Core Glossary
08 Core Glossary — Hebrews (Full Book) — English → Manipuri
Legend
- TM-REUSE: term already fixed in the baseline Romans
translation_memory.json; rendering reused exactly, no deviation permitted. - NEW: term newly analyzed for the Hebrews curriculum in
07_semantic_analysis.md. - Risk: Critical / High / Medium / Low, per the same framework as
doctrine_risk_registry.json. - First occurrence: first chapter in which the term is theologically load-bearing (not necessarily first lexical occurrence).
Section 1 — Terms Reused Exactly from the Romans Translation Memory (TM-REUSE)
| English Term | Manipuri Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | First Occurrence in Hebrews | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| grace | মথৌ তাদনা পীবা তেংবাং | mathou tadana piba tengbang | Critical | 4:16 (throne of grace); 13:25 | Must resist bhakti-responsive কৃপা reading everywhere it recurs, esp. 4:16, 10:29, 12:15, 13:9,25. |
| faith | থাজবা | thajaba | High | 4:2; ch. 11 (throughout); 10:38-39 | Object of faith must be named at each occurrence, esp. across Hebrews 11’s OT figures. |
| righteousness | অচুম্বা চৎনবিরাক | achumba chatnabirak | Critical | 10:38; 11:7,33; 12:11 | Must match Romans 1:17 rendering exactly at 10:38 quotation. |
| salvation | অহানবা | ahanba | Critical | 1:14; 2:3,10; 5:9; 6:9; 9:28; 11:7 | Never মোক্ষ; see 9:28’s future/consummating sense. |
| called / calling | কৌখিবা / কৌবগী থৌদাং | koukhiba / koubagi thoudang | High | 3:1; 9:15; 11:8 | 9:15’s “those who are called” ties directly to inheritance doctrine. |
| holy | অসেংবা | asengba | High | throughout (holy places, Holy Spirit, holy brothers 3:1) | Root for new compounds: অসেংবা মফম (holy place), অসেংবা ওইহনবা (sanctification). |
| saints / holy ones | অসেংবা মীওই | asengba miwoi | High | 6:10; 13:24 | Corporate designation for all believers, not a specialist class. |
| sanctification / holiness | অসেংবা ওইহনবা | asengba oihanba | High | 12:14; 12:10 (“share in his holiness”) | Distinguished from ritual purification (শেংবা). |
| adoption (framework) | মচা ওইনা লৌবা | macha oina louba | High | 2:10-13 (“brothers”); ch. 12 (sons) | Underlies Hebrews’ inheritance/heir vocabulary. |
| resurrection | সিবদগী হিংজত-লকপা | sibadagi hingjat-lakpa | Critical | 6:2; 11:35; 13:20 | Never পুনর্জন্ম. “Better resurrection” (11:35) reuses this exactly. |
| lord | মপু ইবুংগো | Mapu Ibungo | Critical | 1:10; 2:3; 7:14; 13:20 | Never ঠাকুর. |
| son of God | তেংবাং মপুগী মচানুপা | Tengban Mapugi machanupa | Critical | 1:2,5,8; 4:14; 5:5,8; 6:6; 7:3,28 | Central Christological title of the whole book. |
| incarnation (concept) | মীওইগী মহৈ লৌবা | miwoigi mahai louba | Critical | 2:14,17; 5:7; 10:5,20 (“body”) | Never অবতার. |
| holy spirit | থাওয়াই অসেংবা | Thawai Asengba | Critical | 2:4; 3:7; 6:4; 9:8,14; 10:15 | Never bare থাওয়াই; 9:14’s “eternal Spirit” = থাওয়াই অসেংবা লোমননা লৈরকপা. |
| father | ইপা | Ipa | Critical | 1:5; 12:7,9 | God’s fatherly discipline (ch. 12). |
| law | য়াথাং | yathang | Medium/High | 7:5,12,16,19,28; 8:4,10; 9:19,22; 10:1,8,28 | Never ধর্ম. Basis for new compound “transgression” (য়াথাং থুগাইবা). |
| sin | পাপ | pap | High | throughout, esp. 9:26-28; 10:26 | Basis for “put away sin” (পাপ লৌথোকপা), “bear sin” (পাপ পূরকপা). |
| glory | মতিক চাউবা | matik chauba | High | 1:3; 2:7,10; 3:3 | Basis for “radiance of glory” (মতিক চাউবগী থাংবা). |
| covenant | ৱারেপ্পা | wareppa | High | 7:22; ch. 8-9 (throughout); 10:16,29; 12:24; 13:20 | Structural term for the whole book’s central argument; modified as অনৌবা ৱারেপ্পা (new covenant), পুরানবা ৱারেপ্পা (old/first covenant). |
| election (framework) | তেংবাং মপুগী খনবা | Tengban Mapugi khanba | High | 11:25 (Moses choosing) — background only | Minor presence; not a major Hebrews term but consistent framework retained. |
| messiah / christ | ক্রিস্তো | Christo | Critical | throughout | Not one avatar among many. |
| prophet | তোঙান তোঙানবা ফোংদোকপা | tongan tonganba phongdokpa | Low | 1:1 | Contrasted with the Son as God’s ultimate spokesperson. |
| david | দাউদ | Daud | Low | 4:7; 11:32 | Standard transliteration. |
| israel | ইস্রায়েল | Israel | Medium | 8:8,10; 11:22 | Standard transliteration. |
| jesus | জিসু | Jisu | Critical | 2:9; 3:1; 4:14; 6:20; 7:22; 10:19; 12:2,24; 13:8,12,20 | Established form retained throughout. |
| god | তেংবাং মপু | Tengban Mapu | Critical | throughout | Never ঠাকুর or সানামাহি. |
| power of God (framework) | তেংবাং মপুগী পাংথোক-থেংনবা | Tengban Mapugi pangthok-thengnaba | High | 1:3 (“word of his power”); 6:5; 7:16 | Reused compound pattern for “word of God, living and active.” |
| kingdom of God | তেংবাং মপুগী লৈপাক | Tengban Mapugi leipak | Medium | 1:8 (throne); 12:28 | Modified as “unshakable kingdom.” |
| thanksgiving | থাগৎচরি | thagatchari | Low | 13:15 | Basis for “sacrifice of praise” (থাগৎচরিগী বলি). |
| fellowship / church | লোইনবা / কলিসিয়া | loinaba / kalisiya | Low/Medium | 2:12; 10:25; 12:23; 13:1 | ”Assembling together” (10:25) draws on কলিসিয়া register. |
| obedience of faith (framework) | থাজবগী ইনবা | thajabagi inba | High | 5:8-9; 11:8 | Christ’s own perfected obedience (5:8) is a distinct nuance from believers’ obedience-of-faith; flag for translator note. |
Section 2 — New Terms Introduced for the Hebrews Curriculum
| English Term | Greek (transliteration) | Manipuri Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | First Occurrence | Rejected Alternatives / Collision Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| angel | ἄγγελος (angelos) | তেংবাং মপুগী দূত | Tengban Mapugi doot | High | ch. 1 | Reject দেবদূত (imports “deva”); reject equating with Umang Lai forest deities honored at Lai Haraoba. |
| Moses | Μωϋσῆς (Mōusēs) | মোশে | Moshe | Medium | ch. 3 | Standard transliteration; requires OT narrative-background teaching. |
| high priest | ἀρχιερεύς (archiereus) | মহা যাজক | Maha Yajak | Critical | 2:17; ch. 4-10 (throughout) | Reject পুরোহিত (Hindu/Vaishnava priest-title); reject implying a maiba-style transmissible office. Christ’s priesthood is unique and permanent. |
| priest | ἱερεύς (hiereus) | যাজক | Yajak | High | 5:6; ch. 7 | Same collision notes as high priest; established biblical-register term, parallel to কলিসিয়া’s rejection of মন্দির in the baseline. |
| priesthood | ἱερωσύνη (hierōsynē) | যাজকশিংগী থৌদাং | yajakshinggi thoudang | Medium | ch. 7 | — |
| Melchizedek | Μελχισέδεκ | মেল্কিসেদেক | Melchisedek | Medium | 5:6; ch. 7 | Transliterated proper name; unique priest-king type; note distinct resonance with (but not equivalence to) the Pakhangba-descended ningthou tradition. |
| order (of priesthood) | τάξις (taxis) | মখল | makhal | Medium | ch. 5, 7 | Same compound used for “copy/type” (ch. 8-9); context disambiguates. |
| sacrifice | θυσία (thysia) | বলি | bali | Critical | throughout, esp. ch. 9-10 | High collision with both Sanamahi animal-offering ritual (Umang Lai, ancestral spirits) and Vaishnava yajna/puja offerings. Every occurrence of Christ’s sacrifice must carry the once-for-all (ephapax) contrast explicitly. |
| offer | προσφέρω (prospherō) | কাটপা | katpa | High | throughout ch. 5-10 | Paired with বলি; see sacrifice notes. |
| blood | αἷμα (haima) | ঈ | ee | Critical | 9:7 onward; ch. 10, 12-13 | Central to both traditions’ ritual blood-offering practice; must always carry the historical, personal, once-for-all contrast. |
| tabernacle | σκηνή (skēnē) | চৎনবা লৈশাং | chatnaba leishang | Medium | 8:2,5; 9:2-3,6,8,11,21 | Reject মন্দির (fixed temple building register). |
| holy place / sanctuary | τὰ ἅγια (ta hagia) | অসেংবা মফম | asengba mafam | Critical | 9:8,12,24-25; 10:19; 13:11 | Reject গর্ভগৃহ (Vaishnava inner sanctum); reject উমাং লাই থাবা (sacred grove shrine, already forbidden in baseline). |
| Most Holy Place | — (ta hagia tōn hagiōn) | অসেংবাদগী য়াম্না অসেংবা মফম | asengbadagi yamna asengba mafam | Critical | 9:3 | Same collision notes as holy place, intensified. |
| veil / curtain | καταπέτασμα (katapetasma) | পর্দা | parda | Medium | 6:19; 9:3; 10:20 | Standard loanword; theologically load-bearing at 10:20 (torn curtain = opened access). |
| mediator | μεσίτης (mesitēs) | মাঝিমদা লেপ্লিবা মী | majimda lepliba mi | Critical | 8:6; 9:15; 12:24 | Reject any equivalence with a maibi’s trance-mediation or a Vaishnava guru/pujari’s devotional intermediation. Christ’s mediatorship is permanent and singular. |
| once for all | ἅπαξ / ἐφάπαξ (hapax / ephapax) | অমুক্তা পুম্নমক্কীদমক্তা | amukta pumnamakkidamakta | Critical | 6:4; 9:7,26-28; 10:2 | The book’s single most load-bearing adverb; must never be read as merely “most recent/most powerful” in a repeatable ritual series. |
