Core Glossary

08 — Core Glossary: Hebrews (Full Book) for Konkani

This glossary consolidates every load-bearing theological term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md, across all 13 chapters of Hebrews. Terms marked Status: Reused carry their exact Konkani rendering forward from the Romans baseline translation_memory.json with zero deviation. Terms marked Status: New are proposed additions for this curriculum and must be added to translation_memory.json (with version increment) before Phase 2 translation begins, per the AI requirements document’s Translation Memory Load and Enforcement Instructions.

Section A — Reused Terms from the Romans Baseline (cited, not redefined)

Term	Konkani	Risk	Key Hebrews Passages	Note
grace	कृपा	High	2:9, 4:16, 10:29, 12:15, 12:28, 13:9	4:16 “throne of grace” combines with new term कृपेचें आसन
faith	विश्वास	High	4:2, 6:1, 6:12, 10:22-39, ch. 11 passim, 12:2, 13:7	Ch. 11 gives faith’s formal definition; see ὑπόστασις/ἔλεγχος new entries
righteousness	नीतिमत्ता	Critical	1:9, 5:13, 7:2, 11:7, 11:33, 12:11	10:38 “the righteous shall live by faith” must match Romans 1:17 rendering exactly
salvation	तारण	Critical	1:14, 2:3, 2:10, 5:9, 6:9, 7:25, 9:28	Never मुक्ती/मोक्ष
holy / holy_spirit	पवित्र / पवित्र आत्मा	High/Critical	2:11, 3:1, 3:7, 6:4, 9:8, 9:14, 10:15, 10:29	9:14 “eternal Spirit” builds on पवित्र आत्मा
saints (holy ones)	पवित्र जन	High	6:10, 13:24	Corporate designation, not an ascetic elite
sanctification	पवित्रीकरण	High	2:11, 10:10, 10:14, 10:29, 12:14, 13:12	Distinguish from ritual शुद्धीकरण (see Section B)
adoption (conceptually, via inheritance/sonship)	दत्तक पुत्र करून घेणें	High	2:10-13 (brothers/sons), 12:5-8	Cross-referenced with new वारसो (inheritance) and firstborn entries
resurrection	पुनरुत्थान	Critical	6:2, 11:19, 11:35, 13:20	Never पुनर्जन्म; 11:35 “better resurrection” and 13:20 both Critical
lord	प्रभू	Critical	1:10, 2:3, 7:14, 13:20	Exclusive supreme Lordship
son_of_god	देवाचो पुत्र	Critical	1:2, 1:5, 1:8, 4:14, 5:5, 5:8, 6:6, 7:3, 7:28, 10:29	Central to ch. 1 and throughout; ties to χαρακτήρ/ἀπαύγασμα new entries
glory	गौरव	High	1:3, 2:7, 2:10, 3:3, 13:21	1:3 ἀπαύγασμα (“radiance of glory”) extends this baseline term — see new entry
covenant	करार	High	ch. 7-10 passim, 12:24, 13:20	Basis for नवो करार/जुनो करार throughout; see New Covenant/Old Covenant new entries
election / calling / called	देवाची निवड / बोलावणें / बोलावलेले	High	3:1, 9:15, 11:8	9:15 κεκλημένοι reuses बोलावलेले exactly
intercession	मध्यस्थी	Medium	7:25	Christ’s ongoing heavenly intercession
providence	देवाची तरतूद	High	1:3 (“upholding the universe by the word of his power”), 11:3	Not fatalistic नशीब/प्रारब्ध
messiah / christ	मसीहा / ख्रिस्त	Critical	Throughout	ख्रिस्त used as proper name per AI requirements transliteration table
prophet / prophecy	संदेष्टा / भविष्यवाणी	Low	1:1 (“God spoke by the prophets”)	Inspiration of Scripture doctrine
law	नियमशास्त्र	High	7:5, 7:12, 7:19, 7:28, 8:4, 9:19, 9:22, 10:1, 10:8	Never धर्म
sin	पाप	High	1:3, 2:17, 3:13, 4:15, 9:26, 9:28, 10:2-4, 10:18, 10:26, 11:25, 12:1, 12:4, 13:11	Very high frequency throughout the book
gentiles / nations	परराष्ट्रीय	Medium	(implicit, corporate scope of “many,” 2:9-10)	Low direct occurrence but doctrinally relevant to universal atonement scope
father	पिता	Critical	1:5, 12:7-9	Fatherly discipline (παιδεία) directly invokes this baseline term
abba	अब्बा	High	(not directly cited in Hebrews text, but same filial-intimacy register as 12:5-11 “sons”)	Cross-referenced for tonal consistency with Romans 8:15
exhort	उत्तेजन देणें	Low	3:13, 10:25, 13:22	”Encourage/exhort one another” refrain
god	देव	Critical	Throughout	Always with exclusivity marker (एकच खरो देव) in load-bearing contexts
jesus	येशू	Critical	Throughout	Never जेजू
david	दावीद	Medium	4:7, 11:32	Established spelling
israel	इस्राएल	Medium	8:8, 8:10, 11:22	Established spelling
moses	मोशे	Low	3:2-16, 7:14, 8:5, 9:19, 10:28, 11:23-24, 12:21	Per AI requirements transliteration table
abraham	अब्राहाम	Low	2:16, 6:13, 7:1-10, 11:8-19	Per AI requirements transliteration table

Section B — New Terms for Hebrews (proposed additions to translation_memory.json)

