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08 Core Glossary — 2 Timothy

This glossary lists every load-bearing theological term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md, organized first by terms reused exactly from the baseline Romans translation memory, then by terms new to this curriculum, grouped by the seven named doctrines. All new-term risk tiers and Manipuri renderings are provisional pending theologian/native-speaker review, per the baseline’s escalation rules.


Part A — Terms Reused Exactly from Baseline Romans Translation Memory

These terms recur in 2 Timothy and MUST use the Manipuri rendering already fixed in the baseline. No re-derivation permitted.

English TermManipuri Rendering (exact reuse)Risk (baseline)2 Timothy Occurrences
Gospelনুংঙাইবগী পাউHigh1:8, 1:10, 2:8, 2:9
Graceমথৌ তাদনা পীবা তেংবাংCritical1:2, 1:9, 2:1, 4:22
FaithথাজবাHigh1:5, 1:13, 2:18, 2:22, 3:8, 3:10, 3:15, 4:7
Righteousnessঅচুম্বা চৎনবিরাকCritical2:22, 3:16, 4:8
SalvationঅহানবাCritical2:10, 3:15
Apostleতবিদগী থাবিরকপাMedium1:1, 1:11
Called / Callingকৌখিবা / কৌবগী থৌদাংHigh1:9
HolyঅসেংবাHigh1:9, 3:15 (compound), 3:16 (compound)
Sanctificationঅসেংবা ওইহনবাHigh(implicit, 2:21 purification sense)
Resurrectionসিবদগী হিংজত-লকপাCritical2:8, 2:18 (false teaching denial of)
Lordমপু ইবুংগোCriticalthroughout (1:2, 1:8, 1:16, 1:18, 2:7, 2:19, 2:22, 2:24, 4:8, 4:14, 4:17, 4:18, 4:22)
Holy Spiritথাওয়াই অসেংবাCritical1:14
Godতেংবাং মপুCriticalthroughout
JesusজিসুCriticalthroughout
Christ / Messiahক্রিস্তোCriticalthroughout
David / Seed of Davidদাউদ / দাউদগী চা-চাহিMedium/High2:8
Power of God (salvation-specific sense reserved; general uses of δύναμις elsewhere use plain পাংথোকপা)তেংবাং মপুগী পাংথোক-থেংনবাHighreserved sense only
Kingdom of Godতেংবাং মপুগী লৈপাকMedium4:1, 4:18 (+ heavenly modifier)
PeaceইনগবাMedium1:2, 2:22
Gentilesঅতোপ্পা ফুরুপMedium1:11
SinপাপHigh3:6
Exhortথাওয়াই পীবাLow4:2
ThanksgivingথাগৎচরিLow1:3

Part B — New Terms Introduced by 2 Timothy, Organized by Curriculum Doctrine

Doctrine 1: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture

English TermGreek (translit.)Proposed Manipuri RenderingRiskGrounded ReasonPassages
God-breathedθεόπνευστος (theopneustos)তেংবাং মপুদগী থাওয়াই পীরকপাCriticalথাওয়াই root risks maibi trance-spirit conflation if not tightly anchored to তেংবাং মপু; Puya Meithaba memory; competing scripture claims of both live traditions3:16
All Scriptureπᾶσα γραφή (pasa graphē)লৈরিক পুম্নমক্ / অসেংবা লৈরিক পুম্নমক্CriticalAnchor term for canonical uniqueness vs. multiple live “sacred text” traditions3:16
Sacred writingsἱερὰ γράμματα (hiera grammata)অসেংবা লৈরিকHighDistinct scripture-category term; must not equate to Vaishnava/Sanamahi sacred-text categories3:15
Profitable / for teaching, reproof, correction, trainingὠφέλιμος, διδασκαλία, ἔλεγχος, ἐπανόρθωσις, παιδείαকনবা / তম্বিরোন / অচুম্বা ফোংদোকপা / চুম্না লৈনহনবা / (compound) তমবিরকপাLow–High (see individual)Cluster foundational to Scripture’s stated purpose; διδασκαλία and παιδεία carry High risk as they interlock with “sound doctrine” and righteousness3:16
Man of Godἄνθρωπος τοῦ θεοῦতেংবাং মপুগী মীওইMediumMust remain corporate (any Scripture-formed believer), not narrowed to a specialist ritual office3:17

Doctrine 2: Perseverance under Suffering

English TermGreek (translit.)Proposed Manipuri RenderingRiskGrounded ReasonPassages
Suffering / endure hardshipκακοπαθέω, πάθημα (kakopatheō, pathēma)নরায়বা / নরায়বা খমহনবাHighRisk of karma-consequence or Umang-Lai-offense-appeasement reinterpretation of redemptive suffering1:8, 2:3, 2:9, 3:11, 4:5
Persecutionδιωγμός (diōgmos)নরায়হনবাHighSame collision family as suffering above3:11, 3:12
Share/partake in sufferingσυγκακοπαθέω (synkakopatheō)নুংঙাইবগী পাউগী মতুংদা নরায়বা খমহনবাHighTies suffering explicitly to gospel participation, not guilt or ritual imbalance1:8
Endure / persevereὑπομένω / τηρέω (in “kept the faith”)খমহনবা / ঙাকশিন্না থমখ্রিMedium–HighConsistency with guard/keep vocabulary across the book2:12, 4:7
Bonds / chainδεσμός / ἅλυσιςয়ৎLowStandard vocabulary1:16, 2:9
Fight the good fight / finish the raceἀγών, δρόμος (agōn, dromos)লান্থৌ / চেন্নবাMediumAvoid over-literalizing into martial-glory imagery tied to Meitei warrior heritage4:7

