Linguistic Gap Analysis
Philippians Linguistic Gap Analysis (Korean)
1. Purpose and Method
This analysis answers four questions for every doctrine in the Philippians curriculum:
- What Korean vocabulary already exists (from the Romans baseline or general Korean Christian usage) to carry this doctrine?
- Where does that vocabulary fall short — either because no adequate term exists (a gap), or because the available term sits inside a crowded semantic neighborhood shared with Korean shamanism (무속신앙), Confucian social ethics, Buddhist soteriology, or modern secular achievement culture?
- For each load-bearing term, should Phase 2 transliterate, coin a paraphrase, or reuse an established compound — and why?
- Across the whole letter, which specific verse-level ambiguities carry the highest risk of doctrinal distortion, ranked for review-routing priority?
Method: each of the eight assigned curriculum doctrines was cross-checked against (a) the Romans baseline translation_memory.json/doctrine_risk_registry.json for reusable terms and already-documented collision patterns, and (b) the Philippians-specific 08_core_glossary.md and bible_term_registry.json extension for new load-bearing vocabulary. Korea’s religious landscape is treated as genuinely plural and live — shamanism (무속신앙), Buddhism, Confucian social ethics, and a highly Christianized but achievement-driven modern culture all continue to supply competing frames a lay Korean reader may unconsciously import.
2. Doctrine Vocabulary Matrix
| Doctrine | Available Korean Terms | Weaknesses / Gaps | Recommended Strategy |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Incarnation and Self-Emptying of Christ (Kenosis) | 성육신 (incarnation, REUSED Critical); 자기 비움/자기를 비우다 (kenosis, NEW Critical); 본체 (form of God, NEW Critical); 형체 (form of servant, NEW Critical); 취할 것 (harpagmos, NEW Critical); 하나님과 동등됨 (equality with God, NEW Critical); 지극히 높이다 (highly exalted, NEW Critical); 시인하다 (confess, NEW Critical) | 성육신 is solid and established, but the kenosis half of the doctrine has no equally settled Korean theological compound — the available candidate word 비움 belongs to Korean Buddhism’s 공(空)/무아(無我) vocabulary and to the widely read monk Beopjeong’s popular 무소유 spirituality. There is no existing Christian-specific coinage in general Korean church usage that cleanly separates “Christ’s self-emptying” from “Buddhist self-dissolution.” | Retain the paraphrase 자기를 비우다 (not a single-word coinage, not a transliteration) precisely because its two morphemes (자기, “self”; 비우다, “to empty”) allow a teaching note to invert the Buddhist reading explicitly: Christ empties himself of the display of privilege, not of selfhood, and does so by adding a human nature, not by dissolving toward non-being. Mandatory paired teaching note at every occurrence (2:7). Human theologian review required for every occurrence, per 08’s Critical rating. |
| Joy in Suffering and Imprisonment | 기쁨/기뻐하다 (joy, NEW High); 고난/환난 (suffering, NEW High); 매임/갇힘 (bonds, NEW Medium); 은혜를 주신 것 (suffering as grace-gift, NEW Critical); 사는 것이 그리스도니 죽는 것도 유익함이라 (to live is Christ, NEW High) | Korean has an unusually rich vocabulary for suffering generally, including the culturally distinctive concept of 한(han) — a long-accumulated, often unresolved communal/personal sorrow. 한 is not a doctrinal risk term (it is not a false doctrine to reject) but a gap: there is no existing Christian technical vocabulary distinguishing gospel-joy-amid-suffering from either (a) 한’s accumulation-and-endurance pattern (which has no built-in resolution or transformation) or (b) folk-religious readings of suffering as 액운 (fate-derived misfortune) or 벌 (divine/karmic punishment). | Use established 고난/환난 and 기쁨/기뻐하다 exactly, but supplement teaching material (not the translated text itself) with an explicit contrastive note: gospel joy does not deny or merely endure suffering as 한 does, nor treat it as 액운/벌; it actively reframes suffering as itself grace-given (1:29, 은혜를 주신 것) with a resolution (Christ, gain in death, 1:21). This is a teaching-layer gap, not a lexical one — no new term is needed, but a doctrinal footnote is mandatory at 1:29-30. |
