 3:2	Base for “prophecy of Scripture” compound.
16	sin	گناہ	gunāh	High	Universal Human Accountability	1:9, 2:4, 2:14	Base for “angels who sinned” compound.
17	calling	سَدنُک	sadanuk	High	Effectual Calling	1:10	Paired with election.
18	called	سَدہ گیہ	sada gyi	High	Divine Calling	1:3	”Called us to his own glory and excellence.”
19	election	خُدایُک چُنٲوُن	Khudāyuk chunāwun	High	Effectual Calling	1:10	Paired with calling.
20	power_of_god	خُدایُک قوت	Khudāyuk quwwat	High	Power of God	1:3, 1:16	Never شکتی (Kashmir Shaivite Shakti).
21	kingdom_of_god	خُدایُک بادشاہت	Khudāyuk bādshāhat	Medium	Kingdom Mission	1:11	Extended with ابدی (eternal) modifier; never territorial-political framing.
22	sanctification	پاکیزگی	pākīzagī	High	Sanctification	(implied throughout ch.1, 3:11)	Growth doctrine underlies “godliness”/“virtue” chain.
23	covenant/promise	عہد	’ahd	Medium	Fulfillment of Prophecy	1:4, 3:9, 3:13	Used as base component in “promise of his coming” compound (see New Terms).
24	glory	جلال	jalāl	High	Deity of Christ	1:3, 1:17 (×2)	Anchored explicitly to Christ’s own person at the Transfiguration.

Section 2 — New Terms Registered for 2 Peter (proposed additions to translation_memory.json)

