Core Glossary
Core Glossary: 1 Thessalonians (English → Pashto)
| # | English Term | Pashto | Transliteration | Status | Risk | Doctrine | Chapter(s) | Rendering Risk / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gospel | انجیل | Injil | [REUSE] | High | Gospel | 1, 2 | Must read as the NT record itself, not a corrupted successor text (tahrif). |
| 2 | Grace | فضل | fazal | [REUSE] | High | Grace | 1 (greeting) | One-directional gift, no melmastia reciprocity obligation. |
| 3 | Peace | سوله | sola | [REUSE] | Medium | Peace with God / Day of the Lord | 1, 5 | Positive war-ending resonance in 1:1; deliberately IRONIC/negative in 5:3 (“peace and security”) before sudden judgment — context must disambiguate. |
| 4 | Church | کلیسا | kalisa | [REUSE] | Critical | Church as God’s People | 1 | NEVER امت. Addressed to a small, persecuted, newly-planted congregation — the paradigm case for this doctrine. |
| 5 | Love (agapē) | مینه | mina | [NEW] | Medium | Sanctification / Hope in Grief | 1, 3, 4, 5 | Everyday romantic/family word; must be anchored to costly, self-giving, community-forming love (“labor of love”), not sentiment alone. |
| 6 | Hope (elpis) | امید | umed | [NEW] | High | Hope in Grief | 1, 4, 5 | Confident hope grounded in Christ’s resurrection/return, not presumption; bridges directly to baseline’s Critical “assurance_of_salvation” doctrine. |
| 7 | Election | غوره کول | ghwara kawul | [REUSE] | High | Effectual Calling | 1 | God’s free choice, unrelated to tribal lineage or bloodline status. |
| 8 | Holy Spirit | روح القدس | Rooh-ul-Qudus | [REUSE] | Critical | Sanctification | 1, 4, 5 | Divine Person, not the created angel Jibril, at every occurrence, including 5:19 “quench the Spirit.” |
| 9 | Full assurance | بشپړ ډاډ | bashpaR dad | [NEW] | High | Hope in Grief / Assurance | 1 | Islamic piety generally avoids presumptuous certainty of one’s own final standing; must be grounded in God’s completed action, not merit. |
| 10 | Imitators | پیروي کوونکي | peyrawi kawunki | [NEW] | Medium | Sanctification | 1, 2 | Avoid تقلید (Islamic legal-school term); use پیروي to keep a simple “following” sense. |
| 11 | Affliction/tribulation | مصیبت / تکلیف | museebat / takleef | [NEW] | Medium | Hope in Grief | 1, 3 | Suffering for the gospel’s sake specifically, not fatalistic qadar-acceptance or honor-shame dishonor. |
| 12 | Idols | بتان | butan | [NEW] | Low | (background, Universal Human Accountability) | 1 | Genuine point of overlap with Islamic anti-idolatry teaching; asset, not primarily a collision. |
| 13 | Wrath (of God) | غضب | ghazab | [NEW] | High | The Day of the Lord | 1, 5 | Shared regional religious vocabulary (Qur’anic ghazab Allah); must retain personal, judicial sense tied to deliverance through Christ, not impersonal fury. |
| 14 | Apostle | رسول | rasul | [REUSE] | High | Apostleship | 2 | Collision with Muhammad’s defining title. |
| 15 | Righteously / blamelessly | صادقانه / بې عیبه | sadaqana / be aiba | [NEW, related to REUSE root] | Medium | Sanctification | 2, 3, 5 | صادقانه deliberately echoes established صداقت (righteousness) root to keep the forensic link visible; a lived-ethics claim, not sinless-perfection claim. |
| 16 | Kingdom of God / Glory | د خدای پاچاهي / جلال | da Khudai pachahi / jalal | [REUSE] | Medium | Kingdom Mission / Deity of Christ | 2 | Distinguish from political-religious sovereignty claims in the region’s recent history. |
| 17 | Called/Calling | بلل شوی / بلنه | balal shaway / balana | [REUSE] | High | Effectual Calling | 1, 2, 4, 5 | Context-sensitive; 2:12 and 4:7 and 5:24 are effectual calling to holiness/salvation, God’s initiative always explicit. |
| 18 | Word of God / Word of the Lord | د خدای کلام / د خداوند کلام | da Khudai kalam / da Khudawand kalam | [NEW] | High | Inspiration of Scripture | 2, 4 | کلام also names the Qur’an’s uncreated-speech status; reinforce that biblical inspiration is God moving a human author to write in his own voice. |
| 19 | Satan | شیطان | shaitan | [NEW] | Low-Medium | (background) | 2, 3 | Shared figure across traditions in broad outline; minor origin-story difference (jinn vs. fallen angel) worth a brief note. |
| 20 | The Coming / Parousia (Return of Christ) | راتلل (base) / د مسیح بیا راتلل (doctrine name) | ratlal / da Masih bya ratlal | [NEW] | Critical | The Return of Christ | 2, 3, 4 (core), 5 | Direct, textured collision with Sunni nuzul-e-Isa (Isa’s prophetic, non-divine, subordinate-role return to kill Dajjal, then die naturally). Every occurrence must assert Christ returns as sovereign divine Lord to gather and glorify his people, not to complete a separate prophetic mission or die again. Periphrastic explanation required at first use, per the baseline’s incarnation precedent. |
