Core Glossary
Core Glossary: 1 Thessalonians
Section A — New Terms (require registration in translation_memory.json before Phase 2)
| # | Term (English) | Original (Greek) | Transliteration | Category | Risk | Konkani Term | Alternatives Rejected | Notes / Primary Passages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A1 | Return of Christ / Parousia | παρουσία | parousia | Return of Christ | Critical | पुनरागमन (punarāgaman) | अवतार (avatar-descent language); bare येणें (too weak/generic for a technical doctrinal term) | Must be explicitly distinguished from पुनर्जन्म (reincarnation) despite the shared पुनर्- prefix — here it marks a second bodily arrival of the same person, never a soul’s rebirth into a new body. Also never assimilated to a repeatable avatar-descent (cf. Mahalasa Narayani/Mardol caution in baseline देहधारण entry). 1 Thess 2:19; 3:13; 4:15; 5:23. |
| A2 | Day of the Lord | ἡμέρα κυρίου | hēmera kyriou | The Day of the Lord | Critical | प्रभूचो दीस (prabhūco dīs) | कोणतोय सण/उत्सवाचो दीस (any festival/cyclical-observance framing) | Must be distinguished from Hindu yuga-cycle eschatology (the end of Kali Yuga and the anticipated advent of the Kalki avatar as a periodic cosmic renewal). This is a single, linear, unrepeatable, morally decisive divine act, not one turn of a cosmic wheel. 1 Thess 5:2-4. |
| A3 | Resurrection of Believers (doctrine name) | οἱ νεκροὶ ἐν Χριστῷ ἀναστήσονται | hoi nekroi en Christō anastēsontai | Resurrection of Believers | Critical | विश्वासी लोकांचें पुनरुत्थान (viśvāsī lokāñcẽ punaruthān) | पुनर्जन्म (reincarnation) | Reuses baseline’s Critical पुनरुत्थान term (never पुनर्जन्म), now applied specifically to believers “in Christ” at the Parousia, distinct from — though related to — baseline’s “Resurrection of Christ” doctrine. 1 Thess 4:14-16. |
| A4 | Sleep (death euphemism) | κοιμάομαι | koimaomai / koimōmenōn / koimēthentas | Hope in Grief / Resurrection of Believers | High | झोपी गेल्लें / निजल्लें (jhopī gellẽ / nijallẽ) | महानिद्रा / योगनिद्रा (any phrase evoking Vishnu’s cosmic yoga-sleep on Shesha between creation-cycles) | Must always be anchored by explicit nearby resurrection language (पुनरुत्थान) to prevent conflation with Goa’s prominent Vaishnava Anantashayana (cosmic sleep) imagery. 1 Thess 4:13,14,15. |
| A5 | Caught up (Rapture) | ἁρπάζω / ἁρπαγησόμεθα | harpazō / harpagēsometha | Return of Christ | High | वयर उखलून व्हरतले (vayar ukhalun vhartale) | योगसिद्धीन वयर वचप (yogic-siddhi bodily levitation/ascension language); स्वर्गारोहण (generic “ascent to heaven” without the corporate, sudden, God-initiated sense) | Must be God-initiated, sudden, corporate, and grace-based — never a personally earned mystical/yogic attainment (contrast with regional bodily-ascension narratives, e.g. Yudhishthira in the Mahabharata). 1 Thess 4:17. |
| A6 | Meeting (the Lord) | ἀπάντησις | apantēsis | Return of Christ | Medium | मुखार वचून मेळप (mukhār vachun meḷap) | भेट (bheṭ) alone (loses the technical honor-escort sense) | Technical term for a delegation going out to formally welcome and escort back a returning dignitary/king; should be explained in exposition as an honor-welcome, not a one-way departure. 1 Thess 4:17. |
| A7 | Trumpet (of God) | σάλπιγξ (θεοῦ) | salpinx (theou) | Return of Christ / Day of the Lord | Low | तुतारी (tutārī) | — | Echoes OT theophany/covenant-assembly trumpet imagery. 1 Thess 4:16. |
| A8 | Archangel | ἀρχάγγελος | archangelos | Return of Christ | Medium | प्रधान देवदूत (pradhān devdūt) | — | Standard, already-safe Christian compound (देवदूत); ensure not read as a mediating deity-figure. 1 Thess 4:16. |
| A9 | Shout of command | κέλευσμα | keleusma | Return of Christ | Low | आज्ञेची गर्जना (āgnyecī garjanā) | — | Signals sovereign, commanding summons. 1 Thess 4:16. |
| A10 | Hope | ἐλπίς | elpis | Hope in Grief | High | आशा (āśā) | — (no rejected alternative; risk lies in under-translation, not wrong-term substitution) | Everyday आशा can mean a soft “wish”; Paul’s hope is confident, evidence-grounded certainty. Consider pairing with भरवसो (confident trust) in exposition. Never conflated with प्रारब्ध/नशीब-style fatalism. 1 Thess 1:3; 4:13; 5:8. |
