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Titus — Core Glossary (Konkani)

This glossary consolidates every load-bearing term identified in analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md, drawn from all three chapters of Titus. Two categories of entries appear:

  • REUSED — the term already exists in the Romans baseline translation_memory.json / bible_term_registry.json and MUST be rendered exactly as recorded there. No re-derivation is permitted.
  • NEW — the term is not present in the Romans baseline and requires a fresh Konkani rendering and risk assessment, proposed here for Phase 2 adoption into an updated translation_memory.json.

A. Terms Reused Exactly from the Romans Baseline

EnglishGreekKonkani (baseline)RiskTitus passages
graceχάριςकृपाHigh1:4; 2:11; 3:7,15
faithπίστιςविश्वासHigh1:1,4,13; 2:2,10; 3:8,15
righteousnessδικαιοσύνηनीतिमत्ताCritical1:8; 2:12; 3:5
justification/justifiedδικαιωθέντες (δικαιόω)नीतिमान ठरवणेंCritical3:7
salvation (noun family, verb ἔσωσεν)σῴζω/σωτηρία rootतारण (family)Critical3:5 (verb; see new entry σῴζω/σωτήρ below for title/verb forms)
apostleἀπόστολοςप्रेषितMedium1:1
holyἅγιοςपवित्रHigh(implied moral-holiness contrast throughout; see ὅσιος/ἱεροπρεπής new entries)
holy spiritπνεῦμα ἅγιονपवित्र आत्माCritical3:5
peaceεἰρήνηशांतीMedium1:4
gloryδόξαगौरवHigh2:13
lawνόμοςनियमशास्त्र (root reused in नियमहीनता, νομικαί)High3:9 (indirect, νομικάς)
sinἁμαρτίαपापHigh3:11 (verb ἁμαρτάνει)
electionἐκλογή/ἐκλεκτόςदेवाची निवड (root)High1:1
exhortπαρακαλέωउत्तेजन देणें / विनवणी (context-sensitive)Low1:9; 2:6,15
godθεόςदेवCriticalthroughout
fatherπατήρपिताCritical1:4
jesusἸησοῦςयेशूCriticalthroughout
christΧριστόςख्रिस्तCriticalthroughout
adoption (conceptual link)υἱοθεσία (concept, not lexeme in Titus)दत्तक पुत्र करून घेणें (cross-referenced)High3:7 (κληρονόμος, see new entry)
covenant (conceptual link)διαθήκη (concept, not lexeme in Titus)करार (cross-referenced)High2:14 (λαὸς περιούσιος, see new entry)

Notable absences from Titus (do not force these renderings where the underlying Greek term does not occur): ἐκκλησία/मंडळी (church), ἀνάστασις/पुनरुत्थान (resurrection), εὐαγγέλιον/सुवार्ता (gospel, noun), κύριος/प्रभू (Lord, as primary title — Titus prefers σωτήρ).