Doctrine 3: Guarding Sound Doctrine

English TermGreek (translit.)Proposed Manipuri RenderingRiskGrounded ReasonPassages
Sound doctrine / sound wordsὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία / ὑγιαίνοντες λόγοιফজবা তম্বিরোন / ফজবা ৱারোলHighBoth live traditions claim internally authoritative “sound” teaching (guru-paramparā, maiba tradition); must anchor exclusively to fixed apostolic deposit1:13, 4:3
Pattern / modelὑποτύπωσις (hypotyposis)ফজবা ৱারোলগী মখলMediumSupporting term for sound-words concept1:13
Rightly handling the word of truthὀρθοτομέω (orthotomeō)অচুম্বাগী ৱাহৈ চুম্না শীজিন্নবাHighGuards against allegorizing/syncretistic reinterpretation of Scripture2:15
Profane / worldlyβέβηλος (bebēlos)অসেংদাবাMediumDirect negation of fixed TM “holy”2:16
Foundationθεμέλιος (themelios)য়ুম্ফমMediumDistinct from literal temple/shrine foundation stones2:19
Vesselσκεῦος (skeuos)থোংগোলMediumDistinct from ritual vessels of either tradition2:20-21
Deceiver / to deceiveπλάνος / πλανάω (planos / planaō)নমথোকপা মীMedium–HighBoth traditions have internal discernment discourse; bridge point as well as risk3:13
Disqualified / reprobateἀδόκιμος (adokimos)থাজবগী মতাংদা কাইদবাMedium–HighApostasy-adjacent, ironic echo of 2:15’s “approved”3:8
Myths / fablesμῦθος (mythos)ৱাফম তদবা ৱারীHighSensitive given rich Puranic and Sanamahi narrative heritage; scope narrowly to in-church false teaching4:4
Reprove / rebukeἐλέγχω / ἐπιτιμάωঅচুম্বা ফোংদোকপা / চেংশিন্নবাMediumPastoral-correction cluster3:16, 4:2
Itching earsκνήθω (knēthō)(idiom, see analysis)MediumIdiom-naturalness risk; confirm with native speaker4:3

Doctrine 4: Faithful Transmission of the Gospel

English TermGreek (translit.)Proposed Manipuri RenderingRiskGrounded ReasonPassages
Entrusted deposit / commit for safekeepingπαραθήκη / παρατίθεμαι (parathēkē / paratithemai)থমখিবা মথৌCRITICALDirect, specific parallel to guru-paramparā disciplic succession and maiba/maibi oral transmission; must teach as a fixed, closed deposit, not a living/adaptable tradition1:12, 1:14, 2:2
Faithful menπιστοὶ ἄνθρωποιথাজবা য়াবা মীওইMediumDisambiguate from saving-faith sense of থাজবা2:2
Unfeigned / genuine faithἀνυπόκριτος πίστιςঅচুম্বা থাজবাMediumHousehold-level transmission model (Lois → Eunice → Timothy)1:5
Herald / preacherκήρυξ (kēryx)পাউ লাউথোকপা মীMediumDistinct from maiba/maibi specialist-office parallel1:11

Doctrine 5: The Charge to Preach the Word

English TermGreek (translit.)Proposed Manipuri RenderingRiskGrounded ReasonPassages
Preach the wordκήρυξον τὸν λόγον (kēryxon ton logon)ৱাহৈ লাউথোকপাHighDistinguish from maibi oracular trance-proclamation and Vaishnava festival announcements4:2
I solemnly chargeδιαμαρτύρομαι (diamartyromai)অচুম্বনা য়াথাং পীবাHighBinding, covenantal solemnity; not a casual request or ritual invocation formula4:1
Judge (the living and the dead)κρίνω (krinō)ৱায়েল তানবাHighJudgment is personal/moral, not impersonal karmic accounting4:1
Be ready, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with patience and teachingἐφίστημι, ἐλέγχω, ἐπιτιμάω, παρακαλέω, μακροθυμία, διδαχή(compound, see analysis)Medium–High (cluster)Defines the pastoral method of preaching ministry4:2
Evangelistεὐαγγελιστής (euangelistēs)নুংঙাইবগী পাউ সন্দোকপা মীMediumFrame as internal church calling, not foreign-mission-coded, per baseline mission-entry caution4:5
Fulfill your ministryδιακονία (diakonia)থৌদাংHighসেবা must be avoided — same bhakti-devotional-service collision flagged in baseline for obedience_of_faith4:5
Be sober-mindedνήφω (nēphō)মিত পাংথোকনা লৈবাLow–MediumStandard vocabulary4:5

Doctrine 6: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days

English TermGreek (translit.)Proposed Manipuri RenderingRiskGrounded ReasonPassages
Last daysἔσχαται ἡμέραι (eschatai hēmerai)মখাগী নুমিৎশিংCRITICALDirect, specific collision with the live, actively taught Vaishnava Kali Yuga doctrine (cyclical age of decline) vs. Paul’s linear, non-repeating eschatology3:1
Godliness (form vs. power)εὐσέβεια (eusebeia)তেংবাং মপুদা ইকাইখুম্নবগী চৎনবীHighEngages visible external devotional practice common to both live traditions3:5, 3:12
Devilδιάβολος (diabolos)শয়তান (transliteration)Medium–HighMust be a specific personal hostile spirit, distinct from Umang Lai or ancestral (Apokpa) spirits2:26
Turn away from the truth / turn asideἀποστρέφω / ἐκτρέπωঅচুম্বাদগী নাকোং ওনথোকপা / লম্দম চত্থোকপাMedium–HighApostasy-adjacent core vocabulary4:4
Knowledge of the truthἐπίγνωσις ἀληθείαςঅচুম্বাগী খংবাMediumContrasts genuine understanding with false-teacher captivity3:7

