Core Glossary
Core Glossary — Ephesians (Nepali)
This glossary consolidates every load-bearing theological term identified in analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md across the whole of Ephesians (chapters 1–6), organized first by terms reused exactly from the Romans baseline, then by new Ephesians terms, grouped under the curriculum’s nine doctrines. Risk tiers (Critical/High/Medium/Low) follow the baseline’s definitions exactly. This glossary is a Phase 1 deliverable; it must be merged into translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json before Phase 2 segment translation begins, per the AI Translation Requirements’ “Translation Memory Load and Enforcement Instructions.”
Section A — Terms Reused Exactly from the Romans Baseline
These terms appear in Ephesians and MUST use the Nepali rendering already recorded in translation_memory.json. No new decision is required; they are listed here for completeness of coverage.
| Term | Nepali | Risk | Doctrine | Key Ephesians occurrences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gospel | सुसमाचार | High | Gospel | 1:13, 3:6, 6:15, 6:19 |
| grace | अनुग्रह | High | Salvation by Grace through Faith | 1:2, 1:6, 1:7, 2:5, 2:7, 2:8, 3:2, 3:7, 4:7, 4:29, 6:24 |
| faith | विश्वास | High | Salvation by Grace through Faith | 1:15, 2:8, 3:12, 3:17, 4:5, 4:13, 6:16, 6:23 |
| righteousness | धार्मिकता | Critical | Salvation by Grace through Faith | 4:24, 5:9, 6:14 |
| salvation | उद्धार | Critical | Salvation by Grace through Faith | 1:13, 2:5, 2:8, 6:17 |
| apostle | प्रेरित | Medium | Gifts for Building Up the Church | 1:1, 2:20, 3:5, 4:11 |
| called / calling | बोलाइएका / बोलावट | High | Election and Predestination in Christ | 1:18, 4:1, 4:4 |
| holy | पवित्र | High | Walking in Newness of Life | 1:4, 5:27 |
| saints | पवित्र जन | High | The Church as the Body of Christ | 1:1, 1:15, 1:18, 3:8, 3:18, 4:12, 5:3, 6:18 |
| sanctification | पवित्रीकरण | High | Walking in Newness of Life | (implied 5:26, cf. cross-ref note) |
| adoption | दत्तक पुत्रता | High | Election and Predestination in Christ | 1:5 |
| resurrection | पुनरुत्थान | Critical | Election and Predestination in Christ / Walking in Newness of Life | 1:20, 2:6 |
| lord | प्रभु | Critical | The Church as the Body of Christ | throughout |
| son of God | परमेश्वरका पुत्र | Critical | The Mystery of Christ Revealed | 4:13 |
| peace | शान्ति | Medium | Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity | 1:2, 2:14, 2:15, 2:17, 4:3, 6:15, 6:23 |
| spiritual gifts | आत्मिक वरदान | Medium | Gifts for Building Up the Church | 4:7-11 (cf. Section B for related but distinct δόμα/δῶρον terms) |
| thanksgiving | धन्यवाद | Low | Salvation by Grace through Faith | 1:16, 5:4, 5:20 |
| fellowship | सहभागिता | Low | The Church as the Body of Christ | 3:6 (via सहभागी root, cf. συμμέτοχος) |
| church | मण्डली | Medium | The Church as the Body of Christ | 1:22, 3:10, 3:21, 5:23-32 |
| kingdom of God | परमेश्वरको राज्य | Medium | The Church as the Body of Christ | 5:5 |
| law | व्यवस्था | High | Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity | 2:15 |
| sin | पाप | High | Salvation by Grace through Faith | 2:1 |
| gentiles | अन्यजाति | Medium | Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity | 2:11, 3:1, 3:6, 4:17 |
| glory | महिमा | High | The Mystery of Christ Revealed | 1:6, 1:12, 1:14, 1:17, 3:13, 3:16, 3:21 |
| power of God | परमेश्वरको सामर्थ्य | High | Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God | 1:19, 3:7, 3:20, 6:10 |
| covenant | करार | High | Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity | 2:12 |
| election | परमेश्वरको छनोट | High | Election and Predestination in Christ | 1:4 |
| intercession / prayer | मध्यस्थता / प्रार्थना | Medium | Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God | 6:18 |
| god | परमेश्वर | Critical | (all doctrines) | throughout |
| holy spirit | पवित्र आत्मा | Critical | (all doctrines) | throughout |
| father | पिता | Critical | Election and Predestination in Christ | 1:2, 1:3, 1:17, 2:18, 3:14-15, 4:6, 6:23 |
| jesus / christ | येशू / ख्रीष्ट | Critical | (all doctrines) | throughout |
| exhort | उत्साहित पार्नु | Low | Gifts for Building Up the Church | 4:1 |
Section B — New Terms Introduced for the Ephesians Curriculum
Organized by the curriculum’s nine named doctrines. Each entry gives: Nepali rendering, transliteration, risk tier, rejected alternative(s), and grounding reason. All entries here should be added to translation_memory.json as new terms per the AI Translation Requirements’ onboarding procedure, with version increment and theologian-review flagging for every Critical/High entry.
1. Salvation by Grace through Faith
| Term | Greek | Nepali | Translit. | Risk | Rejected alternative(s) | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| works (as basis, contrasted with grace) | ἔργον | काम | kaam | Critical | कर्म | कर्म imports the Hindu/Buddhist karma-merit accounting system directly into the core passage’s central grace/works antithesis (Eph 2:9); risks either a libertinism misreading or reducing Paul’s positive grace-claim to a mere anti-karma philosophical statement. |
| good works (fruit, not basis) | ἔργα ἀγαθά | असल काम | asal kaam | High | असल कर्म | Must use the SAME base noun (काम) as v.9’s excluded ἔργα so the deliberate before/after wordplay (excluded as ground → affirmed as fruit) is preserved across vv.9-10. |
| gift (of salvation) | δῶρον | उपहार | uphar | Medium | वरदान (alone) | Must stay distinct from आत्मिक वरदान (spiritual_gifts); this is the gift of salvation itself, not a ministry ability. |
| mercy | ἔλεος | दया | daya | High | कृपा, अनुग्रह | Extends the baseline’s existing अनुग्रह/कृपा distinction: कृपा is baseline-restricted to non-soteriological compassion, but ἔλεος here (Eph 2:4) IS soteriological, requiring a third, dedicated term — दया — distinct from both. |
| workmanship / creation (of God) | ποίημα | रचना | rachana | Medium | — | Emphasizes believer as object, not agent, of the creative/saving act. |
| trespass | παράπτωμα | अपराध | aparadh | Medium | — | Distinct nuance from पाप (established sin): a concrete misstep vs. the general moral category. |
| age / this present age | αἰών | युग | yug | High | समय (weaker alt.) | Collision with Hindu cyclical yuga cosmology; biblical usage is linear-historical (this age → the age to come), requiring a mandatory clarifying note each occurrence. |
| desire / lust (sinful) | ἐπιθυμία | लालसा | lalasa | Medium | वासना | वासना carries a specific Hindu/Buddhist technical sense (latent karmic impression across lives) that would misdirect toward karma-mechanics rather than present moral culpability. |
| nature (by nature) | φύσις | स्वभाव | swabhav | Medium | — | Must be taught as universal (applies equally to all humans regardless of birth/caste), not as caste-linked inherent jāti-svabhāva. |
| union with Christ (made alive/raised/seated together) | συζωοποιέω / συνεγείρω / συγκαθίζω | ख्रीष्टसाथ जीवित/उठाइएको/बसाइएको | Khristsath… | High | — | Must preserve distinct personhood of Christ and believer in relational union; must not read as monistic self-Brahman absorption. |
2. Election and Predestination in Christ
| Term | Greek | Nepali | Translit. | Risk | Rejected alternative(s) | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| predestined / foreordained | προορίζω | पूर्वनिर्धारण गर्नु | purvanirdharan garnu | Critical | भाग्य, किस्मत | This is the curriculum’s named doctrine term; must never suggest impersonal fate or karmic determinism — this is a personal God’s loving, purposive prior decision (Eph 1:4-5, 1:11). |
| inheritance | κληρονομία | उत्तराधिकार | uttaradhikar | High | — | Ties directly to adoption (baseline High); full, not partial, heirship. |
| purpose / counsel (of God’s will) | πρόθεσις / βουλή | योजना / अभिप्राय | yojana / abhipraya | Medium | — | Reinforces personal, purposive (not fatalistic) divine planning. |
| will (God’s) | θέλημα | इच्छा | ichchha | Medium | — | Homonymy caution: same Nepali word also covers ἐπιθυμία’s negative “desires of the flesh” (Eph 2:3) — context must disambiguate; see Section D. |
| good pleasure | εὐδοκία | मनपराइ | manparai | Low | — | The warm, gracious (not arbitrary) motive behind election. |
| blessing / blessed | εὐλογία / εὐλογητός | आशिष् | ashish | Medium | आशीर्वाद | आशीर्वाद carries Nepali ritual weight (elder/guru blessing via foot-touching); आशिष् avoids this human-mediated-ritual association. |
| blameless | ἄμωμος | दोषरहित / निष्खोट | doshrahit / nishkhot | Low-Medium | — | Election’s goal: moral blamelessness (1:4), reused 5:27. |