B. New Terms Requiring Konkani Rendering (Full Titus-Specific Glossary)

#EnglishGreekTransliterationKonkani RenderingRiskDoctrine CategoryKey PassagesRejected Alternatives / Notes
1Savior (title)σωτήρsōtērतारणारCriticalDeity of Christ / Salvation1:3,4; 2:10,13; 3:4,6उद्धारक rejected (Hindi-associated उद्धार echo). Built on established तारण root. Applied to both Father and Son — load-bearing for Christ’s deity.
2to save (verb)σῴζωsōzōतारप / तारलोCriticalSalvation3:5Verb form of established तारण; never मुक्त/सोडविलें-family.
3appeared/appearing (verb)ἐπιφαίνω / ἐπεφάνηepiphainō / epephanēप्रगट जालेंCriticalGrace Trains for Godly Living / Incarnation-adjacent2:11; 3:4Parallels देहधारण’s avatar-collision risk; mandatory translator note distinguishing from repeatable avatar-appearance narratives (e.g., Mahalasa Narayani at Mardol).
4appearing/epiphany (noun, of Christ’s return)ἐπιφάνειαepiphaneiaगौरवाचें प्रगटपCriticalSecond Coming / Deity of Christ2:13Same collision family as #3; here specifically the future, bodily, glorious return — not a repeatable manifestation.
5trains/disciplines (verb)παιδεύω (παιδεύουσα)paideuōशिकोवन घडोवपHighGrace That Trains for Godly Living2:12Must not reduce to mere “teaches”; grace (not human effort) is grammatical subject — guard against karmic self-effort reading.
6godlinessεὐσέβειαeusebeiaदेवनिष्ठाHighGrace Trains for Godly Living1:1; 2:12 (εὐσεβῶς)भक्ती rejected — carries Goan Hindu temple-devotion weight (same reasoning baseline gives for rejecting भक्ती under “faith”). निष्ठा (loyalty/devotion) preferred root.
7self-controlled / self-controlσώφρων / σωφροσύνη / σωφρόνως / σωφρονίζω / σωφρονεῖνsōphrōn familyसंयम / संयमी / संयमानHighGrace Trains for Godly Living / Qualifications for Elders1:8; 2:2,4,5,6,12Root shared with सन्न्यास (ascetic renunciation) — must always be glossed as ordinary-life self-mastery (marriage, work, speech), NOT world-renunciation. Single most repeated character term in Titus.
8sound doctrine / sound (teaching, faith)ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία / ὑγιαίνωhygiainousa didaskaliaस्वस्थ शिकवणHighSound Doctrine and Good Works1:9,13; 2:1,2Preserves Paul’s health/healthy-vs-sick metaphor (ὑγιαίνω); avoid purity-based term to prevent ritual-purity misreading.
9good worksκαλὰ ἔργαkala ergaबरीं कामांHighSound Doctrine and Good Works / Salvation by Grace not Works1:16; 2:7,14; 3:1,8,14MUST always be construed as fruit of grace/regeneration (3:5), never the basis of salvation. Most-repeated substantive phrase in the letter — flag every occurrence near 3:5 for theologian review.
10lawlessnessἀνομίαanomiaनियमहीनताMediumSalvation (redemption from)2:14Avoid अधर्म (baseline-rejected धर्म-family echo); built on established नियम root shared with नियमशास्त्र.
11a people for his own possessionλαὸς περιούσιοςlaos periousiosस्वताची खाशी प्रजाHighElection / Covenant2:14Echoes LXX Exodus 19:5 covenant language; must retain ownership/treasured sense, cross-reference with पवित्र जन.
12redeem (verb)λυτρόω (λυτρώσηται)lytroōसोडोवणूक करपCriticalSalvation2:14NEVER मुक्त/मुक्ती-family (forbidden per baseline for “salvation”); anchor to price-paid redemption from lawlessness, not generic liberation.
13submit / be subject toὑποτάσσωhypotassōअधीन रावपHighSubmission to Authority2:5,9; 3:1Three distinct relational contexts (wives, slaves, citizens) sharing one verb — each must be handled contextually; never implies inferior spiritual worth; caste-sensitive.
14rulers and authoritiesἀρχαὶ καὶ ἐξουσίαιarchai kai exousiaiअधिकारी आनी सत्ताधारीMediumSubmission to Authority3:1Handle with same colonial-history sensitivity as Romans 13 material.
15obey (authority)πειθαρχέωpeitharcheōहुकूम मानपMediumSubmission to Authority3:1
16elderπρεσβύτεροςpresbyterosवडीलMediumQualifications for Elders1:5Must be marked as a specific appointed church office, not merely “an elderly person.”
17overseerἐπίσκοποςepiskoposअध्यक्षMediumQualifications for Elders1:7Functionally synonymous with वडील in this passage; avoid importing a separate, higher monarchical-bishop hierarchy.
18stewardοἰκονόμοςoikonomosकारभारीLow-MediumQualifications for Elders1:7
19blameless/above reproachἀνέγκλητοςanenklētosनिर्दोषMediumQualifications for Elders1:6,7Reputational standard, not sinless perfection.
20husband of one wifeμιᾶς γυναικὸς ἀνήρmias gynaikos anērएका बायलेचो घोवHighQualifications for Elders1:6Historically debated phrase — render literally, flag for theologian review, do not resolve interpretive debate in translation.
21holy/devout (personal piety)ὅσιοςhosiosदेवभावाचोMediumQualifications for Elders1:8Distinct nuance from ἅγιος/पवित्र; avoid धर्मीक (धर्म-root).
22disciplined/self-controlledἐγκρατήςenkratēsआत्मसंयमीMediumQualifications for Elders1:8Near-synonym of #7; same sannyasa-adjacent caution applies.
23myths/fablesμῦθοιmythoiदंतकथाHighAvoiding Divisive Controversies1:14Must be understood narrowly as false human-invented teaching; must NOT read as a blanket dismissal of the Puranic/devotional storytelling genre (cf. Kristapurana precedent in baseline’s inspiration-of-scripture doctrine).
24conscienceσυνείδησιςsyneidēsisमनसाक्षMedium(Sound Doctrine, contrast)1:15Preferred over अंतरात्मा to avoid importing a Vedantic inner-Self/Atman association.
25reverent (befitting holiness)ἱεροπρεπήςhieroprepēsपवित्रताय दाखोवपी वागणूकHighQualifications for Elders (older women)2:3Greek root ἱερός is itself “temple/sacred” — avoid any Konkani rendering built on a temple-ritual root; anchor to established पवित्र instead.
26integrity (in teaching)ἀφθορίαaphthoriaसचोटीMediumSound Doctrine and Good Works2:7Avoid सात्विक/सात्विकपण (Samkhya/Gita guna-theory term).
27slave (household, institutional sense)δοῦλος (2:9-10 sense)doulosगुलामHighSubmission to Authority2:9-10Distinguish from δοῦλος θεοῦ (1:1, honorific) and δουλεύω to passions (3:3, metaphorical); handle ancient household institution with historical/pastoral sensitivity, not as a commended ideal.
28slave of God (honorific self-designation)δοῦλος θεοῦdoulos theouदेवाचो दासHigh(Apostleship-adjacent)1:1Same word-family as #27 but a distinct, honorific sense — must not be conflated.
29enslaved (metaphorical, to sin/passions)δουλεύω (δουλεύοντες)douleuōगुलाम भशेन सेवा करपHighUniversal Human Accountability (pre-conversion state)3:3Third distinct sense of the δοῦλος word-family; mark explicitly as metaphorical bondage to sin, not literal slavery.
30master (of a household slave)δεσπότηςdespotēsधनीMediumSubmission to Authority2:9Must not be confused with प्रभू (Lord), reserved exclusively for Christ.
31mercyἔλεοςeleosदयाMedium-HighSalvation by Grace not Works3:5Keep distinct from established कृपा (grace) where both appear together (3:5,7): mercy = compassion toward the wretched; grace = unmerited favor as such.
32regeneration / new birthπαλιγγενεσίαpalingenesiaनवो जल्मCriticalRegeneration by the Holy Spirit3:5HIGHEST-STAKES NEW TERM IN THIS CURRICULUM. Uses नवो (“new”) not the forbidden पुनर् (“again”) prefix, to avoid collision with the baseline’s forbidden पुनर्जन्म (reincarnation). Mandatory translator note at every occurrence distinguishing one-time Spirit-wrought new birth from the samsaric rebirth cycle.
33renewalἀνακαίνωσιςanakainōsisनवीकरणHighRegeneration by the Holy Spirit3:5Ongoing Spirit-work, complementing (not identical to) #32’s punctiliar new birth; related to but distinct from established पवित्रीकरण (sanctification).
34washingλουτρόνloutronन्हावप/स्नानMediumRegeneration by the Holy Spirit3:5Baptismal-imagery term; must not be read as merely ritual bathing.
35kindnessχρηστότηςchrēstotēsदयाळूपणMediumSalvation by Grace not Works3:4Doublet with #36; keep both distinguishable in translation.
36love for mankind / benevolenceφιλανθρωπίαphilanthrōpiaमानवप्रेमMediumSalvation by Grace not Works3:4Doublet with #35; God’s benevolent orientation to humanity as such, not merit-based reward.
37heirκληρονόμοςklēronomosवारसMedium-HighRegeneration / Adoption (cross-ref)3:7Cross-reference explicitly with baseline’s दत्तक पुत्र करून घेणें (adoption) doctrine — full inheritance rights.
38eternal lifeζωὴ αἰώνιοςzōē aiōniosसार्वकालिक जिणीMediumRegeneration / Hope1:2; 3:7Distinguish from reincarnation-cycle “endless life across many bodies”; unending life in restored relationship with God.
39hopeἐλπίςelpisआशाMedium(multiple)1:2; 2:13; 3:7Must convey confident, certain expectation, not a weaker hopeful wish.
40worldly (desires)κοσμικόςkosmikosजगीकMediumGrace Trains for Godly Living2:12Deliberately not संसारीक (samsara-cycle association).
41desires/lustsἐπιθυμίαepithymiaवासनाHighGrace Trains for Godly Living / Universal Human Accountability2:12; 3:3Established Bible-tradition term but carries Hindu karmic-imprint (Vedanta/Yoga) associations; always pair with a disambiguating modifier (e.g., “जगीक वायट वासना”), following the baseline’s own precedent for देव.
42trustworthy is the saying (formula)Πιστὸς ὁ λόγοςpistos ho logosहें वाक्य विश्वासाजोगें आसाMediumSound Doctrine and Good Works3:8Formulaic doctrinal-summary marker; render identically at every occurrence in the curriculum.
43rebuke/refute (context-sensitive)ἐλέγχωelenchōचूक दाखोवन सुदारपMediumSound Doctrine and Good Works1:9,13; 2:15Balance firmness with the letter’s invitational tone; sharper at 1:13 (ἀποτόμως, “sharply”) than at 2:15.
44divisive/factious personαἱρετικὸς ἄνθρωποςhairetikos anthrōposफूट पाडपी मनीसHighAvoiding Divisive Controversies3:10Root of English “heretic,” but sense here is factional-division-causing behavior; must not be weaponized against legitimate disagreement.
45foolish controversiesζητήσεις μωραίzētēseis mōraiमूर्ख वादविवादMediumAvoiding Divisive Controversies3:9Core anchor phrase for this doctrine.
46genealogiesγενεαλογίαιgenealogiaiवंशावळीLowAvoiding Divisive Controversies3:9
47quarrels about the lawμάχαι νομικαίmachai nomikaiनियमांविशीं भांडणांMediumAvoiding Divisive Controversies3:9Rare direct echo of established नियमशास्त्र (law) root outside its usual context.
48God who cannot lieἀψευδὴς θεόςapseudēs theosखोटें कधीच न सांगपी देवMedium(Foundation for trustworthy-saying formula)1:2Grounds reliability of promise and of #42’s formula in God’s own character.
49elect/chosenἐκλεκτόςeklektosदेवान निवडिल्लोHighDivine Calling / Election1:1Cross-reference established देवाची निवड; contrast with नशीब/प्रारब्ध (fate/karma-destiny).
50proclamation/preachingκήρυγμαkērygmaप्रचारMedium(Gospel-adjacent; gospel-noun absent from Titus)1:3Names the act of proclaiming, not the content-noun “gospel” (सुवार्ता); do not conflate automatically.

