Core Glossary
08 Core Glossary — Ephesians | English → Manipuri
This glossary consolidates every load-bearing theological term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md, organized by the curriculum’s nine core doctrines. Terms already fixed in the baseline Romans translation_memory.json are marked (Romans TM — reused) and MUST be used exactly as recorded there; no alternative rendering is permitted. New terms proposed for Ephesians are marked NEW and must be added to translation_memory.json (with version increment) before Phase 2 translation begins, per the Pre-flight Checklist in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.
Risk tiers follow the baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json definitions: Critical (human theologian review, every occurrence), High (human theologian review), Medium (native speaker review), Low (automated review sufficient).
Doctrine 1: Salvation by Grace through Faith
| English Term | Original (Transliteration) | Manipuri Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Chapter Refs | Status | Notes / Rejected Alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| grace | χάρις / charis | মথৌ তাদনা পীবা তেংবাং | mathou tadana piba tengbang | Critical | 1:2,6-7; 2:5,7-8; 4:7; 6:24 | Reused | Never কৃপা (bhakti-responsive Krishna-favor) without explicit contrast. Eph 2:8-9 is this curriculum’s thesis-adjacent statement, structurally parallel to Romans 1:16-17; must render identically at every occurrence. |
| faith | πίστις / pistis | থাজবা | thajaba | High | 1:1,15; 2:8; 3:12,17; 4:5,13; 6:16,23 | Reused | Never ভক্তি (bhakti). Object of faith (grace, Christ) always named in context. |
| salvation / saved | σωτηρία, σῴζω / sōtēria, sōzō | অহানবা | ahanba | Critical | 2:5,8; 6:17 | Reused | Never মোক্ষ or devotional union with Krishna. |
| works | ἔργα / erga | থবক | thabak | Critical | 2:9-10 | NEW | Rejected as ground of salvation (v.9) yet affirmed as its fruit (v.10) — same word, opposite function; mandatory translator note distinguishing the two uses. Must be explicitly contrasted with bhakti সেবা (devotional service building toward divine favor). |
| good works | ἔργα ἀγαθά / erga agatha | অফবা থবক | aphaba thabak | Medium | 2:10 | NEW | Fruit of salvation, never its root; teach ordering: grace → faith → salvation → good works. |
| boast | καυχάομαι / kauchaomai | চাউথোকপা | chauthokpa | High | 2:9 | NEW | Rhetorical hinge of the core passage; preserve full force, no softening. Parallel to Romans 3:27; 4:2. |
| gift | δῶρον / dōron | খুদোল | khudol | High | 2:8 | NEW (reused root) | Same root as spiritual_gifts (থাওয়াইগী খুদোল); here applied to the gift of salvation itself. |
| mercy | ἔλεος / eleos | চানবা | chanba | High | 2:4 | NEW | CAUTION: ISKCON-influenced Vaishnava literature in Manipur frequently glosses কৃপা as “mercy” in English; must be taught as God’s compassion toward the helpless-dead sinner, not bhakti-responsive favor. |
| dead (spiritually) | νεκρός / nekros | থাওয়ায়দা সিবা | thawaida siba | High | 2:1,5 | NEW | Distinguish from Sanamahi ancestor-spirit veneration (Apokpa), where “the dead” remain active family presences. |
| trespasses | παράπτωμα / paraptōma | অশোয়বা | ashoiba | Medium | 2:1,5; 1:7 | NEW | Keep distinct from পাপ (sin, Romans TM) so the doubled Greek phrase in 2:1 is not flattened. |
| wrath (of God) | ὀργή / orgē | তেংবাং মপুগী অহোংবা | Tengban Mapugi ahongba | High | 2:3; 5:6 | NEW | Personal, judicial displeasure — never impersonal karma, and never resolved by ritual appeasement of a household or Umang Lai spirit. |
| redemption | ἀπολύτρωσις / apolytrōsis | মমল পীদুনা হানবা | mamal piduna hanba | Critical | 1:7,14; 4:30 | NEW | Distinguish from ritual ransom/offering economies (Umang Lai appeasement offerings; prayaschitta karmic-debt logic already flagged under baseline “sin”). A completed historical transaction, not an ongoing ritual relationship. |
| forgiveness | ἄφεσις / aphesis | ময়ামদা কোকপা | mayamda kokpa | Medium | 1:7 | NEW (baseline-rejected-alt repurposed) | The baseline rejected this phrase as too narrow for justification; here it is the correct standalone term for forgiveness, distinct from and subordinate to justification. |
| workmanship / created | ποίημα, κτίζω / poiēma, ktizō | শেমগৎপিবা / শেম্বা | shemgatpiba / shemba | Medium | 2:10 | NEW | New-creation language; salvation and the resulting life are God’s making, not self-improvement or unlocked devotional potential. |
Doctrine 2: Election and Predestination in Christ
| English Term | Original (Transliteration) | Manipuri Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Chapter Refs | Status | Notes / Rejected Alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| election / chosen | ἐκλέγομαι / eklegomai | তেংবাং মপুগী খনবা | Tengban Mapugi khanba | High | 1:4,11 | Reused | Never ৱাইফম (fate). |
| predestined | προορίζω / proorizō | মমাংগী মথংদা খনবা | mamangi mathangda khanba | Critical | 1:5,11 | NEW | Built on খনবা for continuity with election. Never ৱাইফম, never framed against Pakhangba-lineage royal predestination or Vaishnava jyotish astrological determinism; a personal, loving decision (1:5), not a cosmic mechanism. |
| adoption | υἱοθεσία / huiothesia | মচা ওইনা লৌবা | macha oina louba | High | 1:5 | Reused | Explicit inheritance-rights teaching required; no ready equivalent in birth-lineage-based yumnak kinship. |
| inheritance | κληρονομία / klēronomia | চাদান | chadan | High | 1:14,18 | NEW | Contrast explicitly with clan (yumnak) birth-lineage inheritance administered by clan elders. |
| sealed (with the Spirit) | σφραγίζω / sphragizō | চুম্মৎ পীবা | chummat piba | High | 1:13; 4:30 | NEW | Distinguish from Vaishnava tilaka/tapta-mudrankana devotional branding-marks; an internal, invisible divine guarantee, not an external ritual badge. |
| guarantee / down payment | ἀρραβών / arrabōn | মমাংগী পীথোকপা | mamangi pithokpa | Medium | 1:14 | NEW | Built on imputed_righteousness’s পীথোকপা root. |
| calling | κλῆσις / klēsis | কৌবগী থৌদাং | koubagi thoudang | High | 1:18; 4:1,4 | Reused | Context: vocation as God’s called people. |
| fellow heirs | συγκληρονόμος / synklēronomos | চাদান লোইননা লৌবা | chadan loinana louba | Medium | 3:6 | NEW | Built on চাদান + লোইনবা (fellowship, reused). |
Doctrine 3: The Church as the Body of Christ
| English Term | Original (Transliteration) | Manipuri Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Chapter Refs | Status | Notes / Rejected Alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| church | ἐκκλησία / ekklēsia | কলিসিয়া | kalisiya | Medium | 1:22; 3:10,21; 5:23-32 | Reused | Never মন্দির (Vaishnava temple) or an Umang Lai sacred-grove worship site. |
| body of Christ | σῶμα Χριστοῦ / sōma Christou | ক্রিস্তোগী হাকচাং | Christogi hakchang | High | 1:23; 4:12,16; 5:23,30 | NEW | Distinguish from a maibi’s body as ritual vessel for spirit-indwelling during Lai Haraoba trance, and from a temple murti understood as literally embodying Krishna’s presence. Relational/organic metaphor, not a claim about a ritual medium or object. |