#	English Term	Greek / Transliteration	Kashmiri Rendering	Transliteration	Risk	Doctrine Category	2 Peter Refs	Rationale / Alternatives Rejected
25	Savior	σωτήρ / sōtēr	مُنجی	munjī	Critical	Deity of Christ / Lordship	1:1, 1:11, 2:20, 3:2, 3:18	Recurring formula “our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” must keep خُداوند + مُنجی tightly paired; never soften to “helper” or “teacher.”
26	divine nature	θεία φύσις / theia physis	اِلٰہی طبیعتہ منز حصہ دار (بننہٕ)	ilāhī tabī’ath manz hissadār (banun)	Critical	Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption	1:4	Rejected: شریک (root of shirk, Islam’s gravest sin — never use). Must be taught as moral transformation by grace, never ontological fusion; distinguish sharply from Kashmir Shaivism’s pratyabhijñā (self-recognition of already-present Shiva-identity).
27	corruption	φθορά / phthora	خرابی	kharābī	High	Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption	1:4, 2:19	Rejected: فنا (Sufi mystical “passing away,” a positive devotional goal — opposite valence).
28	virtue	ἀρετή / aretē	نیکی	nēkī	High	Growing in Christian Virtue	1:3, 1:5	Rejected as primary: فضیلت (too closely tied to Islamic disciplined virtue-cultivation/taqwā discourse).
29	self-control	ἐγκράτεια / enkrateia	ضبطِ نفس	zabt-i-nafs	High	Growing in Christian Virtue	1:6	Genuine point of contact with Sufi mujāhada (struggle against the nafs); must be taught as grace-enabled fruit (1:3), not ascetic achievement.
30	steadfastness/endurance	ὑπομονή / hypomonē	صبر	sabr	Medium-High	Growing in Christian Virtue	1:6	Distinguish from fatalistic qismat-adjacent submission; kept lexically distinct from God’s own patience (تحمل, #46).
31	godliness	εὐσέβεια / eusebeia	خُداترسی	Khudā-tarsī	High	Growing in Christian Virtue	1:3, 1:6, 1:7, 3:11	Rejected: تقویٰ (already rejected in baseline for “righteousness”; same works-oriented risk applies here).
32	brotherly affection	φιλαδελφία / philadelphia	برادرانہ محبت	birādarāna muhabbat	Low-Medium	Growing in Christian Virtue	1:7	Distinct rung from ἀγάπη in the virtue chain.
33	love (agapē)	ἀγάπη / agapē	محبت	muhabbat	Medium	Growing in Christian Virtue	1:7	Capstone virtue; distinguish from generic affection.
34	knowledge (epignōsis)	ἐπίγνωσις / epignōsis	معرفت	ma’rifat	Critical	Growing in Christian Virtue / cross-doctrinal	1:2, 1:3, 1:8, 2:20, 3:18	Sharpest single collision term in the book. Must never default to Sufi ma’rifat’s progressive mystical-unveiling model or Trika’s jñāna/pratyabhijñā self-recognition model; teach as relational trust-knowledge of the historical Christ via apostolic testimony and Scripture.
35	knowledge (gnōsis)	γνῶσις / gnōsis	علم	’ilm	Medium-High	Growing in Christian Virtue	1:5, 1:6, 3:18	Kept lexically distinct from معرفت (#34) to preserve the Greek’s own distinction.
36	tent (of the body)	σκήνωμα / skēnōma	جسمُک خَیمہ	jismuk khaimah	Low	(descriptive, no doctrine flashpoint)	1:13, 1:14	Metaphor for the physical body.
37	departure	ἔξοδος / exodos	رخصت	rukhsat	Low	(descriptive)	1:15	Euphemism for death.
38	cleverly devised myths	σεσοφισμένοις μύθοις	چالاکی سٕتی بنٲومت کہانیہ	chālākī sity banāwamat kahānya	High	Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture	1:16	Core apologetic denial that the Gospel is legend; render with full force.
39	eyewitnesses	ἐπόπται / epoptai	عینی شاہد	’ainī shāhid	High	Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture	1:16	Grounds historicity against both “myth” readings and Qur’an 4:157-style denial of NT events.
40	majesty	μεγαλειότης / megaleiotēs	عظمت	’azmat	Medium	Deity of Christ	1:16	Christ’s personal divine grandeur.
41	Majestic Glory	μεγαλοπρεπὴς δόξα	عظمت آمت جلال	’azmat āmat jalāl	High	Deity of Christ	1:17	Title for God the Father; must not default to an impersonal Trika-style undivided-consciousness radiance.
42	prophetic word	προφητικὸς λόγος	پیغمبرانہ کلام	paighambarāna kalām	High	Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture	1:19	Confirmed, not superseded, by Christ’s glory — contrast with Islamic prophetology’s supersession model.
43	morning star	φωσφόρος / phōsphoros	صبحہ ہنٛز تارٕ	subha hanz tāre	Medium	Certainty of Christ’s Return	1:19	Keep consistent with any future Revelation 22:16 rendering.
44	own interpretation	ἰδία ἐπίλυσις	پننہٕ تفسیر	pananhi tafsīr	Medium-High	Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture	1:20	تفسیر resonates with Islamic Qur’anic-exegesis tradition; doctrinal point (origin, not interpretive method) must remain primary.
45	false prophets	ψευδοπροφῆται	جھوٹہٕ پیغمبر	jhūṭhu paighambar	High	False Teachers and Their Judgment	2:1	Internal critique of corrupt teachers, not a claim engaging khatm an-nubuwwah.
46	false teachers	ψευδοδιδάσκαλοι	جھوٹہٕ استاد	jhūṭhu ustād	High	False Teachers and Their Judgment	2:1	Distinguish sharply from the honored Sufi pīr/ustād category.
47	destructive heresies	αἱρέσεις ἀπωλείας	ہلاکت خیز فرقہ بازی	halākat-khez firqabāzī	High	False Teachers and Their Judgment	2:1	فرقہ risks narrowing to sectarian schism rather than Christological denial.
48	the Master who bought them	δεσπότην… ἀγοράσαντα	خرید کرنہ والا مالِک	kharīd karnuk wāla mālik	Critical	False Teachers / Deity of Christ	2:1	Tension flag: baseline reserves مالِک for ordinary human-authority contexts only; here applied to Christ’s redemptive ownership — requires explicit qualification and mandatory theologian sign-off in every occurrence.
49	sensuality	ἀσέλγεια	بے حیائی	be-ḥayā’ī	Medium	False Teachers and Their Judgment	2:2, 2:7, 2:18
50	the way of truth	ἡ ὁδὸς τῆς ἀληθείας	حقیقتُک راہ	ḥaqīqatuk rāh	Medium-High	False Teachers and Their Judgment	2:2	Distinguish from Sufi ṭarīqat and Qur’anic ṣirāṭ al-mustaqīm imagery.
51	angels who sinned	ἄγγελοι ἁμαρτήσαντες	گناہ کرنہٕ وول فرشتہٕ	gunāh karnuh wol farishta	High	False Teachers and Their Judgment	2:4	Contrasts with mainstream Islamic theology, which generally holds angels incapable of sin.
52	Tartarus	ταρταρόω / tartaroō	اندھیرن ہنٛز کھڈ	andheran hanz khadd	Medium	False Teachers and Their Judgment	2:4	Deliberately avoids دوزخ as primary gloss to prevent premature conflation with full Islamic Jahannam theology.
53	flood	κατακλυσμός / kataklysmos	طوفان	ṭūfān	Low-Medium	(typological precedent)	2:5, 3:6	Shared with Qur’anic Noah narrative; preserve typological reuse in ch. 3.
54	Noah / herald of righteousness	Νῶε / κήρυξ δικαιοσύνης	نوح / راستبازیُک واعظ	Nūh / rāstbāzīuk wā’iz	Low-Medium	Fulfillment of Prophecy (typology)	2:5	Shared Qur’anic figure; “herald of righteousness” role not emphasized in Qur’anic account.
55	Sodom, Gomorrah, Lot	Σόδομα, Γόμορρα, Λώτ	سدوم، عمورہ، لوط	Sadūm, ‘Amūrah, Lūt	Low-Medium	False Teachers and Their Judgment (precedent)	2:6-8	Lūt is a recognized Qur’anic prophet-narrative figure; strong point of contact.
56	despising lordship	κυριότητος καταφρονοῦντες	خُداوندی [کہِ خلاف نفرت]	Khudāwandī	High	Lordship of Christ / False Teachers	2:10	Built directly on خُداوند; false teachers’ core sin is rejecting Christ’s supreme authority.
57	blaspheming glorious ones	δόξας βλασφημοῦντες	جلالی ہستیَن خلاف کفر	jalālī hastyan khilāf kufr	High	False Teachers and Their Judgment	2:10	کفر is the foundational Islamic unbelief-category; requires narrowing to this specific act of slander, not full doctrinal apostasy.
58	Balaam	Βαλαάμ	بلعام	Bal’ām	Low-Medium	False Teachers and Their Judgment (precedent)	2:15-16	Possible resonance with tafsīr tradition on Qur’an 7:175-176; confirm with native speakers.
59	wages of unrighteousness	μισθὸς ἀδικίας	ناراستی ہنٛز مزدوری	nārāstī hanz mazdūrī	Medium	False Teachers and Their Judgment	2:15	Negation of راستبازی.
60	holy commandment	ἁγία ἐντολή	پاک حکم	pāk ḥukm	Medium	False Teachers and Their Judgment	2:21	حکم resonates with Islamic legal aḥkām; keep gospel-shaped, not code-based, framing.
61	freedom / slaves of corruption	ἐλευθερία / δοῦλοι φθορᾶς	آزادی / خرابی ہنٛز غلام	āzādī / kharābī hanz ghulām	Critical	False Teachers and Their Judgment	2:19	آزادی is the central slogan of the Kashmir self-determination movement — extreme regional political sensitivity; must remain strictly moral/spiritual in scope.
62	scoffers	ἐμπαῖκται	ٹھٹھہ کرنہٕ وول	ṭhaṭhah karnuh wol	Medium	Certainty of Christ’s Return	3:3
63	parousia / (his) coming	παρουσία	آمد (خُداوندُک قوت تہٕ آمد / تِہٕند آمدُک وعدہ)	āmad	Critical	Certainty of Christ’s Return	1:16, 3:4	Must render identically at both occurrences (Theological Consistency Rule). Distinguish from mainstream Islamic eschatology’s subordinate-prophet return-of-‘Īsā narrative.
64	word of God (creative)	ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ	خُدایُک کلام	Khudāyuk kalām	High	Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture	3:5	کلام resonates with the classical Islamic kalām-debate over the Qur’an’s created/uncreated status; clarify this refers to God’s creative/sustaining speech-act, not that debate.
65	day of judgment / Day of the Lord	ἡμέρα κρίσεως / ἡμέρα κυρίου	قیامتُک ڈۮھ / خُداوندُک ڈۮھ	Qiyāmatuk dyuh / Khudāwanduk dyuh	Critical	The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment	2:9, 3:7, 3:10, 3:12	Deepest shared-vocabulary risk in the book (parallel to Yawm al-Qiyāmah); must teach Christ himself as returning divine Judge, distinct from the independent deeds-weighing/mīzān framework.
66	(God’s) patience/forbearance	μακροθυμία / μακροθυμεῖ	تحمل	taḥammul	High	Patience of God’s Timing	3:9, 3:15	Kept lexically distinct from صبر (#30, human endurance); purposeful and relational, not fatalistic qismat-style delay.
67	repentance	μετάνοια	توبہ	tauba	High	Patience of God’s Timing / Salvation	3:9	Must clarify as turning to trust in Christ’s atoning work, not Islamic tauba’s remorse-and-resolution model without a mediator, nor Trika self-recognition.
68	elements (cosmic dissolution)	στοιχεῖα	عناصر	anāsir	Medium	The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment	3:10, 3:12	Shared cosmological vocabulary; preserve judgment/renewal emphasis.
69	new heavens and new earth	καινοὶ οὐρανοὶ καὶ γῆ καινή	نوٕن آسمان تہٕ نوٕن زمین	nawin āsmān ta nawin zamīn	High	The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment	3:13	Genuine point of contact with Qur’an 14:48’s earth/heaven transformation; clarify distinctly Christ-centered content.
70	without spot or blemish	ἄσπιλοι καὶ ἀμώμητοι	بے داغ تہٕ بے عیب	be-dāgh ta be-‘aib	Medium	Growing in Christian Virtue	3:14	Sacrificial-purity imagery.
71	twisting the Scriptures	στρεβλόω	مروڑنہ	marōṛnuh	Critical	Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture	3:16	Deliberately avoids تحریف to prevent conceding the Islamic taḥrīf doctrine about NT textual transmission; this is an internal warning against willful theological distortion.
72	equal-standing faith	ἰσότιμος πίστις	ہمعزت ایمان	ham-‘izzat īmān	Medium	Faith	1:1	All believers share full standing in the one faith.
73	servant	δοῦλος	غلام	ghulām	Low-Medium	(self-designation)	1:1	Honorific devotional usage.
74	God and Savior (Granville Sharp construction)	θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος	خُدا تہٕ مُنجی	Khudā ta munjī	Critical	Deity of Christ	1:1	Single-article construction identifying Jesus as both God and Savior; must not be split into two separate referents in translation.

