Core Glossary
08 — Core Glossary: Ephesians (English → Konkani)
Section A — Reused Baseline Terms (Romans translation_memory.json), Applied to Ephesians
These renderings are already established and MUST be used exactly as recorded in the baseline. No deviation permitted. Citations below are to their key Ephesians occurrences; risk tier and notes are inherited unchanged from the baseline unless an Ephesians-specific escalation is noted.
| Term | Konkani | Risk | Key Ephesians occurrences | Ephesians-specific note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gospel | सुवार्ता | High | 1:13; 3:6; 6:15, 6:19 | Also embedded in armor metaphor “gospel of peace” (6:15) — pair with established शांती. |
| grace | कृपा | High | 1:2, 1:6-7; 2:5, 2:7-9; 3:2, 3:7-8; 4:7, 4:29; 6:24 | Ephesians’ densest concentration of this term in the whole curriculum; 2:8-9 is the thesis-level statement. |
| faith | विश्वास | High | 1:15; 2:8; 3:12, 3:17; 4:5, 4:13; 6:16 | 4:5 (“one faith”) is part of the unity formula requiring verbatim cross-document consistency. |
| righteousness | नीतिमत्ता | Critical | 4:24; 5:9; 6:14 | Never धर्म; consistent with Romans usage. |
| salvation | तारण | Critical | 1:13; 2:5, 2:8; 6:17 | Never मुक्ती/मोक्ष; 2:5,2:8 are core-passage occurrences (see 07_semantic_analysis.md). |
| apostle | प्रेषित | Medium | 1:1; 2:20; 3:5; 4:11 | 2:20 and 3:5 add “foundation” and “mystery-revealing” senses on top of the baseline’s office sense. |
| called / calling | बोलावलेले / बोलावणें | High | 1:18; 4:1, 4:4 | 4:1 “walk worthy of the calling” links calling to the new “walk” (περιπατέω) vocabulary. |
| holy | पवित्र | High | 1:4; 5:27 | |
| saints | पवित्र जन | High | 1:1, 1:15, 1:18; 3:8, 3:18; 4:12; 5:3; 6:18 | Very frequent in Ephesians; corporate sense throughout, never an ascetic-elite reading. |
| sanctification | पवित्रीकरण | High | 5:26 | ”that he might sanctify her” (of the church). |
| adoption | दत्तक पुत्र करून घेणें | High | 1:5 | Central to ch.1’s predestination doctrine; link explicitly to new inheritance term (वारसो). |
| resurrection | पुनरुत्थान | Critical | 1:20; (root reused in 2:6 συνεγείρω, “raised with him”) | Never पुनर्जन्म. |
| lord | प्रभू | Critical | 1:2-3, 1:15, 1:17; 2:21; 4:1, 4:5, 4:17; 5:8, 5:10, 5:17, 5:19-20, 5:22; 6:1, 6:4, 6:7-8, 6:10, 6:21, 6:23-24 | Reserved exclusively for Christ; must never be applied to human “masters” (κύριος in 6:5,6:9 sense) — use धनी instead, see Section B. |
| son_of_god | देवाचो पुत्र | Critical | (implied throughout Christ-centered passages; cf. 4:13 “knowledge of the Son of God”) | |
| peace | शांती | Medium | 1:2; 2:14-15, 2:17; 4:3; 6:15, 6:23 | Escalated use: Christ himself “is our peace” (2:14) — a Christological, not merely relational-state, claim; flag for theologian review. |
| spiritual_gifts | आत्मिक वरदान | Medium | 4:7-12 (conceptually; individual named gifts get new Section B entries) | |
| thanksgiving | धन्यवाद | Low | 1:16; 5:4, 5:20 | |
| fellowship | सहभागिता | Low | 3:9 (“fellowship/administration of the mystery,” rendered via new mystery/stewardship terms; सहभागिता retained for general shared-participation contexts) | |
| church | मंडळी | Medium | 1:22; 3:10, 3:21; 5:23-25, 5:27, 5:29, 5:32 | Central Ephesians term; never देऊळ/मंदिर. |
| kingdom_of_god | देवाचें राज्य | Medium | 5:5 | |
| sin | पाप | High | 2:1 | Core passage; paired with new अपराध (trespass). |
| gentiles | परराष्ट्रीय | Medium | 2:11; 3:1, 3:6, 3:8; 4:17 | |
| glory | गौरव | High | 1:6, 1:12, 1:14, 1:17-18; 3:13, 3:16, 3:21 | Refrain structure of ch.1’s doxology; consistency required across all instances. |
| power_of_god | देवाचें सामर्थ्य | High | 1:19, 1:21; 3:7, 3:16, 3:20; 6:10 | Never शक्ती; extended in Ephesians to a stack of near-synonyms (see 07_semantic_analysis.md, ch.1 and ch.6). |
| father | पिता | Critical | 1:2-3, 1:17; 2:18; 3:14-15; 4:6; 5:20; 6:2, 6:4, 6:23 | |
| exhort | उत्तेजन देणें | Low | 4:1 (“I…urge you”) | |
| god | देव | Critical | Throughout | Every load-bearing occurrence must carry an exclusivity marker as required by the baseline. |
| holy_spirit | पवित्र आत्मा | Critical | 1:13-14; 2:18, 2:22; 3:5, 3:16; 4:3-4, 4:30; 5:18; 6:17-18 | Ephesians’ Spirit-sealing (1:13), Spirit-indwelling (2:22), and Spirit-grieving (4:30) passages all reinforce the Spirit’s personhood; never ब्रह्म/परमात्मा. |
| jesus | येशू | Critical | Throughout | |
| election | देवाची निवड | High | 1:4, 1:11 | Foundational to ch.1; see also new predestination term, Section B. |
| law | नियमशास्त्र | High | 2:15 (“the law of commandments expressed in ordinances”) |
Section B — New Terms Introduced by Ephesians (Proposed for Addition to Translation Memory)
Schema matches the baseline translation_memory.json exactly, for direct merge in Phase 2.