| head (of the church) | κεφαλή / kephalē | কোক | kok | High | 1:22; 4:15; 5:23 | NEW | Christ’s headship over the church is the model behind the household-code use of the same term (Doctrine 7); always teach with Christ’s self-giving pattern attached. |
| fullness | πλήρωμα / plērōma | মপুং ফাবা | mapung phaba | Medium | 1:10,23; 3:19; 4:13 | NEW (baseline compound root — reused) | Reuses the মপুং ফাবা root already present in baseline doctrine names (effectual_calling, fulfillment_of_prophecy). |
| holy temple / dwelling place of God | ναὸς ἅγιος, κατοικητήριον / naos hagios, katoikētērion | তেংবাং মপুগী অসেংবা লৈফম | Tengban Mapugi asengba leifam | High | 2:21-22 | NEW | Extends the baseline’s forbidden-substitution rule for “church” (never মন্দির) explicitly to this metaphorical “temple” usage. |
| cornerstone | ἀκρογωνιαῖος / akrogōniaios | খ্বাইদগী মরুওইবা লু | khwaidagi maruoiba lu | High | 2:20 | NEW | Distinguish from sacred stones/shrine-markers at Umang Lai groves and consecrated foundation-stones at Vaishnava temples. |
| household of God | οἰκεῖοι τοῦ θεοῦ / oikeioi tou theou | তেংবাং মপুগী ইমুং | Tengban Mapugi imung | Medium | 2:19 | NEW | Positive resonance with yumnak household concepts; clarify it transcends any single biological clan. |
| fellow citizens | συμπολῖται / sympolitai | তেংবাং মপুগী লৈপাক্কী মীওই | Tengban Mapugi leipakki miwoi | Medium | 2:19 | NEW | Built on kingdom_of_god’s লৈপাক root. |
| unity of the Spirit | ἑνότης τοῦ πνεύματος / henotēs tou pneumatos | অমত্তা ওইবা | amatta oiba | Medium | 4:3,13 | NEW (reused root) | Built on baseline unity_of_jews_and_gentiles doctrine-name root. |
| baptism | βάπτισμα / baptisma | বাপ্তিজম | Baptisma | Medium | 4:5 | NEW | Transliterated loanword, consistent with regional Christian usage. |
| spiritual gifts / gift-offices | χαρίσματα, δόματα / charismata, domata | থাওয়াইগী খুদোল | thawaigi khudol | Medium | 4:7-11 | Reused | See Doctrine 8 below for the specific offices. |
| build up / edify | οἰκοδομή / oikodomē | হৌদোকহনবা | houdokhanba | Low | 4:12,16,29 | Reused | Baseline mutual_edification doctrine root. |
Doctrine 4: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
| English Term | Original (Transliteration) | Manipuri Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Chapter Refs | Status | Notes / Rejected Alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gentiles | ἔθνη / ethnē | অতোপ্পা ফুরুপ | atoppa phurup | Medium | 2:11; 3:1,6,8 | Reused | See baseline note on clan (yumnak) resonance. |
| Israel / covenants of promise | Ἰσραήλ / διαθῆκαι τῆς ἐπαγγελίας | ইস্রায়েল / ৱারেপ্পা | Israel / wareppa | Medium/High | 2:12 | Reused | Both terms exactly as baseline. |
| dividing wall (of hostility) | τὸ μεσότοιχον τοῦ φραγμοῦ / to mesotoichon tou phragmou | খায়দোকপগী লেপ্পা | khaidokpagi leppa | High | 2:14 | NEW | A specific historical covenantal (Jew/Gentile) division; must not be casually mapped onto Manipur’s contemporary inter-community ethnic tensions. |
| one new man / new humanity | εἷς καινός ἄνθρωπος / heis kainos anthrōpos | অমা অনৌবা মীওই | ama anouba miwoi | High | 2:15 | NEW | Corporate sense; distinguish via translator note from the individual “new self” of 4:24, which shares this wording. |
| reconciliation | ἀποκαταλλάσσω / apokatallassō | ইনগবা ওইহনবা | ingba oihanba | High | 2:16 | NEW | Built on baseline peace (ইনগবা) root, using the justification/sanctification “X ওইহনবা” pattern. |
| access (to the Father) | προσαγωγή / prosagōgē | থাজনা চেংশিনবা (see boldness, Doctrine 5) | thajana chengshinba | Medium | 2:18 | NEW | Shared rendering with “boldness” (3:12); direct, unmediated approach to God. |
Doctrine 5: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
| English Term | Original (Transliteration) | Manipuri Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Chapter Refs | Status | Notes / Rejected Alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mystery | μυστήριον / mystērion | লুকখিবা থৌরাং | lukkhiba thourang | Critical | 1:9; 3:3-9; 5:32; 6:19 | NEW | Highest-salience collision in the book: must be distinguished from Gaudiya Vaishnavism’s graded esoteric devotional knowledge (rasa-tattva, disclosed progressively to advancing initiates, expressed in Ras Lila) and from Sanamahi ritual/cosmological knowledge guarded by maibi/maiba specialists and the puya tradition. Ephesians’ mystery is now fully and publicly disclosed to all believers, not a graded secret for advanced initiates. |
| stewardship | οἰκονομία / oikonomia | থৌদাং তানবা | thoudang tanba | Medium | 3:2,9 | NEW | Built on থৌদাং (task) root. |
| boldness / confident access | παρρησία / parrēsia | থাজনা চেংশিনবা | thajana chengshinba | Medium | 3:12 | NEW | Distinguish from ritual approach-protocols requiring a maibi/maiba or priestly intermediary. |
| revelation / wisdom | ἀποκάλυψις, σοφία / apokalypsis, sophia | ফোংদোকপা / য়াম্না খংবা | phongdokpa / yamna khangba | Medium | 1:17; 3:5,10 | NEW (reused root for revelation) | Confirm য়াম্না খংবা naturalness with native speaker. |
| incarnation / son of God | ὁ λόγος σὰρξ ἐγένετο / υἱὸς θεοῦ | মীওইগী মহৈ লৌবা / তেংবাং মপুগী মচানুপা | miwoigi mahai louba / Tengban Mapugi machanupa | Critical | (background doctrine underlying “mystery” passages) | Reused | Never অবতার. |
Doctrine 6: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
| English Term | Original (Transliteration) | Manipuri Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Chapter Refs | Status | Notes / Rejected Alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| principalities and powers / spiritual forces of evil | ἀρχαί, ἐξουσίαι, κοσμοκράτορες, πνευματικά τῆς πονηρίας | অসোইবা থাওয়াই পাংগলশিং | asoiba thawai panggalshing | Critical | 1:21; 2:2; 3:10; 6:12 | NEW | Single highest-stakes decision in the book: categorically distinct from Umang Lai (benevolent guardian deities in Sanamahi cosmology, honored not warred against) and from শক্তি (maibi trance-power, already forbidden for God’s own power in the baseline). Names a specific NT category of hostile spiritual beings; requires explicit, careful pastoral framing. |
| devil / Satan | διάβολος, Σατανᾶς / diabolos, Satanas | শয়তান | Shoitan | Critical | 2:2; 4:27; 6:11 | NEW | Transliterated loanword, established regional Christian convention. A specific personal fallen being — never a generic hostile Umang Lai spirit, never an asura/demon of Krishna-mythology. |
| schemes of the devil | μεθοδεία / methodeia | শয়তানগী লাংবা থবক | Shoitangi langba thabak | High | 6:11 | NEW | Built on শয়তান. |
| heavenly places | ἐπουράνιος / epouranios | স্বর্গগী মফমশিং | swargagi mafamshing | Medium | 1:3,20; 2:6; 3:10; 6:12 | NEW | Distinguish from Umang Lai spirit-realm and from Vaikuntha/Goloka (Krishna’s heavenly abode, already flagged in baseline salvation entry). |
| armor of God | πανοπλία τοῦ θεοῦ / panoplia tou theou | তেংবাং মপুগী লান্থাং | Tengban Mapugi lanthang | High | 6:11,13 | NEW | Distinguish from Manipur’s Thang-Ta martial tradition, whose swords/spears carry Sanamahi ritual/cosmological (Pakhangba) significance. A Pauline metaphor for spiritual equipment, not an endorsement of ritual weaponry. |