| A11 | Grief | λύπη / λυπέω | lypē / lypeō | Hope in Grief | Medium | दुःख (duḥkh) | — | Must retain the qualifier “as others who have no hope” — Paul does not forbid grief itself, only hopeless grief. 1 Thess 4:13. |
| A12 | Wrath (of God) | ὀργή | orgē | Day of the Lord / Salvation | High | कोप (kop) — always as देवाचो कोप | क्रोध/राग (too weak/generic, everyday-anger register); कर्मफळ-framing (impersonal karmic retribution) | Personal, moral judgment from a holy God — never an impersonal automatic karma-phala mechanism. Direct antonym of तारण (salvation) in 5:9. 1 Thess 1:10; 5:9. |
| A13 | Idols | εἴδωλα | eidōla | Conversion / Universal Human Accountability (cf. baseline) | Critical | मूर्ती (mūrtī) | प्रतिमा (softer, less concrete — loses the direct force of the contrast) | Directly names the images central to Goan Hindu temple devotion (Shantadurga, Mangueshi, Mahalasa); the verse’s total-renunciation force must be preserved without softening, framed pastorally as invitation, never attack. 1 Thess 1:9. |
| A14 | Living and true God (exclusivity phrase) | θεῷ ζῶντι καὶ ἀληθινῷ | theō zōnti kai alēthinō | God | Critical | जिवो आनी खरो देव (jivo āni kharo dev) | bare देव without qualifier (forbidden per baseline exclusivity-marking rule) | Model case of baseline’s mandatory देव exclusivity-marking; Scripture itself supplies the qualifier here. 1 Thess 1:9. |
| A15 | Sons of light | υἱοὶ φωτός | huioi phōtos | Day of the Lord / Sanctification | Medium | उजवाडाचे पुत्र (ujvāḍāce putra) | — | Moral/spiritual identity-metaphor; not a dualistic light-being cosmology. 1 Thess 5:5. |
| A16 | Sober / watchful | νήφω | nēphō | Day of the Lord | Medium | सावध आसप (sāvadh āsap) | शुद्ध-based rendering (risks ritual-purity connotation) | Moral alertness, not ritual purity — parallels baseline’s पवित्र vs शुद्ध distinction. 1 Thess 5:6,8. |
| A17 | Armor (breastplate/helmet of faith, love, hope) | θώραξ / περικεφαλαία | thōrax / perikephalaia | Sanctification / Hope in Grief | Medium | कवच (breastplate) / शिरस्त्राण (helmet) | — | Regionally, कवच evokes Karna’s divine kavach-kundala (Mahabharata) — keep strictly metaphorical (spiritual equipment from faith/love/hope), not implying magical protective objects. 1 Thess 5:8. |
| A18 | Quench the Spirit | σβέννυμι τὸ πνεῦμα | sbennymi to pneuma | Sanctification | High | पवित्र आत्म्याक विझोवं नाका (pavitra ātmyāk vizhovũ nākā) | — | Directly touches baseline’s Critical पवित्र आत्मा term; preserve personal agency (a Person being resisted), not an impersonal flame/energy metaphor. 1 Thess 5:19. |
| A19 | Whole spirit, soul, and body | πνεῦμα, ψυχή, σῶμα (ὁλόκληρον) | pneuma, psychē, sōma (holoklēron) | Sanctification / Resurrection of Believers | High | पुराय आत्मो, जीव आनी शरीर (purāy ātmo, jīv āni śarīr) | Vedantic Atman-Brahman framing of आत्मो | Must be explicitly distinguished from Vedantic Atman-Brahman anthropology; Paul’s unified human person is preserved whole for bodily resurrection, not liberated from the body. 1 Thess 5:23. |
| A20 | Sanctify wholly | ἁγιάζω ὁλοτελεῖς | hagiazō holoteleis | Sanctification | High | पुराय पवित्रीकरण (purāy pavitrīkaraṇ) | — | Extends baseline पवित्रीकरण with पुराय (complete/whole). 1 Thess 5:23. |
| A21 | Holiness (state/quality) | ἁγιωσύνη | hagiōsynē | Sanctification | Medium | पवित्रता (pavitratā) | — | Distinct from baseline’s पवित्रीकरण (the ongoing process); names the resulting settled state. Do not use interchangeably. 1 Thess 3:13. |
| A22 | Word of God/the Lord | λόγος θεοῦ / λόγος κυρίου | logos theou / logos kyriou | Inspiration of Scripture (cf. baseline) | High | देवाचें/प्रभूचें उतर (devace / prabhūce utar) | — | Authoritative revelation, not personal opinion or devotional poetry (cf. baseline Kristapurana caution). 1 Thess 2:13; 4:15. |
| A23 | Love (ἀγάπη, triad member) | ἀγάπη | agapē | Sanctification / Hope in Grief (foundational triad with faith, hope) | Medium | प्रेम (prem) | भक्ती (bhakti, devotional worship-love directed at a chosen deity) | Self-giving, covenantal love, not romantic-only affection nor bhakti-style devotional worship. 1 Thess 1:3; 3:12; 4:9-10; 5:8,13. |