| 21 | Holiness (hagiōsynē) | مقدسوالی | moqaddaswali | [NEW] | High | Sanctification | 3 | Related to but distinct from تقدیس (sanctification, the ongoing process); oriented explicitly toward readiness for Christ’s return (3:13). |
| 22 | Saints | مقدسان | moqaddasan | [REUSE] | High | Sainthood | 3 | Corporate body accompanying Christ at his return, not an ascetic elite. |
| 23 | Sanctification | تقدیس | taqdis | [REUSE] | High | Sanctification | 3, 4 | NEVER پاکوالی. Central curriculum doctrine; the Spirit’s ongoing moral transformation, oriented toward the Lord’s return. |
| 24 | Sexual immorality | زنا | zina | [NEW] | Medium | Sanctification | 4 | Narrower in Islamic legal usage (specific hadd offense) than Paul’s broader porneia; scope must be clarified. |
| 25 | Vessel (body/wife) | لوښی | loshi | [NEW] | Medium | Sanctification | 4 | Retain literally with interpretive footnote; genuine exegetical (not primarily cultural) ambiguity in the source. |
| 26 | Impurity | ناپاکي | napaki | [NEW] | Medium | Sanctification | 4 | Risk of being read as ritual/ceremonial impurity; anchor to moral impurity before God. |
| 27 | Lust/passion | شهوت | shahwat | [NEW] | Low | Sanctification | 4 | Shared moral vocabulary; low collision risk. |
| 28 | Avenger | غچ اخيستونکی | ghach akhistunkay | [NEW] | Medium-High | Sanctification / Salvation | 4 | Touches Pashtunwali’s badal (revenge) code; must be clarified as God’s exclusive judicial prerogative, not a warrant for personal/tribal retaliation. |
| 29 | Brotherly love | د ورورولۍ مینه | da rorwali mina | [NEW] | Medium | Christian Fellowship | 4 | Contrasts with tarboorwali cousin-rivalry norms; church family love is a new bond transcending tribal kinship patterns. |
| 30 | Believe / Faith | ایمان (family) | iman | [REUSE] | High | Faith | 4 (core v.14) | Object of belief (Jesus’s historical death and resurrection) must stay explicit. |
| 31 | Jesus died | مړ شو | mar sho | [NEW, factual] | Critical | Resurrection of Christ (background) | 4 (core v.14) | Shares the Qur’anic crucifixion-denial collision (4:157); assert historicity plainly. |
| 32 | Resurrection (of Christ / of believers) | بیا راژوندي کیدل | bya rajwandi kedal | [REUSE] | Critical | Resurrection of Believers | 4 (core), 5 | Christ’s own resurrection: full baseline Critical risk applies. Believers’ resurrection: genuine partial overlap with Sunni Qiyamat bodily-resurrection belief — an asset — but “the dead in Christ” must be taught as a distinct, prior, joy-oriented resurrection tied to union with Christ, not the generic judgment-resurrection of all humanity. |
| 33 | Asleep / fallen asleep (death euphemism) | ویده شوي | weda shwi | [NEW] | High | Hope in Grief | 4 (core) | Must not be read as teaching literal “soul sleep”; a dignified death-euphemism pointing to certain future bodily resurrection. |
| 34 | Grieve | خفه کیدل / غمژن کیدل | khafa kedal / ghamzhan kedal | [NEW] | Medium | Hope in Grief | 4 (core) | Grief itself is affirmed, not suppressed; the contrast is hopeless vs. hope-filled grief, given intense communal Pashtun mourning customs. |
| 35 | Hope (in the core passage) | امید | umed | [NEW, same as #6] | High | Hope in Grief | 4 (core) | See entry #6. |
| 36 | Word of the Lord | د خداوند کلام | da Khudawand kalam | [NEW, same family as #18] | Medium-High | Inspiration of Scripture | 4 (core v.15) | See entry #18. |
| 37 | Remain/left (living believers) | پاتې شوي | pate shwi | [NEW] | Low | Return of Christ | 4 (core) | Straightforward, low collision. |
| 38 | Archangel | لوی فرښته | loy frishta | [NEW] | Medium | Return of Christ | 4 (core v.16) | Correctly a created angelic being — a useful contrast point reinforcing the Holy Spirit’s distinct divine personhood elsewhere. |
| 39 | Trumpet of God | د خدای کرنای | da Khudai karnai | [NEW] | Low-Medium | The Return of Christ | 4 (core v.16) | Positive cultural asset: karnai is a traditional Pashtun celebratory/rallying horn; use deliberately as God’s own unmistakable public summons. |
| 40 | Shout of command | د امر اواز | da amr awaz | [NEW] | Medium | Return of Christ | 4 (core v.16) | Preferred over نارې (battle-cry) to avoid unwanted militant/political association in the current regional context. |
| 41 | Caught up / rapture | پورته وړل به شو | porta wRal ba sho | [NEW] | High | The Return of Christ | 4 (core v.17) | No precedent in Sunni eschatology or Pashtunwali custom; render periphrastically (verb phrase), not as a single coined technical noun, and explain plainly at first use. |