Term (English)	Konkani	Transliteration	Risk	Category/Doctrine	Forbidden alternatives	Key passages	Rationale
High priest	महापुरोहित	mahāpurohit	Critical	Christ as Great High Priest	गुरू, स्वामी, कोणतोय caste-linked पुरोहित-title without qualification	2:17, 3:1, 4:14-15, 5:1-10, 6:20, 7:26-28, 8:1, 9:7-25, 10:21	Direct collision with Goa’s hereditary Brahmin priestly caste; must be anchored to Christ’s unique, non-hereditary, permanent priesthood every occurrence
Priest	पुरोहित	purohit	High	Superiority over Levitical Priesthood	—	7:1-3, 7:11-23, 8:4, 10:11	Caste-collision risk as above, one tier below “high priest”
Priesthood (office)	पुरोहितपण	purohitpaṇ	High	Superiority over Levitical Priesthood	—	7:11-24	Abstract office-noun form
Levitical priesthood	लेवी वंशाचें पुरोहितपण	Levī vanśāce purohitpaṇ	High	Superiority over the Levitical Priesthood	—	7:11	Levi = लेवी, proper noun
Melchizedek	मलकीसदेक	Malkīsadek	Critical	Christ as Great High Priest	any assimilation to local mythic priest-king figures	5:6, 5:10, 6:20, 7:1-17	Central proper-name type for Christ’s priesthood; requires explanatory footnote
Sacrifice	बलिदान	balidān	Critical	Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice	यज्ञ, होम	5:1, 7:27, 8:3, 9:9, 9:23, 9:26-28, 10:1, 10:5-12, 10:26, 11:4, 13:15-16	यज्ञ specifically evokes Vedic fire-sacrifice tradition central to living Goan Hindu practice
Offering	अर्पण	arpaṇ	High	Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice	—	9:25, 10:5-18	Paired with बलिदान
Blood (atoning)	रगत	ragat	Critical	Access to God through Christ’s Blood	— (plain word, but doctrinally reinforced)	9:7, 9:12-14, 9:18-22, 9:25, 10:19, 10:29, 11:28, 12:24, 13:11-12, 13:20	Collision with Shakta/folk blood-offering practice; must be anchored as Christ’s voluntary self-giving
Tabernacle	निवासमंडप	nivāsmaṇḍap	High	Old Covenant vs. New	मंदिर, देऊळ	8:2, 8:5, 9:2-11, 9:21, 13:10	Distinct from forbidden Hindu-temple-coded terms already rejected for “church”
Holy Place / Most Holy Place	पवित्र स्थळ / अति पवित्र स्थळ	pavitra sthaḷ / ati pavitra sthaḷ	Medium	Old Covenant vs. New	—	9:2-3, 9:8, 9:12, 9:24-25, 10:19	Requires tabernacle-layout background note
Veil / curtain	पड्दो	paḍdo	Medium	Access to God through Christ’s Blood	—	6:19, 9:3, 10:20	10:20 “through the curtain, that is, his flesh” — key access metaphor
Mediator	मध्यस्थ	madhyasth	High	New Covenant vs. Old	—	8:6, 9:15, 12:24	Christ’s sole mediatorial office; sensitivity re: multiple intercessory figures
New covenant	नवो करार	navo karār	High	New Covenant vs. Old	—	8:8, 8:13, 9:15, 12:24	Built on baseline करार
Old covenant / first covenant	जुनो करार / पयलो करार	juno karār / paylo karār	High	New Covenant vs. Old	—	8:7, 8:13, 9:1, 9:15, 9:18	Paired with new covenant
Testament (legal will sense)	वचनपत्र (contextual gloss only)	vachanpatra	High	New Covenant vs. Old	—	9:16-17	Untranslatable Greek pun (διαθήκη = covenant/will); requires explanatory clause, flag for theologian sign-off
Eternal	सार्वकालीक	sārvakālīk	High	Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice; New Covenant	सनातन	5:9, 6:2, 9:12, 9:14-15, 13:8, 13:20	सनातन collides with “Sanatana Dharma” self-designation of Hinduism
Redemption	खंडणी	khaṇḍaṇī	Critical	Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice	मुक्ती, मोक्ष	9:12, 9:15, 11:35	Ransom-price sense; never collapse into liberation-from-rebirth vocabulary
Inheritance	वारसो	vāraso	Medium	New Covenant; Perseverance and Assurance	—	1:4, 1:14, 6:12, 6:17, 9:15, 11:7-8	Cross-references baseline adoption entry
Promise	वचन / अभिवचन	vachan / abhivachan	Medium	Faith of the OT Saints	—	4:1, 6:12-17, 7:6, 8:6, 9:15, 10:36, 11:9-40	Standard covenant-promise vocabulary
Oath	शपथ	śapath	Medium	Faith of the OT Saints	व्रत, संकल्प (Hindu devotional vows)	6:16-17, 7:20-21, 7:28	God’s self-oath, not a human ritual vow
Anchor (of the soul)	नांगर	nāṅgar	Low	Perseverance and Assurance	—	6:19	Nautical metaphor
Conscience	सद्सद्विवेकबुद्धी	sadsadvivekbuddhī	Medium	Access to God through Christ’s Blood	—	9:9, 9:14, 10:2, 10:22, 13:18	Interior moral awareness, distinct from ritual purity
Purification (ritual)	शुद्धीकरण	śuddhīkaraṇ	High	Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice	—	1:3, 9:13-14, 9:22-23	Distinct usage from baseline’s rejected-for-sanctification sense; here it is the correct term for literal ritual/atoning cleansing
Sprinkling	शिंपणें	śimpaṇẽ	Medium	Access to God through Christ’s Blood	अभिषेक	9:13, 9:19, 9:21, 10:22, 12:24	अभिषेक specifically denotes Hindu deity-consecration ritual
Rest (promised/Sabbath)	विसावो / शब्बाथ विसावो	visāvo / śabbāth visāvo	Critical	New Covenant (typological); Perseverance	मोक्ष, मुक्ती	3:11-19, 4:1-11	Must be anchored relationally (rest in God’s presence), never self-attained cessation of striving
Perfect / perfection / perfecter	परिपूर्ण करप / पूर्णताकर्ता	paripūrṇa karap / pūrṇatākartā	Critical	Christ as Great High Priest; Once-for-All Sacrifice	सिद्ध, सिद्धी, सिद्धीकर्ता	2:10, 5:9, 7:19, 7:28, 9:9, 10:1, 10:14, 11:40, 12:23, 12:2	9 occurrences of τελειόω-family; सिद्ध imports yogic-siddhi/ascetic-attainment collision
Discipline (fatherly)	शिस्तीचें शिक्षण	śistīcẽ śikṣaṇ	Medium	Perseverance and Assurance	—	12:5-11	Formative, loving correction, not merit-earning ascetic discipline
Firstborn	जेष्ठ पुत्र	jeṣṭh putra	High	Superiority of Christ	—	1:6, 12:23	Denotes preeminence/rights, not origin-in-time; ties to Sonship of Christ Critical doctrine
Pioneer / founder (ἀρχηγός)	आरंभकर्ता	āram̆bhakartā	Medium-High	Christ as Great High Priest	—	2:10, 12:2	Christ both models and accomplishes salvation/faith
Apostasy / falling away	विश्वासत्याग	viśvāstyāg	Critical	Danger of Apostasy and Warning Passages	धर्मत्याग	3:12, 6:6, 10:26, 10:29, 12:15-17	धर्मत्याग imports forbidden धर्म (Critical, from baseline righteousness/law entries)
Propitiation / atonement	पापांची क्षमा मेळोवपाखातीर बलिदान करप	pāpāncī kṣamā meḷovpākhātīr balidān karap	Critical	Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice	प्रायश्चित	2:17	प्रायश्चित denotes self-performed Hindu penance/expiation; propitiation here is God’s own provision, not sinner’s effort
Angels	देवदूत	devdūt	High	Superiority of Christ over Angels	देवता (unqualified)	1:4-14, 2:2-9, 2:16, 12:22, 13:2	Created, worshipping, finite beings; must not be confused with Hindu देवता (worshipped deity)
Word of God (living and active)	देवाचें उतर, जिवें आनी कार्यक्षम	devāce utar, jivẽ āṇi kāryakṣam	Medium	Faith of the OT Saints; general	—	4:12-13	Scripture’s active, discerning power
Throne of grace	कृपेचें आसन	kṛpece āsan	Medium-High	Access to God through Christ’s Blood	—	4:16	Combines baseline कृपा with royal-access imagery
Shadow / copy	सावळी / नमुनो	sāvaḷī / namuno	Medium	Old Covenant vs. New	—	8:5, 9:23-24, 10:1	Provisional, not equally valid, representation
Better (κρείττων, thematic)	चड बरो / श्रेश्ठ	chaḍ baro / śreṣṭh	Low individually / High thematically	Superiority themes throughout	—	Recurring: 1:4, 6:9, 7:7, 7:19, 7:22, 8:6, 9:23, 10:34, 11:16, 11:35, 11:40, 12:24	Central rhetorical comparative marker across the whole book
Faith’s definition terms (ὑπόστασις / ἔλεγχος)	खात्री / पुरावो	khātrī / puravo	High	Faith of the OT Saints	—	11:1	Foundational definitional pair; render consistently wherever 11:1 is cross-referenced
Better resurrection	चड बरें पुनरुत्थान	chaḍ barẽ punaruthān	Critical	Faith of the OT Saints; Resurrection	पुनर्जन्म	11:35	Modifies baseline पुनरुत्थान; never read as ranking reincarnations
Unshakeable kingdom	न हालपी देवाचें राज्य	na hālpī devāce rājya	Medium	Perseverance and Assurance	—	12:28	Combines baseline देवाचें राज्य with permanence
Zion / heavenly Jerusalem	सियोन / स्वर्गीय जெருसलेम	Siyon / svargīya Jerusalem	Medium	Faith of the OT Saints; Perseverance	—	12:22	Proper names requiring OT/geographic background note
Consuming fire	भस्म करपी जाळ	bhasma karpī jāḷ	Medium	Superiority themes (closing warning)	—	12:29	Must not read as endorsing/referencing Agni-fire veneration
Altar (spiritual)	वेदी	vedī	Medium-High	Access to God through Christ’s Blood	—	13:10	Metaphorical; वेदी also denotes a Hindu yajna fire-altar — must be marked as referring to Christ’s finished sacrifice
Sacrifice of praise	स्तुतीचें बलिदान	stutīcẽ balidān	Medium	Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice (contrast)	—	13:15	Non-atoning, responsive offering — must be distinguished from atoning बलिदान of chs. 9-10
Great Shepherd	व्हड मेंढपाळ	vhaḍ meṇḍhapāḷ	Low	Perseverance and Assurance	—	13:20	Standard pastoral metaphor
Blood of the eternal covenant (fixed phrase)	सार्वकालीक कराराचें रगत	sārvakālīk karārāce ragat	Critical	Access to God through Christ’s Blood	—	13:20 (cf. 9:20, 10:29)	Recombination of three Critical/High terms; must be rendered identically at every occurrence
Radiance of glory / exact imprint	गौरवाचें तेज / देवाच्या स्वरूपाची हुबेहूब खूण	gauravāce tej / devācyā svarūpācī hubehūb khūṇ	Critical	Superiority of Christ over Angels (Deity of Christ)	—	1:3	Full deity/co-essential nature; तेज always bound tightly to baseline गौरव, given prior temple-iconography caution
Today I have begotten you (Ps 2:7 citation)	आयज हांव तुजो जल्म दिला	āyaj hāṁv tujo jalma dilā	Critical	Superiority of Christ over Angels (Sonship/Deity)	—	1:5, 5:5	Enthronement/declaration language, not origin-in-time; requires translator note
Learned obedience through suffering	जें तो सोसलो ताच्या वरवीं ताणें आज्ञाधारकपण शिकलो	—	High	Christ as Great High Priest (Humanity of Christ)	—	5:8	Must not imply prior sinfulness/imperfection
Indestructible life / permanent priesthood	न्हिवारपाक येनासलें जिवीत / कधीं न सोंपपी पुरोहितपण	—	High	Christ as Great High Priest	—	7:16, 7:24	Basis of Christ’s superior, unending priesthood
Unblemished / undefiled / separated from sinners	पवित्र, निर्दोष, पापी मनशांपसून वेगळो केल्लो	—	High	Christ as Great High Priest	—	7:26	Contrast with Levitical priests’ own need for sacrifice
To die once	एकाच खेपे मरप	ekāc khepe marap	Critical	Danger of Apostasy; general anthropology	—	9:27	Direct structural contradiction of reincarnation; flag for explicit translator note
Boldness/confidence of access	धिटाईन/भरवशान पवित्र स्थळांत प्रवेश	—	High	Access to God through Christ’s Blood	—	10:19-22	Confident access, not presumption

