Core Glossary
Core Glossary: 1 Thessalonians (English → Kurdish, Kurmanji)
Section A — Baseline Terms Reused Exactly (from Romans translation_memory.json)
| Term (English) | Kurdish Rendering | Risk (Baseline) | 1 Thessalonians Occurrences | Reuse Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gospel | Mizgînî | Medium | 1:5, 2:2, 2:4, 2:8-9, 3:2 | No change; reuse exactly. |
| Grace | Kerem | High | 1:1, 5:28 | No change; reuse exactly. |
| Faith | Îman | High | 1:3, 1:8, 3:2-10, 5:8 | No change; reuse exactly. |
| Salvation | Rizgarî | Critical | 5:8, 5:9 | Must remain anchored to personal spiritual deliverance, not nationalist liberation, exactly per baseline note. |
| Called / Calling | Bangkirî / Vexwendin | High | 2:12, 4:7, 5:24 | No change; reuse exactly. Context in each occurrence is calling to holiness/sanctification, not apostleship. |
| Holy | Pîroz | Medium | throughout (root of “saints,” “Holy Spirit,” “holy kiss”) | No change; reuse exactly. |
| Saints | Pîrozan | High | 3:13 | Must be taught as the corporate body of all believers, not a hereditary Sufi-style spiritual elite, per baseline note. |
| Sanctification | Teqdîs | High | 4:3, 4:4, 4:7, 5:23 | CENTRAL doctrinal term of this curriculum’s “Sanctification” doctrine; no change, reuse exactly, never substitute “Pakkirin.” |
| Resurrection | Rabûn | Critical | 4:14, 4:16 (verb forms) | CENTRAL doctrinal term of “Resurrection of Believers”; no change, reuse exactly. |
| Lord | Xudan | Critical | throughout (1:1, 1:6, 1:8, 4:15-17, 5:2, 5:9, 5:12, 5:23, 5:27, etc.) | No change; reuse exactly. Never soften to mere “master” or “owner.” |
| Son of God | Kurê Xwedê | Critical | 1:10 | No change; reuse exactly. |
| Peace | Aştî | Medium | 1:1, 5:3, 5:13, 5:23 | No change; reuse exactly. |
| Church | Dêr / Civata Mesîhî | High | 1:1, 2:14 | Use “Civata Mesîhî” for the gathered-people sense throughout (matches all occurrences in this letter). |
| Kingdom of God | Padîşahiya Xwedê | Critical | 2:12 | No change; must retain exclusively spiritual framing per baseline forbidden-substitution rule. |
| Sin | Guneh | High | 2:16 | No change; reuse exactly. |
| Gentiles | Ne-cihû | Medium | 2:14 (implied), 4:5 | No change; reuse exactly. |
| Glory | Rûmet | Medium | 2:6, 2:12, 2:20 | No change; reuse exactly. |
| Election | Hilbijartin | High | 1:4 | No change; reuse exactly. Must not read as a democratic vote. |
| Power of God | Hêza Xwedê | Medium | 1:5 | No change; reuse exactly. |
| Jesus | Îsa | Critical | throughout | No change; reuse exactly. |
| God | Xwedê | Critical | throughout | No change; reuse exactly. |
| Holy Spirit | Ruhê Pîroz | Critical | 1:5-6, 4:8, 5:19 | No change; reuse exactly. |
| Father | Bav | Critical | 1:1, 1:3, 3:11, 3:13 | No change; reuse exactly. |
| Exhort | Handan kirin / Şîret kirin | Low | 2:12, 3:2, 4:1, 4:10, 4:18, 5:11, 5:12, 5:14 | Context-sensitive per baseline note: “handan kirin” for comfort/encouragement (4:18, 5:11), “şîret kirin” for admonition (5:12, 5:14). |
| David | Dawid | Low | — (not directly named, but Davidic/Messianic framework underlies 1:10, Messiah) | No occurrence of the name itself in 1 Thessalonians, but the Messiah term below inherits this background. |
| Messiah / Christ | Mesîh | Critical | throughout (“Jesus Christ,” “Lord Jesus Christ”) | No change; reuse exactly. |
| Prophecy | Pêxemberî | Low | 5:20 | No change; reuse exactly. Baseline finality-of-prophethood caution still applies. |
| Thanksgiving | Spasî | Low | 1:2, 2:13, 3:9, 5:18 | No change; reuse exactly. |
| Mutual Edification | (concept; “ava kirin” = build up) | Low | 5:11 | No change; reuse exactly. |
Section B — New Terms Proposed for 1 Thessalonians
(All new terms below require formal addition to translation_memory.json with version increment before Phase 2 processing, per the pre-flight checklist in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.)