| heavenly places | ἐπουράνιος | स्वर्गीय स्थान | swargiya sthan | High | — | Hindu svarga is a temporary merit-realm one eventually falls from; NT usage is a secure, permanent position in Christ. Requires standing clarifying note. |
3. The Church as the Body of Christ
| Term | Greek | Nepali | Translit. | Risk | Rejected alternative(s) | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| head | κεφαλή | शिर | shir | High | टाउको (too colloquial) | Risk of caste/patriarchal-domination misreading rather than self-giving, life-sustaining source-headship (Eph 1:22, 5:23, grounded by 5:25). |
| body | σῶμα | शरीर | sharir | Medium | — | The church as Christ’s organic corporate body (1:23, 2:16, 4:16, 4:25, 5:23, 5:30). |
| fullness | πλήρωμα | पूर्णता | purnata | High | — | Collision with Upanishadic pūrṇa (impersonal metaphysical totality); biblical usage is Christ’s personal, relational filling of his people. |
| gather together / sum up under one head | ἀνακεφαλαιόω | सबैलाई एक शिरमा जोड्नु | — | Medium-High | — | Cosmic-scope headship doctrine (1:10), shares the κεφαλή root. |
| fellow heirs / same body / partakers of the promise | συγκληρονόμος / σύσσωμος / συμμέτοχος | सहअधिकारी / एउटै शरीरका सदस्य / प्रतिज्ञामा सहभागी | — | Medium | — | Gentiles are FULL, not partial, members — reinforces Doctrine 4 below. |
| dwelling place | κατοικητήριον | बासस्थान | basasthan | Low | — | God’s Spirit dwelling in the church corporately (2:22). |
| stewardship / administration | οἰκονομία | जिम्मेवारी | jimmewari | Medium | परमेश्वरको व्यवस्थापन (reserved) | Must stay distinct from baseline’s providence term to preserve a doctrinal distinction already fixed for Romans 8:28. |
4. Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
| Term | Greek | Nepali | Translit. | Risk | Rejected alternative(s) | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dividing wall | μεσότοιχον τοῦ φραγμοῦ | बीचको पर्खाल | bichko parkhal | High | — | Precise resonance with Nepal’s historically enforced caste-based physical separation (Muluki Ain, until 1963); the text’s claim that Christ breaks down this wall carries direct social-doctrinal weight. |
| one new man / humanity | καινὸς ἄνθρωπος (εἷς) | एक नयाँ मानिस | ek naya manis | High | — | Must convey a genuinely NEW single humanity, not a federation/alliance of previously separate groups (risk of caste-council misreading). |
| circumcision / uncircumcision | περιτομή / ἀκροβυστία | खतना / खतनारहित | — | Low | — | Established Nepali Bible terms; no new collision. |
| far off / near | μακράν / ἐγγύς | टाढा / नजिक | — | Low | — | Spatial covenantal-distance metaphor. |
| reconcile | ἀποκαταλλάσσω | मिलाप गराउनु | milap garaunu | Medium | — | Full restoration of Jew/Gentile relationship to God and to each other. |
| access | προσαγωγή | पहुँच | pahunch | Medium | — | Direct, unmediated access to the Father, contrasted with priestly-mediated ritual access models. |
| fellow citizens / household of God | συμπολῖται / οἰκεῖος | सहनागरिक / परमेश्वरको घरपरिवारका सदस्य | — | Medium / Low-Medium | — | Full family-insider status for Gentiles, not second-class citizenship. |
| cornerstone / foundation | ἀκρογωνιαῖος / θεμέλιος | कुने ढुङ्गा / जग | — | Low | — | Architectural unity metaphor. |
| holy temple (metaphor for the church) | ναός (ἅγιος) | पवित्र मन्दिर (metaphor only, mandatory note) | pavitra mandir | High | — | Deliberate, narrow exception to baseline’s general मन्दिर-avoidance rule for church; ναός is a different Greek word applied in an intentional biblical metaphor. Requires clarifying note every occurrence; flag for theologian review. |
| no respect of persons / partiality | προσωπολημψία | पक्षपात नगर्ने | pakshapat nagarne | Medium-High | — | God levels master/slave, Jew/Gentile distinctions (6:9); reinforces caste-leveling theme. |
5. The Mystery of Christ Revealed
| Term | Greek | Nepali | Translit. | Risk | Rejected alternative(s) | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mystery | μυστήριον | रहस्य | rahasya | High | — | Collision with Newar Tantric Buddhist/Hindu Tantric “secret, initiated-elite-only” esoteric-knowledge traditions centered in the Kathmandu Valley. Biblical μυστήριον is the OPPOSITE structure: formerly hidden, now openly and universally proclaimed (3:9-10, 6:19). Mandatory clarifying note every occurrence (1:9, 3:3-4, 3:6, 3:9, 5:32, 6:19). |
| revelation | ἀποκάλυψις | प्रकाशन | prakashan | Medium | — | Disclosure of what was hidden; pairs with μυστήριον. |
| knowledge (full/precise, relational) | ἐπίγνωσις | ज्ञान / चिनजान | gyan / chinjan | High | ज्ञान (unqualified) | ज्ञान is the primary Hindu/Buddhist term for self-attained liberating knowledge (Jnana-marga, prajñā); Ephesians’ usage is revealed, relational, Spirit-given knowledge of a personal God, not self-attained gnosis. Use with mandatory clarifying note, or चिनजान in catechetical contexts. |
| enlightened (eyes of understanding) | φωτίζω | उज्यालो पार्नु | ujyalo parnu | Medium-High | — | Light/enlightenment vocabulary requires the same caution as glory’s existing light-metaphor caution. |
| manifold wisdom / unsearchable riches | πολυποίκιλος σοφία / ἀνεξιχνίαστος πλοῦτος | अनेकौं किसिमको बुद्धि / अगम्य धन | — | Low | — | बुद्धि here is the ordinary Nepali word for wisdom/intellect, not specifically Buddhist-loaded in everyday usage. |
| boldness / confidence | παρρησία / πεποίθησις | निर्धक्कता / भरोसा | — | Low | — | Confident access grounded in Christ, not self-attainment. |
6. Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
| Term | Greek | Nepali | Translit. | Risk | Rejected alternative(s) | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| principalities / authorities / powers / dominion (all cosmic-rank terms) | ἀρχή / ἐξουσία / δύναμις / κυριότης | अधिपति / अधिकार / सामर्थ्य / प्रभुत्व | — | High (cluster) | — | Every rendering must avoid शक्ति (baseline Critical prohibition for God’s power); consistent across 1:21, 3:10, 6:12. |
| power (stacked terms) | δύναμις / ἐνέργεια / κράτος / ἰσχύς | सामर्थ्य / प्रभावकारी काम / पराक्रम / बल | — | High | शक्ति (for any of these) | पराक्रम and बल are the recommended safe, non-शक्ति renderings for κράτος and ἰσχύς, consistent at both 1:19-20 and 6:10. |
| world-rulers (of this darkness) | κοσμοκράτωρ | यस अन्धकारका (संसारका) शासकहरू | — | Medium | — | NT-unique term (Eph 6:12 only); cosmic ruler title for hostile powers. |
| spiritual forces of evil | πνευματικὰ τῆς πονηρίας | दुष्ट आत्मिक शक्तिहरू | dushta atmik shaktiharu | High | — | Narrow, explained exception to शक्ति-avoidance: here शक्ति names a HOSTILE force to be resisted, not God’s power to be invoked — must be taught so it is never mistaken for a legitimate power source. Flag for theologian review. |
| whole armor of God | πανοπलिया τοῦ θεοῦ | परमेश्वरका सम्पूर्ण हातहतियार | — | Medium | — | Defensive, metaphorical military imagery; must not read as literal-violence endorsement. |
| devil / wiles | διάβολος / μεθοδεία | शैतान / चालबाजी | — | Low | — | Established terms; the personal, real spiritual adversary and his deceptive strategy. |
| wrestle / struggle | πάλη | लडाइँ / मुष्टि सङ्घर्ष | — | High | — | The qualifier “not against flesh and blood” is doctrinally essential and must never be dropped; risk of literal-conflict misapplication given Nepal’s religious-conversion legal sensitivities — route to the same review tier as evangelism (baseline High). |
| breastplate of righteousness / shoes of the gospel of peace / shield of faith / helmet of salvation / sword of the Spirit | θώραξ τῆς δικαιοσύνης, κτλ. | धार्मिकताको छाती-ढाल, शान्तिको सुसमाचारका जुत्ता, विश्वासको ढाल, उद्धारको टोप, आत्माको तरवार | — | High/Critical (aggregate) | — | Each armor-piece genitive reuses an existing Critical/High baseline term (righteousness, gospel, peace, faith, salvation); no new decision needed for those roots, but the compound phrases should be fixed and used consistently. |
| stand / stand against | ἵστημι / ἀνθίστημι | खडा हुनु / प्रतिरोध गर्नु | — | Low | — | Defensive, not offensive, posture — reinforces the “not against flesh and blood” framing. |
7. Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
| Term | Greek | Nepali | Translit. | Risk | Rejected alternative(s) | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| submit (to one another / wives to husbands) | ὑποτάσσω | अधीनमा रहनु | adhinma rahanu | High | — | Must convey voluntary, Christ-modeled, MUTUAL (5:21) submission — never caste- or gender-based forced subordination; must be distinguished from the cosmic-victory sense of the same verb at 1:22. |
| head (of the wife) | κεφαλή | शिर | shir | High | — | Same term as Doctrine 3’s ecclesial headship; here interpreted through 5:25’s self-sacrificial love, never domination. |