| 42 | Meeting [the Lord] | ملاقات | mulaqat | [NEW] | Medium | Return of Christ | 4 (core v.17) | Recover the Hellenistic “honor-escort” nuance (going out to honorably welcome an arriving dignitary); bridges to Pashtunwali hospitality/melmastia welcome customs. |
| 43 | Always with the Lord | تل به د خداوند سره یو | tal ba da Khudawand sara yu | [NEW] | Medium | Hope in Grief | 4 (core v.17) | The climactic pastoral answer to the grief named in v. 13; should be highlighted in teaching material. |
| 44 | Exhort/comfort/encourage | هڅول | hakol | [REUSE] | Low | Mutual Edification | 4 (core v.18), 5 | Building-up sense, per baseline’s context-sensitivity note (vs. نصیحت کول for beseeching). |
| 45 | Day of the Lord | د خداوند ورځ | da Khudawand wradz | [NEW] | Critical | The Day of the Lord | 5 | Direct collision with the extensively developed Sunni doctrine of قیامت (Qiyamat) and its sign-literature (Dajjal, Mahdi, mizan). NEVER render as قیامت. Keep “Khudawand” (the Lord/Christ) explicitly central; teach overlaps and differences directly. |
| 46 | Thief in the night | د شپې غل | da shpe ghal | [NEW] | Low-Medium | The Day of the Lord | 5 | Natural cross-cultural idiom for sudden danger; ensure suddenness/unpredictability point is not buried under Qiyamat sign-literature expectations. |
| 47 | Peace and security (ironic) | سوله او امنیت | sola aw amniyat | [NEW use of REUSE term] | Medium | The Day of the Lord | 5 | See entry #3 — negative/ironic use requires clear contextual signaling. |
| 48 | Sudden destruction | ناڅاپي هلاکت | nachapi halakat | [NEW] | Medium | The Day of the Lord | 5 | Straightforward; pair with the “thief” idiom for full force. |
| 49 | Sons of light / sons of the day | د رڼا زامن / د ورځې زامن | da rana zaman / da wradzi zaman | [NEW] | Medium | The Day of the Lord | 5 | Semitic characterization idiom, not literal or tribal sonship; distinguish from “adoption” doctrine’s sonship claims. |
| 50 | Watchful and sober | هوښیار او بیدار | hoshyar aw bedar | [NEW] | Low | The Day of the Lord | 5 | Straightforward. |
| 51 | Breastplate / helmet | زغره / کلاه | zghera / kalah | [NEW] | Low-Medium | Sanctification / Hope in Grief | 5 | Use کلاه, not خوذه, to avoid uncomfortable homophony with خدای (God) — a practical, not doctrinal, caution. |
| 52 | Salvation | نجات | nejat | [REUSE] | Critical | Salvation | 5 | Full baseline risk applies; here the “helmet of the hope of salvation” ties directly to the Hope-in-Grief doctrine. |
| 53 | Wrath | غضب | ghazab | [NEW, same as #13] | High | The Day of the Lord | 5 | See entry #13. |
| 54 | Died for us | زموږ لپاره مړ شو | zamung lapara mar sho | [NEW] | High | Salvation | 5 | Reuse the baseline’s calibrated nanawatai substitutionary-atonement bridge framing from Romans 3:24-25. |
| 55 | Build up (edify) | ودانول | odanawul | [REUSE, doctrine phrasing] | Low | Mutual Edification | 5 | Consistent with baseline’s متقابل ودانول phrasing. |
| 56 | Quench the Spirit | روح مه مړوئ | rooh ma mrawa | [NEW] | High | Sanctification | 5 | Must read as grieving/resisting a divine Person, not extinguishing an impersonal force. |
| 57 | Prophecy | نبوت | nabuwat | [REUSE] | Low | Fulfillment of Prophecy (background) | 5 | Per baseline. |
| 58 | Test everything | هرڅه وڅیړئ | har tsa wa-tseeRai | [NEW] | Low | Sanctification | 5 | Straightforward. |
| 59 | Spirit, soul, and body | روح، ساه او بدن | rooh, saa, aw badan | [NEW] | Medium-High | Sanctification | 5 | Deliberately avoid نفس (Islamic/Sufi “lower self” category) for “soul”; flag for theologian review whenever tripartite anthropology recurs. |
| 60 | Kept blameless | بې عیبه وساتل شي | be aiba wa satal shi | [NEW] | Low | Sanctification | 5 | Completion of sanctification at the parousia; ties to entry #20’s Critical risk by association. |
| 61 | Faithful is he who calls | وفادار دی هغه چې بولي | wafadar day hagha che boli | [NEW, uses REUSE “called” root] | Medium | Assurance of Salvation | 5 | God’s faithfulness, not human performance, guarantees completion — reinforces baseline’s Critical assurance-of-salvation doctrine. |
Summary of New Critical/High-Risk Terms Requiring Theologian Review Before Phase 2
| Term | Risk | Reason (grounded, specific) |
|---|---|---|
| Parousia / Return of Christ (راتلل / د مسیح بیا راتلل) | Critical | Collides with the specific, textured Sunni doctrine of nuzul-e-Isa (subordinate prophetic return, no deity claim, natural death afterward). |
