Core Glossary

Core Glossary — Hebrews (Portuguese Destination Language)

This glossary consolidates every load-bearing term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md, spanning Hebrews 1–13. Terms marked [BASELINE] are inherited unchanged from the Romans translation_memory.json and must be rendered identically. All other terms are new entries proposed for the Hebrews Language Package and require the same enforcement treatment described in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md once that document is extended for Hebrews (Phase 1 Step 8).

Risk tiers follow the baseline definitions: Critical (human theologian review, every occurrence) / High (human theologian review) / Medium (native speaker review) / Low (automated review).

A. Superiority of Christ over Angels

English term	Portuguese	Greek (translit.)	Risk	Chapters	Risk note
Son (of God)	Filho de Deus	Υἱός (Huios)	Critical	1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10	[BASELINE son_of_god] Reuse exactly; eternal, unique Sonship, not adoptive or evolutionary.
radiance of glory / exact imprint	resplendor da glória e a expressão exata do seu ser	ἀπαύγασμα / χαρακτήρ	Critical	1	Strongest deity-of-Christ statement in the book; must not be diluted to a mere reflection or model spirit.
angel	anjo	ἄγγελος (angelos)	High	1, 2, 12, 13	Collision with Catholic guardian-angel devotion, Kardecist “espíritos superiores,” and Umbanda/Candomblé spirit-entities; angels are created, subordinate, non-venerated servants.
ministering spirits	espíritos ministradores	λειτουργικὰ πνεύματα	High	1	Direct lexical overlap with Kardecist/Umbanda “espíritos” vocabulary; requires explicit clarifying note.
heir	herdeiro	κληρονόμος (klēronomos)	Medium	1	Ties to adoption/inheritance baseline material.

B. Superiority of Christ over Moses

English term	Portuguese	Greek (translit.)	Risk	Chapters	Risk note
faithful	fiel	πιστός (pistos)	Medium	3	[BASELINE faith family] Consistent with “fé” word-group.
harden the heart	endurecer o coração	σκληρύνω τὴν καρδίαν	High	3	Active, culpable resistance; central Danger-of-Apostasy vocabulary.
unbelief	incredulidade	ἀπιστία (apistia)	High	3	Negative counterpart of “fé”; willful distrust, not mere doubt.
fall away from the living God	apartar-se do Deus vivo	ἀφίστημι ἀπὸ Θεοῦ ζῶντος	Critical	3	Apostasy in its starkest form; risk of Kardecist “reversible setback” misreading.
rest	descanso / repouso	κατάπαυσις (katapausis)	Medium	3, 4	Gift entered by faith, not karmic/earned rest.
Sabbath rest	repouso sabático	σαββατισμός (sabbatismos)	Medium	4	Eschatological completion, not calendar ritual.

C. Superiority of Christ over the Levitical Priesthood / Christ as Great High Priest

English term	Portuguese	Greek (translit.)	Risk	Chapters	Risk note
high priest	sumo sacerdote	ἀρχιερεύς (archiereus)	High	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9	Collision with Catholic “Sumo Pontífice” and ministerial priesthood theology; Christ alone holds this unique heavenly office.
tabernacle / tent	tabernáculo	σκηνή (skēnē)	Medium	8, 9	Temporary earthly copy vs. permanent heavenly reality.
Melchizedek	Melquisedeque	Μελχισέδεκ	Medium	5, 6, 7	Requires OT background note (Genesis 14; Psalm 110).
order (of priesthood)	ordem	τάξις (taxis)	Medium	7	Standard typological term.
tithe	décimo / dízimo	δεκάτη (dekatē)	Medium	7	Avoid conflating typological argument with modern tithing-practice application.
indestructible life	vida indestrutível	ἀκατάλυτος ζωή	High	7	[BASELINE resurrection] One unending resurrected life, not renewal through successive incarnations.
guarantor / surety	fiador / garantia	ἔγγυος (engyos)	High	7	[BASELINE covenant] Relational guarantee, not mere commercial guarantee.
weakness of the law	fraqueza da lei	ἀσθένεια τοῦ νόμου	Medium	7	[BASELINE law] Insufficiency, not illegitimacy, of the Mosaic law.
holy of holies / most holy place	Lugar Santíssimo	Ἅγια Ἁγίων	High	9	Risk of confusion with Catholic Eucharistic “Santíssimo Sacramento”; refers to tabernacle’s inner chamber.
mercy seat / propitiation cover	propiciatório	ἱλαστήριον (hilastērion)	Critical	9	Central atonement-imagery term; requires theologian review every occurrence.
gifts and sacrifices	dons e sacrifícios	δῶρα καὶ θυσίαι	High	9	See θυσία note below; repeated Levitical offerings unable to perfect the conscience.

D. The New Covenant versus the Old

English term	Portuguese	Greek (translit.)	Risk	Chapters	Risk note
covenant	aliança	διαθήκη (diathēkē)	High	7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13	[BASELINE covenant] Reuse exactly; also carries “testament/will” wordplay in Heb 9:16-17.
new covenant	nova aliança	καινὴ διαθήκη	Critical	8, 9, 12	Central curriculum doctrine term; must remain terminologically identical every occurrence.
first / old covenant	primeira aliança / antiga aliança	πρώτη διαθήκη	Medium	8, 9	Provisional, not illegitimate.
obsolete / growing old	tornar-se antiquado / envelhecer	παλαιόω (palaioō)	Medium	8	Conveys fulfillment/completion, not error.
mediator	mediador	μεσίτης (mesitēs)	Critical	8, 9, 12	Collision with Marian/saint intercession and Kardecist mediumship; Christ’s mediatorship is exclusive.
write laws on hearts	escreverei as minhas leis nos seus corações	γράψω νόμους ἐπὶ καρδίας	High	8	Internal, decisive transformation; distinguish from Tridentine and Kardecist gradualist readings.
remember sins no more	não mais me lembrarei dos seus pecados	οὐ μὴ μνησθῶ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν	High	8	Absolute, unqualified final forgiveness.

E. The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice

English term	Portuguese	Greek (translit.)	Risk	Chapters	Risk note
once for all / once	uma vez por todas	ἐφάπαξ / ἅπαξ (ephapax / hapax)	Critical	7, 9, 10	Highest-priority term in the book. Direct collision with Catholic Eucharistic “re-presentation” theology; must never imply repetition.
blood	sangue	αἷμα (haima)	Critical	9, 10, 12, 13	Collision with Afro-Brazilian ritual blood-offering practice (Candomblé/Umbanda); Christ’s blood is a single, sufficient, historical offering.
sacrifice	sacrifício	θυσία (thysia)	Critical	9, 10, 13	Same collision as above; every occurrence should be checked for adjacent finality language (“uma vez por todas”).
propitiation / atonement	fazer propiciação	ἱλάσκομαι (hilaskomai)	Critical	2	Judicial satisfaction accomplished once by Christ; not generic reconciliation effort.
shedding of blood	derramamento de sangue	αἱματεκχυσία	High	9	Strict, exclusive principle; must not be softened toward non-blood ritual substitutes.
forgiveness / remission	perdão / remissão	ἄφεσις (aphesis)	High	9	Judicial pardon granted once, not merit gradually worked off.
redemption	redenção	λύτρωσις / ἀπολύτρωσις	High	9	Anchored to Christ’s atoning death, not secular/political “liberation” senses.
put away / annul (sin)	eliminar / tirar / pôr fim ao	ἀθέτησις (athetēsis)	High	9	Full removal, not partial mitigation.
the offering of the body of Christ	a oferta do corpo de Jesus Cristo	προσφορὰ τοῦ σώματος	Critical	10	Anchor verse for once-for-all doctrine.
sacrifice of praise	sacrifício de louvor	θυσία αἰνέσεως	Medium	13	Non-atoning; must not be conflated with Christ’s atoning sacrifice.
altar	altar	θυσιαστήριον (thysiastērion)	Medium	13	Distinguish from Catholic liturgical altar requiring ongoing offering.