| # | Term (English) | Greek / Translit. | Kurdish Rendering | Alternatives Rejected | Risk | Doctrine | Occurrences | Risk Reason (grounded, specific) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The coming / parousia of the Lord | παρουσία / parousia | Hatina Xudan | ”Vegera Xudan” (rejected as primary in-text rendering — see term note) | Critical | The Return of Christ | 2:19, 3:13, 4:15, 5:23 | ”Vegera” is the dominant contemporary Kurdish word for the emotionally-charged political/diasporic “return of refugees to the homeland,” risking the term absorbing that national longing rather than Christ’s personal, visible return. Additionally, mainstream Sunni Islamic eschatology already contains a specific, developed doctrine of Isa’s (Jesus’s) return (nuzul Isa) with content (defeating the Dajjal, dying in submission to Islam) that directly contradicts this passage’s claim; must be taught against that specific backdrop, not assumed neutral. |
| 2 | Caught up (rapture) | ἁρπαγησόμεθα / harpagēsometha (ἁρπάζω / harpazō) | Hilkişandin | ”Revandin” (rejected — see risk reason) | Critical | The Return of Christ; Resurrection of Believers | 4:17 | ”Revandin” (the more literal “snatch away” cognate) is the specific, live Kurdish term for bride abduction/elopement (“revandina bûkê”), a real and sensitive cultural practice; using it here would badly and specifically distort this doctrine by importing that association. |
| 3 | Sleep (euphemism for believers’ death) | κοιμωμένων / koimōmenōn (κοιμάομαι / koimaomai) | Razayî (adj./participle: “yên razayî”) | — | High | Resurrection of Believers; Hope in Grief | 4:13, 4:14, 4:15 | Must be kept clearly distinct in Kurdish from the different Greek word and negative sense of “sleep” used for spiritual apathy in 5:6-7, to avoid conflating a term of hope with a term of warning. |
| 4 | Sleep (moral/spiritual apathy) | καθεύδοντες / katheudontes | descriptive phrase, e.g. “di xewa exlaqî de” | bare reuse of “razayî” (rejected — see risk reason) | Medium | Sanctification; The Day of the Lord | 5:6, 5:7 | A different Greek word from #3 above with an unrelated, negative sense (complacency, not death); using the same Kurdish root without a disambiguating qualifier risks readers conflating the two “sleeps.” |
| 5 | Day of the Lord | ἡμέρα κυρίου / hēmera kyriou | Roja Xudan | — | Critical | The Day of the Lord | 5:2 | Mainstream regional Islamic eschatology has a well-developed, structurally parallel category (Yawm al-Qiyamah/Yawm ad-Din) with specific additional content (intercession, the Scales, the Bridge) not present in this text; the term is a comprehension asset but risks importing that fuller scheme unless explicitly anchored to this passage’s own content. |
| 6 | Archangel | ἀρχάγγελος / archangelos | Serfirişte | direct substitution with a named Quranic angel (Jibril, Mikail, Israfil, Azrail) (rejected) | High | The Return of Christ | 4:16 | Regional Islamic vocabulary shares the angel concept and includes specific named archangels; the text names no specific angel, and audiences must not be led to assume identification with a Quranic figure. |
| 7 | Trumpet of God | σάλπιγγι θεοῦ / salpingi theou | Boriya Xwedê | ”Sûra Xwedê” (rejected — see risk reason) | Critical | The Return of Christ; The Day of the Lord | 4:16 | ”Sûr” is the specific Quranic-derived term for the archangel Israfil’s eschatological trumpet (Q39:68), a well-known folk-Islamic narrative element; using it would directly import that narrative’s specific sequence and figure into this text rather than this passage’s own distinct scene. |
| 8 | Wrath (of God) | ὀργή / orgē | Xezeb | — | High | The Day of the Lord; Salvation (cf. baseline) | 1:10, 2:16, 5:9 | Shares a broadly compatible concept with Islamic ghadab Allah, an asset for comprehension, but must retain a personal, moral character mediated specifically through Christ’s rescue (1:10), not generic fatalistic doom. |
| 9 | Idols | εἴδωλα / eidōla | Pût | — | High | (background to conversion/sanctification) | 1:9 | Regional discourse sometimes pejoratively mischaracterizes the distinct Yazidi faith as “idol worship” or devil-worship; this term must be anchored explicitly to the historical Greco-Roman pagan cult context Paul addresses, not left to be heard as commentary on a living minority religious community. |
| 10 | Satan | Σατανᾶς / Satanas | Şeytan | — | Medium | (background) | 2:18 | Direct cognate with regional Islamic Shaytan; largely an asset, but ensure the passage’s specific claim (a personal being actively hindering gospel ministry) remains clear rather than a vague folk-superstition reference. |
| 11 | Tempter | ὁ πειράζων / ho peirazōn | Ceribiner | — | Medium | (background) | 3:5 | Descriptive title for Satan’s specific role; low independent risk beyond the “Satan” entry above. |
| 12 | Hope | ἐλπίς / elpis | Hêvî | — | High | Hope in Grief; The Return of Christ | 1:3, 4:13, 5:8 | Must be taught as confident, resurrection-grounded expectation, in contrast to a regional piety in which certainty of one’s own final outcome is often treated as presumptuous (cf. baseline’s Assurance of Salvation note in the Romans doctrine registry). |