| Day of the Lord (د خداوند ورځ) | Critical | Collides with the extensively developed Sunni doctrine of Qiyamat and its sign-literature; must not be rendered as قیامت. |
| Resurrection of believers, “the dead in Christ” (بیا راژوندي کیدل) | Critical | Partial genuine overlap with Sunni bodily-resurrection belief (asset), but the Christ-specific, prior, union-based resurrection must be taught as distinct from generic judgment-resurrection. |
| Caught up / rapture (پورته وړل به شو) | High | No precedent in either Sunni eschatology or Pashtunwali custom; risk of sounding foreign or being misread against local Sufi ascension concepts if mishandled. |
| Hope / amid grief (امید; خفه کیدل) | High | Confident hope collides with the presumption-avoidance default of mainstream Islamic piety regarding one’s own final standing. |
| Sanctification, spirit/soul/body (تقدیس; روح، ساه، بدن) | High | Anthropological vocabulary risks importing Sufi/Islamic nafs categories not equivalent to Paul’s ψυχή. |
| Quench the Spirit (روح مه مړوئ) | High | Must preserve the Spirit’s divine personhood, not read as extinguishing an impersonal force. |
| Wrath / avenger (غضب; غچ اخيستونکی) | High | Avenger language intersects directly with Pashtunwali’s badal revenge code; must be confined to God’s exclusive judicial prerogative. |
This glossary must be merged into translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json as new entries (version-incremented) before Phase 2 translation of any 1 Thessalonians segment, per the Pre-flight Checklist in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.
Critical Risk Terms
Salvation
Approved rendering: نجات
Transliteration: nejat
Doctrine: Salvation
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 5:8-9 (‘helmet of the hope of salvation’; ‘not… for wrath, but to obtain salvation’). Full baseline Critical risk applies; here it ties directly to the Hope-in-Grief doctrine.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: بیا راژوندي کیدل
Transliteration: bya rajwandi kedal
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ / Resurrection of Believers
Original: ἀνάστασις / ἀνίστημι
Category: Eschatology
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 4:14 (Christ’s own resurrection, full baseline Critical risk applies), 4:16 (believers’ resurrection, genuine partial overlap with Sunni Qiyamat belief - an asset - but ‘the dead in Christ’ must be taught as distinct from generic judgment-resurrection).
Lord
Approved rendering: خداوند
Transliteration: Khudawand
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: مالک
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs throughout, especially 1 Thessalonians 4:16 (‘the Lord himself will descend’), where the emphatic pronoun reinforces personal, direct divine action, and forms the grammatical center of the new compound term د خداوند ورځ (Day of the Lord).
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: روح القدس
Transliteration: Rooh-ul-Qudus
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 1:5-6, 4:8, 5:19 (‘do not quench the Spirit’). Must never be identified with the created angel Jibril at any occurrence, including 5:19.
Jesus
Approved rendering: عیسی
Transliteration: Isa
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs throughout 1 Thessalonians, notably in the death/resurrection statement of 4:14. The Quranic prophet-only, non-crucified, non-divine narrative must be actively corrected at every occurrence, especially 4:14 and 5:10.
God
Approved rendering: خدای
Transliteration: Khudai
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: الله
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs throughout, notably in the conversion narrative of 1:9 (‘turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God’). Strict tawhid theology must be distinguished from the Trinitarian conception denoted by the same word.
Messiah
Approved rendering: مسیح
Transliteration: Masih
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs throughout as part of ‘Lord Jesus Christ’ (1:1, 1:3, etc.). Every occurrence must actively assert Christ’s unique redemptive sufficiency against the Quranic honored-prophet-only framing.
Father
Approved rendering: پلار
Transliteration: plar
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 1:1, 1:3, 3:11, 3:13 (‘our God and Father’). Beyond the shared tawhid-anthropomorphism objection, must guard against defaulting to the stern-authority connotation of plar in Pashtun patriarchal culture, even though this letter does not repeat Romans 8’s Abba-intimacy language.
