Core Glossary
08 — Core Glossary: 3 John (English → Kashmiri)
Curriculum: 3 John
Core passage: 3 John 1:1–14 (entire book)
Destination language: Kashmiri (Koshur), Perso-Arabic script
Baseline anchor: All terms below either reuse the Romans translation_memory.json rendering exactly (marked “REUSED”) or are new entries for this curriculum, assigned using the same risk-tier methodology as the baseline (doctrine_risk_registry.json).
This glossary covers every chapter of 3 John. Since 3 John consists of a single chapter (vv.1–14), coextensive with the core passage, all terms below are drawn from that single chapter — full-book coverage is complete by definition; see 07_semantic_analysis.md Section 0 for the explicit coverage statement.
Doctrine Cluster 1: Hospitality to Traveling Ministers
| English Term | Greek | Transliteration | Kashmiri Rendering | Kashmiri Transliteration | Risk Tier | Verses | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| stranger(s) | ξένος | xenos | اجنبی (+ مہمان) | ajnabī (+ mehmān) | Medium | v.5 | Positive cultural resonance with Kashmiri/Islamicate hospitality tradition (mehmān-nawāzī); must clarify motivation is “for the Name,” not mere social custom. |
| send forward / send on their way | προπέμπω | propempō | سفرٕ خاطرہ مدد کرِتھ روانہ کرُن | safara khāṭrah madad karith rawāna karun | Medium | v.6 | Descriptive phrase; technical missionary-support sense, not a farewell wish. |
| worthy of God | ἀξίως τοῦ θεοῦ | axiōs tou theou | خُدایہ لائق | Khudāya lāyq | Medium | v.6 | Must not read as merit-earning before God; echoes baseline grace-vs-merit caution. |
| the Name (of Christ) | ὄνομα | onoma | نامہٕ خاطرہ / مسیحہ ہند نام | nāma khāṭrah / Masīḥa hind nām | High | v.7 | Risk of collision with Islamic Asma-ul-Husna/dhikr invocation of Divine Names; must specify Christ’s name explicitly. |
| ought (obligation) | ὀφείλω | opheilō | لازِم چھُ | lāzim chhu | Low-Medium | v.8 | Frame as gratitude-driven duty, not merit-earning legalism. |
| support | ὑπολαμβάνω | hypolambanō | مدد کرُن | madad karun | Low | v.8 | Standard term. |
| fellow workers | συνεργός | synergos | ہمکار | hamkār | Low-Medium | v.8 | Tie explicitly to “truth” (سچائی) so it reads as gospel-partnership. |
| brothers | ἀδελφοί | adelphoi | برادر | barādar | Medium | vv.3, 5, 10 | Must specify fellow believers in Christ, distinct from generic Islamic ummah-brotherhood usage. |
Doctrine Cluster 2: Imitating Good rather than Evil
| English Term | Greek | Transliteration | Kashmiri Rendering | Kashmiri Transliteration | Risk Tier | Verses | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| imitate | μιμέομαι | mimeomai | پیروی کرُن | pairawī karun | Medium | v.11 | Distinguish from Sufi murid-pir discipleship submission to a living master; this is conduct-patterning, not personal allegiance to a guide. |
| evil (do evil) | κακός / κακοποιέω | kakos / kakopoieō | بد / بد کم کرُن | bad / bad kam karun | Medium | v.11 | Tie concretely to Diotrephes’s conduct (vv.9-10). |
| good (do good) | ἀγαθός / ἀγαθοποιέω | agathos / agathopoieō | نیک / نیک کم کرُن | nēk / nēk kam karun | High | v.11 | Collision risk with Islamic deeds-weighing soteriology (نیک عمل); must be taught as fruit-of-relationship, not merit-earning means, echoing baseline Romans 4:4-5/11:5-6 caution. |
| has not seen God | ὁράω (οὐχ ἑώρακεν) | ouch heōraken (horaō) | خُدا نہٕ چھُ وُچھمُت | Khudā nė chhu vuchhmut | Medium | v.11 | Idiom for relational knowledge, not literal vision or Trika-style mystical realization. |
Doctrine Cluster 3: Church Leadership and Pride (Diotrephes)
| English Term | Greek | Transliteration | Kashmiri Rendering | Kashmiri Transliteration | Risk Tier | Verses | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| elder | πρεσβύτερος | presbyteros | بزرگ (کلیسیایی بزرگ) | buzurg (kalīsiyāyī buzurg) | High | v.1 | Collision with Sufi honorific “buzurg” for a venerated saint/master; must qualify as church office, not personal-charisma spiritual authority. |
| loves to be first | φιλοπρωτεύω | philoprōteuō | پہلؠ بننہ ہنٛز خواہش رکھُن | pahlyi banun hanz khwāhish rakhun | High | v.9 | NT hapax legomenon; descriptive compound required. Note possible (careful) contrast with Rishi/Trika humility values. |