| Key | translation | transliteration | doctrine_risk | doctrine | alternatives_rejected | notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| trespass | अपराध | aparādh | Medium | Salvation by Grace through Faith | [“चूक (mere mistake)“] | Distinct from established पाप (sin); willful transgression, paired with sin in Eph 2:1. Must not be softened to a minor social offense. |
| mercy | दया | dayā | Medium | Salvation by Grace through Faith | [“कणव (regional/informal register)“] | Compassion toward the helpless/miserable (Eph 2:4), distinct from grace’s unmerited favor toward the guilty; both must appear together, not collapsed into one term. |
| love (agapē) | मोग | mog | High | Salvation by Grace through Faith; Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships | [“प्रेम (risks romantic connotation)”, “काम (desire)“] | God’s self-giving covenantal love (Eph 2:4) and the pattern for Christ-like marital love (Eph 5:25). Must never be reduced to sentiment or romantic affection. Standing term across the whole book. |
| wrath | क्रोध | krodh | Critical | Salvation by Grace through Faith | [“शाप (curse, karmic-rebirth-adjacent)”, “राग (informal anger)“] | God’s righteous judicial wrath against sin (Eph 2:3), resolved for believers through Christ. Must never read as impersonal karmic consequence or capricious rage. |
| blessing | आशिर्वाद | āśirvād | High | Election and Predestination in Christ | [“नशीब (luck/fortune)“] | God’s comprehensive spiritual favor in Christ (Eph 1:3), never worldly luck or astrological fortune. |
| predestination | पूर्वनियोजन | pūrvaniyojan | Critical | Election and Predestination in Christ | [“नशीब”, “प्रारब्ध”, “कर्मफळ”] | God’s sovereign, personal, pre-temporal decision concerning specific people in Christ (Eph 1:5, 1:11). Never impersonal fate or karma-determined destiny. Requires theologian review at every occurrence. |
| redemption | रगताद्वारा मेळिल्ली सुटका | ragatādvārā meḷillī suṭkā | Critical | Salvation by Grace through Faith | [“मुक्ती”, “मोक्ष”, “उद्धार”] | The specific, costly means (Christ’s blood) by which salvation (तारण) is secured (Eph 1:7, 1:14; 4:30). Distinct from, and never a substitute for, तारण itself. |
| forgiveness | माफी | māphī | Medium | Salvation by Grace through Faith | [] | Forgiveness of trespasses (Eph 1:7), an accomplished result of redemption. |
| mystery | गूढ रहस्य | gūḍh rahasya | High | The Mystery of Christ Revealed | [“गूढविद्या (occult esoteric knowledge)“] | God’s formerly hidden plan, now openly revealed in Christ (Eph 1:9; 3:3-9; 5:32). Never an ongoing secret reserved for a spiritual elite; hiddenness is strictly past-tense/salvation-historical. |
| recapitulation (unite all things) | ख्रिस्ताच्या मुखेलपणाखाला एकठांय हाडप | khristācyā mukhelpaṇākhālā ekṭhāṇy hāḍap | High | The Mystery of Christ Revealed | [“सगळें एकूच (flattened monistic ‘all is one’)“] | Christ’s personal sovereign headship gathering all things under himself (Eph 1:10). Must not be read as impersonal metaphysical merging/monism. |
| inheritance | वारसो | vārso | High | Election and Predestination in Christ | [“पूर्वजांचें वतन (mere ancestral property, no adoption link)“] | Believers’ promised inheritance in Christ (Eph 1:11, 1:14, 1:18); must connect explicitly to established adoption doctrine (full-heir status). |
| seal (of the Spirit) | शिक्को | śikko | High | Election and Predestination in Christ | [“ताईत (protective amulet)“] | The Holy Spirit as God’s mark of ownership and guarantee (Eph 1:13; 4:30). Not a magical protective charm. |
| guarantee / pledge | बयाणें | bayāṇẽ | Medium | Election and Predestination in Christ | [] | The Spirit as down payment guaranteeing the full future inheritance (Eph 1:14). |
| body of Christ | शरीर | śarīr | High | The Church as the Body of Christ | [“देह (ambiguous register)“] | Christ’s body, the church, a living organic unity (Eph 1:23; 3:6; 4:4, 4:12, 4:16; 5:23, 5:30). Reuse consistently with established church term मंडळी. |
| head / headship | शिर | śir | High | The Church as the Body of Christ; Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships | [“डोकें (overly literal/anatomical)“] | Christ’s governing, self-giving headship over the church (Eph 1:22; 4:15; 5:23), and the pattern for a husband’s headship (5:23) — must always carry the self-sacrificial content of 5:25-30, never unqualified authority alone. |
| fullness | पूर्णता | pūrṇatā | Critical | The Church as the Body of Christ; Mystery of Christ Revealed | [“पूर्ण ब्रह्म (Vedantic monistic ‘complete Brahman’)“] | Christ’s own presence and life filling and completing his body, the church (Eph 1:23), and believers being filled with God’s character (Eph 3:19). Never read as impersonal metaphysical plenitude or believer-God substance-merging. Theologian review mandatory at every occurrence. |
| reconciliation | समेट | samet | High | Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity | [“शिफारस (patronage-mediation, too transactional)“] | Christ’s cross-accomplished restoration of relationship, both godward and Jew-Gentile (Eph 2:16). Not ritual expiation or social peace-brokering. |
| access | प्रवेश | praveś | Medium-High | Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity | [“मध्यस्थीद्वारा प्रवेश (implies required human/ritual mediator)“] | Direct access to the Father through Christ by the Spirit (Eph 2:18; 3:12), not mediated ritual approach to a deity via priest or image. |
| dividing wall (of hostility) | वैरभावाची मध्यभिंत | vairbhāvācī madhyabhint | Medium | Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity | [] | The legal/social Jew-Gentile barrier, torn down by Christ (Eph 2:14). |
| household of God | देवाचें कुटुंब | devāce kuṭumb | Medium | Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity; The Church as the Body of Christ | [] | Believers’ full family-membership in God’s own household (Eph 2:19). |
| cornerstone | कोनशिला | konśilā | Medium | The Church as the Body of Christ | [] | Christ as the church’s foundational aligning stone (Eph 2:20). |
| fellow citizens | सहनागरीक | sahanāgarik | Low | Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity | [] | Full, shared covenant citizenship of Jew and Gentile believers (Eph 2:19). |
| dwelling place of God | देवाचें निवासस्थान | devāce nivāsasthān | High | The Church as the Body of Christ | [“मंदिर (Hindu temple)“] | The church corporately indwelt by the Spirit (Eph 2:21-22). Never rendered with temple vocabulary reserved for a deity’s physical image-housing. |
| stewardship | कारभार | kārbhār | Medium | The Mystery of Christ Revealed | [] | Paul’s entrusted commission to make the mystery known (Eph 3:2, 3:9). |
| inner man / inner being | आंतरीक मनीसपण | antarīk manīspaṇ | Medium-High | Walking in Newness of Life | [“आत्मा (reserved for Holy Spirit)“] | The believer’s renewed inner self, strengthened by the Spirit (Eph 3:16). Deliberately avoids आत्मा to prevent confusion with पवित्र आत्मा. |
| unity of the Spirit | आत्म्याची एकवट | ātmyācī ekvaṭ | Medium | Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity | [] | Spirit-given unity to be maintained, not manufactured (Eph 4:3). |
| baptism | बाप्तिस्मा | bāptismā | Medium-High | Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity | [“स्नान (implies ritual bathing/purification)“] | Part of the sevenfold unity formula (Eph 4:5); identification with Christ’s death/resurrection and the one body, not a purificatory ritual bath comparable to sacred river/tank bathing. |
| evangelist | सुवार्तिक | suvārtik | Medium | Gifts for Building Up the Church | [] | One of the fivefold ministry gifts (Eph 4:11), built on established सुवार्ता. |
| pastor / shepherd | मेंढपाळ | meḍhpāḷ | Medium | Gifts for Building Up the Church | [] | Spiritual shepherding metaphor (Eph 4:11); flag to ensure no unintended association with regionally stigmatized shepherding castes. |
| teacher | शिकोवपी | śikovpī | Medium-High | Gifts for Building Up the Church | [“गुरू (guru-disciple authority structure)“] | One of the fivefold ministry gifts (Eph 4:11). गुरू rejected for the same reason it was rejected for “apostle” in the Romans baseline. |
| old self / new self | जुनो मनीस / नवो मनीस | juno manīs / navo manīs | High | Walking in Newness of Life | [] | The pre-conversion self to be put off and the Christ-formed self to be put on (Eph 4:22, 4:24). Note the distinct corporate “one new man” sense at Eph 2:15 may require a qualifying phrase to keep the two senses distinguishable. |