| 13 | Grief / mourning | λύπη, λυπέω / lypē, lypeomai | Xem (noun); xemgîn bûn (verb) | outright prohibition-style rendering implying “do not grieve at all” (rejected) | High | Hope in Grief | 4:13 | Kurdish mourning custom (şîn), with expected communal wailing and ritual lament, is a deeply significant cultural practice; the text must be rendered as prohibiting hopeless grief specifically, not grief itself, to avoid being heard as forbidding legitimate cultural mourning. |
| 14 | Love (agapē) | ἀγάπη / agapē | Evîn | plain “hezkirin” alone for the full theological weight (rejected as insufficient in key passages) | High | Sanctification; Hope in Grief (armor of 5:8) | 1:3, 3:12, 4:9, 5:8, 5:13 | Kurdish classical Sufi poetry (Melayê Cizîrî, Ehmedê Xanî — already flagged in the Romans baseline’s Father/Glory entries) cultivates an intimate mystical lover/beloved register tending toward union/absorption; Paul’s agapē must be taught as committed, self-giving, covenantal love between distinct persons, not mystical merger. |
| 15 | Brotherly love | φιλαδελφία / philadelphia | Evîna Biratiyê | — | Medium | Sanctification | 4:9 | Compound of #14; specific communal-family love among believers; standard risk of #14 applies at reduced intensity. |
| 16 | Holiness (as quality/state) | ἁγιωσύνη / hagiōsynē | Pîrozî | interchangeable use with “Teqdîs” (rejected — see risk reason) | Medium-High | Sanctification | 3:13 | Distinguish from baseline Teqdîs (the ongoing Spirit-worked process of sanctification); hagiōsynē names the resulting holy state/character. Using the two terms interchangeably without care blurs process and result. |
| 17 | Spirit / soul / body (human trichotomy) | πνεῦμα, ψυχή, σῶμα / pneuma, psychē, sōma | ruh, can, beden | — | Medium | Sanctification | 5:23 | The human “ruh” must not be confused with baseline Ruhê Pîroz (Holy Spirit, Critical); “can” (soul) overlaps in root with baseline’s giyanî (used adjectivally for “spiritual” in “Diyariyên Giyanî”). Requires explicit disambiguation by context. |
| 18 | Affliction / persecution | θλῖψις / thlipsis | Tengasî (severe: zulm) | — | Medium | Hope in Grief; Sanctification | 1:6, 3:3-4, 3:7 | Kurdish communal memory of severe persecution (including the Halabja chemical attack and the Anfal campaign) gives this word real resonance as a comprehension asset, but it must stay anchored to suffering specifically for the gospel, not a general national-suffering narrative. |
| 19 | Deliverer / rescuer | ῥυόμενον / rhyomenon (ῥύομαι / rhyomai) | Rizgarker | — | High | Salvation (cf. baseline); The Day of the Lord | 1:10 | Built on the same root as baseline Critical term Rizgarî; must be anchored, exactly as that baseline entry requires, to Christ’s specific act of personal spiritual rescue, not the Kurdish nationalist liberation-struggle association the shared root evokes. |
| 20 | Avenger | ἔκδικος / ekdikos | Tolhilner | — | High | Sanctification | 4:6 | Kurdish tribal (aşîret) culture retains a strong historical tradition of blood vengeance/feud and formal reconciliation (cf. baseline’s Intercession/Covenant entries); rendering God as a tribal-style avenger of personal/family honor risks importing that entire retributive-violence framework rather than God’s righteous, judicial response to sin. |
| 21 | Sexual immorality | πορνεία / porneia | Fuhûş | — | High | Sanctification | 4:3 | Sits close to the region’s honor-culture (“namûs”) vocabulary already flagged as a serious risk in the baseline law entry (namûs narrowing to female/family honor, associated with honor killing); must preserve Paul’s broader, universally-applicable moral instruction without narrowing into or being weaponized within honor-based family-shame categories. |
| 22 | Vessel (body or wife) | σκεῦος / skeuos | context-dependent: laş (body) / jin (wife) | — | Medium | Sanctification | 4:4 | Genuinely ambiguous in Greek scholarship between two readings with materially different practical instructions; requires theologian/native-speaker review to select and consistently apply one reading across the curriculum. |
| 23 | Church leader / overseer | προϊστάμενοι / proistamenoi | Rêber | tribal-chief terms “axa,” “mîr” (rejected) | Medium-High | (Church order) | 5:12 | Must be kept distinct from Kurdish tribal (aşîret) leadership categories (hereditary, socio-economic authority), which are quite different from the servant-leadership envisioned in this text. |
| 24 | Testing / discernment | δοκιμάζω / dokimazō | ceribandin | — | Low | (Church order; Ministry integrity) | 2:4, 5:21 | Low independent doctrinal risk; standard vocabulary. |
| 25 | Full assurance | πληροφορία / plērophoria | baweriya temam/tekûz | — | Medium | Hope in Grief (cf. baseline Assurance of Salvation) | 1:5 | Ties to the same regional tension noted for “Hope” (#12) between confident assurance and a piety wary of presuming one’s own final outcome. |