| eternal | αἰώνιος (aiōnios) | লোমননা লৈরকপা | lomanna leirakpa | High | 5:9; 6:2; 9:12,14-15; 13:20 | Must be rendered identically at every occurrence modifying an established salvation-term. |
| heir | κληρονόμος (klēronomos) | চাদা লৌবা মী | chada louba mi | High | 1:2; 6:17; 11:7 | Connects to baseline adoption doctrine. |
| inheritance | κληρονομία (klēronomia) | চাদা | chada | High | 1:14; 9:15; 11:8 | See heir; requires explicit legal-relational teaching, not assumed yumnak-lineage equivalence. |
| apostasy / falling away | παραπίπτω (parapiptō) | থাজবাদগী হুন্দোকপা | thajabadagi hundokpa | Critical | 3:12; 6:4-6; 10:26-31; 12:25 | Distinguish sharply from the social phenomenon of moving between Sanamahi and Vaishnava religious identity; this is decisive repudiation of the true God after full knowledge. |
| rest | κατάπαυσις (katapausis) | পোৎথাবা / তেংবাং মপুগী পোৎথাবা | potthaba / Tengban Mapugi potthaba | Critical | 3:11,18; ch. 4 (throughout) | Reject মোক্ষ-style liberation-from-cycle reading; this is relational, Sabbath-shaped, covenantal rest. |
| sabbath rest | σαββατισμός (sabbatismos) | সাবাথ পোৎথাবা | Sabath potthaba | High | 4:9 | Paired with rest above. |
| hope | ἐλπίς (elpis) | আশা | asha | Medium | 3:6; 6:11,18-19; 7:19; 10:23 | Standard regional Christian term; low direct collision, but note adjacency to Vaishnava devotee’s hoped-for nearness to Krishna, already flagged under baseline’s salvation entry. |
| conscience | συνείδησις (syneidēsis) | থামোই ৱাখল | thamoi wakhal | High | 9:9,14; 10:2,22; 13:18 | Distinguishes inward moral cleansing from outward ritual purity (শেংবা). |
| cleanse / purify (moral) | καθαρίζω (katharizō) | অসেং হনবা | asenghanba | High | 9:14,22-23; 10:2 | Built on established অসেংবা; distinct from ritual শেংবা (outward purity rites). |
| redemption | λύτρωσις / ἀπολύτρωσις (lytrōsis / apolytrōsis) | ৱারোক পীরিবা | warok piriba | Critical | 9:12,15 | Reject মোক্ষ; a transactional-relational ransom image, not cyclic liberation. |
| ministry / service | λειτουργία (leitourgia) | থৌজাল ওইবা থবক | thoujal oiba thabak | Medium | 1:7,14; 8:2,6; 9:21; 10:11 | — |
| shadow / copy / type | σκιά / ἀντίτυπα (skia / antitypa) | মমাল / মখল | mamal / makhal | Medium | 8:5; 9:23-24; 10:1 | Foundational for teaching biblical typology as a distinct category. |
| perfect / perfection | τέλειος / τελειόω (teleios / teleioō) | মপুংফাবা | mapungphaba | High | 2:10; 5:9,14; 6:1; 7:11,19,28; 9:9; 10:1,14; 11:40; 12:2,23 | Reused as a base compound for “equip” (মপুংফাহনবা) and “full assurance” language. |
| forerunner | πρόδρομος (prodromos) | হৌখ্রবা লাক্লিবা মী | houkhraba lakliba mi | Low | 6:20 | — |
| discipline | παιδεία (paideia) | চহঙদোক-তাকপিবা | chahangdok-takpiba | Medium | 12:5-11 | God’s fatherly correction, not punitive retribution; connects to ইপা/adoption cluster. |
| endurance / perseverance | ὑπομονή (hypomonē) | লোয়ননা চৎনবা | loinanna chatnaba | High | 10:36; 12:1,7 | Reject fatalistic ৱাইফম-style resignation; active, hope-grounded perseverance. |
| firstborn | πρωτότοκος (prōtotokos) | প্রথম পোকপা | prothom pokpa | Critical | 1:6; 12:16,23 | Title of supreme rank/heirship, NOT temporal beginning or sibling-deity ranking (cf. Sanamahi/Pakhangba elder-younger framework, already flagged in baseline). |
| oath | ὅρκος (horkos) | লৌথোকপা ৱারোল | louthokpa warol | Medium | 6:13-18; 7:20-21,28 | — |
| promise | ἐπαγγελία (epangelia) | ৱাশাক্লিবা | washaklliba | High | 4:1; 6:12,15,17; 7:6; 8:6; 9:15; 10:23,36; 11:9,11,13,17,33,39 | Reuses the promise-compound already present in baseline Messianic Promise doctrine name. |
| boldness / confidence | παρρησία (parrēsia) | থাজবগী কীদবা লৈতবা | thajabagi kidaba leitaba | High | 3:6; 4:16; 10:19,35 | Directly ties to the “access to God” core doctrine of this curriculum. |
| draw near | προσέρχομαι (proserchomai) | নকশিনবা | naksinaba | High | 4:16; 7:25; 10:1,22; 11:6; 12:18,22 | Direct, unmediated approach to God — no trance-mediation, no cumulative devotional-service qualification required. |
| full assurance | πληροφορία (plērophoria) | মপুংফাবা থাজবা / থাজবগী মপুংফাবা লৈনা | mapungphaba thajaba / thajabagi mapungphaba leina | Medium/Critical | 6:11; 10:22; 11:1 (hypostasis) | 11:1’s hypostasis reuses this compound; see substance/assurance entry below. |
| mercy seat / propitiation | ἱλαστήριον (hilastērion) | তেংবাং মপুগী মীওষা কমহনবগী মফম | Tengban Mapugi miwosha kamhanbagi mafam | Critical | 9:5 | Cross-references Romans 3:25’s use of the same Greek word (justification cluster); reject any reading as ongoing ritual appeasement of an impersonal power. |
| ark of the covenant | κιβωτός (kibōtos) | ৱারেপ্পাগী হুন্দ্রক | wareppagi hundrak | Low | 9:4 | Historical-descriptive; low risk. |
| cherubim | Χερουβίμ | চেরুবিম | cherubim | Low | 9:5 | Transliterated. |
| manna | μάννα | মান্না | manna | Low | 9:4 | Transliterated. |
| living God | ζῶν θεός (zōn theos) | হিংবা তেংবাং মপু | hingba Tengban Mapu | High | 3:12; 9:14; 10:31; 12:22 | Distinguishes personal, active God from impersonal ultimate reality or ancestral-spirit register. |
| consuming fire | πῦρ καταναλίσκον | কাংথোকপা মেই | kangthokpa mei | Medium | 12:29 | — |
| unshakable kingdom | βασιλεία ἀσάλευτος | নিংথিনা লেপ্লিবা তেংবাং মপুগী লৈপাক | ningthina lepliba Tengban Mapugi leipak | Medium | 12:28 | Contrast with the historic Meitei kingship’s own royal-divine-lineage framing (Pakhangba descent), already flagged in baseline. |
| hospitality | φιλοξενία (philoxenia) | লমদম-কৈবু তরুক্না লৌহৌরকপা | lamdam-koibu taruk-na louhourakpa | Low | 13:2 | — |
| shepherd | ποιμήν (poimēn) | শাল য়েংবা মী | shal yengba mi | Medium | 13:20 | Pastoral image, complementary to Lord/High Priest titles. |
| altar | θυσιαστήριον (thysiastērion) | বলি কাটপগী মফম | bali katpagi mafam | High | 13:10 | Reject যজ্ঞবেদী (Vaishnava yajna altar) and any Umang Lai grove shrine altar equivalence; typological reference to the cross. |
| camp (outside the) | παρεμβολή (parembolē) | সাহারগী মপান | sahargi mapan | Low | 13:11,13 | — |
| radiance of glory | ἀπαύγασμα (apaugasma) | মতিক চাউবগী থাংবা | matik chaubagi thangba | Critical | 1:3 | Co-essential outshining, not graded emanation; contrast with avatar-descent and Sanamahi/Pakhangba elder-younger deity framing. |
| exact imprint / nature | χαρακτήρ τῆς ὑποστάσεως (charaktēr tēs hypostaseōs) | মপুংফাবা মখল | mapungphaba makhal | Critical | 1:3 | The Son perfectly expresses God’s being — not a partial or symbolic representation. |
| substance / assurance (hypostasis, context-dependent) | ὑπόστασις (hypostasis) | মশক (1:3, “essence”) / থাজবগী মপুংফাবা লৈনা (3:14; 11:1, “assurance”) | mashak / thajabagi mapungphaba leina | Critical | 1:3; 3:14; 11:1 | Context-sensitive across three distinct senses; flag each occurrence for disambiguation. |
| founder / pioneer | ἀρχηγός (archēgos) | অহানবগী লুচিংবা | ahanbagi luchingba | High | 2:10; 12:2 | Built on established অহানবা; not a generic guru/founder-figure title. |
| harden (the heart) | σκληρύνω (sklērynō) | থামোই কনহনবা | thamoi kanhanba | Medium | 3:8,13,15; 4:7 | — |
| rebellion / provocation | παραπικρασμός (parapikrasmos) | ৱারী য়াদবা | wari yadaba | Medium | 3:8,15 | — |
| unbelief | ἀπιστία (apistia) | থাজদবা | thajadaba | High | 3:12,19 | Direct negation of থাজবা; must not be softened to mere “doubt.” |
| tithe | δεκάτη (dekatē) | দশমাংশ | dashamangsha | Low | 7:2,4-9 | Standard borrowed term. |
| better / superior | κρείττων / κρείσσων (kreittōn) | হেন্না ফবা | henna phaba | High | 1:4; 6:9; 7:7,19,22; 8:6; 9:23; 10:34; 11:16,35,40; 12:24 | Structural backbone of the whole book’s argument; must be rendered identically at all 13 occurrences. |
| guarantor | ἔγγυος (engyos) | কনফম পীবা মী | kanfam piba mi | Medium | 7:22 | — |
| copies of heavenly things | ἀντίτυπα (antitypa) | মখল | makhal | Medium | 9:24 | See “shadow/copy/type.” |
| transgression | παράβασις (parabasis) | য়াথাং থুগাইবা | yathang thugaiba | High | 2:2; 9:15 | Built on established য়াথাং; distinct from generic পাপ. |
| forgiveness | ἄφεσις (aphesis) | ময়ামদা কোকপা | mayamda kokpa | High | 9:22; 10:18 | Correct standalone term for forgiveness itself (though rejected in baseline as too narrow for “justification”). |
| handmade | χειροποίητος (cheiropoiētos) | খুৎনা শাবা | khutna shaba | Medium | 9:11,24 | Implicit idol-critique register; low direct collision but theologically resonant. |