| holiness (hosiotēs) | पवित्रता | pavitratā | Medium | Walking in Newness of Life | [“भक्ती (Hindu devotional worship)“] | The moral character of the new self (Eph 4:24), distinct from established पवित्र/पवित्रीकरण but from the same root; भक्ती explicitly avoided per baseline convention. |
| submission | अधीन रावप | adhīn rāvap | Critical | Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships | [] | Voluntary, love-shaped, Christ-modeled submission, beginning from mutual submission (Eph 5:21); never license for domination or reinforcement of existing gender-based social subjugation. Requires theologian AND native-speaker review at every occurrence. |
| one flesh | एक देह | ek deh | Medium | Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships | [] | The marital union (Eph 5:31), grounding the Christ-church analogy. |
| bondservant / slave | दास | dās | Critical | Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships | [“गुलाम (heavier modern-slavery connotation)“] | First-century household servitude (Eph 6:5); requires explanatory note situating this historically, never endorsing caste-based servitude or modern forced labor. |
| master (human) | धनी | dhanī | Critical | Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships | [“प्रभू (reserved exclusively for Christ’s Lordship)“] | Human household master (Eph 6:5, 6:9). प्रभू must never be used here; this distinction protects the baseline’s Critical reservation of प्रभू for Christ alone. |
| partiality | पक्षपात | pakṣapāt | Medium | Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships | [] | God shows no partiality between master and servant (Eph 6:9); relevant to caste-hierarchy sensitivities. |
| armor of God | देवाचो पूर्ण चिलखत-संच | devāco pūrṇa cilkhat-sanc | High | Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God | [“ताईत (protective amulet)“] | God’s provision for spiritual warfare (Eph 6:11, 6:13); doctrinal truth and Spirit-given equipping, never a magical/ritual protective object. |
| devil / Satan | सैतान | saitān | Critical | Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God | [“भूत/चेडो (regional folk spirits)“] | The singular, personal, fallen adversary (Eph 2:2; 4:27; 6:11); never conflated with localized folk spirits (bhuta, cheda) or any deity. |
| rulers / authorities / cosmic powers / spiritual forces of evil | अधिपती / अधिकार / अंधाराचे जगत्-अधिपती / दुष्ट आत्मिक सत्ता | adhipatī / adhikār / andhārāce jagat-adhipatī / duṣṭa ātmik sattā | Critical | Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God | [“शक्ती (risks implying Goa’s Shakta-goddess tradition is being labeled demonic)“] | The hierarchy of hostile spiritual powers opposed to believers (Eph 1:21; 3:10; 6:12). Deliberately avoids शक्ती even for evil forces, to prevent an unintended and pastorally damaging implication that regional Shakta devotional tradition (Shantadurga, Mahalasa) is being equated with these forces. Theologian review mandatory with reasoning recorded. |
| workmanship | घडणूक | ghaḍaṇūk | High | Salvation by Grace through Faith | [“कर्तृत्व (implies self-achievement)“] | Believers as God’s own creative handiwork in Christ (Eph 2:10), preceding and grounding — never resulting from — good works. |
| created | रचप / निर्माण करप | racap / nirmāṇ karap | High | Salvation by Grace through Faith | [“सुधारप (mere self-improvement)“] | God’s re-creative act in salvation (Eph 2:10), not human self-reform. |
| good works | बरी कामां | barī kāmā | Critical | Salvation by Grace through Faith | [“कर्मफळ-कमावणी (merit-earning karmic works)“] | The fruit, never the ground, of salvation (Eph 2:10); must be kept in strict sequential/causal order after grace (2:8-9), the single most important safeguard against a karma-merit misreading of the core passage. |
| gift (dōron/dōrea) | दान | dān | Critical | Salvation by Grace through Faith | [“पुण्यदान (merit-generating ritual gift)“] | Salvation itself as God’s free, unearned gift (Eph 2:8; 4:7). दान’s ordinary religious-register sense (a meritorious ritual gift generating पुण्य for the giver) is the near-opposite of the intended meaning and must always be qualified as “फुकट दान” (free/unearned gift). |
| trespasses/sins, dead in | पापांनी आत्मिकपणान मेल्लो | pāpānnī ātmikpaṇān mello | High | Salvation by Grace through Faith | [“मेल्लो (alone; risks reading as mere physical death)“] | Total spiritual deadness prior to grace (Eph 2:1), the presupposition for 2:4-5’s “But God.” |
| mercy-grace-faith-salvation-gift-works sequence (Eph 2:1-10 as unit) | — (compound; see individual entries) | — | Critical | Salvation by Grace through Faith | [] | The entire core passage functions as a single doctrinal unit; Phase 2 back-translation review must verify the causal sequence (dead → made alive by grace through faith, apart from works → created for good works) is unambiguous end-to-end, not merely correct term-by-term. |
Doctrine Coverage Cross-Check
Every curriculum doctrine has at least one Section A (reused) or Section B (new) term anchoring it:
- Salvation by Grace through Faith — कृपा, विश्वास, तारण, दान, अपराध, दया, क्रोध, घडणूक, बरी कामां (core passage, Eph 2:1-10)
- Election and Predestination in Christ — देवाची निवड, पूर्वनियोजन, आशिर्वाद, वारसो, शिक्को, बयाणें (ch. 1)
- The Church as the Body of Christ — मंडळी, शरीर, शिर, पूर्णता, कोनशिला, देवाचें निवासस्थान (ch. 1-2, 4-5)
- Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity — परराष्ट्रीय, समेट, प्रवेश, मध्यभिंत, देवाचें कुटुंब, सहनागरीक, बाप्तिस्मा, आत्म्याची एकवट (ch. 2-4)
- The Mystery of Christ Revealed — गूढ रहस्य, कारभार, एकठांय हाडप (ch. 1, 3, 5)
- Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God — सैतान, देवाचो पूर्ण चिलखत-संच, अधिपती/अधिकार/दुष्ट आत्मिक सत्ता (ch. 2, 4, 6)
- Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships — अधीन रावप, एक देह, दास, धनी, पक्षपात, मोग (ch. 5-6)
- Gifts for Building Up the Church — आत्मिक वरदान, प्रेषित, संदेष्टा, सुवार्तिक, मेंढपाळ, शिकोवपी (ch. 4)
- Walking in Newness of Life — चलप/वागप, जुनो मनीस/नवो मनीस, पवित्रता, पवित्र आत्म्यान भरून उरप (ch. 2, 4-5)
Notes for Phase 2
- All Section A terms are non-negotiable; deviation triggers the same escalation rules defined in
12_ai_translation_requirements.md. - All Section B terms are proposed additions; upon Phase 1 sign-off, they must be merged into
translation_memory.json(version increment required) andbible_term_registry.jsonbefore Phase 2 segment translation begins, per the baseline’s own load-and-enforce instructions. - Terms marked Critical in Section B (predestination, redemption, mystery-adjacent fullness, submission, bondservant/master, devil/Satan, spiritual forces of evil, good works, gift) require human theologian review at every occurrence, consistent with the baseline’s risk-tier routing rules.
- No chapter of Ephesians was found to introduce zero new theological vocabulary; all six chapters are represented in Section B or through escalated reuse of Section A terms.
Critical Risk Terms
Righteousness
Approved rendering: नीतिमत्ता
Transliteration: nītimattā
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: धर्म, पुण्य, न्याय
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation
[Inherited from Romans package] CRITICAL: Never धर्म. Appears in Ephesians as the moral character of the ‘new self’ (4:24), fruit of walking in the light (5:9), and a piece of spiritual armor (6:14).
Salvation
Approved rendering: तारण
Transliteration: tāraṇ
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: मुक्ती, मोक्ष, सुटका
Original: σωτηρία / σῴζω
Category: Salvation
[Inherited from Romans package] CRITICAL: NEVER मुक्ती or मोक्ष. Core-passage occurrences at Eph 2:5,8 use the perfect passive ‘you have been saved’ — a completed divine act with ongoing effect, never a repeatable ritual attainment. Also at 1:13; 6:17.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: पुनरुत्थान
Transliteration: punaruthān
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Rejected alternatives: पुनर्जन्म, पुनर्जीवन
Original: ἀνάστασις / ἐγείρω
Category: Eschatology
[Inherited from Romans package] CRITICAL: NEVER पुनर्जन्म (reincarnation). Occurs at Eph 1:20 (Christ’s own resurrection) and underlies the compound verbs of 2:5-6 (made alive/raised/seated with Christ).
Lord
Approved rendering: प्रभू
Transliteration: prabhū
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: स्वामी, मालक
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
[Inherited from Romans package] Exclusive, supreme Lordship. Very frequent in Ephesians (1:2-3,15,17; 2:21; 4:1,5,17; 5:8,10,17,19-20,22; 6:1,4,7-8,10,21,23-24). Must never be applied to the human ‘masters’ of 6:5,9 — use धनी instead (see master_human).