| 26 | Faithful (of God) | πιστός / pistos | dilsoz | — | Medium | Sanctification; Hope in Grief | 5:24 | Must communicate God’s own reliability/faithfulness to complete his work, not merely generic human loyalty. |
| 27 | Boldness | παρρησία / parrēsia | wêrekî | — | Low | (Ministry integrity) | 2:2 | Standard vocabulary; low independent risk. |
| 28 | Example / pattern | τύπος / typos | mînak | — | Low | (background) | 1:7 | Standard vocabulary; low independent risk. |
| 29 | Crown of boasting/rejoicing | στέφανος καυχήσεως / stephanos kauchēseōs | tacê şanaziyê | — | Low | (background) | 2:19 | Standard metaphor; low independent risk. |
Section C — Risk Summary for This Curriculum
| Risk Tier | Count (New Terms) | Count (Baseline Reused) | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical | 5 (parousia, caught up, day of the Lord, trumpet of God, [+ reused baseline: resurrection, lord, son_of_god, salvation, kingdom_of_god, jesus, god, holy_spirit, father, messiah]) | 10 | Human theologian review required for every occurrence |
| High | 9 (archangel, wrath, idols, hope, grief, love, deliverer, avenger, sexual immorality, [+ reused baseline: grace, faith, called/calling, saints, sanctification, church, election, sin, glory]) | 8 | Human theologian review required |
| Medium | 8 (moral sleep, satan, tempter, brotherly love, holiness-state, spirit/soul/body, vessel, leader/overseer, full assurance, faithful) | 4 | Native speaker review recommended |
| Low | 5 (testing, boldness, example, crown, tempter-adjacent items) | 3 | Automated review sufficient |
Note: exact per-doctrine risk tiering, review routing, and consolidated doctrine_risk_registry entries for 1 Thessalonians are produced in the subsequent Phase 1 step (doctrine risk registry extension), not in this glossary. This document records term-level analysis only, per Step 1 scope.
Critical Risk Terms
Salvation
Approved rendering: Rizgarî
Transliteration: rizgarî
Doctrine: Salvation
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs in the ‘armor’ passage (5:8) and the direct assurance statement (5:9, ‘not destined for wrath but to obtain salvation’). Must remain anchored to personal, spiritual deliverance through Christ, never the Kurdish nationalist political-liberation sense the same root evokes.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: Rabûn
Transliteration: rabûn
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers
Original: ἀνάστασις / ἀνίστημι
Category: Eschatology
Inherited from Romans package. Grounds both Christ’s own rising (4:14) and believers’ future bodily resurrection (4:16), the anchor of the ‘Resurrection of Believers’ doctrine. Never rendered with a term for reincarnation; the Yazidi ‘kiras guhertin’ (transmigration through successive bodies) risk applies with full force, since this passage’s entire pastoral comfort depends on a one-time, bodily, historical rising, not a repeatable cycle.
Lord
Approved rendering: Xudan
Transliteration: Xudan
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs throughout (1:1, 1:6, 1:8, 4:15-17, 5:2, 5:9, 5:12, 5:23, 5:27); at 4:16 ‘the Lord himself will descend’ — must retain full, exclusive, supreme lordship, never softened to mere leadership or ownership.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: Kurê Xwedê
Transliteration: Kurê Xwedê
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Original: υἱὸς θεοῦ
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:10, ‘to wait for his Son from heaven,’ tying Sonship directly to the Return of Christ doctrine; guard against both the mainstream tawhid-based denial and the Sufi/Yazidi over-assimilation risk documented in the baseline.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: Padîşahiya Xwedê
Transliteration: padîşahiya Xwedê
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 2:12, ‘his own kingdom and glory’; must retain exclusively spiritual framing per the baseline’s forbidden-substitution rule against endorsing any specific Kurdish statehood aspiration.
Jesus
Approved rendering: Îsa
Transliteration: Îsa
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs throughout, including the substitutionary death formula at 5:10, ‘Jesus Christ, who died for us,’ and the historical death/resurrection creed of 4:14.
God
Approved rendering: Xwedê
Transliteration: Xwedê
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Allah
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs throughout, including the contrast with idols at 1:9, ‘you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God.‘
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: Ruhê Pîroz
Transliteration: Ruhê Pîroz
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:5-6, 4:8, and 5:19 (‘do not quench the Spirit’) — the last especially reinforces, with unusual directness, that the Spirit is a divine Person whose activity can be grieved or suppressed, never an impersonal force to be managed, and never identified with the angel Jibril per mainstream regional tafsir.