| love (husbands for wives, Christ for church) | ἀγαπάω / ἀγάπη | प्रेम | prem | Medium | — | Must carry the self-giving, sacrificial sense (5:25), not romantic/emotional love alone. |
| slaves / servants | δοῦλος | दास | das | High | नोकर (softer, but loses first-century force) | Nepal abolished its own bonded-labor systems (kamaiya 2000, haliya 2008) within living memory; teaching must frame Paul as relativizing, not endorsing, an existing social institution. |
| masters (human) | κύριος (human sense) | मालिक | malik | High | प्रभु (reserved for Christ) | Deliberate divergence from baseline’s lord=प्रभु (reserved exclusively for Christ’s Lordship) to avoid blurring that Critical Christological distinction; accepts the loss of Paul’s 6:9 Greek wordplay. Flag for theologian review. |
| honor / obey (parents) | τιμάω / ὑπακούω | आदर गर्नु / आज्ञा पालन गर्नु | — | Low-Medium | — | Ordinary filial duty; distinguish from the specifically faith-flowing obedience_of_faith category. |
| not with eyeservice | ὀφθαλμοδουλία | देखाउनका लागि मात्र गरिने सेवा | — | Low | — | External performance vs. genuine heart-motive. |
| reward | μισθός | इनाम / ज्याला | — | Low-Medium | — | Must not be read as merit establishing standing before God; this is generous recompense to those already saved by grace. |
| sanctify / cleanse by washing of water with the word | ἁγιάζω / καθαρίζω / λουτρόν | पवित्र पार्नु / शुद्ध पार्नु / धुने कार्य | — | Medium | — | Textually-warranted, controlled use of शुद्ध पार्नु specific to this verse’s washing imagery; not a general substitute for sanctification elsewhere. |
| one flesh | μία σάρξ | एउटै शरीर | — | Low | — | Marriage union, quoting Genesis 2:24. |
8. Gifts for Building Up the Church
| Term | Greek | Nepali | Translit. | Risk | Rejected alternative(s) | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unity of the Spirit | ἑνότης τοῦ πνεύματος | आत्माको एकता | atmako ekata | Medium-High | — | A given reality to be kept, not an aspirational federation to be negotiated. |
| bond of peace | σύνδεσμος τῆς εἰρήνης | शान्तिको बन्धन | — | Low | — | Reuses established शान्ति root. |
| gift(s) (ascension-gifts, offices) | δόμα / δωρεά | वरदान / उपहार | — | Medium | — | Distinct from general spiritual-ability χάρισμα (Romans 12:6-8); connect to established आत्मिक वरदान for consistency, note office/person distinction. |
| evangelist | εὐαγγελιστής | सुसमाचार प्रचारक | susamachar pracharak | Low-Medium | — | Compound of two already-established roots. |
| pastor / shepherd | ποιμήν | गोठाला | gothala | Medium | पास्टर (colloquial loanword) | Preserves biblical shepherd-imagery link (cf. “Good Shepherd” = असल गोठाला); avoids losing Paul’s intended metaphor to a modern loanword. |
| teacher | διδάσκαλος | शिक्षक | shikshak | Low | — | Standard term. |
| equip / equipping | καταρτισμός | सुसज्जित पार्ने काम / तयार पार्नु | — | Low | — | Preparation for ministry task. |
| mature / complete man | τέλειος ἀνήρ | परिपक्व मानिस | paripakwa manis | High — forbidden substitution | सिद्ध मानिस (FORBIDDEN) | सिद्ध names a Tantric/yogic adept who has attained supernatural perfection (siddhi) through esoteric discipline — recasts Spirit-given corporate maturity as a self-attained tantric accomplishment. सिद्ध must be added to the project’s forbidden-substitution list (see Section C). |
| grow up / build up / edify | αὐξάνω / οἰκοδομή | बढ्नु / आपसी वृद्धि | — | Low | — | Matches baseline’s established mutual_edification. |
| speaking truth in love | ἀληθεύω ἐν ἀγάπῃ | प्रेमसाथ सत्य बोलेर | — | Low | — | Growth-method for the body. |
| measure (of grace given) | μέτρον | नाप / परिमाण | — | Low | — | Christ-apportioned, not self-chosen, gifting. |
9. Walking in Newness of Life
| Term | Greek | Nepali | Translit. | Risk | Rejected alternative(s) | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| walk (conduct of life) | περιπατέω | हिँड्नु / चालचलन गर्नु | hidnu / chalchalan garnu | Medium-High | — | Must not read as a self-directed dharmic life-path/duty-performance; conduct FLOWS FROM grace-given new identity (Eph 2:2 before → 2:10, 4:1, 4:17, 5:2, 5:8, 5:15 after). |
| old man / new man | παλαιὸς ἄνθρωπος / καινὸς ἄνθρωπος | पुरानो मानिस / नयाँ मानिस | — | Medium | — | The doctrinal center of this curriculum unit (4:22-24); reused from the corporate sense at 2:15. |
| renewed (in spirit of mind) | ἀνανεόω / ἀνακαινόω | नवीकरण गर्नु | navikaran garnu | Medium | — | Must NEVER use any पुनर्जन्म-adjacent phrasing; this is continuous inward renewal of the SAME person, not rebirth/reincarnation. |
| put off / put on | ἀποτίθημι / ἐνδύω | फ्याँक्नु / धारण गर्नु, लगाउनु | — | Low | — | Shared clothing-imagery verb (ἐνδύω) links this doctrine to the “armor of God” doctrine at 6:11 — note the cross-doctrinal link. |
| corrupt | φθείρω | बिग्रनु / भ्रष्ट हुनु | — | Low | — | The old man’s moral trajectory. |
| grieve (the Holy Spirit) | λυπέω | दुःखी बनाउनु | — | Low-Medium | — | Reinforces the Holy Spirit’s personhood (cf. baseline Critical caution against ब्रह्म/परमात्मा). |
| children of light / of disobedience | τέκνα φωτός / τέκνα ἀπειθείας | उज्यालोका सन्तान (preferred) / अनाज्ञाकारिताका सन्तान | ujyaloka santan | Medium-High | ज्योतिका सन्तान (secondary; use with caution) | ज्योति evokes ritual lamps (diyo) and the Tihar/Dipawali festival of lights; उज्यालो (brightness) is a lower-risk alternative for the moral-relational transformation Paul intends. |
| fruit (of the Spirit/light) | καρπός | फल | — | Low | — | Outcome flowing from the Spirit, not self-generated effort. |
| redeeming the time | ἐξαγοράζω τὸν καιρόν | समयलाई सदुपयोग गर्नु | — | Low | — | Wise, urgent use of a limited window. |
| be filled with the Spirit | πληρόω (verb) | पवित्र आत्माले भरिनु | — | Medium | — | Distinct from the noun πλήρωμα (High risk, Doctrine 3); lower-intensity residual pūrṇa-association caution still applies. |
| psalms, hymns, spiritual songs | ψαλμοί, ὕμνοι, ᾠδαὶ πνευματικαί | भजन, स्तुति-गीत, आत्मिक गीत | — | Medium | — | भजन is already a successfully domesticated Nepali Christian term (cf. baseline’s भजनसंग्रह = Psalms); lower residual risk than most Section B entries. |
| idolater | εἰδωλολάτρης | मूर्तिपूजक | murtipujak | High | — | Names mainstream Hindu/Buddhist devotional practice directly; requires careful pastoral framing as a diagnosis of covetousness, not an ethnographic condemnation. Mandatory native-speaker/theologian review of teaching tone. |
| fornication / uncleanness / covetousness | πορνεία / ἀκαθαρσία / πλεονεξία | व्यभिचार / अशुद्धता / लोभ | — | Low | — | Standard vice-list vocabulary. |
| offering and sacrifice | προσφορὰ καὶ θυσία | बलिदान / भेटी | — | Low-Medium | — | Already-domesticated Old Testament sacrificial vocabulary. |
| present (the church) without blemish | παρίστημι + ἄμωμος | प्रस्तुत गर्नु + दोषरहित | — | Low | — | Echoes 1:4’s election-unto-blamelessness goal. |
| incorruption / immortality | ἀφθαρσία | अविनाशीता | avinashita | Medium | — | A gift secured through Christ’s resurrection, not an innate property of an eternally pre-existing soul (contra Vedantic ātman doctrine). |
Section C — New Forbidden Substitutions (Ephesians-specific additions)
These extend the baseline’s existing forbidden-substitution list (12_ai_translation_requirements.md) and MUST be enforced identically in Phase 2:
| Concept | NEVER use | ALWAYS use instead | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| Works (contrasted with grace, Eph 2:9-10) | कर्म | काम | Imports karma-merit accounting into the core passage’s central grace/works antithesis. |
| Mature/complete man (Eph 4:13) | सिद्ध / सिद्ध मानिस | परिपक्व / परिपक्व मानिस | सिद्ध names a Tantric/yogic adept who attains supernatural perfection through esoteric discipline. |
| Lordship applied to a human master (Eph 6:5, 6:9) | प्रभु (for the human “master”) | मालिक | प्रभु is baseline-Critical and reserved exclusively for Christ’s supreme Lordship; using it for a human slave-owner would blur that distinction. |
| Desire/craving (sinful, Eph 2:3) | वासना | लालसा | वासना is a technical Hindu/Buddhist term for karmic impressions carried across lives; risks a karma-mechanics misreading. |
| Church-as-temple metaphor (Eph 2:21) — general caution, not outright forbidden | मन्दिर (WITHOUT a mandatory clarifying note) | पवित्र मन्दिर + mandatory clarifying note | Narrow, explained exception to the baseline’s मन्दिर-avoidance rule for church; must never be used unqualified. |
Section D — Terminological Collision Cross-References (flag for Phase 2 reviewer attention)
- θέλημα (“will,” positive, divine) vs. ἐπιθυμία (“desire/lust,” negative, human) — both risk collapsing to इच्छा in casual translation. This glossary fixes θέλημα = इच्छा and ἐπιθυμία = लालसा to keep them distinct (Eph 1:5/1:9/1:11 vs. 2:3).