| does not receive | ἐπιδέχομαι | epidechomai | قبول نہٕ کرُن (positive: قبول کرُن) | qubūl nė karun (positive: qubūl karun) | Medium | vv.9, 10 | Keep consistent rendering across positive and negative uses to preserve the Greek’s deliberate contrast. |
| call to mind / remind | ὑπομιμνήσκω | hypomimnēskō | یاد دِوان | yād divān | Low-Medium | v.10 | Preserve corrective, semi-formal disciplinary tone. |
| chattering with wicked words | φλυαρέω (+ λόγοις πονηροῖς) | phlyareō | بد لفظن سٟتی گلہٕ کرُن | bad lafzan sity galė karun | High | v.10 | NT hapax; must convey malicious slander, not mere disagreement. |
| forbids | κωλύω | kōlyō | روکُن | rōkun | Low-Medium | v.10 | Frame as abuse of leadership power. |
| casts out (of the church) | ἐκβάλλω | ekballō | کلیسیہٕ منٛز پؠٹھ کاڑُن | kalisiya manz pyeth kāṛun | High | v.10 | Illegitimate, self-exalting expulsion — condemned, not modeled; distinguish from any legitimate communal discipline pattern. |
Doctrine Cluster 4: Commendation of Faithful Witness (Demetrius)
| English Term | Greek | Transliteration | Kashmiri Rendering | Kashmiri Transliteration | Risk Tier | Verses | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| testify / testimony | μαρτυρέω / μαρτυρία | martyreō / martyria | گواہی دِنہ / گواہی | gawāhī dinah / gawāhī | Critical | vv.3, 6, 12 | NEVER render with شہادت (shahāda, the Islamic creedal testimony/Pillar of Islam) or شہید (martyr); use گواہی (generic testimonial/legal-register term) consistently throughout. |
| faithful (thing/deed) | πιστός | pistos | وفادار کم | wafādār kam | Medium | v.5 | Ethical-conduct adjective, distinct from the doctrinal noun ایمان (faith/trust in Christ, baseline term); do not conflate. |
| true | ἀληθής | alēthēs | سچ | sach | Critical (shares tier with ἀλήθεια) | v.12 | Same family as truth (below); consistent rendering required. |
Doctrine Cluster 5: Truth and Christian Fellowship
| English Term | Greek | Transliteration | Kashmiri Rendering | Kashmiri Transliteration | Risk Tier | Verses | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| truth | ἀλήθεια | alētheia | سچائی | sachāyī | Critical | vv.1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12 | NEVER use حق (Haqq) as the primary term — Al-Haqq is a Divine Name in mainstream Islamic theology and names Ultimate Reality in Sufi/Trika-adjacent metaphysics; سچائی avoids the metaphysical-absolute collision while preserving the propositional/character sense Romans-tradition readers need. |
| love | ἀγάπη / ἀγαπάω | agapē / agapaō | محبت | muhabbat | High | v.1 | Distinguish from عشق (ishq, mystical/absorptive love in Sufi-Rishi and Lal Ded devotional poetry); this is committed love between distinct persons united by shared gospel truth, not mystical union. |
| beloved | ἀγαπητός | agapetos | پیارؠ / عزیز | pyārė / azīz | Medium | vv.1, 2, 5, 11 | Must retain link to ἀγάπη above so it is not flattened to mere social politeness. |
| friend(s) | φίλος | philos | دوست | dōst | Medium | v.14 | Must not be confused with ولی (walī, venerated Sufi saint/“friend of God,” already flagged in baseline under “saints”); this is ordinary personal friendship. |
| walk (conduct) | περιπατέω | peripateō | زِنٕدگی گژارُن | zindagī gazārun | Low-Medium | vv.3, 4 | Metaphor for habitual conduct; ensure idiom is not read literally. |
| joy / rejoice | χαρά / χαίρω | chara / chairō | خوشی | khōshī | Low | vv.3, 4 | Standard, shared vocabulary. |
| soul | ψυχή | psychē | جان | jān | Low-Medium | v.2 | Prefer جان over رُوح; رُوح is reserved for the divine Holy Spirit (پاک روح) elsewhere in this Language Package. |
| my children (spiritual) | τέκνα | tekna | زٕ فرزند | myōn farzand | Medium | v.4 | Same root as baseline “adoption” term (فرزند); distinguish pastoral spiritual-parentage sense from the Romans 8 legal-filial adoption doctrine. |
| prosper / be in health | εὐοδόω / ὑγιαίνω | euodoō / hygiainō | کامیاب رہُن / تندرست رہُن | kāmyāb rahun / tandrust rahun | Low-Medium | v.2 | Avoid prosperity-gospel misapplication; anchor to prior soul-health. |
Cross-Cutting / Shared-with-Baseline Terms
| English Term | Greek | Transliteration | Kashmiri Rendering | Kashmiri Transliteration | Risk Tier | Verses | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| church | ἐκκλησία | ekklēsia | کلیسیا | kalīsiyā | Medium | vv.6, 9, 10 | REUSED exactly from baseline Romans Language Package. |