Father
Approved rendering: Bav
Transliteration: Bav
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs in the greeting (1:1) and in prayer address (1:3, 3:11, 3:13).
Messiah
Approved rendering: Mesîh
Transliteration: Mesîh
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs throughout in the compound title ‘Lord Jesus Christ’; carries the same pre-loaded Quranic content as Arabic’s al-Masih, plus the distinct Alevi/Yarsani divinely-guided-figure expectations noted in the baseline.
Parousia
Approved rendering: Hatina Xudan
Transliteration: Hatina Xudan
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Vegera Xudan
Original: παρουσία
Category: Eschatology
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 2:19, 3:13, 4:15, and 5:23 (seeded implicitly at 1:10). ‘Vegera’ is the dominant contemporary Kurdish word for the politically/emotionally charged ‘return of refugees and exiles to the homeland’ and risks absorbing Christ’s personal, bodily return into that national longing. Mainstream Sunni eschatology’s doctrine of Isa’s return (nuzul Isa: defeating the Dajjal, breaking the cross, dying in submission to Islam) supplies specific contradictory content that must be taught against explicitly at every occurrence, never assumed neutral. Must render identically at all four occurrences per the Theological Consistency Rules.
Caught Up
Approved rendering: Hilkişandin
Transliteration: hilkişandin
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Revandin
Original: ἁρπαγησόμεθα (ἁρπάζω)
Category: Eschatology
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 4:17 (‘caught up together with them in the clouds’). The literal cognate ‘revandin’ is rejected because it is the specific, live Kurdish term for bride abduction/elopement (‘revandina bûkê’), a real and sensitive social practice; ‘hilkişandin’ (lifted up) preserves the sense of a sudden, divinely-initiated act without this collision. Never substitute ‘revandin,’ even in unscripted oral teaching or footnote paraphrase.
Day Of The Lord
Approved rendering: Roja Xudan
Transliteration: Roja Xudan
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: ἡμέρα κυρίου
Category: Eschatology
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 5:2. Mainstream regional Islamic eschatology has a well-developed, structurally parallel category (Yawm al-Qiyamah/Yawm ad-Din) with specific additional content (intercession, the Scales, the Bridge) absent from this text; must be anchored explicitly and repeatedly to this passage’s own content — sudden, unpredictable (‘like a thief in the night’), tied to Christ’s own return and believers’ prior assurance (5:4-9) — never assumed to import the fuller Islamic scheme.
Trumpet Of God
Approved rendering: Boriya Xwedê
Transliteration: boriya Xwedê
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Sûra Xwedê
Original: σάλπιγξ θεοῦ
Category: Eschatology
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 4:16. ‘Sûr’ is rejected because it is the specific Quranic-derived term for the archangel Israfil’s eschatological trumpet (Q39:68), a well-known folk-Islamic narrative element with its own two-blast sequence; the native ‘boriya Xwedê’ avoids importing that narrative while remaining fully comprehensible.
High Risk Terms
Grace
Approved rendering: Kerem
Transliteration: kerem
Doctrine: Grace
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs in the letter’s opening and closing greetings (1:1, 5:28); the Sufi ‘keramet’ collision risk documented in the baseline (elite, hierarchical favor reserved for advanced spiritual figures) applies identically here.
Faith
Approved rendering: Îman
Transliteration: iman
Doctrine: Faith
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Central to Paul’s triad of faith, love, and hope (1:3) and to the durability of the Thessalonians’ trust under persecution (3:2-10); anchor as personal trust in Christ, not creedal assent to a list of propositions.
Called
Approved rendering: Bangkirî
Transliteration: bangkirî
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλητός / καλέω
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. In 1 Thessalonians the active sense is consistently calling to holy living (2:12, 4:7) and the ground of God’s own faithfulness (5:24) — check each occurrence.
Saints
Approved rendering: Pîrozan
Transliteration: pîrozan
Doctrine: Sainthood
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 3:13, ‘with all his saints’ at Christ’s coming; must be taught as the whole ordinary believing community, never the hereditary, shrine-venerated Sufi ‘pîr’ class documented in the baseline.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: Teqdîs
Transliteration: teqdîs
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: Pakkirin
Original: ἁγιασμός
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. THE central doctrinal term of this curriculum, occurring three times in six verses (4:3, 4:4, 4:7) plus the closing prayer (5:23). Never substitute ‘Pakkirin’ (ritual cleanliness). Must be kept distinguishable from the new term ‘holiness_state’ (Pîrozî, 3:13), which names the resulting state rather than the ongoing process.
Church
Approved rendering: Dêr
Transliteration: dêr
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Use ‘Civata Mesîhî’ for the gathered-people sense throughout (1:1, 2:14); the region-aware religious-freedom framing documented in the baseline applies with particular force given this letter’s persecution context (2:14-16, 3:3-4).