Doctrine 7: Assurance of Reward

English TermGreek (translit.)Proposed Manipuri RenderingRiskGrounded ReasonPassages
Appearing (of Christ)ἐπιφάνεια (epiphaneia)উৎথোকপাCRITICALDirect parallel to avatar-epiphany festival calendar (Janmashtami, Ras Lila); must teach as two unique, unrepeated historical events1:10, 4:1, 4:8
Crown of righteousnessστέφανος τῆς δικαιοσύνηςঅচুম্বা চৎনবিরাক্কী লুহোংHigh”Crown”/লুহোং risks evoking Pakhangba-descent royal regalia; must be an athletic victor’s-wreath image and Christ’s personal gift, not dynastic symbol4:8
The Lord will reward / repayἀποδίδωμι (apodidōmi)মানবা পীবাHighMust be personal, righteous-Judge recompense, not impersonal karmic cause-and-effect4:8, 4:14
Reign together with himσυζήσομεν / συμβασιλεύσομενলোয়ননা হিংগনি / লৈপাক পাংগনিHighTied to fixed TM kingdom_of_God term2:11-12
Immortality / incorruptionἀφθαρσία (aphtharsia)চাউনদবা হিংবাHighDistinct from মোক্ষ-adjacent liberation and Apokpa ancestral-spirit persistence beliefs1:10
Heavenly kingdomβασιλεία ἐπουράνιοςমহাক্কী স্বর্গগী লৈপাকMediumExtension of fixed TM kingdom_of_God with heavenly modifier4:18
Mercyἔλεος (eleos)নুংশিবগী তেংবাংHighSame bhakti-responsive-favor collision risk documented for grace (করুণা avoided)1:2, 1:16, 1:18

Cross-Reference Note

Terms marked CRITICAL in Part B (θεόπνευστος, πᾶσα γραφή, ἔσχαται ἡμέραι, παραθήκη/παρατίθεμαι, ἐπιφάνεια) represent the five most theologically load-bearing new collision points this curriculum introduces beyond the Romans baseline, and should each receive a dedicated doctrine-risk-registry entry and mandatory human theologian review routing when this Language Package’s translation memory and doctrine risk registry are formally extended in the next Phase 1 step.


Critical Risk Terms

Grace

Approved rendering: মথৌ তাদনা পীবা তেংবাং
Transliteration: mathou tadana piba tengbang
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: কৃপা (bhakti-responsive favor, avoid as primary term), পুণ্য (merit accumulated through devotional service/seva, never use)
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. In 2 Timothy 1:9, paired explicitly with God’s own purpose (‘not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace’) — this restates the baseline’s grace-versus-bhakti-responsive-favor argument at a new lexical location and must retain equal force here; see the ‘grace_and_gods_eternal_purpose’ doctrine entry.


Righteousness

Approved rendering: অচুম্বা চৎনবিরাক
Transliteration: achumba chatnabirak
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: ধর্ম (Hindu-derived cosmic/religious duty, avoid)
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Appears in 2:22 (pursue righteousness), 3:16 (training in righteousness), and 4:8 (crown of righteousness); the training and reward senses must never be re-read as merit that earns the forensic status itself.


Salvation

Approved rendering: অহানবা
Transliteration: ahanba
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: মোক্ষ (Vaishnava/Hindu liberation, never use), লাইনিং (devotional union/absorption, never use as a stand-alone gloss)
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. 2 Timothy 2:10 and 3:15 both tie salvation directly to faith in Christ Jesus and to Scripture’s purpose; never মোক্ষ or bhakti-devotional union with Krishna.


Resurrection

Approved rendering: সিবদগী হিংজত-লকপা
Transliteration: sibadagi hingjat-lakpa
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Rejected alternatives: পুনর্জন্ম (rebirth/reincarnation, never use)
Original: ἀνάστασις
Category: Eschatology

Inherited from Romans package. Affirmed positively at 2:8 (echoing Romans 1:3-4) and denied by false teachers at 2:18 (‘the resurrection has already happened’) — this denial must be taught as a specific historical heresy, never used to validate পুনর্জন্ম rebirth categories.


Lord

Approved rendering: মপু ইবুংগো
Transliteration: Mapu Ibungo
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ঠাকুর (Krishna-devotional title, never use)
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package. Pervasive throughout 2 Timothy (1:2, 1:8, 1:16, 1:18, 2:7, 2:19, 2:22, 2:24, 4:8, 4:14, 4:17, 4:18, 4:22); never ঠাকুর.


Holy Spirit

Approved rendering: থাওয়াই অসেংবা
Transliteration: Thawai Asengba
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: bare থাওয়াই (never use alone), শক্তি (maibi’s oracular trance-power, never use)
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. Must always appear in full, especially at 1:14, where the Spirit is said to indwell and enable guarding of the entrusted deposit — a function that must never be reheard as a maibi’s trance-spirit guidance.


God

Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপু
Transliteration: Tengban Mapu
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ঠাকুর (Krishna-devotional title, avoid), সানামাহি (household/ancestral deity, never use as primary term)
Original: θεός
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. Foundational to θεόπνευστος (God-breathed, 3:16); never ঠাকুর or সানামাহি.


Jesus

Approved rendering: জিসু
Transliteration: Jisu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package.


Messiah

Approved rendering: ক্রিস্তো
Transliteration: Christo
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package. Paired throughout with resurrection and seed-of-David language (2:8), directly echoing Romans 1:3-4; never one avatar among Vishnu’s recognized sequence.