| dead works | νεκρὰ ἔργα (nekra erga) | সিবা থবক | siba thabak | High | 6:1; 9:14 | Connects to baseline’s grace/works contrast; includes ritual religious performance itself. |
| serve / worship (cultic) | λατρεύω / λατρεία (latreuō / latreia) | থৌজাল তৌবা | thoujal touba | Medium | 8:5; 9:9,14; 10:2; 12:28; 13:10 | Distinguish from bhakti-style সেবা performed to build devotional standing. |
| new and living way | καινὴ καὶ ζῶσα ὁδός | অনৌবা হিংবা লম্বি | anouba hingba lambi | High | 10:20 | The access-to-God doctrine’s central image. |
| assembling together | ἐπισυναγωγή (episynagōgē) | তিন্নবা | tinnaba | Low | 10:25 | Connects to কলিসিয়া (church) register. |
| deliberate/willful sin | ἑκουσίως ἁμαρτάνω | লৌনা পাপ তৌবা | louna pap touba | Critical | 10:26 | Full doctrinal weight of the warning must be retained, not softened. |
| vengeance | ἐκδίκησις (ekdikēsis) | ৱাশাক পীবা কায়দা | washak piba kaida | Medium | 10:30 | — |
| shrinking back | ὑποστολή (hypostolē) | থাজবাদগী হুন্দোকপা (present-tense danger) | thajabadagi hundokpa | High | 10:39 | Distinguish present-tense danger from ch. 6’s completed-apostasy scenario; native-speaker refinement recommended. |
| substance/evidence (11:1 companion term) | ἔλεγχος (elegchos) | উত্লিবা | utliba | Medium | 11:1 | Paired with hypostasis. |
| bear witness | μαρτυρέω (martyreō) | সাক্ষী পীবা | sakshi piba | Low | 11:2,4-5,39 | — |
| put away sin | ἀθέτησις ἁμαρτίας (athetēsis hamartias) | পাপ লৌথোকপা | pap louthokpa | Critical | 9:26 | Sin decisively annulled, not periodically ritually managed. |
| bear sin (substitutionary) | ἀναφέρω (anapherō) | পাপ পূরকপা | pap pourakpa | Critical | 9:28 | Vicarious, on-behalf-of-others structure must be preserved. |
| judgment | κρίσις (krisis) | ৱায়েল | wayel | High | 9:27; 10:27; 12:23 | Not karma-style accumulating cross-lifetime consequence. |
| second time (of Christ’s return) | ἐκ δευτέρου | অনিরকপা তারক্তা | aniraba tarakta | Medium | 9:28 | Singular, bodily return — not cyclical. |
| eagerly awaiting | ἀπεκδέχομαι (apekdechomai) | ঙাইজরবা | ngaijariba | Medium | 9:28 | — |
| deliberate/diverse strange teachings | διδαχαῖς ποικίλαις καὶ ξέναις | অতোপ্পা অমসুং মদুংদা লৈতবা তক্লিবা ৱারিশিং | atoppa amasung madungda leitaba takliba warishing | High | 13:9 | Explicit anti-syncretism warning; directly relevant to this Language Package’s dual-tradition awareness mandate. |
| equip / complete | καταρτίζω (katartizō) | মপুংফাহনবা | mapungphahanba | Medium | 13:21 | Built on মপুংফাবা. |
| brotherly love | φιλαδελφία (philadelphia) | ইচিল-ইনাওগী নুংশিবা | ichil-inaogi nungshiba | Low | 13:1 | — |
| marriage bed undefiled | κοίτη ἀμίαντος | লুহোংবগী ফম অসেংবা | luhongbagi pham asengba | Low | 13:4 | — |
| contentment | αὐτάρκης (autarkēs) | য়াম্না লৈবদা থাগৎপা লৈবা | yamna leibada thagatpa leiba | Low | 13:5 | — |
| sacrifice of praise | θυσία αἰνέσεως | থাগৎচরিগী বলি | thagatchari-gi bali | Low | 13:15 | Metaphorical, non-literal sacrifice; literal ritual sacrifice has ended. |
| leaders (church) | ἡγούμενοι (hēgoumenoi) | লুচিংবাশিং | luchingbashing | Low | 13:7,17,24 | — |
| great Shepherd | ποιμὴν ὁ μέγας | শাল য়েংবা অচৌবা মী | shal yengba achouba mi | Medium | 13:20 | — |
Section 3 — Risk Tier Summary (Hebrews-Specific New Terms)
| Risk Tier | Count of New Terms | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 17 | Human theologian required for every occurrence |
| High | 21 | Human theologian required |
| Medium | 22 | Native speaker review recommended |
| Low | 20 | Automated review sufficient |
Note on Critical terms requiring the most careful Phase 2 handling: high priest (মহা যাজক), sacrifice (বলি), blood (ঈ), holy place (অসেংবা মফম), Most Holy Place, mediator (মাঝিমদা লেপ্লিবা মী), once for all (অমুক্তা পুম্নমক্কীদমক্তা), rest (পোৎথাবা), redemption (ৱারোক পীরিবা), apostasy (থাজবাদগী হুন্দোকপা), mercy seat (তেংবাং মপুগী মীওষা কমহনবগী মফম), firstborn (প্রথম পোকপা), radiance of glory, exact imprint/nature, substance/assurance (hypostasis, context-dependent), put away sin, bear sin, deliberate/willful sin.
These seventeen Critical terms, together with the twenty-eight already-Critical/High terms reused from the Romans baseline (Section 1), define the full escalation set for this curriculum’s Phase 2 human-theologian review queue.
This glossary must be loaded alongside translation_memory.json (Romans baseline) before any Phase 2 Hebrews segment translation begins. New terms in Section 2 must be written into an updated translation_memory.json (version increment) before Phase 2 processing, per the AI Translation Requirements document’s Translation Memory Load and Enforcement Instructions.
Critical Risk Terms
Grace
Approved rendering: মথৌ তাদনা পীবা তেংবাং
Transliteration: mathou tadana piba tengbang
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: কৃপা (a term shared with Vaishnava bhakti usage for Krishna’s compassionate favor toward a devotee, avoid as the primary term), পুণ্য (merit accumulated through devotional service/seva, never use)
Inherited from Romans package. CRITICAL: a descriptive compound (‘favor given without needing to be earned’) is required. Manipuri Vaishnavism’s bhakti devotionalism has its own well-developed concept of কৃপা, typically understood as responsive to the devotee’s bhakti/seva, not wholly unconditioned. In Hebrews this term recurs at the ‘throne of grace’ (4:16) and ‘grace be with you all’ (13:25) and must resist a bhakti-responsive reading everywhere it appears.
Righteousness
Approved rendering: অচুম্বা চৎনবিরাক
Transliteration: achumba chatnabirak
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: ধর্ম (avoid the broad Hindu-derived sense of cosmic/religious duty absorbed into Meitei religious vocabulary through Vaishnavization)
Inherited from Romans package. CRITICAL: right standing before God received through faith, not ধর্ম-style religious duty. Hebrews 10:38 quotes Habakkuk’s ‘the righteous shall live by faith’ and must match the Romans 1:17 rendering exactly per the cross-document consistency rule.
Justification
Approved rendering: অচুম্বা ওইহনবা
Transliteration: achumba oihanba
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: ময়ামদা কোকপা (forgiveness alone, too narrow)
Inherited from Romans package. CRITICAL: a descriptive compound (‘being made/declared righteous’) carrying the forensic sense; must never be abbreviated to mere forgiveness. Hebrews’ own separate term for forgiveness (ময়ামদা কোকপা, see aphesis entry) is correctly narrower and must not be confused with this term.
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 as a stand-alone gloss for eternal salvation)
Inherited from Romans package. CRITICAL: reconciliation with a personal, holy God through Christ’s finished historical work. Hebrews 1:14, 2:3,10, 5:9, 6:9, 9:28, 11:7 all reuse this exactly, including 9:28’s future/consummating sense at Christ’s second coming.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: সিবদগী হিংজত-লকপা
Transliteration: sibadagi hingjat-lakpa
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Rejected alternatives: পুনর্জন্ম (rebirth/reincarnation, a category absorbed into Meitei religious vocabulary through Vaishnavization, never use)
Inherited from Romans package. CRITICAL: never পুনর্জন্ম. Hebrews 6:2, 11:35 (‘a better resurrection’), and 13:20 all reuse this exactly.
Lord
Approved rendering: মপু ইবুংগো
Transliteration: Mapu Ibungo
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ঠাকুর (a devotional title for Krishna in Manipuri Vaishnava usage, avoid as the primary term)
Inherited from Romans package. CRITICAL: never ঠাকুর. Used at Hebrews 1:10, 2:3, 7:14, 13:20.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী মচানুপা
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi machanupa
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: অবতার (avatar, an incarnate deity-descent as understood in Manipuri Vaishnavism, e.g. Krishna, an explicit downgrade and rejected)
Inherited from Romans package. CRITICAL: the central Christological title of Hebrews (1:2,5,8; 4:14; 5:5,8; 6:6; 7:3,28). Never অবতার.
Incarnation
Approved rendering: মীওইগী মহৈ লৌবা
Transliteration: miwoigi mahai louba
Doctrine: Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: অবতার (never use; Manipuri Vaishnavism’s Krishna-avatar devotion, expressed through the Ras Lila tradition, makes this the single highest-salience wrong word for Meitei readers)
Inherited from Romans package. CRITICAL: used at Hebrews 2:14,17, 5:7, 10:5,20 (‘body’). The eternal Son’s permanent, unique assumption of human nature, once — never a recurring divine descent.
