Core Glossary
Core Glossary — Jeremiah (Portuguese)
A. Reused Baseline Terms (Must Match Romans Language Package Exactly)
| Term (EN) | Original (Hebrew) | Portuguese | Risk | Doctrine | Jeremiah Chapters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| covenant | בְּרִית (berith) | aliança | High | New Covenant / Davidic Covenant | 3, 11, 22, 31, 32, 33, 34 | Reuse exactly; never “concerto” |
| law | תּוֹרָה (torah) | lei | High | New Covenant | 6, 8, 9, 16, 26, 31, 32, 44 | Internalized under new covenant, not replaced in content |
| sin | חַטָּאָה / עָוֹן (chatta’ah / avon) | pecado | Medium | Judgment / New Covenant | throughout | avon (iniquity/guilt) and chatta’ah (sin) both map to “pecado”; note nuance loss |
| righteousness | צֶדֶק / צְדָקָה (tsedeq/tsedaqah) | justiça | Critical | Righteous Branch / Justice & Righteousness | 22, 23, 31, 33 | Distinct from mishpat (see new term below); never earned by moral effort |
| prophet | נָבִיא (nabi) | profeta | Low (elevated to High in false-prophet contexts) | True/False Prophecy | 1, 6, 14, 20, 23, 26-29 | See “false_prophet” new entry for elevated risk |
| prophecy | נְבוּאָה (nevu’ah, implied) | profecia | Low | True/False Prophecy | 23, 28, 29 | Never psicografia |
| peace | שָׁלוֹם (shalom) | paz | Medium (elevated to High in “false peace” context) | False Prophecy / Restoration | 6, 8, 14, 29 | See “false_shalom” note in ch. 6 |
| holy / set apart | קָדַשׁ (qadash) | santo / consagrar | Medium | Prophetic Calling | 1 | Distinguish from Catholic “consagração” (priesthood/vows) sense |
| called / calling | קָרָא (qara, implied in call narrative) | chamado | High | Prophetic Calling | 1 | Consistent with baseline “chamado” for divine summons |
| election | implied (covenant choice) | eleição | High | Divine Calling | 1, 33 | God’s sovereign initiative in choosing Jeremiah/Israel |
| Lord | אֲדֹנָי / יְהוה (Adonai / YHWH) | SENHOR | Critical | Lordship / New Covenant | throughout | YHWH rendered SENHOR (small caps per Almeida convention) |
| Messiah / Anointed hope | (typological; netser/tsemach) | Messias | Critical | Righteous Branch | 23, 33 | See “righteous_branch” new entry |
| God | אֱלֹהִים (Elohim) | Deus | Critical | Covenant Formula | throughout | Standard |
| Father | אָב (av) | Pai | Critical | Covenant Relationship | 3:19; 31:9 | ”You shall call me, My Father” — filial covenant address |
| glory | כָּבוֹד (kavod) | glória | Medium | Deity of God | 2:11; 13:16 | ”exchanged their glory” — idolatry framing |
| providence | (theological category) | providência | High | God’s Sovereign Plans | 1, 18, 29, 32 | Never the Kardecist “lei de causa e efeito” |
| Holy Spirit | (not lexically frequent in Jeremiah; theologically implied in “new heart” promise) | Espírito Santo | Critical | New Covenant (NT fulfillment, cf. Ezekiel 36:26-27) | 31 (cross-ref) | Used in teaching notes connecting 31:33 to NT pneumatology |
| Israel | יִשְׂרָאֵל | Israel | Low | Unity/Restoration | throughout | Standard |
| David | דָּוִד | Davi | Low | Davidic Covenant | 22, 23, 30, 33 | Standard |
| nations (contextual note) | גּוֹיִם (goyim) | nações | Medium | Sovereignty over Nations | 1, 25, 46-51 | Use “nações,” not baseline’s NT-era “gentios,” to avoid anachronistic register in OT context |
B. New Terms Introduced by Jeremiah (Proposed for Translation Memory Addition)
| Term (EN) | Original (Hebrew) | Transliteration | Portuguese | Risk | Doctrine | Chapters | Risk Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| new covenant | בְּרִית חֲדָשָׁה | berith chadashah | nova aliança | Critical | The New Covenant | 31 | Must not collapse into “Novo Testamento” (the book); avoid archaic “concerto” |
| heart (internalization) | לֵב / לֵבָב | lev / levav | coração | High | New Covenant | 4, 17, 24, 31, 32 | Popular usage skews emotional; biblical sense = mind+will+affections |
| new heart | לֵב חָדָשׁ (implied, cf. 24:7, 32:39) | lev chadash | coração novo | High | New Covenant | 24, 31, 32 | Anticipatory statements of 31:33; teach as progressive revelation of one promise |
| knowledge of the LORD | דַּעַת יְהוה | da’at YHWH | conhecer o SENHOR / conhecimento do SENHOR | High | New Covenant | 9, 24, 31 | Distinguish from Kardecist gradual “esclarecimento espiritual” across lives |
| remember no more | לֹא אֶזְכֹּר־עוֹד | lo ezkor-od | não se lembrar mais | High | New Covenant | 31 | Direct contrast to Kardecist doctrine of permanently recorded karmic deeds |
| forgive iniquity | סָלַח לְעָוֹן | salach la’avon | perdoar a maldade/iniquidade | Medium | New Covenant | 31 | Total, non-provisional forgiveness; not partial or deferred |
| idolatry / idols | עֲבוֹדָה זָרָה / פֶּסֶל / גִּלּוּלִים | avodah zarah / pesel / gillulim | idolatria / ídolos | Critical | Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry | 2, 7, 8, 10, 16, 19, 44, 50 | Requires teaching framing distinguishing ancient referents from unrelated modern devotional practices |
| queen of heaven | מַלְכַּת הַשָּׁמַיִם | malkat hashamayim | rainha dos céus | Critical | Idolatry | 7, 44 | Direct collision with existing Catholic Marian title “Rainha dos Céus”; mandatory historical-context note every occurrence |
| Baal (root collision) | בַּעַל | ba’al | Baal (proper noun) / “senhor/marido” (verb) | Medium | Idolatry / New Covenant | 2, 7, 11, 19, 23, 31, 32 | Verb root “ba’al” (husband/master) reused of YHWH in 31:32 — wordplay invisible without a note |
| Molech / Topheth | מֹלֶך / תֹּפֶת | Molek / Tofet | Moloque / Tofete | Medium | Idolatry (extreme form) | 7, 19, 32 | Child-sacrifice cult; background to NT “Gehenna” |
| false prophet | נָבִיא שָׁקֶר | nabi sheqer | falso profeta | High | False Prophets versus True Prophecy | 5, 6, 14, 23, 27, 28, 29 | Contrast with Kardecist psicografia, Afro-Brazilian divination, and unaccountable modern prophetic claims |