Section C — Proper Names Requiring Consistent Transliteration (Chapter 11 and elsewhere)

Name	Konkani	Risk
Abel	हाबेल	Low
Enoch	हनोख	Low
Noah	नोहा	Low
Sarah	सारा	Low
Isaac	इसहाक	Low
Jacob	याकोब	Low
Joseph	योसेफ	Low
Rahab	राहाब	Low
Gideon	गिदोन	Low
Barak	बाराक	Low
Samson	शमशोन	Low
Jephthah	इफ्ता	Low
Samuel	शमुवेल	Low

All Low-risk; flagged only for spelling consistency across this curriculum, cross-checked against the AI requirements transliteration table (Moses, David, Israel, Isaiah already established there).

Section D — Cross-Document Consistency Flags (per AI requirements “Theological Consistency Rules”)

Hebrews 10:38 (“the righteous shall live by faith”) must be rendered identically to the finalized Romans 1:17 Konkani text.
कराराचें रगत / सार्वकालीक कराराचें रगत must appear identically at 9:20, 10:29, and 13:20.
पुनरुत्थान (resurrection) must never vary from the Romans baseline rendering, including in the modified form “चड बरें पुनरुत्थान” at 11:35.
देव must carry an exclusivity marker in every doctrinally load-bearing Hebrews occurrence, exactly as required in the Romans baseline.
महापुरोहित / पुरोहित / मलकीसदेक / बलिदान / रगत / सार्वकालीक / परिपूर्ण करप / विसावो / विश्वासत्याग / खंडणी / देवदूत — the eleven highest-frequency new Critical/High terms — must be logged in translation_memory.json (version incremented) before any Phase 2 segment translation of Hebrews begins, per the pre-flight checklist in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.

Critical Risk Terms

Righteousness

Approved rendering: नीतिमत्ता
Transliteration: nītimattā
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: धर्म, पुण्य, न्याय
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Hebrews 10:38 (‘the righteous shall live by faith,’ citing Habakkuk 2:4) MUST be rendered identically to the finalized Romans 1:17 Konkani text — flag for cross-reference verification before Phase 2 begins. Never धर्म.

Salvation

Approved rendering: तारण
Transliteration: tāraṇ
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: मुक्ती, मोक्ष, सुटका
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Hebrews contexts: 1:14, 2:3, 2:10, 5:9, 6:9, 7:25, 9:28 (Christ’s second appearing brings salvation to completion). NEVER मुक्ती or मोक्ष.

Holy Spirit

Approved rendering: पवित्र आत्मा
Transliteration: pavitra ātmā
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: ब्रह्म, परमात्मा
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον / πνεῦμα αἰώνιον
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Hebrews 9:14’s ‘eternal Spirit’ (सार्वकालीक आत्मा) must be clearly linked to this Person, not read as an abstract impersonal quality. NEVER ब्रह्म or परमात्मा.

Resurrection

Approved rendering: पुनरुत्थान
Transliteration: punaruthān
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Rejected alternatives: पुनर्जन्म, पुनर्जीवन
Original: ἀνάστασις
Category: Eschatology

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Hebrews 6:2, 11:19, 11:35 (see new term better_resurrection), 13:20. NEVER पुनर्जन्म.

Lord

Approved rendering: प्रभू
Transliteration: prabhū
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: स्वामी, मालक
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Hebrews 1:10, 2:3, 7:14, 13:20.

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, unchanged. Central to Hebrews ch. 1 (1:2, 1:5, 1:8) and 4:14, 5:5, 5:8, 6:6, 7:3, 7:28, 10:29. Ties to new terms radiance_and_imprint, today_i_have_begotten_you, and firstborn.