C. Cross-Cutting Risk Flags for Phase 2 Review Routing

Per the doctrine-risk-registry model established in the Romans baseline, the following Titus-specific items require the stated review routing in every occurrence:

FlagRoutingApplies to
Christ called σωτήρ (“Savior”) in a construction paired with θεός (“God”)Human theologian1:3-4; 2:10,13; 3:4,6
ἐπιφάνεια/ἐπεφάνη (“appearing”) languageHuman theologian2:11,13; 3:4
παλιγγενεσία (“regeneration/new birth”)Human theologian3:5
Grace/good-works contrast (3:5 vs. 2:14/3:1/3:8/3:14)Human theologian2:14; 3:1,5,8,14
Elder/overseer qualification list, esp. “husband of one wife”Human theologian1:6-9
ὑποτάσσω (“submit”) across wife/slave/citizen contextsHuman theologian2:5,9; 3:1
μῦθοι (“myths”) near the Kristapurana/Puranic-genre sensitivityNative speaker review1:14
αἱρετικὸς ἄνθρωπος (“divisive person”) / church disciplineNative speaker review3:10
δοῦλος word-family across its three distinct sensesNative speaker review1:1; 2:9-10; 3:3
σωφροσύνη word-family (sannyasa-adjacent caution)Native speaker review1:8; 2:2,4,5,6,12

This glossary is a Phase 1 deliverable. All new-term renderings proposed in Section B are candidates for formal adoption into an updated translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json prior to Phase 2 segment translation, per the Translation Memory Load and Enforcement Instructions in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.


Critical Risk Terms

Righteousness

Approved rendering: नीतिमत्ता
Transliteration: nītimattā
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace not Works
Rejected alternatives: धर्म, पुण्य, न्याय

Inherited from Romans package (translation exact). Titus 3:5 explicitly denies this righteousness is ‘works done by us’ — never धर्म; render so the works-negation is unmistakable in Konkani clause structure.


Justification

Approved rendering: नीतिमान ठरवणें
Transliteration: nītimān ṭharavaṇẽ
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace not Works
Rejected alternatives: क्षमा मेळप, पुण्य कमावप

Inherited from Romans package (translation exact). Titus 3:7: ‘having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs’ — preserve the full compound phrase without abbreviation.


Salvation

Approved rendering: तारण
Transliteration: tāraṇ
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace not Works
Rejected alternatives: मुक्ती, मोक्ष, सुटका

Inherited from Romans package (translation exact, noun form). Titus 3:5 also uses a finite verb form (‘he saved us’); see the separate ‘saved_verb’ entry below built on the same root. NEVER मुक्त/मुक्ती/मोक्ष-family in either the noun or the verb.