| divination / dreams (false revelation) | קֶסֶם / חָלוֹם | qesem / chalom | adivinhação / sonhos | High | False Prophets versus True Prophecy | 23, 27, 29 | Direct relevance to Brazilian mediumistic/divinatory practices |
| false peace | שָׁלוֹם שָׁלוֹם וְאֵין שָׁלוֹם | shalom shalom ve’en shalom | ”Paz, paz; e não há paz” | High | False Prophets versus True Prophecy | 6, 8 | Diagnostic test for false prophecy; relevant to any prosperity-oriented preaching detached from repentance |
| return / repent / restore | שׁוּב | shub | voltar-se / converter-se / arrepender-se / restaurar | High | Judgment & Restoration | 3, 4, 8, 29, 30-33 | Same root covers repentance and restoration; distinguish from Kardecist gradual moral “conversão” across lives and from narrow Evangelical born-again idiom |
| spiritual adultery | זָנָה | zanah | prostituir-se / infidelidade espiritual | High | Covenant Unfaithfulness | 2, 3, 5, 13 | Relational-betrayal metaphor; no Kardecist analogue to a personal covenant God |
| God’s plans/thoughts | מַחֲשָׁבָה | machashabah | pensamentos (planos) | High | God’s Sovereign Plans for His People | 29 | Jer 29:11 widely decontextualized in Brazilian prosperity-oriented popular piety; restore corporate, conditional context |
| justice and righteousness (pair) | מִשְׁפָּט וּצְדָקָה | mishpat u-tsedaqah | juízo e justiça | Medium | Social Justice / Covenant Ethics | 5, 22 | mishpat (concrete justice) must not collapse into tsedeq/tsedaqah (“justiça” alone) |
| covenant loyalty | חֶסֶד | chesed | benignidade / fidelidade leal | High | New Covenant / Covenant Unfaithfulness | 2 | Covenantal loyal-love, not generic kindness |
| remnant | שְׁאֵרִית | she’erith | remanescente / resto | Medium | Hope of Restoration after Exile | 42-44 | Hold tension: object of both continued judgment and future restoration |
| restore fortunes / restore captivity | שׁוּב שְׁבוּת | shub shevut | restaurar a sorte do cativeiro | High | Hope of Restoration after Exile | 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 48, 49 | Not karmic/gradual; a specific, gracious, covenant-keeping reversal |
| exile / captivity | גָּלוּת / גּוֹלָה | galuth / golah | cativeiro / exílio | Medium | Hope of Restoration after Exile | 24, 29, 40-44, 52 | Historical, bounded (70 years), not a cyclical or karmic state |
| individual responsibility | (proverb, no single Heb. term) | — | responsabilidade individual | High | Individual Responsibility | 31:29-30 | Distinguish from both generational-curse folk theology and Kardecist multi-life karma |
| shepherds (leaders) | רֹעִים | ro’im | pastores | Medium | Leadership Accountability | 23 | Contemporary “pastor” = Evangelical clergy title; manage referent narrowing |
| righteous Branch | נֵצֶר צַדִּיק / צֶמַח צַדִּיק | netser tsaddiq / tsemach tsaddiq | Renovo justo | Critical | Messianic Promise / Righteous Branch | 23, 33 | Messianic title; never reduced to “a more righteous leader" |
| "The LORD is our righteousness” | יְהוָה צִדְקֵנוּ | YHWH tsidqenu | ”O SENHOR é a nossa justiça” | Critical | Righteous Branch / Imputed Righteousness | 23, 33 | Compound divine-messianic title; anticipates imputed righteousness |
| potter and clay | יָצַר / חֹמֶר | yatsar / chomer | o oleiro e o barro | Medium | God’s Sovereign Plans for His People | 18 | Compatibilist sovereignty; avoid deterministic or open-theist over-reading |
| vanity of idols | הֶבֶל | hebel | vaidade (sem poder/substância) | Medium | Idolatry | 10 | Ontological emptiness, not merely personal pride |
| stiff neck / obstinance | קְשֵׁה עֹרֶף | qesheh oreph | dura cerviz / obstinação | Low | Covenant Unfaithfulness | 7, 17, 19 | Idiom; low doctrinal risk |
| circumcise the heart | מוּל לֵב | mul lev | circuncidar o coração | Medium | New Covenant (anticipatory) | 4, 9 | Link forward to Jer 31:33 |
| scroll / book (of the word) | מְגִלָּה / סֵפֶר | megillah / sefer | rolo / livro | Medium-High | Inspiration of Scripture | 36 | Contrast fixed, textually stable revelation with ongoing psicografia claims |
| seventy years | שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה | shivim shanah | setenta anos | Low | Hope of Restoration after Exile | 25, 29 | Concrete, bounded prophecy; historically confirmed (2 Chron 36:21; Daniel 9:2) |
| cup of wrath | כּוֹס הַחֵמָה | kos chemah | copo do furor (not “cálice”) | Medium-High | Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness | 25 | Avoid “cálice” — Eucharistic-liturgical collision |
| ”days are coming” formula | הִנֵּה יָמִים בָּאִים | hinneh yamim ba’im | ”Eis que vêm dias” | Medium | Judgment & Restoration (formula) | 7, 9, 16, 19, 23, 30, 31, 33, 48, 49, 51 | Must render identically at every occurrence |
| oracle formula | נְאֻם־יְהוָה | ne’um-YHWH | ”diz o SENHOR” | Low | (formula) | throughout | Consistency check only |
| redeem / kinsman-redeemer act | גָּאַל | ga’al | redimir / resgatar | Medium | Hope of Restoration after Exile | 32 | OT legal-family institution; link forward to but distinguish from full atonement theology |
| queen of heaven (Egypt recurrence) | מַלְכַּת הַשָּׁמַיִם | malkat hashamayim | rainha dos céus | Critical | Idolatry (persistence after judgment) | 44 | Same entry as ch. 7; reinforced risk given post-catastrophe recurrence |
| Jeremiah’s confessions / laments | קִינָה / בָּכָה | qinah / bakah | lamentos / confissões de Jeremias | Medium | The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry | 11, 15, 18, 20 | Authentic, Spirit-inspired grief within faithful ministry, not sin or karmic consequence |
| forbidden intercession | (imperative negation of prayer) | — | “não ores por este povo” | High | Prayer and Intercession (contrast case) | 7, 11, 14, 15 | Judgment-specific prohibition; distinguish from Romans 8:26-34’s normative doctrine of ongoing intercession |