Section 3 — Doctrine-to-Term Cross-Index

Curriculum Doctrine	Key Terms (# from Section 2, plus reused baseline terms)
The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture	38, 39, 42, 44, 64, 71; reused: prophet (14), prophecy (15), holy_spirit (7)
Growing in Christian Virtue	28–35, 70; reused: sanctification (22), grace (4)
False Teachers and Their Judgment	45–52, 56–61; reused: sin (16)
The Certainty of Christ’s Return	43, 62, 63
The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment	65, 66, 68, 69
Patience of God’s Timing	66, 67
Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption	26, 27
Deity/Sonship/Lordship of Christ (cross-cutting)	25, 40, 41, 48, 56, 74; reused: lord (11), son_of_god (12), father (13), glory (24)

Section 4 — Chapters Confirmed Reviewed with No Additional New Terms

All three chapters of 2 Peter (1, 2, 3) contain new load-bearing theological vocabulary and are fully represented above; no chapter is without new terms in this short book. Every verse of 2 Peter 1–3 has been reviewed for load-bearing theological content per the full-book coverage mandate.

This glossary must be loaded into translation_memory.json as version increments before any Phase 2 segment translation of 2 Peter begins, per the baseline’s Translation Memory Load and Enforcement Instructions. All Critical and High risk new terms above require human theologian review before first use; all are proposed with reasons grounded in this curriculum’s dual-audience (Sunni Muslim / Kashmiri Pandit Shaivite) risk landscape, consistent with the baseline Romans Language Package’s methodology.

Critical Risk Terms

Apostle

Approved rendering: رسول
Transliteration: rasūl
Doctrine: Apostleship
Rejected alternatives: پیغمبر (prophet, a distinct office, avoid conflating)
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. 2 Peter usage: 1:1 (Peter’s self-designation), 3:2 (the apostles’ commandment). Must explicitly distinguish Peter’s NT sent-ministry office from Muhammad’s specific title Rasūlullāh at first use in this book as well.

Righteousness

Approved rendering: راستبازی
Transliteration: rāstbāzī
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: تقویٰ (piety/God-consciousness, too works-oriented)
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. 2 Peter usage: 1:1 (Christ’s own righteousness), 2:5 (Noah’s proclaimed righteousness), 2:21 (the abandoned way of righteousness), 3:13 (the eschatological new creation in which righteousness dwells). Must not collapse into تقویٰ-style disciplined piety in any occurrence.

Grace

Approved rendering: فضل
Transliteration: faz’l
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: شکتی پات (shaktipat, never use), رحم (mercy, supporting synonym only)
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. 2 Peter usage: 1:2 (opening blessing), 3:18 (closing exhortation ‘grow in grace’). Must be guarded against both Islamic deeds-weighing mercy AND Kashmir Shaivite shaktipat framings in both occurrences.

Holy Spirit

Approved rendering: پاک روح
Transliteration: pāk rūḥ
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: روح القدس (Ruh al-Qudus, bare, never use)
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. 2 Peter usage: 1:21, the book’s single clearest inspiration-of-Scripture statement. Bare روح القدس must never be used, since mainstream Islamic exegesis identifies that Quranic phrase with the angel Gabriel (Jibrīl), not a co-equal divine Person superintending the human authors of Scripture.

God

Approved rendering: خُدا
Transliteration: Khudā
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: θεός
Category: God

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. 2 Peter usage: 1:1, 1:2, 1:17, 1:21, 3:5. Every occurrence in this book must be read in explicitly Trinitarian, Christ-centered terms, especially 1:1’s Granville Sharp ‘God and Savior’ construction and 1:17’s heavenly-voice theophany.