Holy Spirit

Approved rendering: पवित्र आत्मा
Transliteration: pavitra ātmā
Doctrine: Regeneration by the Holy Spirit
Rejected alternatives: ब्रह्म, परमात्मा

Inherited from Romans package (translation exact). Titus 3:5: the agent of regeneration (नवो जल्म) and renewal (नवीकरण). Never ब्रह्म or परमात्मा alone.


God

Approved rendering: देव
Transliteration: dev
Doctrine: Deity of Christ as Savior Alongside God
Rejected alternatives: भगवान

Inherited from Romans package (translation exact). Titus’s own text supplies an exclusivity/greatness marker at 2:13 (‘great God,’ महान देव); preserve and lean on that built-in marker rather than adding an artificial one there, but देव must never stand doctrinally load-bearing and unmarked elsewhere in the letter (1:3-4; 2:10; 3:4).


Father

Approved rendering: पिता
Transliteration: pitā
Doctrine: Apostolic Commission and the Knowledge of Truth
Rejected alternatives: ब्रह्मा, निर्माणकार

Inherited from Romans package (translation exact). Titus 1:4 greeting.


Jesus

Approved rendering: येशू
Transliteration: yeśū
Doctrine: Deity of Christ as Savior Alongside God
Rejected alternatives: जेजू

Inherited from Romans package (translation exact). NOT जेजू (Romi Konkani Catholic spelling). Occurs throughout Titus, frequently paired with ‘Christ’ and with the title ‘Savior’ (तारणार).


Christ

Approved rendering: ख्रिस्त
Transliteration: khrist
Doctrine: Deity of Christ as Savior Alongside God

Established Devanagari Konkani/Marathi Bible transliteration standard per the baseline’s 12_ai_translation_requirements.md transliteration table; not previously a standalone Romans TM entry (Romans TM registered only ‘jesus’), but Titus’s frequent ‘Jesus Christ’ / ‘Christ Jesus’ pairing (throughout, especially 1:1,4; 2:13; 3:6) requires this as a formally tracked term for full-book consistency. Distinct from मसीहा (Messiah, the OT Jewish concept in the Romans baseline), though naming the same fulfilled promise.


Savior Title

Approved rendering: तारणार
Transliteration: tāraṇār
Doctrine: Deity of Christ as Savior Alongside God
Rejected alternatives: उद्धारक

NEW term. Built on the established तारण root (matches baseline family-consistency principle). Rejected उद्धारक as it echoes Hindi’s उद्धार, already excluded from this glossary tradition per the baseline’s note on तारण. Applied interchangeably to both God the Father (1:3; 2:10; 3:4) and Jesus Christ (1:4; 2:13; 3:6) — six occurrences across three chapters, more than any other NT letter of comparable length. Every occurrence is doctrinally load-bearing for Christ’s co-equal deity and must be flagged for theologian review, especially the Granville Sharp construction at 2:13 (‘our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ’).


Saved Verb

Approved rendering: तारलो
Transliteration: tārlo
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace not Works
Rejected alternatives: मुक्त केलो, सोडवलो (salvific sense)

NEW term (verb form built on established तारण root). Renders ἔσωσεν, ‘he saved us’ (Titus 3:5), the letter’s clearest salvation statement, immediately following the works-negation clause. Inherits every restriction of तारण: NEVER मुक्त/मुक्ती/मोक्ष-family verbs.


Epiphany Appearing Verb

Approved rendering: प्रगट जालें
Transliteration: pragaṭ jālẽ
Doctrine: Grace That Trains for Godly Living
Rejected alternatives: अवतार जालो, प्रकट जालो (deity-manifestation register)

NEW term. Renders ἐπεφάνη at Titus 2:11 and 3:4 (‘the grace/kindness of God appeared’). CRITICAL: structurally identical in narrative shape to Goan temple avatar-appearance accounts (e.g. Mahalasa Narayani’s Mohini-appearance at Mardol) — a deity ‘becoming visible’ is precisely how those narratives are told. Every occurrence requires a mandatory translator note anchoring the appearing as a unique, unrepeated, historical event (Christ’s first coming), never a recurring divine-manifestation pattern.


Epiphany Appearing Noun

Approved rendering: गौरवाचें प्रगटप
Transliteration: gauravāce pragaṭap
Doctrine: Blessed Hope: The Appearing of Christ’s Glory
Rejected alternatives: अवताराचें प्रगटप

NEW term. Renders ἐπιφάνεια at Titus 2:13, ‘the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ’ — the future, bodily, glorious return of Christ. Pairs established गौरव (glory) with प्रगटप (appearing/manifesting). Requires the same mandatory anti-avatar translator note as epiphany_appearing_verb, specifically marking this as a singular FUTURE event, not a repeatable manifestation.


Redeem

Approved rendering: सोडोवणूक करप
Transliteration: soḍovṇūk karap
Doctrine: Christian Identity as God’s Treasured Possession
Rejected alternatives: मुक्त करप

NEW term. Renders λυτρόω/λυτρώσηται (Titus 2:14). NEVER मुक्त/मुक्ती-family, forbidden per the baseline for ‘salvation’ because of the Hindu liberation-from-rebirth association. Built instead on the सुटका-family already sanctioned by the baseline for non-salvific ‘rescue.’ Must always be anchored to the price Christ paid and to freedom from lawlessness specifically, never left as generic ‘liberation.‘


Regeneration New Birth

Approved rendering: नवो जल्म
Transliteration: navo jalma
Doctrine: Regeneration by the Holy Spirit
Rejected alternatives: पुनर्जन्म, पुनरुत्पत्ती

NEW term — THE SINGLE HIGHEST-STAKES TERM this curriculum introduces beyond the Romans baseline. Renders παλιγγενεσία (Titus 3:5). Deliberately uses नवो (‘new’) rather than the forbidden पुनर् (‘again’) prefix, mirroring how the baseline distinguishes पुनरुत्थान (resurrection, ‘again-rising’) from the forbidden पुनर्जन्म (‘again-birth,’ reincarnation). ABSOLUTE, NON-NEGOTIABLE RULE: never render with any पुनर्-prefixed alternative. Every occurrence MUST carry an explicit translator note: a one-time, Spirit-wrought spiritual birth into new life in Christ, categorically NOT punarjanma/the cycle of samsaric rebirth.