God Breathed

Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুদগী থাওয়াই পীরকপা
Transliteration: Tengban Mapudagi thawai pirakpa
Doctrine: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: bare থাওয়াই without an explicit তেংবাং মপুদগী anchor, never use (risks maibi trance-spirit conflation and Apokpa/Umang Lai spirit associations), framing as interchangeable with Vaishnavism’s claim that the Bhagavad Gita is Krishna’s own direct speech, never use
Original: θεόπνευστος
Category: Scripture

NEW term (2 Timothy 3:16). থাওয়াই is populated in Sanamahi belief with ancestral (Apokpa) and Umang Lai spirit associations; must always appear anchored to তেংবাং মপুদগী. The 1729 Puya Meithaba burning of indigenous Meitei scripture makes claims of a text’s unique, providentially preserved divine origin a live, sensitive subject in Meitei cultural memory — teach pastorally, not triumphally. Provisional pending theologian review.


All Scripture

Approved rendering: লৈরিক পুম্নমক্ / অসেংবা লৈরিক পুম্নমক্
Transliteration: leirik pumnamak / asengba leirik pumnamak
Doctrine: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: treating as one sacred-text tradition among several currently live and honored ones (Vaishnava scripture, Sanamahi Puya), never assume interchangeability
Original: πᾶσα γραφή
Category: Scripture

NEW term (2 Timothy 3:16), the doctrinal anchor for canonical uniqueness and sufficiency. Must be taught as a closed, uniquely authoritative corpus. Provisional pending theologian review.


Entrusted Deposit

Approved rendering: থমখিবা মথৌ
Transliteration: thamkhiba mathou
Doctrine: Faithful Transmission of the Gospel
Rejected alternatives: treating as a living, teacher-adaptable tradition analogous to guru-paramparā disciplic succession, rejected, treating as analogous to maiba/maibi oral ritual-knowledge transmission, rejected
Original: παραθήκη / παρατίθεμαι
Category: Transmission

NEW term (2 Timothy 1:12, 1:14, 2:2); the single most theologically important new collision point in this curriculum. Must be taught explicitly as a fixed, closed, already-complete deposit to be guarded unchanged and transmitted intact, at every occurrence. Provisional pending theologian review.


Last Days

Approved rendering: মখাগী নুমিৎশিং
Transliteration: makhagi numitshing
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Rejected alternatives: assimilation into the Gaudiya Vaishnava Kali Yuga doctrine (a present age of decline within a recurring four-age cosmic cycle), never present as equivalent
Original: ἔσχαται ἡμέραι
Category: Eschatology

NEW term (2 Timothy 3:1); a genuinely new and specific collision not present in the Romans baseline. Paul’s ‘last days’ are the final, non-repeating stage of linear history moving toward Christ’s one return and one final judgment (4:1), never a stage within an endlessly recurring cosmic cycle. Flag for theologian review at every occurrence. Provisional pending theologian review.


Appearing

Approved rendering: উৎথোকপা
Transliteration: utthokpa
Doctrine: The Appearing (Epiphaneia) of Christ
Rejected alternatives: a recurring, festival-commemorated divine manifestation open to further instances (paralleling Krishna Janmashtami or the Ras Lila re-presentation of Krishna’s appearings), never present as equivalent
Original: ἐπιφάνεια
Category: Christology

NEW term (2 Timothy 1:10, 4:1, 4:8); a genuinely new collision not present in the Romans baseline. Must be taught as two unique, unrepeated historical events (Christ’s first coming in the flesh, and his one future return in judgment/glory). Provisional pending theologian review.


High Risk Terms

Gospel

Approved rendering: নুংঙাইবগী পাউ
Transliteration: nungngaibagi pao
Doctrine: Gospel
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. In 2 Timothy occurs bound to suffering (1:8, 2:9) and to the gospel’s unstoppable advance despite imprisonment (‘the word of God is not bound,’ 2:9); must remain distinct from festive announcements tied to the Vaishnava devotional calendar (Ras Lila, Krishna Janmashtami).


Faith

Approved rendering: থাজবা
Transliteration: thajaba
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: ভক্তি (bhakti, too specific to Vaishnava devotional practice)
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package. Recurs throughout 2 Timothy (1:5, 1:13, 2:18, 2:22, 3:8, 3:10, 3:15, 4:7), including the household-transmission sense of 1:5 and the guarding-sense of 4:7 (‘kept the faith’); must remain distinct from bhakti at every occurrence.


Called

Approved rendering: কৌখিবা
Transliteration: koukhiba
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλητός / κλῆσις
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. 1:9 — God’s own holy calling given in Christ before the ages; must be distinguished from a maibi being ritually seized/called by an Umang Lai deity in Lai Haraoba trance.


Calling

Approved rendering: কৌবগী থৌদাং
Transliteration: koubagi thoudang
Doctrine: Divine Calling

Inherited from Romans package. Noun form kept structurally parallel to কৌখিবা (called), reused wherever 2 Timothy’s calling vocabulary occurs.


Holy

Approved rendering: অসেংবা
Transliteration: asengba
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: শেংবা (ritual-purity sense only)
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification

Inherited from Romans package. Root of ‘holy calling’ (1:9) and ‘sacred/holy writings’ (3:15); conveys moral, relational set-apartness, not merely ritual purity.


Sanctification

Approved rendering: অসেংবা ওইহনবা
Transliteration: asengba oihanba
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἁγιασμός (cf. 2:21 ἡγιασμένον)
Category: Sanctification

Inherited from Romans package. Applies to the ‘set apart’ (ἡγιασμένον) vessel of 2:21; distinct from ritual purification of vessels before Vaishnava temple worship or Lai Haraoba offerings.


Seed Of David

Approved rendering: দাউদগী চা-চাহি
Transliteration: Daudgi cha-chahi
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: σπέρμα Δαυίδ
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. 2 Timothy 2:8 directly echoes Romans 1:3-4; teach this reuse explicitly as a link between the two curricula’s Christological anchors.