| Unity and Humility in the Church | 겸손 (humility, NEW High); 같은 마음을 가지다/마음을 품다 (phroneō motif, NEW High); 한마음 (one in spirit, NEW Medium); 다툼 (selfish ambition, NEW Medium); 허영 (vain conceit, NEW Medium); 관용 (gentleness, NEW Medium); 교회 (church, REUSED Medium); 성령 (Holy Spirit, REUSED Critical) | 겸손 is fully available and idiomatic, but it sits inside a crowded neighborhood: Korean Confucian social ethics has a robust, everyday sense of 겸손 as a subordinate’s self-deprecating deference toward a superior (a junior bowing to a senior, an employee to a boss). Philippians 2:3-8 describes the reverse vector — a superior (Christ, equal with God) voluntarily lowering himself for those with no claim on him. Without correction, Korean readers may default to the hierarchical-deference reading and miss the status-reversal force of the passage. | Retain 겸손 (no better single word exists and the term is too embedded to replace), but require a translator’s/teacher’s note at 2:3-8 clarifying the direction of the reversal: not “junior defers to senior” but “the superior lowers himself for the lesser.” This distinguishes doctrine from cultural default without requiring new vocabulary. φρονέω-family terms (마음을 품다) must render identically across all seven occurrences (1:7; 2:2; 2:5; 3:15,19; 4:2,10) so the “mind of Christ” (2:5) reads as the climax of one running motif, not an isolated command — a consistency gap, not a translation gap. |
| Righteousness by Faith versus the Law | 의 (righteousness, REUSED Critical); 율법 (law, REUSED High); 믿음 (faith, REUSED High); 의로 여기심 (imputed righteousness, REUSED Critical); 할례 (circumcision, NEW High); 손 할례당 (mutilation wordplay, NEW Medium); 육체를 신뢰하다 (confidence in flesh, NEW High); 해로 여김/배설물 (loss/rubbish, NEW High) | The Romans baseline already fences 의 against 의리 (loyalty-ethics), but Philippians 3:6,9 is where this fencing becomes load-bearing rather than background: Paul explicitly opposes “a righteousness of my own from the law” (의리-adjacent, credential-based) to “the righteousness from God through faith” (의로 여기심). The risk is not a missing term but a doctrinal-emphasis gap — 3:9’s antithesis is the clearest place in the whole two-book curriculum (Romans + Philippians) to make the 의/의리 distinction concrete and must not be treated as merely a repeat of Romans vocabulary. | No new terms required; reuse 의, 율법, 믿음, 의로 여기심 exactly per the Romans TM. Require a dedicated translator’s note at 3:9 (not merely a generic flag) walking through Paul’s own two-part antithesis (law-righteousness rejected / faith-righteousness received) so the abstract Romans-level distinction becomes concretely visible in this autobiographical passage. σκύβαλα (배설물) must retain its crude, established force — do not soften. |
| Contentment in All Circumstances | 자족 (autarkeia, NEW Critical); 비결 (learned the secret, NEW Critical); 내게 능력 주시는 자 (him who strengthens me, NEW Critical); 평강 (peace of God, NEW/nuance High) | This is the letter’s single most crowded neighborhood cluster in the entire curriculum. Three separate popular Korean frames converge on 4:11-13: (1) Buddhist-popularized 무소유 (“non-possession,” self-disciplined detachment from desire) as a contentment path; (2) the ubiquitous secular self-help register of 비결 (“the secret/formula for success,” e.g. “성공의 비결,” “다이어트의 비결”); and (3) 4:13 as Korea’s most commonly decontextualized “success verse,” printed on merchandise and quoted before exams, sports, and business ventures. None of the available Korean words are wrong per se — 자족, 비결, and 능력 are all standard, established renderings — but together, without fencing, they form a near-perfect verbal match for a self-help/prosperity reading Paul is not making. | Retain all three established renderings (they are correct), but require: (a) mandatory footnoting at 4:11-13 anchoring “the secret” and “him who strengthens me” to the actual content of vv.11-12 (contentment amid both want and plenty — a learned posture, not a technique for guaranteed outcomes); (b) explicit contrast statement against 무소유 (Paul’s contentment is Christ-dependent, not self-disciplined detachment) and against decontextualized “success verse” usage; (c) Human theologian review mandatory for every occurrence of all three terms, per 08’s Critical rating — the highest concentration of Critical terms per verse-count in the letter. |