| word of God (sword of the Spirit) | ῥῆμα θεοῦ / rhēma theou | তেংবাং মপুগী ৱাহেই | Tengban Mapugi wahei | Medium | 6:17 | NEW | Paired with থাওয়াই অসেংবা (Holy Spirit, reused). |
| ambassador | πρεσβεύω / presbeuō | থাবিরকপগী মীওই | thabirakpagi miwoi | Low/Medium | 6:20 | NEW | Built on apostle root; a sent representative. |
Doctrine 7: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
| English Term | Original (Transliteration) | Manipuri Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Chapter Refs | Status | Notes / Rejected Alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| submit / submission | ὑποτάσσω / hypotassō | ইনবা | inba | High | 5:21,22,24 | NEW (baseline obedience_of_faith root — reused) | Governing principle is mutual submission (5:21); distinguish from unilateral clan-elder/patriarchal yumnak authority and from residual royal-household hierarchy. |
| head (of the wife) | κεφαλή / kephalē | কোক | kok | High | 5:23 | NEW (same term as Doctrine 3) | Always taught with Christ’s self-sacrificial love (5:25) attached; never in isolation. |
| honor (father and mother) | τιμάω / timaō | ইকাই খুমনবা | ikai khumnaba | Low/Medium | 6:2 | NEW | Genuine Meitei respect-idiom. |
| discipline and instruction (of the Lord) | παιδεία, νουθεσία / paideia, nouthesia | তম্বিহনবা অমসুং চেকশিনবা | tambihanba amasung chekshinba | Medium | 6:4 | NEW | Reciprocal balance: fathers directly constrained, not merely authorized. |
| bondservant / slave | δοῦλος / doulos | মিনাই | minai | Low/Medium | 6:5-8 | NEW | Genuine Meitei term. |
| master (human) | κύριος (of a slave) / kyrios | মপু | mapu | Medium/High | 6:5,9 | NEW | CRITICAL DISTINCTION: never carries the honorific ইবুংগো, which is reserved exclusively for the divine মপু ইবুংগো (Lord Jesus Christ, Critical baseline term). |
| no partiality (with God) | προσωπολημψία / prosōpolēmpsia (negated) | মীওই পুম্নমক্কী মপুংফাবা লান্থোকপা (reused doctrine root) | — | High | 6:9 | Reused | Baseline universal_human_accountability root, applied to household-status distinctions. |
| one flesh / this mystery (marriage) | μία σάρξ / τὸ μυστήριον τοῦτο μέγα / mia sarx / to mystērion touto mega | লুকখিবা থৌরাং | lukkhiba thourang | Critical | 5:31-32 | NEW (reused, Doctrine 5) | Marriage as a living picture of Christ and the church. |
Doctrine 8: Gifts for Building Up the Church
| English Term | Original (Transliteration) | Manipuri Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Chapter Refs | Status | Notes / Rejected Alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| apostle | ἀπόστολος / apostolos | তবিদগী থাবিরকপা | tabidagi thabirakpa | Medium | 1:1; 2:20; 3:5; 4:11 | Reused | |
| prophet | προφήτης / prophētēs | তোঙান তোঙানবা ফোংদোকপা | tongan tonganba phongdokpa | Low | 2:20; 3:5; 4:11 | Reused | Never মৈবা/মৈবী. |
| evangelist | εὐαγγελιστής / euangelistēs | নুংঙাইবগী পাউ সন্দোকপা মীওই | nungngaibagi pao sandokpa miwoi | Low | 4:11 | NEW | Built on gospel/mission roots. |
| pastor / shepherd | ποιμήν / poimēn | য়াওশিংবু য়েংবা মীওই | yaoshingbu yengba miwoi | Medium | 4:11 | NEW | Built on য়াও (sheep); confirm naturalness with native speaker. |
| teacher | διδάσκαλος / didaskalos | তম্বিহনবা মীওই | tambihanba miwoi | Low | 4:11 | NEW | Built on তম্বি (learn/teach). |
| equip | καταρτισμός / katartismos | মপুং ফাহন্নবা | mapung phahannaba | Medium | 4:12 | NEW | Built on মপুং ফাবা (fullness) root. |
| measure of Christ’s gift | μέτρον τῆς δωρεᾶς τοῦ Χριστοῦ | থাওয়াইগী খুদোল | thawaigi khudol | Medium | 4:7 | Reused | Baseline spiritual_gifts term. |
Doctrine 9: Walking in Newness of Life
| English Term | Original (Transliteration) | Manipuri Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Chapter Refs | Status | Notes / Rejected Alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| walk (conduct of life) | περιπατέω / peripateō | চৎনবা | chatnaba | Medium | 2:2,10; 4:1,17; 5:2,8,15 | NEW (root shared with baseline righteousness compound) | Continuity with Romans’ অচুম্বা চৎনবিরাক should be taught explicitly. |
| old self / new self (individual) | παλαιὸς ἄνθρωπος, καινὸς ἄνθρωπος | মমাংগী মীওই / অনৌবা মীওী | mamangi miwoi / anouba miwoi | High | 4:22,24 | NEW | Must be distinguished by translator note from the corporate “one new man” (2:15), which shares the phrase অনৌবা মীওই. |
| renewed (in the spirit of the mind) | ἀνανεοῦσθαι / ananeousthai | অনৌবা ওইহনবা | anouba oihanba | Medium | 4:23 | NEW | Justification/sanctification “X ওইহনবা” pattern. |
| children of light / children of darkness | τέκνα φωτός / σκότος | ৱাংবগী মচাশিং / অমাংবগী মচাশিং | wangbagi machashing / amangbagi machashing | Medium | 5:8 | NEW | Distinguish from puya-tradition cosmogonic light/darkness narratives; this is ethical-relational, not cosmogonic. |
| sexual immorality / impurity | πορνεία, ἀκαθαρσία | ব্যভিচার / শেংদবা | bebhichar / shengdaba | Medium/High | 5:3 | NEW | শেংদবা deliberately avoids near-homophonic collision with অসেংবা (holy); never render impurity with the অ- prefix on শেংবা. |
| idolatry | εἰδωλολατρία / eidōlolatria | মুর্তি খুরুম্বা | murti khurumba | Critical | 5:5 | NEW | Highest pastoral-sensitivity term in the curriculum; teach within Ephesians’ own argument (greed as idolatry), not as polemic against living neighbors’/family members’ Vaishnava or Sanamahi devotional practice. |
| sacrificial offering | θυσία, προσφορά | তেংবাং মপুদা পীথোকপা | Tengban Mapuda pithokpa | Medium | 5:2 | NEW | Provisional; confirm against BSI Manipuri Bible’s OT sacrificial vocabulary before deployment. |
| put off / put on | ἀποθέσθαι, ἐνδύσασθαι | থাদোকপা / সেৎপা | thadokpa / setpa | Medium | 4:22,24; 6:11 | NEW | Confirm naturalness with native speaker before deployment. |
| grieve (the Holy Spirit) | λυπέω / lypeō | থাওয়াই অসেংবাবু ওকপা | — | High | 4:30 | NEW | Combined with থাওয়াই অসেংবা (Critical baseline term); never use bare থাওয়াই. |
Terms Reused Exactly from Baseline Romans Translation Memory (Consolidated List)
গস্পেল (gospel), মথৌ তাদনা পীবা তেংবাং (grace), থাজবা (faith), অচুম্বা চৎনবিরাক (righteousness), অচুম্বা ওইহনবা (justification), অহানবা (salvation), তবিদগী থাবিরকপা (apostle), কৌখিবা (called), কৌবগী থৌদাং (calling), অসেংবা (holy), অসেংবা মীওই (saints), অসেংবা ওইহনবা (sanctification), মচা ওইনা লৌবা (adoption), সিবদগী হিংজত-লকপা (resurrection), মপু ইবুংগো (lord), তেংবাং মপুগী মচানুপা (son of God), মীওইগী মহৈ লৌবা (incarnation), ইনগবা (peace), থাওয়াইগী খুদোল (spiritual gifts), থাগৎচরি (thanksgiving), লোইনবা (fellowship), কলিসিয়া (church), তেংবাং মপুগী লৈপাক (kingdom of God), য়াথাং (law), পাপ (sin), অতোপ্পা ফুরুপ (gentiles), মতিক চাউবা (glory), থাজবগী ইনবা (obedience of faith), তেংবাং মপুগী পাংথোক-থেংনবা (power of God), ক্রিস্তো (messiah), তোঙান তোঙানবা ফোংদোকপা (prophet), ফোংদোকপা ৱারোল (prophecy), ৱারেপ্পা (covenant), তেংবাং মপুগী খনবা (election), মখোয়গী মফমদা হায়জবা (intercession), তেংবাং মপুগী থৌরাং (providence), পাউ সন্দোকপগী থৌদাং (mission), ইস্রায়েল (Israel), জিসু (Jesus), তেংবাং মপু (God), থাওয়াই অসেংবা (Holy Spirit), ইপা (Father), আব্বা (Abba), থাওয়াই পীবা (exhort), পীথোকপা অচুম্বা চৎনবিরাক (imputed righteousness).
No deviation from these baseline renderings is permitted anywhere in the Ephesians curriculum.