| ”nothing too hard for the LORD” | הֲיִפָּלֵא מֵאֵת יְהוָה כֹּל דָּבָר | hayipale me’et YHWH kol davar | ”Não há nada demasiado difícil para o SENHOR” | Medium | God’s Sovereign Plans for His People | 32 | Pair with “providência” to avoid deistic/fatalistic misreading |
C. Risk Tier Summary
| Risk Tier | Count (New Terms) | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 6 | Human theologian (mandatory, every occurrence) |
| High | 13 | Human theologian |
| Medium | 15 | Native speaker review |
| Low | 4 | Automated review |
D. Cross-Reference to Baseline Doctrine Risk Registry
The following new Jeremiah doctrines should be added to doctrine_risk_registry.json in Phase 1 Step 2, following the same schema as the Romans entries: The New Covenant (Critical), Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry (Critical), The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry (Medium-High), False Prophets versus True Prophecy (High), God’s Sovereign Plans for His People (High), Individual Responsibility (High), Hope of Restoration after Exile (High).
Critical Risk Terms
Righteousness
Approved rendering: justiça
Transliteration: dikaiosynē (NT); tsedeq/tsedaqah (Hebrew, Jeremiah)
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: mérito conquistado por esforço moral próprio
Original: צֶדֶק / צְדָקָה
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly for Hebrew tsedeq/tsedaqah in Jeremiah. CRITICAL in Jeremiah for the messianic titles ‘Renovo justo’ (23:5;33:15) and ‘O SENHOR é a nossa justiça’ (23:6;33:16). Must never collapse with mishpat (‘juízo’), the concrete social exercise of justice — see justice_and_righteousness_pair entry.
Justification
Approved rendering: justificação
Transliteration: dikaiōsis
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: progresso espiritual gradual
Inherited from Romans package. Retained for forward NT cross-reference from Jeremiah’s imputed-righteousness-anticipating titles (23:6; 33:16).
Salvation
Approved rendering: salvação
Transliteration: sōtēria
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: evolução espiritual através de reencarnações sucessivas
Inherited from Romans package. Relevant to Jeremiah’s restoration-after-exile doctrine as a historical type of ultimate salvation; never the Kardecist gradual reincarnation-based evolution.
Lord
Approved rendering: Senhor
Transliteration: kyrios
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Senhor apenas em sentido devocional, sem reivindicação de senhorio total
Original: אֲדֹנָי / יְהוה
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package for NT/Christological usage. In Jeremiah, the covenant name YHWH is instead rendered with the distinct small-caps convention ‘SENHOR’ — see new entry ‘lord_yhwh_senhor.’ Do not conflate the two renderings’ typographic conventions.
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’)
Original: typological; netser/tsemach
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. In Jeremiah, this Critical risk attaches specifically to the ‘Renovo justo’ and ‘O SENHOR é a nossa justiça’ titles (23:5-6; 33:15-16) — see new entries below. Never assimilated to a Kardecist most-evolved-spirit Christology.
Imputed Righteousness
Approved rendering: justiça imputada
Transliteration: elogisthē autō eis dikaiosynēn (Greek); cf. Hebrew tsedaqah
Doctrine: Justification by Faith
Rejected alternatives: justiça infundida (categoria tridentina), justiça conquistada por mérito próprio ao longo de vidas sucessivas
Inherited from Romans package. Directly anticipated by Jeremiah’s ‘O SENHOR é a nossa justiça’ title (23:6; 33:16) — see new entry ‘yhwh_tsidqenu.’ Never righteousness earned by moral effort across reincarnations.
God
Approved rendering: Deus
Transliteration: theos / Elohim
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: אֱלֹהִים
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Central to Jeremiah’s recurring covenant formula ‘E eu serei o seu Deus, e eles serão o meu povo’ (7:23; 11:4; 24:7; 30:22; 31:33; 32:38), which must render identically at every occurrence.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: Espírito Santo
Transliteration: pneuma hagion
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: espíritos guias ou mentores espirituais (espiritismo), orixás e guias (Candomblé/Umbanda)
Original: (not lexically frequent in Jeremiah; theologically implied in the new-heart promise)
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Not lexically frequent in Jeremiah itself but theologically implied in the new-heart promise (31:33) and its Ezekiel 36:26-27 parallel; used in teaching notes connecting Jeremiah to New Testament pneumatology. Never ‘espíritos guias’ or orixás.
Father
Approved rendering: Pai
Transliteration: patēr (Greek); av (Hebrew, Jeremiah)
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: אָב
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. In Jeremiah 3:19 and 31:9, God’s filial covenant address to his people anticipates the New Testament adoption doctrine already fixed in the baseline.
New Covenant
Approved rendering: nova aliança
Transliteration: berith chadashah
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: Novo Testamento (mero rótulo bibliográfico para a segunda parte da Bíblia impressa), concerto (arcaico, colide com ‘concerto musical’)
Original: בְּרִית חֲדָשָׁה
Category: New Covenant
The theological hinge of the entire curriculum (Jeremiah 31:31). Must not be flattened into a mere synonym for ‘Novo Testamento’ as a book section — the theological reality of a superior covenant relationship must remain primary. Quoted at length in Hebrews 8:8-12 and 10:16-17; rendering must remain recognizable across both testaments.