| peace | εἰρήνη | eirēnē | امن | amn | Medium | v.14 | REUSED exactly from baseline Romans Language Package; here a closing epistolary blessing rather than a Romans 5:1-style doctrinal statement, but same conflict-sensitive handling applies. |
| pagans/Gentiles (non-believing outsiders) | ἐθνικός | ethnikos | غیر-قوم (with explicit semantic-difference note) | ghair-qaum | Medium | v.7 | Base term REUSED from baseline ἔθνη rendering, but flagged: ἐθνικός here means unbelieving outsider-patrons (narrower, more pejorative), not the Romans unity-doctrine’s “non-Jewish peoples” category. Native speaker review recommended to confirm whether a distinct qualifier is needed. |
Glossary Risk Summary for 3 John
| Risk Tier | Count | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 4 | truth (ἀλήθεια), testify/testimony (μαρτυρέω/μαρτυρία), true (ἀληθής) [same family as truth] |
| High | 8 | elder (πρεσβύτερος), loves to be first (φιλοπρωτεύω), chattering with wicked words (φλυαρέω), casts out (ἐκβάλλω), the Name (ὄνομα), good/do good (ἀγαθός/ἀγαθοποιέω), love (ἀγάπη) |
| Medium | 15 | stranger, send forward, worthy of God, brothers, imitate, evil, has not seen God, does not receive, call to mind, forbids, faithful (thing), beloved, friend(s), my children, church, peace, pagans/Gentiles |
| Low / Low-Medium | 9 | ought, support, fellow workers, walk, joy, soul, prosper/health, face to face (idiom, v.14, no table entry needed beyond note), ink/pen (v.13) |
Note: totals above reflect distinct glossary entries; some terms are counted once though they recur across multiple verses (see verse citations). This risk profile should be read alongside 07_semantic_analysis.md for full grounding of each Critical/High assignment, consistent with the baseline package’s requirement that every Critical/High designation carry a specific, grounded reason rather than a generic caution.
Critical Risk Terms
Jesus
Approved rendering: یِسوع
Transliteration: Yisū’
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: عیسیٰ (the Quranic Arabic/Perso-Arabic form, reserve only for explicit interfaith-dialogue contexts)
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Though 3 John never writes the proper name ‘Jesus’ directly in its 14 verses, this rendering is required throughout the accompanying lesson material whenever ‘the Name’ (v.7, ὄνομα) is explicitly unpacked for readers, per this curriculum’s mandatory anchoring rule. یِسوع must be used consistently, never عیسیٰ, to avoid suggesting the Quranic figure is interchangeable with the biblical Jesus.
Messiah
Approved rendering: مسیح
Transliteration: Masīḥ
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Required in lesson material glossing ‘the Name’ (v.7) as مسیحہ ہند نام (Masīḥa hind nām, ‘Christ’s name’). مسیح is shared Quranic vocabulary for Isa; this curriculum must build on the shared title while explicitly teaching the very different content — the crucified, risen, exclusively Lord Messiah — that 3 John’s ministry-for-the-Name doctrine presupposes.
Lord
Approved rendering: خُداوند
Transliteration: Khudāwand
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: مالِک (owner/master, reserve for ordinary human authority contexts)
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Relevant to 3 John’s teaching material distinguishing the elder’s (بزرگ) delegated pastoral office from Christ’s own exclusive Lordship, and distinguishing legitimate ministry ‘for the Name’ from any human figure’s (Diotrephes’s) self-exalting claim to preeminence (φιλοπρωτεύω, v.9).
Grace
Approved rendering: فضل
Transliteration: faz’l
Doctrine: Imitating Good rather than Evil
Rejected alternatives: شکتی پات (Shaktipat, never use), رحم (mercy, supporting synonym only, never a replacement)
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Relevant to 3 John v.11’s ethical exhortation (‘whoever does good is of God’), which risks collapsing into an Islamic deeds-weighing merit framework nearly identical to the one this baseline entry was built to guard against. Teaching material for 3 John 11 must reuse the baseline’s exact grace-vs-merit distinction (Romans 4:4-5, 11:5-6) rather than re-deriving a separate, potentially inconsistent argument.