Sin
Approved rendering: Guneh
Transliteration: guneh
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 2:16 in a difficult passage on opposition to the gospel; retain the baseline’s careful, non-supersessionist framing consistent with the Romans 9-11 material.
Election
Approved rendering: Hilbijartin
Transliteration: hilbijartin
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Original: ἐκλογή
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:4, grounding the Thessalonians’ identity in God’s own initiative; retain the baseline caution that ‘Hilbijartin’ is also the modern word for democratic elections, and that this letter’s single occurrence lacks the extensive surrounding argument Romans 9 supplies to guard the sovereign-choice sense.
Sleep Death
Approved rendering: Razayî
Transliteration: razayî
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers
Original: κοιμωμένων / κοιμάομαι
Category: Eschatology
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 4:13, 4:14, 4:15 (koimaomai, euphemism for believers’ death as temporary rest awaiting resurrection). Must be kept sharply distinct in Kurdish from the unrelated, negative ‘sleep’ of spiritual apathy in 5:6-7 (a different Greek word, katheudō), so a term of resurrection hope is never confused with a term of warning.
Archangel
Approved rendering: Serfirişte
Transliteration: serfirişte
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: direct substitution with a named Quranic angel (Jibril, Mikail, Israfil, Azrail)
Original: ἀρχάγγελος
Category: Eschatology
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 4:16. Regional Islamic vocabulary shares the angel concept and includes specific named archangels; the text names no specific angel, and the rendering must avoid implying identification with any Quranic figure.
Wrath
Approved rendering: Xezeb
Transliteration: xezeb
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: ὀργή
Category: God
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 1:10, 2:16, and 5:9. Shares a broadly compatible concept with Islamic ghadab Allah, an asset for comprehension, but must retain a personal, moral character mediated specifically through Christ’s rescue (1:10), not generic fatalistic doom.
Idols
Approved rendering: Pût
Transliteration: pût
Doctrine: Conversion from Idolatry to the Living God
Original: εἴδωλα
Category: Sin
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 1:9. Regional discourse sometimes pejoratively mischaracterizes the historically and religiously distinct Yazidi faith as ‘idol worship’ or devil-worship; must be anchored explicitly to the historical Greco-Roman pagan temple-cult context Paul addresses, never left open to be heard as commentary on a living minority religious community.
Hope
Approved rendering: Hêvî
Transliteration: hêvî
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Original: ἐλπίς
Category: Faith
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 1:3, 4:13, and 5:8 (helmet of the hope of salvation). Must be taught as confident, resurrection-grounded expectation, in contrast to a regional piety in which certainty of one’s own final outcome is often treated as presumptuous.
Grief
Approved rendering: Xem / xemgîn bûn
Transliteration: xem / xemgîn bûn
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Rejected alternatives: an outright prohibition-style rendering implying ‘do not grieve at all’
Original: λύπη / λυπέω
Category: Faith
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 4:13. Kurdish mourning custom (şîn), with expected communal wailing and ritual lament, is deeply significant; must be rendered as prohibiting hopeless grief specifically (‘not as those without hope’), never a blanket prohibition on grieving, to avoid being heard as forbidding legitimate cultural mourning practice.
Love Agape
Approved rendering: Evîn
Transliteration: evîn
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: plain ‘hezkirin’ alone for the full theological weight
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 1:3, 3:12, 4:9, 5:8, 5:13. Kurdish classical Sufi poetry (Melayê Cizîrî, Ehmedê Xanî — already noted in the Romans baseline’s Father/Glory entries) cultivates a rich mystical lover/beloved ‘evîn’ register tending toward union/absorption; Paul’s agapē must be taught as committed, self-giving love between distinct persons, not mystical merger.
Deliverer
Approved rendering: Rizgarker
Transliteration: rizgarker
Doctrine: Assurance of Salvation
Original: ῥυόμενον (ῥύομαι)
Category: Salvation
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 1:10. Built on the same root as the baseline Critical term Rizgarî (salvation); must be anchored, exactly as that baseline entry requires, to Christ’s specific act of personal spiritual rescue from wrath, never the Kurdish nationalist liberation-struggle association the shared root evokes.
Avenger
Approved rendering: Tolhilner
Transliteration: tolhilner
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἔκδικος
Category: Sanctification
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 4:6. Kurdish tribal (aşîret) culture retains a strong historical tradition of blood vengeance/feud and formal reconciliation; rendering God as a tribal-style avenger of personal/family honor risks importing that entire retributive-violence framework rather than God’s righteous, judicial response to sin. Must be taught explicitly against the tribal blood-feud paradigm.
Sexual Immorality
Approved rendering: Fuhûş
Transliteration: fuhûş
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: πορνεία
Category: Sanctification
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 4:3. Sits close to the region’s honor-culture (‘namûs’) vocabulary already flagged as a serious risk in the baseline Law entry (namûs narrowing to female/family honor, associated with honor killing); must preserve Paul’s broader, universally-applicable moral instruction without narrowing into or being weaponized within honor-based family-shame categories. Never drift toward namûs-family vocabulary, even in paraphrase.