F. The Danger of Apostasy and Warning Passages

English term	Portuguese	Greek (translit.)	Risk	Chapters	Risk note
fall away / apostatize	apostatar / cair	παραπίπτω (parapiptō)	Critical	6	Requires theologian handling of the warning/assurance tension; not a reversible “queda” correctable across future lives.
crucify again	crucificar de novo	ἀνασταυρόω (anastauroō)	Critical	6	Reinforces once-for-all theology through vivid re-crucifixion image.
have shared in the Holy Spirit	tendo-se tornado participantes do Espírito Santo	μετόχους Πνεύματος Ἁγίου	Critical	6	[BASELINE holy_spirit] Genuine but contested participation; flag for theologian review.
sin willfully/deliberately	pecar voluntariamente	ἑκουσίως ἁμαρτάνειν	Critical	10	Aggravated, deliberate rejection, distinct from ordinary struggled-against sin.
no sacrifice for sins remains	já não resta sacrifício pelos pecados	οὐκέτι ἀπολείπεται θυσία	Critical	10	Severe warning; must be paired pastorally with Hebrews’ assurances elsewhere.
found no place for repentance	não achou lugar para arrependimento	τόπον μετανοίας οὐχ εὗρεν	High	12	Refers to a specific forfeited privilege (Esau’s birthright), not a categorical denial of repentance.
root of bitterness	raiz de amargura	ῥίζα πικρίας	Medium	12	Standard idiom.

G. Faith of the Old Testament Saints

English term	Portuguese	Greek (translit.)	Risk	Chapters	Risk note
faith	fé	πίστις (pistis)	High	11 (throughout)	[BASELINE faith] Reuse exactly.
assurance / substance	certeza / substância	ὑπόστασις (hypostasis)	High	11	Foundational translation-crux verse (11:1); flag for theologian/native-speaker review.
conviction / evidence	prova / convicção	ἔλεγχος (elenchos)	Medium	11	Pairs with ὑπόστασις; keep consistent across citations.
strangers and exiles	estrangeiros e peregrinos	ξένοι καὶ παρεπίδημοι	Medium	11	Avoid conflation with Catholic pilgrimage devotional practice.
homeland / city (heavenly)	pátria / cidade (celestial)	πατρίς / πόλις	Medium	11, 12, 13	Keep consistent across 11:14-16; 12:22; 13:14.
better resurrection	melhor ressurreição	κρείττων ἀνάστασις	Critical	11	[BASELINE resurrection] Must never read as “better next life”; compares two forms of resurrection hope, not reincarnations.
reproach of Christ	o vitupério de Cristo	ὀνειδισμὸς τοῦ Χριστοῦ	Medium	11, 13	Standard; ties to Heb 13:13.

H. Perseverance and Assurance

English term	Portuguese	Greek (translit.)	Risk	Chapters	Risk note
endurance / perseverance	perseverança	ὑπομονή (hypomonē)	High	10, 12	Central term; keep consistent 10:36–12:1-3.
preservation of the soul	preservação da alma	περιποίησις ψυχῆς	High	10	Final salvation, not mere psychological survival.
discipline	disciplina	παιδεία (paideia)	High	12	[BASELINE providence] Loving fatherly correction, not the Kardecist impersonal “lei de causa e efeito.”
author and perfecter of faith	autor e consumador da fé	ἀρχηγὸς καὶ τελειωτὴς τῆς πίστεως	Critical	12	Combines ἀρχηγός and τελειόω word-groups; Christ alone originates and completes salvation.
unshakeable kingdom	reino inabalável	βασιλείαν ἀσάλευτον	Medium	12	[BASELINE kingdom_of_god]
consuming fire	fogo consumidor	πῦρ καταναλίσκον	Medium	12	Standard, from Deut 4:24.

I. Access to God through Christ’s Blood

English term	Portuguese	Greek (translit.)	Risk	Chapters	Risk note
throne of grace	trono da graça	θρόνος τῆς χάριτος	High	4	[BASELINE grace] Direct, unmediated access, not through spiritist/priestly intermediaries.
boldness / confidence	confiança / ousadia	παρρησία (parrēsia)	Medium	4, 10	Relational confidence grounded in Christ’s mediating work.
new and living way	caminho novo e vivo	ὁδὸς πρόσφατος καὶ ζῶσα	High	10	Avoid “many paths” religious-marketplace framing.
veil	véu	καταπέτασμα (katapetasma)	Medium	9, 10	Keep terminologically identical across both occurrences.
sprinkled blood	sangue da aspersão	αἵματι ῥαντισμοῦ	Medium	12	Ties to sprinkling/purification vocabulary of ch. 9.

J. Cross-Cutting High-Density Term: τελειόω (“Perfect / Make Perfect”)

This word-group recurs across the whole book with unusually high density and requires a single, book-wide translation-memory strategy before Phase 2 begins.

English term	Portuguese	Greek (translit.)	Risk	Chapters	Risk note
made perfect / perfected	aperfeiçoado / aperfeiçoou / feito perfeito	τελειόω (teleioō)	Critical	2, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13	Highest cross-cutting risk in Hebrews: direct terminological overlap with Kardecist doctrine of a spirit’s gradual perfection achieved through moral effort across successive reincarnations. Every occurrence must be individually checked for whether it describes (a) Christ’s own unique qualification through incarnate suffering (2:10; 5:9), (b) the once-for-all, completed perfecting of believers through his finished sacrifice (10:14; 12:23), or (c) the law’s inherent inability to perfect anyone (7:19; 9:9; 10:1) — and rendered with teaching notes appropriate to each sense, never as a gradual self-improvement process.
perfecter (of faith)	consumador	τελειωτής (teleiōtēs)	Critical	12	See ἀρχηγὸς καὶ τελειωτής entry above.
equip / complete for good work	aperfeiçoar em toda boa obra	καταρτίζω (katartizō)	High	13	Distinct sense: ongoing sanctifying equipping built on Christ’s already-finished perfecting work; preserve the distinction in teaching notes.

K. Cross-Cutting High-Density Term: κρίσις / ἀπόκειται and the Hebrews 9:27 Anti-Reincarnation Statement

English term	Portuguese	Greek (translit.)	Risk	Chapters	Risk note
it is appointed (to die once)	está reservado / está determinado	ἀπόκειται (apokeitai)	Critical	9	Direct, explicit statement against reincarnation doctrine; requires dedicated teaching material, not translation alone.
to die once	morrer uma vez	ἅπαξ ἀποθανεῖν	Critical	9	Parallels Christ’s ἅπαξ sacrifice; must be visibly consistent with the “once for all” vocabulary of section E above.
judgment	juízo	κρίσις (krisis)	Critical	9	Single, final judgment following death, excluding the Kardecist framework of accountability distributed across reincarnations.
a second time (Christ’s return)	uma segunda vez	ἐκ δευτέρου (ek deuterou)	High	9	Must be taught as the same Christ’s return, never his reincarnation in a new identity/body.