Church
Approved rendering: کلیسا
Transliteration: kalisa
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: امت
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 1:1 (‘the church of the Thessalonians’). NEVER امت. This letter’s original persecuted, newly-planted congregation context is the paradigm case for this doctrine in the whole pipeline.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: د خدای زوی
Transliteration: da Khudai zoy
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 1:10 (‘to wait for his Son from heaven’). The same Quranic denial (112:3, 19:35) applies with full force; must not read as metaphorical, adoptive, or honorary sonship.
Parousia Return Of Christ
Approved rendering: راتلل / د مسیح بیا راتلل
Transliteration: ratlal / da Masih bya ratlal
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: single coined technical noun (rejected in favor of a periphrastic compound, explained plainly at first use)
Original: παρουσία
Category: Eschatology
NEW, headline doctrine. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 2:19, 3:13, 4:15-17, 5:23. Collides directly with Sunni nuzul-e-Isa (subordinate, non-divine, prophetic return: kills the Dajjal, marries, dies naturally, is buried). Every occurrence must assert: (1) Christ returns as sovereign divine Lord, not a subordinate prophet; (2) he returns to gather and glorify his own people, not merely correct a doctrinal record; (3) he never dies again or awaits a further resurrection himself.
Jesus Died
Approved rendering: مړ شو
Transliteration: mar sho
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ (background: the historical death)
Original: ἀπέθανεν
Category: Christology
NEW, factual claim. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 4:14, 5:10. Shares the crucifixion-denial collision documented in the Romans package (Qur’an 4:157); must actively assert the historical reality of Christ’s death, never concede ambiguity.
Day Of The Lord
Approved rendering: د خداوند ورځ
Transliteration: da Khudawand wradz
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: قیامت (Qiyamat) - NEVER use; fully imports the competing Sunni eschatological framework and its deeds-weighing soteriology
Original: ἡμέρα κυρίου
Category: Eschatology
NEW, headline doctrine. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 5:2. Must keep ‘Khudawand’ (the Lord, Christ’s own established title) explicitly central; teach overlaps and differences with Qiyamat’s sign-literature directly, not by avoidance.
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: انجیل
Transliteration: Injil
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: زیری
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 1:5; 2:2, 4, 8-9; 2:13 (as ‘word of God’). Must read as the NT record itself, not a corrupted successor text (tahrif), and its reception ‘not as the word of men but as the word of God’ (2:13) must reinforce, not undercut, this.
Grace
Approved rendering: فضل
Transliteration: fazal
Doctrine: Grace
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs in the epistolary greeting, 1 Thessalonians 1:1. One-directional gift; must not read as reciprocity-creating under the melmastia hospitality code.
Faith
Approved rendering: ایمان
Transliteration: iman
Doctrine: Faith
Original: πίστις / πιστεύω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 1:3, 3:7, 3:10, 4:14, 5:8. In 4:14 the object of belief (Jesus’s historical death and resurrection) must remain explicit and recoverable.
Apostle
Approved rendering: رسول
Transliteration: rasul
Doctrine: Apostleship
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 2:6 (‘as apostles of Christ’). Collides with Muhammad’s defining rasul title in the shared shahada context.
Called
Approved rendering: بلل شوی
Transliteration: balal shaway
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: καλέω / κλητός
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 2:12 (kingdom and glory), 4:7 (holiness), 5:24 (faithful is he who calls). God’s own initiative must remain explicit at every occurrence.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: تقدیس
Transliteration: taqdis
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: پاکوالی
Original: ἁγιασμός
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 4:3, 4:4, 4:7. NEVER پاکوالی. This letter’s single most important recurring doctrinal term; consistently oriented toward readiness for the Lord’s return (3:13; 5:23), not an abstract private virtue.
Election
Approved rendering: غوره کول
Transliteration: ghwara kawul
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Original: ἐκλογή
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 1:4 (‘your election’). Must not be colored as tribal or genealogical chosenness given Pashtun lineage-based status norms.
Hope
Approved rendering: امید
Transliteration: umed
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Original: ἐλπίς
Category: Hope
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 1:3, 4:13, 5:8. Confident hope grounded in Christ’s death, resurrection, and return, not generic optimism. Must never stand alone; anchor to Christ’s completed work, not the believer’s own merit, given mainstream Sunni piety’s presumption-avoidance default regarding one’s own final standing.
Full Assurance
Approved rendering: بشپړ ډاډ
Transliteration: bashpaR dad
Doctrine: Assurance of Salvation
Original: πληροφορία
Category: Salvation
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 1:5. Complete conviction accompanying the gospel’s reception; must be grounded in the gospel’s demonstrated power among the Thessalonians, not the believer’s own performance.
Wrath Of God
Approved rendering: غضب
Transliteration: ghazab
Doctrine: The Wrath of God
Original: ὀργή
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 1:10, 5:9. Broadly compatible regional vocabulary (cf. Qur’anic ghazab Allah) but must retain the specifically personal, moral, judicial sense tied to deliverance through Christ, never an impersonal cosmic reckoning.