Power Of God

Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী পাংথোক-থেংনবা
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi pangthok-thengnaba
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Rejected alternatives: শক্তি (maibi trance-power / goddess-power, avoid)
Original: δύναμις θεοῦ
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package; reserved for the salvation-specific compound sense only. General occurrences of δύναμις in 2 Timothy (1:7, 3:5) use the plain term পাংথোকপা instead, to avoid overextending this reserved phrase.


Sin

Approved rendering: পাপ
Transliteration: pap
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin

Inherited from Romans package. 3:6 (‘women burdened with sins’); distinct from ritual impurity or karmic accounting.


Providence

Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী থৌরাং
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi thourang
Doctrine: Providence
Rejected alternatives: ৱাইফম (fate, never use)
Original: πρόνοια (cf. 1:9 πρόθεσις)
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package; applied here to 1:9’s πρόθεσις (‘according to his own purpose and grace, given us in Christ Jesus before the ages began’). Must never read as impersonal fate or karmic ordering; see the grace_and_gods_eternal_purpose doctrine entry.


Sacred Writings

Approved rendering: অসেংবা লৈরিক
Transliteration: asengba leirik
Doctrine: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: equating with the Vaishnava scriptural corpus (Bhagavad Gita, Puranas, Bhagavata Purana) or the Sanamahi Puya texts as an equivalent sacred-text category, never use
Original: ἱερὰ γράμματα
Category: Scripture

NEW term (2 Timothy 3:15). Timothy’s OT Scripture upbringing from childhood; a distinct scripture-category term, not a claim that other Meitei sacred-text heritage is worthless.


Teaching Doctrine

Approved rendering: তম্বিরোন
Transliteration: tambiron
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: διδασκαλία / διδαχή
Category: Scripture

NEW term (2 Timothy 3:16, 4:2 as διδαχή near-synonym). Base noun for ‘sound doctrine’; must be distinguished from guru-paramparā teaching-authority claims and from a maiba’s traditional oral instruction.


Training In Righteousness

Approved rendering: অচুম্বা চৎনবিরাক্কী মতুংইন্না তমবিরকপা
Transliteration: achumba chatnabirakki matungina tambirakpa
Doctrine: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: a performance-based ধর্ম-style discipline or bhakti sādhana regimen framing, never use
Original: παιδεία ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ
Category: Scripture

NEW term (2 Timothy 3:16), built on the fixed TM righteousness compound. Inherits Critical-adjacent sensitivity from righteousness itself; the formative/training sense must never collapse into merit-earning discipline.


Sound Doctrine

Approved rendering: ফজবা তম্বিরোন / ফজবা ৱারোল
Transliteration: fajaba tambiron / fajaba warol
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Rejected alternatives: treating as a generic ‘correct teaching’ claim any tradition could equally make (guru-paramparā, maiba ancestral knowledge), rejected
Original: ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία / ὑγιαίνοντες λόγοι
Category: Doctrine

NEW term (2 Timothy 1:13, 4:3), doctrine-naming for Guarding Sound Doctrine. Must be anchored exclusively to the fixed apostolic deposit (see entrusted_deposit), never a generic quality-claim.


Rightly Handling The Word

Approved rendering: অচুম্বাগী ৱাহৈ চুম্না শীজিন্নবা
Transliteration: achumbagi wahei chumna shijinnaba
Doctrine: Rightly Handling the Word of Truth
Rejected alternatives: allegorical Krishna-typology exegetical habit imported from Vaishnava interpretive tradition, rejected, Sanamahi cosmological reframing of Scripture, rejected
Original: ὀρθοτομέω
Category: Doctrine

NEW term (2 Timothy 2:15). Demands disciplined, text-respecting accuracy against either tradition’s existing interpretive categories.


Myths

Approved rendering: ৱাফম তদবা ৱারী
Transliteration: wapham tadaba wari
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Rejected alternatives: a blanket dismissal of Meitei narrative religious heritage generally (Puranic Krishna-lila material, Sanamahi Puya cosmological narrative), never use this term to render a broad verdict on Meitei cultural heritage
Original: μῦθος
Category: Doctrine

NEW term (2 Timothy 4:4). Scope narrowly to speculative teaching arising within the church that competes with apostolic truth; add a translator note disclaiming any verdict on Meitei cultural heritage as such.


Preach The Word

Approved rendering: ৱাহৈ লাউথোকপা
Transliteration: wahei lauthokpa
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Rejected alternatives: a maibi’s oracular proclamation during Lai Haraoba trance-possession, never conflate, routine festival announcements tied to the Vaishnava devotional calendar, never conflate
Original: κήρυξον τὸν λόγον
Category: Ministry

NEW term (2 Timothy 4:2), the doctrine-naming verse for The Charge to Preach the Word. The word proclaimed is a fixed, received apostolic message, not spontaneous or trance-derived utterance.


Solemn Charge

Approved rendering: অচুম্বনা য়াথাং পীবা
Transliteration: achumbana yathang piba
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Rejected alternatives: a casual request, rejected, a ritual invocation formula paralleling a maiba’s, rejected
Original: διαμαρτύρομαι
Category: Ministry

NEW term (2 Timothy 4:1). Must convey binding, covenantal solemnity, opening the climactic charge of the letter.


Judge Living And Dead

Approved rendering: ৱায়েল তানবা
Transliteration: wayel tanba
Doctrine: Christ as Judge of the Living and the Dead
Rejected alternatives: an impersonal karmic accounting mechanism, rejected
Original: κρίνω
Category: Ministry

NEW term (2 Timothy 4:1). This judgment is personal, moral, and exercised by Christ specifically; the Judge is a person to whom account is given, not a self-executing cosmic law.