L. Baseline Terms Reused Without Modification (Selected, Cross-Chapter)

English term	Portuguese	Baseline risk	Hebrews chapters where load-bearing
God	Deus	Critical	1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Lord	Senhor	Critical	1, 2, 7, 13
Jesus / Christ	Jesus / Cristo	Critical	throughout
Son of God	Filho de Deus	Critical	1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10
Holy Spirit	Espírito Santo	Critical	2, 3, 6, 9, 10
resurrection	ressurreição	Critical	6, 11, 13 (and by argument, ch. 9 core passage)
salvation	salvação	Critical	1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10
faith	fé	High	3, 4, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13
grace	graça	High	2, 4, 10, 12, 13
sanctification / holy	santificação / santo	High	2, 9, 10, 12, 13
covenant	aliança	High	7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13
called / calling	chamado	High	3, 9, 11
adoption / inheritance	adoção / herança	Medium	1, 9, 11
law	lei	High	7, 8, 9, 10
sin	pecado	Medium	2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13
glory	glória	Medium	1, 2, 3
peace	paz	Medium	12, 13

This glossary and 07_semantic_analysis.md together supersede no baseline entry; they extend the Romans Language Package to Hebrews and must be merged into an updated translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json in a subsequent Phase 1 step before Phase 2 translation begins.

Critical Risk Terms

Salvation

Approved rendering: salvação
Transliteration: sōtēria
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: evolução espiritual através de reencarnações sucessivas

Inherited from Romans package. Load-bearing at Heb 1:14; 2:3, 10; 5:9; 6:9; 9:28; 10:39. Never framed as gradual spiritual evolution.

Saints

Approved rendering: santos
Transliteration: hagioi
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: santos venerados e invocados como intercessores

Inherited from Romans package. Directly relevant to Heb 12:1’s ‘nuvem de testemunhas,’ whose members must not be read as objects of intercessory petition per the baseline’s Critical sainthood note.

Resurrection

Approved rendering: ressurreição
Transliteration: anastasis
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Rejected alternatives: reencarnação

Inherited from Romans package. NEVER reencarnação. Load-bearing in Heb 6:2 (general resurrection); 11:35 (‘better resurrection’); 13:20 (God raising Christ). Brazil’s Kardecist population makes this the single most policed term in the book.

Lord

Approved rendering: Senhor
Transliteration: kyrios
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Senhor apenas em sentido devocional, sem reivindicação de senhorio total

Inherited from Romans package. Applies to Heb 1:10; 2:3; 7:14; 13:20.

Son Of God

Approved rendering: Filho de Deus
Transliteration: huios theou
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: filho de Deus no sentido genérico aplicado a todo crente

Inherited from Romans package. The book’s opening and structural argument (Heb 1:2, 5, 8; 3:6; 4:14; 5:5, 8; 7:28) turns on this exact phrase; never softened to an adoptive or evolutionary sense.

Incarnation

Approved rendering: encarnação
Transliteration: ho logos sarx egeneto
Doctrine: Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: encarnação como uma entre muitas vidas sucessivas de um espírito (sentido espírita)

Inherited from Romans package. Grounds Heb 2:14-18’s ‘flesh and blood’ argument and 5:7’s ‘days of his flesh.’ Every occurrence must be paired with explicit teaching distinguishing the Son’s unique, non-repeating assumption of human nature from Kardecist routine encarnação.

Messiah

Approved rendering: Messias
Transliteration: Christos / Mashiach
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Rejected alternatives: um espírito superior ou mais evoluído (leitura espírita de Jesus como ‘o mais evoluído dos espíritos’)

Inherited from Romans package. Underlies every Christological superiority argument in Hebrews 1, 5, 7.

Jesus

Approved rendering: Jesus
Transliteration: Iēsous / Yeshua
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ

Inherited from Romans package. Standard proper name throughout Hebrews.

God

Approved rendering: Deus
Transliteration: theos / Elohim / YHWH
Doctrine: Deity of Christ

Inherited from Romans package. Load-bearing throughout; see living_god below for the specific Θεὸς ζῶν phrase distinctive to Hebrews.

Holy Spirit

Approved rendering: Espírito Santo
Transliteration: pneuma hagion
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: espíritos guias ou mentores espirituais (espiritismo), orixás e guias (Candomblé/Umbanda)

Inherited from Romans package. Load-bearing at Heb 2:4; 3:7; 6:4; 9:8; 10:15. See eternal_spirit and shared_in_holy_spirit below for Hebrews-specific senses requiring additional theological care.

Father

Approved rendering: Pai
Transliteration: patēr
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family

Inherited from Romans package. Grounds the father-son discipline analogy of Heb 12:7-10.

Radiance Of Glory

Approved rendering: resplendor da glória e a expressão exata do seu ser
Transliteration: apaugasma tēs doxēs / charaktēr tēs hypostaseōs
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: reflexo (implies a derivative reflection distinct from its source)

Heb 1:3, among the strongest deity-of-Christ statements in the New Testament. Must not be diluted into language compatible with Kardecism’s Christology of Jesus as the most evolved spirit.

Author And Perfecter Of Faith

Approved rendering: autor e consumador da fé
Transliteration: archēgos kai teleiōtēs tēs pisteōs
Doctrine: Sanctification and Perfection in Christ
Rejected alternatives: um espírito-modelo que atingiu sua própria perfeição para inspirar o progresso de outros

Heb 12:2. Combines ἀρχηγός and τελειόω word-groups; Christ alone originates and completes salvation, never a model spirit whose own perfection inspires others’ multi-life progress.

Eternal Spirit

Approved rendering: Espírito eterno
Transliteration: pneuma aiōnion
Doctrine: Incarnation and True Humanity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: um espírito entre os espíritos eternos e evolutivos da cosmologia espírita

Heb 9:14. Ties to Espírito Santo; must not be read as one ‘espírito’ among the eternal, evolving spirits of Kardecist cosmology.

Devil

Approved rendering: diabo
Transliteration: diabolos
Doctrine: Incarnation and True Humanity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: uma entidade sincretizada com figuras espirituais afro-brasileiras (ex.: Exu)

Heb 2:14. Must remain a personal, singular, defeated enemy — not a diffuse impersonal ‘mal’ or a folk-syncretistic entity.

Brought Up From Dead Shepherd

Approved rendering: que dos mortos tornou a trazer o grande Pastor das ovelhas
Transliteration: ho anagagōn ek nekrōn ton poimena tōn probatōn ton megan
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Rejected alternatives: reencarnação

Heb 13:20. Closing benediction anchor for the whole book’s resurrection argument; reuse ‘ressurreição’ framing exactly, never ‘reencarnação.‘

New Covenant

Approved rendering: nova aliança
Transliteration: kainē diathēkē
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old

Heb 8:8-13; 9:15; 12:24. Central curriculum term; must remain terminologically identical every occurrence.

Mediator

Approved rendering: mediador
Transliteration: mesitēs
Doctrine: The Sole Mediatorship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Nossa Senhora, medianeira de todas as graças, mediação mediúnica entre vivos e espíritos de mortos

Heb 8:6; 9:15; 12:24. Collides with Marian/saint intercession and Kardecist mediumship; render with the qualifier ‘único mediador’ at every occurrence.

Once For All

Approved rendering: uma vez por todas
Transliteration: ephapax / hapax
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice

Heb 7:27; 9:12, 25-26, 28; 10:10. The single highest-stakes lexical choice in the book. Direct collision with the Catholic Eucharistic doctrine that the Mass re-presents Christ’s sacrifice at each celebration.

Blood

Approved rendering: sangue
Transliteration: haima
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice

Heb 9-13, throughout. Collides with Afro-Brazilian ritual blood-offering practice (oferendas); must always be taught as a single, historical, sufficient, non-repeatable offering.

Sacrifice

Approved rendering: sacrifício
Transliteration: thysia
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice

Heb 9:23, 26; 10:1, 12, 26; 13:15-16. Every occurrence should be checked for proximity to ‘uma vez por todas’ or equivalent finality language.

Propitiation Hilaskomai

Approved rendering: fazer propiciação
Transliteration: hilaskomai
Doctrine: Propitiation and the Mercy Seat
Rejected alternatives: pedir perdão (generic reconciliation effort)

Heb 2:17. Judicial satisfaction accomplished once by Christ, not an ongoing ritual practice of appeasement.