Word Of God
Approved rendering: د خدای کلام / د خداوند کلام
Transliteration: da Khudai kalam / da Khudawand kalam
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Original: λόγος θεοῦ / λόγος κυρίου
Category: Covenant
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 2:13 (the apostolic message received as God’s own word) and 4:15 (specific revelatory word regarding the Lord’s return). کلام also names the Qur’an’s status as uncreated divine speech (Kalamullah); must reinforce that biblical inspiration is God moving a human author to write in his own voice, not verbatim angelic dictation.
Holiness
Approved rendering: مقدسوالی
Transliteration: moqaddaswali
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἁγιωσύνη
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 3:13 (‘blameless in holiness before our God and Father’). Related to but distinct from ongoing تقدیس; its explicit link to the parousia here must be preserved, orienting sanctification toward readiness for Christ’s return.
Avenger
Approved rendering: غچ اخيستونکی
Transliteration: ghach akhistunkay
Doctrine: Divine Vengeance as God’s Exclusive Judicial Prerogative
Original: ἔκδικος
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 4:6 (‘the Lord is an avenger’). Directly touches Pashtunwali’s badal (revenge) code; must be clarified as God’s exclusive judicial prerogative, never a warrant for personal or tribal retaliation cycles.
Asleep Death Euphemism
Approved rendering: ویده شوي
Transliteration: weda shwi
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Rejected alternatives: خوب (khob, ordinary sleep) - rejected to avoid confusion with literal, ongoing sleep
Original: κοιμάω / κοιμώμενοι
Category: Hope
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 4:13, 4:14, 4:15. Must not be read as teaching literal unconscious ‘soul sleep’ as a doctrine of the intermediate state; a dignified death-euphemism pointing to certain future bodily resurrection.
Caught Up Rapture
Approved rendering: پورته وړل به شو
Transliteration: porta wRal ba sho
Doctrine: The Catching Up of Believers (the ‘Rapture’)
Rejected alternatives: single coined noun - rejected in favor of a periphrastic verb phrase
Original: ἁρπάζω / ἁρπαγησόμεθα
Category: Eschatology
NEW, no existing equivalent. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 4:17. No precedent in either mainstream Sunni eschatology or Pashtunwali custom; must be rendered as a verb phrase and explained plainly at first use to avoid abduction connotations or confusion with local Sufi ascension concepts.
Died For Us
Approved rendering: زموږ لپاره مړ شو
Transliteration: zamung lapara mar sho
Doctrine: Salvation
Original: ἀποθανόντος ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν
Category: Salvation
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 5:10. Directly connects to the baseline’s calibrated nanawatai substitutionary-atonement bridge already used for Romans 3:24-25; reuse the same careful framing without overstating the analogy.
Quench The Spirit
Approved rendering: روح مه مړوئ
Transliteration: rooh ma mrawa
Doctrine: Do Not Quench the Spirit
Original: τὸ πνεῦμα μὴ σβέννυτε
Category: God
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 5:19. Must be phrased so the Spirit is clearly a divine Person capable of being grieved/resisted, not an impersonal flame or force that can simply be ‘used up’ - the same personhood caution attached to روح القدس generally.
Spirit Soul Body
Approved rendering: روح، ساه او بدن
Transliteration: rooh, saa, aw badan
Doctrine: Wholeness of Spirit, Soul, and Body
Rejected alternatives: نفس (nafs) - rejected; carries the Islamic/Sufi ‘lower self/ego’ connotation, which does not map onto Paul’s psychē
Original: πνεῦμα καὶ ψυχὴ καὶ σῶμα
Category: Sanctification
NEW, tripartite anthropology. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 5:23. No settled Pashto Christian precedent; flag for theologian review whenever this recurs.
Medium Risk Terms
Holy
Approved rendering: مقدس
Transliteration: moqaddas
Doctrine: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Root underlying the new compound مقدسوالی (holiness, 3:13) and reinforcing تقدیس throughout chapters 3-5.
Saints
Approved rendering: مقدسان
Transliteration: moqaddasan
Doctrine: Sainthood
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 3:13 (‘with all his saints’), referring to the full assembly, living and dead, accompanying Christ at his return. Corporate sense, not an ascetic elite.
Peace
Approved rendering: سوله
Transliteration: sola
Doctrine: Peace with God / Day of the Lord
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 1:1 (positive, war-ending resonance, an asset) and ironically/negatively in 5:3 (‘peace and security’, false human confidence before sudden judgment). Context must disambiguate the two uses; see the new entry peace_and_security_ironic for the 5:3-specific handling.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: د خدای پاچاهي
Transliteration: da Khudai pachahi
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 2:12 (‘into his own kingdom and glory’). Distinguish from political-religious sovereignty claims, including ‘Islamic Emirate’ state framing.
Glory
Approved rendering: جلال
Transliteration: jalal
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 2:12. Anchor to God’s specific redemptive calling, not left as generalized mystical splendor.
Gentiles
Approved rendering: غیر یهودیان
Transliteration: gheyr yahudian
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Rejected alternatives: امتونه
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 2:16 (‘hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved’). NEVER امتونه (the loaded Ummah-root plural).