Messiah
Approved rendering: ক্রিস্তো
Transliteration: Christo
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Inherited from Romans package. Not one avatar among Vishnu’s recognized avatar sequence.
Jesus
Approved rendering: জিসু
Transliteration: Jisu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Inherited from Romans package. Used throughout Hebrews (2:9; 3:1; 4:14; 6:20; 7:22; 10:19; 12:2,24; 13:8,12,20).
God
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপু
Transliteration: Tengban Mapu
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ঠাকুর (a devotional title strongly associated with Krishna in Manipuri Vaishnavism, avoid as the primary term), সানামাহি (never use as the primary term for the biblical God; reserve strictly for describing traditional Sanamahi belief about the household deity)
Inherited from Romans package. CRITICAL: used throughout Hebrews. Never ঠাকুর or সানামাহি.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: থাওয়াই অসেংবা
Transliteration: Thawai Asengba
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: থাওয়াই alone (a generic spirit/soul, which in Sanamahi belief can also name an ancestral or Umang Lai nature-spirit, never use without অসেংবা), শক্তি (a maibi’s oracular trance-power, never use)
Inherited from Romans package. CRITICAL: must always be used in full. Hebrews 9:14’s ‘eternal Spirit’ is rendered থাওয়াই অসেংবা লোমননা লৈরকপা, keeping থাওয়াই অসেংবা intact per the absolute prohibition on bare থাওয়াই. Also used at 2:4; 3:7; 6:4; 10:15.
Father
Approved rendering: ইপা
Transliteration: Ipa
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Inherited from Romans package. Used at Hebrews 1:5, 12:7,9 in the context of God’s fatherly discipline of believers as sons.
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)
Inherited from Romans package. Retained for cross-curriculum consistency with the grace/works contrast that Hebrews 6:1 and 9:14’s ‘dead works’ also engage.
High Priest
Approved rendering: মহা যাজক
Transliteration: Maha Yajak
Doctrine: Christ as the Great High Priest
Rejected alternatives: পুরোহিত (the Hindu/Vaishnava Brahmin priest-title, never use), মাইবা (the male Sanamahi ritual specialist who mediates offerings to the Umang Lai, never use)
Original: ἀρχιερεύς
Category: Priesthood
NEW. CRITICAL: must be kept distinct from পুরোহিত and মাইবা, both living, transmissible, currently-practiced ritual offices. Christ’s high priesthood is unique, unrepeatable, and requires no successor (Hebrews 7:23-25), and is defined by compassionate identification with human weakness (4:15), not merely ritual-technical function. Recurs at 2:17; 4:14-15; 5:1-10; 6:20; 7:26-28; 8:1; 9:11 — require a translator note distinguishing from পুরোহিত/মাইবা at first occurrence in each chapter.
Mediator
Approved rendering: মাঝিমদা লেপ্লিবা মী
Transliteration: majimda lepliba mi
Doctrine: Christ as Mediator of the New Covenant
Original: μεσίτης
Category: Covenant
NEW. CRITICAL: the single highest-collision term in the book. Must not be equated with a maibi’s periodic trance-mediation between community and the Umang Lai, nor with a Vaishnava guru/pujari’s ongoing devotional intermediation reached through accumulated seva. Christ is the one, permanent mediator whose single act of blood-shedding secures permanent access (9:15, 24-25; 12:24; also 8:6). Must be taught explicitly, never assumed.
Sacrifice
Approved rendering: বলি
Transliteration: bali
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice
Original: θυσία
Category: Sacrifice
NEW. CRITICAL: high collision with both Sanamahi animal-offering ritual (to the Umang Lai and ancestral spirits/Apokpa) and Vaishnava yajna/puja offering traditions. Every occurrence describing Christ’s sacrifice (ch. 5-10, dozens of occurrences) must carry the once-for-all contrast explicitly, not merely in a footnote.
Blood
Approved rendering: ঈ
Transliteration: ee
Doctrine: Access to God through Christ’s Blood
Original: αἷμα
Category: Sacrifice
NEW. CRITICAL: central to both Sanamahi animal-sacrifice ritual and Vaishnava sacrificial memory (yajna tradition), though contemporary Manipuri Vaishnava practice is largely non-blood. Every occurrence of Christ’s blood (9:7 onward; ch. 10, 12-13) needs an explicit note: the historical, once-for-all, personal self-giving of the incarnate Son, not ritual blood offered to appease a spirit or deity through a repeatable rite.
Once For All
Approved rendering: অমুক্তা পুম্নমক্কীদমক্তা
Transliteration: amukta pumnamakkidamakta
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice
Original: ἅπαξ / ἐφάπαξ
Category: Sacrifice
NEW. CRITICAL: the single most theologically load-bearing adverb in Hebrews 9-10 (also 6:4). Must be sharply distinguished from the repeated ritual offerings made to the Umang Lai at Lai Haraoba and from recurring Vaishnava puja/yajna cycles; must never be read as merely the most recent or most powerful offering in an ongoing series. Render identically at every occurrence (6:4; 9:7,26-28; 10:2).
Redemption
Approved rendering: ৱারোক পীরিবা
Transliteration: warok piriba
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice
Rejected alternatives: মোক্ষ (Vaishnava liberation, already forbidden in the Romans baseline for ‘salvation’)
Original: λύτρωσις / ἀπολύτρωσις
Category: Salvation
NEW. CRITICAL: a transactional-relational ransom image (a price paid, a captive freed to a new master), not release from a cosmic cycle of rebirth. Used at 9:12, 9:15.
Mercy Seat
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী মীওষা কমহনবগী মফম
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi miwosha kamhanbagi mafam
Doctrine: Propitiation and the Mercy Seat
Original: ἱλαστήριον
Category: Sacrifice
NEW. CRITICAL: cross-references the same Greek term (hilastērion) used in Romans 3:25, already Critical there; cross-reference explicitly in translator notes. Must not suggest ongoing ritual appeasement of an impersonal or capricious power. Used at 9:5.
Put Away Sin
Approved rendering: পাপ লৌথোকপা
Transliteration: pap louthokpa
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice
Original: ἀθέτησις ἁμαρτίας
Category: Sacrifice
NEW. CRITICAL: Hebrews’ central atonement claim in miniature (9:26) — sin decisively annulled, not periodically ritually managed. Never a description of ritual atonement-repair (prayaschitta-style) or periodic Umang Lai appeasement.
Bear Sin
Approved rendering: পাপ পূরকপা
Transliteration: pap pourakpa
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice
Original: ἀναφέρω
Category: Sacrifice
NEW. CRITICAL: the vicarious, on-behalf-of-others structure of Christ’s sin-bearing act (9:28) must be preserved, not flattened into a general statement that Christ merely ‘dealt with’ sin abstractly.
Deliberate Sin
Approved rendering: লৌনা পাপ তৌবা
Transliteration: louna pap touba
Doctrine: The Danger of Apostasy and Warning Passages
Original: ἑκουσίως ἁμαρτάνω
Category: Sin
NEW. CRITICAL: Hebrews 10:26-31’s severe warning against deliberate, informed rejection of Christ’s sacrifice. Full doctrinal weight of the warning must be retained, not softened.
Holy Place
Approved rendering: অসেংবা মফম
Transliteration: asengba mafam
Doctrine: Access to God through Christ’s Blood
Rejected alternatives: গর্ভগৃহ (the Vaishnava temple’s inner sanctum, never use), উমাং লাই থাবা (Umang Lai sacred grove shrine, already forbidden in the baseline for ‘church’)
Original: τὰ ἅγια
Category: Tabernacle
NEW. CRITICAL: names the heavenly reality Christ entered (9:8,12,24-25; 10:19; 13:11), not a terrestrial sacred precinct requiring ritual approach protocol.
Most Holy Place
Approved rendering: অসেংবাদগী য়াম্না অসেংবা মফম
Transliteration: asengbadagi yamna asengba mafam
Doctrine: Access to God through Christ’s Blood
Original: τὰ ἅγια τῶν ἁγίων
Category: Tabernacle
NEW. CRITICAL: same collision notes as holy_place, intensified. Used at 9:3.
New Covenant
Approved rendering: অনৌবা ৱারেপ্পা
Transliteration: anouba wareppa
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Original: καινὴ διαθήκη
Category: Covenant
NEW modifier on the baseline’s established ৱারেপ্পা. Elevated to Critical because Hebrews 8-9 builds its entire argument on the old/new covenant contrast; the internalization-of-law theme (law written on the heart) must distinguish New Covenant obedience from external legal/ritual compliance in either indigenous tradition.
Rest
Approved rendering: পোৎথাবা / তেংবাং মপুগী পোৎথাবা
Transliteration: potthaba / Tengban Mapugi potthaba
Doctrine: The Sabbath Rest of God
Rejected alternatives: মোক্ষ (Vaishnava liberation/final release from cyclic striving, already forbidden in the baseline for ‘salvation’)
Original: κατάπαυσις
Category: Salvation
NEW. CRITICAL: genuinely vulnerable to being re-heard through মোক্ষ. Hebrews’ rest (3:11,18; ch. 4 throughout) is relational, covenantal, Sabbath-shaped — ceasing from self-effort to enter what God has accomplished — not liberation from an ongoing cycle of rebirth or ritual obligation. Requires explicit contrastive teaching.
Hypostasis Substance
Approved rendering: মশক (1:3) / থাজবগী মপুংফাবা লৈনা (3:14; 11:1)
Transliteration: mashak / thajabagi mapungphaba leina
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints
Original: ὑπόστασις
Category: Faith
NEW. CRITICAL: context-sensitive across three distinct senses (1:3 essence/nature; 3:14 steadfast confidence; 11:1 substantive guarantee of things hoped for). No single Manipuri lexeme spans this range. 11:1 is among the most quoted definitional verses in the book and must avoid collapsing into wishful feeling or fatalistic acceptance.