Mercy Seat

Approved rendering: propiciatório
Transliteration: hilastērion
Doctrine: Propitiation and the Mercy Seat

Heb 9:5. Central atonement-imagery term; requires theologian review wherever it occurs; pair with a brief functional gloss on first occurrence per lesson.

Offering Of The Body

Approved rendering: a oferta do corpo de Jesus Cristo
Transliteration: prosphora tou sōmatos Iēsou Christou
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice

Heb 10:10. Direct anchor verse for the once-for-all doctrine; ensure ‘uma vez’ is retained alongside this phrase without exception.

Repeatedly

Approved rendering: repetidas vezes
Transliteration: pollakis
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice

Heb 9:25-26. Negated explicitly of Christ’s offering; the exact point of collision with any doctrine of a repeated or re-presented sacrifice.

Fall Away From Living God

Approved rendering: apartar-se do Deus vivo
Transliteration: aphistēmi apo Theou zōntos
Doctrine: The Danger of Apostasy and Warning Passages
Rejected alternatives: um retrocesso espiritual temporário e reversível, corrigível em vida futura

Heb 3:12. The warning against apostasy in its starkest form; a decisive, urgent danger in this present life, not a reversible setback.

Fall Away Parapipto

Approved rendering: apostatar / cair
Transliteration: parapiptō
Doctrine: The Danger of Apostasy and Warning Passages
Rejected alternatives: queda corrigível em reencarnações futuras

Heb 6:6. Never render with bare ‘cair’; use the compound ‘apostatar / cair em apostasia,’ paired with crucify_again in the same verse.

Crucify Again

Approved rendering: crucificar de novo
Transliteration: anastauroō
Doctrine: The Danger of Apostasy and Warning Passages
Rejected alternatives: rejeitar novamente (without the crucifixion imagery)

Heb 6:6. Vivid, singular image reinforcing once-for-all theology; must not be diluted.

Shared In Holy Spirit

Approved rendering: tendo-se tornado participantes do Espírito Santo
Transliteration: metochous Pneumatos Hagiou genēthentas
Doctrine: The Danger of Apostasy and Warning Passages

Heb 6:4. Genuine but potentially forfeited experiential participation; flag for theologian review given the exegetical debate over genuine-believer status.

Sin Willfully

Approved rendering: pecar voluntariamente
Transliteration: hekousiōs hamartanein
Doctrine: The Danger of Apostasy and Warning Passages

Heb 10:26. The specific, aggravated sin of deliberate rejection of known truth, distinct from ordinary struggled-against sin.

No Sacrifice Remains

Approved rendering: já não resta sacrifício pelos pecados
Transliteration: ouketi apoleipetai thysia peri hamartiōn
Doctrine: The Danger of Apostasy and Warning Passages

Heb 10:26. Extremely severe warning; must not be softened, but must be taught alongside Hebrews’ assurances (6:9-12; 10:39).

Better Resurrection

Approved rendering: melhor ressurreição
Transliteration: kreittōn anastasis
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints
Rejected alternatives: melhor próxima vida (reencarnação)

Heb 11:35. Extreme care required: ‘melhor’ modifies ‘ressurreição,’ never suggesting a better next life. Compares two forms of bodily resurrection hope, never reincarnations.

It Is Appointed

Approved rendering: está reservado / está determinado
Transliteration: apokeitai
Doctrine: The Singular Human Destiny of Death and Judgment (Anti-Reincarnation Teaching)

Heb 9:27. A direct, explicit biblical statement against reincarnation doctrine, sitting inside the core passage; requires dedicated teaching material equal to the book’s Christological core.

To Die Once

Approved rendering: morrer uma vez
Transliteration: hapax apothanein
Doctrine: The Singular Human Destiny of Death and Judgment (Anti-Reincarnation Teaching)

Heb 9:27. Pairs directly with the ἐφάπαξ/ἅπαξ vocabulary of vv.12, 25-26; must be visibly consistent.

Judgment

Approved rendering: juízo
Transliteration: krisis
Doctrine: Final Judgment
Rejected alternatives: responsabilidade distribuída e resolvida gradualmente ao longo de reencarnações

Heb 9:27; cf. 10:27. Single, final judgment following death; excludes the Kardecist framework of accountability across lifetimes.

Spirits Of The Righteous Made Perfect

Approved rendering: espíritos dos justos aperfeiçoados
Transliteration: pneumasi dikaiōn teteleiōmenōn
Doctrine: Sanctification and Perfection in Christ
Rejected alternatives: espíritos evoluídos e aperfeiçoados por progresso moral ao longo de reencarnações

Heb 12:23. The single highest-risk phrase in the book outside the core passage: combines Kardecist vocabulary for departed spirits and evolutionary perfection. Mandatory theologian review and an explicit teaching note every occurrence.

Source Of Eternal Salvation

Approved rendering: autor da salvação eterna
Transliteration: aitios sōtērias aiōniou
Doctrine: Christ as the Great High Priest

Heb 5:9. Reinforces the exclusivity of Christ’s saving work; reuse ‘salvação’ family exactly.

Made Perfect Teleioo

Approved rendering: aperfeiçoado / aperfeiçoou / feito perfeito
Transliteration: teleioō
Doctrine: Sanctification and Perfection in Christ
Rejected alternatives: aperfeiçoamento gradual do espírito ao longo de sucessivas reencarnações

Heb 2:10; 5:9; 7:19, 28; 9:9; 10:1, 14; 11:40; 12:23. Highest cross-cutting risk in Hebrews; every occurrence must be checked for which of three senses is active (Christ’s own qualification; believers’ completed perfecting; the law’s inability) and never rendered as gradual self-improvement.

Perfected Forever

Approved rendering: aperfeiçoou para sempre
Transliteration: teteleiōken eis to diēnekes
Doctrine: Sanctification and Perfection in Christ

Heb 10:14. A completed, once-for-all perfecting act, the sharpest possible contrast to progressive perfection across successive lives.

High Risk Terms

Grace

Approved rendering: graça
Transliteration: charis
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: mérito espiritual acumulado ao longo de vidas sucessivas

Inherited from Romans package. In Hebrews load-bearing at ‘trono da graça’ (4:16), and in the grace-versus-apostasy contrast of 10:29; 12:15; 12:28; 13:9.

Faith

Approved rendering: fé
Transliteration: pistis
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: convicção espírita, fé genérica em forças espirituais

Inherited from Romans package. The defining term of Hebrews 11 (Faith of the Old Testament Saints) and load-bearing throughout ch. 3-4, 6, 10, 12-13.

Calling

Approved rendering: chamado
Transliteration: klēsis
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: vocação (narrow sense of a call to priesthood or religious life)

Inherited from Romans package. Reuse ‘chamado’ rather than ‘vocação’ throughout Hebrews to avoid narrowing to a Catholic priestly/religious-life sense, relevant to the ‘heavenly calling’ of Heb 3:1.

Sanctification

Approved rendering: santificação
Transliteration: hagiasmos
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: purificação cármica ao longo de reencarnações (leitura espírita)

Inherited from Romans package. Ties to ἁγιάζω (Heb 2:11; 10:10, 14; 13:12), rendered ‘santificar’; see new entry sanctify_hagiazo below for verb-form handling.

Law

Approved rendering: lei
Transliteration: nomos
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy

Inherited from Romans package. The Mosaic law/Torah, load-bearing throughout Heb 7-10; must not be read as illegitimate, only provisional and insufficient for final perfection.

Obedience Of Faith

Approved rendering: obediência da fé
Transliteration: hypakoē pisteōs
Doctrine: Obedience of Faith
Rejected alternatives: cumprimento de preceitos religiosos, disciplina moral espírita de autoaperfeiçoamento

Inherited from Romans package. Distinct Hebrews sense at 5:8-9 (Christ’s learned obedience) and 5:9’s ‘those who obey him’; see learned_obedience below for the specific Christological nuance.