Critical Risk Terms
Grace
Approved rendering: মথৌ তাদনা পীবা তেংবাং
Transliteration: mathou tadana piba tengbang
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: কৃপা (bhakti-responsive Krishna-favor, avoid as the primary term), পুণ্য (merit accumulated through devotional service/seva, never use)
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Occurs at 1:2,6-7; 2:5,7-8; 4:7; 6:24. Ephesians 2:8-9 is this curriculum’s thesis-adjacent statement, structurally parallel to Romans 1:16-17, and must render identically at every occurrence. Never let it collapse into bhakti-responsive কৃপা without explicit contrast. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Righteousness
Approved rendering: অচুম্বা চৎনবিরাক
Transliteration: achumba chatnabirak
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: ধর্ম (avoid the broad Hindu-derived sense of cosmic/religious duty)
Occurs in the armor-of-God list as the ‘breastplate of righteousness’ (6:14). Right standing before God received through faith, not ধর্ম-style religious duty. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Justification
Approved rendering: অচুম্বা ওইহনবা
Transliteration: achumba oihanba
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: ময়ামদা কোকপা (forgiveness alone, too narrow)
The forensic ‘being declared righteous’ sense underlies Ephesians’ salvation argument even where the specific noun is not repeated; must never be abbreviated to mere forgiveness (see forgiveness entry below, which IS the correct standalone term for a related but distinct concept at Eph 1:7). Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Salvation
Approved rendering: অহানবা
Transliteration: ahanba
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: মোক্ষ (Vaishnava/Hindu liberation, never use), লাইনিং (union/absorption into a deity’s divine presence, never use)
Original: σωτηρία / σῴζω
Category: Salvation
Occurs at 2:5,8; 6:17. Never মোক্ষ or a devotee’s hoped-for union with Krishna. Eph 2:8-9 is this curriculum’s thesis-adjacent statement; must render identically at every occurrence. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: সিবদগী হিংজত-লকপা
Transliteration: sibadagi hingjat-lakpa
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Rejected alternatives: পুনর্জন্ম (rebirth/reincarnation, never use)
Original: ἀνάστασις / ἐγείρω
Category: Eschatology
Occurs at 1:20; 2:6. Never পুনর্জন্ম. Bodily, historical, once-for-all resurrection, the basis of believers’ present co-resurrection with Christ in 2:6. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Lord
Approved rendering: মপু ইবুংগো
Transliteration: Mapu Ibungo
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ঠাকুর (a devotional title for Krishna in Manipuri Vaishnava usage, never use)
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Occurs throughout Ephesians (1:2,3,15,17; 4:1,5; 5:8,10,17,19,20,22; 6:1,4,7-9,10,21,23,24, etc.). CRITICAL DISTINCTION extended for Ephesians 6:5-9: this honorific ইবুংগো must NEVER be attached to the plain word মপু (master) when it refers to a human slaveholder/employer — see master_human entry below. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী মচানুপা
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi machanupa
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: অবতার (avatar, never use)
Original: υἱὸς θεοῦ
Category: Christology
Occurs at 4:13 (‘the knowledge of the Son of God’). Never অবতার. Full, eternal, co-equal divine Sonship, not one avatar among Vishnu’s recognized avatar sequence. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Incarnation
Approved rendering: মীওইগী মহৈ লৌবা
Transliteration: miwoigi mahai louba
Doctrine: Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: অবতার (never use)
Original: ὁ λόγος σὰρξ ἐγένετο (theological category)
Category: Christology
Underlies the ‘mystery’ passages of Ephesians (esp. 3:6-9), where the eternal Son’s unique assumption of human nature grounds the newly disclosed plan. Never অবতার. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Messiah
Approved rendering: ক্রিস্তো
Transliteration: Christo
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
Used throughout Ephesians as Christ’s name/title. Not one avatar among Vishnu’s recognized avatar sequence. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Jesus
Approved rendering: জিসু
Transliteration: Jisu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Used throughout Ephesians. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
God
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপু
Transliteration: Tengban Mapu
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ঠাকুর (a devotional title strongly associated with Krishna, avoid), সানামাহি (never use as the primary term for the biblical God)
Original: θεός
Category: God
The established Manipuri Christian term for God; deliberately preferred over both ঠাকুর and সানামাহি. Root for numerous Ephesians compounds (Tengban Mapugi khanba, Tengban Mapugi imung, Tengban Mapugi lanthang, etc.). Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: থাওয়াই অসেংবা
Transliteration: Thawai Asengba
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: থাওয়াই alone (a generic spirit/soul, never use without অসেংবা), শক্তি (a maibi’s oracular trance-power, never use)
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Occurs at 1:13; 4:30; 5:18. Must always appear in full. This rule is EXTENDED in Ephesians to two new combination terms: grieve_holy_spirit and filled_with_spirit (see Section B), both of which must carry থাওয়াই অসেংবা in full, never bare থাওয়াই. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Father
Approved rendering: ইপা
Transliteration: Ipa
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Occurs at 1:2,3,17; 2:18; 3:14; 4:6; 5:20; 6:2,23. God as personal Father, chosen for warmth and intimacy rather than a royal-divine title tied to the Pakhangba lineage tradition. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Imputed Righteousness
Approved rendering: পীথোকপা অচুম্বা চৎনবিরাক
Transliteration: pithokpa achumba chatnabirak
Doctrine: Justification by Faith
Rejected alternatives: ফংলকপা অচুম্বা চৎনবিরাক (righteousness earned/obtained by one’s own effort, the explicit rejected opposite)
Root পীথোকপা (given/credited) is reused in two new Ephesians compounds: guarantee (মমাংগী পীথোকপা) and sacrificial_offering (তেংবাং মপুদা পীথোকপা), see Section B. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Works
Approved rendering: থবক
Transliteration: thabak
Doctrine: Works Excluded as the Ground of Salvation
Rejected alternatives: সেবা (bhakti devotional service understood to build toward Krishna’s favor, never use as a substitute or equivalent)
Original: ἔργα
Category: Salvation
NEW TERM. Eph 2:9 explicitly excludes works as the ground of salvation, yet the identical word থবক reappears in 2:10 for good works as salvation’s fruit (see good_works). MANDATORY translator note required at every occurrence distinguishing the two uses. Must be explicitly contrasted with bhakti সেবা.
Redemption
Approved rendering: মমল পীদুনা হানবা
Transliteration: mamal piduna hanba
Doctrine: Redemption through Christ’s Blood
Rejected alternatives: ritual ransom/appeasement offerings to an Umang Lai or ancestral spirit, never use as a parallel, the karmic-debt logic of prayaschitta atonement rituals, never use as a parallel
Original: ἀπολύτρωσις
Category: Salvation
NEW TERM. Eph 1:7,14; 4:30. A single, finished historical transaction (Christ’s blood), not an ongoing ritual debt-servicing relationship with a spiritual power.
Predestined
Approved rendering: মমাংগী মথংদা খনবা
Transliteration: mamangi mathangda khanba
Doctrine: Predestination unto Adoption
Rejected alternatives: ৱাইফম (impersonal fate, never use), the Pakhangba royal-lineage descent framework of divinely predetermined kingship, never use as a parallel, Vaishnava jyotish astrological determinism, never use as a parallel
Original: προορίζω
Category: Election
NEW TERM, built on the baseline election root (খনবা) for continuity. Eph 1:5,11. A personal, relational, loving decision (‘in love,’ 1:5), never an impersonal cosmic mechanism. This ‘in love’ qualifier must travel with the term wherever it is taught.
Mystery
Approved rendering: লুকখিবা থৌরাং
Transliteration: lukkhiba thourang
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Rejected alternatives: esoteric/confidential devotional knowledge (rasa-tattva, guhya-tattva) disclosed progressively to advancing bhakti initiates through Ras Lila, never use as a parallel, Sanamahi ritual/cosmological knowledge guarded by maibi/maiba specialists and the puya textual tradition, never use as a parallel
Original: μυστήριον
Category: Mystery
NEW TERM, the single highest-salience collision risk in the entire book. Eph 1:9; 3:3-9; 5:32; 6:19. Must be taught at EVERY occurrence as God’s plan now fully and publicly disclosed to all believers through the gospel — the opposite structure of any graded esoteric disclosure. Built on the baseline providence root (থৌরাং).
Principalities And Powers
Approved rendering: অসোইবা থাওয়াই পাংগলশিং
Transliteration: asoiba thawai panggalshing
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Powers of Darkness
Rejected alternatives: Umang Lai (benevolent guardian deities honored, not warred against, in Sanamahi practice), never use as a parallel, শক্তি (maibi trance-power, already forbidden by the baseline for God’s own power), never use
Original: ἀρχαί, ἐξουσίαι, κοσμοκράτορες, πνευματικά τῆς πονηρίας
Category: Spiritual Warfare
NEW TERM, the single highest-stakes translation decision in the entire book for the Manipuri context. Eph 1:21; 2:2; 3:10; 6:12. The ‘evil/hostile’ qualifier (অসোইবা) is built into the term itself so it cannot default to a neutral or benevolent spirit-being reading. Requires explicit, careful pastoral framing at every occurrence to avoid casting an actively venerated local guardian-deity category as demonic.
Devil
Approved rendering: শয়তান
Transliteration: Shoitan
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Powers of Darkness
Rejected alternatives: a hostile Umang Lai spirit, never use — Umang Lai are generally regarded as benevolent guardian deities in Sanamahi practice, not moral adversaries, an asura/demon figure from Krishna-mythology (e.g. Kamsa, Putana), never use — a different narrative and cosmological framework
Original: διάβολος / Σατανᾶς
Category: Spiritual Warfare
NEW transliterated term, following established South Asian Christian-translation convention, chosen specifically because transliteration avoids both collision risks a native paraphrase would create. Eph 2:2; 4:27; 6:11. A single, specific, personal fallen being.