Salvation
Approved rendering: نجات
Transliteration: najāt
Doctrine: Imitating Good rather than Evil
Rejected alternatives: جنت (paradise, never a stand-alone gloss), موکش (moksha, never use for Kashmir Shaivite readers), پرتیبھِجنا (pratyabhijna, never use as a substitute)
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Cross-referenced in 3 John v.11 teaching material: ‘doing good’ must be taught as evidence of an existing right relationship with God secured by Christ’s finished work (نجات per the baseline), never as the deeds-weighing means of securing نجات itself.
Truth
Approved rendering: سچائی
Transliteration: sachāyī
Doctrine: Truth and Christian Fellowship
Rejected alternatives: حق (Al-Haqq) — one of the 99 Names of Allah in mainstream Islamic theology, and in Sufi/Trika-adjacent metaphysics a name for Ultimate Reality itself; never use as the primary term
Original: ἀλήθεια
Category: Truth and Fellowship
CRITICAL. Governing concept of the whole letter (vv.1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12): love, joy, hospitality, and testimony are all measured ‘in truth.’ Using حق would risk readers hearing John’s repeated ‘truth’ language as claims about mystical absorption into or perception of Ultimate Reality (a Sufi/Trika frame) rather than the concrete, revealed gospel content the letter actually names. سچائی preserves truthful correspondence/character without built-in metaphysical-absolute overtones; حق may be introduced only as a supporting gloss with explicit contrastive teaching, never silently.
True
Approved rendering: سچ
Transliteration: sach
Doctrine: Commendation of Faithful Witness (Demetrius)
Rejected alternatives: حق-derived forms — same collision reasoning as سچائی above
Original: ἀληθής
Category: Truth and Fellowship
CRITICAL. Adjective cognate with سچائی (v.12, ‘our testimony is true’); same family and same risk reasoning as truth above. Must never default to a حق-derived rendering. Consistent rendering as سچ required throughout, tying the elder’s testimony about Demetrius back to the letter’s controlling truth theme.
Testimony
Approved rendering: گواہی دِنہ / گواہی
Transliteration: gawāhī dinah / gawāhī
Doctrine: Commendation of Faithful Witness (Demetrius)
Rejected alternatives: شہادت (shahāda) — the foundational Islamic creedal testimony of faith, one of the Five Pillars of Islam; never use, شہید (shahīd) — Islamic martyrdom; never use
Original: μαρτυρέω / μαρτυρία
Category: Testimony
CRITICAL. Occurs at vv.3, 6, 12 (verb and noun forms). Using shahāda-family vocabulary for ordinary Christian testimony to a believer’s observed conduct would wrongly imply a creedal-confession act equivalent in weight to the shahada, or dangerously dilute the term’s specific religious force. گواہی (a generic Persian-derived legal/evidentiary term) must be used consistently across all three occurrences with zero exceptions. Demetrius’s threefold commendation (v.12: ‘by all,’ ‘by the truth itself,’ ‘by us’) must retain its escalating, cumulative rhetorical structure, not be flattened into a single generic compliment.
High Risk Terms
God
Approved rendering: خُدا
Transliteration: Khudā
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. خُدا is the universal term for God across both Muslim and Christian Kashmiri speakers. In 3 John it occurs at v.6 (اؕضیωσ τοῦ θεοῦ, ‘worthy of God’), v.11 (twice: ‘is of God’ / ‘has not seen God’). This curriculum must present خُدا, per 3 John’s own ethical exhortation (v.11), as the personal, distinct God whose character good deeds reflect but do not earn — consistent with the baseline’s insistence on explicitly Christ-centered, Trinitarian framing wherever خُدا appears.
Faith
Approved rendering: ایمان
Transliteration: īmān
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: یقین (certainty/conviction, too intellectual/impersonal alone)
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Relevant to 3 John as the necessary CONTRAST term for πιστός (v.5, Gaius’s ‘faithful’ hospitality, rendered وفادار کم, an ethical adjective describing reliable conduct). ایمان must never be used to render πιστός in v.5; this curriculum must keep the doctrinal noun for saving trust in Christ strictly separate from the ethical-conduct adjective, so readers do not conflate Gaius’s praiseworthy hospitality (fruit) with the saving-faith doctrine itself (root).
Elder
Approved rendering: بزرگ (کلیسیایی بزرگ)
Transliteration: buzurg (kalīsiyāyī buzurg)
Doctrine: Church Leadership and Pride (Diotrephes)
Rejected alternatives: bare بزرگ without the qualifier کلیسیایی — never leave unqualified when introducing the author
Original: πρεσβύτερος
Category: Church Leadership
NEW TERM. بزرگ is the standard Kashmiri/Persian honorific for a respected elder, but in regional Sufi usage (including the Rishi tradition) it also names a venerated Sufi master or saint-figure whose authority rests on personal charisma or karamat (miraculous gift). Must be qualified at first use as کلیسیایی بزرگ (‘church elder’) in every document introducing 3 John’s author (v.1), so readers do not read John as claiming Sufi-master status or charisma-based spiritual authority rather than delegated pastoral office.