High Risk Terms

Grace

Approved rendering: कृपा
Transliteration: kṛpā
Doctrine: Grace That Trains for Godly Living / Salvation by Grace not Works
Rejected alternatives: कर्मफळ, पुण्य, नशीब

Inherited from Romans package (translation exact). In Titus, grace is personified as ‘appearing’ (2:11) and sits inside a mercy/kindness/love-for-mankind cluster (3:4-7); कृपा must stay clearly distinguished from दया (mercy), दयाळूपण (kindness), and मानवप्रेम (love for mankind). Titus 3:5’s explicit works-negation is this letter’s sharpest grace-versus-works contrast and must be flagged for theologian review at every occurrence.


Faith

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

Inherited from Romans package (translation exact). Titus uses the same root for saving faith (1:1,4,13; 2:2,10; 3:8,15) and, distinctly, for a slave’s faithful/trustworthy conduct (2:10, ‘showing all good faith’); the latter sense must be flagged so translators do not read a soteriological claim into a workplace-fidelity instruction.


Holy

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

Inherited from Romans package (translation exact). All Titus-specific piety/purity terms (ὅσιος/देवभावाचो, ἱεροπρεπής/पवित्रताय दाखोवपी वागणूक, καθαρός/शुद्ध) are deliberately anchored back to this established term rather than to unrelated roots.


Glory

Approved rendering: गौरव
Transliteration: gaurav
Doctrine: Blessed Hope: The Appearing of Christ’s Glory
Rejected alternatives: तेज, देवीतेज

Inherited from Romans package (translation exact). Titus 2:13: object of the ‘blessed hope’; paired with the new term गौरवाचें प्रगटप (‘the appearing of glory’). Never a तेज-based light-imagery term.


Law

Approved rendering: नियमशास्त्र
Transliteration: niyamaśāstra
Doctrine: Avoiding Divisive Controversies
Rejected alternatives: धर्म, कायदो

Inherited from Romans package (translation exact). Root reused in the new terms नियमहीनता (‘lawlessness,’ 2:14) and नियमांविशीं भांडणां (‘quarrels about the law,’ 3:9). Never धर्म.


Sin

Approved rendering: पाप
Transliteration: pāp
Doctrine: Avoiding Divisive Controversies
Rejected alternatives: अधर्म, अशुद्धता

Inherited from Romans package (translation exact). Titus 3:11 verb form: पाप करता (‘he sins’).


Election

Approved rendering: देवाची निवड
Transliteration: devācī nivaḍ
Doctrine: Divine Calling and Election
Rejected alternatives: नशीब, प्रारब्ध

Inherited from Romans package (translation exact). Titus 1:1 introduces ἐκλεκτός (‘God’s elect’) at the letter’s very opening verse without further explanation; see cross-referenced new entry ‘elect_chosen’ below. Never नशीब/प्रारब्ध.


Sanctification

Approved rendering: पवित्रीकरण
Transliteration: pavitrīkaraṇ
Doctrine: Regeneration by the Holy Spirit
Rejected alternatives: शुद्धीकरण

Inherited from Romans package (translation exact) as a cross-reference concept. Titus 3:5’s ἀνακαίνωσις (renewal, new term नवीकरण) is ongoing Spirit-work functioning alongside, not replacing, this established doctrine; do not collapse नवीकरण and पवित्रीकरण into one term, and keep both distinct from the punctiliar नवो जल्म (new birth).


Adoption

Approved rendering: दत्तक पुत्र करून घेणें
Transliteration: dattak putra karun ghenẽ
Doctrine: Inheritance and Adoption as Heirs
Rejected alternatives: दत्तक घेणें

Inherited from Romans package (translation exact) as a cross-reference concept. Titus 3:7’s ‘heir’ (new term वारस) does not use this lexeme directly but depends on this same doctrine of full, not reduced, inheritance rights.


Covenant

Approved rendering: करार
Transliteration: karār
Doctrine: Christian Identity as God’s Treasured Possession
Rejected alternatives: समजूत

Inherited from Romans package (translation exact) as a cross-reference concept underlying Titus 2:14’s ‘treasured possession’ (new term स्वताची खाशी प्रजा), which echoes LXX covenant-possession vocabulary (Exodus 19:5) without using διαθήκη itself.


Trains Disciplines

Approved rendering: शिकोवन घडोवप
Transliteration: śikovan ghaḍovap
Doctrine: Grace That Trains for Godly Living
Rejected alternatives: शिकवण (bare ‘teaching’ alone)

NEW term. Renders παιδεύουσα (Titus 2:12), the anchor verb for ‘Grace That Trains for Godly Living.’ Must not be reduced to mere ‘teaches’ (शिकवण alone), which loses the character-forming/disciplining nuance; grace, not the believer, is grammatically the acting subject — guard against a self-effort/karmic reading.


Godliness

Approved rendering: देवनिष्ठा
Transliteration: devaniṣṭhā
Doctrine: Grace That Trains for Godly Living
Rejected alternatives: भक्ती

NEW term. Renders εὐσέβεια/εὐσεβῶς (Titus 1:1; 2:12). भक्ती rejected — carries the full weight of Goan Hindu devotional worship directed at specific temple deities (Shantadurga, Mangueshi, Mahalasa), the same reasoning the Romans baseline gives for rejecting भक्ती under ‘faith.’ निष्ठा (steadfast loyalty) is the chosen root instead.


Self Control

Approved rendering: संयम / संयमी / संयमान
Transliteration: sanyam / sanyamī / sanyamān
Doctrine: Self-Control and Godly Character

NEW term family. Renders σώφρων/σωφροσύνη/σωφρόνως/σωφρονίζω/σωφρονεῖν (Titus 1:8; 2:2,4,5,6,12) — Titus’s single most repeated character quality. संयम’s root is shared with सन्न्यास (sannyāsa, formal Hindu world-renouncing ascetic withdrawal). MUST be glossed at least at first occurrence per chapter as ordinary-life self-mastery (marriage, work, speech), never world-renunciation.