Lord Yhwh Senhor
Approved rendering: SENHOR
Transliteration: YHWH / Adonai
Doctrine: The Covenant Name of God (YHWH)
Rejected alternatives: Jeová (transliteração não usada na tradição Almeida), Yahweh (transliteração, quebra a tradição bíblica lusófona)
The Almeida-tradition small-caps convention for the divine covenant name YHWH, distinct typographically from baseline’s ‘Senhor’ (kyrios, applied to Christ). Occurs in the ne’um-YHWH oracle formula (~175 times) and throughout Jeremiah’s covenant-lawsuit language. Must convey the same exclusive, personal lordship the baseline ‘lord’ entry establishes for the New Testament.
Idolatry Idols
Approved rendering: idolatria / ídolos
Transliteration: avodah zarah / pesel / gillulim
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: עֲבוֹדָה זָרָה / פֶּסֶל / גִּלּוּלִים
Category: Judgment and Idolatry
Requires sustained doctrinal framing distinguishing the text’s actual historical target (ancient Near Eastern image-and-astral-deity worship) from unrelated contemporary Afro-Brazilian traditions (Candomblé, Umbanda) or Catholic veneration of saints/images. State clearly what is condemned without overreaching into modern devotional practices.
Queen Of Heaven
Approved rendering: rainha dos céus
Transliteration: malkat hashamayim
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: מַלְכַּת הַשָּׁמַיִם
Category: Judgment and Idolatry
The single most sensitive term-collision in this Language Package. ‘Rainha dos Céus’ is an existing, widely used Marian devotional title in Luso-Brazilian Catholic piety (Regina Caeli tradition). Mandatory historical-context note at every occurrence (Jer 7:18; 44:17-19,25) identifying the ancient astral-goddess referent (likely Ishtar/Astarte) and explicitly declining any claim about later, unrelated devotional titles.
Righteous Branch
Approved rendering: Renovo justo
Transliteration: netser tsaddiq / tsemach tsaddiq
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Rejected alternatives: um líder mais justo (dilui o título messiânico)
Original: נֵצֶר צַדִּיק / צֶמַח צַדִּיק
Category: Messianic Promise
A Davidic messianic title picturing a new shoot growing from an apparently dead royal stump (23:5; 33:15). Must never be softened to ‘a more righteous leader’ or assimilated to a Kardecist reading of Jesus as merely the most morally evolved of many spiritual figures.
Yhwh Tsidqenu
Approved rendering: O SENHOR é a nossa justiça
Transliteration: YHWH tsidqenu
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Rejected alternatives: Deus é justo (dilui o título composto divino-messiânico em afirmação genérica)
Original: יְהוָה צִדְקֵנוּ
Category: Messianic Promise
A compound divine-messianic title asserting the coming Davidic king himself embodies/provides YHWH’s own righteousness for his people (23:6; 33:16). Directly anticipates baseline’s Critical ‘justiça imputada.’ Must not be diluted into a general statement that God is fair/just.
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: evangelho
Transliteration: euangelion
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: mensagem de evolução moral (Kardecist ethical-progress framing)
Inherited from Romans package. Standard term shared by Catholic and Protestant Portuguese Bibles. Distinctive Brazilian risk: Allan Kardec’s ‘O Evangelho Segundo o Espiritismo’ reframes ‘evangelho’ as ethical teaching compatible with reincarnation. Relevant to Jeremiah teaching notes that tie the New Covenant (Jer 31:31-34) forward to its NT proclamation in the gospel; must not be taught as ethical self-improvement.
Grace
Approved rendering: graça
Transliteration: charis
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: mérito espiritual acumulado ao longo de vidas sucessivas
Inherited from Romans package. Relevant to Jeremiah 31:34’s forgiveness of iniquity and 32:17-27’s unconditioned restoration promises, both of which anticipate this term’s NT development; never rendered as merit earned across reincarnations.
Faith
Approved rendering: fé
Transliteration: pistis
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: convicção espírita, fé genérica em forças espirituais
Inherited from Romans package. Relevant to Jeremiah 17:5-8’s trust (‘confiar,’ batach) vocabulary as the OT root of NT faith-trust language.
Calling
Approved rendering: chamado
Transliteration: klēsis (Greek, Romans); qara (Hebrew, Jeremiah)
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: vocação (narrow sense of a call to priesthood or religious life)
Inherited from Romans package. Never ‘vocação’ in Luso-Brazilian usage, which narrows to priesthood/religious life — same collision applies to Jeremiah’s prophetic call narrative (ch. 1).
Sanctification
Approved rendering: santificação
Transliteration: hagiasmos (Greek); cf. Hebrew qadash root
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: purificação cármica ao longo de reencarnações (leitura espírita)
Inherited from Romans package. Jeremiah’s new-heart/new-covenant promises (24:7; 31:33; 32:39) are the Old Testament anticipatory ground for this doctrine’s NT fulfillment; never Kardecist multi-life karmic purification.
Law
Approved rendering: lei
Transliteration: nomos (Greek); torah (Hebrew, Jeremiah)
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Original: תּוֹרָה
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Jeremiah 31:33’s ‘lei no íntimo deles’ must not be read as new content replacing the old law (Marcionite-adjacent misreading); the contrast is internal-vs-external reception of the same Torah.
Covenant
Approved rendering: aliança
Transliteration: diathēkē (Greek); berith (Hebrew, Jeremiah)
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Rejected alternatives: contrato legal, concerto (arcaico, colide com ‘concerto musical’)
Original: בְּרִית
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Reused exactly for berith throughout Jeremiah: the broken Sinai covenant (11:1-10; 31:32), the Davidic covenant (33:20-21), and the new covenant (31:31) — see new entry ‘new_covenant’ for the Critical-risk compound term. Never ‘concerto.‘
Election
Approved rendering: eleição
Transliteration: eklogē (Greek); implied covenant choice (Hebrew, Jeremiah)
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: mérito conquistado ao longo de reencarnações
Original: (implied; covenant choice)
Category: Divine Calling
Inherited from Romans package. Applies to God’s sovereign initiative in choosing both Jeremiah (1:5) and Israel/Judah as covenant recipients (31:31); not a status earned across lifetimes.