| A24 | Endurance / patience (of hope) | ὑπομονή | hypomonē | Hope in Grief | Medium | सहनशीलता (sahanaśīlatā) | — | Active, hope-fueled endurance, not passive fatalistic endurance of karma. 1 Thess 1:3. |
| A25 | Labor / toil | κόπος | kopos | (supporting term, triad) | Low | कष्ट (kaṣṭ) | — | 1 Thess 1:3. |
| A26 | Full assurance | πληροφορία | plērophoria | Assurance of Salvation (cf. baseline) | Medium | पुराय खात्री (purāy khātrī) | — | Ties to baseline’s तारणाची खात्री doctrine. 1 Thess 1:5. |
| A27 | Affliction / tribulation | θλῖψις | thlipsis | (supporting term) | Medium | संकश्ट (sankaṣṭ) | — | Distinguish from impersonal karmic-consequence framing. 1 Thess 1:6; 3:3,7. |
| A28 | Imitators | μιμηταί | mimētai | (supporting term) | Low | अनुकारी (anukārī) | — | 1 Thess 1:6. |
| A29 | Satan / the tempter | σατανᾶς / ὁ πειράζων | satanas / ho peirazōn | (supporting term) | Medium | सैतान / मोह घालपी (saitān / moh ghālpī) | — | Personal spiritual opponent, not an abstract evil principle. 1 Thess 2:18; 3:5. |
| A30 | Crown of boasting | στέφανος καυχήσεως | stephanos kauchēseōs | (supporting term, Return of Christ) | Medium | अभिमानाचो मुकुट (abhimānāco mukuṭ) | — | Keep metaphorical/joy-oriented; must not contradict grace with a competing merit-economy. 1 Thess 2:19. |
| A31 | Sexual immorality | πορνεία | porneia | Sanctification | Medium | व्यभिचार (vyabhicār) | — | Broad sense (all sexual immorality), not narrowed to adultery. 1 Thess 4:3. |
| A32 | Brotherly love | φιλαδελφία | philadelphia | Sanctification | Low/Medium | बंधुप्रेम (bandhuprem) | — | 1 Thess 4:9. |
| A33 | Brothers (address) | ἀδελφοί | adelphoi | (supporting term) | Low | बंधूभावांनो (bandhū-bhāvānno) | — | Frequent vocative address (~14x); keep consistent across the whole book. |
| A34 | Holy kiss | φίλημα ἅγιον | philēma hagion | (cultural-adaptation note) | Low | पवित्र नमस्कार (pavitra namaskār) | literal kiss-instruction | Kissing is not a customary Konkani greeting; render with a warm, respectful equivalent plus translator’s note on the original custom. 1 Thess 5:26. |
Section B — Baseline Terms Reused Unchanged (cross-reference only, no new registration needed)
| Term (English) | Konkani Term | Risk (per baseline) | Primary 1 Thessalonians Passages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gospel | सुवार्ता | High | 1:5; 2:2,4,8,9; 3:2 |
| Grace | कृपा | High | 1:1; 5:28 |
| Faith | विश्वास | High | 1:3,8; 3:2,5-7,10; 5:8 |
| God | देव (with exclusivity marker) | Critical | throughout; esp. 1:9 |
| Lord | प्रभू | Critical | throughout; esp. 4:16-17; 5:2,9,23 |
| Jesus | येशू | Critical | throughout |
| Holy Spirit | पवित्र आत्मा | Critical | 1:5,6; 4:8; 5:19 |
| Father | पिता | Critical | 1:1,3; 3:11,13 |
| Holy | पवित्र | High | 2:10; 3:13; 4:3-8 |
| Saints | पवित्र जन | High | 3:13 |
| Sanctification | पवित्रीकरण | High | 4:3,4,7; 5:23 |
| Church | मंडळी | Medium | 1:1; 2:14 |
| Election | देवाची निवड | High | 1:4 |
| Called / Calling | बोलावलेले / बोलावणें | High | 2:12; 4:7; 5:24 |
| Gentiles | परराष्ट्रीय | Medium | 2:16 (implied); 4:5 |
| Salvation | तारण | Critical | 5:8,9 |
| Resurrection | पुनरुत्थान | Critical | 4:14,16 |
| Prophecy | भविष्यवाणी | Low | 5:20 |
| Power of God | देवाचें सामर्थ्य | High | 1:5 |
| Thanksgiving | धन्यवाद | Low | 1:2; 2:13; 3:9; 5:18 |
| Kingdom of God | देवाचें राज्य | Medium | 2:12 |
| Glory | गौरव | High | 2:12,20 |
| Christian Identity in Christ (“in Christ”) | ख्रिस्तांत ख्रिस्ती वळख | High | 4:16 (“the dead in Christ”) |
Risk Summary (New Terms, Section A)
| Risk Tier | Count | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 4 (A1, A2, A3, A13, A14 — see note) | Human theologian |
| High | 11 | Human theologian |
| Medium | 14 | Native speaker review |
| Low | 6 | Automated review |
Note: A14 (“living and true God”) is a reinforcement of the existing baseline Critical देव entry rather than a wholly new term, but is listed for completeness since 1 Thessalonians 1:9 is the model passage for applying the baseline’s exclusivity-marking rule.