Apostasy
Approved rendering: থাজবাদগী হুন্দোকপা
Transliteration: thajabadagi hundokpa
Doctrine: The Danger of Apostasy and Warning Passages
Original: παραπίπτω
Category: Apostasy
NEW. CRITICAL: 3:12; 6:4-6; 10:26-31; 12:25. Must render the severity of the warning intact. Must be explicitly distinguished from the socially live phenomenon of Meitei individuals or families moving between Sanamahi and Vaishnava religious identity/practice — this names decisive repudiation of the true God after full knowledge, not general religious-identity movement.
Radiance Of Glory
Approved rendering: মতিক চাউবগী থাংবা
Transliteration: matik chaubagi thangba
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: ἀπαύγασμα
Category: Christology
NEW. CRITICAL: built on established মতিক চাউবা. Must be taught against Manipuri Vaishnavism’s graded-emanation avatar theology and the Sanamahi elder/younger Sanamahi-Pakhangba sibling structure; Christ’s radiance-of-glory is co-essential Sonship, not a ranked emanation or sibling-deity structure (1:3).
Exact Imprint Of Nature
Approved rendering: মপুংফাবা মখল
Transliteration: mapungphaba makhal
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: χαρακτήρ τῆς ὑποστάσεως αὐτοῦ
Category: Christology
NEW. CRITICAL: asserts the Son perfectly and exactly expresses God’s own being, not a symbolic or partial representation. Must be distinguished from an অবতার’s partial, purposive descent-manifestation (1:3).
Firstborn
Approved rendering: প্রথম পোকপা
Transliteration: prothom pokpa
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Original: πρωτότοκος
Category: Christology
NEW. CRITICAL: must be taught explicitly as a title of supreme rank and unique heirship, NOT as implying a beginning in time or one sibling-deity among others — a live risk given the Sanamahi elder-brother/younger-brother deity structure (Sanamahi/Pakhangba) and Meitei clan culture’s practical emphasis on literal firstborn inheritance rights (1:6; 12:16,23).
Save Completely
Approved rendering: মপুংফাना অহানবা
Transliteration: mapungphana ahanba
Doctrine: The Superiority of Christ over the Levitical Priesthood
NEW. CRITICAL: ‘to save completely/to the uttermost’ (7:25), built on the baseline’s Critical অহানবা; Christ’s permanent intercession secures total, not partial, salvation.
Heir Of All Things
Approved rendering: পুম্নমক্কী চাদা লৌবা
Transliteration: pumnamakki chada louba
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
NEW. CRITICAL: the Son’s cosmic heirship over all creation (1:2), foundational to the whole book’s Christology; distinct from the general believer-heir term.
Make Propitiation
Approved rendering: পাপগী মথৌ তেংবাং মপুগী মীওষা কমহনবা
Transliteration: pap-gi mathou Tengban Mapugi miwosha kamhanba
Doctrine: Propitiation and the Mercy Seat
NEW. CRITICAL: verb form of the mercy-seat concept (2:17); the vicarious, once-for-all turning-away of God’s displeasure concerning sin, not ongoing ritual appeasement.
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: নুংঙাইবগী পাউ
Transliteration: nungngaibagi pao
Doctrine: Gospel
Inherited from Romans package. নুংঙাইবগী পাউ (‘joyful/good news’) is a plain descriptive rendering. Must be distinguished from general festival announcements, particularly during the Vaishnava festival calendar (e.g. Ras Lila performances, Krishna Janmashtami), which also carry celebratory ‘good news’ framing of a different kind.
Faith
Approved rendering: থাজবা
Transliteration: thajaba
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: ভক্তি (bhakti, devoted loving worship, too specific to the Vaishnava devotional framework)
Inherited from Romans package. থাজবা (belief/trust) is preferred over ভক্তি. In Hebrews 11’s ‘hall of faith,’ the object of faith (God’s specific promise) must be named at every occurrence, not assumed from the chapter’s opening definition alone.
Called
Approved rendering: কৌখিবা
Transliteration: koukhiba
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Inherited from Romans package. Context-sensitive. In Hebrews 3:1 (‘holy brothers, who share in a heavenly calling’) and 9:15 (‘those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance’), retains the effectual-calling sense; must be distinguished from a maibi being ritually ‘called’ by an Umang Lai deity during 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.
Holy
Approved rendering: অসেংবা
Transliteration: asengba
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: শেংবা (physically clean, ritual-purity sense only)
Inherited from Romans package. Root for several Hebrews-specific compounds: অসেংবা মফম (holy place), অসেংবা ওইহনবা (sanctification), অসেংবাদগী য়াম্না অসেংবা মফম (Most Holy Place). শেংবা remains reserved for ritual/physical cleanliness only.
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)
Inherited from Romans package. Corporate designation for all believers, used at Hebrews 6:10 and 13:24; must not be narrowed to a specialist devotional class or a role paralleling maiba/maibi.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: অসেংবা ওইহনবা
Transliteration: asengba oihanba
Doctrine: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. The Spirit’s ongoing work of making believers holy; in Hebrews 12:10,14 distinct from ritual purification before Lai Haraoba or Vaishnava temple worship.
Adoption
Approved rendering: মচা ওইনা লৌবা
Transliteration: macha oina louba
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Inherited from Romans package. Underlies Hebrews’ inheritance/heir vocabulary (2:10-13; ch. 12); Meitei yumnak clan inheritance runs through birth lineage, so the full legal inheritance-rights sense must be taught explicitly, not assumed.
Law
Approved rendering: য়াথাং
Transliteration: yathang
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: ধর্ম (avoid the Hindu-derived religious-duty sense absorbed through Vaishnavization)
Inherited from Romans package. Recurs heavily in Hebrews (7:5,12,16,19,28; 8:4,10; 9:19,22; 10:1,8,28); basis for the new compound য়াথাং থুগাইবা (transgression). Never ধর্ম. Elevated to High/structural importance given Hebrews 8-9’s old/new covenant contrast.
Sin
Approved rendering: পাপ
Transliteration: pap
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Inherited from Romans package. Basis for Hebrews-specific compounds পাপ লৌথোকপা (put away sin) and পাপ পূরকপা (bear sin); esp. Hebrews 9:26-28, 10:26.
Glory
Approved rendering: মতিক চাউবা
Transliteration: matik chauba
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Inherited from Romans package. Basis for the Hebrews-specific compound মতিক চাউবগী থাংবা (radiance of glory, 1:3). Avoid metaphors conflating with Ras Lila performance staging.
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)
Inherited from Romans package. Hebrews 5:8-9 applies a distinct nuance: Christ’s own perfected obedience through suffering (not obedience that earns anything, since he already possesses full sonship) — flag as distinct from believers’ obedience-of-faith at 11:8.
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)
Inherited from Romans package. Reused compound pattern for Hebrews 1:3’s ‘word of his power’ and 6:5’s ‘powers of the age to come.‘
Covenant
Approved rendering: ৱারেপ্পা
Transliteration: wareppa
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. STILL FLAGGED UNCONFIRMED with a Manipuri-speaking theologian, and now carries far more argumentative weight in Hebrews 8-9 than in Romans. Basis for অনৌবা ৱারেপ্পা (new covenant) and পুরানবা ৱারেপ্পা (old covenant). Priority confirmation recommended before Phase 2 begins on Hebrews 8-9.
Election
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী খনবা
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi khanba
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: ৱাইফম (fate/destiny, never use)
Inherited from Romans package. Minor presence in Hebrews (11:25, Moses’ choosing) — background framework retained for consistency.
Providence
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী থৌরাং
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi thourang
Doctrine: Providence
Rejected alternatives: ৱাইফম (fate, never use)
Inherited from Romans package. Relevant background to Hebrews 1:3’s ‘upholding all things’ and 12:5-11’s fatherly discipline; never ৱাইফম.
Abba
Approved rendering: আব্বা
Transliteration: Abba
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Inherited from Romans package. Not directly used in Hebrews’ Greek text; retained for cross-curriculum consistency in the adoption/inheritance doctrine cluster.
Seed Of David
Approved rendering: দাউদগী চা-চাহি
Transliteration: Daudgi cha-chahi
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Retained for cross-curriculum consistency; not directly reused in Hebrews’ argument, which grounds Christ’s kingship differently (via Psalm 110 and Melchizedek), but the underlying Davidic-covenant background remains part of the same doctrinal cluster.
Priest
Approved rendering: যাজক
Transliteration: Yajak
Doctrine: Christ as the Great High Priest
Rejected alternatives: পুরোহিত, মাইবা
Original: ἱερεύς
Category: Priesthood
NEW. Established biblical-register term, parallel to কলিসিয়া’s rejection of মন্দির for ‘church’ in the baseline. Used at 5:6; ch. 7.
Offer
Approved rendering: কাটপা
Transliteration: katpa
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice
Original: προσφέρω
Category: Sacrifice
NEW. Paired with বলি; carries the same collision risk whenever the subject is Christ offering himself once, versus a priest repeatedly offering animal sacrifices.
Forgiveness
Approved rendering: ময়ামদা কোকপা
Transliteration: mayamda kokpa
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Original: ἄφεσις
Category: Sacrifice
NEW. The Romans baseline rejected this term as too narrow a stand-alone gloss for ‘justification,’ but affirms it as correct for forgiveness itself. Hebrews 9:22 (‘without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness’) and 10:18 use it in exactly this proper, narrower sense.
Dead Works
Approved rendering: সিবা থবক
Transliteration: siba thabak
Doctrine: Cleansing of the Conscience
Original: νεκρὰ ἔργα
Category: Sacrifice
NEW. Connects directly to the grace/works contrast already Critical in the Romans baseline (4:4-5; 11:5-6). Used at 6:1, 9:14; the ‘works’ in view include ritual religious performance itself, of special relevance where both Sanamahi and Vaishnava traditions locate spiritual standing partly in ongoing ritual/devotional performance.
Altar
Approved rendering: বলি কাটপগী মফম
Transliteration: bali katpagi mafam
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice
Original: θυσιαστήριον
Category: Tabernacle
NEW. Must be distinguished from the Vaishnava যজ্ঞবেদী (yajna altar) and any Umang Lai sacred-grove shrine altar. Hebrews 13:10 refers typologically to Christ’s cross, not a location believers must ritually visit.
Old Covenant
Approved rendering: পুরানবা ৱারেপ্পা
Transliteration: purana wareppa
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Original: πρώτη διαθήκη
Category: Covenant
NEW modifier on ৱারেপ্পা. Must be taught as fulfilled and superseded, not as a rival religious system; care needed so ‘obsolete’ (8:13) is not misheard as Scripture itself being discarded.