Idolatry
Approved rendering: মুর্তি খুরুম্বা
Transliteration: murti khurumba
Doctrine: The Warning Against Idolatry
Rejected alternatives: euphemistic invention obscuring the term’s real-world referent, never use — would weaken the pastoral teaching moment Ephesians itself creates
Original: εἰδωλολατρία
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM, among the most pastorally sensitive terms in the entire curriculum. Eph 5:5. Names, in ordinary Manipuri religious vocabulary, practices central to living Manipuri Vaishnava temple devotion (murti veneration) and, distinctly, Sanamahi household/grove-shrine practice. MUST be taught within Ephesians’ own argument (covetousness itself is idolatry, 5:3-5), never as polemic against neighbors’ or family members’ living devotional practice, since both traditions remain the actual religious identity of most Meitei people, including many believers’ own families.
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: নুংঙাইবগী পাউ
Transliteration: nungngaibagi pao
Doctrine: Gospel
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
Occurs at Ephesians 1:13; 3:6; 6:15,19. Must be distinguished from festive announcements associated with the Vaishnava devotional calendar (e.g. Ras Lila performances). Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Faith
Approved rendering: থাজবা
Transliteration: thajaba
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: ভক্তি (bhakti, devoted loving worship, too specific to the Vaishnava devotional framework)
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Occurs at 1:1,15; 2:8; 3:12,17; 4:5,13; 6:16,23. Object of faith must always be named in context. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Called
Approved rendering: কৌখিবা
Transliteration: koukhiba
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλητός
Category: Salvation
Occurs at 4:1,4. Must be distinguished from a maibi being ritually seized/called by an Umang Lai deity during Lai Haraoba trance. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Calling
Approved rendering: কৌবগী থৌদাং
Transliteration: koubagi thoudang
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Occurs at 1:18; 4:1,4. Noun form kept structurally parallel to কৌখিবা. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Holy
Approved rendering: অসেংবা
Transliteration: asengba
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: শেংবা (physically clean, ritual-purity sense only)
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Occurs at 1:1,4; 2:21; 5:27. Moral purity and set-apartness for God; শেংবা reserved for physical/ritual cleanliness only. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Saints
Approved rendering: অসেংবা মীওই
Transliteration: asengba miwoi
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: গোসাঞি/বৈষ্ণব (a Vaishnava renunciant devotee title, never use for the corporate biblical sense)
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
Occurs at 1:1,15,18; 3:8,18; 4:12; 5:3; 6:18. Corporate address to all believers, not a specialist ascetic class. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: অসেংবা ওইহনবা
Transliteration: asengba oihanba
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἁγιασμός / ἁγιάζω
Category: Sanctification
Occurs at 5:26 (Christ ‘sanctifying’ the church). Distinct from ritual purification before Lai Haraoba or Vaishnava temple worship. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Adoption
Approved rendering: মচা ওইনা লৌবা
Transliteration: macha oina louba
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: υἱοθεσία
Category: Salvation
Occurs at 1:5. Full inheritance-rights sense must be taught explicitly against traditional Meitei clan (yumnak) birth-lineage kinship. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Sin
Approved rendering: পাপ
Transliteration: pap
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin
Occurs at 2:1, paired with ‘trespasses’ (অশোয়বা, see Section B) — kept distinct so the doubled Greek phrase of Eph 2:1 is not flattened into one repeated Manipuri word. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Glory
Approved rendering: মতিক চাউবা
Transliteration: matik chauba
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Occurs at 1:6,12,14,17,18; 3:13,16,21. Avoid metaphors that could conflate with Ras Lila performance staging’s visual evocation of Krishna’s own radiance. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Obedience Of Faith
Approved rendering: থাজবগী ইনবা
Transliteration: thajabagi inba
Doctrine: Obedience of Faith
Rejected alternatives: ভক্তিগী সেবা (devotional service performed out of bhakti, a works-based misreading)
Names the specific faith-produced obedience toward God; must be kept distinct from the household-code sense of ‘obey’ (ইনবা alone, see obey entry in Section B), which addresses obedience of children/servants toward a human authority. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী পাংথোক-থেংনবা
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi pangthok-thengnaba
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Rejected alternatives: শক্তি (associated with the ritual/oracular power of a maibi in Lai Haraoba trance, avoid as the primary term)
Original: δύναμις θεοῦ
Category: God
Occurs at 1:19; 3:7,20 — the resurrection-power now at work in believers. Never শক্তি. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Covenant
Approved rendering: ৱারেপ্পা
Transliteration: wareppa
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: διαθῆκαι τῆς ἐπαγγελίας
Category: Covenant
Occurs at 2:12 (‘covenants of promise’). A relational covenant/promise bond. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Election
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী খনবা
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi khanba
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: ৱাইফম (fate/destiny, never use)
Original: ἐκλέγομαι
Category: Salvation
Occurs at 1:4,11. God’s sovereign, personal, pre-temporal choice ‘before the foundation of the world’; must not be assimilated to the historic Meitei royal-lineage framework of divinely predetermined kingship (Pakhangba descent). Root for the new term predestined (see Section B). Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Providence
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী থৌরাং
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi thourang
Doctrine: Providence
Rejected alternatives: ৱাইফম (fate, never use)
Original: βουλή τοῦ θελήματος αὐτοῦ
Category: God
Relevant at 1:11 (‘the counsel of his will’). Never ৱাইফম. Root reused in the new compound mystery (লুকখিবা থৌরাং, see Section B). Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Abba
Approved rendering: আব্বা
Transliteration: Abba
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Aramaic term of intimacy preserved as a transliteration; not directly attested in Ephesians’ text but retained in translation memory for cross-document consistency with the adoption doctrine developed at Eph 1:5. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Boast
Approved rendering: চাউথোকপা
Transliteration: chauthokpa
Doctrine: Works Excluded as the Ground of Salvation
Original: καυχάομαι
Category: Salvation
NEW TERM. Eph 2:9’s rhetorical hinge, parallel to Romans 3:27; 4:2. Preserve full force (‘no one may boast’) with no softening.
Gift
Approved rendering: খুদোল
Transliteration: khudol
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: δῶρον
Category: Salvation
NEW TERM sharing its root with the baseline spiritual_gifts compound (থাওয়াইগী খুদোল). Eph 2:8 applies this root to salvation itself, not merely Spirit-given enablement; this continuity should be taught.
Mercy
Approved rendering: চানবা
Transliteration: chanba
Doctrine: Mercy of God
Rejected alternatives: কৃপা (Krishna’s bhakti-responsive favor, frequently glossed ‘mercy’ in ISKCON-influenced English-language literature circulating in Manipur; never use)
Original: ἔλεος
Category: Salvation
NEW TERM. Eph 2:4 (‘rich in mercy’). CAUTION: direct lexical collision risk with ISKCON-influenced material’s English gloss of কৃপা as ‘mercy.’ Must be taught as God’s compassion toward the helpless-dead sinner (2:1-3), not bhakti-responsive favor toward an already-devoted worshiper.
Spiritual Deadness
Approved rendering: থাওয়ায়দা সিবা
Transliteration: thawaida siba
Doctrine: Universal Spiritual Deadness Apart from Christ
Rejected alternatives: framing drawn from Sanamahi ancestor-spirit veneration (Apokpa), never use as a parallel
Original: νεκρός (metaphorical, of persons)
Category: Sin
NEW TERM. Eph 2:1,5. Must be sharply distinguished from Sanamahi ancestor-spirit veneration, in which ‘the dead’ remain active, honored family presences. Ephesians’ ‘spiritually dead’ describes the living unbeliever’s standing before God, not a state of the departed.
Wrath
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী অহোংবা
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi ahongba
Doctrine: Wrath of God
Rejected alternatives: impersonal karmic-consequence framing accruing across lifetimes, never use, an appeasable household or Umang Lai spirit’s displeasure, ritually resolvable through offerings, never use
Original: ὀργή
Category: Sin
NEW TERM. Eph 2:3; 5:6. God’s personal, settled, judicial displeasure against sin, resolved only by grace through Christ, never by ritual remedy.
Inheritance
Approved rendering: চাদান
Transliteration: chadan
Doctrine: Adoption and Inheritance in God’s Family
Rejected alternatives: unmarked equivalence with ordinary yumnak clan birth-lineage inheritance, without explicit contrast, never use unqualified
Original: κληρονομία
Category: Election
NEW TERM. Eph 1:14,18. Must be taught explicitly against traditional Meitei clan (yumnak) inheritance, which runs through birth lineage administered by clan elders — believers’ inheritance is received by adoption/faith, not birth-lineage succession.
Sealed
Approved rendering: চুম্মৎ পীবা
Transliteration: chummat piba
Doctrine: Sealing by the Holy Spirit
Rejected alternatives: tilaka forehead-markings or tapta-mudrankana heated-stamp branding as applied in some Gaudiya Vaishnava initiation practice, never use as a parallel
Original: σφραγίζω
Category: Election
NEW TERM. Eph 1:13-14; 4:30. The Spirit’s seal is an internal, invisible, divinely-applied guarantee, not an external devotional badge earned or received at a rite of passage. Always paired with থাওয়াই অসেংবা in full.