Incarnation

Approved rendering: देहधारण
Transliteration: dehadhāraṇ
Doctrine: Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: अवतार, देह प्रगट

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Relevant to Hebrews’ humanity_of_christ doctrine (2:9-18, 5:7-9): Christ’s genuine, permanent, once-only assumption of human nature must not be assimilated to a temporary avatar-style divine appearance. NEVER अवतार.

Messiah

Approved rendering: मसीहा
Transliteration: masīhā
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Rejected alternatives: अभिषिक्त पुरुष, अवतारी पुरुष

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Used for explicit Messiah-title contexts; see also new/parallel entry ‘christ’ for proper-name usage throughout Hebrews.

Father

Approved rendering: पिता
Transliteration: pitā
Doctrine: God’s Fatherly Discipline of His Sons
Rejected alternatives: ब्रह्मा, निर्माणकार
Original: πατήρ
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Hebrews 1:5, 12:7-9, ‘the Father of spirits.’ Never a Hindu creator-deity name.

God

Approved rendering: देव
Transliteration: dev
Doctrine: Deity of Christ / God
Rejected alternatives: भगवान
Original: θεός
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Always pair with an exclusivity marker (एकच खरो देव) or the Hebrews-preferred जिवो देव (‘living God,’ 3:12, 9:14, 10:31, 12:22) in doctrinally load-bearing contexts.

Jesus

Approved rendering: येशू
Transliteration: yeśū
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: जेजू
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Used throughout Hebrews, especially at argument climaxes (2:9, 3:1, 4:14, 12:2, 12:24, 13:12). Never जेजू.

High Priest

Approved rendering: महापुरोहित
Transliteration: mahāpurohit
Doctrine: Christ as the Great High Priest
Rejected alternatives: गुरू, स्वामी, unqualified caste-linked पुरोहित titles
Original: ἀρχιερεύς
Category: Priesthood

Direct collision with Goa’s hereditary Brahmin priestly caste (including Goud Saraswat Brahmins). MUST never stand alone in a doctrinally load-bearing sentence; require an anchoring phrase affirming Christ’s unique, non-hereditary, permanent priesthood (Heb 7). Passages: 2:17, 3:1, 4:14-15, 5:1-10, 6:20, 7:26-28, 8:1, 9:7-25, 10:21.

Melchizedek

Approved rendering: मलकीसदेक
Transliteration: Malkīsadek
Doctrine: The Order of Melchizedek
Rejected alternatives: any assimilation to local mythic priest-king or divine-king figures
Original: Μελχισέδεκ
Category: Priesthood

Unique, once-only Genesis 14 proper name central to the argument of chs. 5-7; requires an explanatory footnote at first occurrence (5:6) establishing his strictly typological function. Never localized. Passages: 5:6, 5:10, 6:20, 7:1-17.

Sacrifice

Approved rendering: बलिदान
Transliteration: balidān
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice
Rejected alternatives: यज्ञ, होम
Original: θυσία
Category: Atonement

NEVER यज्ञ (Vedic fire-sacrifice, believed to generate merit/cosmic order, central to living Goan Hindu ritual practice) or होम. Always anchored as Christ’s unique, historical, self-giving death, never a repeatable merit-generating ritual. Passages: 5:1, 7:27, 8:3, 9:9, 9:23, 9:26-28, 10:1, 10:5-12, 10:26, 11:4, 13:15-16.

Blood

Approved rendering: रगत
Transliteration: ragat
Doctrine: Access to God through Christ’s Blood
Original: αἷμα
Category: Atonement

Collision with Shakta/folk devi-shrine blood-offering traditions and blood as a recognized ritual substance across South Asian religious practice generally. Must always be anchored as Christ’s voluntary, once-for-all self-giving, never a ritual substance appeasing an angry deity or a repeatable propitiatory rite. Passages: 9:7, 9:12-14, 9:18-22, 9:25, 10:19, 10:29, 11:28, 12:24, 13:11-12, 13:20.

Once For All

Approved rendering: एकाच खेपे सदाकाळाखातीर
Transliteration: ekāc khepe sadākāḷākhātīr
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice

The single sharpest linguistic marker distinguishing Christ’s sacrifice from the annual Day-of-Atonement ritual and from any repeatable puja/yajna cycle. Never softened toward repeatable-rite language. Passage: 9:12 (ἐφάπαξ).

Redemption

Approved rendering: खंडणी
Transliteration: khaṇḍaṇī
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice
Rejected alternatives: मुक्ती, मोक्ष
Original: λύτρωσις / ἀπολύτρωσις
Category: Atonement

NEVER मुक्ती or मोक्ष, both denoting release from samsara through one’s own spiritual effort. खंडणी keeps the ‘price paid by another’ sense and must always be read together with तारण, never substituted for it. Passages: 9:12, 9:15, 11:35.

Rest

Approved rendering: विसावो / शब्बाथ विसावो
Transliteration: visāvo / śabbāth visāvo
Doctrine: The Promised Rest
Rejected alternatives: मोक्ष, मुक्ती
Original: κατάπαυσις / σαββατισμός
Category: Eschatology / Covenant

Sits extremely close to मोक्ष/मुक्ती’s semantic field (release from samsara through one’s own effort). Must be anchored as relational rest in God’s finished work and presence, entered by faith, never self-attained cessation of striving. Requires an explicit translator’s note at every occurrence: 3:11, 3:18, 4:1, 4:3, 4:5, 4:9-11.

Perfection

Approved rendering: परिपूर्ण करप
Transliteration: paripūrṇa karap
Doctrine: The Perfecting Work of Christ’s Sacrifice
Rejected alternatives: सिद्ध, सिद्धी, सिद्धीकर्ता
Original: τελειόω / τέλειος
Category: Atonement / Christology

NEVER सिद्ध/सिद्धी-family words (yogic/ascetic siddha attaining supernatural power/liberation through disciplined practice). Nine+ occurrences; standing translator note required at each: 2:10, 5:9, 7:19, 7:28, 9:9, 10:1, 10:14, 11:40, 12:23. See also pioneer_founder for the 12:2 compound (τελειωτής).

Apostasy

Approved rendering: विश्वासत्याग
Transliteration: viśvāstyāg
Doctrine: The Danger of Apostasy and Warning Passages
Rejected alternatives: धर्मत्याग
Original: παραπίπτω / ἀφίστημι
Category: Warning / Perseverance

NEVER धर्मत्याग, which imports the forbidden धर्म. The entire apostasy doctrine hinges on this term; severity of 6:4-8 and 10:26-31 must be neither minimized nor generalized into blanket condemnation of any post-conversion sin. Passages: 3:12, 6:6, 10:26, 10:29, 12:15-17, 12:25.

Propitiation

Approved rendering: पापांची क्षमा मेळोवपाखातीर बलिदान करप
Transliteration: pāpāncī kṣamā meḷovpākhātīr balidān karap
Doctrine: Propitiation and the Turning Away of God’s Wrath
Rejected alternatives: प्रायश्चित
Original: ἱλάσκομαι
Category: Atonement

NEVER प्रायश्चित (self-performed Hindu penance/expiation by the sinner). Direction of agency in Hebrews is reversed: God himself provides the atoning sacrifice. One of the highest-stakes lexical risks in the book. Passages: 2:17, 9:14, 9:26.