Love
Approved rendering: محبت
Transliteration: muhabbat
Doctrine: Truth and Christian Fellowship
Rejected alternatives: عشق (ishq) — the mystical, absorptive love of Rishi-Sufi and Lal Ded devotional poetry aimed at dissolving self-distinction into the Divine; never use as a substitute
Original: ἀγάπη / ἀγαπάω
Category: Christian Fellowship
NEW TERM. Occurs at v.1 (‘whom I love in truth’) and governs the letter’s fellowship vocabulary (vv.1-2, 5-6, 11). محبت is shared vocabulary across Kashmiri Muslim devotional life and, especially, the Rishi-Sufi and Lal Ded poetic tradition, where it can shade toward عشق. Must be taught explicitly as committed, willed love between distinct persons (the elder, Gaius, the brothers, Demetrius) bound by shared gospel truth, not mystical union or generic pious sentiment.
The Name
Approved rendering: نامہٕ خاطرہ (مسیحہ ہند نام)
Transliteration: nāma khāṭrah (Masīḥa hind nām)
Doctrine: Ministry for the Name of Christ
Rejected alternatives: an unqualified rendering of ‘the Name’ without the Masīḥa hind nām gloss
Original: τὸ ὄνομα
Category: Christology
HIGH RISK (v.7). An unqualified ‘the Name’ risks resonance with the Islamic devotional practice of invoking the Divine Names (Asma-ul-Husna) in dhikr, or the Quranic bismillah formula (‘in the name of Allah’). Must state explicitly, at first use in every document, that ‘the Name’ here names Christ specifically, not a general divine-Name invocation formula.
Loves To Be First
Approved rendering: پہلؠ بننہ ہنٛز خواہش رکھُن
Transliteration: pahlyi banun hanz khwāhish rakhun
Doctrine: Church Leadership and Pride (Diotrephes)
Rejected alternatives: any single-word adjective compression, which would lose the ‘loves/desires’ heart-condition nuance central to the diagnosis
Original: φιλοπρωτεύων (φιλοπρωτεύω)
Category: Church Leadership
HIGH RISK (v.9). φιλοπρωτεύω is a New Testament hapax legomenon with no fixed Kashmiri Christian-vocabulary equivalent; a descriptive compound is required, following the baseline’s established method for terms like ‘incarnation’ and ‘adoption.’ A cautious, clearly labeled contrast note may observe that Rishi-Sufi and Trika traditions also prize humility, but the theological grounds differ (self-emptying before a distinct personal God vs. dissolving the ego into non-dual awareness) and must never be conflated.
Malicious Slander
Approved rendering: بد لفظن سٟتی گلہٕ کرُن
Transliteration: bad lafzan sity galė karun
Doctrine: Church Leadership and Pride (Diotrephes)
Rejected alternatives: ordinary words for gossip/criticism, which would under-translate the contemptuous severity intended
Original: λόγοις πονηροῖς φλυαρῶν (φλυαρέω)
Category: Church Leadership
HIGH RISK (v.10). φλυαρέω is another New Testament hapax legomenon requiring a descriptive phrase; must convey malicious falsehood, not merely disagreement or criticism, so readers grasp the severity of Diotrephes’s sin.
Cast Out
Approved rendering: کلیسیہٕ منٛز پؠٹھ کاڑُن
Transliteration: kalisiya manz pyeth kāṛun
Doctrine: Church Leadership and Pride (Diotrephes)
Rejected alternatives: framing as a legitimate parallel to mosque congregational discipline or Sufi-order excommunication practices
Original: ἐκβάλλει (ἐκβάλλω)
Category: Church Leadership
HIGH RISK (v.10). This names an act of illegitimate church discipline/expulsion by an unauthorized, self-exalting individual — the opposite of legitimate, communal church discipline. Must be taught distinctly from any parallel practice familiar from mosque congregations or Sufi order structures; Diotrephes’s expulsion is condemned as sinful abuse of power, never modeled as legitimate.