Jesus

Approved rendering: یِسوع
Transliteration: Yisū’
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: عیسیٰ (Quranic form, interfaith-dialogue framing only)
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Used throughout 2 Peter, frequently paired with ‘Christ’ and the titles ‘Lord’ and ‘Savior.’ یِسوع required consistently; never عیسیٰ.

Messiah

Approved rendering: مسیح
Transliteration: Masīḥ
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Used throughout 2 Peter as part of ‘Jesus Christ’ and ‘our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.’ Shared Quranic vocabulary; content must be explicitly taught, never assumed shared.

Lord

Approved rendering: خُداوند
Transliteration: Khudāwand
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: مالِک (owner/master, reserve for ordinary human authority contexts)
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. 2 Peter usage: 1:2, 1:8, 1:11, 1:14, 1:16, 2:1, 2:20, 3:2, 3:8, 3:9, 3:10, 3:18, including the false teachers’ specific sin of ‘despising lordship’ (2:10). Must never be softened toward the honored Sufi spiritual-master (pir) category, especially in the recurring formula ‘our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.‘

Son Of God

Approved rendering: خُدایہ ہند پُتر
Transliteration: Khudāya hind putr
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: نبی (a great prophet, explicit downgrade, rejected)
Original: ὁ υἱός μου
Category: Christology

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. 2 Peter 1:17 intensifies this Critical doctrine beyond mere apostolic claim into the Father’s own direct, audible heavenly-voice self-testimony (‘This is my Son, my Beloved’), directly contradicting Quran 112’s ‘He begets not, nor is He begotten.’ Must be taught unflinchingly, not softened.

Father

Approved rendering: باپت
Transliteration: bāpath
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: θεοῦ πατρός
Category: God

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. 2 Peter usage: 1:17, God the Father as the speaker/source of the heavenly voice at the Transfiguration, a distinct Trinitarian Person addressing the Son. Must be taught relationally, not assumed to transfer without explanation given Tawhid-adjacent sensitivity.

Salvation

Approved rendering: نجات
Transliteration: najāt
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: جنت (paradise, never a stand-alone gloss), پرتیبھِجنا (pratyabhijna, never use)

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. 2 Peter usage: 3:15 (‘count the patience of our Lord as salvation’). Must retain Christ’s finished work as the basis, guarding against both an Islamic deeds-weighing paradise-entry frame and a Trika self-recognition frame, exactly as in the baseline.

God And Savior

Approved rendering: خُدا تہٕ مُنجی
Transliteration: Khudā ta munjī
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: splitting into two separate referents (‘God, and also the Savior’) — explicitly rejected
Original: τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμῶν καὶ σωτῆρος
Category: Christology

NEW. 2 Peter 1:1’s Granville Sharp (single-article) construction, grammatically identifying Jesus Christ as both God and Savior — one of the NT’s most forceful single-verse deity statements. Must be preserved in Kashmiri as a single unified identification of one person, never softened into two referents, which would erase the doctrine and directly undercut the Critical Deity of Christ doctrine.

Savior

Approved rendering: مُنجی
Transliteration: munjī
Doctrine: Deity of Christ / Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: a term implying merely ‘a great helper’ or ‘a righteous teacher,’ explicitly rejected
Original: σωτήρ
Category: Christology

NEW. σωτήρ, recurring in the formula ‘our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ’ (1:1, 1:11, 2:20, 3:2, 3:18). An established Perso-Urdu Christian usage. Must remain tightly paired with خُداوند in this recurring formula throughout the book.

Divine Nature

Approved rendering: اِلٰہی طبیعتہ منز حصہ دار بننہٕ
Transliteration: ilāhī tabī’ath manz hissadār banun
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Rejected alternatives: شریک (the root of shirk, Islam’s gravest sin — never use under any circumstance), اوتار-adjacent or self-realization vocabulary — never use
Original: θεία φύσις
Category: Sanctification

NEW. θεία φύσις, 2 Peter 1:4, ‘partakers of the divine nature.’ The single sharpest theological flashpoint in the whole book. For Kashmiri Pandit readers this sits remarkably close to Kashmir Shaivism’s pratyabhijñā (self-recognition of one’s own already-present Shiva-consciousness); for Muslim readers, ‘partaking’ God’s nature risks being heard as shirk. Must be taught explicitly as moral transformation by grace, creatures remaining creatures, never ontological fusion or self-recognition of latent divinity. حصہ دار (‘shareholder,’ a commercial/civil term) is used deliberately outside shirk’s religious resonance.

Knowledge Epignosis

Approved rendering: معرفت
Transliteration: ma’rifat
Doctrine: Assurance through Growth in Grace and Knowledge
Rejected alternatives: never allowed to default to Sufi ma’rifat’s progressive mystical-unveiling (kashf) model, or to Trika’s jnana/pratyabhijna self-recognition model
Original: ἐπίγνωσις
Category: Growth

NEW. ἐπίγνωσις, 1:2, 1:3, 1:8, 2:20, 3:18. The sharpest single collision term in the book: Sufi mysticism’s ma’rifat names progressive, experiential knowledge of God attained through a spiritual path, closely paralleling Kashmir Shaivism’s jnana-based pratyabhijna. Must be taught explicitly as relational trust-knowledge of the historical, incarnate, crucified, risen, and returning Christ, received through apostolic eyewitness testimony and Scripture. Kept lexically distinct from گنوسیس/علم (knowledge_gnosis) at every occurrence.

Master Who Bought Them

Approved rendering: خرید کرنہ والا مالِک
Transliteration: kharīd karnuk wāla mālik
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: bare مالِک without the redemptive-purchase qualifier, explicitly rejected
Original: τὸν ἀγοράσαντα αὐτοὺς δεσπότην
Category: Christology

NEW. τὸν ἀγοράσαντα αὐτοὺς δεσπότην, 2:1. TENSION FLAG: the baseline reserves مالِک for ordinary human-authority contexts, explicitly rejecting it as a substitute for خُداوند applied to Christ. Here δεσπότης applies directly to Christ’s redemptive ownership; مالِک must always be qualified by the redemptive-purchase phrase and this term requires mandatory theologian sign-off at every occurrence.