Medium Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: Mizgînî
Transliteration: Mizgînî
Doctrine: Gospel Proclamation and Power
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs in 1 Thessalonians at 1:5, 2:2, 2:4, 2:8-9, 3:2, emphasizing the gospel’s arrival ‘not only in word but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit and full assurance’ — reinforcing it as authoritative proclamation, not mere persuasive rhetoric.
Calling
Approved rendering: Vexwendin
Transliteration: vexwendin
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Underlies 2:12’s ‘walk worthily of God who calls you’; must convey a sovereign summons from God, not human-initiated seeking.
Holy
Approved rendering: Pîroz
Transliteration: pîroz
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. Root of ‘Holy Spirit’ (Ruhê Pîroz), ‘saints’ (Pîrozan), and ‘holy kiss’ (5:26, maçek pîroz) throughout this letter.
Peace
Approved rendering: Aştî
Transliteration: aştî
Doctrine: Peace with God
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs in the greeting (1:1), the ironic false ‘peace and security’ of 5:3 (a negative use requiring care not to imply this is true biblical peace), and the closing prayer ‘God of peace’ (5:23).
Gentiles
Approved rendering: Ne-cihû
Transliteration: ne-cihû
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Rejected alternatives: Umet
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 4:5, describing the Thessalonians’ own pre-conversion pagan pattern (‘the Gentiles who do not know God’), not a permanent exclusion.
Glory
Approved rendering: Rûmet
Transliteration: rûmet
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 2:6 (human praise disclaimed), 2:12 (kingdom and glory), and 2:20 (the Thessalonians as Paul’s future glory at Christ’s coming).
Power Of God
Approved rendering: Hêza Xwedê
Transliteration: hêza Xwedê
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Original: δύναμις
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:5, attributing the gospel’s effectiveness to God’s power, not Paul’s rhetorical skill.
David
Approved rendering: Dawid
Transliteration: Dawid
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Not directly named in 1 Thessalonians, but the ‘Christ’/‘Messiah’ title used throughout the letter inherits this covenantal background; retain the baseline’s Quranic-prophet-figure caveat where relevant to teaching material.
Moral Sleep
Approved rendering: di xewa exlaqî de (descriptive qualifying phrase; never the bare ‘razayî’ root)
Transliteration: di xewa exlaqî de
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: bare reuse of the razayî root without qualification
Original: καθεύδοντες (καθεύδω)
Category: Sanctification
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 5:6-7 (katheudontes, spiritual apathy/complacency — an entirely different Greek word from sleep_death above, with an unrelated, negative sense). A descriptive qualifying phrase is required rather than the bare ‘razayî’ root, to prevent readers conflating this warning with the hopeful death-euphemism of 4:13.
Satan
Approved rendering: Şeytan
Transliteration: Şeytan
Doctrine: Spiritual Opposition to Ministry
Original: Σατανᾶς
Category: Spiritual Warfare
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 2:18. Direct cognate with regional Islamic ‘Shaytan’; largely an asset for recognition, but ensure the passage’s specific claim (a personal being actively hindering Paul’s travel/ministry) remains clear rather than a vague folk-superstition reference.
Tempter
Approved rendering: Ceribiner
Transliteration: ceribiner
Doctrine: Spiritual Opposition to Ministry
Original: ὁ πειράζων
Category: Spiritual Warfare
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 3:5. Descriptive title for Satan’s specific testing role, distinct from the proper name ‘Satan’ at 2:18; low independent risk beyond that entry.
Brotherly Love
Approved rendering: Evîna Biratiyê
Transliteration: evîna biratiyê
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: φιλαδελφία
Category: Sanctification
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 4:9. Compound built on ‘love_agape’; carries that entry’s risk at reduced intensity given its narrower, specifically communal-familial scope.
Holiness State
Approved rendering: Pîrozî
Transliteration: pîrozî
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: interchangeable use with ‘Teqdîs’
Original: ἁγιωσύνη
Category: Sanctification
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 3:13, ‘blameless in holiness.’ Must be kept distinguishable from ‘Teqdîs’ (the ongoing Spirit-worked process of sanctification, hagiasmos); hagiōsynē here names the resulting holy state/character. Never use the two terms interchangeably despite the shared ‘pîroz’ root.
Spirit Soul Body
Approved rendering: ruh, can, beden
Transliteration: ruh, can, beden
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: πνεῦμα, ψυχή, σῶμα
Category: Sanctification
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 5:23 (‘your whole spirit and soul and body’). Human ‘ruh’ must not be confused with the Critical baseline term ‘Ruhê Pîroz’ (Holy Spirit); ‘can’ (soul) overlaps in root with the baseline’s ‘giyanî’ (adjectival ‘spiritual,’ as in Diyariyên Giyanî). Requires explicit contextual disambiguation.