- κύριος (human “master,” Eph 6:5/6:9) vs. κύριος (divine “Lord,” throughout) — same Greek word, must render as मालिक (human) vs. प्रभु (divine) respectively, accepting the loss of Paul’s deliberate 6:9 wordplay to preserve the baseline’s Critical Christological reservation of प्रभु.
- ὑποτάσσω (“subject/submit”) — used in a triumphant COSMIC sense at 1:22 (hostile powers subjected to the exalted Christ) and in a relational, VOLUNTARY sense at 5:21-6:9 (household codes). Both may render as अधीनमा राखिनु/रहनु, but teaching notes must distinguish the two senses explicitly.
- οἰκονομία (“stewardship/administration,” Eph 3:2/3:9) vs. the baseline’s
providence(परमेश्वरको व्यवस्थापन) — different Greek concepts; this glossary assigns οἰκονομία = जिम्मेवारी to avoid collapsing the two into one Nepali phrase. - ἔλεος (“mercy”) vs. χάρις (“grace”) vs. the baseline’s restricted κृपा — this glossary establishes a clean three-way split: अनुग्रह (grace/χάρις), दया (mercy/ἔλεος, including soteriological contexts), कृपा (general non-soteriological compassion only, per baseline).
- πλήρωμα (“fullness,” noun, High risk) vs. πληρόω (“be filled,” verb, Medium risk) — related but not identical risk profiles; the verb form (5:18, everyday “be filled with the Spirit”) carries a lower-intensity version of the noun’s Upanishadic-pūrṇa collision risk (1:23, 3:19, 4:13).
- ἔργον in Eph 2:9 (excluded as basis) vs. Eph 2:10 (affirmed as fruit) — both must use the SAME Nepali noun (काम) so the deliberate Pauline wordplay survives translation; using two unrelated Nepali words here would sever the passage’s argument.
Coverage confirmation
This glossary draws terms from every chapter of Ephesians (1–6), cross-referenced against analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md. All Section A terms reuse the Romans baseline exactly, with zero deviation. All Section B terms are new to this curriculum and are recommended for addition to translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json prior to Phase 2, with Critical/High entries flagged for mandatory human theologian review per the existing doctrine_risk_registry.json routing convention.
Critical Risk Terms
Righteousness
Approved rendering: धार्मिकता
Transliteration: dharmikata
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Rejected alternatives: धर्म, पुण्य
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. NEVER धर्म. Ephesians: 4:24, 5:9, 6:14 (breastplate of righteousness).
Salvation
Approved rendering: उद्धार
Transliteration: uddhar
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Rejected alternatives: मुक्ति, मोक्ष, निर्वाण
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Dual-front CRITICAL prohibition unchanged. Ephesians: 1:13, 2:5, 2:8 (core passage), 6:17 (helmet of salvation).
Resurrection
Approved rendering: पुनरुत्थान
Transliteration: punarutthan
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Rejected alternatives: पुनर्जन्म
Original: ἀνάστασις / ἐγείρω
Category: Eschatology
Inherited from Romans package. NEVER पुनर्जन्म. Ephesians: 1:20 (Christ’s resurrection), 2:6 (believers’ positional co-resurrection).
Lord
Approved rendering: प्रभु
Transliteration: prabhu
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ
Rejected alternatives: मालिक, ईश्वर
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Reserved EXCLUSIVELY for Christ’s supreme Lordship throughout Ephesians. The same Greek word κύριος also names a human slave-owner at 6:5, 6:9 — that sense must render as मालिक, never प्रभु; see ‘masters’ entry.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: परमेश्वरका पुत्र
Transliteration: Parameshwarka Putra
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Rejected alternatives: देवपुत्र
Original: υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians: 4:13, ‘the knowledge of the Son of God’ — the church’s corporate maturity goal.
God
Approved rendering: परमेश्वर
Transliteration: Parameshwar
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Rejected alternatives: भगवान
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. NEVER भगवान. Used throughout Ephesians.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: पवित्र आत्मा
Transliteration: Pavitra Atma
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: ब्रह्म, परमात्मा
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον / τὸ πνεῦμα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. NEVER ब्रह्म/परमात्मा. Ephesians: 1:13-14 (seal and guarantee), 4:30 (can be grieved — see new ‘grieve_the_spirit’ entry, reinforcing personhood), 5:18 (filled with the Spirit), 6:17-18.
Father
Approved rendering: पिता
Transliteration: Pita
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians: 1:2-3, 1:17, 2:18, 3:14-15, 4:6, 6:23.
Jesus
Approved rendering: येशू
Transliteration: Yeshu
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Used throughout Ephesians, frequently in the compound ‘in Christ Jesus.‘
Christ
Approved rendering: ख्रीष्ट
Transliteration: Khrist
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
New formal registry entry for the Ephesians curriculum, though already the established Nepali Bible transliteration form per the baseline’s proper-noun table. Distinct from, but paired with, मसीह (baseline messiah). Ephesians’ central ‘in Christ’ / ‘in Christ Jesus’ union-formula (1:1, 1:3, 1:10, 1:12, 1:20, 2:6-7, 2:10, 2:13, 3:6, 3:11, 3:21, and throughout) occurs far more densely than in Romans; consistency of this rendering across the whole book is essential.
Works
Approved rendering: काम
Transliteration: kaam
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Rejected alternatives: कर्म
Original: ἔργον
Category: Salvation
NEW — highest-stakes new term in this curriculum. NEVER कर्म. Ephesians 2:9’s central grace/works antithesis. कर्म imports the Hindu/Buddhist karma-merit accounting system, risking either a libertinism misreading or reducing Paul’s positive grace-claim to a mere anti-karma philosophical statement. काम (ordinary, doctrinally unloaded ‘work/deed’) is required. Same noun reused positively at 2:10 as the base of ‘good_works’ to preserve Paul’s deliberate wordplay.
Predestined
Approved rendering: पूर्वनिर्धारण गर्नु
Transliteration: purvanirdharan garnu
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Rejected alternatives: भाग्य, किस्मत
Original: προορίζω
Category: Election
NEW — this curriculum’s flagship named-doctrine term, never isolated in the Romans baseline. Ephesians 1:5, 1:11. Must never suggest भाग्य/किस्मत or the mechanistic unfolding of karma. This is a personal God’s loving, purposive prior decision, made ‘in love’ (1:4-5), not blind cosmic determinism.
Helmet Of Salvation
Approved rendering: उद्धारको टोप
Transliteration: uddharko top
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: περικεφαλαία τοῦ σωτηρίου
Category: Spiritual Warfare
NEW fixed compound. Ephesians 6:17. Reuses उद्धार exactly, carrying the same Critical dual-front मुक्ति/मोक्ष/निर्वाण prohibition; fixed rendering required for cross-document consistency.
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: सुसमाचार
Transliteration: susamachar
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: खुशखबरी
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians occurrences: 1:13, 3:6, 6:15, 6:19. Must be distinguished from generic good news; the unique proclamation of salvation through Christ crucified and risen.
Grace
Approved rendering: अनुग्रह
Transliteration: anugraha
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Rejected alternatives: कृपा, पुण्य, भाग्य
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians core-passage occurrences: 1:2, 1:6-7, 2:5, 2:7-9, 3:2, 3:7, 4:7, 4:29, 6:24. Never पुण्य/भाग्य.
Faith
Approved rendering: विश्वास
Transliteration: vishwas
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Rejected alternatives: श्रद्धा, भक्ति
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians: 1:15, 2:8 (core passage), 3:12, 3:17, 4:5, 4:13, 6:16 (shield of faith), 6:23.
Called
Approved rendering: बोलाइएका
Transliteration: bolaieka
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Rejected alternatives: निमन्त्रित
Original: κλητός
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians: 1:18, 4:1, 4:4.