Good
Approved rendering: نیک / نیک کم کرُن
Transliteration: nēk / nēk kam karun
Doctrine: Imitating Good rather than Evil
Rejected alternatives: unexplained نیک عمل framing without an explicit fruit-not-root qualification
Original: τὸ ἀγαθόν / ἀγαθοποιῶν (ἀγαθός / ἀγαθοποιέω)
Category: Christian Ethics
HIGH RISK (v.11). ‘Doing good’ (نیک عمل) is deeply embedded Islamic ethical vocabulary tied to deeds-weighing for entry to paradise, already flagged Critical in the baseline Romans ‘salvation’ and ‘grace’ entries. Must state explicitly that ‘the one who does good is of God’ describes evidence of an existing relationship with God (fruit), not a means of earning that relationship (root) — echoing the baseline’s Romans 4:4-5/11:5-6 caution.
Medium Risk Terms
Church
Approved rendering: کلیسیا
Transliteration: kalīsiyā
Doctrine: Church as Gathered Assembly
Rejected alternatives: مسجد (mosque, never use), مندر (temple, never use)
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged, reused exactly. Occurs in 3 John at vv.6, 9, 10: the gathered local church before whom witnesses testified to Gaius’s love (v.6), and the assembly over which Diotrephes wrongly asserts self-exalting authority (vv.9-10). Must remain clearly distinct from مسجد and مندر, exactly as in the baseline.
Peace
Approved rendering: امن
Transliteration: amn
Doctrine: Epistolary Peace and Benediction
Original: Εἰρήνη
Category: Christian Fellowship
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged, reused exactly. Occurs at 3 John v.14 as a closing epistolary benediction rather than a Romans 5:1-style doctrinal justification-peace statement, but the same conflict-sensitive handling applies given the region’s decades-long political weight on ‘peace’ language.
Gentiles
Approved rendering: غیر-قوم
Transliteration: ghair-qaum
Doctrine: Gentile Patronage and Gospel Independence
INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE as base term, but FLAGGED for semantic divergence in 3 John. In Romans, غیر-قوم names non-Jewish peoples as objects of gospel inclusion (a positive, unity-building category). In 3 John v.7 (ἐθνικός/ἐθνικῶν), the cognate but narrower and more pejorative sense names unbelieving pagan patrons whose support gospel workers declined to preserve ministry integrity — see new entry ‘pagans’ below for the 3 John-specific handling. Native speaker review recommended to confirm whether a distinct qualifying phrase is needed so readers do not import Romans’ positive-inclusion doctrine into this structurally different, cautionary context.
Beloved
Approved rendering: پیارؠ
Transliteration: pyārė
Doctrine: Truth and Christian Fellowship
Rejected alternatives: عزیز alone, without an explicit link to محبت — risks flattening into generic epistolary politeness
Original: ἀγαπητός
Category: Christian Fellowship
NEW TERM. A term of affectionate address for a fellow believer (vv.1, 2, 5, 11), marking Gaius (and, generically, the reader) as personally dear within the bond of shared gospel love. Must retain an explicit link to محبت (agape love) so the term is not read as mere social courtesy, a common convention in ordinary Kashmiri correspondence.
Prosper
Approved rendering: کامیاب رہُن
Transliteration: kāmyāb rahun
Doctrine: Wholistic Wellbeing and Soul Prosperity
Original: εὐοδοῦσθαι (εὐοδόω)
Category: Christian Living
NEW TERM (v.2). Must not be taught as a prosperity-gospel promise of material wealth; the verse itself anchors ‘prospering’ to the prior, deeper reality of soul-health, not the reverse.
Soul
Approved rendering: جان
Transliteration: jān
Doctrine: Wholistic Wellbeing and Soul Prosperity
Rejected alternatives: رُوح — reserved throughout this Language Package for the divine Holy Spirit (پاک روح, baseline Critical term) and must not be diluted by reuse for the human inner self
Original: ψυχή
Category: Christian Living
NEW TERM (v.2). The whole inner person/self, a Hebraic idiom for one’s life or being, not a detachable soul-substance. جان avoids blurring the reserved distinction the baseline maintains for پاک روح.
Brothers
Approved rendering: برادر
Transliteration: barādar
Doctrine: Hospitality to Traveling Ministers
Original: ἀδελφοί
Category: Christian Fellowship
NEW TERM (vv.3, 5, 10). برادر is widely used generically across Kashmiri Muslim discourse for fellow members of the ummah (‘Muslim brothers’). This curriculum must specify these are fellow believers in Christ, a distinct, smaller covenant community, not the broader religious-communal brotherhood category familiar to Muslim-background readers.
Walk
Approved rendering: زِنٕدگی گژارُن
Transliteration: zindagī gazārun
Doctrine: Truth and Christian Fellowship
Original: περιπατέω
Category: Christian Living
NEW TERM (vv.3, 4). Metaphor for habitual conduct/lifestyle; ensure the idiom conveys ongoing conduct, not a literal walking metaphor, which could confuse readers unfamiliar with this common biblical figure of speech.