| Citizenship in Heaven | 시민권 (citizenship, NEW High); 구주 (savior, NEW Critical); 낮은 몸/영광의 몸 (body of humiliation/glory, NEW Medium-High); 합당하게 생활하라 (conduct worthily, citizenship verb, NEW High) | Two distinct gaps stack here. First, a narrowing gap: modern Korean 시민권 primarily denotes legal/passport citizenship (a bureaucratic-administrative concept), which under-translates πολίτευμα’s richer sense of present community-identity and homeland-belonging. Second, a collision gap: Korea’s strong ethnic-nationalist self-concept of 단일민족 (“a single, homogeneous ethnic nation,” already flagged High risk in the Romans baseline) risks either (a) heavenly citizenship being read as simply one more competing national-identity claim layered on top of Korean identity, or (b) the doctrine being flattened into a diplomatic-sounding dual-citizenship metaphor that loses its relativizing force over ordinary national belonging. | Retain 시민권 (no better established alternative exists and coining a new word risks obscurity), but require explicit teaching-note fencing at 3:20 distinguishing this from mere legal-status language and from a “second passport” reading — heavenly citizenship is the believer’s primary, defining identity, not an additional administrative status alongside Korean nationality. Flag 1:27’s πολιτεύεσθε inclusio (rendered generically as 합당하게 생활하라 in established KRV, losing the citizen-word link to 3:20) with a translator’s note so teachers can draw the connection even though the base text vocabulary differs. |
| Partnership in the Gospel | 교제 (fellowship, REUSED base Low, escalated to High in Philippians); 복음의 동참 (NEW High); 동역자 (co-worker, NEW Medium); 주고받는 것 (giving and receiving, NEW High); 향기로운 제물/받으실 만한 희생 제사 (fragrant sacrifice, NEW High); 전제와 같이 부어지다 (drink offering, NEW High) | Multiple financial/sacrificial-giving terms cluster in ch. 4, and each independently touches Korean churches’ well-documented “seed-faith”/prosperity-offering culture — giving calibrated to expect proportional material blessing in return, the same 기복신앙 (fortune-seeking faith) pattern already flagged Critical for “grace” in the Romans baseline. This is not a single-term problem but a cumulative framing gap: four separate vocabulary items (동참, 주고받는 것, 향기로운 제물, 전제) all touch giving/offering, and if even one is mistaught transactionally, the others tend to be reinterpreted the same way by association. | Reuse 교제 for cross-document consistency (per the Romans TM); supplement, never replace, with 동참/동역 in teaching contexts to carry Philippians’ stronger active-participation sense. Require one consolidated teaching note covering all four giving/offering terms together (rather than four separate isolated notes) making explicit that the Philippians’ gift is covenant-partnership love and worship-expression, not a blessing-purchasing exchange — this guards against the cumulative-association risk more effectively than fencing each term individually. The drink-offering image (2:17) additionally requires explicit distinction from the Korean ancestor-rite libation (제사, jesa) already flagged Critical under “Father” in the Romans baseline. |
| Pressing on toward the Goal in Christ | 좇다/따르다 (press on, NEW High); 상/푯대 (prize/goal, NEW Medium); 온전히 이루다 (perfected, NEW High); 부르심 (calling, REUSED High); 위에서 부르신 부름 (upward call, NEW High) | Korea’s intensely competitive, achievement-oriented culture (already flagged under “glory”/출세 and “election” in the Romans baseline) supplies a ready-made and doctrinally inverted frame for this entire doctrine: effortful, merit-based striving toward a self-earned outcome. Separately, Korean religious vocabulary already has established self-cultivation-attainment terms for “completion/perfection” (도통, “mastering the Way”; 성불, “attaining Buddhahood”) that could silently substitute for Paul’s explicit denial of present self-attained perfection (3:12). | Retain established terms 좇다/따르다, 상/푯대, 온전히 이루다 exactly, but require: (a) a teaching note at 3:12b anchoring the pursuit in grace — Paul presses on because Christ has already laid hold of him, reversing the achievement-culture default of self-initiated striving; (b) explicit denial-of-attainment framing at 3:12a distinguishing 온전히 이루다 from 도통/성불-style self-mastery. No new coinage needed; this is a framing gap, addressed through mandatory contextual notes rather than lexical substitution. |
3. Missing Vocabulary vs. Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods
3.1 Genuine Missing-Vocabulary Gaps (no adequate existing Korean term)
These are cases where Korean simply lacks a single established word or compound that captures the biblical concept without either coining a new phrase or accepting an imperfect existing one:
| Concept | Gap Description | Resolution |
|---|---|---|
| κενόω (kenosis) as a positive, addition-based self-limitation | No Korean word exists for “voluntarily declining to exercise a privilege one still possesses” distinct from “emptying oneself of being.” | Paraphrase 자기를 비우다 retained, with mandatory contrastive teaching note (see §2). |