Freedom Slaves Of Corruption

Approved rendering: آزادی / خرابی ہنٛز غلام
Transliteration: āzādī / kharābī hanz ghulām
Doctrine: Moral Freedom versus Bondage to Corruption
Rejected alternatives: any usage that could be read as commentary on the region’s contested political status, explicitly forbidden
Original: ἐλευθερία / δοῦλοι τῆς φθορᾶς
Category: False Teachers

NEW. ἐλευθερία / δοῦλοι τῆς φθορᾶς, 2:19. آزادی is the single central political slogan of the Kashmir self-determination/independence movement, carrying extraordinary contemporary political weight wholly apart from its theological sense — an even more acute sensitivity than the baseline’s existing flags for ‘peace’ and ‘kingdom.’ Must always remain strictly bounded to moral/spiritual bondage-versus-liberty in Christ.

Parousia

Approved rendering: آمد
Transliteration: āmad
Doctrine: The Certainty of Christ’s Return
Rejected alternatives: transliterating the Greek term itself, rejected as opaque without precedent in Kashmiri
Original: παρουσία
Category: Eschatology

NEW. παρουσία, 1:16 and 3:4. Must be rendered identically at both occurrences (Theological Consistency Rule). Mainstream Sunni eschatology affirms a future return of ‘Isa, but strictly as a subordinate prophet-figure who defeats al-Dajjal and then dies naturally, never as the divine Lord-Judge exercising sovereign authority to judge all humanity; must be taught into directly.

Day Of Judgment

Approved rendering: قیامتُک ڈۮھ / خُداوندُک ڈۮھ
Transliteration: Qiyāmatuk dyuh / Khudāwanduk dyuh
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Original: ἡμέρα κρίσεως / ἡμέρα κυρίου
Category: Eschatology

NEW. ἡμέρα κρίσεως / ἡμέρα κυρίου, 2:9, 3:7, 3:10, 3:12. Deepest shared-vocabulary risk in the book, unavoidably resonant with the fully developed Islamic Yawm al-Qiyāmah apparatus (mīzān, ṣirāṭ, shafā’ah). Every occurrence must include explicit teaching that Christ himself, not an independent deeds-weighing scale, is the returning divine Judge and ground of final destiny — required at every occurrence, not just first use.

Twisting Scriptures

Approved rendering: مروڑنہ
Transliteration: marōṛnuh
Doctrine: Scripture-Twisting and Doctrinal Integrity
Rejected alternatives: تحریف (taḥrīf), deliberately never used as the primary rendering
Original: στρεβλόω
Category: Scripture

NEW. στρεβλόω, 3:16. This verse’s warning against ‘twisting’ apostolic writing is strikingly proximate to the Islamic taḥrīf doctrine that earlier scriptures including the Injīl were textually corrupted. تحریف must never be used, to avoid the appearance of the New Testament conceding or engaging that doctrine about its own textual transmission; this is an internal warning about willful theological misuse, a wholly different claim, and must be taught as such explicitly.

High Risk Terms

Faith

Approved rendering: ایمان
Transliteration: īmān
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: یقین (certainty/conviction, too intellectual/impersonal alone)
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. 2 Peter usage: 1:1, 1:5. The object of faith (Christ’s finished, atoning, returning work) must remain explicit, not generic confessional submission.

Holy

Approved rendering: پاک
Transliteration: pāk
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: صاف (ritual-ablution cleanliness, avoid as substitute)
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. 2 Peter usage: 1:18 (holy mountain), 1:21 (holy men/prophets), 2:21 (holy commandment), 3:11 (holy conduct). Must be kept distinct from ritual/ablution purity across all four occurrences.

Sin

Approved rendering: گناہ
Transliteration: gunāh
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Original: ἁμαρτία / ἁμαρτάνω
Category: Sin

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. 2 Peter usage: 1:9, 2:4 (fallen angels), 2:14 (false teachers’ habitual practice). Base term for the ‘angels who sinned’ compound below.

Calling

Approved rendering: سَدنُک
Transliteration: sadanuk
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. 2 Peter usage: 1:10, paired with ‘election,’ something believers are urged to confirm by godly living.

Called

Approved rendering: سَدہ گیہ
Transliteration: sada gyi
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: دعوت دِنہ (invited, too weak)
Original: καλέσαντος
Category: Salvation

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. 2 Peter usage: 1:3, God’s summons of believers to his own glory and excellence; effectual salvific calling.

Election

Approved rendering: خُدایُک چُنٲوُن
Transliteration: Khudāyuk chunāwun
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: قسمت (fate, echoing taqdir, use with caution)
Original: ἐκλογή
Category: Salvation

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. 2 Peter usage: 1:10, paired with ‘calling.’ Must not default toward قسمت/taqdir-style impersonal predetermination.

Power Of God

Approved rendering: خُدایُک قوت
Transliteration: Khudāyuk quwwat
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Rejected alternatives: شکتی (Kashmir Shaivite Shakti, never use)
Original: θεία δύναμις / δύναμις
Category: God

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. 2 Peter usage: 1:3 (grants all things needed for life and godliness), 1:16 (Christ’s power displayed at his coming). Never شکتی.

Sanctification

Approved rendering: پاکیزگی
Transliteration: pākīzagī
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: εὐσέβεια-adjacent holy-living concept
Category: Sanctification

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Underlies the entire virtue-growth chain (1:5-7) and the exhortation to holy conduct while awaiting the Day of the Lord (3:11). Distinct from ritual purification and from Trika disciplines aimed at recognizing already-present purity.

Glory

Approved rendering: جلال
Transliteration: jalāl
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: Christology

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. 2 Peter usage: 1:3, 1:17 (twice, ‘honor and glory’ and ‘the Majestic Glory’). Must be explicitly anchored to Christ’s own self-existent glory at each occurrence.

Corruption

Approved rendering: خرابی
Transliteration: kharābī
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Rejected alternatives: فنا (Sufi mystical ‘passing away’/annihilation in God, a positive devotional goal — opposite valence, never use)
Original: φθορά
Category: Sanctification

NEW. φθορά, 1:4 (moral/mortal ruin escaped through God’s promises) and 2:19 (what enslaves the false teachers even as they promise others freedom).