Spiritual Children
Approved rendering: زٕ فرزند
Transliteration: myōn farzand
Doctrine: Spiritual Parentage and Pastoral Joy
Original: τέκνα (τὰ ἐμὰ τέκνα)
Category: Church
NEW TERM (v.4). فرزند already carries doctrinal freight in the baseline as the noun-root of ‘adoption’ (خدا ہند فرزند بنٲوُن, Romans 8). Here τέκνα names ordinary pastoral spiritual parentage (a minister’s converts/disciples), not the believer’s legal filial standing before God the Father. Teaching notes must distinguish these two related-but-distinct uses of the same root.
Faithful Deed
Approved rendering: وفادار کم
Transliteration: wafādār kam
Doctrine: Commendation of Faithful Witness (Demetrius)
Rejected alternatives: any ایمان-derived adjective — would conflate ethical faithfulness with the doctrinal noun for saving faith
Original: πιστόν (πιστός)
Category: Christian Ethics
NEW TERM (v.5). πιστός here is an ethical adjective describing reliable conduct, not the doctrinal noun ایمان (faith/trust in Christ, baseline term for πίστις). Use وفادار rather than any ایمان-derived form: hospitality is fruit, not the root, of faith.
Stranger
Approved rendering: اجنبی (+ مہمان)
Transliteration: ajnabī (+ mehmān)
Doctrine: Hospitality to Traveling Ministers
Original: ξένος
Category: Hospitality
NEW TERM (v.5). Kashmiri culture (like the wider Islamicate hospitality tradition, mehmān-nawāzī) holds a strong positive value for welcoming strangers, a genuine point of contact. Must clarify Gaius’s hospitality is specifically motivated ‘for the sake of the Name’ (v.7), not merely social custom or general religious merit.
Send Forward
Approved rendering: سفرٕ خاطرہ مدد کرِتھ روانہ کرُن
Transliteration: safara khāṭrah madad karith rawāna karun
Doctrine: Hospitality to Traveling Ministers
Rejected alternatives: a bare farewell-blessing idiom, which would lose the material-provisioning sense
Original: προπέμπω
Category: Hospitality
NEW TERM (v.6). A descriptive phrase is required since no single fixed Kashmiri Christian-vocabulary term exists; must convey material provisioning for travel, not mere well-wishing, matching the technical early-Christian missionary-support sense of προπέμπω.
Worthy Of God
Approved rendering: خُدایہ لائق
Transliteration: Khudāya lāyq
Doctrine: Hospitality to Traveling Ministers
Original: ἀξίως τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Hospitality
NEW TERM (v.6). Must not be read as merit accrued toward God (a deeds-weighing frame); this is conduct that reflects God’s honor, already given by grace, not conduct that secures standing with God — echoing the baseline’s grace-vs-merit caution (Romans 4:4-5, 11:5-6).
Pagans
Approved rendering: غیر-قوم
Transliteration: ghair-qaum
Doctrine: Gentile Patronage and Gospel Independence
Original: τῶν ἐθνικῶν (ἐθνικός)
Category: Church
NEW USE OF BASE TERM (v.7, ἐθνικός/ἐθνικῶν). Shares its base with the baseline Romans term for ἔθνη (غیر-قوم) but is semantically narrower and more pejorative here: in Romans غیر-قوم names non-Jewish peoples as objects of gospel inclusion; here it names unbelieving outsiders whose patronage gospel workers declined to preserve ministry integrity. Native speaker review recommended to confirm whether a distinct qualifier is needed to prevent readers importing the Romans unity-doctrine’s positive framing into this different context.
Ought
Approved rendering: لازِم چھُ
Transliteration: lāzim chhu
Doctrine: Hospitality to Traveling Ministers
Original: ὀφείλομεν (ὀφείλω)
Category: Hospitality
NEW TERM (v.8). Frames hospitality to gospel workers as a binding Christian duty; avoid framing as legalistic merit-earning — the obligation flows from gratitude and gospel partnership, not deeds-weighing toward salvation.
Fellow Workers
Approved rendering: ہمکار
Transliteration: hamkār
Doctrine: Hospitality to Traveling Ministers
Original: συνεργοί (συνεργός)
Category: Hospitality
NEW TERM (v.8). Should be explicitly tied to سچائی (truth) so it is read as gospel-partnership specifically, not generic teamwork.
Receive
Approved rendering: قبول کرُن / قبول نہٕ کرُن
Transliteration: qubūl karun / qubūl nė karun
Doctrine: Church Leadership and Pride (Diotrephes)
Rejected alternatives: switching to a synonym for either polarity, which would obscure the Greek’s deliberate contrast
Original: ἐπιδέχομαι
Category: Church Leadership
NEW TERM (vv.9-10). Keep the same root verb (قبول) in both positive and negative forms throughout, so the contrast between welcoming hospitality and Diotrephes’s refusal remains visible in Kashmiri as it is in Greek.