Calling
Approved rendering: बोलावट
Transliteration: bolawat
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians: 1:18, 4:1, 4:4.
Holy
Approved rendering: पवित्र
Transliteration: pavitra
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Rejected alternatives: शुद्ध
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians: 1:4, 5:27.
Saints
Approved rendering: पवित्र जन
Transliteration: pavitra jan
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ
Rejected alternatives: सन्त, साधु
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians: 1:1, 1:15, 1:18, 3:8, 3:18, 4:12, 5:3, 6:18.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: पवित्रीकरण
Transliteration: pavitrikaran
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: शुद्धीकरण
Original: ἁγιασμός / ἁγιάζω
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians: implied at 5:26 (Christ sanctifies the church); default rendering except the narrow, verse-specific washing-imagery exception at 5:26 (see sanctify_by_washing).
Adoption
Approved rendering: दत्तक पुत्रता
Transliteration: dattak putrata
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Rejected alternatives: धर्मपुत्र बनाउने, गोद लिने
Original: υἱοθεσία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians: 1:5.
Law
Approved rendering: व्यवस्था
Transliteration: vyavastha
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Rejected alternatives: धर्म, नियम
Original: νόμος
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. NEVER धर्म. Ephesians: 2:15 — the law’s ethnic dividing function is nullified in Christ, without abolishing moral law generally.
Sin
Approved rendering: पाप
Transliteration: paap
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Rejected alternatives: अकुशल कर्म
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians: 2:1, paired with the new term ‘trespass’ (अपराध) for rhetorical fullness.
Glory
Approved rendering: महिमा
Transliteration: mahima
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Rejected alternatives: तेज
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians: 1:6, 1:12, 1:14, 1:17, 3:13, 3:16, 3:21. Cross-reference the new ‘enlightened’ and ‘children_of_light’ entries for related light-metaphor caution.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: परमेश्वरको सामर्थ्य
Transliteration: Parameshwarko samarthya
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Rejected alternatives: शक्ति
Original: δύναμις θεοῦ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. NEVER शक्ति for God’s power. Ephesians: 1:19, 3:7, 3:20, 6:10. See new ‘cosmic_powers’ and ‘might_and_strength’ entries for the stacked-terms cluster, and ‘spiritual_forces_of_evil’ for the sole narrow exception permitting शक्ति for HOSTILE forces only.
Covenant
Approved rendering: करार
Transliteration: karar
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Rejected alternatives: सम्झौता
Original: διαθήκη
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians: 2:12, ‘covenants of promise’ from which Gentiles were formerly excluded.
Election
Approved rendering: परमेश्वरको छनोट
Transliteration: Parameshwarko chhanot
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Rejected alternatives: भाग्य, किस्मत
Original: ἐκλέγομαι / ἐκλογή
Category: Election
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians: 1:4, ‘chose us in him before the foundation of the world.’ Paired with the NEW term ‘predestined’ (पूर्वनिर्धारण गर्नु), which the Romans baseline never isolated.
Good Works
Approved rendering: असल काम
Transliteration: asal kaam
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Rejected alternatives: असल कर्म
Original: ἔργα ἀγαθά
Category: Salvation
NEW. Ephesians 2:10, the God-prepared fruit and purpose of salvation, not its ground. Must use the SAME base noun as ‘works’ (काम, never कर्म) so the before/after wordplay across 2:9-2:10 survives translation.
Mercy
Approved rendering: दया
Transliteration: daya
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Rejected alternatives: कृपा, अनुग्रह
Original: ἔλεος
Category: Salvation
NEW. Ephesians 2:4. Establishes दया as a dedicated third term, distinct from both अनुग्रह (grace/χάρις) and the baseline’s restricted, non-soteriological कृपा. ἔλεος here IS soteriological, requiring this new fixed rendering. Should also be applied when harmonizing Romans 9:15-18 and 11:30-32 in future updates.
Age
Approved rendering: युग
Transliteration: yug
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Rejected alternatives: समय (weaker alternative)
Original: αἰών
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Ephesians 2:2 (‘course of this world’), 2:7, 3:9, 3:11, 3:21. युग is the operative word of Hindu yuga cosmology’s repeating cosmic cycle. No safe substitute fully avoids the word; MANDATORY clarifying note required at every occurrence establishing the LINEAR biblical frame — this present evil age decisively overtaken by the age inaugurated in Christ, never a repeating cycle.
Made Alive With Christ
Approved rendering: ख्रीष्टसाथ जीवित बनाइनु
Transliteration: Khristsath jivit banainu
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: συζωοποιέω
Category: Salvation
NEW. Ephesians 2:5 (συζωοποιέω). Must not read as a monistic self-Brahman merger (Advaita Vedanta ātman-Brahman absorption); biblical union with Christ preserves the distinct personhood of both Christ and the believer.
Raised With Christ
Approved rendering: ख्रीष्टसाथ उठाइनु
Transliteration: Khristsath uthainu
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: συνεγείρω
Category: Salvation
NEW. Ephesians 2:6 (συνεγείρω), built on पुनरुत्थान’s established root. Positional/spiritual co-resurrection anticipating the future bodily resurrection; must never suggest a second, present, personal bodily resurrection.
Seated With Christ
Approved rendering: ख्रीष्टसाथ बसाइनु
Transliteration: Khristsath basainu
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: συγκαθίζω
Category: Salvation
NEW. Ephesians 2:6 (συγκαθίζω). Secure, honored, already-granted status in Christ; must not be flattened into a self-attained yogic/tantric elevated spiritual state.
Inheritance
Approved rendering: उत्तराधिकार
Transliteration: uttaradhikar
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Original: κληρονομία
Category: Election
NEW. Ephesians 1:11, 1:14, 1:18. Tied to दत्तक पुत्रता (adoption) — full, not partial or provisional, heirship.
Heavenly Places
Approved rendering: स्वर्गीय स्थान
Transliteration: swargiya sthan
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Original: ἐπουράνιος
Category: Election
NEW. Ephesians 1:3, 1:20, 2:6, 3:10, 6:12. Hindu svarga is a TEMPORARY merit-realm from which one eventually falls back into the rebirth cycle; biblical ἐπουράνιος is a secure, permanent, already-and-not-yet position in Christ (and, at 6:12, the site of contested spiritual conflict). Requires a standing clarifying note at every occurrence.
Head
Approved rendering: शिर
Transliteration: shir
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ
Rejected alternatives: टाउको
Original: κεφαλή
Category: Church
NEW. Ephesians 1:22 (Christ over the church), 4:15, 5:23 (husband over wife). Risk of misreading through Nepal’s historically hierarchical, caste- and patriarchy-inflected social structures as domination/rank rather than the self-giving, life-sustaining source-relationship modeled at 5:25, 5:29. Requires careful catechetical framing at every occurrence.
Fullness
Approved rendering: पूर्णता
Transliteration: purnata
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ
Original: πλήρωμα
Category: Church
NEW. Ephesians 1:23, 3:19, 4:13. Collision risk with the Upanishadic pūrṇa concept (Brahman as an impersonal, self-sufficient totality). Biblical πλήρωμα is Christ’s personal, relational filling of his people — mandatory clarifying note required.
Sum Up In Christ
Approved rendering: सबैलाई एक शिरमा जोड्नु
Transliteration: sabailai ek shirma jodnu
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ
Original: ἀνακεφαλαιόω
Category: Church
NEW. Ephesians 1:10 (ἀνακεφαλαιόω). Shares the κεφαλή (head) root; foundational to the cosmic scope of Christ’s headship over all things.
Dividing Wall
Approved rendering: बीचको पर्खाल
Transliteration: bichko parkhal
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: μεσότοιχον τοῦ φραγμοῦ
Category: Unity
NEW. Ephesians 2:14 (μεσότοιχον τοῦ φραγμοῦ). Maps with unusual precision onto Nepal’s own history of physically enforced caste separation, formalized in the Muluki Ain until 1963. Christ BREAKS DOWN, not merely tolerates, every such barrier.
One New Humanity
Approved rendering: एक नयाँ मानिस
Transliteration: ek naya manis
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: καινὸς ἄνθρωπος (εἷς)
Category: Unity
NEW. Ephesians 2:15 (καινὸς ἄνθρωπος, εἷς). Must convey a genuinely NEW single humanity, not a federation/alliance of previously separate groups (risk of a caste-council or ethnic-federation misreading).
Holy Temple Metaphor
Approved rendering: पवित्र मन्दिर
Transliteration: pavitra mandir
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Rejected alternatives: मन्दिर (unqualified, forbidden without note)
Original: ναὸς ἅγιος
Category: Unity
NEW — deliberate, narrow exception. Ephesians 2:21 (ναὸς ἅγιος, a DIFFERENT Greek word from ἐκκλησία). The general baseline rule forbidding मन्दिर for church stands; this exception applies ONLY when ναός is used metaphorically for the church, and REQUIRES a mandatory clarifying note every occurrence that this describes God’s spiritual dwelling among his people, not a physical shrine. Flag for theologian review at every occurrence.
Impartiality
Approved rendering: पक्षपात नगर्ने
Transliteration: pakshapat nagarne
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Original: προσωπολημψία
Category: Unity
NEW. Ephesians 6:9 (προσωπολημψία). God shows no favoritism between master and slave — reinforces caste-leveling themes already established as High-risk in the Romans baseline (universal_human_accountability, unity_of_jews_and_gentiles).