This glossary must be merged into translation_memory.json (incrementing its version number) and into bible_term_registry.json and doctrine_risk_registry.json before any Phase 2 segment translation of 1 Thessalonians begins, per the pre-flight checklist in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.
Critical Risk Terms
God
Approved rendering: देव
Transliteration: dev
Doctrine: Deity of Christ / God
Rejected alternatives: भगवान
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Every doctrinally load-bearing use in this letter must carry an exclusivity marker; 1:9’s ‘जिवो आनी खरो देव’ is the model instance built into the text itself.
Lord
Approved rendering: प्रभू
Transliteration: prabhū
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: स्वामी, मालक
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Emphatic ‘the Lord himself’ in 4:16 (प्रभू आपुणूच) must retain personal, exclusive, bodily agency.
Jesus
Approved rendering: येशू
Transliteration: yeśū
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: जेजू
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Established Devanagari form throughout the letter.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: पवित्र आत्मा
Transliteration: pavitra ātmā
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: ब्रह्म, परमात्मा
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Applies 1:5-6; 4:8; 5:19 (‘do not quench the Spirit’) — must preserve personal agency throughout.
Father
Approved rendering: पिता
Transliteration: pitā
Doctrine: God
Rejected alternatives: ब्रह्मा, निर्माणकार
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Applies 1:1,3; 3:11,13; 5:23.
Salvation
Approved rendering: तारण
Transliteration: tāraṇ
Doctrine: Wrath of God Contrasted with Salvation
Rejected alternatives: मुक्ती, मोक्ष, सुटका
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Applies 5:8,9 — direct antonym of देवाचो कोप (wrath) in the same verse-cluster; never मुक्ती/मोक्ष.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: पुनरुत्थान
Transliteration: punaruthān
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers
Rejected alternatives: पुनर्जन्म, पुनर्जीवन
Original: ἀνάστασις / ἀνίστημι
Category: Eschatology
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Applies 4:14,16 — the core-passage term; when referring specifically to believers, must be joined with the ख्रिस्तांत qualifier (see resurrection_of_believers below), never abbreviated.
Return Of Christ
Approved rendering: पुनरागमन
Transliteration: punarāgaman
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: अवतार, bare येणें (too weak/generic for the technical Parousia sense)
Original: παρουσία
Category: Return of Christ
NEW TERM. Applies 2:19; 3:13; 4:15; 5:23. Must be explicitly distinguished from पुनर्जन्म (reincarnation) despite the shared पुनर्- prefix — marks a second bodily arrival of the SAME person, not a soul’s rebirth into a new body. Must never be assimilated to repeatable avatar-descent (cf. Mahalasa Narayani/Mardol caution on देहधारण in the baseline). Requires a standing translator’s note at first occurrence per chapter.
Day Of The Lord
Approved rendering: प्रभूचो दीस
Transliteration: prabhūco dīs
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: bare दीस, कोणतोय सण/उत्सवाचो दीस framing
Original: ἡμέρα κυρίου
Category: Day of the Lord
NEW TERM. Applies 5:1-4. Must be a single, linear, unrepeatable, morally decisive act of the one true God — never assimilated to Goan Hindu cyclical yuga-transitions (end of Kali Yuga, anticipated Kalki avatar) or to any recurring festival-day category. Requires an explicit translator note at first occurrence (5:2). Never use bare दीस in doctrinal contexts.
Resurrection Of Believers
Approved rendering: ख्रिस्तांत मेल्ल्यांचें पुनरुत्थान
Transliteration: khristāṅt mellyāñcẽ punaruthān
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers
Rejected alternatives: bare पुनरुत्थान without the ख्रिस्तांत qualifier, पुनर्जन्म
Original: οἱ νεκροὶ ἐν Χριστῷ ἀναστήσονται
Category: Resurrection of Believers
NEW TERM. Applies 4:14-16, the core passage’s central claim. Uses baseline’s Critical पुनरुत्थान (never पुनर्जन्म), joined permanently with the ‘ख्रिस्तांत’ (in Christ) qualifier; dropping the qualifier would wrongly universalize the promise to all humanity rather than to believers specifically.