Son Of God
Approved rendering: देवाचो पुत्र
Transliteration: devāco putra
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: देवाचो अंश, देवपुरुष
Original: υἱὸς θεοῦ
Category: Christology
[Inherited from Romans package] Eternal, unique, co-equal Sonship. Occurs at Eph 4:13 (‘knowledge of the Son of God’) as the church’s unity maturity-goal.
Father
Approved rendering: पिता
Transliteration: pitā
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Rejected alternatives: ब्रह्मा, निर्माणकार
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
[Inherited from Romans package, risk escalated from High to Critical for Ephesians given its density and centrality to the book’s adoption/family doctrine] God as personal Father, never a Hindu creator-deity name. Very frequent in Ephesians (1:2-3,17; 2:18; 3:14-15; 4:6; 5:20; 6:2,4,23).
God
Approved rendering: देव
Transliteration: dev
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: भगवान
Original: θεός
Category: God
[Inherited from Romans package] CRITICAL AND UNUSUAL: same generic word Goan Hindu practice uses for any individual deity. Every load-bearing occurrence throughout Ephesians must carry an exclusivity marker such as ‘एकच खरो देव’.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: पवित्र आत्मा
Transliteration: pavitra ātmā
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: ब्रह्म, परमात्मा
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
[Inherited from Romans package] CRITICAL: Never ब्रह्म or परमात्मा. Ephesians’ sealing (1:13-14), indwelling (2:22), grieving (4:30), and filling (5:18) passages all reinforce the Spirit’s personhood.
Jesus
Approved rendering: येशू
Transliteration: yeśū
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: जेजू
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
[Inherited from Romans package] Established Devanagari Konkani/Marathi Bible form; जेजू is the Romi Konkani Catholic spelling, out of scope here.
Wrath
Approved rendering: क्रोध
Transliteration: krodh
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Rejected alternatives: शाप (curse, karmic-rebirth-adjacent), राग (informal anger)
Original: ὀργή
Category: Sin
New term. God’s righteous judicial anger against sin (Eph 2:3; 5:6), resolved for believers through Christ. Must never read as impersonal karmic consequence or capricious rage.
Predestination
Approved rendering: पूर्वनियोजन
Transliteration: pūrvaniyojan
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Rejected alternatives: नशीब, प्रारब्ध, कर्मफळ
Original: προορίζω
Category: Salvation
New term, a constructed compound with no pre-existing competing religious sense. Occurs at Eph 1:5,11. Must be firmly distinguished from impersonal fate/karma-determined destiny; requires a first-occurrence translator gloss and theologian review at every occurrence.
Redemption
Approved rendering: रगताद्वारा मेळिल्ली सुटका
Transliteration: ragatādvārā meḷillī suṭkā
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith; Election and Predestination in Christ
Rejected alternatives: मुक्ती, मोक्ष, उद्धार
Original: ἀπολύτρωσις
Category: Salvation
New term requiring careful distinction from established तारण (salvation). Occurs at Eph 1:7,14 and 4:30 (‘day of redemption’). Names the specific costly means (Christ’s blood), never a second word for salvation itself.
Might Strength
Approved rendering: बळ
Transliteration: baḷ
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Rejected alternatives: शक्ती
Original: κράτος / ἰσχύς
Category: God
New term, part of the power-stack at Eph 1:19 and 6:10 (κράτος/ἰσχύς). Deliberately never शक्ती, to avoid Shakta-goddess associations (Shantadurga, Mahalasa).
Rulers Authorities Powers
Approved rendering: अधिपती / अधिकार / अंधाराचे जगत्-अधिपती / दुष्ट आत्मिक सत्ता
Transliteration: adhipatī / adhikār / andhārāce jagat-adhipatī / duṣṭa ātmik sattā
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Rejected alternatives: शक्ती (risks implying Goa’s Shakta-goddess tradition is being labeled demonic)
Original: ἀρχή, ἐξουσία, κοσμοκράτωρ, πνευματικὰ τῆς πονηρίας
Category: Spiritual Warfare
New term. The hierarchy of hostile, personal, spiritual powers opposed to believers (Eph 1:21; 2:2; 3:10; 6:12). शक्ती deliberately excluded even for evil forces; theologian review mandatory with reasoning recorded.
Dominion Kyriotes
Approved rendering: अधिकार / सत्ता
Transliteration: adhikār / sattā
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Rejected alternatives: प्रभू / प्रभूपण (reserved exclusively for Christ’s own Lordship)
Original: κυριότης
Category: Spiritual Warfare
New term. A rank of created spiritual power (Eph 1:21), distinct from Christ’s own unique Lordship; must never be rendered with the प्रभू root.
Fullness
Approved rendering: पूर्णता
Transliteration: pūrṇatā
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ; The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Rejected alternatives: पूर्ण ब्रह्म (Vedantic monistic ‘complete Brahman’)
Original: πλήρωμα
Category: Church
New term. Christ’s presence filling the church (Eph 1:23) and believers filled with God’s character (3:19; 4:13). Never impersonal metaphysical plenitude or believer-God substance-merging; theologian review mandatory at every occurrence.
Submission
Approved rendering: अधीन रावप
Transliteration: adhīn rāvap
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Original: ὑποτάσσω
Category: Household
New term, the most pastorally sensitive in the book. Occurs at Eph 5:21-24. Must begin from 5:21’s mutual submission of all believers, modeled on Christ’s self-giving love (5:25); never license for domination, coercion, or reinforcement of existing gender-based social subjugation. Theologian AND native-speaker review required at every occurrence.
Bondservant Slave
Approved rendering: दास
Transliteration: dās
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Rejected alternatives: गुलाम (heavier modern-slavery connotation)
Original: δοῦλος
Category: Household
New term. First-century household servitude (Eph 6:5-8). Requires a mandatory explanatory translator note situating this historically, explicitly NOT endorsing caste-based servitude or modern forced labor. Theologian review mandatory.
Master Human
Approved rendering: धनी
Transliteration: dhanī
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Rejected alternatives: प्रभू (reserved exclusively for Christ’s Lordship)
Original: κύριος (human sense)
Category: Household
New term. Human household master (Eph 6:5,9). प्रभू must never be used here; this distinction protects the baseline’s Critical reservation of प्रभू for Christ alone.
Devil Satan
Approved rendering: सैतान
Transliteration: saitān
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Rejected alternatives: भूत/चेडो (regional folk spirits)
Original: διάβολος (implied ἄρχων, 2:2)
Category: Spiritual Warfare
New standing transliteration for the whole book. Occurs at Eph 2:2 (implied), 4:27, 6:11. Must be kept as a singular, personal, fallen being distinct from localized folk spirits (bhuta, cheda); never conflated with any deity. Theologian review required at every occurrence.
Good Works
Approved rendering: बरी कामां
Transliteration: barī kāmā
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Rejected alternatives: कर्मफळ-कमावणी (merit-earning karmic works)
Original: ἔργα ἀγαθά
Category: Salvation
New term. The fruit, never the ground, of salvation (core-passage occurrence, Eph 2:10); the single most important interpretive safeguard against a karma-merit misreading of the whole passage — must be kept in strict sequential/causal order after grace (2:8-9).
Works Ergon
Approved rendering: कामां
Transliteration: kāmā
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: ἔργον
Category: Salvation
New term. Human effort as a rejected basis for righteousness/salvation (core-passage occurrence, Eph 2:9, ‘not from works’); the single most theologically load-bearing negative construction in the passage for a Hindu-background audience; must never be softened, always contrasted explicitly with कृपा.
Gift Doron
Approved rendering: दान
Transliteration: dān
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Rejected alternatives: पुण्यदान (merit-generating ritual gift)
Original: δῶρον / δωρεά
Category: Salvation
New term. Salvation itself as God’s free, unearned gift (Eph 2:8; 3:7; 4:7). दान’s ordinary religious-register sense (a meritorious ritual gift generating पुण्य for the giver) is the near-opposite of the intended meaning and must ALWAYS be qualified as ‘फुकट दान’ (free/unearned gift).