| ἁρπαγμός (a status not to be exploited) | No single Korean noun captures “a thing already possessed but not seized/exploited for advantage” — most candidate words import either the “seizing” or “obtaining” sense but not both together with the “already possessed” nuance. | Paraphrase 취할 것 (“a thing to be taken/grasped”) with fencing note clarifying Christ was not lacking deity. |
| φρονέω as thought-plus-disposition | No single Korean verb captures the blend of cognitive orientation and settled attitude that runs through the letter’s unity motif. | Paraphrase 마음을 품다/같은 마음을 가지다 retained; consistency across all 7 occurrences prioritized over lexical elegance. |
| αὐτάρκεια as a specifically Christ-dependent (not self-generated) contentment | No existing Korean Christian term distinguishes “learned Christ-dependent contentment” from either the Stoic self-sufficiency ideal or Buddhist-flavored non-attachment; 자족 alone does not carry this distinction. | Retain 자족, add mandatory contrastive footnote (see §2) rather than coin an unfamiliar new compound that would alienate readers. |
3.2 Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods Requiring Fencing
These are cases where adequate, even excellent, existing Korean vocabulary is available — the risk is that the same word already has a strong competing home in another live tradition, requiring active textual/teaching “fencing” rather than vocabulary substitution:
| Korean Term | Competing Neighborhood | Doctrine at Risk | Fencing Strategy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 비움/자기 비움 | Buddhist 공(空)/무아(無我); Beopjeong’s popular 무소유 spirituality | Incarnation/Kenosis | Mandatory contrast note at every 2:7 occurrence; never used unqualified. |
| 능력 | Shamanistic 영력 (mudang’s spirit-power); modern Korean charismatic “power” ministry culture; decontextualized “success verse” quoting of 4:13 | Power of God for Salvation; Contentment | Always anchor to 4:11-13’s actual content (contentment amid both want and plenty) or to 3:10’s fellowship-of-sufferings pairing; never excerpted as a stand-alone slogan. |
| 비결 | Modern secular self-help/success-formula register (“성공의 비결”) | Contentment | Mandatory footnote at 4:12 tying “the secret” to the hard-won, circumstance-tested posture of vv.11-12, not a transferable technique. |
| 겸손 | Confucian hierarchical deference (subordinate-to-superior politeness) | Unity and Humility | Teaching note clarifying the reversed vector: superior lowering himself for the lesser (2:3-8). |
| 시민권 | Legal/administrative citizenship; 단일민족 ethnic-nationalist self-concept | Citizenship in Heaven | Teaching note distinguishing primary spiritual identity from legal/national status; not a “second passport.” |
| 전제 (drink offering) | 제사 (jesa) ancestor-rite libation gesture | Joy in Suffering / self-giving ministry | Explicit note: Paul’s self-offering is to God alone through gospel ministry, never toward or on behalf of the deceased. |
| 주고받는 것 / 향기로운 제물 | 기복신앙 seed-faith/prosperity-offering giving culture | Partnership in the Gospel | Consolidated teaching note (see §2) covering all giving/offering vocabulary together. |
| 좇다/따르다, 온전히 이루다 | Achievement/competition culture (출세); self-cultivation attainment (도통, 성불) | Pressing on toward the Goal | Grace-grounding note at 3:12b; explicit not-yet-complete framing at 3:12a. |
| 의 | Confucian/popular 의리 (loyalty-ethics, gangster-film honor code) | Righteousness by Faith vs. Law | Dedicated antithesis note at 3:9 (see §2), sharper than the Romans-level generic flag. |
| 부르심 | 팔자/사주팔자 (birth-chart fate, folk astrology) | Pressing on toward the Goal (3:14’s “upward call”) | Retain Romans TM fencing; reaffirm personal-summons sense at 3:14. |
3.3 Net Assessment
Philippians introduces comparatively few pure missing-vocabulary gaps (§3.1) relative to the Romans baseline — Korean’s mature, century-old Protestant Bible tradition already supplies workable renderings for nearly every Philippians-specific term. The dominant risk pattern in this letter is instead neighborhood crowding (§3.2): correct, established words that nonetheless sit inside live, culturally powerful alternative frameworks (shamanistic power-seeking, Buddhist non-attachment/emptying, Confucian hierarchical deference, modern success-formula rhetoric, and prosperity-giving culture). This shifts the Phase 2 translation burden away from lexical invention and toward mandatory contextual fencing: footnotes, paired-verse teaching requirements, and human-review routing bear more of the doctrinal-protection weight in Philippians than new coinages do.