Better Resurrection

Approved rendering: चड बरें पुनरुत्थान
Transliteration: chaḍ barẽ punaruthān
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints / Resurrection
Rejected alternatives: पुनर्जन्म
Original: κρείττονος ἀναστάσεως
Category: Eschatology

Modifies baseline पुनरुत्थान — never पुनर्जन्म. Must not be misread as ranking one reincarnation above another; distinguishes final bodily resurrection to glory from mere restoration to mortal life. Passage: 11:35.

Blood Of Eternal Covenant

Approved rendering: सार्वकालीक कराराचें रगत
Transliteration: sārvakālīk karārāce ragat
Doctrine: Access to God through Christ’s Blood
Original: αἷμα διαθήκης αἰωνίου
Category: Atonement / Covenant

Fixed phrase recombining three already-Critical/High terms (रगत, करार, सार्वकालीक). MUST be rendered identically at every occurrence: 9:20 (‘कराराचें रगत’), 10:29, 13:20 (full form).

Radiance And Imprint

Approved rendering: गौरवाचें तेज / देवाच्या स्वरूपाची हुबेहूब खूण
Transliteration: gauravāce tej / devācyā svarūpācī hubehūb khūṇ
Doctrine: Deity and Eternal Sonship of Christ
Original: ἀπαύγασμα τῆς δόξης / χαρακτὴρ τῆς ὑποστάσεως
Category: Christology

Christ’s co-essential, full deity, not a reflection or honorific likeness. तेज must be tightly bound to baseline गौरव given prior caution about temple-iconography light-imagery (e.g. Shantadurga). Passage: 1:3.

Today I Have Begotten You

Approved rendering: आयज हांव तुजो जल्म दिला
Transliteration: āyaj hāṁv tujo jalma dilā
Doctrine: Deity and Eternal Sonship of Christ
Original: σήμερον γεγέννηκά σε
Category: Christology

Psalm 2:7 citation. Requires a mandatory translator note at BOTH occurrences (1:5, 5:5) clarifying this is enthronement/declarative language, not an origin-in-time statement, or it risks contradicting the Son’s eternality.

Die Once

Approved rendering: एकाच खेपे मरप
Transliteration: ekāc khepe marap
Doctrine: Perseverance and Assurance (anthropology)
Original: ἅπαξ ἀποθανεῖν
Category: Anthropology / Eschatology

Direct, structural contradiction of the samsara/rebirth framework underlying मुक्ती/मोक्ष. Requires an explicit translator note distinguishing it from reincarnation teaching. Passage: 9:27.

High Risk Terms

Grace

Approved rendering: कृपा
Transliteration: kṛpā
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: कर्मफळ, पुण्य, नशीब
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Hebrews contexts: 2:9, 4:16 (‘throne of grace’ — see new term throne_of_grace), 10:29, 12:15, 12:28, 13:9. Must always reinforce ‘apart from human merit.‘

Faith

Approved rendering: विश्वास
Transliteration: viśvās
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: श्रद्धा, भक्ती
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Foundational to Hebrews 11’s formal definition (see new terms faith_assurance, faith_evidence) and to chs. 4, 6, 10, 12-13. Never भक्ती.

Holy

Approved rendering: पवित्र
Transliteration: pavitra
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: शुद्ध, निर्मळ
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Hebrews contexts: 2:11, 3:1, 3:7, 6:4, 9:8, 10:15, 10:29. Also used within the new unblemished_undefiled compound (7:26).

Saints

Approved rendering: पवित्र जन
Transliteration: pavitra jan
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: संत, भक्त
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Hebrews 6:10, 13:24. Also must not be used for the OT exemplars of ch. 11, who are ‘faithful’ (विश्वासी), never संत (Varkari bhakti-poet tradition).

Sanctification

Approved rendering: पवित्रीकरण
Transliteration: pavitrīkaraṇ
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: शुद्धीकरण
Original: ἁγιασμός / ἁγιαζόμενοι
Category: Sanctification

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Hebrews 2:11, 10:10, 10:14, 10:29, 12:14, 13:12. In Hebrews, distinct from the new term purification_ritual (शुद्धीकरण), which here correctly names literal ritual/atoning cleansing (9:13-14, 9:22-23) — do not conflate the two uses.

Adoption

Approved rendering: दत्तक पुत्र करून घेणें
Transliteration: dattak putra karun ghenẽ
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Rejected alternatives: दत्तक घेणें

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Underlies Hebrews 12:5-8’s fatherly discipline argument (‘sons, not illegitimate children’) and connects to the new inheritance (वारसो) term.

Glory

Approved rendering: गौरव
Transliteration: gaurav
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: तेज, देवीतेज
Original: δόξα
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Hebrews 1:3, 2:7, 2:10, 3:3, 13:21. Extended by the new term radiance_and_imprint (1:3, ‘radiance of glory’).

Covenant

Approved rendering: करार
Transliteration: karār
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant / New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: समजूत
Original: διαθήκη
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Base for Hebrews’ extensive new_covenant/old_covenant vocabulary (chs. 7-10, 12:24, 13:20). Does not naturally carry διαθήκη’s legal-will sense exploited at 9:16-17 — see new term testament_will for the required exegetical gloss.

Called

Approved rendering: बोलावलेले
Transliteration: bolāvlele
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: आमंत्रित

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Hebrews 9:15 (κεκλημένοι, those called receive the promised eternal inheritance).

Calling

Approved rendering: बोलावणें
Transliteration: bolāvaṇẽ
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: आमंत्रण
Original: κλῆσις / κλητός / κεκλημένοι
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Noun form; see baseline note.

Election

Approved rendering: देवाची निवड
Transliteration: devācī nivaḍ
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: नशीब, प्रारब्ध

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Underlies Hebrews’ sovereign-summons vocabulary; never नशीब/प्रारब्ध, a concern equally sharp in Hebrews given the additional fatalism risk flagged for ‘appointed’ at 9:27 (see new term die_once).

Providence

Approved rendering: देवाची तरतूद
Transliteration: devācī tartūd
Doctrine: Providence
Rejected alternatives: नशीब, प्रारब्ध
Original: φέρων τὰ πάντα τῷ ῥήματι τῆς δυνάμεως αὐτοῦ
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Hebrews 1:3 (‘upholding the universe by the word of his power’), 11:3. Never नशीब/प्रारब्ध.

Law

Approved rendering: नियमशास्त्र
Transliteration: niyamaśāstra
Doctrine: New Covenant versus Old
Rejected alternatives: धर्म, कायदो
Original: νόμος
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Hebrews 7:5, 7:12, 7:19, 7:28, 8:4, 9:19, 9:22, 10:1, 10:8. NEVER धर्म.

Sin

Approved rendering: पाप
Transliteration: pāp
Doctrine: Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice
Rejected alternatives: अधर्म, अशुद्धता
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Very high frequency throughout Hebrews (1:3, 2:17, 3:13, 4:15, 9:26, 9:28, 10:2-4, 10:18, 10:26, 11:25, 12:1, 12:4, 13:11).

Abba

Approved rendering: अब्बा
Transliteration: abbā
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: (cf. Romans 8:15’s Aramaic term; same filial-intimacy register as Hebrews 12:5-11’s ‘sons’)
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Not directly cited in Hebrews’ Greek text but retained tonally for the filial-intimacy register of 12:5-11.