Promise
Approved rendering: ৱাশাক্লিবা
Transliteration: washaklliba
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints
Original: ἐπαγγελία
Category: Covenant
NEW. Reuses the promise-compound already present in the Romans baseline’s Messianic Promise doctrine name (ৱাশাক্না পীবা). Load-bearing across the whole book’s covenant and faith arguments (4:1; 6:12,15,17; 7:6; 8:6; 9:15; 10:23,36; 11:9,11,13,17,33,39); must be rendered consistently.
Transgression
Approved rendering: য়াথাং থুগাইবা
Transliteration: yathang thugaiba
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Original: παράβασις
Category: Covenant
NEW. Built on the established য়াথাং; must be kept distinct from generic পাপ (sin) — this specifically names violation of the first covenant’s stipulated law (2:2; 9:15).
Sabbath Rest
Approved rendering: সাবাথ পোৎথাবা
Transliteration: Sabath potthaba
Doctrine: The Sabbath Rest of God
Original: σαββατισμός
Category: Salvation
NEW. Paired with ‘rest’ above; same collision risk with মোক্ষ-style liberation. Used at 4:9.
Judgment
Approved rendering: ৱায়েল
Transliteration: wayel
Doctrine: Final Judgment
Original: κρίσις
Category: Eschatology
NEW. A single, final divine verdict appointed once for every person, after death (9:27-28; 10:27,30; 12:23,29); must not be confused with karma-style accumulating cross-lifetime consequence.
Unbelief
Approved rendering: থাজদবা
Transliteration: thajadaba
Doctrine: The Danger of Unbelief and a Hardened Heart
Original: ἀπιστία
Category: Faith
NEW. Direct negative counterpart of the baseline’s High ‘faith’ term (থাজবা); must be rendered as the precise negation, not a softer ‘doubt.’ Used at 3:12,19.
Boldness Confidence
Approved rendering: থাজবগী কীদবা লৈতবা
Transliteration: thajabagi kidaba leitaba
Doctrine: Access to God through Christ’s Blood
Original: παρρησία
Category: Faith
NEW. Directly ties to the ‘access to God’ core doctrine of this curriculum; brackets Hebrews 10 (10:19, 10:35) and appears at 3:6 and 4:16. Keep paired consistently with ‘draw near.‘
Draw Near
Approved rendering: নকশিনবা
Transliteration: naksinaba
Doctrine: Access to God through Christ’s Blood
Original: προσέρχομαι
Category: Faith
NEW. Direct, unmediated approach to God — no trance-mediation, no cumulative devotional-service qualification required. Central to 4:16, 7:25, 10:1,22, 11:6, 12:18,22.
Endurance Perseverance
Approved rendering: লোয়ননা চৎনবা
Transliteration: loinanna chatnaba
Doctrine: Perseverance and Assurance
Original: ὑπομονή
Category: Perseverance
NEW. Directly names this curriculum’s ‘Perseverance and Assurance’ doctrine (10:36; 12:1,7); must be distinguished from fatalistic ৱাইফম-style resignation — biblical endurance is active and hope-grounded.
Conscience
Approved rendering: থামোই ৱাখল
Transliteration: thamoi wakhal
Doctrine: Cleansing of the Conscience
Original: συνείδησις
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Hebrews 9:14 makes a category leap neither tradition’s ritual-purity system anticipates: the object cleansed is the inner moral conscience, not outward ritual status (শেংবা-type purity). This distinction is the very point Hebrews argues and must be taught explicitly. Used at 9:9,14; 10:2,22; 13:18.
Cleanse Purify
Approved rendering: অসেং হনবা
Transliteration: asenghanba
Doctrine: Cleansing of the Conscience
Original: καθαρίζω
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Built on the established অসেংবা; distinct from ritual শেংবা (outward purity rites). Used at 9:14,22-23; 10:2.
Shrinking Back
Approved rendering: থাজবাদগী হুন্দোকপা (present-tense danger)
Transliteration: thajabadagi hundokpa
Doctrine: The Danger of Apostasy and Warning Passages
Original: ὑποστολή
Category: Apostasy
NEW. Shares register with the ch. 6 apostasy term but names a different moment: a live present danger (10:39) the audience is warned against, distinct from ‘having fallen away’ (6:6), a completed past scenario. Native-speaker refinement recommended to keep these distinguishable before Phase 2 finalizes any warning-passage segment.
Diverse Strange Teachings
Approved rendering: অতোপ্পা অমসুং মদুংদা লৈতবা তক্লিবা ৱারিশিং
Transliteration: atoppa amasung madungda leitaba takliba warishing
Doctrine: The Warning Against Doctrinal Syncretism
Original: διδαχαῖς ποικίλαις καὶ ξέναις
Category: Apostasy
NEW. A direct, explicit warning against doctrinal syncretism (13:9). Given the two live religious traditions this Language Package documents, this is Hebrews’ own closing safeguard against exactly the kind of blending this whole package works to prevent.
Angel
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী দূত
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi doot
Doctrine: The Superiority of Christ over Angels
Rejected alternatives: দেবদূত (imports ‘deva,’ a Hindu god-class being, never use)
Original: ἄγγελος
Category: Angelology
NEW. Must never be treated as equivalent to the Umang Lai forest/guardian deities honored at Lai Haraoba, which are themselves objects of ritual reverence and offering in Sanamahi belief. Hebrews 1 explicitly subordinates angels to the Son and states they are not to be worshipped.
Founder Pioneer
Approved rendering: অহানবগী লুচিংবা
Transliteration: ahanbagi luchingba
Doctrine: Incarnation and Humanity of Christ
Original: ἀρχηγός
Category: Christology
NEW. Built on established অহানবা; Christ as the trailblazer who perfects salvation for ‘many brothers’ (2:10; 12:2); must not be flattened into a generic guru-founder title.
Living God
Approved rendering: হিংবা তেংবাং মপু
Transliteration: hingba Tengban Mapu
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: ζῶν θεός
Category: God
NEW. Distinguishes the personal, active God from an impersonal ultimate reality or an ancestral-spirit register (Apokpa) within Sanamahi belief. Used at 3:12; 9:14; 10:31; 12:22.
Heir
Approved rendering: চাদা লৌবা মী
Transliteration: chada louba mi
Doctrine: Inheritance and Adoption into God’s Family
Original: κληρονόμος
Category: Adoption
NEW. Connects to the baseline’s already-Critical adoption doctrine (মচা ওইনা লৌবা); used at 1:2; 6:17; 11:7.
Inheritance
Approved rendering: চাদা
Transliteration: chada
Doctrine: Inheritance and Adoption into God’s Family
Original: κληρονομία
Category: Adoption
NEW. Requires explicit legal-relational teaching, not assumed yumnak-lineage equivalence, since believers’ inheritance is activated by the death of the testator (9:15-17). Used at 1:14; 9:15; 11:8.
Perfect Perfection
Approved rendering: মপুংফাবা
Transliteration: mapungphaba
Doctrine: The Superiority of Christ over the Levitical Priesthood
Original: τέλειος / τελειόω / τελειότερος
Category: Salvation
NEW. Reuses the compound already present inside the baseline’s ‘effectual calling’ doctrine name (মপুং ফাবা কৌবা). Hebrews’ repeated ‘better/more perfect’ argument must not be softened into a merely comparative upgrade; applies both to Christ’s own perfecting through suffering (2:10; 5:9,14) and to believers’ consciences (9:9; 10:1,14; 11:40; 12:2,23).
Eternal
Approved rendering: লোমননা লৈরকপা
Transliteration: lomanna leirakpa
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice
Original: αἰώνιος
Category: Salvation
NEW. Recurs throughout Hebrews (5:9; 6:2; 9:12,14-15; 13:20 — eternal redemption, covenant, inheritance, salvation, Spirit); must be rendered identically wherever it modifies an established salvation-term.
Better Superior
Approved rendering: হেন্না ফবা
Transliteration: henna phaba
Doctrine: The General Superiority Argument (“Better”)
Original: κρείττων / κρείσσων
Category: Covenant
NEW. Carries Hebrews’ entire structural argument (better covenant, sacrifices, promises, hope, country, resurrection) and must be rendered identically at all thirteen occurrences (1:4; 6:9; 7:7,19,22; 8:6; 9:23; 10:34; 11:16,35,40; 12:24); inconsistent rendering would obscure the book’s argumentative backbone.
New And Living Way
Approved rendering: অনৌবা হিংবা লম্বি
Transliteration: anouba hingba lambi
Doctrine: Access to God through Christ’s Blood
NEW. The way opened by Christ’s flesh (the torn curtain image), directly relevant to the access-to-God doctrine (10:20).
Perfected Through Suffering
Approved rendering: য়াম্না তৌজবা মখা তম্না মপুংফাহনবা
Transliteration: yamna toujaba makha tamna mapungphahanba
Doctrine: Incarnation and Humanity of Christ
NEW. Christ’s own perfecting through real suffering (2:10), foundational for the book’s argument that he can sympathize as high priest (4:15); must not be confused with an avatar’s dramatized suffering within devotional performance, nor with karmic suffering as moral consequence.
Medium Risk Terms
Apostle
Approved rendering: তবিদগী থাবিরকপা
Transliteration: tabidagi thabirakpa
Doctrine: Apostleship
Inherited from Romans package. A descriptive phrase (‘one who has been sent’). Retained for cross-curriculum consistency though Hebrews does not use an apostleship title for its (unnamed) author.
Peace
Approved rendering: ইনগবা
Transliteration: ingba
Doctrine: Peace with God
Inherited from Romans package. Used at Hebrews 12:14 (‘strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness…’); distinguish from bhakti-devotional calm or Umang Lai ritual harmony.
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)
Inherited from Romans package. Retained for cross-curriculum consistency; connects to Hebrews 2:4’s ‘gifts of the Holy Spirit’ distributing signs and wonders.
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)
Inherited from Romans package. Used at Hebrews 2:12, 12:23. Must remain clearly distinct from both মন্দির and the Umang Lai sacred grove.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী লৈপাক
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi leipak
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Inherited from Romans package. Basis for the Hebrews-specific compound নিংথিনা লেপ্লিবা তেংবাং মপুগী লৈপাক (‘unshakable kingdom,’ 12:28); distinguish from the historic Meitei kingship’s Pakhangba-descent royal-divine-lineage framing.