Call To Mind
Approved rendering: یاد دِوان
Transliteration: yād divān
Doctrine: Church Leadership and Pride (Diotrephes)
Original: ὑπομνήσω (ὑπομιμνήσκω)
Category: Church Leadership
NEW TERM (v.10). Ensure the corrective, semi-formal disciplinary tone is preserved, not softened into casual reminiscence; this is church discipline in process.
Forbid
Approved rendering: روکُن
Transliteration: rōkun
Doctrine: Church Leadership and Pride (Diotrephes)
Original: κωλύει (κωλύω)
Category: Church Leadership
NEW TERM (v.10). Standard term; ensure it is taught as an abuse of leadership power, tied to the pride diagnosed in v.9, not a neutral administrative act.
Imitate
Approved rendering: پیروی کرُن
Transliteration: pairawī karun
Doctrine: Imitating Good rather than Evil
Rejected alternatives: leaving پیروی unqualified — risks a murid-pir Sufi discipleship submission reading
Original: μιμοῦ (μιμέομαι)
Category: Christian Ethics
NEW TERM (v.11). پیروی is also the standard term for following a Sufi pir/murshid in the Rishi tradition’s murid-pir discipleship structure. Must clarify μιμέομαι here means patterning one’s conduct after an example (Demetrius, not Diotrephes), not entering a master-disciple relationship of personal submission to a living spiritual guide.
Evil
Approved rendering: بد / بد کم کرُن
Transliteration: bad / bad kam karun
Doctrine: Imitating Good rather than Evil
Original: τὸ κακόν / κακοποιῶν (κακός / κακοποιέω)
Category: Christian Ethics
NEW TERM (v.11). Standard shared vocabulary; must be tied concretely to Diotrephes’s conduct (vv.9-10) in teaching so ‘evil’ is not read as merely ritual impurity.
Seen God
Approved rendering: خُدا نہٕ چھُ وُچھمُت
Transliteration: Khudā nė chhu vuchhmut
Doctrine: Imitating Good rather than Evil
Rejected alternatives: a rendering that reads as literal ocular perception or Trika-style mystical vision/realization
Original: οὐχ ἑώρακεν τὸν θεόν (ὁράω)
Category: Christian Ethics
NEW TERM (v.11). An idiom for lacking authentic knowledge of or relationship with God, not literal ocular vision; must not be flattened into a claim about mystical vision/realization for Trika-shaped readers, which would wrongly reframe the verse as an epistemic-attainment statement rather than a moral-relational one.
Friends
Approved rendering: دوست
Transliteration: dōst
Doctrine: Epistolary Peace and Benediction
Rejected alternatives: ولی (walī, ‘friend of God’) — a title for a venerated Sufi saint honored at a shrine in the Rishi tradition, already flagged in the baseline under ‘saints’; never use for ordinary φίλος
Original: οἱ φίλοι (φίλος)
Category: Christian Fellowship
NEW TERM (v.14). Must be kept clearly distinct from ولی; φίλος here is ordinary personal friendship among believers, not an elevated sainthood category.
Low Risk Terms
Health
Approved rendering: تندرست رہُن
Transliteration: tandrust rahun
Doctrine: Wholistic Wellbeing and Soul Prosperity
Original: ὑγιαίνειν (ὑγιαίνω)
Category: Christian Living
NEW TERM (v.2). Standard, non-technical wellness term paired with prosper as a conventional ancient-letter wellness wish; low ambiguity.
Joy
Approved rendering: خوشی
Transliteration: khōshī
Doctrine: Spiritual Parentage and Pastoral Joy
Original: χαρά / χαίρω
Category: Christian Fellowship
NEW TERM (vv.3, 4). Deep, settled spiritual gladness, especially the pastoral joy of seeing spiritual growth in others; standard shared vocabulary, low ambiguity.
Support
Approved rendering: مدد کرُن
Transliteration: madad karun
Doctrine: Hospitality to Traveling Ministers
Original: ὑπολαμβάνειν (ὑπολαμβάνω)
Category: Hospitality
NEW TERM (v.8). Active material and relational support of traveling ministry workers; standard term, low ambiguity.
Face To Face
Approved rendering: مُنہ برابر مُنہ
Transliteration: munh barābar munh
Doctrine: Epistolary Peace and Benediction
Original: στόμα πρὸς στόμα
Category: Christian Fellowship
NEW TERM (v.14). Idiom (lit. ‘mouth to mouth’) for direct, personal, unmediated conversation; a natural equivalent idiom exists in Kashmiri, so retain the idiom’s directness rather than translating literally.