Idols
Approved rendering: मूर्ती
Transliteration: mūrtī
Doctrine: Conversion from Idols to the Living and True God
Rejected alternatives: प्रतिमा (too soft, loses the direct rhetorical force)
Original: εἴδωλα
Category: God
NEW TERM. Applies 1:9. Names the very temple images central to Goan Hindu devotional life (Shantadurga, Mangueshi, Mahalasa). The verse’s total-renunciation force must be preserved without softening, framed pastorally as invitation, never as attack on persons currently worshipping at these shrines.
Living And True God
Approved rendering: जिवो आनी खरो देव
Transliteration: jivo āni kharo dev
Doctrine: Conversion from Idols to the Living and True God
Rejected alternatives: bare देव without qualifier (forbidden per baseline exclusivity-marking rule)
Original: θεῷ ζῶντι καὶ ἀληθινῷ
Category: God
NEW TERM. Applies 1:9. Model case for the baseline’s mandatory देव exclusivity-marking rule; Scripture itself supplies the qualifier here and it must never be dropped.
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: सुवार्ता
Transliteration: suvārtā
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: बरी खबर, शुभवर्तमान
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Applies in 1 Thess 1:5; 2:2,4,8,9; 3:2 — gospel arriving ‘in power and in the Holy Spirit,’ not mere rhetorical report.
Grace
Approved rendering: कृपा
Transliteration: kṛpā
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: कर्मफळ, पुण्य, नशीब
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Applies in the letter’s opening and closing benedictions (1:1; 5:28).
Faith
Approved rendering: विश्वास
Transliteration: viśvās
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: श्रद्धा, भक्ती
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. First member of the letter’s faith-love-hope triad (1:3; 5:8); ground of the resurrection hope in 4:14.
Holy
Approved rendering: पवित्र
Transliteration: pavitra
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: शुद्ध, निर्मळ
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Applies 2:10; 3:13; 4:3-8.
Saints
Approved rendering: पवित्र जन
Transliteration: pavitra jan
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: संत, भक्त
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Applies 3:13, ‘all his saints’ accompanying Christ’s return — corporate, not an ascetic elite.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: पवित्रीकरण
Transliteration: pavitrīkaraṇ
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: शुद्धीकरण
Original: ἁγιασμός
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Applies 4:3,4,7; 5:23 (as the ongoing process, distinct from पवित्रता the resulting state — see holiness_state below).
Election
Approved rendering: देवाची निवड
Transliteration: devācī nivaḍ
Doctrine: Divine Election and Calling
Rejected alternatives: नशीब, प्रारब्ध
Original: ἐκλογή
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Applies 1:4.
Called
Approved rendering: बोलावलेले
Transliteration: bolāvlele
Doctrine: Divine Election and Calling
Rejected alternatives: आमंत्रित
Original: κλητός / καλέω
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Applies 2:12 (called into his kingdom and glory); 4:7 (called to holiness).
Calling
Approved rendering: बोलावणें
Transliteration: bolāvaṇẽ
Doctrine: Divine Election and Calling
Rejected alternatives: आमंत्रण
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Underlies 5:24’s assurance, ‘he who calls you is faithful.‘
Power Of God
Approved rendering: देवाचें सामर्थ्य
Transliteration: devāce sāmarthya
Doctrine: Gospel Proclamation
Rejected alternatives: शक्ती
Original: δύναμις (θεοῦ)
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Applies 1:5, gospel arriving ‘in power’; never शक्ती.
Glory
Approved rendering: गौरव
Transliteration: gaurav
Doctrine: Deity of Christ / Kingdom of God
Rejected alternatives: तेज, देवीतेज
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Applies 2:12,20.
Sin
Approved rendering: पाप
Transliteration: pāp
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: अधर्म, अशुद्धता
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Applies 2:16, ‘always filling up the measure of their sins.‘
Christian Identity In Christ
Approved rendering: ख्रिस्तांत ख्रिस्ती वळख
Transliteration: khristāṅt khristī vaḷakh
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Directly grounds the mandatory ‘ख्रिस्तांत’ (in Christ) qualifier in 4:16’s ‘the dead in Christ,’ which must never be dropped — dropping it would wrongly universalize the resurrection promise beyond believers.
Sleep Death Euphemism
Approved rendering: निजल्लें / झोपी गेल्लें
Transliteration: nijallẽ / jhopī gellẽ
Doctrine: Hope in Grief / Resurrection of Believers
Rejected alternatives: महानिद्रा / योगनिद्रा phrasing (Vishnu’s Anantashayana cosmic sleep)
Original: κοιμάομαι
Category: Hope in Grief
NEW TERM. Applies 4:13,14,15. Must always be anchored by explicit nearby पुनरुत्थान language in the same verse-cluster to prevent conflation with Goa’s prominent Vaishnava cosmic yoga-sleep imagery (Vishnu on the serpent Shesha between creation-dissolution cycles). Anchoring is non-optional, not merely stylistic.