Priest

Approved rendering: पुरोहित
Transliteration: purohit
Doctrine: Superiority over the Levitical Priesthood
Original: ἱερεύς
Category: Priesthood

Same caste-collision risk as महापुरोहित, one tier lower. Passages: 7:1-3, 7:11-23, 8:4, 10:11.

Priesthood

Approved rendering: पुरोहितपण
Transliteration: purohitpaṇ
Doctrine: Superiority over the Levitical Priesthood
Original: ἱερωσύνη
Category: Priesthood

Abstract office-noun; must always be qualified as either the (obsolete, hereditary) Levitical priesthood or Christ’s (superior, permanent) priesthood. Passage: 7:11-24.

Levitical Priesthood

Approved rendering: लेवी वंशाचें पुरोहितपण
Transliteration: Levī vanśāce purohitpaṇ
Doctrine: Superiority over the Levitical Priesthood
Original: ἡ Λευιτικὴ ἱερωσύνη
Category: Priesthood

Levi = लेवी (proper noun). Must be explicitly framed as a hereditary system Christ transcends categorically, not merely ‘a lesser lineage.’ Passage: 7:11.

Offering

Approved rendering: अर्पण
Transliteration: arpaṇ
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice
Original: προσφορά / προσφέρω
Category: Atonement

Paired with बलिदान; must retain the sense of Christ’s completed self-presentation, not an ongoing devotional offering-cycle (contrast with puja-offering patterns). Passages: 9:25, 10:5-18.

Tabernacle

Approved rendering: निवासमंडप
Transliteration: nivāsmaṇḍap
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Rejected alternatives: मंदिर, देऊळ
Original: σκηνή
Category: Old Covenant Cultus

Deliberately NOT मंदिर or देऊळ (already forbidden for ‘church’ in the Romans baseline). Passages: 8:2, 8:5, 9:2-11, 9:21, 13:10.

Mediator

Approved rendering: मध्यस्थ
Transliteration: madhyasth
Doctrine: Christ as Sole Mediator of the New Covenant
Original: μεσίτης
Category: Covenant

Built on baseline मध्यस्थी root. Must be reinforced as Christ’s sole, unique mediatorial office, given sensitivity around Catholic-background readers’ familiarity with saints as intercessors, and the regional pattern of multiple intercessory figures (gurus, family/village deities, avatars). Passages: 8:6, 9:15, 12:24.

New Covenant

Approved rendering: नवो करार
Transliteration: navo karār
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Original: καινὴ διαθήκη
Category: Covenant

Built directly on baseline करार, matching the established जुनो करार/नवो करार pattern. Passages: 8:8, 8:13, 9:15, 12:24.

Old Covenant

Approved rendering: जुनो करार / पयलो करार
Transliteration: juno karār / paylo karār
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Original: ἡ πρώτη διαθήκη / παλαιά
Category: Covenant

‘Obsolete/growing old’ language (8:13) must NOT be read as devaluing the inspired OT Scriptures themselves — only the covenant administration is obsolete. Requires a clarifying translator note. Passages: 8:7, 8:13, 9:1, 9:15, 9:18.

Testament Will

Approved rendering: वचनपत्र (contextual gloss only)
Transliteration: vachanpatra
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Original: διαθήκη (legal-testament sense)
Category: Covenant

Translation-mechanics issue: करार does not carry διαθήκη’s ‘will activated by the testator’s death’ legal sense exploited at 9:16-17. Retain करार for the covenant sense everywhere; add this contextual gloss ONLY at 9:16-17 with an explanatory clause, flagged for human theologian sign-off. Must not be generalized as a substitute for करार elsewhere.

Eternal

Approved rendering: सार्वकालीक
Transliteration: sārvakālīk
Doctrine: Christ’s Eternal Unchangeableness
Rejected alternatives: सनातन
Original: αἰώνιος
Category: Atonement / Covenant

NEVER सनातन — the standard self-designation of Hinduism itself (‘Sanātana Dharma’), which would frame Christian eternality as one more expression of that same category. Passages: 5:9, 6:2, 9:12, 9:14-15, 13:8, 13:20.

Purification Ritual

Approved rendering: शुद्धीकरण
Transliteration: śuddhīkaraṇ
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice
Original: καθαρίζω / καθαρότης
Category: Atonement

NOTE: the Romans baseline rejects शुद्धीकरण as an alternative to पवित्रीकरण (sanctification); here it is the CORRECT term for literal ritual/atoning cleansing, a distinct concept Hebrews itself separates from progressive sanctification. Do not conflate. Passages: 1:3, 9:13-14, 9:22-23.

Firstborn

Approved rendering: जेष्ठ पुत्र
Transliteration: jeṣṭh putra
Doctrine: Superiority of Christ over Angels / Sonship of Christ
Original: πρωτότοκος
Category: Christology

Denotes preeminence and inheritance-rights, NOT origin-in-time; must not imply the Son was created or born within time. Passages: 1:6, 12:23.

Pioneer Founder

Approved rendering: आरंभकर्ता
Transliteration: āram̆bhakartā
Doctrine: Christ as the Great High Priest / Perseverance and Assurance
Original: ἀρχηγός
Category: Christology / Salvation

Must be kept distinct from a mere teacher or guru who shows a path others must walk unaided — Christ accomplishes what he pioneers. At 12:2 combines with perfection as आरंभकर्ता आनी पूर्णताकर्ता (never सिद्धीकर्ता). Passages: 2:10, 12:2.

Angels

Approved rendering: देवदूत
Transliteration: devdūt
Doctrine: Superiority of Christ over Angels
Rejected alternatives: देवता (unqualified)
Original: ἄγγελος
Category: Angelology / Christology

Goa’s Hindu cosmology has a densely populated hierarchy of devas; देवदूत risks being heard as ‘a lesser deva.’ Must be reinforced as created, finite, worshipping beings, sharply distinct from देवता. Passages: 1:4-14, 2:2-9, 2:16, 12:22, 13:2.

Throne Of Grace

Approved rendering: कृपेचें आसन
Transliteration: kṛpece āsan
Doctrine: Christ as the Great High Priest
Original: θρόνος τῆς χάριτος
Category: Access to God

Must retain BOTH the royal-authority sense (आसन) and the gracious-access sense (कृपा) together; neither compressed alone suffices. Passage: 4:16.

Faith Assurance

Approved rendering: खात्री / निश्चितता
Transliteration: khātrī / niścitatā
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints
Original: ὑπόστασις
Category: Faith

Renders ὑπόστασις in Hebrews 11:1’s formal faith definition. Must avoid any term suggesting mere subjective feeling; must not be confused with भक्ती. Render consistently at every 11:1 cross-reference.

Faith Evidence

Approved rendering: पुरावो / खात्रीलायक जाणीव
Transliteration: puravo / khātrīlāyak jāṇīv
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints
Original: ἔλεγχος
Category: Faith

Renders ἔλεγχος, paired with faith_assurance as the twin pillars of Hebrews 11:1’s definition. Render consistently at every cross-reference.

Altar Spiritual

Approved rendering: वेदी
Transliteration: vedī
Doctrine: Access to God through Christ’s Blood
Original: θυσιαστήριον
Category: Access to God

वेदी also denotes a functioning Hindu yajna fire-altar; must always carry an explicit metaphorical marker referring to Christ’s finished sacrifice, never endorsement of an ongoing physical altar-ritual. Passage: 13:10.