Virtue

Approved rendering: نیکی
Transliteration: nēkī
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Rejected alternatives: فضیلت (too closely tied to Islamic disciplined virtue-cultivation/taqwa discourse, rejected as primary)
Original: ἀρετή
Category: Growth

NEW. ἀρετή, 1:3 (God’s own praiseworthy excellence) and 1:5 (the believer’s grace-empowered cultivation of moral excellence, first rung of the virtue chain). Must be taught as grace-empowered fruit, not self-achieved religious merit.

Self Control

Approved rendering: ضبطِ نفس
Transliteration: zabt-i-nafs
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: ἐγκράτεια
Category: Growth

NEW. ἐγκράτεια, 1:6, one link in the virtue chain. Genuine point of contact with Sufi mujāhada (the ‘struggle against the nafs,’ a core Rishi-order spiritual discipline); must be taught as one fruit supplied by God’s divine power (1:3), not an ascetic achievement earned through spiritual exercises.

Endurance

Approved rendering: صبر
Transliteration: sabr
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: ὑπομονή
Category: Growth

NEW. ὑπομονή, 1:6, active hope-filled perseverance under trial, one link in the virtue chain. صبر is a prominent Qur’anic/Islamic devotional virtue (patient endurance as submission to qadar); Christian ὑπομονή flows from confident hope in Christ’s certain return (ch. 3), not fatalistic submission. Kept lexically distinct from تحمل (God’s own patience, 3:9, 3:15).

Godliness

Approved rendering: خُداترسی
Transliteration: Khudā-tarsī
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Rejected alternatives: تقویٰ (already rejected in the baseline for ‘righteousness’; same works-oriented risk applies here)
Original: εὐσέβεια
Category: Growth

NEW. εὐσέβεια, 1:3, 1:6, 1:7, 3:11: the goal of God’s calling, a rung in the virtue chain, and the character expected while awaiting the Day of the Lord. Must be presented as grace-enabled fruit (1:3-4), never self-cultivated achievement earning divine favor.

Knowledge Gnosis

Approved rendering: علم
Transliteration: ‘ilm
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: γνῶσις
Category: Growth

NEW. γνῶσις, 1:5, 1:6, 3:18. Ordinary cultivated knowledge, a rung in the virtue chain. Kept lexically distinct from معرفت (knowledge_epignosis) to preserve the Greek’s own distinction between deeper relational knowing and cultivated virtue-list knowledge.

Cleverly Devised Myths

Approved rendering: چالاکی سٕتی بنٲومت کہانیہ
Transliteration: chālākī sity banāwamat kahānya
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: a mild literary-comparison gloss, rejected as too weak
Original: σεσοφισμένοις μύθοις
Category: Scripture

NEW. σεσοφισμένοις μύθοις, 1:16. Core apologetic denial that the Gospel record is legendary; must be rendered with full apologetic force, grounding the reliability of the entire apostolic proclamation.

Eyewitnesses

Approved rendering: عینی شاہد
Transliteration: ‘ainī shāhid
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: ἐπόπται
Category: Scripture

NEW. ἐπόπται, 1:16. Grounds historicity of the Transfiguration against both a ‘myth’ reading and, contextually, the mainstream Islamic denial (Quran 4:157) that the crucifixion/resurrection events happened as recorded.

Majestic Glory

Approved rendering: عظمت آمت جلال
Transliteration: ‘azmat āmat jalāl
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Original: μεγαλοπρεπὴς δόξα
Category: God

NEW. μεγαλοπρεπὴς δόξα, 1:17. A reverent periphrastic title for God the Father, source of the heavenly voice. Must be clearly understood as a title for God the Father personally, not an impersonal cosmic radiance akin to Trika’s undivided Shiva-consciousness luminosity.

Prophetic Word

Approved rendering: پیغمبرانہ کلام
Transliteration: paighambarāna kalām
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: προφητικὸς λόγος
Category: Scripture

NEW. προφητικὸς λόγος, 1:19. Old Testament prophetic writings, confirmed rather than contradicted by Christ’s glory. Must be distinguished from the Islamic prophetology model in which each new revealed book supersedes and corrects the prior one; Peter’s point is confirmation and continuity.

Own Interpretation

Approved rendering: پننہٕ تفسیر
Transliteration: pananhi tafsīr
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: ἰδία ἐπίλυσις
Category: Scripture

NEW. ἰδία ἐπίλυσις, 1:20. تفسیر resonates with the major Islamic technical term for Qur’anic exegesis; the doctrinal point (the origin of prophecy, not from human interpretive initiative but from God) must remain primary regardless of interpretation-vocabulary chosen.

False Prophets

Approved rendering: جھوٹہٕ پیغمبر
Transliteration: jhūṭhu paighambar
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: ψευδοπροφῆται
Category: False Teachers

NEW. ψευδοπροφῆται, 2:1. Built on baseline پیغمبر. Must be clarified as an internal critique of teachers distorting the gospel for personal gain, not a claim engaging the distinct Islamic doctrine of khatm an-nubuwwah (finality of prophethood).

False Teachers

Approved rendering: جھوٹہٕ استاد
Transliteration: jhūṭhu ustād
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: ψευδοδιδάσκαλοι
Category: False Teachers

NEW. ψευδοδιδάσκαλοι, 2:1. استاد is also used of Sufi spiritual masters (pirs); this compound must make unmistakably clear these are corrupt, condemned figures, distinct from the honored pir/ustād category.

Destructive Heresies

Approved rendering: ہلاکت خیز فرقہ بازی
Transliteration: halākat-khez firqabāzī
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: αἱρέσεις ἀπωλείας
Category: False Teachers

NEW. αἱρέσεις ἀπωλείας, 2:1. فرقہ carries significant weight in Islamic religious history (sectarian-division hadith tradition); risks narrowing 2 Peter’s point to sectarian schism rather than the specific Christological denial in view.

Way Of Truth

Approved rendering: حقیقتُک راہ
Transliteration: ḥaqīqatuk rāh
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: ἡ ὁδὸς τῆς ἀληθείας
Category: False Teachers

NEW. ἡ ὁδὸς τῆς ἀληθείας, 2:2. Resonates with Sufi ṭarīqat and the Qur’anic ṣirāṭ al-mustaqīm; genuine point of contact in the shared image of a path, but must not collapse into a ṭarīqat-style gradual mystical self-purification framework.