Sound Doctrine

Approved rendering: स्वस्थ शिकवण
Transliteration: svasth śikavaṇ
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine and Good Works
Rejected alternatives: शुद्ध शिकवण (purity-register alternative)

NEW term. Renders ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία / ὑγιαίνω (Titus 1:9,13; 2:1,2), preserving Paul’s health/‘hygiene’-root metaphor. Deliberately not a purity-based word, which could suggest ritual cleanliness rather than spiritual health/soundness.


Good Works

Approved rendering: बरीं कामां
Transliteration: barī̃ kāmā̃
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine and Good Works

NEW term. Renders καλὰ ἔργα / ἔργον ἀγαθόν, the single most repeated substantive phrase in Titus (1:16; 2:7,14; 3:1,8,14). MUST always be construed as the fruit of grace/regeneration (3:5), never its cause — the greatest mistranslation risk in the letter given the surrounding karma-merit worldview (पुण्य/कर्मफळ). Flag every occurrence near 3:5 for theologian review.


Treasured Possession

Approved rendering: स्वताची खाशी प्रजा
Transliteration: svatācī khāśī prajā
Doctrine: Christian Identity as God’s Treasured Possession
Rejected alternatives: खाशी मंडळी (generic ‘special group’)

NEW term. Renders λαὸς περιούσιος (Titus 2:14), echoing LXX Exodus 19:5 covenant-ownership language now applied to the church. Must retain the covenant-ownership/treasured sense; cross-reference with the baseline’s established पवित्र जन (saints).


Submission

Approved rendering: अधीन रावप
Transliteration: adhīn rāvap
Doctrine: Submission to Authority

NEW term. Renders ὑποτάσσω (Titus 2:5,9; 3:1) across three distinct relational contexts: wives to husbands, household slaves to masters, citizens to civil rulers. Must never be read as implying inferior spiritual worth, especially given Goa’s caste-stratified social history and colonial civil-rule history. Each occurrence requires a distinct explanatory clause naming the specific relationship in view, so no single context’s social weight bleeds into the others.


Husband Of One Wife

Approved rendering: एका बायलेचो घोव
Transliteration: ēkā bāylecho ghov
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders

NEW term. Literal calque of μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἀνήρ (Titus 1:6), a historically debated phrase across the wider Christian interpretive tradition (polygamy, divorce/remarriage, singleness). Render literally and flag for mandatory theologian review; do NOT resolve the interpretive debate in translation.


Myths Fables

Approved rendering: दंतकथा
Transliteration: dantakathā
Doctrine: Avoiding Divisive Controversies

NEW term. Renders μῦθοι (Titus 1:14). Must be understood narrowly as false, human-invented teaching opposed to apostolic truth, and must NOT read as a blanket dismissal of Goa’s own respected devotional-narrative genre (the 1616 Kristapurana’s deliberate use of Puranic storytelling conventions to present the Gospel is a documented translation asset per the baseline’s inspiration-of-scripture doctrine); conflating the two would needlessly offend and undercut that precedent.


Reverent Holiness

Approved rendering: पवित्रताय दाखोवपी वागणूक
Transliteration: pavitratāy dākhovpī vāgaṇūk
Doctrine: Self-Control and Godly Character
Rejected alternatives: देवळाकडलें वागणूक (temple-like conduct)

NEW term. Renders ἱεροπρεπής (Titus 2:3), ‘reverent, befitting holiness.’ The Greek root ἱερός is itself ‘temple/sacred’; the Konkani rendering deliberately avoids any word built on a temple-ritual root, anchoring instead to established पवित्र, to prevent the phrase being read as prescribing temple-style ritual decorum rather than godly moral character.


Household Slave

Approved rendering: गुलाम
Transliteration: gulām
Doctrine: Household Relationships and the Master-Slave Instruction

NEW term. Renders δοῦλος in its literal, social-institutional sense (Titus 2:9-10), distinct from δοῦλος θεοῦ (1:1, honorific self-designation) and δουλεύω to passions (3:3, metaphorical bondage to sin). Handle with historical and pastoral sensitivity as an ancient household institution being addressed, not commended as an ideal, and be alert to resonance with Goa’s own caste-stratified social history.


Slave Of God

Approved rendering: देवाचो दास
Transliteration: devāco dās
Doctrine: Apostolic Commission and the Knowledge of Truth

NEW term. Renders δοῦλος θεοῦ (Titus 1:1), Paul’s honorific self-designation — total, voluntary belonging to and service of a master, not degrading. Must be kept distinct from the other two senses of the δοῦλος word family in this letter (household_slave, 2:9-10; enslaved_to_passions, 3:3).


Enslaved To Passions

Approved rendering: गुलाम भशेन सेवा करप
Transliteration: gulām bhaśen sevā karap
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace not Works

NEW term. Renders δουλεύω/δουλεύοντες (Titus 3:3), metaphorical bondage to sinful desires and pleasures, describing believers’ pre-conversion state. Must be clearly marked as metaphorical, distinct from Paul’s voluntary ‘slave of God’ self-designation (1:1) and the literal household-slave/master language (2:9-10).


Renewal

Approved rendering: नवीकरण
Transliteration: navīkaraṇ
Doctrine: Regeneration by the Holy Spirit

NEW term. Renders ἀνακαίνωσις (Titus 3:5), the Spirit’s ongoing, progressive renewal, complementing the once-for-all new birth (नवो जल्म). Related to but distinct from established पवित्रीकरण (sanctification); do not collapse नवीकरण, नवो जल्म, and पवित्रीकरण into one term.


Heir

Approved rendering: वारस
Transliteration: vāras
Doctrine: Inheritance and Adoption as Heirs

NEW term. Renders κληρονόμος (Titus 3:7). Cross-reference explicitly with the baseline’s established दत्तक पुत्र करून घेणें (adoption) doctrine, which already guards against any reading implying reduced inheritance status; Konkani inheritance custom can otherwise read a declared heir as lower-status than a natural-born heir.


