Passage
Romans 9
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of filial intimacy preserved in Romans 8:15; retain the transliteration rather than reducing it to formal पिता alone.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Adoption
The fuller phrase ('taking as a full/adopted son') is preferred over the bare verb दत्तक घेणें to foreground complete inheritance rights, since Konkani inheritance custom can otherwise read an adopted child as lower-status.
ROM.9.4
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
Full son-status with complete inheritance rights.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Called
Context-sensitive: in 1:1, called to apostleship; in 1:7, called to be saints; in 8:28-30, effectual calling to salvation.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Calling
Noun form for the act/state of being called by God; shares its verb root with 'called' for consistency.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Covenant
करार is the established Konkani/Marathi Bible term for covenant (as in 'जुनो करार'/'नवो करार', Old/New Testament), distinct from Hindi's वाचा.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
David
Established Konkani/Marathi Bible proper-name spelling, distinct from Hindi's दाऊद.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Requires explicit Old Testament background explanation; no analogous royal-lineage covenant concept exists in regional Hindu tradition.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Deity of Christ
CRITICAL: Co-equal divine nature, not divine promotion or an elevated devotee/avatar-figure.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
God's sovereign call must be distinguished from human religious seeking and from karma/fate-determined destiny (नशीब/प्रारब्ध), both common in Goan Hindu religious idiom.
ROM.9.11-12
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
God's sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the called, not karma-determined destiny or impersonal fate.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Election
God's sovereign personal choice, not fate (नशीब/प्रारब्ध) or karma-determined destiny.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Father
God as personal Father.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Glory
God's radiant presence and honor.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
God
CRITICAL AND UNUSUAL: देव is the established Konkani/Marathi Bible term for God, but unlike Hindi's परमेश्वर (chosen specifically to avoid deity-multiplicity ambiguity), देव is the same generic word Goan Hindu practice uses for any individual deity (Shantadurga dev, Mangueshi dev, Mahalasa dev).
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Messiah
Transliterated term.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
CRITICAL: Messiah is a specific Jewish Old Testament concept fulfilled exclusively in Jesus.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
Romans 1:3; conveys physical lineage and OT covenant fulfillment.
ROM.9.5