Covenant

Approved rendering: aliança
Transliteration: diathēkē
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Rejected alternatives: contrato legal

Inherited from Romans package. The single most frequent theological noun in Hebrews (ch. 7-10, 12-13). See new_covenant, first_covenant, and testament_wordplay_diatheke below for Hebrews-specific senses.

Intercession

Approved rendering: intercessão
Transliteration: enteuxis / hyperentynchanei
Doctrine: Prayer and Intercession
Rejected alternatives: comunicação com espíritos de mortos por meio de médiuns, intercessão exclusiva dos santos e de Maria

Inherited from Romans package. In Hebrews, Christ’s ongoing appearing before the Father (9:24) and his ‘living to intercede’ (7:25) fulfill this doctrine; see mediator below for the related but distinct μεσίτης term.

Providence

Approved rendering: providência
Transliteration: pronoia
Doctrine: Providence
Rejected alternatives: lei de causa e efeito espírita (regência cármica das reencarnações)

Inherited from Romans package. Underlies Hebrews’ doctrine of divine discipline (12:5-11); see discipline below for the specific παιδεία term.

Learned Obedience

Approved rendering: aprendeu a obediência
Transliteration: emathen hypakoēn
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ

Heb 5:8. Christ’s real, experiential human learning of obedience through suffering; must be taught alongside full deity so it is not read as moral deficiency corrected through growth.

Second Time Parousia

Approved rendering: uma segunda vez
Transliteration: ek deuterou
Doctrine: Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice
Rejected alternatives: reencarnação de Cristo em novo corpo ou identidade

Heb 9:28. Must be taught as the return of the same once-incarnate, risen, ascended Christ, never his reincarnation in a different body/identity.

Angel

Approved rendering: anjo
Transliteration: angelos
Doctrine: Superiority of Christ over Angels
Rejected alternatives: espíritos guias ou mentores espirituais (espiritismo), orixás e entidades (Candomblé/Umbanda)

Heb 1:4-14; 2:2-16; 12:22; 13:2. Collides with Catholic guardian-angel devotion, Kardecist ‘espíritos superiores,’ and Umbanda/Candomblé spirit-entities. Angels are created, subordinate, non-venerated servants.

Ministering Spirits

Approved rendering: espíritos ministradores
Transliteration: leitourgika pneumata
Doctrine: Superiority of Christ over Angels
Rejected alternatives: espíritos guias, entidades

Heb 1:14. Direct lexical overlap with Kardecist/Umbanda ‘espíritos’ vocabulary; requires an explicit note that these are created, subordinate servants of God, never invoked or venerated.

High Priest

Approved rendering: sumo sacerdote
Transliteration: archiereus
Doctrine: Christ as the Great High Priest

Heb 2:17; 3:1; 4:14-5:10; 6:20; 7-9. Collides with Catholic ‘Sumo Pontífice’ and the ordained priesthood that ‘re-offers’ the sacrifice at Mass. Pair with the qualifier ‘único’ at first occurrence per lesson.

Indestructible Life

Approved rendering: vida indestrutível
Transliteration: akatalytos zōē
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Rejected alternatives: vida renovada por sucessivas encarnações

Heb 7:16. The basis of Christ’s permanent priesthood; one unending, victorious life following a single resurrection, not renewal through successive incarnations.

Guarantor Surety

Approved rendering: fiador / garantia
Transliteration: engyos
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Rejected alternatives: garantia puramente comercial, dissociada da relação de aliança

Heb 7:22. Christ as the guarantor of a better covenant; avoid a purely commercial sense divorced from covenant relationship.

Write Laws On Hearts

Approved rendering: escreverei as minhas leis nos seus corações
Transliteration: grapsō nomous epi kardias
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Rejected alternatives: evolução moral gradualmente registrada no espírito ao longo de vidas sucessivas

Heb 8:10 (citing Jer 31:33). Internal, decisive transformation, distinguished from Tridentine infused-righteousness categories and Kardecist gradualist readings.

Remember Sins No More

Approved rendering: não mais me lembrarei dos seus pecados
Transliteration: ou mē mnēsthō tōn hamartiōn autōn
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Rejected alternatives: perdão parcial ou provisório

Heb 8:12; 10:17. Must retain absolute, unqualified force (‘de forma alguma’).

Testament Wordplay Diatheke

Approved rendering: aliança / testamento
Transliteration: diathēkē
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old

Heb 9:16-17. Portuguese permits both senses but not as a single word; a translator’s note is mandatory to explain the untranslatable Greek pun, sitting directly inside the core passage.

Blood Of Eternal Covenant

Approved rendering: sangue da aliança eterna
Transliteration: haima diathēkēs aiōniou
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old

Heb 13:20. Consolidates ch. 8-9’s covenant/blood vocabulary in the closing benediction; keep ‘aliança eterna’ consistent with ‘nova aliança’ usage.

Shedding Of Blood

Approved rendering: derramamento de sangue
Transliteration: haimatekchysia
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice
Rejected alternatives: renúncia ou sacrifício não-sanguíneo (velas, promessas, penitências)

Heb 9:22. States a strict, exclusive principle (‘no forgiveness without blood-shedding’); must not be softened to accommodate non-blood ritual substitutes.

Forgiveness

Approved rendering: perdão / remissão
Transliteration: aphesis
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice
Rejected alternatives: erro a ser corrigido pelo próprio esforço do espírito ao longo de vidas futuras

Heb 9:22; 10:18. Judicial pardon granted once, not a debt gradually worked off.

Redemption

Approved rendering: redenção
Transliteration: lytrōsis / apolytrōsis
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice
Rejected alternatives: redenção social/política (leitura secular ou da Teologia da Libertação)

Heb 9:12, 15. Always anchor to ‘pelo sangue de Cristo’ or ‘pela sua morte’; never leave unanchored.

Put Away Annul

Approved rendering: eliminar / tirar / pôr fim ao
Transliteration: athetēsis
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice
Rejected alternatives: mitigação parcial

Heb 9:26. Sin’s guilt and power decisively dealt with; the force is full removal, not partial mitigation.

Gifts And Sacrifices

Approved rendering: dons e sacrifícios
Transliteration: dōra kai thysiai
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice

Heb 9:9. The repeated Levitical offerings, unable to perfect the conscience; keep consistent with ‘sacrifício’ vocabulary across ch. 9-10.

Bear Sins Of Many

Approved rendering: para levar os pecados de muitos
Transliteration: pollōn anenegkein hamartias
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice
Rejected alternatives: tratar do pecado em sentido genérico

Heb 9:28. Preserve substitutionary, vicarious sense rather than a vague general treatment of sin.

Cleanse Katharizo

Approved rendering: purificar
Transliteration: katharizō
Doctrine: Sin, Dead Works, and the Cleansed Conscience
Rejected alternatives: aperfeiçoamento moral gradual do espírito ao longo de encarnações

Heb 9:14; 10:2. The Spirit-empowered, once-for-all cleansing of the conscience; must not be softened into a gradual moral self-improvement process.

Harden The Heart

Approved rendering: endurecer o coração
Transliteration: sklērynō tēn kardian
Doctrine: The Danger of Apostasy and Warning Passages

Heb 3:8, 13, 15. Active, culpable resistance to God’s voice, not passive misfortune.

Unbelief

Approved rendering: incredulidade
Transliteration: apistia
Doctrine: The Danger of Apostasy and Warning Passages

Heb 3:19; 4:6, 11. Negative counterpart of ‘fé’; willful distrust that leads to falling away, not mere intellectual doubt.