Caught Up Rapture
Approved rendering: वयर उखलून व्हरतले
Transliteration: vayar ukhalun vhartale
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: योगसिद्धीन वयर वचप (yogic-siddhi bodily levitation/ascension), स्वर्गारोहण (generic ascent, loses the corporate God-initiated sense)
Original: ἁρπάζω
Category: Return of Christ
NEW TERM. Applies 4:17, the core passage’s climactic verse. Must be God-initiated, sudden, corporate, and grace-based — never a personally earned mystical/yogic bodily attainment (contrast regional narratives such as Yudhishthira’s ascent in the Mahabharata).
Descend From Heaven
Approved rendering: सर्गार सावन देंवप
Transliteration: sargār sāvun deṃvap
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: phrasing echoing repeatable avatar-descent
Original: καταβήσεται (καταβαίνω)
Category: Return of Christ
NEW TERM. Applies 4:16. Christ’s bodily, visible, one-time descent — a single future event, distinct in kind from the incarnation itself and from any cyclical divine-descent narrative (cf. baseline देहधारण caution).
Hope
Approved rendering: आशा
Transliteration: āśā
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Original: ἐλπίς
Category: Hope in Grief
NEW TERM. Applies 1:3; 4:13; 5:8. Everyday आशा can mean a soft ‘wish,’ far weaker than Paul’s assured, evidence-grounded certainty rooted in Christ’s resurrection. Never conflated with प्रारब्ध/नशीब-style fatalism. Consider pairing with भरवसो (confident trust) in exposition/footnotes.
Wrath Of God
Approved rendering: देवाचो कोप
Transliteration: devāco kop
Doctrine: Wrath of God Contrasted with Salvation
Rejected alternatives: क्रोध/राग (too weak, everyday-anger register), कर्मफळ-style impersonal karmic-retribution framing
Original: ὀργή
Category: Day of the Lord
NEW TERM. Applies 1:10; 5:9. Always pair with देवाचो; never let कोप stand alone. Personal, moral judgment from a holy God, directly contrasted with तारण (salvation) as a binary destiny in 5:9, not a spectrum of accumulated karmic outcomes.
Quench The Spirit
Approved rendering: पवित्र आत्म्याक विझोवं नाका
Transliteration: pavitra ātmyāk vizhovũ nākā
Doctrine: Holy Spirit in Community Life
Original: σβέννυμι τὸ πνεῦμα
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Applies 5:19. Directly touches the baseline’s Critical पवित्र आत्मा term; must preserve personal agency (a Person being resisted/grieved), never an impersonal flame/energy metaphor that could be ritually replenished.
Whole Spirit Soul Body
Approved rendering: पुराय आत्मो, जीव आनी शरीर
Transliteration: purāy ātmo, jīv āni śarīr
Doctrine: Sanctification / Resurrection of Believers
Rejected alternatives: Vedantic Atman-Brahman framing of आत्मो
Original: πνεῦμα, ψυχή, σῶμα (ὁλόκληρον)
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Applies 5:23. Must be explicitly distinguished from Vedantic Atman-Brahman anthropology (आत्मा as eternal divine spark destined to merge into Brahman); Paul’s unified human person is preserved whole for bodily resurrection, not liberated from the body. Requires mandatory translator note.
Sanctify Wholly
Approved rendering: पुराय पवित्रीकरण
Transliteration: purāy pavitrīkaraṇ
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἁγιάζω ὁλοτελεῖς
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Applies 5:23. Extends baseline पवित्रीकरण with पुराय (whole/complete) to capture ὁλοτελεῖς’s intensifying force, which a bare rendering would silently drop.
Word Of God
Approved rendering: देवाचें उतर / प्रभूचें उतर
Transliteration: devace utar / prabhūce utar
Doctrine: Gospel Proclamation
Original: λόγος θεοῦ / λόγος κυρίου
Category: Covenant
NEW TERM. Applies 2:13 (देवाचें उतर) and 4:15 (प्रभूचें उतर). Authoritative revelation, not personal opinion or devotional poetry; must not collapse into general reverence for Puranic-style literature (cf. baseline’s Kristapurana caution).
Medium Risk Terms
Church
Approved rendering: मंडळी
Transliteration: maṇḍaḷī
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: देऊळ, मंदिर
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Applies 1:1; 2:14.
Gentiles
Approved rendering: परराष्ट्रीय
Transliteration: pararāṣṭrīya
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: विदेशी
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Applies 4:5, ‘Gentiles who do not know God’ — ethical contrast-class, not ethnic slur.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: देवाचें राज्य
Transliteration: devāce rājya
Doctrine: Kingdom of God
Rejected alternatives: देवाचें राष्ट्र
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Applies 2:12; sensitive given Goa’s contested colonial history.