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: सुवार्ता
Transliteration: suvārtā
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: बरी खबर, शुभवर्तमान
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
[Inherited from Romans package] Established Konkani/Marathi-family Bible term (distinct from Hindi’s सुसमाचार). In Ephesians appears at 1:13; 3:6; 6:15,19, including within the armor metaphor ‘gospel of peace’ (6:15) — pair with established शांती without weakening either term.
Grace
Approved rendering: कृपा
Transliteration: kṛpā
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: कर्मफळ, पुण्य, नशीब
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
[Inherited from Romans package] Deliberately different from Hindi’s अनुग्रह; established, doctrinally load-bearing term for unmerited grace. Ephesians’ densest concentration of this term in the whole curriculum (1:2,6-7; 2:5,7-9; 3:2,7-8; 4:7,29; 6:24); 2:8-9 is the thesis-level statement contrasting grace with works.
Faith
Approved rendering: विश्वास
Transliteration: viśvās
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: श्रद्धा, भक्ती
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
[Inherited from Romans package] Personal trust in Christ specifically, not भक्ती’s devotional-worship associations. 4:5 (‘one faith’) is part of the sevenfold unity formula requiring verbatim cross-document consistency; 6:16 ties faith to the armor of God.
Called
Approved rendering: बोलावलेले
Transliteration: bolāvlele
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: आमंत्रित
Original: κλητός
Category: Salvation
[Inherited from Romans package] Built on बोलावणें (to summon), not the softer आमंत्रित (invited). In Ephesians 1:18 (‘the hope of his calling’) and 4:1,4 (‘walk worthy of the calling’) links God’s sovereign summons directly to the new ‘walk’ vocabulary.
Calling
Approved rendering: बोलावणें
Transliteration: bolāvaṇẽ
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: आमंत्रण
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
[Inherited from Romans package] Noun form sharing its verb root with ‘called’ for consistency. Occurs at Eph 1:18; 4:1,4.
Holy
Approved rendering: पवित्र
Transliteration: pavitra
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: शुद्ध, निर्मळ
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
[Inherited from Romans package] Set apart for God, morally pure, not merely ritually pure (शुद्ध). Occurs at Eph 1:4; 5:27.
Saints
Approved rendering: पवित्र जन
Transliteration: pavitra jan
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: संत, भक्त
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
[Inherited from Romans package] संत evokes the Varkari bhakti-poet tradition (Tukaram, Namdev); पवित्र जन applies corporately to all believers. Very frequent in Ephesians (1:1,15,18; 3:8,18; 4:12; 5:3; 6:18).
Sanctification
Approved rendering: पवित्रीकरण
Transliteration: pavitrīkaraṇ
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: शुद्धीकरण
Original: ἁγιάζω / ἁγιασμός
Category: Sanctification
[Inherited from Romans package] The Spirit’s ongoing work of making believers holy, distinct from ritual purification. Occurs at Eph 5:26 (‘that he might sanctify her,’ of Christ and the church).
Adoption
Approved rendering: दत्तक पुत्र करून घेणें
Transliteration: dattak putra karun ghenẽ
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Rejected alternatives: दत्तक घेणें
Original: υἱοθεσία
Category: Salvation
[Inherited from Romans package] The fuller phrase foregrounds complete inheritance rights. Central to Eph 1:5’s predestination doctrine; must be explicitly linked to the new inheritance term (वारसो) so adopted status is never read as lower-status.
Peace
Approved rendering: शांती
Transliteration: śāntī
Doctrine: Peace with God
Rejected alternatives: सुख, समाधान
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
[Inherited from Romans package, risk escalated from Medium to High for Ephesians] Relational peace with God, not meditative calm. Eph 2:14 makes the Christological claim that Christ himself ‘is our peace’ — a stronger claim than merely ‘having’ peace. Also at 1:2; 2:15,17; 4:3; 6:15,23.
Law
Approved rendering: नियमशास्त्र
Transliteration: niyamaśāstra
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: धर्म, कायदो
Original: νόμος
Category: Covenant
[Inherited from Romans package] NEVER धर्म. Occurs at Eph 2:15 (‘the law of commandments expressed in ordinances’), abolished as a Jew-Gentile dividing marker in Christ.
Sin
Approved rendering: पाप
Transliteration: pāp
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: अधर्म, अशुद्धता
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin
[Inherited from Romans package] Moral transgression before a personal God. Occurs at Eph 2:1, paired with the new term ‘trespass’ (अपराध) for rhetorical fullness in the core passage.
Glory
Approved rendering: गौरव
Transliteration: gaurav
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: तेज, देवीतेज
Original: δόξα
Category: God
[Inherited from Romans package] Preferred over तेज-based light imagery to avoid conflation with deity-luster descriptions. Structures the refrain ‘to the praise of his glory’ across Eph 1 (1:6,12,14,17-18) and reappears at 3:13,16,21.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: देवाचें सामर्थ्य
Transliteration: devāce sāmarthya
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Rejected alternatives: शक्ती
Original: δύναμις θεοῦ
Category: God
[Inherited from Romans package] Never शक्ती (Shakta-goddess association). Extended in Ephesians into a stack of near-synonyms (1:19,21; 3:7,16,20; 6:10) — see might_strength and working_energeia; शक्ती avoided throughout the entire stacked phrase.
Election
Approved rendering: देवाची निवड
Transliteration: devācī nivaḍ
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: नशीब, प्रारब्ध
Original: ἐκλογή / ἐκλέγομαι
Category: Salvation
[Inherited from Romans package] God’s sovereign personal choice, not fate or karma-determined destiny. Occurs at Eph 1:4,11, foundational to the Election and Predestination doctrine.
Spiritually Dead
Approved rendering: पापांनी आत्मिकपणान मेल्लो
Transliteration: pāpānnī ātmikpaṇān mello
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Rejected alternatives: मेल्लो (alone; risks reading as mere physical death)
Original: νεκρὸς τοῖς παραπτώμασιν
Category: Salvation
New idiom for the core-passage doctrine of total spiritual deadness before God prior to regeneration (Eph 2:1,5). Must not suggest an accumulating karmic ledger; the state is reversed unilaterally by God (‘But God…’, 2:4).
Love Agape
Approved rendering: मोग
Transliteration: mog
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith; Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Rejected alternatives: प्रेम (risks romantic connotation), काम (desire)
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Salvation
New foundational term, the standing Ephesians rendering for ἀγάπη throughout the book (1:4,15; 2:4; 3:17-19; 4:2,15-16; 5:2,25,28,33). Must never be reduced to sentiment or romantic affection; in chapter 5 it is the pattern for Christ-like marital love.
Blessing
Approved rendering: आशिर्वाद
Transliteration: āśirvād
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Rejected alternatives: नशीब (luck/fortune)
Original: εὐλογία / εὐλογέω
Category: Salvation
New term. Frames the doxology of Eph 1:3; God’s comprehensive spiritual favor in Christ. Must convey specifically spiritual divine favor, never folk luck or astrological fortune.
Mystery
Approved rendering: गूढ रहस्य
Transliteration: gūḍh rahasya
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Rejected alternatives: गूढविद्या (occult esoteric knowledge)
Original: μυστήριον
Category: Mystery
New term central to the named curriculum doctrine. Occurs at Eph 1:9; 3:3,4,6,9; 5:32; 6:19. Hiddenness is strictly past-tense/salvation-historical, now openly proclaimed to all, never an ongoing secret for a spiritual elite.