Learned Obedience

Approved rendering: जें तो सोसलो ताच्या वरवीं ताणें आज्ञाधारकपण शिकलो
Transliteration: jẽ to soslo tācyā varvī̃ tāṇẽ āj̈ñādhārakpaṇ śiklo
Doctrine: Humanity of Christ
Original: ἔμαθεν ἀφ᾽ ὧν ἔπαθεν τὴν ὑπακοήν
Category: Christology (Humanity of Christ)

Must not imply prior sinfulness or imperfection; Christ’s human obedience was proven through real experience, not corrected from a deficient state. Passage: 5:8.

Indestructible Life

Approved rendering: न्हिवारपाक येनासलें जिवीत
Transliteration: nhivārpāk yenāsle jivīt
Doctrine: Superiority over the Levitical Priesthood
Original: ζωὴ ἀκατάλυτος / ἱερωσύνη ἀπαράβατος
Category: Priesthood

Must be distinguished from cyclical immortality-through-rebirth; unending, unbroken life, not a soul persisting through successive incarnations. Passage: 7:16.

Permanent Priesthood

Approved rendering: कधीं न सोंपपी पुरोहितपण
Transliteration: kadhī̃ na sompī purohitpaṇ
Doctrine: Superiority over the Levitical Priesthood

Christ’s priesthood is uniquely his own, forever, never transferred to a successor — categorically unlike a caste-inherited priestly office. Passage: 7:24.

Unblemished Undefiled

Approved rendering: पवित्र, निर्दोष, पापी मनशांपसून वेगळो केल्लो
Transliteration: pavitra, nirdoṣ, pāpī manśāmpasun vegḷo kello
Doctrine: Christ as the Great High Priest
Original: ἄμωμος, ἀκέραιος, κεχωρισμένος ἀπὸ τῶν ἁμαρτωλῶν
Category: Priesthood

Must retain the explicit contrast with Levitical priests’ own sinfulness (7:27) — Christ’s categorical, not merely gradational, superiority. Passage: 7:26.

Confident Access

Approved rendering: धिटाईन/भरवशान पवित्र स्थळांत प्रवेश
Transliteration: dhiṭāīn/bharvaśān pavitra sthaḷānt praveś
Doctrine: Access to God through Christ’s Blood

Must convey confident, bold, welcomed access, not presumption; native-speaker review recommended for register/tone. Passage: 10:19-22.

Medium Risk Terms

Intercession

Approved rendering: मध्यस्थी
Transliteration: madhyasthī
Doctrine: Prayer and Intercession / Christ’s Ministry
Rejected alternatives: शिफारस
Original: ἐντυγχάνειν ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν
Category: Christ’s Ministry

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Hebrews 7:25, Christ’s ongoing heavenly intercession. Root shared with new term mediator (मध्यस्थ).

Gentiles

Approved rendering: परराष्ट्रीय
Transliteration: pararāṣṭrīya
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles (corporate scope)
Rejected alternatives: विदेशी

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Low direct occurrence in Hebrews but relevant to the universal scope of Christ’s atoning death (‘many,’ 2:9-10).

David

Approved rendering: दावीद
Transliteration: dāvīd
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: Δαυίδ
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Hebrews 4:7 (Psalm 95 citation), 11:32.

Israel

Approved rendering: इस्राएल
Transliteration: isrāel
Doctrine: New Covenant versus Old
Original: Ἰσραήλ
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Hebrews 8:8, 8:10 (Jeremiah 31 citation), 11:22.

Priestly Order

Approved rendering: क्रम
Transliteration: kram
Doctrine: The Order of Melchizedek
Rejected alternatives: पद्दत (acceptable secondary gloss)

Renders τάξις (‘order/rank’) in ‘after the order of Melchizedek.’ Needs the same explanatory background as melchizedek itself.

Holy Place

Approved rendering: पवित्र स्थळ
Transliteration: pavitra sthaḷ
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Original: τὰ ἅγια / Ἅγια Ἁγίων
Category: Old Covenant Cultus

Requires a brief tabernacle-layout background note for readers with low OT narrative literacy. Passages: 9:2-3, 9:8.

Most Holy Place

Approved rendering: अति पवित्र स्थळ
Transliteration: ati pavitra sthaḷ
Doctrine: Access to God through Christ’s Blood

The Holy of Holies, entered only once yearly by the high priest — now understood as heaven itself. Passages: 9:3, 9:12, 9:24-25, 10:19.

Veil

Approved rendering: पड्दो
Transliteration: paḍdo
Doctrine: Access to God through Christ’s Blood
Original: καταπέτασμα
Category: Old Covenant Cultus

10:20 identifies the curtain with Christ’s own flesh — key access metaphor. Passages: 6:19, 9:3, 10:20.

Inheritance

Approved rendering: वारसो
Transliteration: vāraso
Doctrine: New Covenant / Perseverance and Assurance
Original: κληρονομία
Category: Covenant / Salvation

Read alongside baseline adoption entry, since Hebrews’ ‘eternal inheritance’ and Romans’ ‘adoption’ share the same full-heir-status logic. Passages: 1:4, 1:14, 6:12, 6:17, 9:15, 11:7-8.

Promise

Approved rendering: वचन / अभिवचन
Transliteration: vachan / abhivachan
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints
Original: ἐπαγγελία
Category: Covenant

Keep distinct from a devotee’s petitionary request granted by a deity (वरदान-adjacent thinking); God is the initiator and guarantor. Passages: 4:1, 6:12-17, 7:6, 8:6, 9:15, 10:36, 11:9-40.

Oath

Approved rendering: शपथ
Transliteration: śapath
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints
Rejected alternatives: व्रत, संकल्प
Original: ὅρκος
Category: Covenant

Distinguish from Hindu ritual vow-taking (व्रत/संकल्प, personal devotional vows undertaken by a devotee); here it is God’s own self-binding oath guaranteeing his promise. Passages: 6:16-17, 7:20-21, 7:28.

Conscience

Approved rendering: सद्सद्विवेकबुद्धी
Transliteration: sadsadvivekbuddhī
Doctrine: Cleansing of the Conscience versus Ritual Purity
Original: συνείδησις
Category: Atonement / Access to God

Must stay distinct from external ritual/ceremonial purity concepts readily available in Konkani religious vocabulary. Passages: 9:9, 9:14, 10:2, 10:22, 13:18.

Sprinkling

Approved rendering: शिंपणें
Transliteration: śimpaṇẽ
Doctrine: Access to God through Christ’s Blood
Rejected alternatives: अभिषेक
Original: ῥαντίζω
Category: Old Covenant Cultus

Deliberately NOT अभिषेक (Hindu ritual sprinkling/anointing of a deity image, e.g. a Shiva liṅga). Passages: 9:13, 9:19, 9:21, 10:22, 12:24.

Discipline

Approved rendering: शिस्तीचें शिक्षण
Transliteration: śistīcẽ śikṣaṇ
Doctrine: God’s Fatherly Discipline of His Sons
Original: παιδεία
Category: Perseverance

Must retain a loving, formative, fatherly sense (baseline पिता/अब्बा intimacy), distinguished from ascetic self-discipline (tapasya) undertaken to earn spiritual merit, and from a fatalistic ‘this is your karma’ reading. Passage: 12:5-11.