Angels Who Sinned

Approved rendering: گناہ کرنہٕ وول فرشتہٕ
Transliteration: gunāh karnuh wol farishta
Doctrine: Angelic Judgment
Original: ἀγγέλων ἁμαρτησάντων
Category: False Teachers

NEW. ἀγγέλων ἁμαρτησάντων, 2:4. Mainstream Islamic theology generally holds angels (malā’ika) incapable of sin, with Iblīs classed as jinn not a fallen angel. A specific, identifiable point of divergence; must be taught directly, never softened or omitted.

Despising Lordship

Approved rendering: خُداوندی خلاف نفرت
Transliteration: Khudāwandī khilāf nafrat
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: a rendering implying mere ‘disrespect for leaders,’ explicitly rejected
Original: κυριότητος καταφρονοῦντες
Category: False Teachers

NEW. κυριότητος καταφρονοῦντες, 2:10. Built directly on خُداوند; the false teachers’ core sin is rejecting Christ’s supreme authority.

Blaspheming Glorious Ones

Approved rendering: جلالی ہستیَن خلاف کفر
Transliteration: jalālī hastyan khilāf kufr
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: δόξας βλασφημοῦντες
Category: False Teachers

NEW. δόξας βλασφημοῦντες, 2:10. کفر is the foundational Islamic unbelief-category (antonym of īmān); using it here requires careful narrowing to this specific act of slander against exalted beings, not the full Islamic category of disbelief in Tawhid.

Word Of God Creative

Approved rendering: خُدایُک کلام
Transliteration: Khudāyuk kalām
Doctrine: The Word of God as Creative and Sustaining Power
Original: ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: God

NEW. ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ, 3:5. کلام is the central term in classical Islamic kalām theology (the created/uncreated Qur’an debate). Must be explicitly clarified as God’s effective creative/sustaining speech-act echoing Genesis 1, not a claim entering that specific Islamic controversy.

Patience Of God

Approved rendering: تحمل
Transliteration: taḥammul
Doctrine: Patience of God’s Timing
Original: μακροθυμία / μακροθυμεῖ
Category: God

NEW. μακροθυμία / μακροθυμεῖ, 3:9, 3:15. Kept lexically distinct from صبر (human endurance, 1:6). Must not be reheard as arbitrary or fatalistic divine delay (echoing qismat/taqdir); God’s patience here is purposeful, relational, oriented toward repentance (3:9b).

Repentance

Approved rendering: توبہ
Transliteration: tauba
Doctrine: Patience of God’s Timing
Original: μετάνοια
Category: Salvation

NEW. μετάνοια, 3:9. Tauba is the central, formally structured Islamic devotional category for repentance (remorse, confession, resolution, without a mediating atonement). Must be clarified as turning in trust to Christ’s finished atoning work specifically, distinct also from Trika’s self-recognition framework.

New Heavens New Earth

Approved rendering: نوٕن آسمان تہٕ نوٕن زمین
Transliteration: nawin āsmān ta nawin zamīn
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Original: καινοὶ οὐρανοὶ καὶ γῆ καινή
Category: Eschatology

NEW. καινοὶ οὐρανοὶ καὶ γῆ καινή, 3:13. Mainstream Islamic eschatology also anticipates the earth and heavens being ‘changed’ at Qiyāmah (Qur’an 14:48) — a genuine point of common ground that should be noted explicitly, while clarifying the distinctly Christ-centered content of the biblical hope (righteousness dwelling there because of Christ’s finished work and return).

Medium Risk Terms

Peace

Approved rendering: امن
Transliteration: amn
Doctrine: Peace with God
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. 2 Peter usage: 1:2, part of the epistolary greeting. Handle with the same regional-conflict sensitivity already required in the baseline.

Prophet

Approved rendering: پیغمبر
Transliteration: paighambar
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Original: προφήτης
Category: Scripture

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. 2 Peter usage: 1:19, 1:20, 1:21, 2:1, 2:16, 3:2. Base term for several new compounds in this book (false prophets, prophetic word); a genuine point of contact requiring care that OT prophets and apostolic teaching are not read as fitting a Quranic supersession prophetology.

Prophecy

Approved rendering: پیشن گوئی
Transliteration: pēshan go’ī
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Original: προφητεία
Category: Scripture

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. 2 Peter usage: 1:19, 1:20, 1:21, 3:2. Base term for the ‘prophecy of Scripture’ and ‘prophetic word’ compounds registered below.

Kingdom Of God

Approved rendering: ابدی خُدایُک بادشاہت
Transliteration: abadī Khudāyuk bādshāhat
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Original: αἰώνιος βασιλεία
Category: Kingdom

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, base rendering خُدایُک بادشاہت unchanged; extended here with ابدی (eternal) modifier for 2 Peter 1:11’s ‘eternal kingdom.’ Must be distinguished from any territorial-political framing given the region’s contested-sovereignty history.

Covenant

Approved rendering: عہد
Transliteration: ‘ahd
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: ἐπαγγελία
Category: Scripture

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. In 2 Peter this term underlies ‘promise’ vocabulary at 1:4 (‘precious and very great promises’) and the disputed ‘promise of his coming’ (3:4, 3:9, 3:13); used as the base component of the parousia-related compound registered below.

Equal Standing Faith

Approved rendering: ہمعزت ایمان
Transliteration: ham-‘izzat īmān
Doctrine: Equal Standing of Faith Among All Believers
Original: ἰσότιμος πίστις
Category: Faith

NEW. Romans 1:1’s ἰσότιμον πίστιν, ‘a faith of equal standing.’ Built on baseline ایمان. All believers, not only apostles, share full standing in the one faith; guard against any reading implying tiered faith-status by community or sect, a live sensitivity given Kashmir’s own religious-communal stratifications.

Love

Approved rendering: محبت
Transliteration: muhabbat
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Growth

NEW. ἀγάπη, 1:7, the capstone virtue of the growth chain. Must be distinguished contextually from generic affection or romantic love; names God’s own self-giving love reproduced in the believer.