Recapitulation
Approved rendering: ख्रिस्ताच्या मुखेलपणाखाला एकठांय हाडप
Transliteration: khristācyā mukhelpaṇākhālā ekṭhāṇy hāḍap
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Rejected alternatives: सगळें एकूच (flattened monistic ‘all is one’)
Original: ἀνακεφαλαιόω
Category: Mystery
New term. Christ’s personal sovereign headship gathering all things under himself (Eph 1:10). Must not be read as impersonal metaphysical merging/monism.
Inheritance
Approved rendering: वारसो
Transliteration: vārso
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Rejected alternatives: पूर्वजांचें वतन (mere ancestral property, no adoption link)
Original: κληρονομία
Category: Salvation
New term. Occurs at Eph 1:11,14,18. Must connect explicitly to the established adoption doctrine so it is read as the full inheritance rights of an adopted son, not a Goan customary-property dispute category.
Seal
Approved rendering: शिक्को
Transliteration: śikko
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Rejected alternatives: ताईत (protective amulet)
Original: σφραγίζω / σφραγίς
Category: Salvation
New term. The Holy Spirit as God’s mark of ownership and guarantee (Eph 1:13; 4:30). Not a magical protective charm.
Working Energeia
Approved rendering: कार्य / क्रिया
Transliteration: kārya / kriyā
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Rejected alternatives: शक्ती
Original: ἐνέργεια
Category: God
New term. God’s active operative working (Eph 1:19; 3:7,20), part of the same power-stack as might_strength; never शक्ती.
Body Of Christ
Approved rendering: शरीर
Transliteration: śarīr
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ
Rejected alternatives: देह (ambiguous register)
Original: σῶμα
Category: Church
New term. Christ’s body, the church, a living organic unity (Eph 1:23; 3:6; 4:4,12,16; 5:23,30). Reuse consistently with established church term मंडळी.
Head Headship
Approved rendering: शिर
Transliteration: śir
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ; Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Rejected alternatives: डोकें (overly literal/anatomical)
Original: κεφαλή
Category: Church
New term. Christ’s governing, self-giving headship (Eph 1:22; 4:15; 5:23); must always carry the self-sacrificial content of 5:25-30, never unqualified authority alone.
Reconciliation
Approved rendering: समेट
Transliteration: samet
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Rejected alternatives: शिफारस (patronage-mediation, too transactional)
Original: ἀποκαταλλάσσω / καταλλαγή
Category: Unity
New term. Christ’s cross-accomplished restoration of relationship, both godward and Jew-Gentile (Eph 2:16). Not ritual expiation or social peace-brokering.
Access
Approved rendering: प्रवेश
Transliteration: praveś
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Rejected alternatives: मध्यस्थीद्वारा प्रवेश (implies required human/ritual mediator)
Original: προσαγωγή
Category: Unity
New term. Direct access to the Father through Christ by the Spirit (Eph 2:18; 3:12), not mediated ritual approach to a deity via priest or image.
Dwelling Place Of God
Approved rendering: देवाचें निवासस्थान
Transliteration: devāce nivāsasthān
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ
Rejected alternatives: मंदिर (Hindu temple)
Original: ναός / κατοικητήριον
Category: Church
New term. The corporate church as God’s own Spirit-indwelt dwelling place (Eph 2:21-22). मंदिर is FORBIDDEN for this sense — reserved for a Hindu temple housing a deity’s image.
Fellow Heirs Members Partakers
Approved rendering: सहवारीस / एकाच शरीराचे अवयव / वचनाचे भागीदार
Transliteration: sahavārīs / ekāca śarīrāce avayav / vacanāce bhāgīdār
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: συγκληρονόμος / σύσσωμος / συμμέτοχος
Category: Unity
New terms built on established roots (वारसो, शरीर). Occur at Eph 3:6, the precise threefold content of the mystery: full Gentile equality in inheritance, body-membership, and promise.
Old Self New Self
Approved rendering: जुनो मनीस / नवो मनीस
Transliteration: juno manīs / navo manīs
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: παλαιὸς ἄνθρωπος / νέος ἄνθρωπος
Category: Sanctification
New term. The pre-conversion self to be put off and the Christ-formed self to be put on (Eph 4:22,24). Must be kept distinguishable from the distinct corporate ‘one new man’ (καινός) of Eph 2:15 via a qualifying phrase.
Grieve Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: पवित्र आत्म्याक दुख्खी करप
Transliteration: pavitra ātmyāk dukhī karap
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: λυπέω τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον
Category: God
New idiom applied to established पवित्र आत्मा. Occurs at Eph 4:30; reinforces the Spirit’s personhood — an impersonal universal spirit (ब्रह्म/परमात्मा) cannot be grieved.
Filled With Spirit
Approved rendering: पवित्र आत्म्यान भरून उरप
Transliteration: pavitra ātmyān bharūn urap
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: πληρόω ἐν πνεύματι
Category: God
New term. Continuous, ongoing Spirit-filling, contrasted with drunkenness (Eph 5:18); reuses established पवित्र आत्मा. Must render with continuous (‘keep on being filled’) force, not a single ecstatic ritual event.
Armor Of God
Approved rendering: देवाचो पूर्ण चिलखत-संच
Transliteration: devāco pūrṇa cilkhat-sanc
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Rejected alternatives: ताईत (protective amulet)
Original: πανοπλία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Spiritual Warfare
New term. God’s provision for spiritual warfare (Eph 6:11,13); doctrinal truth and Spirit-given equipping, never a magical/ritual protective object.
Workmanship
Approved rendering: घडणूक
Transliteration: ghaḍaṇūk
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Rejected alternatives: कर्तृत्व (implies self-achievement)
Original: ποίημα
Category: Salvation
New term. Believers as God’s own creative handiwork in Christ (core-passage occurrence, Eph 2:10). Must clearly precede and cause, not follow from, the ‘good works’ of the same verse.
Created
Approved rendering: रचप / निर्माण करप
Transliteration: racap / nirmāṇ karap
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Rejected alternatives: सुधारप (mere self-improvement)
Original: κτίζω
Category: Salvation
New term. God’s re-creative act in salvation (Eph 2:10; 4:24); must retain the strong ‘creation’ sense, not reform.
Flesh Sarx
Approved rendering: मांस / देहवासना
Transliteration: māns / dehavāsanā
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: σάρξ
Category: Sin
New term. Fallen human nature in moral opposition to the Spirit (Eph 2:3); also literal body/marital sense (5:29,31). Must be distinguished from देहधारण (incarnation, Romans baseline) — Christ’s true human flesh in the incarnation is not this morally fallen sense.
Nature Physis
Approved rendering: स्वभावान / जल्माधरनूच
Transliteration: svabhāvān / jalmādharnūc
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: φύσις
Category: Sin
New term. Inherent condition by birth — universal human depravity (Eph 2:3, ‘children of wrath by nature’). Must not be softened into a karmic-rebirth ‘born under a curse for a past life’ reading; this is universal Adamic fallenness applying equally to all.
Medium Risk Terms
Apostle
Approved rendering: प्रेषित
Transliteration: preṣit
Doctrine: Apostleship
Rejected alternatives: दूत, गुरू
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
[Inherited from Romans package] Established term for an authorized, sent-out messenger; गुरू avoided given guru-disciple authority structures in regional Hindu practice. In Ephesians also named as part of the church’s foundation (2:20) and Christ’s fivefold ministry gift (4:11).
Spiritual Gifts
Approved rendering: आत्मिक वरदान
Transliteration: ātmik varadān
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts
Rejected alternatives: वरदान, सिद्धी
Original: χαρίσματα (implied; δωρεά/δόμα, 4:7-8)
Category: Church
[Inherited from Romans package] वरदान alone carries the Puranic sense of a boon granted for austerity/devotion; always pair with आत्मिक. In Ephesians 4:7-12 specified as the fivefold ministry offices.