4. Transliteration vs. Paraphrase Decisions
| Term | Decision | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| κενόω (kenosis) | Paraphrase (자기를 비우다), not transliteration (케노시스) | A Greek loanword transliteration would be theologically opaque to a lay curriculum audience and would forfeit the very self/emptying morpheme structure that makes the contrastive teaching note (vs. Buddhist self-dissolution) legible in Korean. Transliteration reserved only as an optional parenthetical technical gloss “(κένωσις, 케노시스)” for seminary-level teacher notes, never in the base translated text. |
| ἁρπαγμός (harpagmos) | Paraphrase (취할 것) | No established Korean transliteration tradition exists for this term (unlike, e.g., 아멘/할렐루야); a loanword would be unintelligible. Paraphrase carries the doctrinal weight instead, fenced by teaching note. |
| μορφή (morphē, “form”) | Established compound, not transliteration (본체 / 형체) | Korean theological tradition already distinguishes these two senses with existing compounds; introducing a transliterated “모르페” would abandon a working, doctrinally precise existing solution for no gain. |
| αὐτάρκεια (autarkeia) | Paraphrase (자족), retaining existing KRV term | Well-established in Korean Bible tradition; transliteration would be both unnecessary and alienating. Risk is managed through footnoting, not through lexical choice. |
| μεμύημαι (memyēmai, “I have learned the secret,” from mystery-initiation vocabulary) | Paraphrase using existing KRV term (비결), not a technical transliteration of the mystery-religion background | The Greek’s mystery-cult background is itself a teaching point best explained in a footnote rather than imported as a loanword; 비결 is the term to fence, not replace. |
| Abba (Aramaic, Romans 8:15; referenced conceptually near Philippians’ father/sonship theme) | Transliteration retained (아빠, per Romans TM) | Already established in the Romans baseline as an unusually well-fitting near-cognate; no change needed for Philippians. |
| Proper names: Euodia, Syntyche, Epaphroditus, Clement, Caesar’s household | Transliteration (유오디아, 순두게, 에바브로디도, 글레멘드, 가이사의 집) | Standard KRV proper-name transliteration practice; these carry no doctrinal risk and should follow established Bible-translation-tradition forms exactly, consistent with the Cross-Reference Preservation Rules in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md. |
| δοῦλος (doulos, “slave/servant”) applied to Paul (1:1) and Christ (2:7) | Established compound, not transliteration (종) | 종 is a real, weighty Korean word (recalling the abolished pre-modern bondservant class, 노비) already used in established Christian usage for self-abasing servanthood; must be retained (not softened to a milder “helper/minister” word) precisely to preserve the deliberate literary echo between Paul’s self-designation and Christ’s kenosis in 2:7. |
| πολίτευμα (citizenship) | Established term, not a new coinage (시민권) | Coining an unfamiliar new compound to avoid the legal-citizenship narrowing risk would create a worse problem (reader confusion) than fencing the existing, recognizable term with a teaching note. |
| κοινωνία (fellowship/partnership) | Reuse of established base term, supplemented by paraphrase in teaching layer (교제 retained in translated text; 동참/동역 used only in surrounding teaching material) | Preserves the Romans TM’s cross-document consistency rule (same Korean term for the same Greek term across all curricula) while still allowing Philippians’ stronger participatory sense to be taught without altering the base rendering itself. |
General principle governing all decisions above: transliteration is reserved exclusively for (a) established proper names, and (b) theological loanwords already fixed in Korean Bible tradition (아멘, 할렐루야). Every doctrinally load-bearing common-noun or verb-phrase concept in Philippians is handled through paraphrase or an existing compound, with doctrinal protection achieved through mandatory footnoting/teaching notes rather than through the lexical choice alone. This mirrors the Romans baseline’s own pattern (e.g., 성육신, 의로 여기심 are paraphrase-compounds, not transliterations).
5. Ranked List of Highest-Risk Ambiguities in Philippians
Ranked by combined severity (doctrinal centrality × real-world collision likelihood, per the Romans baseline’s Critical/High/Medium/Low framework), highest first. All Critical-tier entries require mandatory human theologian review per occurrence.