Intercession
Approved rendering: intercessão
Transliteration: hyperentynchanei / enteuxis (Greek); implied (Hebrew, Jeremiah)
Doctrine: Prayer and Intercession
Rejected alternatives: comunicação com espíritos de mortos por meio de médiuns, intercessão exclusiva dos santos e de Maria
Original: (implied; prayer on behalf of the nation)
Category: Prayer
Inherited from Romans package. In Jeremiah, this baseline term for normative intercession must be distinguished from the judgment-specific prohibition of intercession — see new entry ‘forbidden_intercession.‘
Providence
Approved rendering: providência
Transliteration: pronoia (Greek theological category); cf. Jeremiah 29:11, 32:17-27
Doctrine: Providence
Rejected alternatives: lei de causa e efeito espírita (regência cármica das reencarnações)
Original: (theological category; cf. Jer 29:11, 32:17-27)
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Jeremiah’s potter-and-clay image (ch. 18) and ‘nothing too hard for the LORD’ (32:17,27) are the book’s key providence texts; pair together to avoid deistic or fatalistic misreadings, and never render as the Kardecist impersonal ‘lei de causa e efeito.‘
Heart
Approved rendering: coração
Transliteration: lev / levav
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: mente (perde a unidade holística hebraica), sentimento (reduz ao emocional apenas)
Original: לֵב / לֵבָב
Category: New Covenant
In Hebrew anthropology, the seat of mind, will, and moral decision, not primarily emotion. Popular Brazilian usage skews emotional/sentimental (‘de coração,’ ‘no fundo do coração’). Must be glossed as the whole inner person wherever the New Covenant doctrine depends on it (Jer 4:4; 17:9; 24:7; 31:33; 32:39).
New Heart
Approved rendering: coração novo
Transliteration: lev chadash
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Original: לֵב חָדָשׁ (implied, cf. 24:7; 32:39)
Category: New Covenant
Anticipatory statements in Jeremiah 24:7 and 32:39 state this promise ahead of its full statement in 31:33; teach as progressive stages of one promise, not separate promises.
Knowledge Of The Lord
Approved rendering: conhecer o SENHOR / conhecimento do SENHOR
Transliteration: da’at YHWH
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: esclarecimento espiritual progressivo (leitura espírita/kardecista)
Original: דַּעַת יְהוה
Category: New Covenant
Relational, covenantal, experiential knowing, not intellectual data. Must exclude the Kardecist notion of progressive intellectual/spiritual ‘esclarecimento’ attained gradually across incarnations. Jeremiah 31:34’s ‘from the least to the greatest’ is the direct opposite of a spiritual hierarchy. Also anticipated at 9:23-24 and 24:7; render consistently across all three passages.
Remember Sin No More
Approved rendering: não se lembrar mais
Transliteration: lo ezkor-od
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: ele vai esquecer por um tempo (implica perdão adiado, não definitivo), não vai levar em conta por ora (implica registro ainda existente)
Original: לֹא אֶזְכֹּר־עוֹד
Category: New Covenant
The sharpest doctrinal collision point in the book for a Brazilian audience: Kardecist Spiritism teaches every deed is permanently inscribed in the spirit’s moral record and worked off across reincarnations. Jeremiah 31:34’s promise is the direct opposite and must never be softened into deferred or partial forgetting.
Baal
Approved rendering: Baal (nome próprio) / senhor, esposo (verbo)
Transliteration: ba’al
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: בַּעַל
Category: Judgment and Idolatry
Proper name of the Canaanite storm-god; also the ordinary verb root ‘to be master/husband,’ which YHWH applies to himself in Jeremiah 31:32. Mandatory translator’s note at 31:32 explaining the Hebrew wordplay: YHWH reclaims the very title Israel had given to a rival god. Invisible to a Portuguese reader without this note.
False Prophet
Approved rendering: falso profeta
Transliteration: nabi sheqer
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
Original: נָבִיא שָׁקֶר
Category: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
Must be taught in contrast to Kardecist psicografia (already Critical in baseline under inspiration_of_scripture), Afro-Brazilian mediumistic/divinatory practices, and unaccountable contemporary prophetic claims. Jeremiah’s own criteria (23:21-22,32) — genuine divine sending, and a message that turns people from evil — are the test, not sincerity or popularity.
Divination Dreams
Approved rendering: adivinhação / sonhos
Transliteration: qesem / chalom
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
Original: קֶסֶם / חָלוֹם
Category: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
Direct relevance to Brazilian Kardecist and Afro-Brazilian divinatory practices (psicografia, jogo de búzios, cartomancia, incorporação). Dreams are not condemned as a category; false claims to revelatory dreams divorced from God’s actual word are condemned (23:25-32).
False Peace
Approved rendering: Paz, paz; e não há paz
Transliteration: shalom shalom ve’en shalom
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
Original: שָׁלוֹם שָׁלוֹם וְאֵין שָׁלוֹם
Category: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
Jeremiah’s own diagnostic test for false prophecy: proclaiming covenant well-being without addressing covenant unfaithfulness (6:14; 8:11). Must render identically at both occurrences. Directly relevant to any modern preaching, in any tradition, that proclaims blessing or prosperity detached from repentance.
Shub Return Repent Restore
Approved rendering: voltar-se / converter-se / arrepender-se / restaurar
Transliteration: shub
Doctrine: Judgment and Restoration
Original: שׁוּב
Category: Judgment and Restoration
One Hebrew root spans covenantal apostasy (turning away), covenantal repentance (turning back), and God’s own restoring action (turning back the captivity), used over 110 times in Jeremiah. ‘Converter-se’ carries a strong Brazilian Evangelical/Pentecostal single-decisive-experience connotation; must also be distinguished from Kardecist gradual moral ‘conversão’ across lifetimes. Teach the shared root explicitly even where Portuguese requires different words.