Church
Approved rendering: मंडळी
Transliteration: maṇḍaḷī
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: देऊळ, मंदिर
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
[Inherited from Romans package] Never देऊळ or मंदिर (Hindu temple). Central Ephesians term (1:22; 3:10,21; 5:23-25,27,29,32) tied to the body-of-Christ and marriage doctrines.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: देवाचें राज्य
Transliteration: devāce rājya
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Rejected alternatives: देवाचें राष्ट्र
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom
[Inherited from Romans package] Distinguished from a political-kingdom association. Occurs at Eph 5:5 in a warning about those who have no inheritance in it.
Gentiles
Approved rendering: परराष्ट्रीय
Transliteration: pararāṣṭrīya
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Rejected alternatives: विदेशी
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Church
[Inherited from Romans package] Non-Jews. Occurs at Eph 2:11; 3:1,6,8; 4:17, central to the Unity of Jews and Gentiles doctrine.
Trespass
Approved rendering: अपराध
Transliteration: aparādh
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Rejected alternatives: चूक (mere mistake)
Original: παράπτωμα
Category: Sin
New term. A willful transgression, distinct from established पाप (sin); paired with sin at Eph 1:7; 2:1,5. Must not be softened to a minor social offense.
Mercy
Approved rendering: दया
Transliteration: dayā
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Rejected alternatives: कणव (regional/informal register)
Original: ἔλεος
Category: Salvation
New term. Compassion toward one in a miserable/helpless condition (Eph 2:4), distinct from grace’s unmerited favor toward the guilty; both must appear together, not collapsed into one word.
Forgiveness
Approved rendering: माफी
Transliteration: māphī
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: ἄφεσις
Category: Salvation
New term. Occurs at Eph 1:7 as an accomplished result of redemption through Christ’s blood.
Guarantee Pledge
Approved rendering: बयाणें
Transliteration: bayāṇẽ
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Original: ἀρραβών
Category: Salvation
New term. The Spirit given now as down payment guaranteeing the full future inheritance (Eph 1:14); must convey binding certainty, not a mere hopeful token.
Wisdom Sophia
Approved rendering: ज्ञान
Transliteration: jñān
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Original: σοφία
Category: God
New term. Occurs at Eph 1:8,17; 3:10. Caution: ज्ञान resonates with the Hindu ज्ञानमार्ग (path of enlightenment leading to मोक्ष); must be anchored as God’s own gift of insight into his revealed plan in Christ, not a path of self-realization.
Revelation Apokalypsis
Approved rendering: उक्तावणी / प्रगटी
Transliteration: uktāvaṇī / pragṭī
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Original: ἀποκάλυψις
Category: Mystery
New term. God’s own self-disclosure (Eph 1:17; 3:3).
Circumcision Uncircumcision
Approved rendering: सुंता
Transliteration: suntā
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: περιτομή / ἀκροβυστία
Category: Unity
New term. Occurs at Eph 2:11; requires an explanatory gloss as a historical Jewish covenant marker now abolished in significance, not compared to any regional rite.
Strangers Aliens
Approved rendering: परके / उपरे
Transliteration: parke / upre
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: ξένος / πάροικος
Category: Unity
New term. Occurs at Eph 2:12,19, describing Gentiles’ former exclusion from Israel’s covenants.
Dividing Wall
Approved rendering: वैरभावाची मध्यभिंत
Transliteration: vairbhāvācī madhyabhint
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: μεσότοιχον τοῦ φραγμοῦ
Category: Unity
New term. The legal/social Jew-Gentile barrier, torn down by Christ (Eph 2:14).
Household Of God
Approved rendering: देवाचें कुटुंब
Transliteration: devāce kuṭumb
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ; Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: οἰκεῖοι τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Church
New term. Believers’ full family-household membership in God’s own family (Eph 2:19).
Cornerstone
Approved rendering: कोनशिला / पाया
Transliteration: konśilā / pāyā
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ
Original: ἀκρογωνιαῖος (θεμέλιος)
Category: Church
New term. Christ as the church’s foundational aligning stone; the foundation the apostles and prophets lay (Eph 2:20).
Stewardship
Approved rendering: कारभार
Transliteration: kārbhār
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Original: οἰκονομία
Category: Mystery
New term. Paul’s entrusted commission to make the mystery known to the Gentiles (Eph 3:2,9).
Boldness Parrhesia
Approved rendering: धीटपण / भरवसो
Transliteration: dhīṭpaṇ / bharvaso
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: παρρησία
Category: Faith
New term. Confident, unhindered approach (Eph 3:12), paired with access (प्रवेश).
Hope Elpis
Approved rendering: आशा
Transliteration: āśā
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Original: ἐλπίς
Category: Faith
New term. Occurs at Eph 1:18; 2:12; 4:4 (sevenfold unity formula). Must convey a certain, God-grounded expectation, not vague optimism or karmic fortune.
Unity Of Spirit
Approved rendering: आत्म्याची एकवट
Transliteration: ātmyācī ekvaṭ
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: ἑνότης τοῦ πνεύματος
Category: Unity
New term. Spirit-given unity to be maintained, not manufactured (Eph 4:3).
Evangelist
Approved rendering: सुवार्तिक
Transliteration: suvārtik
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: εὐαγγελιστής
Category: Ministry Gifts
New term, built on established सुवार्ता. One of the fivefold ministry gifts (Eph 4:11).
Pastor Shepherd
Approved rendering: मेंढपाळ
Transliteration: meḍhpāḷ
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: ποιμήν
Category: Ministry Gifts
New term. Spiritual shepherding metaphor (Eph 4:11); flag to ensure no unintended association with regionally stigmatized shepherding occupational groups.
Equipping Building Up
Approved rendering: तयार करप / उभारणी
Transliteration: tayār karap / ubhāraṇī
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: καταρτισμός / οἰκοδομή
Category: Ministry Gifts
New term. The purpose of the ministry gifts: corporate, not clergy-centered, growth (Eph 4:12).
Put Off Put On
Approved rendering: काडून उडोवप / घालप
Transliteration: kāḍūn uḍovap / ghālap
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: ἀποτίθημι / ἐνδύω
Category: Sanctification
New term. A clothing metaphor for decisive moral change (Eph 4:22,24-25), part of the established sanctification doctrine.
Holiness Hosiotes
Approved rendering: पवित्रता
Transliteration: pavitratā
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Rejected alternatives: भक्ती (Hindu devotional worship)
Original: ὁσιότης
Category: Sanctification
New term. The moral character of the new self (Eph 4:24), distinct from established पवित्र/पवित्रीकरण but from the same root; भक्ती explicitly avoided.
One Flesh
Approved rendering: एक देह
Transliteration: ek deh
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Original: μία σάρξ
Category: Household
New term. The marital union, quoting Genesis 2:24 (Eph 5:31), grounding the Christ-church analogy.
Obey Hypakouo
Approved rendering: आज्ञा मानप
Transliteration: āj̈ñā mānap
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Original: ὑπακούω
Category: Household
New term built on the established आज्ञाधारकता root. Occurs at Eph 6:1; children’s obedience ‘in the Lord’ is framed within the Lord’s authority, not mere social hierarchy.
Partiality
Approved rendering: पक्षपात
Transliteration: pakṣapāt
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Original: προσωπολημψία
Category: Household
New term. God shows no partiality between master and servant (Eph 6:9); relevant to caste-hierarchy sensitivities.
Flesh And Blood Idiom
Approved rendering: मांस आनी रगत
Transliteration: māns āṇi ragat
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: αἷμα καὶ σάρξ
Category: Spiritual Warfare
New term. An idiom for ordinary human beings/opponents (Eph 6:12); requires an explanatory note so readers do not read spiritual-warfare language as license for hostility toward actual human opponents.
Word Of God
Approved rendering: देवाचें उतर
Transliteration: devāce utar
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: ῥῆμα θεοῦ
Category: Spiritual Warfare
New term. God’s spoken word, wielded as the sword of the Spirit (Eph 6:17).