Love Agape
Approved rendering: مینه
Transliteration: mina
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 1:3 (‘labor of love’), 3:12, 4:9, 5:8, 5:13. Everyday Pashto vocabulary for romantic/family affection; must be anchored to costly, self-giving, community-forming love, not sentiment alone.
Imitators
Approved rendering: پیروي کوونکي
Transliteration: peyrawi kawunki
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: تقلید
Original: μιμηταί
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 1:6, 2:14. تقلید (the loaded Islamic legal-school-following term) is deliberately avoided in favor of a simple ‘following’ sense.
Affliction
Approved rendering: مصیبت / تکلیف
Transliteration: museebat / takleef
Doctrine: Suffering and Affliction for the Gospel
Original: θλῖψις
Category: Suffering
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 1:6, 2:14-15, 3:3, 3:7. Must be framed as meaningful suffering for the gospel’s sake, not fatalistic qadar-acceptance nor mere honor-shame dishonor.
Blameless Conduct
Approved rendering: مقدسانه، صادقانه، بې عیبه
Transliteration: moqaddasana, sadaqana, be aiba
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ὁσίως, δικαίως, ἀμέμπτως
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 2:10, describing Paul’s conduct. Middle term deliberately echoes the established صداقت (righteousness) root to keep the forensic/ethical link visible; must read as a lived ethical pattern commended as evidence of ministry, not a claim of sinless perfection.
Satan
Approved rendering: شیطان
Transliteration: shaitan
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare
Original: Σατανᾶς
Category: Spiritual Warfare
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 2:18, 3:5. A shared figure across both traditions in broad outline; Islamic Iblis-theology (a jinn, not a fallen angel) differs in origin-story detail, worth a brief clarifying note.
Sexual Immorality
Approved rendering: زنا
Transliteration: zina
Doctrine: Sexual Purity as Sanctification
Original: πορνεία
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 4:3. زنا is a narrower Islamic legal hadd-category than Paul’s broader porneia; the fuller moral scope (all sexual immorality outside God-ordained marriage) must be taught explicitly.
Vessel
Approved rendering: لوښی
Transliteration: loshi
Doctrine: Sexual Purity as Sanctification
Original: σκεῦος
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 4:4 (debated: one’s own body, or one’s wife). Retained literally with an interpretive footnote given genuine exegetical ambiguity in the source text itself.
Impurity
Approved rendering: ناپاکي
Transliteration: napaki
Doctrine: Sexual Purity as Sanctification
Original: ἀκαθαρσία
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 4:7 (‘God has not called us for impurity but in holiness’). Risks being read as ritual/ceremonial impurity; must be anchored to moral impurity before God.
Brotherly Love
Approved rendering: د ورورولۍ مینه
Transliteration: da rorwali mina
Doctrine: Brotherly Love / Christian Fellowship
Original: φιλαδελφία
Category: Church
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 4:9-10. Pashtun tarboorwali (paternal-cousin relations) is proverbially marked by rivalry as often as solidarity; the church’s brotherly love is a new bond transcending, not assuming, tribal-kinship patterns.
Grieve
Approved rendering: خفه کیدل / غمژن کیدل
Transliteration: khafa kedal / ghamzhan kedal
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Original: λυπέω / λυπῆσθε
Category: Hope
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 4:13. Grief itself must be affirmed as real, not suppressed, given intense communal Pashtun mourning customs (matam); the actual contrast is hopeless vs. hope-filled grief.
Archangel
Approved rendering: لوی فرښته
Transliteration: loy frishta
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Original: ἀρχάγγελος
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 4:16. Correctly a created angelic being; useful to reinforce the created/uncreated distinction elsewhere, since the archangel serves the Lord’s return but is not himself the divine actor.
Trumpet Of God
Approved rendering: د خدای کرنای
Transliteration: da Khudai karnai
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Original: σάλπιγξ θεοῦ
Category: Eschatology
NEW, positive cultural asset. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 4:16. Karnai is a traditional Pashtun celebratory/rallying horn; a genuinely resonant bridge for a loud, public divine announcement, but must be made clear this is God’s own trumpet-summons, not a mere ceremonial custom.
Shout Of Command
Approved rendering: د امر اواز
Transliteration: da amr awaz
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: نارې (nara, battle-cry) - rejected due to unwanted militant/rallying-cry associations in the current regional context
Original: κέλευσμα
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 4:16. Preferred to retain an authoritative-summons sense without militant connotation.
Meeting
Approved rendering: ملاقات
Transliteration: mulaqat
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Original: ἀπάντησις
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 4:17. The specific Hellenistic ‘honor-escort’ nuance (going out to honorably receive and then accompany a returning dignitary) must be taught explicitly, bridged to Pashtunwali melmastia hospitality customs.