Majesty

Approved rendering: عظمت
Transliteration: ‘azmat
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: μεγαλειότης
Category: Christology

NEW. μεγαλειότης, 1:16. Christ’s own inherent, personal majesty displayed at the Transfiguration; its direct application to Christ personally should be flagged alongside the Critical Deity of Christ doctrine.

Morning Star

Approved rendering: صبحہ ہنٛز تارٕ
Transliteration: subha hanz tāre
Doctrine: The Certainty of Christ’s Return
Original: φωσφόρος
Category: Eschatology

NEW. φωσφόρος, 1:19. Messianic/eschatological image of Christ’s own person rising within believers’ hearts. Keep consistent with any future Revelation 22:16 rendering of the same image applied to Christ.

Sensuality

Approved rendering: بے حیائی
Transliteration: be-ḥayā’ī
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: ἀσέλγεια
Category: False Teachers

NEW. ἀσέλγεια, 2:2, 2:7, 2:18. Shameless, unrestrained immoral conduct promoted and practiced by the false teachers.

Tartarus

Approved rendering: اندھیرن ہنٛز کھڈ
Transliteration: andheran hanz khadd
Doctrine: Angelic Judgment
Rejected alternatives: دوزخ as a primary gloss, rejected — use only as an explanatory aside
Original: ταρταρόω
Category: Eschatology

NEW. ταρταρόω, 2:4. Deliberately avoids دوزخ as the primary gloss to prevent premature over-identification with the full, distinct Islamic theology of Jahannam.

Flood

Approved rendering: طوفان
Transliteration: ṭūfān
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy (typological precedent)
Original: κατακλυσμός
Category: Eschatology

NEW. κατακλυσμός, 2:5, 3:6. Shared with the Qur’anic Noah narrative, a good point of contact; preserve its typological reuse across both occurrences (judgment by water, then by fire).

Noah Herald Of Righteousness

Approved rendering: نوح، راستبازیُک واعظ
Transliteration: Nūh, rāstbāzīuk wā’iz
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy (typological precedent)
Original: Νῶε, κήρυξ δικαιοσύνης
Category: Scripture

NEW. Νῶε, κήρυξ δικαιοσύνης, 2:5. Nūh is the Qur’anic Noah figure, a genuine point of contact, though the Qur’anic narrative does not carry the same ‘herald of righteousness’ homiletical emphasis found here.

Sodom Gomorrah Lot

Approved rendering: سدوم، عمورہ، لوط
Transliteration: Sadūm, ‘Amūrah, Lūt
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment (precedent)
Original: Σόδομα, Γόμορρα, Λώτ
Category: Scripture

NEW. Σόδομα, Γόμορρα, Λώτ, 2:6-8. Lūt is a recognized Qur’anic prophet-narrative figure (qawm Lūṭ), a strong point of narrative contact.

Balaam

Approved rendering: بلعام
Transliteration: Bal’ām
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment (precedent)
Original: Βαλαάμ
Category: False Teachers

NEW. Βαλαάμ, 2:15-16. Possible resonance with tafsīr tradition on Qur’an 7:175-176; confirm regional resonance with native speakers before wide deployment.

Wages Of Unrighteousness

Approved rendering: ناراستی ہنٛز مزدوری
Transliteration: nārāstī hanz mazdūrī
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: μισθὸς ἀδικίας
Category: False Teachers

NEW. μισθὸς ἀδικίας, 2:15. Negation of راستبازی; the greed motivating Balaam and, by extension, the false teachers.

Holy Commandment

Approved rendering: پاک حکم
Transliteration: pāk ḥukm
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἁγία ἐντολή
Category: Sanctification

NEW. ἁγία ἐντολή, 2:21. حکم resonates with Islamic legal aḥkām; ensure this is understood as gospel-shaped instruction for holy living, not a comprehensive legal-code framing.

Scoffers

Approved rendering: ٹھٹھہ کرنہٕ وول
Transliteration: ṭhaṭhah karnuh wol
Doctrine: The Certainty of Christ’s Return
Original: ἐμπαῖκται
Category: Eschatology

NEW. ἐμπαῖκται, 3:3. Those who deride and dismiss the promise of Christ’s coming.

Elements

Approved rendering: عناصر
Transliteration: anāsir
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Original: στοιχεῖα
Category: Eschatology

NEW. στοιχεῖα, 3:10, 3:12. Standard Perso-Arabic loanword shared with classical Islamic and Greek-derived cosmology; ensure the theological emphasis (divine judgment and purification, leading to renewal) is not lost in a purely physical-science reading.

Without Spot Or Blemish

Approved rendering: بے داغ تہٕ بے عیب
Transliteration: be-dāgh ta be-‘aib
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: ἄσπιλοι καὶ ἀμώμητοι
Category: Sanctification

NEW. ἄσπιλοι καὶ ἀμώμητοι, 3:14. Sacrificial-purity imagery applied to believers’ moral character at Christ’s return.

Low Risk Terms

Servant

Approved rendering: غلام
Transliteration: ghulām
Doctrine: Humility and Servanthood in Ministry
Original: δοῦλος
Category: Church

NEW. Peter’s humble devotional self-designation alongside his apostolic authority (1:1). غلام used in the honorific devotional sense, not the demeaning sense.

Brotherly Affection

Approved rendering: برادرانہ محبت
Transliteration: birādarāna muhabbat
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: φιλαδελφία
Category: Growth

NEW. φιλαδελφία, 1:7, one rung of the virtue chain, distinct from and preceding ἀγάπη.

Tent Of Body

Approved rendering: جسمُک خَیمہ
Transliteration: jismuk khaimah
Doctrine: Hope in the Face of Death
Original: σκήνωμα
Category: Miscellaneous

NEW. σκήνωμα, 1:13-14, metaphor for the physical body as a temporary dwelling Peter will soon ‘put off’ in death.

Departure

Approved rendering: رخصت
Transliteration: rukhsat
Doctrine: Hope in the Face of Death
Original: ἔξοδος
Category: Miscellaneous

NEW. ἔξοδος, 1:15, euphemism for death echoing the Exodus narrative of deliverance; frames Peter’s approaching death as deliverance, not annihilation.

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