Body Of Christ
Approved rendering: ক্রিস্তোগী হাকচাং
Transliteration: Christogi hakchang
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ
Rejected alternatives: a maibi’s body understood as a ritual vessel/medium for spirit-indwelling during Lai Haraoba trance possession, never use as a parallel, a Vaishnava temple murti understood as literally embodying Krishna’s presence, never use as a parallel
Original: σῶμα Χριστοῦ
Category: Church
NEW TERM. Eph 1:23; 4:12,16; 5:23,30. A relational/organic metaphor for the corporate community’s unity and function, not a claim that Christ’s presence is contained within or channeled through a ritual object or human medium.
Head
Approved rendering: কোক
Transliteration: kok
Doctrine: Christ as Head of the Church
Original: κεφαλή
Category: Church
NEW TERM serving both Christ’s headship over the church (1:22; 4:15; 5:23) and, by extension, the husband’s headship over the wife (5:23). MUST always carry its qualifier (Christ’s self-sacrificial love, 5:25) attached, never in isolation, to prevent a reading that authorizes unilateral domination. Enforced as a validation rule, not merely a teaching note.
Holy Temple
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী অসেংবা লৈফম
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi asengba leifam
Doctrine: The Church as God’s Holy Temple
Rejected alternatives: মন্দির (Vaishnava temple, never use — this extends the baseline’s forbidden-substitution rule for ‘church’ explicitly to the metaphorical ‘temple’ usage of Eph 2:21-22)
Original: ναὸς ἅγιος / κατοικητήριον τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Church
NEW TERM. Eph 2:21-22. English ‘temple’ could tempt a translator toward মন্দির; লৈফম (dwelling place) avoids this entirely.
Cornerstone
Approved rendering: খ্বাইদগী মরুওইবা লু
Transliteration: khwaidagi maruoiba lu
Doctrine: The Church as God’s Holy Temple
Rejected alternatives: sacred stones/shrine-markers found at Umang Lai sacred groves, never use as a parallel, consecrated foundation-stones at Vaishnava temple sites, never use as a parallel
Original: ἀκρογωνιαῖος
Category: Church
NEW TERM. Eph 2:20. Christ as the structurally decisive foundation of the church’s identity, not a physical sacred object at a worship site.
Dividing Wall
Approved rendering: খায়দোকপগী লেপ্পা
Transliteration: khaidokpagi leppa
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Rejected alternatives: direct mapping onto Manipur’s contemporary inter-community ethnic tensions, never use as the primary framing
Original: τὸ μεσότοιχον τοῦ φραγμοῦ
Category: Unity
NEW TERM. Eph 2:14. Echoes the Jerusalem Temple’s Gentile-court barrier; resolves a specific, historical, covenantal (Jew/Gentile, Torah-based) division and must not be casually mapped onto present-day Manipur ethnic tensions, which are a different (social/political) kind of division.
One New Humanity
Approved rendering: অমা অনৌবা মীওই
Transliteration: ama anouba miwoi
Doctrine: One New Humanity in Christ
Original: εἷς καινός ἄνθρωπος
Category: Unity
NEW TERM. Eph 2:15. A genuinely new corporate humanity in Christ, not a merged hybrid of old categories. Shares its Manipuri wording with the individual ‘new self’ of 4:24 (new_self entry below); a MANDATORY disambiguating translator note is required at every occurrence of either sense.
Reconciliation
Approved rendering: ইনগবা ওইহনবা
Transliteration: ingba oihanba
Doctrine: One New Humanity in Christ
Original: ἀποκαταλλάσσω
Category: Unity
NEW TERM built on the baseline ইনগবা (peace) root, using the ‘X ওইহনবা’ pattern already established for justification/sanctification. Eph 2:16: Christ reconciles both Jew and Gentile to God and to one another in a single act through the cross.
Schemes Of The Devil
Approved rendering: শয়তানগী লাংবা থবক
Transliteration: Shoitangi langba thabak
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Powers of Darkness
Original: μεθοδεία
Category: Spiritual Warfare
NEW TERM built on শয়তান. Eph 6:11. Names a personal, strategic spiritual adversary, not impersonal misfortune.
Armor Of God
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী লান্থাং
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi lanthang
Doctrine: The Armor of God
Rejected alternatives: Thang-Ta martial-art ritual weaponry vocabulary, tied to Sanamahi Pakhangba/serpent-deity symbolism, never use as an endorsement or echo
Original: πανοπλία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Spiritual Warfare
NEW TERM, built on genuine Meitei war-vocabulary roots (লান/থাং) deliberately kept generic, not Thang-Ta-specific. Eph 6:11,13. A Pauline metaphor for spiritual equipment (truth, righteousness, gospel, faith, salvation, the Spirit’s word), not an endorsement of ritual martial-arts weaponry.
Submission
Approved rendering: ইনবা
Transliteration: inba
Doctrine: Household Codes: Marriage as Christ and the Church
Rejected alternatives: unilateral clan-elder/patriarchal yumnak authority as the sole governing frame, never use unqualified, residual royal-household hierarchical framing drawn from the historic Meitei court, never use as the sole frame
Original: ὑποτάσσω
Category: Household
NEW TERM/context built on the baseline obedience_of_faith root (ইনবা). Eph 5:21,22,24. Governing principle is MUTUAL submission (5:21), framing the whole household-code section; must never be taught as one-directional.
Master Human
Approved rendering: মপু
Transliteration: mapu
Doctrine: Household Codes: Servants and Masters
Rejected alternatives: attaching the honorific ইবুংগো to this human-master sense, ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN — ইবুংগো is reserved exclusively for মপু ইবুংগো, the divine Lord Jesus Christ
Original: κύριος (of a slave)
Category: Household
NEW TERM. Eph 6:5,9. CRITICAL DISTINCTION: the plain word for a human slaveholder/employer must never carry the honorific ইবুংগো, even though the same Greek word (κύριος) is used for both the human master and Christ’s Lordship. This preserves the baseline’s Critical Lordship-of-Christ boundary. Enforced as an absolute validation rule.
Old Self
Approved rendering: মমাংগী মীওই
Transliteration: mamangi miwoi
Doctrine: Putting Off the Old Self, Putting On the New Self
Original: παλαιὸς ἄνθρωπος
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Eph 4:22. The believer’s former, unregenerate identity, to be decisively ‘put off’ like a garment.
New Self
Approved rendering: অনৌবা মীওই
Transliteration: anouba miwoi
Doctrine: Putting Off the Old Self, Putting On the New Self
Original: καινὸς ἄνθρωπος
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Eph 4:24. Shares its Manipuri wording with the corporate ‘one new humanity’ of 2:15 (one_new_humanity entry above); a MANDATORY disambiguating translator note is required at every occurrence of either sense to prevent conflating individual sanctification with corporate ecclesiology.
Impurity
Approved rendering: শেংদবা
Transliteration: shengdaba
Doctrine: The Warning Against Idolatry
Rejected alternatives: the অ-শেংবা negation pattern, never use — creates a near-homophonic collision with অসেংবা (holy)
Original: ἀκαθαρσία
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Eph 5:3. Deliberately formed with the ‘-দবা’ negation pattern specifically to avoid collision with অসেংবা (holy); this construction choice must never be ‘corrected’ back toward the অ- prefix pattern.
Grieve Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: থাওয়াই অসেংবাবু ওকপা
Transliteration: thawai asengbabu okpa
Doctrine: Sealing by the Holy Spirit
Original: λυπέω τὸ Πνεῦμα
Category: Sanctification
NEW combination term. Eph 4:30. Must always carry থাওয়াই অসেংবা (baseline Critical term) in full, never bare থাওয়াই.
Filled With Spirit
Approved rendering: থাওয়াই অসেংবানা মপুং হানবা
Transliteration: thawai asengbana mapung hanba
Doctrine: Being Filled with the Holy Spirit
Rejected alternatives: confusion with a maibi’s trance-possession state during Lai Haraoba, never use as a parallel
Original: πληροῦσθε ἐν Πνεύματι
Category: Sanctification
NEW combination term joining থাওয়াই অসেংবা with the মপুং ফাবা (fullness) root. Eph 5:18. The ongoing, present-tense Spirit-filled life; both components must be checked for compliance at every occurrence.
No Partiality
Approved rendering: মীওই পুম্নমক্কী মপুংফাবা লান্থোকপা
Transliteration: miwoi pumnamakki mapungphaba lanthokpa
Doctrine: Household Codes: Servants and Masters
Original: προσωπολημψία (negated)
Category: Household
Reuses the baseline universal_human_accountability doctrine root. Eph 6:9: God’s impartial judgment regardless of social/household status, applied here to masters and servants alike.