Ministry

Approved rendering: থৌদাং
Transliteration: thoudang
Doctrine: Evangelism and Fulfilling One’s Ministry
Rejected alternatives: সেবা (bhakti devotional service performed to build standing with Krishna within Manipuri Vaishnavism, already rejected in the baseline’s obedience_of_faith entry), never use
Original: διακονία
Category: Ministry

NEW term (2 Timothy 4:5). Reuses the established Language Package pattern already applied to calling, apostleship, and mission; সেবা would reopen the exact collision already flagged in the baseline.


Godliness

Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুদা ইকাইখুম্নবগী চৎনবী
Transliteration: Tengban Mapuda ikaikhumnabagi chatnabi
Doctrine: Godliness: Form versus Power
Rejected alternatives: a one-sided critique aimed exclusively at Vaishnava or Sanamahi devotional life, rejected
Original: εὐσέβεια
Category: Eschatology

NEW term (2 Timothy 3:5, 3:12). Engages directly with visible, external devotional practice common to both traditions (Vaishnava temple ritual and Ras Lila participation; Lai Haraoba ritual observance); must be taught as applicable to nominal, form-only Christian religiosity too.


Devil

Approved rendering: শয়তান
Transliteration: Xoytan / Satan
Doctrine: The Devil and Spiritual Deception
Rejected alternatives: an offended Umang Lai deity requiring ritual appeasement via maibi or maiba, never equate, an ancestral (Apokpa) spirit, never equate
Original: διάβολος
Category: Eschatology

NEW term (2 Timothy 2:26), transliteration following widely attested regional Christian convention. Must be presented as a specific, personal, hostile spiritual being distinct in category from the generally benevolent Umang Lai or ancestral spirits; false teaching is active spiritual deception, not ritual imbalance.


Turn Away From Truth

Approved rendering: অচুম্বাদগী নাকোং ওনথোকপা
Transliteration: achumbadagi nakong onthokpa
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Original: ἀποστρέφω / ἐκτρέπω
Category: Eschatology

NEW term (2 Timothy 4:4). Apostasy-adjacent core vocabulary directly relevant to Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days.


Deny

Approved rendering: য়াদবা হায়বা
Transliteration: yadaba haiba
Doctrine: The Trustworthy Saying: Perseverance and Apostasy Warning
Original: ἀρνέομαι
Category: Eschatology

NEW term (2 Timothy 2:12). Part of the trustworthy-saying creedal unit (2:11-13); the seriousness of apostasy language here is High.


Faithless

Approved rendering: থাজদবা
Transliteration: thajadaba
Doctrine: The Trustworthy Saying: Perseverance and Apostasy Warning
Original: ἀπιστέω
Category: Eschatology

NEW term (2 Timothy 2:13), negation of the fixed TM faith root; inherits High risk from faith. Contrasted with Christ’s own unfailing faithfulness.


Crown Of Righteousness

Approved rendering: অচুম্বা চৎনবিরাক্কী লুহোং
Transliteration: achumba chatnabirakki luhong
Doctrine: Crown of Righteousness
Rejected alternatives: dynastic/ritual-privilege symbolism evoking the historic Meitei royal crown and regalia tied to the Ningthou’s divine-descent claim from Pakhangba, never present as equivalent
Original: ὁ τῆς δικαιοσύνης στέφανος
Category: Reward

NEW term (2 Timothy 4:8), built on the fixed TM righteousness compound. Must be taught as an athletic victor’s wreath image and Christ’s personal gift to every believer who has loved his appearing, corporately available, not a status of dynastic or ritual privilege.


The Lords Reward

Approved rendering: মানবা পীবা
Transliteration: manaba piba
Doctrine: Reward and Divine Recompense
Rejected alternatives: an impersonal karmic cause-and-effect mechanism, never equate
Original: ἀποδίδωμι
Category: Reward

NEW term (2 Timothy 4:8, 4:14). The Lord’s repayment is a personal act of a personal Judge, gracious toward the faithful and justly recompensing wrong, not a self-executing cosmic law.


Reign Together

Approved rendering: লোয়ননা হিংগনি / লৈপাক পাংগনি
Transliteration: loyanna hingani / leipak pangani
Doctrine: The Trustworthy Saying: Perseverance and Apostasy Warning
Original: συζήσομεν / συμβασιλεύσομεν
Category: Reward

NEW term (2 Timothy 2:11-12), built on the fixed TM kingdom_of_god root. Tied to Assurance of Reward; must retain the personal, relational sense of shared reign with Christ, not an impersonal cosmic-cycle attainment.


Immortality

Approved rendering: চাউনদবা হিংবা
Transliteration: chaunadaba hingba
Doctrine: Christ’s Abolition of Death and the Gift of Immortality
Rejected alternatives: মোক্ষ-style liberation from the death-rebirth cycle, never equate, Sanamahi belief in an ancestral spirit’s (Apokpa) ongoing existence after death, never equate
Original: ἀφθαρσία
Category: Reward

NEW term (2 Timothy 1:10). Bodily incorruptible resurrection life secured by Christ’s own historical victory over death, distinct from spirit-persistence categories.


Mercy

Approved rendering: নুংশিবগী তেংবাং
Transliteration: nungshibagi tengbang
Doctrine: Mercy of God Toward the Suffering and the Weak
Rejected alternatives: করুণা (Krishna’s compassionate response to a devotee within Manipuri Vaishnavism — the same collision risk already documented for grace’s rejected alternative কৃপা), never use as the primary term
Original: ἔλεος
Category: God

NEW term (2 Timothy 1:2, 1:16, 1:18), structurally parallel to the fixed TM grace compound. Must be taught as flowing from God’s own character, not aroused by devotional performance.