Peace
Approved rendering: शांती
Transliteration: śāntī
Doctrine: Assurance in God’s Faithfulness
Rejected alternatives: सुख, समाधान
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Applies 1:1 (opening greeting-pair with grace); 5:23 (‘the God of peace himself’).
Apostle
Approved rendering: प्रेषित
Transliteration: preṣit
Doctrine: Apostolic Ministry
Rejected alternatives: दूत, गुरू
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Applies 2:6 — distinguish from a guru-disciple authority role.
Meeting The Lord
Approved rendering: मुखार वचून मेळप
Transliteration: mukhār vachun meḷap
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: भेट alone (loses the technical honor-escort sense)
Original: ἀπάντησις
Category: Return of Christ
NEW TERM. Applies 4:17. Technical term for a delegation going out to formally welcome and escort back a returning dignitary/king; should be explained in exposition as a welcome-and-return procession, not a one-way departure from earth.
Archangel
Approved rendering: प्रधान देवदूत
Transliteration: pradhān devdūt
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: transliterated आर्खएंजल (unfamiliar loanword, no doctrinal gain)
Original: ἀρχάγγελος
Category: Return of Christ
NEW TERM. Applies 4:16. Standard, already-safe Christian compound (देवदूत); must not be read as a mediating deity-figure.
Grief
Approved rendering: दुःख
Transliteration: duḥkh
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Original: λύπη / λυπέω
Category: Hope in Grief
NEW TERM. Applies 4:13. Must always retain the qualifier ‘as others who have no hope’ — Paul does not forbid grief itself, only hopeless grief; never flatten to a doctrine of stoic denial of grief.
Sons Of Light
Approved rendering: उजवाडाचे पुत्र
Transliteration: ujvāḍāce putra
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: υἱοὶ φωτός
Category: Day of the Lord
NEW TERM. Applies 5:5. Moral/spiritual identity-metaphor for believers; not a dualistic light-being cosmology. Uses पुत्र consistent with baseline’s देवाचो पुत्र convention.
Sober Watchful
Approved rendering: सावध आसप
Transliteration: sāvadh āsap
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: शुद्ध-based rendering (risks ritual-purity connotation)
Original: νήφω
Category: Day of the Lord
NEW TERM. Applies 5:6,8. Moral alertness, not ritual purity — parallels baseline’s पवित्र vs शुद्ध distinction.
Armor Of Faith Love Hope
Approved rendering: विश्वास आनी प्रेमाचें कवच, तारणाच्या आशेचें शिरस्त्राण
Transliteration: viśvās āni premācẽ kavac, tāraṇācyā āśece śirastrāṇ
Doctrine: Sanctification / Hope in Grief
Original: θώραξ πίστεως καὶ ἀγάπης, περικεφαλαία ἐλπίδος σωτηρίας
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Applies 5:8. कवच/शिरस्त्राण evoke Karna’s divine kavach-kundala in the Mahabharata; must be kept strictly metaphorical spiritual equipment sourced in faith/love/hope, never implying magical protective objects bestowed passively.
Holiness State
Approved rendering: पवित्रता
Transliteration: pavitratā
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἁγιωσύνη
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Applies 3:13. Distinct from पवित्रीकरण (the ongoing process); names the resulting settled state of holiness. Must not be used interchangeably with पवित्रीकरण.
Love Agape
Approved rendering: प्रेम
Transliteration: prem
Doctrine: Faith, Love, and Hope Triad
Rejected alternatives: भक्ती (devotional worship-love toward a chosen temple deity)
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Applies 1:3; 3:12; 4:9-10; 5:8,13. Self-giving, covenantal love among believers and toward outsiders, not romantic-only affection nor bhakti-style devotional worship.
Endurance Hope
Approved rendering: सहनशीलता
Transliteration: sahanaśīlatā
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Original: ὑπομονή
Category: Hope in Grief
NEW TERM. Applies 1:3. Active, hope-fueled steadfastness under trial, not passive fatalistic endurance of karma.
Full Assurance
Approved rendering: पुराय खात्री
Transliteration: purāy khātrī
Doctrine: Gospel Proclamation / Assurance
Original: πληροφορία
Category: Salvation
NEW TERM. Applies 1:5. Ties to baseline doctrine ‘Assurance of Salvation’ (तारणाची खात्री).
Affliction Tribulation
Approved rendering: संकश्ट
Transliteration: sankaṣṭ
Doctrine: Affliction and Perseverance
Original: θλῖψις
Category: Faith
NEW TERM. Applies 1:6; 3:3,7. Persecution/hardship endured for the gospel; must be distinguished from an impersonal karmic-consequence framework.