Found No Place For Repentance

Approved rendering: não achou lugar para arrependimento
Transliteration: topon metanoias ouch heuren
Doctrine: The Danger of Apostasy and Warning Passages

Heb 12:17. Describes the irrevocable loss of a specific privilege (Esau’s birthright), not a categorical denial that repentance is ever possible.

Hypostasis Faith

Approved rendering: certeza / substância
Transliteration: hypostasis
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints
Rejected alternatives: hipóstase (theological loanword, too technical for lesson-text reading level)

Heb 11:1. The classic translation-crux verse of the whole book. Use ‘certeza’ as the primary reading-level-appropriate rendering; record ‘substância’/‘hipóstase’ as flagged alternatives for theologian review only.

Offered Isaac

Approved rendering: ofereceu Isaque
Transliteration: prosphero Isaak
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints

Heb 11:17-19. The phrase ‘received back as from the dead’ should illustrate resurrection typology, not literal reincarnation of Isaac.

Endurance Perseverance

Approved rendering: perseverança
Transliteration: hypomonē
Doctrine: Perseverance and Assurance

Heb 10:36; 12:1. Central term; keep consistent from 10:36 through 12:1-3.

Preservation Of Soul

Approved rendering: preservação da alma
Transliteration: peripoiēsis psychēs
Doctrine: Perseverance and Assurance
Rejected alternatives: sobrevivência meramente psicológica

Heb 10:39. The outcome of persevering faith, contrasted with destruction; final salvation, not mere psychological survival.

Discipline

Approved rendering: disciplina
Transliteration: paideia
Doctrine: Divine Discipline and Providence
Rejected alternatives: lei de causa e efeito espírita (regência cármica das reencarnações)

Heb 12:5-11. Must always be anchored to explicit Father-son relational language, never left as an abstract principle.

Throne Of Grace

Approved rendering: trono da graça
Transliteration: thronos tēs charitos
Doctrine: Access to God through Christ’s Blood
Rejected alternatives: acesso mediado por intermediários humanos ou espirituais

Heb 4:16. Confident, direct access, not mediated through human priestly or spiritist intermediaries.

New And Living Way

Approved rendering: caminho novo e vivo
Transliteration: hodos prosphatos kai zōsa
Doctrine: Access to God through Christ’s Blood
Rejected alternatives: um caminho espiritual genérico entre muitos caminhos

Heb 10:20. Must not be flattened to a ‘religious marketplace’ framing of many paths; always pair with its grounding clause (‘pelo sangue de Jesus’).

Holy Of Holies

Approved rendering: Lugar Santíssimo
Transliteration: Hagia Hagiōn
Doctrine: Christ as the Great High Priest
Rejected alternatives: referência direta ao Santíssimo Sacramento eucarístico

Heb 9:3, 7-8, 25. Collides with the devotional Catholic phrase ‘o Santíssimo Sacramento’; requires a translator’s note clarifying this is the tabernacle’s inner chamber.

Living God

Approved rendering: Deus vivo
Transliteration: Theos zōn
Doctrine: Access to God through Christ’s Blood
Rejected alternatives: força universal impessoal

Heb 3:12; 9:14; 10:31; 12:22. Reinforces God’s personal, living nature against impersonal ‘força universal’ framings.

Cloud Of Witnesses

Approved rendering: nuvem de testemunhas
Transliteration: nephos martyrōn
Doctrine: Church Fellowship and Leadership
Rejected alternatives: intercessores a serem invocados (leitura da comunhão dos santos)

Heb 12:1. Risk of conflation with the Catholic communion-of-saints intercessory framework; these figures are inspiring examples, never intercessors to be petitioned.

Dead Works

Approved rendering: obras mortas
Transliteration: nekra erga
Doctrine: Sin, Dead Works, and the Cleansed Conscience
Rejected alternatives: mérito espiritual acumulado por esforço próprio

Heb 6:1; 9:14. Must retain the sense of religiously futile self-effort, not generic moralism.

Equip For Good Work

Approved rendering: vos aperfeiçoe em toda boa obra
Transliteration: katartisai eis pan ergon agathon
Doctrine: Sanctification and Perfection in Christ

Heb 13:21. Distinct sense: ongoing sanctifying equipping built on Christ’s already-finished perfecting work; preserve this distinction in teaching notes.

Sanctify Hagiazo

Approved rendering: santificar
Transliteration: hagiazō
Doctrine: Sanctification and Perfection in Christ
Rejected alternatives: purificação cármica ao longo de reencarnações

Heb 2:11; 10:10, 14; 13:12. Reuse baseline ‘santificação’ family; do not read as gradual moral perfection across lifetimes.

Better Kreitton

Approved rendering: melhor
Transliteration: kreittōn
Doctrine: The Superiority of Christ over Angels, Moses, and the Levitical Priesthood
Rejected alternatives: superior, mais excelente (would break the reader’s ability to track the cumulative argument)

Heb 1:4; 6:9; 7:7, 19, 22; 8:6; 9:23; 10:34; 11:16, 35, 40; 12:24. Must never vary across occurrences; the book’s cumulative rhetorical argument for Christ’s superiority depends on this consistency.

Medium Risk Terms

Called

Approved rendering: chamado
Transliteration: klētos
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: convocado (bureaucratic register)

Inherited from Romans package. Applies to κλητοί, ‘those who are called,’ in Heb 9:15 (recipients of the promised eternal inheritance).

Holy

Approved rendering: santo
Transliteration: hagios
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: puro em sentido ritual

Inherited from Romans package. Applies across the ‘holy’ word-family in Hebrews’ priestly and sanctuary vocabulary.

Adoption

Approved rendering: adoção
Transliteration: huiothesia
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family

Inherited from Romans package. Ties to Hebrews’ inheritance vocabulary (1:2, 14; 9:15; 11:7-8); see new entries heir and eternal_inheritance below.

Peace

Approved rendering: paz
Transliteration: eirēnē
Doctrine: Peace with God
Rejected alternatives: tranquilidade emocional

Inherited from Romans package. Load-bearing in Heb 12:14 (‘pursue peace’) and the closing benediction of 13:20.

Kingdom Of God

Approved rendering: reino de Deus
Transliteration: basileia tou theou
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission

Inherited from Romans package. Underlies ‘reino inabalável’ (Heb 12:28); see unshakeable_kingdom below for the specific Hebrews phrase.

Sin

Approved rendering: pecado
Transliteration: hamartia
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: erro a ser corrigido em vidas futuras (leitura espírita)

Inherited from Romans package. Load-bearing throughout Heb 2, 3, 8-10, 12-13; distinguished from any framing as a correctable ‘erro’ worked off across future incarnations.

Glory

Approved rendering: glória
Transliteration: doxa
Doctrine: Deity of Christ

Inherited from Romans package. Load-bearing in Heb 1:3 (‘resplendor da glória’), 2:9-10, and 3:3.

Church

Approved rendering: igreja
Transliteration: ekklēsia
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: a Igreja (institutional-hierarchical sense)

Inherited from Romans package. Underlies Heb 12:23’s ‘assembly of the firstborn,’ read alongside spirits_of_the_righteous_made_perfect below.

Pioneer Founder Archegos

Approved rendering: autor / príncipe
Transliteration: archēgos
Doctrine: Sanctification and Perfection in Christ
Rejected alternatives: chefe entre líderes espirituais comparáveis

Heb 2:10, standalone occurrence distinct from the 12:2 compound. Prefer ‘autor da salvação’ over a rendering suggesting merely ‘chief’ among comparable spirit-guides.

Forerunner

Approved rendering: precursor
Transliteration: prodromos
Doctrine: Christ as the Great High Priest

Heb 6:20. Christ entering the heavenly sanctuary ahead of believers, on their behalf; standard nautical/processional metaphor, low collision risk.