- 내게 능력 주시는 자 / 능력 (Philippians 4:13) — Critical. The single highest real-world collision risk in the letter: routinely excerpted as a talismanic success-guarantee slogan (exams, sports, business), directly continuous with the Romans baseline’s 영력/능력 shamanistic-power warning. Must always be anchored to 4:11-12’s contentment-amid-want-and-plenty context.
- 비결 (Philippians 4:12) — Critical. Modern Korean’s extremely common self-help register (“성공의 비결”) makes this the most idiomatically natural-sounding but doctrinally riskiest word choice in the chapter; compounds directly with risk #1.
- 자기를 비우다 / kenosis (Philippians 2:7) — Critical. Direct lexical overlap with Buddhist 공/무아 vocabulary and Beopjeong’s popular 무소유 spirituality; the doctrinal center of the core passage (2:1-11) is at stake.
- 자족 / autarkeia (Philippians 4:11) — Critical. Resonates with both the Stoic self-sufficiency ideal Paul is subverting and Korean Buddhist-popularized non-possession spirituality; without fencing, Paul’s Christ-dependence claim (4:13) can be silently dropped.
- 취할 것 / harpagmos and 하나님과 동등됨 / equality with God (Philippians 2:6) — Critical. Any softening here (“something to attain,” “similar to God”) directly compromises the deity_of_christ doctrine at its single clearest statement in this letter.
- 너희 구원을 이루라 (Philippians 2:12), decoupled from 2:13 — Critical. Superficially synergistic phrasing; without mandatory pairing with “God who works in you,” risks a self-cultivation-attainment misreading parallel to the Romans baseline’s forbidden justification substitutions.
- 은혜를 주신 것 / suffering as grace-gift (Philippians 1:29) — Critical/High. Counter-intuitive doctrinal claim (suffering itself is grace) easily overridden by the folk-religious default reading of suffering as 액운 (misfortune) or 벌 (punishment).
- 의 in the law/faith antithesis (Philippians 3:6, 9) — Critical. The 의/의리 collision inherited from Romans becomes acutely load-bearing here, since Paul’s own autobiographical contrast makes the distinction concrete rather than abstract; a missed distinction here undermines the letter’s central soteriological argument.
- 전제와 같이 부어지다 / drink offering (Philippians 2:17) — High. Visual/gestural overlap with the jesa ancestor-rite libation, a documented historically sensitive collision point already Critical under “Father” in the Romans baseline.
- 겸손 (Philippians 2:3) — High. Confucian hierarchical-deference default risks inverting the direction of the status-reversal Paul describes (superior lowering himself, not subordinate deferring upward).
- 시민권 (Philippians 3:20) — High. Dual risk of legal-citizenship narrowing and unintended interaction with Korea’s 단일민족 ethnic-nationalist self-concept.
- 주고받는 것 / 향기로운 제물 (Philippians 4:15, 18) — High. Cumulative-association risk with Korean churches’ seed-faith/prosperity-offering culture; risk compounds across multiple giving-vocabulary terms in the same chapter.
- 좇다/따르다 and 온전히 이루다 (Philippians 3:12, 14) — High. Korea’s achievement/competition culture supplies a ready merit-based misreading; self-cultivation-attainment vocabulary (도통/성불) is a live substitution risk if fencing notes are omitted.
- 교제 escalation to a partnership/participatory sense (Philippians 1:5; 2:1; 3:10) — High (escalated from the Romans baseline’s Low/generic rating). Risk is under-translation (reading only the relational-fellowship sense) rather than a forbidden-term collision, but still requires deliberate teaching-layer supplementation.
- 평강 vs. 화평 (Philippians 1:2; 4:7, 9) — High. Risk of the two established KRV peace-terms being treated as freely interchangeable, collapsing the doctrinal (peace-with-God) and experiential (heart-guarding peace) senses the Korean tradition otherwise keeps usefully distinct.
Coverage note: all four chapters of Philippians were reviewed for this analysis. No chapter was found to contribute zero new vocabulary or ambiguity; chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4 each surface at least one item in the ranked list above (ch.1: #7, #9, #14, #15; ch.2: #3, #4 [context-setting], #5, #6, #9, #10; ch.3: #8, #11, #13; ch.4: #1, #2, #4, #12, #15).