Medium Risk Terms
Apostle
Approved rendering: তবিদগী থাবিরকপা
Transliteration: tabidagi thabirakpa
Doctrine: Apostleship
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Occurs at 1:1; 2:20; 3:5; 4:11. Distinguish from a maiba/maibi’s recognized ritual office. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Peace
Approved rendering: ইনগবা
Transliteration: ingba
Doctrine: Peace with God
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Occurs at 1:2; 2:14-17; 4:3; 6:15,23. Relational, covenantal peace with God through justification, and (uniquely developed in Ephesians 2) peace between Jew and Gentile. Root for the new compound reconciliation (ইনগবা ওইহনবা, see Section B). Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Spiritual Gifts
Approved rendering: থাওয়াইগী খুদোল
Transliteration: thawaigi khudol
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts
Rejected alternatives: শক্তি (a maibi priestess’s ritual/oracular power during Lai Haraoba trance, avoid as a substitute)
Original: χαρίσματα / δόματα
Category: Church
Occurs at 4:7-11 (measure of Christ’s gift; apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers). Never শক্তি. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Church
Approved rendering: কলিসিয়া
Transliteration: kalisiya
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: মন্দির (a Vaishnava temple, never use), উমাং লাই থাবা (an Umang Lai sacred grove worship site, never use)
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Occurs at 1:22; 3:10,21; 5:23-32. This baseline forbidden-substitution rule (never মন্দির) is explicitly extended in Ephesians to also cover the metaphorical ‘temple’ usage of 2:21-22 — see holy_temple entry in Section B. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী লৈপাক
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi leipak
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom
Occurs at 5:5. Distinguish from the historic Meitei kingship tradition’s own royal-divine-lineage (Pakhangba descent) political framing. Root for fellow_citizens (see Section B). Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Law
Approved rendering: য়াথাং
Transliteration: yathang
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: ধর্ম (avoid the Hindu-derived religious-duty sense)
Original: νόμος
Category: Covenant
Occurs at 2:15 (‘the law of commandments expressed in ordinances’). Never ধর্ম. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Gentiles
Approved rendering: অতোপ্পা ফুরুপ
Transliteration: atoppa phurup
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Church
Occurs at 2:11; 3:1,6,8. Use with awareness that ‘other peoples’ language resonates with Meitei clan (ফুরুপ) identity categories. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Intercession
Approved rendering: মখোয়গী মফমদা হায়জবা
Transliteration: makhoigi mafamda haijaba
Doctrine: Prayer and Intercession
Original: προσευχή / ἔντευξις
Category: Faith
Relevant at 1:16-19; 3:14-19; 6:18-20. Kept distinct from petitions carried to the Umang Lai through a maibi/maiba. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Mission
Approved rendering: পাউ সন্দোকপগী থৌদাং
Transliteration: pao sandokpagi thoudang
Doctrine: Mission to the Nations
Original: οἰκονομία τῆς χάριτος
Category: Church
Relevant at 3:1-13 (Paul’s mission to the Gentiles) and 6:19-20 (ambassador). Frame as the church’s own calling, given the history of mission work’s entanglement with regional colonial-era memory and contemporary inter-community sensitivities. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Israel
Approved rendering: ইস্রায়েল
Transliteration: Israel
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: Ἰσραήλ
Category: Covenant
Occurs at 2:12. Standard transliteration. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Good Works
Approved rendering: অফবা থবক
Transliteration: aphaba thabak
Doctrine: Good Works as the Fruit, Not Root, of Salvation
Original: ἔργα ἀγαθά
Category: Salvation
NEW TERM. Eph 2:10. Fruit of salvation, never its root; the ordering grace → faith → salvation → good works must never be reversed in translation or teaching.
Trespasses
Approved rendering: অশোয়বা
Transliteration: ashoiba
Doctrine: Universal Spiritual Deadness Apart from Christ
Rejected alternatives: পাপ repeated as a substitute (would flatten Eph 2:1’s doubled Greek phrase into one repeated word)
Original: παράπτωμα
Category: Sin
NEW TERM. Eph 2:1,5; 1:7. Kept distinct from পাপ (sin, baseline) so the doubled Greek phrase of 2:1 is not flattened.
Forgiveness
Approved rendering: ময়ামদা কোকপা
Transliteration: mayamda kokpa
Doctrine: Redemption through Christ’s Blood
Original: ἄφεσις
Category: Salvation
NEW standalone use of a phrase the Romans baseline explicitly rejected as too narrow a substitute for ‘justification.’ Here, at Eph 1:7, it is the correct standalone term for forgiveness itself — a benefit of redemption, distinct from and subordinate to the fuller forensic status of justification (অচুম্বা ওইহনবা). Teach the distinction explicitly; do not conclude the phrase is banned outright.
Workmanship
Approved rendering: শেমগৎপিবা
Transliteration: shemgatpiba
Doctrine: Good Works as the Fruit, Not Root, of Salvation
Original: ποίημα
Category: Salvation
NEW TERM, built on শেম্বা (make/create). Eph 2:10. Believers are God’s own crafted work; reinforces that salvation and the transformed life both originate in God’s action, not self-improvement or unlocked devotional potential.
New Creation
Approved rendering: শেম্বা
Transliteration: shemba
Doctrine: Good Works as the Fruit, Not Root, of Salvation
Original: κτίζω
Category: Salvation
NEW TERM. Eph 2:10 (‘created in Christ Jesus’); also underlies 4:24’s ‘new self.’ Divine creative action, not self-improvement.
Guarantee
Approved rendering: মমাংগী পীথোকপা
Transliteration: mamangi pithokpa
Doctrine: Sealing by the Holy Spirit
Original: ἀρραβών
Category: Election
NEW TERM built on the baseline imputed_righteousness root পীথোকপা (given/credited), for continuity. Eph 1:14, the Spirit as first installment guaranteeing the believer’s full future inheritance.
Fellow Heirs
Approved rendering: চাদান লোইননা লৌবা
Transliteration: chadan loinana louba
Doctrine: Adoption and Inheritance in God’s Family
Original: συγκληρονόμος
Category: Election
NEW TERM built on চাদান (inheritance) + লোইনবা (fellowship, baseline reused). Eph 3:6: Gentiles inherit fully alongside Jewish believers, with no lesser status.
Fullness
Approved rendering: মপুং ফাবা
Transliteration: mapung phaba
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ
Original: πλήρωμα
Category: Church
NEW TERM reusing a root already present in baseline doctrine names (effectual_calling, fulfillment_of_prophecy). Eph 1:10,23; 3:19; 4:13.
Household Of God
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী ইমুং
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi imung
Doctrine: The Church as God’s Holy Temple
Original: οἰκεῖοι τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Church
NEW TERM built on the baseline adoption doctrine’s ইমুং (household) root. Eph 2:19. Positive resonance with yumnak household concepts; clarify it transcends any single biological clan.
Fellow Citizens
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী লৈপাক্কী মীওই
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi leipakki miwoi
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: συμπολῖται
Category: Church
NEW TERM built on the baseline kingdom_of_god’s লৈপাক root. Eph 2:19: Gentile believers now share full citizenship, not a resident-alien or second-class status.
Unity Of The Spirit
Approved rendering: অমত্তা ওইবা
Transliteration: amatta oiba
Doctrine: Unity of the Spirit
Original: ἑνότης τοῦ πνεύματος
Category: Church
NEW TERM built on the baseline unity_of_jews_and_gentiles doctrine-name root. Eph 4:3,13. The church’s Spirit-given, not humanly-manufactured, unity.
Baptism
Approved rendering: বাপ্তিজম
Transliteration: Baptisma
Doctrine: Unity of the Spirit
Original: βάπτισμα
Category: Church
NEW TERM, transliterated loanword, consistent with regional Christian usage. Eph 4:5, part of the sevenfold unity-list.
Pastor
Approved rendering: য়াওশিংবু য়েংবা মীওই
Transliteration: yaoshingbu yengba miwoi
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: ποιμήν
Category: Church
NEW TERM built on য়াও (sheep, a genuine Meitei word). Eph 4:11. Naturalness unconfirmed — flag for native-speaker review before Phase 2 lock-in.
Equip
Approved rendering: মপুং ফাহন্নবা
Transliteration: mapung phahannaba
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: καταρτισμός
Category: Church
NEW TERM built on the মপুং ফাবা (fullness) root. Eph 4:12: to prepare/outfit the whole church for mutual ministry and growth, not a religious-specialist class alone.