Without Blemish

Approved rendering: sem mácula
Transliteration: amōmos
Doctrine: Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice
Rejected alternatives: imaculado (isolated, evokes Marian Imaculada Conceição devotion)

Heb 9:14. Christ’s sinless, spotless perfection qualifying him as the acceptable sacrifice; prefer ‘sem mácula’ to keep the referent unambiguously Christ.

Appear Present Oneself

Approved rendering: apresentar-se / aparecer
Transliteration: emphanizō
Doctrine: Christ as the Great High Priest

Heb 9:24. Preserve the ongoing, present-tense sense distinct from a one-time past event, conveying continuing intercession without implying repeated sacrifice.

Offered Once

Approved rendering: foi oferecido
Transliteration: prosenechtheis (prosphero)
Doctrine: Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice

Heb 9:28. Passive voice preserved: Christ was offered in self-giving obedience, not offering himself repeatedly.

Cherubim Of Glory

Approved rendering: querubins da glória
Transliteration: cheroubin doxēs
Doctrine: Superiority of Christ over Angels

Heb 9:5. Glorious angelic figures overshadowing the mercy seat; standard historical-typological term.

Melchizedek

Approved rendering: Melquisedeque
Transliteration: Melchisedek
Doctrine: The Priesthood of Melchizedek as Typology of Christ

Heb 5:6, 10; 6:20; 7:1-17. Proper name requiring an explanatory note on the Genesis 14/Psalm 110 typology.

Without Genealogy

Approved rendering: sem genealogia
Transliteration: agenealogētos
Doctrine: The Priesthood of Melchizedek as Typology of Christ

Heb 7:3. Melchizedek’s (and typologically Christ’s) priesthood not dependent on recorded ancestry, unlike the Levitical priesthood.

Order Taxis

Approved rendering: ordem
Transliteration: taxis
Doctrine: The Priesthood of Melchizedek as Typology of Christ

Heb 7:11, 17. Gloss contextually as ‘ordem sacerdotal’ to block a reading as ‘ordem religiosa’ (Catholic religious order, e.g., Franciscan).

Tithe

Approved rendering: décimo / dízimo
Transliteration: dekatē
Doctrine: The Priesthood of Melchizedek as Typology of Christ

Heb 7:2-9. Contemporary Evangelical/Pentecostal financial-practice associations risk overshadowing the historical-typological argument for Melchizedek’s superiority to Levi; requires explicit note this is typological, not a teaching on modern tithing.

Weakness Of The Law

Approved rendering: fraqueza da lei
Transliteration: astheneia tou nomou
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old

Heb 7:18-19. The Mosaic law’s inherent insufficiency, not its illegitimacy, necessitating a better hope.

First Covenant

Approved rendering: primeira aliança / antiga aliança
Transliteration: prōtē diathēkē
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old

Heb 8:7, 13; 9:1, 15, 18. Provisional, not illegitimate; now fulfilled.

Obsolete Palaioo

Approved rendering: tornar-se antiquado / envelhecer
Transliteration: palaioō
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old

Heb 8:13. Must convey fulfillment and completion, always paired with a fulfillment qualifier (‘cumprida,’ ‘superada’), never that the first covenant was invalid or false.

Inaugurate Ratify

Approved rendering: inaugurada / ratificada
Transliteration: enkainizō
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old

Heb 9:18. Choose one consistent verb across ch. 9-10; recommend ‘inaugurada.‘

Oath

Approved rendering: juramento
Transliteration: horkos
Doctrine: The Permanence of God’s Promise and Oath

Heb 6:13-17; 7:20-21. God’s sworn oath guaranteeing his promise, reinforcing Perseverance and Assurance.

Apart From Sin

Approved rendering: não para tratar do pecado
Transliteration: chōris hamartias
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice

Heb 9:28. Christ’s second coming is not another atoning act; reinforces the once-for-all argument.

Sprinkled Blood

Approved rendering: sangue da aspersão
Transliteration: haimati rhantismou
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice

Heb 12:24. Christ’s blood, which ‘speaks a better word’ than Abel’s; ties to ch. 9’s sprinkling/purification vocabulary.

Altar

Approved rendering: altar
Transliteration: thysiastērion
Doctrine: The Sacrifice of Praise Distinguished from Atonement

Heb 13:10. Distinguish from Catholic Eucharistic altar theology; denotes the reality believers now share through Christ’s sacrifice.

Sacrifice Of Praise

Approved rendering: sacrifício de louvor
Transliteration: thysia aineseōs
Doctrine: The Sacrifice of Praise Distinguished from Atonement

Heb 13:15-16. Ongoing, non-atoning ‘sacrifice’ of praise and good deeds; must never be conflated with Christ’s atoning sacrifice.

Purification Of Flesh

Approved rendering: purificação da carne
Transliteration: katharotēs tēs sarkos
Doctrine: Sin, Dead Works, and the Cleansed Conscience

Heb 9:13. External, ceremonial purification, contrasted deliberately with v.14’s internal cleansing of the conscience.

Sprinkle

Approved rendering: aspergir
Transliteration: rhantizō
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice
Rejected alternatives: aspersão batismal sacramental (leitura católica restrita)

Heb 9:13, 19-21. The Old Covenant ritual of external cleansing; do not narrow to Catholic sacramental aspersion.

Root Of Bitterness

Approved rendering: raiz de amargura
Transliteration: rhiza pikrias
Doctrine: The Danger of Apostasy and Warning Passages

Heb 12:15. Standard idiom for grudge or defection illustrated by Esau.

Faithful

Approved rendering: fiel
Transliteration: pistos
Doctrine: The Superiority of Christ over Moses

Heb 3:2, 6. Moses’ and Christ’s faithfulness compared; consistent with the ‘fé’ word-group.

Elenchos Conviction

Approved rendering: prova / convicção
Transliteration: elenchos
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints

Heb 11:1. Pairs with hypostasis_faith; keep consistent rendering across any repeated citation.

Strangers And Exiles

Approved rendering: estrangeiros e peregrinos
Transliteration: xenoi kai parepidēmoi
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints
Rejected alternatives: peregrinos (standing alone, evokes Catholic shrine-pilgrimage devotion)

Heb 11:13. Retain only as the fixed doublet, never ‘peregrinos’ standing alone, to avoid a pilgrimage-devotion reading.

Homeland City

Approved rendering: pátria / cidade
Transliteration: patris / polis
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints

Heb 11:14-16; cf. 12:22; 13:14. Keep vocabulary consistent across all three passages.

Reproach Of Christ

Approved rendering: o vitupério de Cristo
Transliteration: oneidismos tou Christou
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints

Heb 11:26; cf. 13:13. Moses’ willingness to bear Christ-associated shame as greater wealth than worldly treasure.

Anchor

Approved rendering: âncora
Transliteration: agkyra
Doctrine: The Permanence of God’s Promise and Oath
Rejected alternatives: otimismo genérico

Heb 6:19. Hope in God’s promise and oath; guard against flattening to generic optimism.

Eagerly Waiting

Approved rendering: os que o esperam
Transliteration: apekdechomenois
Doctrine: Perseverance and Assurance

Heb 9:28. Should convey confident hope, not anxious uncertainty.

Consuming Fire

Approved rendering: fogo consumidor
Transliteration: pyr katanaliskon
Doctrine: The Unshakeable Kingdom and Reverent Worship

Heb 12:29; cf. Deut 4:24. God’s holy, consuming nature, grounding reverent worship.

Boldness Confidence

Approved rendering: confiança / ousadia
Transliteration: parrēsia
Doctrine: Access to God through Christ’s Blood
Rejected alternatives: coragem (mere courage)

Heb 4:16; 10:19, 35. Relational confidence before God grounded in Christ’s mediating work.

