Glossary Term
Risk: High- Approved rendering
- ജനതകള്
- Transliteration
- janathakal
- Rejected alternatives
- ജാതികള്
Gentiles
NEVER ജാതികള് for this doctrinal sense, despite its use in some older Bible translations: ജാതി is also the ordinary Malayalam word for “caste,” and Kerala’s own social history includes some of India’s most rigid historical caste stratification. Using ജാതികള് risks readers hearing a caste reference rather than “nations/peoples”; ജനതകള് avoids the collision.
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