Prayer Supplication
Approved rendering: प्रार्थना / विनवणी
Transliteration: prārthanā / vinavṇī
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: προσευχή / δέησις
Category: Prayer
New term. Continual, Spirit-empowered prayer and petition (Eph 6:18). Distinguish from ritual puja/worship directed at an image, and from petitions to intermediary saints.
Boast Kauchaomai
Approved rendering: फुगप / बडाय मारप
Transliteration: phugap / baḍāy mārap
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: καυχάομαι
Category: Salvation
New term. Self-congratulation over one’s own achievement (core-passage occurrence, Eph 2:9); reinforces the exclusion of merit from salvation.
Desire Epithymia
Approved rendering: वासना
Transliteration: vāsanā
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: ἐπιθυμία
Category: Sin
New term. Disordered craving/desire of fallen human nature (Eph 2:3; 4:22). Caution: वासना can carry a karmic-residual-desire sense in some Hindu philosophical usage; must be anchored to present bodily/mental craving.
Will Thelema
Approved rendering: इत्सा / मर्जी
Transliteration: itsā / marjī
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Original: θέλημα
Category: God
New term. Used of both human sinful will (Eph 2:3; 5:17; 6:6) and God’s holy will (1:1,5,9,11); translators must mark clearly whose will is in view at each occurrence.
Disobedience Apeitheia
Approved rendering: अनाज्ञाधारकपण
Transliteration: anājñādhārakpaṇ
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: ἀπείθεια
Category: Sin
New term built on the established आज्ञाधारकता root. Active resistance to God’s will, distinct from mere ignorance (Eph 2:2; 5:6).
Walk Conduct
Approved rendering: चलप / वागप
Transliteration: calap / vāgap
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: περιπατέω
Category: Sanctification
New recurring term, the standing Ephesians rendering for περιπατέω across all six occurrences (2:2,10; 4:1,17; 5:2,8,15). Must be used identically at every occurrence for the 2:1-2/2:10 literary contrast to register.
Riches Ploutos
Approved rendering: संपत्ती
Transliteration: sampatti
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Original: πλοῦτος
Category: God
New recurring term. The immeasurable abundance of God’s grace/glory/wisdom (Eph 1:7,18; 2:7; 3:8,16); must be used consistently across all occurrences — never scarce, never earned.
Low Risk Terms
Prophet
Approved rendering: संदेष्टा
Transliteration: sandeṣṭā
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: ज्योतिषी
Original: προφήτης
Category: Covenant
[Inherited from Romans package] Established term for God’s spokesperson, distinguished from an astrologer/fortune-teller (ज्योतिषी). In Ephesians named alongside apostles as part of the church’s foundation (2:20; 3:5) and as a ministry gift (4:11).
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: धन्यवाद
Transliteration: dhanyavād
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία
Category: Faith
[Inherited from Romans package] Standard term. Occurs at Eph 1:16; 5:4,20.
Fellowship
Approved rendering: सहभागिता
Transliteration: sahabhāgitā
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Rejected alternatives: इश्टागत, समाज
Original: κοινωνία (implied, 3:9)
Category: Church
[Inherited from Romans package] Shared participation in Christ. Retained for general shared-participation contexts near Eph 3:9.
Exhort
Approved rendering: उत्तेजन देणें
Transliteration: uttejan denẽ
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith
[Inherited from Romans package] Occurs at Eph 4:1 (‘I therefore… urge you’).
Fellow Citizens
Approved rendering: सहनागरीक
Transliteration: sahanāgarik
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: συμπολῖται
Category: Unity
New term. Full, shared covenant citizenship of Jew and Gentile believers (Eph 2:19).
Virtues Of Unity
Approved rendering: नम्रता / सौम्यता / धीर
Transliteration: namratā / saumyatā / dhīr
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: ταπεινοφροσύνη / πραΰτης / μακροθυμία
Category: Church
New terms. Humility, gentleness, patience — relational virtues sustaining unity (Eph 4:2).
Love Imitators
Approved rendering: अनुकरण करपी
Transliteration: anukaraṇ karpī
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: μιμηταί
Category: Sanctification
New term. Those who imitate God’s own self-giving love (Eph 5:1), paired with established मोग.
Fruit Of Light
Approved rendering: उजवाडाचें फळ
Transliteration: ujavāḍāce phaḷ
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: καρπὸς τοῦ φωτός
Category: Sanctification
New term. The observable ethical fruit flowing from the believer’s new identity (Eph 5:9).
Provoke To Anger
Approved rendering: चीड आणप
Transliteration: cīḍ āṇap
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Original: παροργίζω
Category: Household
New term. Occurs at Eph 6:4, a check on abuse of paternal authority within the household codes.
World Kosmos
Approved rendering: जग
Transliteration: jag
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: κόσμος
Category: Sin
New term. The present God-opposing order of human society (Eph 2:2,12).
Faithful Pistos
Approved rendering: विश्वासू
Transliteration: viśvāsū
Doctrine: Faith as the Instrument of Salvation
Original: πιστός
Category: Faith
New term built on established विश्वास root. Faithful, trustworthy, believing (Eph 1:1; 6:21).
Kindness Chrestotes
Approved rendering: भलायकी / दयाळूपण
Transliteration: bhalāykī / dayāḷūpaṇ
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: χρηστότης
Category: God
New term. God’s kind, benevolent disposition (Eph 2:7), expressed concretely in salvation.
Medium-High Risk Terms
Inner Man
Approved rendering: आंतरीक मनीसपण
Transliteration: antarīk manīspaṇ
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Rejected alternatives: आत्मा (reserved for Holy Spirit)
Original: ἔσω ἄνθρωπος
Category: Sanctification
New term. The believer’s renewed inner self, strengthened by the Spirit (Eph 3:16). Deliberately avoids आत्मा to prevent confusing the Spirit’s own person with the believer’s inner self.
Baptism
Approved rendering: बाप्तिस्मा
Transliteration: bāptismā
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Rejected alternatives: स्नान (implies ritual bathing/purification)
Original: βάπτισμα
Category: Unity
New term. Part of the sevenfold unity formula (Eph 4:5); identification with Christ’s death/resurrection and the one body, not a purificatory ritual bath comparable to sacred river/tank bathing.
Teacher
Approved rendering: शिकोवपी
Transliteration: śikovpī
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Rejected alternatives: गुरू (guru-disciple authority structure)
Original: διδάσκαλος
Category: Ministry Gifts
New term. One of the fivefold ministry gifts (Eph 4:11). गुरू rejected for the same reason it was rejected for ‘apostle’ in the Romans baseline.
Age Aion
Approved rendering: युग
Transliteration: yug
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: αἰών
Category: Covenant
New term. A period of time in the biblical linear sense (‘this age’/‘the age to come’), not a repeating cosmic cycle (Eph 1:21; 2:2,7; 3:9,21). Konkani/Hindu cosmology uses युग for the four cyclical cosmic ages; must be explicitly marked linear.
Low-Medium Risk Terms
Light Darkness
Approved rendering: उजवाड / काळोख
Transliteration: ujavāḍ / kāḷokh
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: φῶς / σκότος
Category: Sanctification
New term. A total identity transformation, not merely improved behavior (Eph 5:8). Care must be taken not to conflate with देity-radiance imagery already reserved for गौरव (glory).
Armor Pieces
Approved rendering: कमरबंद / छातीकवच / पावणीं / ढाल / शिरस्त्राण / तरवार
Transliteration: kamarbaṅd / chātīkavac / pāvṇī / ḍhāl / śirastrāṇ / taravār
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: ζώνη / θώραξ / ὑποδήματα / θυρεός / περικεφαλαία / μάχαιρα
Category: Spiritual Warfare
New vocabulary. Belt, breastplate, shoes, shield, helmet, sword (Eph 6:14-17); each piece is paired with an established doctrinal noun (truth, righteousness, gospel of peace, faith, salvation, word of God) rendered exactly per glossary.
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