Mystery
Approved rendering: रहस्य
Transliteration: rahasya
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Rejected alternatives: गुप्त ज्ञान
Original: μυστήριον
Category: Mystery
NEW — this curriculum’s flagship named-doctrine term. Ephesians 1:9, 3:3-4, 3:6, 3:9, 5:32, 6:19. Collides with Newar Tantric Buddhist and Hindu Tantric traditions where esoteric mysteries are reserved for an initiated elite. Biblical μυστήριον is the OPPOSITE structure: formerly hidden, now proclaimed openly to ALL. MANDATORY clarifying note at every occurrence.
Knowledge Of Christ
Approved rendering: ज्ञान
Transliteration: gyan
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Rejected alternatives: ज्ञान (unqualified, without note)
Original: ἐπίγνωσις
Category: Mystery
NEW. Ephesians 1:17, 4:13 (‘knowledge of the Son of God’), ἐπίγνωσις. ज्ञान is the primary Hindu/Buddhist term for self-attained liberating knowledge (jñāna-mārga, prajñā). Ephesians’ usage is REVEALED, RELATIONAL knowledge of a personal God, granted by the Spirit, never self-attained gnosis. Use with mandatory clarifying note; चिनजान is the lower-risk catechetical alternative.
Enlightened
Approved rendering: उज्यालो पार्नु
Transliteration: ujyalo parnu
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Original: φωτίζω
Category: Mystery
NEW. Ephesians 1:18, 3:9 (φωτίζω). Light/enlightenment vocabulary requires the same caution as glory’s existing light-metaphor caution; cross-reference ‘children_of_light’ (5:8).
Cosmic Powers
Approved rendering: अधिपति / अधिकार / सामर्थ्य / प्रभुत्व
Transliteration: adhipati / adhikar / samarthya / prabhutva
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Rejected alternatives: शक्ति (for any of these)
Original: ἀρχή / ἐξουσία / δύναμις / κυριότης
Category: Spiritual Warfare
NEW. Ephesians 1:21, 3:10, 6:12 (ἀρχή/ἐξουσία/δύναμις/κυριότης). Every rendering must avoid शक्ति (baseline Critical prohibition for God’s power).
Might And Strength
Approved rendering: पराक्रम / बल
Transliteration: parakram / bal
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Rejected alternatives: शक्ति
Original: κράτος / ἰσχύς
Category: Spiritual Warfare
NEW. Ephesians 1:19-20 and 6:10 (‘the power of his might,’ κράτος/ἰσχύς), rendered consistently in both places as safe, non-शक्ति terms.
Spiritual Forces Of Evil
Approved rendering: दुष्ट आत्मिक शक्तिहरू
Transliteration: dushta atmik shaktiharu
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: πνευματικὰ τῆς πονηρίας
Category: Spiritual Warfare
NEW — the ONE place in this curriculum where शक्ति is permitted, since it names a HOSTILE, OPPOSED force (6:12), not God’s own power. Nonetheless flag for mandatory theologian review: must always be taught as the enemy to be resisted through God’s सामर्थ्य and armor, never a legitimate power source to be invoked or appeased, given the Newar Tantric Shakta/Kumari-cult association.
Wrestle Not Against Flesh
Approved rendering: लडाइँ (शरीरविरुद्ध होइन)
Transliteration: ladai (sharirviruddha hoina)
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: πάλη πρὸς αἷμα καὶ σάρκα
Category: Spiritual Warfare
NEW. Ephesians 6:12 (πάλη). The ‘not against flesh and blood’ qualifier is doctrinally load-bearing and must NEVER be dropped — risk of the passage being misread as authorizing confrontational conduct toward flesh-and-blood religious opponents, given Nepal’s communal-religious sensitivities and legal restrictions on conversion. Route to the same review tier as evangelism.
Breastplate Of Righteousness
Approved rendering: धार्मिकताको छाती-ढाल
Transliteration: dharmiktako chhati-dhal
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: θώραξ τῆς δικαιοσύνης
Category: Spiritual Warfare
NEW fixed compound. Ephesians 6:14. Reuses the baseline Critical righteousness term (धार्मिकता) exactly; fixed rendering required for cross-document consistency.
Shoes Of Gospel Of Peace
Approved rendering: शान्तिको सुसमाचारका जुत्ता
Transliteration: shantiko susamacharka jutta
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: ὑπόδημα εὐαγγελίου τῆς εἰρήνης
Category: Spiritual Warfare
NEW fixed compound. Ephesians 6:15. Reuses सुसमाचार and शान्ति exactly; fixed rendering required for cross-document consistency.
Shield Of Faith
Approved rendering: विश्वासको ढाल
Transliteration: vishwasko dhal
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: θυρεὸς τῆς πίστεως
Category: Spiritual Warfare
NEW fixed compound. Ephesians 6:16. Reuses विश्वास exactly; fixed rendering required for cross-document consistency.
Submit To One Another
Approved rendering: अधीनमा रहनु
Transliteration: adhinma rahanu
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Original: ὑποτάσσω
Category: Household
NEW. Ephesians 5:21 (mutual, governing principle) and 5:22 (wife-specific application). Must convey voluntary, Christ-modeled, MUTUAL submission — never caste- or gender-based forced subordination — and must be distinguished from the DIFFERENT, cosmic-victory sense of ὑποτάσσω at 1:22.
Slaves
Approved rendering: दास
Transliteration: das
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Rejected alternatives: नोकर
Original: δοῦλος
Category: Household
NEW. Ephesians 6:5-8 (δοῦλος). Nepal abolished its own bonded-labor systems within living memory (kamaiya, 2000; haliya, 2008); teaching must frame Paul as relativizing, not endorsing, an existing first-century institution.
Masters
Approved rendering: मालिक
Transliteration: malik
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Rejected alternatives: प्रभु (reserved exclusively for Christ)
Original: κύριος (human-master sense)
Category: Household
NEW — deliberate split decision. Ephesians 6:5, 6:9. κύριος’s human-master sense must render मालिक, never प्रभु, to preserve the baseline’s Critical reservation of प्रभु exclusively for Christ. Accepts loss of Paul’s Greek wordplay at 6:9. Flag for mandatory theologian review.
Unity Of The Spirit
Approved rendering: आत्माको एकता
Transliteration: atmako ekata
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: ἑνότης τοῦ πνεύματος
Category: Church
NEW. Ephesians 4:3 (ἑνότης τοῦ πνεύματος). Must convey a GIVEN, Spirit-created unity to be diligently kept, not an aspirational federation to be negotiated among factions — directly relevant to Nepal’s caste-fragmented social history.
Mature Man
Approved rendering: परिपक्व मानिस
Transliteration: paripakwa manis
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Rejected alternatives: सिद्ध मानिस (FORBIDDEN)
Original: τέλειος ἀνήρ
Category: Church
NEW — forbidden substitution. Ephesians 4:13 (τέλειος ἀνήρ). सिद्ध names a Tantric/yogic adept who attains supernatural perfection (siddhi) through esoteric discipline; using it would recast Spirit-given corporate maturity as a self-attained tantric accomplishment. परिपक्व मानिस is required.
Walk
Approved rendering: हिँड्नु / चालचलन गर्नु
Transliteration: hidnu / chalchalan garnu
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: περιπατέω
Category: Sanctification
NEW — this curriculum’s flagship named-doctrine term (περιπατέω). Ephesians 2:2 (before), 2:10, 4:1, 4:17, 5:2, 5:8, 5:15 (after) — a deliberate inclusio. Because व्यवस्था/धर्म carry ‘path/way of duty’ connotations, चालचलन must be anchored consistently to identity FLOWING FROM grace, never a self-directed dharma-marga or duty-performance.
Children Of Light
Approved rendering: उज्यालोका सन्तान
Transliteration: ujyaloka santan
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Rejected alternatives: ज्योतिका सन्तान (secondary, use with caution)
Original: τέκνα φωτός
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Ephesians 5:8 (τέκνα φωτός), Hebraic idiom. Recommend उज्यालोका सन्तान over ज्योतिका सन्तान: ज्योति evokes ritual lamps (diyo) and the Tihar/Dipawali festival of lights, risking a devotional-ritual frame rather than moral-relational transformation.
Idolater
Approved rendering: मूर्तिपूजक
Transliteration: murtipujak
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: εἰδωλολάτρης
Category: Sin
NEW. Ephesians 5:5 (εἰδωλολάτρης). Names mainstream, widely-honored Hindu/Buddhist devotional image-veneration practice directly. Must be taught as diagnosing covetousness as a spiritual condition, NOT an ethnographic condemnation of neighbors’ religious practice. Mandatory theologian/native-speaker review of teaching tone.
Medium Risk Terms
Apostle
Approved rendering: प्रेरित
Transliteration: prerit
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Rejected alternatives: दूत
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians: 1:1, 2:20, 3:5, 4:11.
Peace
Approved rendering: शान्ति
Transliteration: shanti
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Rejected alternatives: सुख
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians: 1:2, 2:14-17 (Christ himself IS our peace), 4:3, 6:15 (gospel of peace), 6:23.