Always With The Lord
Approved rendering: تل به د خداوند سره یو
Transliteration: tal ba da Khudawand sara yu
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Original: πάντοτε σὺν κυρίῳ
Category: Hope
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 4:17. Carries the pastoral weight of the entire core passage as the direct answer to the grief named in 4:13; must not be diluted.
Thief In The Night
Approved rendering: د شپې غل
Transliteration: da shpe ghal
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: κλέπτης ἐν νυκτί
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 5:2. A natural cross-cultural idiom; the risk is ensuring the suddenness/unpredictability point is not buried under Qiyamat’s elaborate sign-literature, which Paul’s image is arguably countering.
Peace And Security Ironic
Approved rendering: سوله او امنیت
Transliteration: sola aw amniyat
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
NEW use of the established peace term. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 5:3. Must be clearly marked as false, ironic human confidence immediately before sudden judgment, so as not to accidentally reinforce سوله’s usual strongly positive war-ending resonance established at 1:1.
Sudden Destruction
Approved rendering: ناڅاپي هلاکت
Transliteration: nachapi halakat
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: αἰφνίδιος ὄλεθρος
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 5:3. Pair with the thief-in-the-night idiom for full rhetorical force.
Sons Of Light
Approved rendering: د رڼا زامن / د ورځې زامن
Transliteration: da rana zaman / da wradzi zaman
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: υἱοὶ φωτός / υἱοὶ ἡμέρας
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 5:5. A Semitic idiom of characterization, not literal or tribal sonship; must be distinguished from the Sonship/Adoption doctrines’ actual sonship claims.
Armor Of Faith Hope Love
Approved rendering: زغره / کلاه
Transliteration: zghera / kalah
Doctrine: Sanctification / Hope in Grief
Rejected alternatives: خوذه (khwaza) - rejected due to uncomfortable near-homophony with خدای (Khudai, God)
Original: θώραξ πίστεως καὶ ἀγάπης, περικεφαλαία ἐλπίδος σωτηρίας
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 5:8 (breastplate of faith and love, helmet of the hope of salvation). کلاه preferred over خوذه for practical, not doctrinal, reasons.
Faithful Is He Who Calls
Approved rendering: وفادار دی هغه چې بولي
Transliteration: wafadar day hagha che boli
Doctrine: The Faithfulness of God Who Calls / Assurance of Salvation
Original: πιστὸς ὁ καλῶν
Category: Salvation
NEW, uses the established بلل شوی (called) root plus وفادار (faithful). Occurs 1 Thessalonians 5:24. Reassurance that God’s own faithfulness, not the believer’s performance, guarantees completion.
Low Risk Terms
Prophecy
Approved rendering: نبوت
Transliteration: nabuwat
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Original: προφητεία
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 5:20 (‘do not despise prophecies’).
Exhort
Approved rendering: هڅول
Transliteration: hakol
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 4:18, 5:11, 5:14. The comfort/build-up sense (هڅول) is primary in these occurrences, not the beseech sense (نصیحت کول).
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: شکر
Transliteration: shukr
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 1:2, 2:13, 3:9, 5:18. Also a major Islamic virtue; broadly compatible, low risk.
Idols
Approved rendering: بتان
Transliteration: butan
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability (background)
Original: εἴδωλα
Category: Sin
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 1:9 (‘turned to God from idols’). Genuine point of overlap with Islamic anti-idolatry teaching (shirk); an asset. The distinguishing content is turning specifically to the living and true God through Christ.
Lust
Approved rendering: شهوت
Transliteration: shahwat
Doctrine: Sexual Purity as Sanctification
Original: ἐπιθυμία
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 4:5. Shared moral vocabulary with Islamic ethical tradition; broadly compatible, low collision risk.
Watchful Sober
Approved rendering: هوښیار او بیدار
Transliteration: hoshyar aw bedar
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: γρηγορέω καὶ νήφω
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 5:6. Straightforward, low collision risk.
Test Everything
Approved rendering: هرڅه وڅیړئ
Transliteration: har tsa wa-tseeRai
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: πάντα δοκιμάζετε
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 5:21. Straightforward, low collision risk.
Kept Blameless
Approved rendering: بې عیبه وساتل شي
Transliteration: be aiba wa satal shi
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἀμέμπτως τηρηθείη
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 5:23. Connects to the parousia’s Critical risk by association; the completion of sanctification tied explicitly to Christ’s coming.
Tempter
Approved rendering: ازمویونکی
Transliteration: azmoyunkay
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare
Original: ὁ πειράζων
Category: Spiritual Warfare
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 3:5. Distinguish Satan’s destructive testing from God’s own refining testing.
Stand Firm
Approved rendering: ټینګ ودریږئ
Transliteration: Ting wudrezhai
Doctrine: Suffering and Affliction for the Gospel
Original: στήκετε
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 3:8. Straightforward, low collision risk.
Build Up
Approved rendering: ودانول
Transliteration: odanawul
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
NEW. Occurs 1 Thessalonians 5:11. Consistent with the baseline doctrine phrasing متقابل ودانول; no significant doctrinal risk.
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