Affliction
Approved rendering: Tengasî
Transliteration: tengasî
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Rejected alternatives: zulm (reserved specifically for severe persecution)
Original: θλῖψις
Category: Faith
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 1:6, 3:3-4, 3:7. Kurdish communal memory of severe persecution (including the Halabja chemical attack and the Anfal campaign) gives this word real resonance as a comprehension and pastoral asset, but it must stay anchored specifically to suffering endured for the gospel, not a general national-suffering narrative.
Vessel
Approved rendering: laş (body) / jin (wife) — context-dependent
Transliteration: laş / jin
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: σκεῦος
Category: Sanctification
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 4:4. Genuinely ambiguous in Greek scholarship between two readings (‘control his own body’ vs. ‘take a wife for himself’) with materially different practical instructions; requires theologian/native-speaker review to select and consistently apply one reading across the curriculum.
Church Leader
Approved rendering: Rêber
Transliteration: rêber
Doctrine: Church Leadership and Order
Rejected alternatives: axa, mîr
Original: προϊστάμενοι
Category: Church
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 5:12. Must be kept distinct from Kurdish tribal (aşîret) leadership categories such as ‘axa’ (landholding chief) or ‘mîr’ (prince/tribal ruler), which carry hereditary, socio-economic authority quite different from the servant-leadership envisioned here.
Full Assurance
Approved rendering: Baweriya temam/tekûz
Transliteration: baweriya temam/tekûz
Doctrine: Gospel Proclamation and Power
Original: πληροφορία
Category: Faith
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 1:5. Ties to the same regional tension noted for ‘hope’ between confident assurance and a piety wary of presuming one’s own final outcome.
Faithful Of God
Approved rendering: Dilsoz
Transliteration: dilsoz
Doctrine: The Faithfulness of God to Complete His Work
Original: πιστός
Category: God
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 5:24, ‘faithful is he who calls you.’ Must communicate God’s own reliability to complete his sanctifying work, not merely generic human loyalty between equals.
Sons Of Light
Approved rendering: Kurên ronahiyê / kurên rojê
Transliteration: kurên ronahiyê / kurên rojê
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: υἱοὶ φωτός / υἱοὶ ἡμέρας
Category: Eschatology
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 5:5. A Hebraic idiom for moral/spiritual belonging, grounding believers’ readiness for the Day of the Lord in identity, not in calculating the timing of the event.
Low Risk Terms
Exhort
Approved rendering: Handan kirin
Transliteration: handan kirin
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Context-sensitive per baseline note: use ‘handan kirin’ for comfort/encouragement (4:18, 5:11); use ‘şîret kirin’ for admonition (5:12, 5:14).
Prophecy
Approved rendering: Pêxemberî
Transliteration: pêxemberî
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Original: προφητεία
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 5:20, ‘do not despise prophecies’; the baseline’s finality-of-prophethood caution regarding regional Islamic vocabulary around prophetic authority still applies contextually.
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: Spasî
Transliteration: spasî
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία / εὐχαριστέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:2, 2:13, 3:9, and 5:18 (‘give thanks in all circumstances’).
Testing Discernment
Approved rendering: Ceribandin
Transliteration: ceribandin
Doctrine: Integrity in Gospel Ministry
Original: δοκιμάζω
Category: Church
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 2:4 (Paul’s ministry approved by God) and 5:21 (‘test all things, hold fast the good’).
Boldness
Approved rendering: Wêrekî
Transliteration: wêrekî
Doctrine: Integrity in Gospel Ministry
Original: παρρησία
Category: Ministry
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 2:2, describing Paul’s confident proclamation despite prior suffering.
Example Pattern
Approved rendering: Mînak
Transliteration: mînak
Doctrine: Integrity in Gospel Ministry
Original: τύπος
Category: Ministry
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 1:7, describing the Thessalonians as an example to believers elsewhere.
Crown Of Boasting
Approved rendering: Tacê şanaziyê
Transliteration: tacê şanaziyê
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Original: στέφανος καυχήσεως
Category: Eschatology
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 2:19, tied to the parousia — the Thessalonian believers as Paul’s future reward and joy at Christ’s coming.
Holy Kiss
Approved rendering: Maçek pîroz
Transliteration: maçek pîroz
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship and Greeting Customs
Original: φίλημα ἅγιον
Category: Church
NEW for 1 Thessalonians. Occurs at 5:26. Middle Eastern/Kurdish cheek-kissing as a customary same-gender greeting is culturally familiar and serves as a natural asset here; clarify this is a customary greeting among believers, not a liturgical rite.
Mutual Edification
Approved rendering: Ava kirin
Transliteration: ava kirin
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: οἰκοδομέω
Category: Church
NEW as a distinct term entry for 1 Thessalonians (the corresponding doctrine already existed in the Romans baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json, but no term entry existed there). Occurs at 5:11, paired with mutual comfort (4:18); building one another up in faith and character, communal rather than hierarchical.
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