Spiritual Gifts
Approved rendering: आत्मिक वरदान
Transliteration: atmik varadan
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Rejected alternatives: वरदान (alone)
Original: χαρίσματα
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Distinct from the ascension-gift OFFICES (δόμα/δωρεά, see ‘ascension_gifts’) introduced newly in Ephesians 4:8-11 — do not collapse the two categories.
Church
Approved rendering: मण्डली
Transliteration: mandali
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ
Rejected alternatives: मन्दिर, गुम्बा
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. NEVER मन्दिर/गुम्बा for ἐκκλησία. Ephesians: 1:22, 3:10, 3:21, 5:23-32. See the single narrow, explicitly-noted exception ‘holy_temple_metaphor’ for the DIFFERENT Greek word ναός at 2:21.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: परमेश्वरको राज्य
Transliteration: Parameshwarko Rajya
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians: 5:5.
Gentiles
Approved rendering: अन्यजाति
Transliteration: anyajati
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Rejected alternatives: विदेशी
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians: 2:11, 3:1, 3:6, 4:17.
Intercession
Approved rendering: मध्यस्थता
Transliteration: madhyasthata
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: προσευχή / δέησις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians: 6:18, undergirding the whole-armor section with constant Spirit-empowered prayer (प्रार्थना, बिन्ती).
Gift Of Salvation
Approved rendering: उपहार
Transliteration: uphar
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Rejected alternatives: वरदान (alone)
Original: δῶρον
Category: Salvation
NEW. Ephesians 2:8. Salvation itself as God’s freely given gift, not a reward. Must be kept distinct from आत्मिक वरदान (spiritual_gifts) and from the office-gifts ‘ascension_gifts.‘
Workmanship
Approved rendering: रचना
Transliteration: rachana
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: ποίημα
Category: Salvation
NEW. Ephesians 2:10. Believers as God’s creative product — the OBJECT of God’s saving action, not a co-agent contributing effort, reinforcing v.9’s exclusion of works as basis.
Trespass
Approved rendering: अपराध
Transliteration: aparadh
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: παράπτωμα
Category: Sin
NEW. Ephesians 2:1, 2:5. Paired with पाप (sin) for rhetorical fullness — total, not partial, sinfulness. Keep distinct in register: अपराध denotes a concrete offense/misstep, पाप the general moral category.
Desire
Approved rendering: लालसा
Transliteration: lalasa
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Rejected alternatives: वासना
Original: ἐπιθυμία
Category: Sin
NEW. Ephesians 2:3. NEVER वासना — a technical Hindu/Buddhist (especially Yogācāra) term for karmic impressions carried across lives, which would misdirect toward karma-mechanics rather than present moral culpability. Kept distinct from θέλημα/इच्छा (will_of_god).
Nature
Approved rendering: स्वभाव
Transliteration: swabhav
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: φύσις
Category: Sin
NEW. Ephesians 2:3, ‘by nature children of wrath.’ स्वभाव can echo jāti-svabhāva (caste-linked inherent natures); must be taught as applying EQUALLY and UNIVERSALLY to all humans regardless of caste or birth.
Purpose Of God
Approved rendering: योजना / अभिप्राय
Transliteration: yojana / abhipraya
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Original: πρόθεσις / βουλή
Category: Election
NEW. Ephesians 1:11 (‘the counsel of his own will’), 3:11 (‘the eternal purpose’). Reinforces predestination’s personal, purposive character against a fatalistic reading.
Will Of God
Approved rendering: इच्छा
Transliteration: ichchha
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Original: θέλημα
Category: Election
NEW (as a formally tracked entry). Ephesians 1:5, 1:9, 1:11 (God’s will, positive) vs. 2:3 (fallen human willing, negative) — the SAME Greek θέλημα covers both senses via इच्छा. Reviewers must confirm the modifying context (‘of God’ vs. ‘of the flesh’) is never dropped, and that इच्छा stays distinct from लालसा (desire/ἐπιθυμία).
Blessing
Approved rendering: आशिष्
Transliteration: ashish
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Rejected alternatives: आशीर्वाद
Original: εὐλογία / εὐλογητός
Category: God
NEW. Ephesians 1:3 (doubled use). आशीर्वाद carries Nepali ritual weight (elder/guru blessing via foot-touching, a hierarchical mediated ritual act); आशिष् avoids this and preserves God’s direct, unmediated gift.
Blameless
Approved rendering: दोषरहित
Transliteration: doshrahit
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Original: ἄμωμος
Category: Election
NEW. Ephesians 1:4 (goal of election), 5:27 (goal of Christ’s sanctifying work for the church).
Body Of Christ
Approved rendering: शरीर
Transliteration: sharir
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ
Original: σῶμα
Category: Church
NEW (formal doctrinal sense). Ephesians 1:23, 2:16, 4:4, 4:16, 4:25, 5:23, 5:30. The church as Christ’s organic, corporate body.
Fellow Heirs
Approved rendering: सहअधिकारी / एउटै शरीरका सदस्य
Transliteration: sahadhikari / eutai sharirka sadasya
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: συγκληρονόμος / σύσσωμος / συμμέτοχος
Category: Church
NEW. Ephesians 3:6 (συγκληρονόμος / σύσσωμος / συμμέτοχος). Gentiles are FULL, not partial, members with Israel.
Stewardship
Approved rendering: जिम्मेवारी
Transliteration: jimmewari
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ
Rejected alternatives: परमेश्वरको व्यवस्थापन (reserved for providence)
Original: οἰκονομία
Category: Church
NEW. Ephesians 1:10, 3:2, 3:9 (οἰκονομία). Must stay terminologically distinct from परमेश्वरको व्यवस्थापन (baseline providence, fixed for Romans 8:28) — different Greek concepts.
Reconcile
Approved rendering: मिलाप गराउनु
Transliteration: milap garaunu
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: ἀποκαταλλάσσω
Category: Unity
NEW. Ephesians 2:16 (ἀποκαταλλάσσω). Christ reconciles both Jew and Gentile to God ‘in one body’ through the cross.
Access
Approved rendering: पहुँच
Transliteration: pahunch
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: προσαγωγή
Category: Unity
NEW. Ephesians 2:18, 3:12 (προσαγωγή). Direct, unmediated access to the Father, contrasted with priestly-mediated ritual access models (temple Judaism; Nepali Hindu Brahmin-mediated shrine access).
Fellow Citizens
Approved rendering: सहनागरिक
Transliteration: sahanagarik
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: συμπολῖται / οἰκεῖος
Category: Unity
NEW. Ephesians 2:19 (συμπολῖται / οἰκεῖος). Gentiles are no longer outsiders but full citizens and family-insiders of God’s people.
Revelation
Approved rendering: प्रकाशन
Transliteration: prakashan
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Original: ἀποκάλυψις
Category: Mystery
NEW. Ephesians 1:17, 3:3, 3:5 (ἀποκάλυψις). Pairs closely with ‘mystery.‘
World Rulers
Approved rendering: यस अन्धकारका शासकहरू
Transliteration: yas andhakarka shasakharu
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: κοσμοκράτωρ
Category: Spiritual Warfare
NEW. Ephesians 6:12 (κοσμοκράτωρ), a NT-unique title occurring nowhere else in the New Testament.
Armor Of God
Approved rendering: परमेश्वरका सम्पूर्ण हातहतियार
Transliteration: Parameshwarka sampurna hathatiyar
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: πανοπλία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Spiritual Warfare
NEW. Ephesians 6:11, 6:13 (πανοπλία τοῦ θεοῦ). Must keep the imagery explicitly DEFENSIVE and spiritual/metaphorical (6:12, ‘not against flesh and blood’).
Sword Of The Spirit
Approved rendering: आत्माको तरवार
Transliteration: atmako tarwar
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: μάχαιρα τοῦ πνεύματος
Category: Spiritual Warfare
NEW fixed compound. Ephesians 6:17 (paired with ‘word of God,’ परमेश्वरको वचन). The sole offensive-use armor piece: Scripture as the Spirit’s own instrument.
Sacrificial Love
Approved rendering: प्रेम
Transliteration: prem
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Original: ἀγαπάω / ἀγάπη
Category: Household
NEW (formal tracking of ἀγαπάω/ἀγάπη in the household-codes context). Ephesians 5:2, 5:25. प्रेम is the ordinary Nepali word for love of all types; the self-giving, sacrificial sense must be carried by context and teaching notes.
Honor Parents
Approved rendering: आदर गर्नु / आज्ञा पालन गर्नु
Transliteration: aadar garnu / agya palan garnu
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Original: τιμάω / ὑπακούω
Category: Household
NEW. Ephesians 6:1-2, quoting the fifth commandment. Reuses the आज्ञाकारिता root but must be distinguished from the specifically faith-flowing obedience_of_faith category; this is ordinary filial duty.
Reward
Approved rendering: इनाम
Transliteration: inam
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Original: μισθός
Category: Household
NEW. Ephesians 6:8 (μισθός). Must not be read as earned merit contradicting grace; God’s generous recompense to those already saved by grace.