Spiritual Adultery
Approved rendering: prostituir-se / infidelidade espiritual
Transliteration: zanah
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Rejected alternatives: desobediência genérica (perde o ferrão relacional)
Original: זָנָה
Category: Judgment and Idolatry
The dominant metaphor for covenant unfaithfulness (chs. 2-3, 5, 13): idol worship pictured as marital infidelity against YHWH. Must be taught as a theological metaphor for relational betrayal, not a literal accusation; reincarnation-based religions have no analogous category of betrayal of a personal covenant God.
Gods Plans
Approved rendering: pensamentos (planos)
Transliteration: machashabah
Doctrine: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People
Original: מַחֲשָׁבָה
Category: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People
Jeremiah 29:11 is among the most-quoted, most-decontextualized verses in Brazilian popular Evangelical culture, routinely applied as an individual prosperity-oriented promise. Must restore the actual context: a corporate promise to a specific exiled community, contingent on seventy years passing and on genuine seeking of the LORD (29:13).
Covenant Loyalty Chesed
Approved rendering: benignidade / fidelidade leal
Transliteration: chesed
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: bondade (genérica demais), gentileza (perde a força de aliança)
Original: חֶסֶד
Category: Covenant
Covenantal loyal-love — steadfast faithfulness within a binding relationship, not generic kindness (Jer 2:2). Must preserve the covenant-lawsuit force with which the book’s opening indictment is framed.
Restore Fortunes
Approved rendering: restaurar a sorte do cativeiro
Transliteration: shub shevut
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
Rejected alternatives: restauração genérica (sem o marco técnico da frase)
Original: שׁוּב שְׁבוּת
Category: Hope of Restoration after Exile
The technical covenantal phrase for full restoration to land and status previously forfeited through judgment (29:14; 30:3,18; 31:23; 32:44; 33:7,11,26). Must be sharply distinguished from Kardecist ‘evolução espiritual’ or generic prosperity theology; a specific, gracious, covenant-keeping act of the God who himself caused the judgment (30:11).
Individual Responsibility
Approved rendering: responsabilidade individual
Transliteration: — (proverb; cf. Jeremiah 31:29-30)
Doctrine: Individual Responsibility
Original: (proverb, no single Hebrew term; cf. Jer 31:29-30)
Category: Individual Responsibility
Under the new covenant, moral accountability before God is personal, not inherited from ancestors (‘each shall die for his own iniquity,’ 31:29-30). Must be distinguished from both neo-Pentecostal ‘maldições generacionais’ folk teaching (which overstates inherited guilt) and Kardecist multi-life karma (which this text’s this-life resolution directly excludes).
Scroll Book
Approved rendering: rolo / livro
Transliteration: megillah / sefer
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Original: מְגִלָּה / סֵפֶר
Category: Inspiration of Scripture
The written scroll of Jeremiah’s prophecies, burned by Jehoiakim and rewritten by God’s command (ch. 36). Strong teaching opportunity contrasting fixed, once-given revelation with the Kardecist model of ongoing, medium-channeled revelation (psicografia); cross-reference baseline’s Critical ‘inspiration_of_scripture.‘
Cup Of Wrath
Approved rendering: copo do furor
Transliteration: kos chemah
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Rejected alternatives: cálice (colide com o cálice eucarístico católico)
Original: כּוֹס הַחֵמָה
Category: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness
Deliberately never ‘cálice’ — that vessel-word carries strong Catholic Eucharistic-liturgical resonance; pairing it with divine wrath imagery risks an unintended sacramental collision. Use ‘copo do furor’ consistently (ch. 25 and parallels).
Laments Confessions
Approved rendering: lamentos / confissões de Jeremias
Transliteration: qinah / bakah
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry
Rejected alternatives: lamentação (colide com o gênero litúrgico católico das ‘Lamentações de Jeremias’)
Original: קִינָה / בָּכָה
Category: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry
Jeremiah’s five personal laments (chs. 11, 15, 18, 20). Must be taught pastorally as authentic, Spirit-inspired lament within faithful ministry, not sin or unbelief, and distinguished from a Kardecist reading of suffering as karmic consequence for the prophet’s own past deeds.
Forbidden Intercession
Approved rendering: não ores por este povo
Transliteration: (imperative negation of prayer; cf. Jer 7:16; 11:14; 14:11; 15:1)
Doctrine: Prayer and Intercession
Original: (imperative negation of prayer; cf. Jer 7:16; 11:14; 14:11; 15:1)
Category: Prayer and Intercession
God’s unusual, temporary prohibition of Jeremiah’s intercession because covenant unfaithfulness had passed a judgment threshold. Must be carefully distinguished from the baseline Romans 8:26-34 doctrine of ongoing intercession; this is judgment-specific, not a normative statement about prayer’s efficacy.
Medium Risk Terms
Called
Approved rendering: chamado
Transliteration: qara (Hebrew, Jeremiah 1:5); klētos (Greek, Romans)
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: convocado (bureaucratic register)
Inherited from Romans package. In Jeremiah 1:5, God’s sovereign pre-natal summons of the prophet; consistent with baseline usage for the universal divine calling of believers.
Holy
Approved rendering: santo
Transliteration: hagios (Greek); qadash (Hebrew, verbal sense in Jeremiah 1:5)
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: puro em sentido ritual
Inherited from Romans package. See distinct new entry ‘holy_set_apart’ for the Jeremiah 1:5 consecration/qadash nuance tied specifically to prophetic calling.
Peace
Approved rendering: paz
Transliteration: eirēnē (Greek); shalom (Hebrew, Jeremiah)
Doctrine: Peace with God
Rejected alternatives: tranquilidade emocional
Original: שָׁלוֹם
Category: New Covenant / Restoration
Inherited from Romans package. In Jeremiah, elevated to High risk specifically within the ‘false peace’ diagnostic formula (6:14; 8:11) — see new entry ‘false_peace.’ Base term itself remains Medium.
Sin
Approved rendering: pecado
Transliteration: hamartia (Greek); chatta’ah / avon (Hebrew, Jeremiah)
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: erro a ser corrigido em vidas futuras (leitura espírita)
Original: חַטָּאָה / עָוֹן
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans package. Both Hebrew nuances (chatta’ah, ‘missing the mark,’ and avon, ‘iniquity/guilt’) map onto this single Portuguese word in Jeremiah 31:34; flag the nuance loss in teaching notes where both terms occur together.