Gentiles
Approved rendering: অতোপ্পা ফুরুপ
Transliteration: atoppa phurup
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Inherited from Romans package. Retained for cross-curriculum consistency though Hebrews does not foreground a Jew/Gentile contrast the way Romans does.
Intercession
Approved rendering: মখোয়গী মফমদা হায়জবা
Transliteration: makhoigi mafamda haijaba
Doctrine: Prayer and Intercession
Inherited from Romans package. Directly relevant to Hebrews 7:25’s ‘he always lives to make intercession’; distinguish from petitions carried to the Umang Lai through a maibi or maiba.
Mission
Approved rendering: পাউ সন্দোকপগী থৌদাং
Transliteration: pao sandokpagi thoudang
Doctrine: Mission to the Nations
Inherited from Romans package. Retained for cross-curriculum consistency; Hebrews does not foreground mission-to-the-nations as Romans does.
David
Approved rendering: দাউদ
Transliteration: Daud
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Used at Hebrews 4:7, 11:32.
Israel
Approved rendering: ইস্রায়েল
Transliteration: Israel
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Inherited from Romans package. Used at Hebrews 8:8,10, 11:22.
Priesthood
Approved rendering: যাজকশিংগী থৌদাং
Transliteration: yajakshinggi thoudang
Doctrine: The Melchizedekian Priesthood
Original: ἱερωσύνη
Category: Priesthood
NEW. Descriptive compound on যাজক; used to discuss the change of priesthood from Levitical to Melchizedekian/Christic order in ch. 7.
Melchizedek
Approved rendering: মেল্কিসেদেক
Transliteration: Melchisedek
Doctrine: The Melchizedekian Priesthood
Original: Μελχισέδεκ
Category: Priesthood
NEW. Transliterated proper name. Requires OT narrative background teaching (Genesis 14). Priest-king dual role has distinct, non-equivalent resonance with the historic Pakhangba-descended ningthou tradition — name and distinguish, do not let readers silently conflate.
Order Of Priesthood
Approved rendering: মখল
Transliteration: makhal
Doctrine: The Melchizedekian Priesthood
Original: τάξις
Category: Priesthood
NEW. Shares its compound with ‘copy/type’ (shadow_copy_type); context disambiguates. Used in ch. 5, 7 (‘the order of Melchizedek’ vs. ‘the order of Aaron’).
Guarantor
Approved rendering: কনফম পীবা মী
Transliteration: kanfam piba mi
Doctrine: The Melchizedekian Priesthood
Original: ἔγγυος
Category: Covenant
NEW. A legal-relational image close to, but distinct from, mediator (mesitēs); Christ as guarantor of the better covenant (7:22).
Handmade
Approved rendering: খুৎনা শাবা
Transliteration: khutna shaba
Doctrine: Typology of the Tabernacle and Heavenly Sanctuary
Original: χειροποίητος
Category: Tabernacle
NEW. Carries an implicit idol-critique register; could evoke hand-crafted temple images in both Vaishnava and Sanamahi material worship culture, but the immediate referent at 9:11,24 is the earthly Tabernacle/Temple, not idols per se.
Tabernacle
Approved rendering: চৎনবা লৈশাং
Transliteration: chatnaba leishang
Doctrine: Typology of the Tabernacle and Heavenly Sanctuary
Rejected alternatives: মন্দির (temple, never use; would collapse the OT tent-shrine into a fixed Vaishnava temple register)
Original: σκηνή
Category: Tabernacle
NEW. Used at 8:2,5; 9:2-3,6,8,11,21.
Veil Curtain
Approved rendering: পর্দা
Transliteration: parda
Doctrine: Access to God through Christ’s Blood
Original: καταπέτασμα
Category: Tabernacle
NEW. Common loanword; theologically load-bearing at 10:20 where the torn curtain symbolizes removed separation between God and humanity. Ensure the ‘torn/opened access’ sense is not lost in a purely descriptive rendering.
Shadow Copy Type
Approved rendering: মমাল / মখল
Transliteration: mamal / makhal
Doctrine: Typology of the Tabernacle and Heavenly Sanctuary
Original: σκιά / ἀντίτυπα
Category: Tabernacle
NEW. Foundational for teaching biblical typology as a distinct hermeneutical category, without which Hebrews’ whole structure is hard to follow. Used at 8:5, 9:23-24, 10:1. Low direct collision risk but requires careful, from-scratch teaching since typology has no ready parallel in either tradition.
Oath
Approved rendering: লৌথোকপা ৱারোল
Transliteration: louthokpa warol
Doctrine: The Melchizedekian Priesthood
Original: ὅρκος
Category: Covenant
NEW. Legal-covenantal term underlying the promise and the Melchizedekian priesthood (6:13-18; 7:20-21,28); low direct collision risk.
Moses
Approved rendering: মোশে
Transliteration: Moshe
Doctrine: The Superiority of Christ over Moses
Original: Μωϋσῆς
Category: Covenant
NEW. Standard transliteration. Requires OT narrative-background teaching, since Moses’ unique mediatorial authority is not an inherited category in either indigenous tradition. Used at ch. 3.
Second Coming
Approved rendering: অনিরকপা তারক্তা
Transliteration: aniraba tarakta
Doctrine: Christ’s Singular Second Coming
Original: ἐκ δευτέρου
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Anchors Christ’s future, singular, bodily return (9:28; 10:37); must not be confused with a cyclical-return concept resembling avatar-descent theology.
Eagerly Awaiting
Approved rendering: ঙাইজরবা
Transliteration: ngaijariba
Doctrine: Christ’s Singular Second Coming
Original: ἀπεκδέχομαι
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Hope-laden, expectant waiting for Christ’s return (9:28); connects to established আশা vocabulary.
Unshakable Kingdom
Approved rendering: নিংথিনা লেপ্লিবা তেংবাং মপুগী লৈপাক
Transliteration: ningthina lepliba Tengban Mapugi leipak
Doctrine: The Unshakable Kingdom
Original: βασιλεία ἀσάλευτος
Category: Kingdom
NEW modifier on তেংবাং মপুগী লৈপাক. Used at 12:28; must be distinguished from the historic Meitei kingship’s own royal-divine-lineage political framing (Pakhangba descent).
Full Assurance
Approved rendering: থাজবগী মপুংফাবা লৈনা
Transliteration: thajabagi mapungphaba leina
Doctrine: Perseverance and Assurance
Original: πληροφορία
Category: Faith
NEW. Recurs at 6:11 and 10:22; reused as the base compound for hypostasis at 11:1. Keep contextually anchored to its specific object (hope vs. faith vs. conscience) at each occurrence.
Elegchos Evidence
Approved rendering: উত্লিবা
Transliteration: utliba
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints
Original: ἔλεγχος
Category: Faith
NEW. Paired with hypostasis in defining faith at 11:1; low direct collision risk.
Hope
Approved rendering: আশা
Transliteration: asha
Doctrine: Perseverance and Assurance
Original: ἐλπίς
Category: Faith
NEW. Standard regional Christian term (3:6; 6:11,18-19; 7:19; 10:23); note adjacency to a Vaishnava devotee’s hoped-for nearness to Krishna — the object of hope (Christ’s finished work and promised return) must remain explicit.
Harden Heart
Approved rendering: থামোই কনহনবা
Transliteration: thamoi kanhanba
Doctrine: The Danger of Unbelief and a Hardened Heart
Original: σκληρύνω
Category: Apostasy
NEW. Echoes the Psalm 95 quotation (3:8,13,15; 4:7); requires careful, non-softened rendering.
Rebellion Provocation
Approved rendering: ৱারী য়াদবা
Transliteration: wari yadaba
Doctrine: The Danger of Unbelief and a Hardened Heart
Original: παραπικρασμός
Category: Apostasy
NEW. Paired with harden_heart; used at 3:8,15 (echoing Meribah).
Vengeance
Approved rendering: ৱাশাক পীবা কায়দা
Transliteration: washak piba kaida
Doctrine: The Danger of Apostasy and Warning Passages
Original: ἐκδίκησις
Category: Apostasy
NEW. Paired with the deliberate-sin warning of 10:30.
Ministering Spirits
Approved rendering: থৌজাল তৌরিবা থাওয়ায়শিং
Transliteration: thoujal touriba thawaishing
Doctrine: The Superiority of Christ over Angels
Original: λειτουργικὰ πνεύματα
Category: Angelology
NEW. Angels’ subordinate service role, contrasted with the Son’s rule (1:7,14).
Consuming Fire
Approved rendering: কাংথোকপা মেই
Transliteration: kangthokpa mei
Doctrine: The Danger of Apostasy and Warning Passages
Original: πῦρ καταναλίσκον
Category: God
NEW. God’s holy, judging presence (12:29, quoting Deuteronomy); medium risk of being read as an impersonal elemental force rather than personal holy judgment.
Discipline
Approved rendering: চহঙদোক-তাকপিবা
Transliteration: chahangdok-takpiba
Doctrine: The Fatherly Discipline of God
Original: παιδεία
Category: Adoption
NEW. God’s fatherly correction of believers as sons (12:5-11); must be distinguished from punitive retribution or fatalistic suffering-as-consequence.
Equip Complete
Approved rendering: মপুংফাহনবা
Transliteration: mapungphahanba
Doctrine: Christian Ethics, Hospitality, and True Worship
Original: καταρτίζω
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Built on মপুংফাবা; closing-benediction term (13:21).
Great Shepherd
Approved rendering: শাল য়েংবা অচৌবা মী
Transliteration: shal yengba achouba mi
Doctrine: Christ as the Great High Priest
Original: ποιμὴν τῶν προβάτων ὁ μέγας
Category: Christology
NEW. Pastoral title for Christ (13:20), complementary to but distinct from his high-priestly and lordly titles.
Serve Worship Cultic
Approved rendering: থৌজাল তৌবা
Transliteration: thoujal touba
Doctrine: Cleansing of the Conscience
Original: λατρεύω / λατρεία
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Must be distinguished from সেবা (Vaishnava devotional service performed toward Krishna to build bhakti standing); latreuō in Hebrews (8:5; 9:9,14; 10:2; 12:28; 13:10) follows a conscience already cleansed by grace, it does not earn cleansing.