Sanctify By Washing
Approved rendering: पवित्र पार्नु / शुद्ध पार्नु
Transliteration: pavitra parnu / shuddha parnu
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Original: ἁγιάζω / καθαρίζω / λουτρόν
Category: Household
NEW, narrow textual exception. Ephesians 5:26. Controlled use of शुद्ध पार्नु for Christ’s washing/cleansing imagery specific to this verse; NOT a general substitute for पवित्रीकरण elsewhere.
Ascension Gifts
Approved rendering: वरदान
Transliteration: varadan
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: δόμα / δωρεά
Category: Church
NEW. Ephesians 4:8, 4:11 (δόμα/δωρεά). The ministry-office gifts Christ gives the church (apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers) — distinct OFFICES/PERSONS, not general Spirit-given abilities (आत्मिक वरदान, χάρισμα).
Pastor
Approved rendering: गोठाला
Transliteration: gothala
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Rejected alternatives: पास्टर
Original: ποιμήν
Category: Church
NEW. Ephesians 4:11 (ποιμήν). गोठाला (shepherd) preserves the biblical shepherd-imagery link (cf. ‘Good Shepherd’ = असल गोठाला) rather than the colloquial loanword पास्टर, which loses Paul’s intended metaphor.
Old New Man
Approved rendering: पुरानो मानिस / नयाँ मानिस
Transliteration: purano manis / naya manis
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: παλαιὸς ἄνθρωπος / καινὸς ἄνθρωπος
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Ephesians 2:15 (corporate sense), 4:22-24 (individual-ethical sense). The doctrinal center of this curriculum unit; both senses must cohere as flowing from the same theological reality.
Renewed Mind
Approved rendering: नवीकरण गर्नु
Transliteration: navikaran garnu
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: ἀνανεόω / ἀνακαινόω
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Ephesians 4:23 (ἀνανεόω/ἀνακαινόω). Must NEVER carry पुनर्जन्म-adjacent phrasing — continuous inward renewal of the SAME person, not rebirth or reincarnation.
Grieve The Spirit
Approved rendering: दुःखी बनाउनु
Transliteration: dukhi banaunu
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: λυπέω
Category: God
NEW. Ephesians 4:30 (λυπέω). Reinforces the Holy Spirit’s PERSONHOOD (cf. baseline Critical caution against ब्रह्म/परमात्मा — an impersonal spirit cannot be grieved).
Filled With The Spirit
Approved rendering: पवित्र आत्माले भरिनु
Transliteration: Pavitra Atmale bharinu
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: πληρόω (verb)
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Ephesians 5:18 (πληρόω, verb form). Distinct from the noun πλήρωμα (High risk, ‘fullness’); carries a lower-intensity version of the same Upanishadic pūrṇa association.
Incorruption
Approved rendering: अविनाशीता
Transliteration: avinashita
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: ἀφθαρσία
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Ephesians 6:24 (ἀφθαρσία), closing benediction. A GIFT secured through Christ’s resurrection for the whole person, not an innate property of an eternally pre-existing soul (contra Vedantic ātman doctrine).
Evangelist
Approved rendering: सुसमाचार प्रचारक
Transliteration: susamachar pracharak
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: εὐαγγελιστής
Category: Church
NEW. Ephesians 4:11 (εὐαγγελιστής). Compound of two already-established roots (सुसमाचार + प्रचार).
Psalms Hymns Songs
Approved rendering: भजन, स्तुति-गीत, आत्मिक गीत
Transliteration: bhajan, stuti-geet, atmik geet
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: ψαλμοί, ὕμνοι, ᾠδαὶ πνευματικαί
Category: Church
NEW. Ephesians 5:19. भजन is already a successfully domesticated Nepali Christian term (cf. baseline’s भजनसंग्रह for Psalms); lower residual risk than मन्दिर or सिद्ध despite भजन-कीर्तन’s Hindu devotional-singing associations.
Low Risk Terms
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: धन्यवाद
Transliteration: dhanyavad
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians: 1:16, 5:4, 5:20.
Fellowship
Approved rendering: सहभागिता
Transliteration: sahabhagita
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Rejected alternatives: मित्रता
Original: κοινωνία / συμμέτοχος
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians: 3:6 via the सहभागी root (συμμέτοχος, ‘partakers of the promise’).
Exhort
Approved rendering: उत्साहित पार्नु
Transliteration: utsahit parnu
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians: 4:1, ‘I therefore… beseech you,’ introducing the letter’s ethical section.
Good Pleasure
Approved rendering: मनपराइ
Transliteration: manparai
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Original: εὐδοκία
Category: Election
NEW. Ephesians 1:5, 1:9. The warm, gracious motive behind election, not an arbitrary decree.
Circumcision
Approved rendering: खतना / खतनारहित
Transliteration: khatna / khatnarahit
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: περιτομή / ἀκροβυστία
Category: Unity
NEW (formally tracked). Ephesians 2:11. Established Nepali Bible terms; no new collision.
Cornerstone
Approved rendering: कुने ढुङ्गा / जग
Transliteration: kune dhunga / jag
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: ἀκρογωνιαῖος / θεμέλιος
Category: Unity
NEW. Ephesians 2:20. Architectural unity metaphor; apostles/prophets as foundation, Christ as cornerstone.
Manifold Wisdom
Approved rendering: अनेकौं किसिमको बुद्धि
Transliteration: anekaun kisimko buddhi
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Original: πολυποίκιλος σοφία / ἀνεξιχνίαστος πλοῦτος
Category: Mystery
NEW. Ephesians 3:8, 3:10. बुद्धि here is the ordinary Nepali word for wisdom/intellect, not specifically Buddhist-loaded in everyday usage.
Devil
Approved rendering: शैतान
Transliteration: shaitan
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: διάβολος
Category: Spiritual Warfare
NEW (formal tracking). Ephesians 6:11 (διάβολος). Established term for the personal, real spiritual adversary.
Eyeservice
Approved rendering: देखाउनका लागि मात्र गरिने सेवा
Transliteration: dekhaunka lagi matra garine sewa
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Original: ὀφθαλμοδουλία
Category: Household
NEW. Ephesians 6:6 (ὀφθαλμοδουλία), a unique NT compound. Connects to obedience_of_faith’s caution against merit-performing obedience.
One Flesh
Approved rendering: एउटै शरीर
Transliteration: eutai sharir
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Original: μία σάρξ
Category: Household
NEW. Ephesians 5:31 (μία σάρξ), quoting Genesis 2:24.
Bond Of Peace
Approved rendering: शान्तिको बन्धन
Transliteration: shantiko bandhan
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: σύνδεσμος τῆς εἰρήνης
Category: Church
NEW. Ephesians 4:3 (σύνδεσμος τῆς εἰρήνης). Reuses established शान्ति root.
Teacher
Approved rendering: शिक्षक
Transliteration: shikshak
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: διδάσκαλος
Category: Church
NEW. Ephesians 4:11 (διδάσκαλος).
Equipping
Approved rendering: सुसज्जित पार्ने काम
Transliteration: susajjit parne kaam
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: καταρτισμός
Category: Church
NEW. Ephesians 4:12 (καταρτισμός).
Edification
Approved rendering: आपसी वृद्धि
Transliteration: aapasi vriddhi
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: οἰκοδομή / αὐξάνω
Category: Church
NEW (formal tracking). Ephesians 4:12, 4:15-16, 4:29 (οἰκοδομή/αὐξάνω). Matches the Romans baseline’s established mutual_edification.
Measure Of Grace
Approved rendering: नाप
Transliteration: nap
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: μέτρον
Category: Church
NEW. Ephesians 4:7 (μέτρον). Christ-apportioned, not self-chosen, gifting.
Put Off Put On
Approved rendering: फ्याँक्नु / धारण गर्नु
Transliteration: fyanknu / dharan garnu
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: ἀποτίθημι / ἐνδύω
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Ephesians 4:22, 4:24-25 (ἀποτίθημι/ἐνδύω). The SAME verb ἐνδύω recurs at 6:11, ‘put on the whole armor of God’ — links the new-man and armor-of-God doctrines through shared imagery.
Corrupt
Approved rendering: बिग्रनु
Transliteration: bigranu
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: φθείρω
Category: Sin
NEW. Ephesians 4:22 (φθείρω), the old man’s moral trajectory.
Fruit Of Light
Approved rendering: फल
Transliteration: fal
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: καρπός
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Ephesians 5:9 (καρπός). Outcome flowing from the Spirit/light, not self-generated effort.
Redeem The Time
Approved rendering: समयलाई सदुपयोग गर्नु
Transliteration: samaylai sadupayog garnu
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: ἐξαγοράζω τὸν καιρόν
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Ephesians 5:16 (ἐξαγοράζω τὸν καιρόν), ‘because the days are evil.‘
Offering And Sacrifice
Approved rendering: बलिदान
Transliteration: balidan
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: προσφορὰ καὶ θυσία
Category: Christology
NEW. Ephesians 5:2 (προσφορὰ καὶ θυσία). Standard sacrificial vocabulary already domesticated in Nepali Bible tradition.
Dwelling Place
Approved rendering: बासस्थान
Transliteration: basasthan
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ
Original: κατοικητήριον
Category: Church
NEW. Ephesians 2:22 (κατοικητήριον). God’s Spirit dwelling in the church corporately.
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