Abolish Death

Approved rendering: সীবা লৈতহনবা
Transliteration: siba laitahanba
Doctrine: Christ’s Abolition of Death and the Gift of Immortality
Original: καταργέω
Category: Christology

NEW term (2 Timothy 1:10), paired with immortality and the fixed TM resurrection term; part of the same collision family regarding death, rebirth, and ancestral-spirit persistence.


Endure Suffering

Approved rendering: নরায়বা / নরায়বা খমহনবা
Transliteration: naraiba / naraiba khamhanba
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Rejected alternatives: a karma-consequence reading (suffering as automatic fruit of a devotee’s own past sin), never equate, a spirit-offense/appeasement reading (suffering as evidence of an offended Umang Lai deity requiring ritual appeasement through a maibi or maiba), never equate
Original: κακοπαθέω / πάθημα / συγκακοπαθέω
Category: Suffering

NEW term (2 Timothy 1:8, 2:3, 2:9, 3:11, 4:5). Suffering-for-righteousness in 2 Timothy is honorable, expected, and shared with Christ; must always be paired explicitly with ‘for the gospel’/‘with Christ’ framing in context.


Persecution

Approved rendering: নরায়হনবা
Transliteration: naraihanba
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Original: διωγμός
Category: Suffering

NEW term (2 Timothy 3:11-12), same collision family as endure_suffering above.


Kept The Faith

Approved rendering: থাজবা ঙাকশিন্না থমখ্রি
Transliteration: thajaba ngaksinna thamkhri
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Original: τὴν πίστιν τετήρηκα
Category: Suffering

NEW term (2 Timothy 4:7), built on the fixed TM faith root with a guarding-verb. Thematically continuous with the entrusted_deposit guard-language of chapters 1-2; the same ‘guard/keep’ verb family should be used consistently across the whole book.


Medium Risk Terms

Apostle

Approved rendering: তবিদগী থাবিরকপা
Transliteration: tabidagi thabirakpa
Doctrine: Apostleship
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package. 1:1, 1:11; must not be reduced to a generic religious-teacher role paralleling a maiba/maibi’s recognized ritual office.


David

Approved rendering: দাউদ
Transliteration: Daud
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: Δαυίδ
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Standard proper-name transliteration.


Kingdom Of God

Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী লৈপাক
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi leipak
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ / βασιλεία ἐπουράνιος
Category: Kingdom

Inherited from Romans package. In 2 Timothy 4:1 and 4:18, specifically Christ’s kingdom at his return and his ‘heavenly kingdom’ (with the স্বর্গগী modifier added, see heavenly_kingdom entry); distinct from the historic Meitei kingship’s own political-territorial ‘leipak’ framing tied to the Pakhangba-descent claim.


Peace

Approved rendering: ইনগবা
Transliteration: ingba
Doctrine: Peace with God
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. 1:2, 2:22.


Gentiles

Approved rendering: অতোপ্পা ফুরুপ
Transliteration: atoppa phurup
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package. 1:11.


Spiritual Gifts

Approved rendering: থাওয়াইগী খুদোল
Transliteration: thawaigi khudol
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts
Rejected alternatives: শক্তি (maibi’s ritual/oracular power, avoid)
Original: χάρισμα
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package. Timothy’s gift received through the laying on of hands (1:6); must remain distinct from the ritual/oracular power attributed to a maibi’s Lai Haraoba trance state, even though 1:6 speaks of the gift being ‘rekindled.‘


Mission

Approved rendering: পাউ সন্দোকপগী থৌদাং
Transliteration: pao sandokpagi thoudang
Doctrine: Mission to the Nations
Original: ἀποστολή / εὐαγγελιστής
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package; underlies ‘the work of an evangelist’ (4:5). Frame as the church’s own internal calling, given the sensitive regional memory of foreign mission administration in the Manipur hills.


Reproof

Approved rendering: অচুম্বা ফোংদোকপা
Transliteration: achumba phongdokpa
Doctrine: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture
Original: ἔλεγχος / ἐλέγχω
Category: Scripture

NEW term (2 Timothy 3:16). One of Scripture’s four stated purposes; exposing error/sin so as to convict.


Man Of God

Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী মীওই
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi miwoi
Doctrine: The Man of God Equipped by Scripture for Every Good Work
Rejected alternatives: narrowing to a specialist ritual-office class paralleling a maiba/maibi’s recognized office, rejected
Original: ὁ τοῦ θεοῦ ἄνθρωπος
Category: Scripture

NEW term (2 Timothy 3:17). Corporately available to any Scripture-formed believer, echoing the baseline’s ‘saints’ caution against narrowing corporate address to a specialist class.


Pattern Of Sound Words

Approved rendering: ফজবা ৱারোলগী মখল
Transliteration: fajaba warolgi makhal
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: ὑποτύπωσις
Category: Doctrine

NEW term (2 Timothy 1:13). Supporting term for the sound-words concept.


Profane

Approved rendering: অসেংদাবা
Transliteration: asengdaba
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: βέβηλος
Category: Doctrine

NEW term (2 Timothy 2:16), direct negation of the fixed TM holy term.


Foundation

Approved rendering: য়ুম্ফম
Transliteration: yumfam
Doctrine: The Church’s Purity: Vessels of Honor and Dishonor
Rejected alternatives: literal foundation-stones of a Vaishnava temple or an Umang Lai shrine site, never equate
Original: θεμέλιος
Category: Doctrine

NEW term (2 Timothy 2:19). God’s firm foundation stands despite false teaching.