Desires Lusts

Approved rendering: वासना
Transliteration: vāsanā
Doctrine: Grace That Trains for Godly Living

NEW term. Renders ἐπιθυμία (Titus 2:12; 3:3). Established Konkani/Marathi Bible-tradition word, but also a technical term in Hindu Vedantic/Yogic psychology for latent karmic impressions carried across rebirths. Must always occur with a disambiguating modifier (e.g. ‘जगीक वायट वासना,’ worldly sinful desire), never standing bare — following the baseline’s own precedent for देव.


Divisive Person

Approved rendering: फूट पाडपी मनीस
Transliteration: phūṭ pāḍpī manīs
Doctrine: Church Discipline of Divisive Persons

NEW term. Renders αἱρετικὸς ἄνθρωπος (Titus 3:10), root of the English ‘heretic’ but here naming persistent, deliberate faction-causing behavior after repeated warning. Must not be rendered so as to justify authoritarian silencing of legitimate disagreement — a live sensitivity given Goa’s history of religiously coercive authority under the Portuguese-era Goa Inquisition (established 1560).


Elect Chosen

Approved rendering: देवान निवडिल्लो
Transliteration: devān nivaḍillo
Doctrine: Divine Calling and Election

NEW term. Renders ἐκλεκτός (Titus 1:1, ‘the faith of God’s elect’). Cross-reference established देवाची निवड; contrast sharply with नशीब/प्रारब्ध (fate/karma-determined destiny), a distinction especially necessary since this concept appears at the letter’s very opening verse without further explanation.


Medium Risk Terms

Apostle

Approved rendering: प्रेषित
Transliteration: preṣit
Doctrine: Apostolic Commission and the Knowledge of Truth
Rejected alternatives: दूत, गुरू

Inherited from Romans package (translation exact). Titus 1:1.


Peace

Approved rendering: शांती
Transliteration: śāntī
Doctrine: Peace with God
Rejected alternatives: सुख, समाधान

Inherited from Romans package (translation exact). Titus 1:4 opening greeting: ‘grace and peace.‘


Disciplined Enkrates

Approved rendering: आत्मसंयमी
Transliteration: ātmasanyamī
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders

NEW term. Renders ἐγκρατής (Titus 1:8), a near-synonym of the self_control family above; same sannyasa-adjacent gloss caution applies.


Lawlessness

Approved rendering: नियमहीनता
Transliteration: niyamahīnatā
Doctrine: Christian Identity as God’s Treasured Possession
Rejected alternatives: अधर्म

NEW term. Renders ἀνομία (Titus 2:14), built on the established नियम root shared with नियमशास्त्र. Deliberately not अधर्म, which would reintroduce धर्म-family vocabulary already rejected by the baseline for ‘righteousness.‘


Rulers Authorities

Approved rendering: अधिकारी आनी सत्ताधारी
Transliteration: adhikārī āni sattādhārī
Doctrine: Submission to Authority

NEW term. Renders ἀρχαὶ καὶ ἐξουσίαι (Titus 3:1). Handle with the same care as Romans 13’s government section, given Goa’s history of contested colonial and pre-colonial rule — submission to civil authority, not endorsement of any particular political regime.


Obey Authority

Approved rendering: हुकूम मानप
Transliteration: hukūm mānap
Doctrine: Submission to Authority

NEW term. Renders πειθαρχέω (Titus 3:1).


Elder

Approved rendering: वडील
Transliteration: vaḍīl
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders

NEW term. Renders πρεσβύτερος (Titus 1:5). Must be marked as a specific appointed church office (e.g. ‘मंडळींत नेमिल्लो वडील’), not merely an elderly or senior family/clan member, a natural but doctrinally imprecise reading of this warm Konkani word.


Overseer

Approved rendering: अध्यक्ष
Transliteration: adhyakṣa
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders

NEW term. Renders ἐπίσκοπος (Titus 1:7), functionally synonymous with वडील in this passage. Must not suggest a separate, higher monarchical office above elder, and must not be assimilated to guru-style religious authority (per the baseline’s existing caution on ‘apostle’).


Steward

Approved rendering: कारभारी
Transliteration: kārbhārī
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders

NEW term. Renders οἰκονόμος (Titus 1:7), ‘God’s household manager,’ positioning the elder as a trustee managing what belongs to God, not an owner in his own right.


Blameless

Approved rendering: निर्दोष
Transliteration: nirdoṣ
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders

NEW term. Renders ἀνέγκλητος (Titus 1:6,7). A reputational, not sinless-perfection, standard.


Holy Devout

Approved rendering: देवभावाचो
Transliteration: devabhāvāco
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders
Rejected alternatives: धर्मीक

NEW term. Renders ὅσιος (Titus 1:8), personal piety/devoutness, distinct in nuance from ἅγιος/पवित्र. Deliberately not धर्मीक (धर्म-root, already avoided throughout this glossary tradition).


Conscience

Approved rendering: मनसाक्ष
Transliteration: manaḥsākṣa
Doctrine: Avoiding Divisive Controversies
Rejected alternatives: अंतरात्मा

NEW term. Renders συνείδησις (Titus 1:15). Preferred over अंतरात्मा (‘inner self/soul’), which risks importing a Vedantic inner-Self (Atman) association.


Integrity Teaching

Approved rendering: सचोटी
Transliteration: sacoṭī
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine and Good Works
Rejected alternatives: सात्विक, सात्विकपण

NEW term. Renders ἀφθορία (Titus 2:7), integrity/incorruptibility specifically in teaching. Deliberately avoids सात्विक/सात्विकपण, a term drawn from Samkhya/Bhagavad-Gita guna-theory (the ‘sattva’ quality) that would import an unrelated Hindu philosophical framework.