Glory
Approved rendering: glória
Transliteration: doxa (Greek); kavod (Hebrew, Jeremiah 2:11)
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: כָּבוֹד
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Jeremiah 2:11, ‘they exchanged their glory,’ frames idolatry as a direct affront to God’s kavod; teach alongside the idolatry_idols doctrine.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: poder de Deus
Transliteration: dynamis theou (Greek); cf. Jeremiah 32:17,27
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Relevant to Jeremiah’s ‘nothing too hard for the LORD’ statements (32:17,27) — see new entry ‘nothing_too_hard_for_lord’ for the fixed Jeremiah phrase.
Seed Of David
Approved rendering: descendência de Davi
Transliteration: sperma Dauid (Greek); cf. Hebrew zera David
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Relevant to Jeremiah’s Davidic-covenant material (chs. 22-23, 33, 52) and the ‘Renovo justo’ messianic title’s royal lineage.
Forgive Iniquity
Approved rendering: perdoar a maldade
Transliteration: salach la’avon
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Original: סָלַח לְעָוֹן
Category: New Covenant
salach is used only of divine forgiveness in the Old Testament, never of humans forgiving each other. The passage’s totality (iniquity fully pardoned) must be preserved against Catholic-penitential readings requiring further temporal satisfaction or Kardecist-karmic readings requiring balancing across lives.
Molech Topheth
Approved rendering: Moloque / Tofete
Transliteration: Molek / Tofet
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: מֹלֶך / תֹּפֶת
Category: Judgment and Idolatry
Proper nouns for the Ammonite deity and the child-sacrifice site in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom (Jer 7; 19; 32). Low direct collision risk in Portuguese; the etymological link to New Testament ‘Gehenna’ is a valuable optional cross-reference.
Mishpat Justice
Approved rendering: juízo
Transliteration: mishpat
Doctrine: Covenant Ethics
Original: מִשְׁפָּט
Category: Covenant Ethics
The concrete exercise of justice in social, legal, and covenant-community life, distinct from tsedeq/tsedaqah’s righteous character/status (baseline ‘justiça’). Must not be collapsed into ‘justiça’ wherever Jeremiah pairs the two terms (5:1,4-5,28; 12:1; 22:3).
Justice And Righteousness Pair
Approved rendering: juízo e justiça
Transliteration: mishpat u-tsedaqah
Doctrine: Covenant Ethics
Rejected alternatives: justiça (colapsando o par em uma só palavra)
Original: מִשְׁפָּט וּצְדָקָה
Category: Covenant Ethics
A fixed word-pair required of Judah’s kings (22:3). The pairing must be preserved as two words to retain the distinction between righteous character and its concrete social exercise.
Remnant
Approved rendering: remanescente / resto
Transliteration: she’erith
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
Original: שְׁאֵרִית
Category: Hope of Restoration after Exile
The surviving portion of the covenant community after judgment (chs. 42-44) — both object of continued judgment and seed of future restoration. Hold this tension intact; avoid collapsing into either simple optimism or simple pessimism.
Exile Captivity
Approved rendering: cativeiro / exílio
Transliteration: galuth / golah
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
Original: גָּלוּת / גּוֹלָה
Category: Hope of Restoration after Exile
The historical, bounded (seventy-year) Babylonian captivity (chs. 24, 29, 40-44, 52). Must be presented as a historical, bounded event, not a cyclical or karmic state of ongoing spiritual debt.
Shepherds Leaders
Approved rendering: pastores
Transliteration: ro’im
Doctrine: Leadership Accountability
Rejected alternatives: líderes (genérico, perde a metáfora pastoral)
Original: רֹעִים
Category: Leadership Accountability
Kings and priests as shepherds of God’s flock, indicted for failed leadership (23:1-4). Contemporary Brazilian usage of ‘pastor’ overwhelmingly denotes Evangelical/Pentecostal clergy; manage referent narrowing so the ancient royal/priestly referent is not lost.
Potter And Clay
Approved rendering: o oleiro e o barro
Transliteration: yatsar / chomer
Doctrine: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People
Original: יָצַר / חֹמֶר
Category: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People
The image of God as sovereign potter reworking the clay of nations in response to their conduct (18:1-11). Must avoid both a deterministic reading erasing the passage’s explicit conditional logic (18:7-10) and an open-theist-adjacent reading erasing God’s sovereign initiative.
Vanity Of Idols Hebel
Approved rendering: vaidade (sem poder, sem substância)
Transliteration: hebel
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: הֶבֶל
Category: Judgment and Idolatry
Idols mocked as ontologically empty — breath, vapor, no substance or power (10:3,8,15) — not merely morally vain. Modern Portuguese ‘vaidade’ skews toward personal pride; mandatory clarifying gloss alongside the term.
Circumcise Heart
Approved rendering: circuncidar o coração
Transliteration: mul lev
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Original: מוּל לֵב
Category: New Covenant (Anticipatory)
A call for the covenant sign of circumcision to correspond to an inward reality (4:4; cf. 9:26). Must be explicitly linked forward to Jeremiah 31:33 for curriculum coherence.
Days Are Coming Formula
Approved rendering: Eis que vêm dias
Transliteration: hinneh yamim ba’im
Doctrine: Judgment and Restoration (Literary Formula)
Rejected alternatives: chegará o tempo, virá um dia (variações que quebram o padrão literário)
Original: הִנֵּה יָמִים בָּאִים
Category: Judgment and Restoration (Literary Formula)
A fixed prophetic-eschatological introductory formula, used roughly 15 times (7:32; 9:25; 16:14; 19:6; 23:5,7; 30:3; 31:27,31,38; 33:14; 48:12; 49:2; 51:47,52). Must render identically at every occurrence so learners recognize the recurring pattern.
Redeem Kinsman
Approved rendering: redimir / resgatar
Transliteration: ga’al
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
Original: גָּאַל
Category: Hope of Restoration after Exile
The Old Testament kinsman-redemption legal-family institution, enacted by Jeremiah’s purchase of the field at Anathoth under siege (32:6-15). Should be linked forward to NT redemption language but kept distinct as an OT legal-family institution rather than collapsed prematurely into full atonement theology.