Vessel

Approved rendering: থোংগোল
Transliteration: thonggol
Doctrine: The Church’s Purity: Vessels of Honor and Dishonor
Rejected alternatives: ritual vessels specific to Vaishnava temple worship or Sanamahi offering ritual, never equate
Original: σκεῦος
Category: Doctrine

NEW term (2 Timothy 2:20-21). Figure for believers set apart for the Master’s use.


Deceiver

Approved rendering: নমথোকপা মী
Transliteration: namthokpa mi
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: πλάνος / πλανάω
Category: Doctrine

NEW term (2 Timothy 3:13). Both live Meitei traditions carry internal discernment discourse (e.g. whether a maibi’s trance-utterance is genuine); a bridge point as well as a risk point for teaching biblical discernment.


Disqualified

Approved rendering: থাজবগী মতাংদা কাইদবা
Transliteration: thajabagi matangda kaidaba
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: ἀδόκιμος
Category: Doctrine

NEW term (2 Timothy 3:8), built on fixed TM faith root. Ironic echo of 2:15’s ‘approved’ (δόκιμος).


Itching Ears

Approved rendering: অনৌবা তম্বিরোন খংনবগী পুখ্রি
Transliteration: anouba tambiron khangnabagi pukhri
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Rejected alternatives: a literal ‘itching ear’ image (নাকোং হাংবা), pending native-speaker confirmation of naturalness
Original: κνηθόμενοι τὴν ἀκοήν
Category: Doctrine

NEW term (2 Timothy 4:3). Idiom-naturalness risk, not doctrinal collision; confirm natural Manipuri equivalent with a native speaker before final deployment.


Rebuke

Approved rendering: চেংশিন্নবা
Transliteration: chengshinnaba
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Original: ἐπιτιμάω
Category: Doctrine

NEW term (2 Timothy 4:2). Part of the reprove-rebuke-exhort pastoral-correction trio; must convey firm, loving correction with real authority, not passive suggestion.


Faithful Men

Approved rendering: থাজবা য়াবা মীওই
Transliteration: thajaba yaba miwoi
Doctrine: Faithful Transmission of the Gospel
Original: πιστοὶ ἄνθρωποι
Category: Transmission

NEW term (2 Timothy 2:2), built on fixed TM faith root but denoting reliable character rather than saving trust; disambiguate the double sense by context.


Unfeigned Faith

Approved rendering: অচুম্বা থাজবা
Transliteration: achumba thajaba
Doctrine: Household Faith and Generational Transmission
Original: ἀνυπόκριτος πίστις
Category: Transmission

NEW term (2 Timothy 1:5), anchored on fixed TM faith. Names Timothy’s household-inherited faith (Lois → Eunice → Timothy), a small-scale instance of Faithful Transmission of the Gospel.


Herald

Approved rendering: পাউ লাউথোকপা মী
Transliteration: pao lauthokpa mi
Doctrine: Faithful Transmission of the Gospel
Rejected alternatives: a maiba/maibi specialist-office parallel, rejected
Original: κήρυξ
Category: Transmission

NEW term (2 Timothy 1:11). Paul’s self-description alongside apostle and teacher; root shared with κηρύσσω (see preach_the_word, 4:2).


Evangelist

Approved rendering: নুংঙাইবগী পাউ সন্দোকপা মী
Transliteration: nungngaibagi pao sandokpa mi
Doctrine: Evangelism and Fulfilling One’s Ministry
Rejected alternatives: a transliterated Anglicism (‘evangelist’), rejected as foreign-mission-coded
Original: εὐαγγελιστής
Category: Ministry

NEW term (2 Timothy 4:5), built on the fixed TM gospel root. Frame this role as the church’s own internal calling, not tied to the historical memory of foreign mission administration in the Manipur hills.


Knowledge Of The Truth

Approved rendering: অচুম্বাগী খংবা
Transliteration: achumbagi khangba
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Original: ἐπίγνωσις ἀληθείας
Category: Eschatology

NEW term (2 Timothy 3:7). Genuine, saving understanding contrasted with false teachers’ captives who never arrive at it.


Heavenly Kingdom

Approved rendering: মহাক্কী স্বর্গগী লৈপাক
Transliteration: mahakki swargagi leipak
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Original: βασιλεία ἐπουράνιος
Category: Reward

NEW term (2 Timothy 4:18), extension of the fixed TM kingdom_of_god with a heavenly modifier following existing Manipuri Christian convention for ‘heaven’ (স্বর্গ).


Fight Finish Race

Approved rendering: লান্থৌ / চেন্নবা
Transliteration: lanthou / chennaba
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Rejected alternatives: over-literalizing into martial-glory imagery tied to historic Meitei warrior ethos, avoid
Original: ἀγών / δρόμος
Category: Suffering

NEW term (2 Timothy 4:7). Athletic-games imagery for disciplined perseverance; keep the metaphorical, athletic/spiritual-struggle sense.


Low Risk Terms

Exhort

Approved rendering: থাওয়াই পীবা
Transliteration: thawai piba
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package. 4:2, within the reprove-rebuke-exhort pastoral cluster.


Thanksgiving

Approved rendering: থাগৎচরি
Transliteration: thagatchari
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία / χάριν ἔχω
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package. 1:3.


Correction

Approved rendering: চুম্না লৈনহনবা
Transliteration: chumna leinhanba
Doctrine: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture
Original: ἐπανόρθωσις
Category: Scripture

NEW term (2 Timothy 3:16). Restorative correction of conduct; standard vocabulary, minor risk.


Sober Minded

Approved rendering: মিত পাংথোকনা লৈবা
Transliteration: mit pangthokna leiba
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Original: νήφω
Category: Ministry

NEW term (2 Timothy 4:5). Standard vocabulary, minor risk.

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