Satan Tempter
Approved rendering: सैतान / मोह घालपी
Transliteration: saitān / moh ghālpī
Doctrine: Spiritual Opposition
Original: σατανᾶς / ὁ πειράζων
Category: God
NEW TERM. Applies 2:18 (सैतान, transliterated, established loanword); 3:5 (मोह घालपी, ‘the tempter’). Real, personal spiritual opponent, not an abstract evil principle.
Crown Of Boasting
Approved rendering: अभिमानाचो मुकुट
Transliteration: abhimānāco mukuṭ
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Original: στέφανος καυχήσεως
Category: Return of Christ
NEW TERM. Applies 2:19. Must remain clearly metaphorical and joy-oriented, not a competing merit-economy alongside grace.
Sexual Immorality
Approved rendering: व्यभिचार
Transliteration: vyabhicār
Doctrine: Sexual Purity as an Expression of Sanctification
Original: πορνεία
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Applies 4:3. Must be understood broadly (all sexual immorality), not narrowed to adultery alone.
Vessel Body
Approved rendering: आपलें शरीर
Transliteration: āplẽ śarīr
Doctrine: Sexual Purity as an Expression of Sanctification
Original: σκεῦος
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Applies 4:4. Interpretive ambiguity (body vs. wife) noted; defaults to ‘one’s own body’ per majority modern consensus.
Passion Of Lust
Approved rendering: वासनेची लाळस
Transliteration: vāsanecī lāḷas
Doctrine: Sexual Purity as an Expression of Sanctification
Original: πάθος ἐπιθυμίας
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Applies 4:5. Contrasted with holiness and honor; characteristic of those who do not know God.
Brotherly Love
Approved rendering: बंधुप्रेम
Transliteration: bandhuprem
Doctrine: Brotherly Love and Mutual Edification
Original: φιλαδελφία
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Applies 4:9. God-taught mutual love among believers as spiritual family.
Low Risk Terms
Prophecy
Approved rendering: भविष्यवाणी
Transliteration: bhaviṣyavāṇī
Doctrine: Holy Spirit in Community Life
Rejected alternatives: भविष्यफळ
Original: προφητεία
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Applies 5:20, ‘do not despise prophecies.‘
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: धन्यवाद
Transliteration: dhanyavād
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία / εὐχαριστέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Applies 1:2; 2:13; 3:9; 5:18.
Exhort
Approved rendering: उत्तेजन देणें
Transliteration: uttejan denẽ
Doctrine: Mutual Edification / Hope in Grief
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. In 4:18, select the ‘comfort/build up’ sense (not ‘entreaty’) per baseline’s own context-sensitivity note.
Trumpet Of God
Approved rendering: देवाची तुतारी
Transliteration: devācī tutārī
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Original: σάλπιγξ θεοῦ
Category: Return of Christ
NEW TERM. Applies 4:16. Echoes OT theophany/covenant-assembly trumpet imagery.
Shout Of Command
Approved rendering: आज्ञेची गर्जना
Transliteration: āgnyecī garjanā
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Original: κέλευσμα
Category: Return of Christ
NEW TERM. Applies 4:16. Signals sovereign, commanding summons, not a mere announcement.
Labor Toil
Approved rendering: कष्ट
Transliteration: kaṣṭ
Doctrine: Faith, Love, and Hope Triad
Original: κόπος
Category: Faith
NEW TERM. Applies 1:3, ‘labor prompted by love.‘
Imitators
Approved rendering: अनुकारी
Transliteration: anukārī
Doctrine: Apostolic Ministry
Original: μιμηταί
Category: Faith
NEW TERM. Applies 1:6.
Avenger
Approved rendering: सूड घेवपी
Transliteration: sūḍ ghevpī
Doctrine: Sexual Purity as an Expression of Sanctification
Original: ἔκδικος
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Applies 4:6. Reinforces personal divine moral accountability, not impersonal karmic retribution.
Brothers Address
Approved rendering: बंधूभावांनो
Transliteration: bandhū-bhāvānno
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Original: ἀδελφοί
Category: Church
NEW TERM. Vocative address recurring approximately 14 times across the letter; must stay consistent throughout.
Holy Kiss
Approved rendering: पवित्र नमस्कार
Transliteration: pavitra namaskār
Doctrine: Holy Kiss / Christian Greeting Customs
Rejected alternatives: literal kiss-instruction
Original: φίλημα ἅγιον
Category: Church
NEW TERM. Applies 5:26. Kissing is not a customary Konkani greeting; render with a warm, respectful greeting-equivalent plus a translator’s note explaining the original first-century custom.
Dokimazete Test Everything
Approved rendering: पारख करात
Transliteration: pārakh karāt
Doctrine: Holy Spirit in Community Life
Original: δοκιμάζετε
Category: Covenant
NEW TERM. Applies 5:21. Discernment required even of claimed Spirit-given utterances; guards against uncritical acceptance while remaining open to genuine prophecy.
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