Nothing Too Hard For Lord
Approved rendering: Não há nada demasiado difícil para o SENHOR
Transliteration: hayipale me’et YHWH kol davar
Doctrine: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People
Original: הֲיִפָּלֵא מֵאֵת יְהוָה כֹּל דָּבָר
Category: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People
A direct statement of divine omnipotence framing the whole restoration program (32:17,27). Should be taught alongside ‘providência’ to avoid a deistic or fatalistic misreading.
Nations
Approved rendering: nações
Transliteration: goyim
Doctrine: Sovereignty over Nations
Rejected alternatives: gentios (registro anacrônico do Novo Testamento aplicado ao Antigo Testamento)
Original: גּוֹיִם
Category: Sovereignty over Nations
Use ‘nações,’ not baseline’s New Testament-era ‘gentios,’ to avoid anachronistic register in Jeremiah’s Old Testament context (chs. 1, 25, 46-51).
Rachel Weeping
Approved rendering: Raquel chorando por seus filhos
Transliteration: Rachel mevakah al-baneiha
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
Original: רָחֵל מְבַכָּה עַל־בָּנֶיהָ
Category: Hope of Restoration after Exile
A lament image for the exile of Ephraim/Israel’s children (31:15), quoted in Matthew 2:18 of Herod’s massacre of the innocents. Flag for consistent rendering matching the destination-language Matthew 2:18 for learner recognizability.
Holy Set Apart
Approved rendering: santo / consagrar
Transliteration: qadash
Doctrine: Prophetic Calling
Rejected alternatives: consagração (sentido restrito de ordenação sacerdotal ou votos religiosos)
Original: קָדַשׁ
Category: Prophetic Calling
God’s consecration/setting-apart of Jeremiah for prophetic ministry before birth (1:5). Must be distinguished from the narrow Catholic-culture sense of ‘consagração’ as ordination to priesthood or religious vows.
Formed In Womb
Approved rendering: formar
Transliteration: yatsar
Doctrine: Prophetic Calling
God’s creative, purposive shaping of Jeremiah before birth for his prophetic vocation (1:5); same root reused of the potter reworking clay in ch. 18 (see potter_and_clay). Must carry its specific vocational sense, not only a general statement about human origin.
Low Risk Terms
Prophet
Approved rendering: profeta
Transliteration: prophētēs (Greek); nabi (Hebrew, Jeremiah)
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: médium (channeler of spirit messages)
Original: נָבִיא
Category: Prophecy
Inherited from Romans package. Base risk Low; elevated to High specifically in Jeremiah’s false-prophet polemic contexts (chs. 23, 27-29) — see new entry ‘false_prophet.‘
Prophecy
Approved rendering: profecia
Transliteration: prophēteia (Greek); nevu’ah (Hebrew, implied)
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: psicografia (spirit messages transcribed through mediums)
Original: נְבוּאָה (implied)
Category: Prophecy
Inherited from Romans package. Never equated with psicografia, the Kardecist mediumistic practice; relevant throughout Jeremiah’s prophetic-authenticity material.
David
Approved rendering: Davi
Transliteration: Dawid
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: דָּוִד
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Standard proper name throughout Jeremiah 22, 23, 30, 33, 52.
Israel
Approved rendering: Israel
Transliteration: Yisra’el
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: יִשְׂרָאֵל
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Standard proper name; in Jeremiah 31:31 paired with ‘casa de Judá’ in the new covenant’s reunification of the divided covenant people — see new entry ‘house_of_israel_judah.‘
Stiff Neck
Approved rendering: dura cerviz / obstinação
Transliteration: qesheh oreph
Doctrine: Covenant Unfaithfulness
Rejected alternatives: pescoço duro (calque literal, pouco natural)
Original: קְשֵׁה עֹרֶף
Category: Covenant Unfaithfulness
Idiom for stubborn resistance to God’s word (chs. 7, 17, 19). Low doctrinal collision risk; render naturally rather than as a literal calque.
Seventy Years
Approved rendering: setenta anos
Transliteration: shivim shanah
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
Original: שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה
Category: Hope of Restoration after Exile
The specific, datable prophesied length of Babylonian captivity (25:11-12; 29:10), historically confirmed (2 Chronicles 36:21; Daniel 9:2). Evidence that God’s judgments are bounded and purposeful, not open-ended or cyclical.
Oracle Formula
Approved rendering: diz o SENHOR
Transliteration: ne’um-YHWH
Doctrine: Literary Formula
Original: נְאֻם־יְהוָה
Category: Literary Formula
Oracular formula marking direct divine speech, occurring over 175 times in Jeremiah — the highest concentration in the Old Testament. Consistency check only.
Thus Says The Lord Formula
Approved rendering: assim diz o SENHOR
Transliteration: koh amar YHWH
Doctrine: Literary Formula
Distinct introductory oracle formula from ne’um-YHWH; used throughout Jeremiah to open divine speeches. Consistency check only.
Trust
Approved rendering: confiar
Transliteration: batach
Doctrine: Faith
Original: בָּטַח
Category: Faith
Reliance placed in the LORD rather than human strength (17:5-8). Low collision risk; link conceptually to baseline ‘fé’ as the Old Testament root of New Testament faith-trust vocabulary.
Prophetic Sign Acts
Approved rendering: atos simbólicos proféticos
Transliteration: ezor, motah, baqbuq (various)
Doctrine: Prophecy (Literary Technique)
Original: (various: אֵזוֹר, מוֹטָה, בַּקְבֻּק)
Category: Prophecy (Literary Technique)
Symbolic, enacted prophecies using ordinary objects (loincloth, yoke, broken flask, sunk scroll) to dramatize covenant-breaking and judgment (chs. 13, 19, 27-28, 32, 51). No doctrinal substitution risk; teach as a coherent recurring technique.
House Of Israel Judah
Approved rendering: casa de Israel / casa de Judá
Transliteration: beth Yisra’el / beth Yehudah
Doctrine: The New Covenant
The northern and southern covenant nations, reunited as a single promised recipient of the new covenant (31:31). Standard Almeida-tradition rendering.
Referenced passages