Word Of God Living

Approved rendering: देवाचें उतर, जिवें आनी कार्यक्षम
Transliteration: devāce utar, jivẽ āṇi kāryakṣam
Doctrine: The Living and Active Word of God
Original: ζῶν καὶ ἐνεργὴς ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Scripture

Must retain a living, personally active quality distinct from a merely literary or philosophical description of a text, and distinct from general reverence for devotional/Puranic literary tradition (cf. Kristapurana precedent). Passage: 4:12-13.

Shadow Copy

Approved rendering: सावळी / नमुनो
Transliteration: sāvaḷī / namuno
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Original: ὑπόδειγμα / σκιά / ἀντίτυπον
Category: Old Covenant Cultus

Must clearly signal ‘provisional copy,’ never an equally valid alternative sacred space or itself efficacious. Passages: 8:5, 9:23-24, 10:1.

Unshakeable Kingdom

Approved rendering: न हालपी देवाचें राज्य
Transliteration: na hālpī devāce rājya
Doctrine: The Unshakeable Kingdom
Original: βασιλεία ἀσάλευτος
Category: Kingdom

Combines baseline देवाचें राज्य with permanence language; retains baseline caution about political-kingdom associations given Goa’s colonial history. Passage: 12:27-28.

Zion Heavenly Jerusalem

Approved rendering: सियोन / स्वर्गीय जெருसলேம்
Transliteration: Siyon / svargīya Jerusalem
Doctrine: Mount Zion versus Mount Sinai
Original: Σιὼν / Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐπουράνιος
Category: Eschatology

Proper names requiring OT/geographic background explanation given assumed low OT narrative literacy. Passage: 12:22.

Mount Sinai

Approved rendering: सिनाय दोंगर
Transliteration: Sināy doṅgar
Doctrine: Mount Zion versus Mount Sinai

Contrasted with heavenly Zion; requires the same background note. Passage: 12:18-21.

Consuming Fire

Approved rendering: भस्म करपी जाळ
Transliteration: bhasma karpī jāḷ
Doctrine: Mount Zion versus Mount Sinai (closing warning)
Original: πῦρ καταναλίσκον
Category: God

Must be clearly tied to God’s own holiness/judgment against sin, never read as an allusion to or endorsement of Agni-fire veneration, given fire’s independent ritual weight in Vedic-derived practice. Passage: 12:29.

Sacrifice Of Praise

Approved rendering: स्तुतीचें बलिदान
Transliteration: stutīcẽ balidān
Doctrine: The Sacrifice of Praise
Original: θυσία αἰνέσεως
Category: Worship

Must be clearly distinguished from the atoning बलिदान of chs. 9-10; a responsive, non-atoning offering of thanksgiving. Passage: 13:15-16.

Dead Works

Approved rendering: मरण पावल्ली कामां
Transliteration: maraṇ pāvallī kāmā̃
Doctrine: Cleansing of the Conscience versus Ritual Purity

Must not be softened to mean merely ‘bad deeds’; denotes futile religious self-effort that cannot save, directly relevant to a karma-merit worldview. Passages: 6:1, 9:14.

Low Risk Terms

Christ

Approved rendering: ख्रिस्त
Transliteration: Khrist
Doctrine: Christology (proper name)

Established transliteration per the AI requirements transliteration table; used as Christ’s proper name throughout Hebrews, distinct from the title-context मसीहा.

Prophet

Approved rendering: संदेष्टा
Transliteration: sandeṣṭā
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: ज्योतिषी
Original: προφήτης
Category: Scripture

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Hebrews 1:1, ‘God spoke… by the prophets.‘

Prophecy

Approved rendering: भविष्यवाणी
Transliteration: bhaviṣyavāṇī
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: भविष्यफळ
Original: προφητεία
Category: Scripture

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.

Exhort

Approved rendering: उत्तेजन देणें
Transliteration: uttejan denẽ
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Mutual Edification

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Hebrews refrain: 3:13, 10:25, 13:22.

Moses

Approved rendering: मोशे
Transliteration: mośe
Doctrine: Superiority of Christ over Moses
Original: Μωϋσῆς
Category: Covenant

Per the AI requirements transliteration table (मोशे, not Hindi-style spelling). Hebrews 3:2-16, 7:14, 8:5, 9:19, 10:28, 11:23-28, 12:21.

Abraham

Approved rendering: अब्राहाम
Transliteration: abrāhām
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints
Original: Ἀβραάμ
Category: Covenant

Per the AI requirements transliteration table. Hebrews 2:16, 6:13-17 (God’s oath), 7:1-10 (Melchizedek), 11:8-19.

Levi

Approved rendering: लेवी
Transliteration: Levī
Doctrine: Superiority over the Levitical Priesthood (proper name)

Proper name; standard transliteration consistency only. Passage: 7:5, 7:9.

Anchor

Approved rendering: नांगर
Transliteration: nāṅgar
Doctrine: Perseverance and Assurance
Original: ἄγκυρα
Category: Perseverance

Nautical metaphor, readily understood in coastal Goa. Passage: 6:19.

Great Shepherd

Approved rendering: व्हड मेंढपाळ
Transliteration: vhaḍ meṇḍhapāḷ
Doctrine: Perseverance and Assurance (closing benediction)
Original: ποιμὴν τῶν προβάτων ὁ μέγας
Category: Christology

Standard biblical pastoral metaphor. Passage: 13:20.

Abel

Approved rendering: हाबेल
Transliteration: Hābel
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints (proper name)
Original: Ἄβελ
Category: Faith of OT Saints (Proper Name)

Standard proper-noun transliteration only. Passage: 11:4.

Enoch

Approved rendering: हनोख
Transliteration: Hanokh
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints (proper name)
Original: Ἑνώχ
Category: Faith of OT Saints (Proper Name)

Standard proper-noun transliteration only. Passage: 11:5.

Noah

Approved rendering: नोहा
Transliteration: Nohā
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints (proper name)
Original: Νῶε
Category: Faith of OT Saints (Proper Name)

Standard proper-noun transliteration only. Passage: 11:7.

Sarah

Approved rendering: सारा
Transliteration: Sārā
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints (proper name)
Original: Σάρρα
Category: Faith of OT Saints (Proper Name)

Standard proper-noun transliteration only. Passage: 11:11.

Isaac

Approved rendering: इसहाक
Transliteration: Isahāk
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints (proper name)
Original: Ἰσαάκ
Category: Faith of OT Saints (Proper Name)

Standard proper-noun transliteration only. Passage: 11:17-20.

Jacob

Approved rendering: याकोब
Transliteration: Yākob
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints (proper name)
Original: Ἰακώβ
Category: Faith of OT Saints (Proper Name)

Standard proper-noun transliteration only. Passage: 11:21.

Joseph

Approved rendering: योसेफ
Transliteration: Yosef
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints (proper name)
Original: Ἰωσήφ
Category: Faith of OT Saints (Proper Name)

Standard proper-noun transliteration only. Passage: 11:22.

Rahab

Approved rendering: राहाब
Transliteration: Rāhāb
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints (proper name)
Original: Ῥαάβ
Category: Faith of OT Saints (Proper Name)

Standard proper-noun transliteration only. Passage: 11:31.

Gideon

Approved rendering: गिदोन
Transliteration: Gidon
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints (proper name)
Original: Γεδεών
Category: Faith of OT Saints (Proper Name)