Master Despotes

Approved rendering: धनी
Transliteration: dhanī
Doctrine: Household Relationships and the Master-Slave Instruction

NEW term. Renders δεσπότης (Titus 2:9), a human household master. Must never be confused with or substituted for प्रभू (Lord), reserved exclusively for Christ throughout this curriculum.


Mercy

Approved rendering: दया
Transliteration: dayā
Doctrine: Mercy and Kindness of God

NEW term. Renders ἔλεος (Titus 3:5). Distinct from established कृपा (grace): ἔλεος emphasizes compassion toward the wretched/needy specifically, while grace emphasizes unmerited favor as such. Keep the two distinguishable where both occur nearby (3:5,7).


Kindness

Approved rendering: दयाळूपण
Transliteration: dayāḷūpaṇ
Doctrine: Mercy and Kindness of God

NEW term. Renders χρηστότης (Titus 3:4), part of a doublet with φιλανθρωπία (मानवप्रेम) describing God’s character that erupted into visible action at Christ’s appearing. Keep distinguishable from मानवप्रेम despite Konkani lacking two words as cleanly separated as the Greek pair.


Love For Mankind

Approved rendering: मानवप्रेम
Transliteration: mānav-prem
Doctrine: Mercy and Kindness of God

NEW term. Renders φιλανθρωπία (Titus 3:4), God’s benevolent orientation toward humanity as such, not merit-based reward. Doublet with दयाळूपण (χρηστότης).


Washing

Approved rendering: न्हावप
Transliteration: nhāvap
Doctrine: Regeneration by the Holy Spirit

NEW term. Renders λουτρόν (Titus 3:5), the concrete image of cleansing (echoing baptism) accompanying regeneration. Must not be read as merely ritual bathing.


Eternal Life

Approved rendering: सार्वकालिक जिणी
Transliteration: sārvakālik jiṇī
Doctrine: Hope of Eternal Life

NEW term. Renders ζωὴ αἰώνιος (Titus 1:2; 3:7). Must be distinguished from a cyclical/reincarnation-adjacent notion of endless life across many bodies; this is unending life in restored relationship with God, not an endless chain of rebirths.


Hope

Approved rendering: आशा
Transliteration: āśā
Doctrine: Hope of Eternal Life

NEW term. Renders ἐλπίς (Titus 1:2; 2:13; 3:7). Must be reinforced as confident, certain expectation grounded in ‘God who never lies’ (1:2), since ordinary Konkani आशा can carry the weaker sense of a hopeful wish.


Worldly Desires

Approved rendering: जगीक
Transliteration: jagik
Doctrine: Grace That Trains for Godly Living
Rejected alternatives: संसारीक

NEW term. Renders κοσμικός (Titus 2:12). Deliberately not संसारीक, which is built on संसार, the Hindu/Buddhist term for the cycle of worldly existence and rebirth.


Trustworthy Saying

Approved rendering: हें वाक्य विश्वासाजोगें आसा
Transliteration: hẽ vākya viśvāsājoge āsā
Doctrine: God’s Faithfulness and Truthfulness in Promise

NEW term. Fixed formula rendering Πιστὸς ὁ λόγος (Titus 3:8), a repeated Pastoral-Epistle doctrinal-summary marker. Built on established विश्वास root; must be rendered identically at every occurrence of this formula across the curriculum for consistency.


Rebuke Refute

Approved rendering: चूक दाखोवन सुदारप
Transliteration: cūk dākhovan sudārap
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine and Good Works

NEW term. Renders ἐλέγχω (Titus 1:9,13; 2:15). Balance firmness with the letter’s overall invitational tone; sharper at 1:13 (ἀποτόμως, ‘sharply’) than at 2:15.


Foolish Controversies

Approved rendering: मूर्ख वादविवाद
Transliteration: mūrkh vādavivād
Doctrine: Avoiding Divisive Controversies

NEW term. Renders ζητήσεις μωραί (Titus 3:9). Core anchor phrase for this doctrine.


Quarrels About Law

Approved rendering: नियमांविशीं भांडणां
Transliteration: niyamā̃viśī̃ bhāṇḍaṇā̃
Doctrine: Avoiding Divisive Controversies

NEW term. Renders μάχαι νομικαί (Titus 3:9), a rare direct echo of the established नियमशास्त्र (law) root outside its usual doctrinal context.


God Who Cannot Lie

Approved rendering: खोटें कधीच न सांगपी देव
Transliteration: khoṭẽ kadhīc na sāṅgpī dev
Doctrine: God’s Faithfulness and Truthfulness in Promise

NEW term. Renders ἀψευδὴς θεός (Titus 1:2). Grounds the reliability of God’s promise, and by extension the ‘trustworthy saying’ formula (3:8), in God’s own truthful character.


Proclamation Kerygma

Approved rendering: प्रचार
Transliteration: pracār
Doctrine: Apostolic Commission and the Knowledge of Truth

NEW term. Renders κήρυγμα (Titus 1:3). Titus never uses εὐαγγέλιον (gospel, baseline: सुवार्ता) as a noun; translators must not assume automatic equivalence — κήρυγμα names the act of proclaiming, not the content-noun ‘gospel.‘


Knowledge Of Truth

Approved rendering: सत्याचें पुराय ज्ञान
Transliteration: satyāce purāy jñān
Doctrine: Apostolic Commission and the Knowledge of Truth

NEW term. Renders ἐπίγνωσις ἀληθείας (Titus 1:1), ‘full/precise knowledge of the truth that accords with godliness.’ Foundational for the letter’s sound-doctrine and avoiding-divisive-controversies themes; contrast with μῦθοι (myths, दंतकथा).


Low Risk Terms

Exhort

Approved rendering: उत्तेजन देणें
Transliteration: uttejan denẽ
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine and Good Works

Inherited from Romans package (translation exact). Context-sensitive across विनवणी (entreaty) and उत्तेजन देणें (encouragement); Titus 1:9; 2:6,15.


Genealogies

Approved rendering: वंशावळी
Transliteration: vanśāvaḷī
Doctrine: Avoiding Divisive Controversies

NEW term. Renders γενεαλογίαι (Titus 3:9).

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