Tabernacle

Approved rendering: tabernáculo
Transliteration: skēnē
Doctrine: Christ as the Great High Priest

Heb 8:2, 5; 9:2-11, 21. Low collision risk if paired with ‘não feito por mãos humanas.‘

Not Made With Hands

Approved rendering: não feito por mãos humanas
Transliteration: ou cheiropoiētos
Doctrine: Christ as the Great High Priest
Rejected alternatives: sagrado (generic)

Heb 9:11, 24. Signals the heavenly, uncreated nature of the true sanctuary; preserve the human-made/divine-made contrast.

Copies Patterns

Approved rendering: figuras / cópias
Transliteration: hypodeigma
Doctrine: Christ as the Great High Priest

Heb 9:23. Keep the typological ‘shadow to reality’ structure explicit; do not let it drift toward a merely decorative sense.

Heavenly Things

Approved rendering: coisas celestiais
Transliteration: epourania
Doctrine: Christ as the Great High Priest

Heb 9:23; cf. 8:5; 12:22. Standard term for the true sanctuary and realities the earthly tabernacle depicted.

Corresponding Types

Approved rendering: figuras correspondentes
Transliteration: antitypa
Doctrine: Christ as the Great High Priest

Heb 9:24. Distinguish carefully from ὑπόδειγμα; technical nuance worth preserving in a translator’s footnote.

True Real

Approved rendering: verdadeiro
Transliteration: alēthinos
Doctrine: Christ as the Great High Priest

Heb 8:2; 9:24. Heaven itself as the true sanctuary, not merely a superior copy.

Shadow Of Good Things

Approved rendering: sombra dos bens futuros
Transliteration: skia tōn mellontōn agathōn
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old

Heb 10:1. The law as a preliminary sketch of the substance found in Christ.

Outside The Camp

Approved rendering: fora do arraial
Transliteration: exō tēs parembolēs
Doctrine: Faith of the Old Testament Saints

Heb 13:12-13. Standard typological image (cf. Lev 16, the Day of Atonement scapegoat sent outside the camp).

Time Of Reformation

Approved rendering: tempo da reforma
Transliteration: kairos diorthōseōs
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old

Heb 9:10. The appointed moment when Christ’s work would supersede the old system.

Worship Service Latreia

Approved rendering: culto
Transliteration: latreia
Doctrine: Christ as the Great High Priest

Heb 9:1, 6. Standard cultic-service term; the related verb λατρεύειν (9:14, ‘serve the living God’) should be rendered ‘servir/prestar culto’ consistently.

Veil

Approved rendering: véu
Transliteration: katapetasma
Doctrine: Access to God through Christ’s Blood

Heb 9:3; 10:20. Ties forward to the ‘new and living way’ theme; keep terminologically identical in both occurrences.

End Of The Age

Approved rendering: fim dos tempos / consumação dos séculos
Transliteration: synteleia tōn aiōnōn
Doctrine: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice

Heb 9:26. Refers to the decisive midpoint accomplished at the cross, not only a future end-of-world event.

Rest

Approved rendering: descanso / repouso
Transliteration: katapausis
Doctrine: The Promised Rest of God
Rejected alternatives: descanso cármico conquistado por mérito acumulado

Heb 3:11, 18; 4:1-11. A gift entered by faith; always pair with a faith-qualifier rather than standing alone.

Sabbath Rest

Approved rendering: repouso sabático
Transliteration: sabbatismos
Doctrine: The Promised Rest of God
Rejected alternatives: sabatismo (invented neologism)

Heb 4:9. Distinguish from calendar Sabbath-observance debates; conveys eschatological completion.

Mount Zion Heavenly Jerusalem

Approved rendering: monte Sião / Jerusalém celestial
Transliteration: Siōn oros / Ierousalēm epouraniō
Doctrine: Perseverance and Assurance

Heb 12:22. Ties to ch. 11’s ‘pátria/cidade’ and ch. 13’s ‘a cidade que está para vir.‘

Eternal Inheritance

Approved rendering: herança eterna
Transliteration: klēronomia aiōnia
Doctrine: Inheritance and Adoption in Christ

Heb 9:15. The promised, unforfeitable inheritance secured by Christ’s death; keep consistent with ‘adoção’ material.

Heir

Approved rendering: herdeiro
Transliteration: klēronomos
Doctrine: Inheritance and Adoption in Christ

Heb 1:2; 6:17; 11:7. Christ appointed heir of all things; believers as fellow heirs.

Leaders

Approved rendering: líderes
Transliteration: hēgoumenoi
Doctrine: Church Fellowship and Leadership
Rejected alternatives: sacerdotes / superiores (clerical hierarchical framing)

Heb 13:7, 17, 24. Avoid implying a hierarchical clerical office parallel to the ordained Catholic priesthood the book elsewhere relativizes.

Conscience

Approved rendering: consciência
Transliteration: syneidēsis
Doctrine: Sin, Dead Works, and the Cleansed Conscience
Rejected alternatives: consciência meramente psicológica/terapêutica

Heb 9:14; 10:2, 22; 13:18. Guilt before God, not a merely psychological faculty.

Transgressions

Approved rendering: transgressões
Transliteration: parabasis
Doctrine: Sin, Dead Works, and the Cleansed Conscience

Heb 2:2; 9:15. Legal violation of the Mosaic law, distinct nuance from general ‘pecado.‘

Death

Approved rendering: morte
Transliteration: thanatos
Doctrine: The Singular Human Destiny of Death and Judgment (Anti-Reincarnation Teaching)

Heb 2:9, 14; 9:15-17, 27. Sets up the will/testament wordplay of 9:16-17 and the anti-reincarnation statement of 9:27.

Unshakeable Kingdom

Approved rendering: reino inabalável
Transliteration: basileian asaleuton
Doctrine: The Unshakeable Kingdom and Reverent Worship

Heb 12:28. The permanent kingdom believers receive, contrasted with the shaken, passing created order.

Word Of God Living Active

Approved rendering: palavra de Deus viva e eficaz
Transliteration: logos tou Theou zōn kai energēs
Doctrine: Inspiration and the Living Word of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: psicografia (mensagens mediúnicas transcritas)

Heb 4:12. Ties to the baseline’s contrast with Kardecist claims of ongoing mediumistic revelation; Scripture is uniquely living and active.

Low Risk Terms

Prophet

Approved rendering: profeta
Transliteration: prophētēs
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: médium (channeler of spirit messages)

Inherited from Romans package. Load-bearing at Heb 1:1, ‘God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,’ foundational to the inspiration-of-Scripture doctrine.

David

Approved rendering: Davi
Transliteration: Dawid
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Referenced in Heb 4:7 (‘as David says’).

Israel

Approved rendering: Israel
Transliteration: Yisra’el
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles

Inherited from Romans package. Referenced in Heb 8:8, 10 (‘house of Israel’).

Exhort

Approved rendering: exortar
Transliteration: parakaleō
Doctrine: Mutual Edification

Inherited from Romans package. Load-bearing at Heb 3:13; 10:25; 13:22.

Apostle

Approved rendering: apóstolo
Transliteration: apostolos
Doctrine: Apostleship

Inherited from Romans package. Uniquely applied to Christ himself at Heb 3:1 (‘the apostle and high priest of our confession’), distinct from its ordinary ecclesial sense in Romans; retain ‘apóstolo’ with a contextual note on this unique Christological usage.

Brotherly Love Hospitality

Approved rendering: amor fraternal / hospitalidade
Transliteration: philadelphia / philoxenia
Doctrine: Hospitality and Brotherly Love

Heb 13:1-2. Standard, low-collision-risk community virtues.

Milk Solid Food

Approved rendering: leite / alimento sólido
Transliteration: gala / brōma
Doctrine: Church Fellowship and Leadership

Heb 5:12-14. Standard pedagogical metaphor for spiritual immaturity versus maturity in doctrine.

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