Ministry Service
Approved rendering: থৌজাল ওইবা থবক
Transliteration: thoujal oiba thabak
Doctrine: Christ as the Great High Priest
Original: λειτουργία
Category: Priesthood
NEW. Priestly or angelic ministry/service rendered on behalf of others (1:7,14; 8:2,6; 9:21; 10:11); medium risk of collision with maiba/maibi ritual-service register if unqualified.
Sprinkle
Approved rendering: চাপ্না চদ্রিবা
Transliteration: chapna chadriba
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice
NEW. The ritual act of sprinkling blood, water, or ashes for ceremonial purification (Numbers 19; Hebrews 9:13,19-21); purely ritual-technical term, but its collocation with blood/purification raises the stakes of the adjacent terms.
Inaugurate Ratify
Approved rendering: হৌদোকপা
Transliteration: houdokpa
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
NEW. ‘To inaugurate/ratify’ a covenant (9:18); low-medium risk, technical covenant-establishment term.
Testator
Approved rendering: ৱারেপ্পা শারিবা মী
Transliteration: wareppa shariba mi
Doctrine: Inheritance and Adoption into God’s Family
NEW. ‘The one who made/established the covenant/will’ (9:16-17); technical legal image underlying the testament-inheritance wordplay, low collision risk with either indigenous tradition.
End Of The Ages
Approved rendering: মতমশিংগী রোয়বা
Transliteration: matamshinggi royaba
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice
NEW. An eschatological-historical claim (9:26) — a single hinge-point in real history — to be distinguished from any cyclical time-concept.
Birthright
Approved rendering: প্রথম পোকপগী হক
Transliteration: prothom pokpagi hak
Doctrine: Inheritance and Adoption into God’s Family
NEW. Esau’s forfeited birthright (12:16); connects to prōtotokos (firstborn) register in ch. 1.
Test Tempt
Approved rendering: থাদোকপা
Transliteration: thadokpa
Doctrine: Incarnation and Humanity of Christ
NEW. Christ’s real testing/temptation (2:18; 4:15); medium risk, supports the sympathetic-high-priest doctrine.
Anchor Of Hope
Approved rendering: থাওয়ায়গী থিং
Transliteration: thawaigi thing
Doctrine: Perseverance and Assurance
NEW. Hope as an anchor for the soul (6:19); medium risk, supportive metaphor for the perseverance-and-assurance doctrine.
Low Risk Terms
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: থাগৎচরি
Transliteration: thagatchari
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Inherited from Romans package. Basis for the Hebrews-specific compound থাগৎচরিগী বলি (sacrifice of praise, 13:15).
Fellowship
Approved rendering: লোইনবা
Transliteration: loinaba
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Inherited from Romans package. Connects to Hebrews’ ‘assembling together’ (10:25) and closing fellowship greetings (13:1).
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)
Inherited from Romans package. Hebrews 1:1 contrasts God’s prior speaking through the prophets with his final speaking through the Son — a distinct rhetorical use requiring this contrast to be preserved, not softened.
Prophecy
Approved rendering: ফোংদোকপা ৱারোল
Transliteration: phongdokpa warol
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Inherited from Romans package. Distinct from a maibi’s trance utterances during Lai Haraoba.
Exhort
Approved rendering: থাওয়াই পীবা
Transliteration: thawai piba
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Inherited from Romans package. Relevant to Hebrews 3:13, 10:25’s exhortation to encourage one another daily.
Sacrifice Of Praise
Approved rendering: থাগৎচরিগী বলি
Transliteration: thagatchari-gi bali
Doctrine: Christian Ethics, Hospitality, and True Worship
Original: θυσία αἰνέσεως
Category: Sacrifice
NEW. Built on the established থাগৎচরি (thanksgiving). Requires a brief note that this is metaphorical, non-literal sacrifice, following directly from Hebrews’ argument that literal ritual sacrifice has ended (13:15).
Ark Of Covenant
Approved rendering: ৱারেপ্পাগী হুন্দ্রক
Transliteration: wareppagi hundrak
Doctrine: Typology of the Tabernacle and Heavenly Sanctuary
Original: κιβωτός
Category: Tabernacle
NEW. Historical-descriptive; used at 9:4.
Cherubim
Approved rendering: চেরুবিম
Transliteration: Cherubim
Doctrine: Typology of the Tabernacle and Heavenly Sanctuary
Original: Χερουβίμ
Category: Tabernacle
NEW. Transliterated proper term; used at 9:5.
Manna
Approved rendering: মান্না
Transliteration: manna
Doctrine: Typology of the Tabernacle and Heavenly Sanctuary
Original: μάννα
Category: Tabernacle
NEW. Transliterated; used at 9:4.
Camp Outside
Approved rendering: সাহারগী মপান্দা
Transliteration: sahargi mapanda
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice
Original: ἔξω τῆς παρεμβολῆς
Category: Tabernacle
NEW. Descriptive, low risk; used at 13:11,13.
Tithe
Approved rendering: দশমাংশ
Transliteration: dashamangsha
Doctrine: The Melchizedekian Priesthood
Original: δεκάτη
Category: Covenant
NEW. Standard borrowed term; used at 7:2,4-9.
Bear Witness
Approved rendering: সাক্ষী পীবা
Transliteration: sakshi piba
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints
Original: μαρτυρέω
Category: Faith
NEW. Uses the established loanword সাক্ষী; low risk. Used at 11:2,4-5,39.
Forerunner
Approved rendering: হৌখ্রবা লাক্লিবা মী
Transliteration: houkhraba lakliba mi
Doctrine: Christ as the Great High Priest
Original: πρόδρομος
Category: Christology
NEW. Christ entering the heavenly sanctuary ahead of believers (6:20).
Assembling Together
Approved rendering: তিন্নবা
Transliteration: tinnaba
Doctrine: Fellowship and Mutual Encouragement
Original: ἐπισυναγωγή
Category: Church
NEW. Connects to the baseline’s কলিসিয়া register (10:25).
Leaders Church
Approved rendering: লুচিংবাশিং
Transliteration: luchingbashing
Doctrine: Fellowship and Mutual Encouragement
Original: ἡγούμενοι
Category: Church
NEW. Recognized leaders of the local church (13:7,17,24).
Brotherly Love
Approved rendering: ইচিল-ইনাওগী নুংশিবা
Transliteration: ichil-inaogi nungshiba
Doctrine: Christian Ethics, Hospitality, and True Worship
Original: φιλαδελφία
Category: Church
NEW. Love among believers as spiritual siblings (13:1).
Hospitality
Approved rendering: লমদম-কৈবু তরুক্না লৌহৌরকপা
Transliteration: lamdam-koibu taruk-na louhourakpa
Doctrine: Christian Ethics, Hospitality, and True Worship
Original: φιλοξενία
Category: Church
NEW. Welcoming strangers/outsiders warmly (13:2).
Contentment
Approved rendering: য়াম্না লৈবদা থাগৎপা লৈবা
Transliteration: yamna leibada thagatpa leiba
Doctrine: Christian Ethics, Hospitality, and True Worship
Original: αὐτάρκης
Category: Church
NEW. Free from the love of money (13:5).
Marriage Bed Undefiled
Approved rendering: লুহোংবগী ফম অসেংবা
Transliteration: luhongbagi pham asengba
Doctrine: Christian Ethics, Hospitality, and True Worship
Original: κοίτη ἀμίαντος
Category: Church
NEW. The honor and purity of marriage (13:4).
Appear Present
Approved rendering: উৎপা
Transliteration: utpa
Doctrine: Access to God through Christ’s Blood
NEW. Christ’s appearing/presenting himself before God on believers’ behalf (9:24); low risk.
Root Of Bitterness
Approved rendering: অখাবা মরু
Transliteration: akhaba maru
Doctrine: Perseverance and Assurance
NEW. Low-risk warning-adjacent metaphor (12:15).
Zion Heavenly Jerusalem
Approved rendering: সিয়োন / স্বর্গগী জেরুসালেম
Transliteration: Siyon / Swargagi Jerusalem
Doctrine: The Unshakable Kingdom
NEW. Transliterated proper names (12:22); the Mount Sinai/Mount Zion fear-vs-grace-access contrast in this passage is high-value teaching content connecting to the throne-of-grace and access-to-God doctrines.
Cloud Of Witnesses
Approved rendering: সাক্ষীশিংগী নুংশিৎ
Transliteration: sakshishinggi nungsit
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints
NEW. The Hebrews 11 exemplars collectively invoked at 12:1.
Race Contest
Approved rendering: চেনবগী থৌরাং
Transliteration: chenbagi thourang
Doctrine: Perseverance and Assurance
NEW. The ‘race’ metaphor for perseverance (12:1).
Without Genealogy
Approved rendering: মপা-মমাগী মশক লৈতবা
Transliteration: mapa-mamagi mashak leitaba
Doctrine: The Melchizedekian Priesthood
NEW. Describes Melchizedek’s priesthood (7:3); stands in deliberate tension with the ‘seed of David’ genealogical emphasis elsewhere in this curriculum’s Christology — flag as a point requiring careful harmonizing explanation.
Taste Death
Approved rendering: সিবা চাংবা
Transliteration: siba changba
Doctrine: Incarnation and Humanity of Christ
NEW. Idiomatic ‘tasting death’ (2:9); requires natural Manipuri idiom-finding rather than literal calque, per the standing idiom-handling rule.
Brothers Siblings In Christ
Approved rendering: কলিসিয়াগী ইচিল-ইনাওশিং
Transliteration: kalisiyagi ichil-inaoshing
Doctrine: Inheritance and Adoption into God’s Family
NEW. Drawing on baseline church/fellowship entries; used at 2:11-12,17 for Christ’s identification with believers as siblings.
Household Of God
Approved rendering: য়ুম
Transliteration: yum
Doctrine: The Superiority of Christ over Moses
NEW. The ordinary Meitei household term, used metaphorically of God’s people as a household (3:6); note the resonance with yumnak (clan-household identity), flagged for the same reason adoption/inheritance language was flagged in the baseline.
Milk Solid Food
Approved rendering: গা-চাক / চাক
Transliteration: ga-chak / chak
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints
NEW. A spiritual-maturity metaphor (5:12-14); low risk.
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