Access
Approved rendering: থাজনা চেংশিনবা
Transliteration: thajana chengshinba
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Rejected alternatives: ritual approach-protocols requiring a maibi/maiba intermediary or Vaishnava priestly mediation, never use as a parallel
Original: προσαγωγή / παρρησία
Category: Unity
NEW TERM used for both ‘access’ (2:18) and ‘boldness’ (3:12). Direct, unmediated approach to God, shared equally by Jew and Gentile believers through Christ.
Stewardship
Approved rendering: থৌদাং তানবা
Transliteration: thoudang tanba
Doctrine: Paul’s Stewardship of the Mystery
Original: οἰκονομία
Category: Mystery
NEW TERM built on থৌদাং (task, baseline calling/mission root). Eph 3:2,9.
Revelation
Approved rendering: ফোংদোকপা
Transliteration: phongdokpa
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Original: ἀποκάλυψις
Category: Mystery
NEW TERM built on the baseline prophecy root. Eph 1:17; 3:5,10.
Wisdom
Approved rendering: য়াম্না খংবা
Transliteration: yamna khangba
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Original: σοφία
Category: Mystery
NEW TERM. Eph 1:17; 3:5,10. Naturalness unconfirmed — confirm with a Manipuri-speaking theologian/native speaker before wide deployment.
Heavenly Places
Approved rendering: স্বর্গগী মফমশিং
Transliteration: swargagi mafamshing
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Powers of Darkness
Rejected alternatives: the Umang Lai spirit-realm honored at sacred groves, never use as a parallel, Vaikuntha/Goloka, Krishna’s heavenly abode sought through bhakti devotion, never use as a parallel
Original: ἐπουράνιος
Category: Spiritual Warfare
NEW TERM. Eph 1:3,20; 2:6; 3:10; 6:12. The believer’s present spiritual co-enthronement ‘in Christ’ is a status of union, not a devotional destination reached by merit or trance.
Word Of God
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী ৱাহেই
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi wahei
Doctrine: The Armor of God
Original: ῥῆμα θεοῦ
Category: Spiritual Warfare
NEW TERM, paired with থাওয়াই অসেংবা (Holy Spirit, baseline reused). Eph 6:17, ‘the sword of the Spirit.‘
Honor Parents
Approved rendering: ইকাই খুমনবা
Transliteration: ikai khumnaba
Doctrine: Household Codes: Children and Parents
Original: τιμάω
Category: Household
NEW TERM, a genuine Meitei respect-idiom. Eph 6:2, grounded explicitly in the fifth commandment ‘with promise,’ not generic filial-piety custom alone.
Discipline And Instruction
Approved rendering: তম্বিহনবা অমসুং চেকশিনবা
Transliteration: tambihanba amasung chekshinba
Doctrine: Household Codes: Children and Parents
Original: παιδεία, νουθεσία
Category: Household
NEW TERM. Eph 6:4: fathers are directly and reciprocally constrained (not to provoke children to wrath), not merely authorized by the preceding command to children.
Bondservant
Approved rendering: মিনাই
Transliteration: minai
Doctrine: Household Codes: Servants and Masters
Original: δοῦλος
Category: Household
NEW TERM, a genuine Meitei word for servant/bondservant. Eph 6:5-8.
Walk
Approved rendering: চৎনবা
Transliteration: chatnaba
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: περιπατέω
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM sharing its root with the baseline righteousness compound (অচুম্বা চৎনবিরাক). Eph 2:2,10; 4:1,17; 5:2,8,15 — the book’s key ethical-life metaphor. This continuity with Romans should be taught explicitly.
Renewed
Approved rendering: অনৌবা ওইহনবা
Transliteration: anouba oihanba
Doctrine: Putting Off the Old Self, Putting On the New Self
Original: ἀνανεοῦσθαι
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM built on the ‘X ওইহনবা’ pattern established for justification/sanctification. Eph 4:23: ongoing, Spirit-worked mental and spiritual renewal.
Children Of Light
Approved rendering: ৱাংবগী মচাশিং
Transliteration: wangbagi machashing
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Rejected alternatives: puya-tradition cosmogonic light/darkness narratives (e.g. accounts of the sun’s origins), never use as a parallel framing
Original: τέκνα φωτός
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Eph 5:8. This is an ethical-relational light/darkness contrast, not a cosmogonic one.
Sexual Immorality
Approved rendering: ব্যভিচার
Transliteration: bebhichar
Doctrine: The Warning Against Idolatry
Original: πορνεία
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM, an established Bengali/Indic Christian loanword. Eph 5:3.
Sacrificial Offering
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুদা পীথোকপা
Transliteration: Tengban Mapuda pithokpa
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: θυσία, προσφορά
Category: Sanctification
NEW, provisional, descriptive rendering. Eph 5:2. CONFIRM against the BSI Manipuri Bible’s established Old Testament sacrificial vocabulary before wide deployment, consistent with the baseline’s own hedging practice for covenant/fellowship.
Put Off
Approved rendering: থাদোকপা
Transliteration: thadokpa
Doctrine: Putting Off the Old Self, Putting On the New Self
Original: ἀποθέσθαι
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Eph 4:22. Naturalness unconfirmed; flag for native-speaker review before deployment.
Put On
Approved rendering: সেৎপা
Transliteration: setpa
Doctrine: Putting Off the Old Self, Putting On the New Self
Original: ἐνδύσασθαι
Category: Sanctification
NEW TERM. Eph 4:24; 6:11 (armor of God). Naturalness unconfirmed; flag for native-speaker review before deployment.
Blessed Blessing
Approved rendering: য়াইফবা
Transliteration: yaifaba
Doctrine: Christian Identity in Christ
Rejected alternatives: generic worldly-fortune notions, avoid as the primary sense, ritual blessings (আশীর্বাদ) dispensed by a Vaishnava priest or Sanamahi maiba/maibi at a life-cycle rite, never use as a parallel
Original: εὐλογητός / εὐλογία
Category: God
NEW TERM, a genuine Meitei word for ‘blessed/fortunate.’ Eph 1:3. Distinguish God’s spiritual blessing ‘in the heavenly places’ from generic fortune or ritual life-cycle blessings.
Obey
Approved rendering: ইনবা
Transliteration: inba
Doctrine: Household Codes: Children and Parents
Original: ὑπακούω
Category: Household
NEW context-specific use sharing its Manipuri root with ‘submission’ (see submission entry above). Eph 6:1 (children toward parents), 6:5 (servants toward masters). Distinct from the baseline Romans-specific compound obedience_of_faith (থাজবগী ইনবা), which names faith-produced obedience toward God, not household obedience toward a human authority.
Low Risk Terms
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: থাগৎচরি
Transliteration: thagatchari
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία
Category: Faith
Occurs at 1:16; 5:4,20. Standard term for gratitude/thanks. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Fellowship
Approved rendering: লোইনবা
Transliteration: loinaba
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Original: κοινωνία
Category: Church
Relevant at 3:9; 5:11. Root for the new compound fellow_heirs (চাদান লোইননা লৌবা, see Section B). Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Prophet
Approved rendering: তোঙান তোঙানবা ফোংদোকপা
Transliteration: tongan tonganba phongdokpa
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: মৈবা (a traditional Sanamahi ritual specialist/healer, never use)
Original: προφήτης
Category: Covenant
Occurs at 2:20; 3:5; 4:11. Never মৈবা/মৈবী. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Prophecy
Approved rendering: ফোংদোকপা ৱারোল
Transliteration: phongdokpa warol
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Root shared with ‘revelation’ (ফোংদোকপা, see Section B). Distinct from a maibi’s trance utterances during Lai Haraoba. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Exhort
Approved rendering: থাওয়াই পীবা
Transliteration: thawai piba
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Context-sensitive encouragement/building-up term, relevant to Ephesians 4:29’s edification instruction. Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Ephesians.
Evangelist
Approved rendering: নুংঙাইবগী পাউ সন্দোকপা মীওই
Transliteration: nungngaibagi pao sandokpa miwoi
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: εὐαγγελιστής
Category: Church
NEW TERM built on the baseline gospel/mission roots. Eph 4:11.
Teacher
Approved rendering: তম্বিহনবা মীওই
Transliteration: tambihanba miwoi
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: διδάσκαλος
Category: Church
NEW TERM built on তম্বি (learn/teach). Eph 4:11.
Ambassador
Approved rendering: থাবিরকপগী মীওই
Transliteration: thabirakpagi miwoi
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Powers of Darkness
Original: πρεσβεύω
Category: Spiritual Warfare
NEW TERM built on the baseline apostle root (থাবিরকপা). Eph 6:20: Paul as ‘an ambassador in chains’ for the gospel.
Circumcision
Approved rendering: সুন্নত
Transliteration: sunnat
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: περιτομή / ἀκροβυστία
Category: Unity
NEW contextual loanword. Eph 2:11. Low risk; paired with the baseline gentiles term.
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