Core Glossary
Core Glossary — Proverbs
A. Terms Reused Exactly from Baseline Romans Translation Memory
| Term (English) | Hebrew / (LXX Greek) | Portuguese (baseline, reused exactly) | Risk (baseline) | Proverbs passages | Reuse note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| peace | שָׁלוֹם (εἰρήνη) | paz | Medium | 3:2, 3:17 | Relational wholeness under wisdom, consistent with baseline’s “peace with God” sense. |
| law | תּוֹרָה (context: statute sense) (νόμος) | lei | High | 28:4, 7, 9; 29:18 (chok) | ONLY when torah/chok denote God’s general revealed statutes; NOT for the parental-instruction sense (see Section B, “instrução/ensino”). |
| righteousness | צֶדֶק/צְדָקָה (δικαιοσύνη) | justiça | Critical | 10:2, 11:4-6, 14:34, 31:9 | Reused where the social/corporate-ethics sense of “righteous conduct” is present; teach explicitly alongside, not as identical to, Romans’ forensic justification sense. |
| holy_spirit / god / father | — | Espírito Santo / Deus / Pai | Critical | (implicit throughout; explicit “the LORD” = YHWH passages) | No Proverbs-specific new risk beyond baseline’s existing Critical notes; “YHWH”/“the LORD” throughout Proverbs renders as “o Senhor,” consistent with baseline’s “lord” entry conventions for Yahweh in the OT context. |
| glory | כָּבוֹד (δόξα) | glória | Medium | 25:2 | Distinctive nuance (glory-in-concealment); reuse baseline term exactly. |
| fellowship | רֵעַ-related companionship (κοινωνία-adjacent) | companheirismo | Low | 17:17, 27:17 | Reused for the friendship/mutual-encouragement sense; not a full lexical match to koinōnia but the closest baseline analogue. |
B. New Terms Proposed for This Curriculum
| Term (English gloss) | Hebrew / (LXX Greek) | Transliteration | Proposed Portuguese | Doctrine | Risk | Key passages | Risk notes (Brazil-specific where applicable) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fear of the LORD | יִרְאַת יְהוָה (φόβος θεοῦ) | yir’at YHWH | temor do Senhor | The Fear of the Lord as the Beginning of Wisdom | Critical | 1:7; 3:7; 9:10; 15:33; 31:30 | Book’s thesis term. Must be taught as reverent, relational, filial awe — NOT servile terror (folk-Catholic risk) and NOT dread of an impersonal karmic “lei de causa e efeito” (Kardecist risk, directly parallel to baseline’s providence entry). Human theologian review every occurrence. |
| wisdom | חָכְמָה (σοφία) | chokmah | sabedoria | Wisdom Personified; general wisdom doctrine | High | throughout; esp. chs. 1-9 | Watch for conflation with Kardecist “espírito evoluído” wisdom-through-reincarnation framing; must be anchored to yir’at YHWH in every teaching context. |
| Wisdom Personified | חָכְמוֹת (ἡ σοφία) | chokmot | Sabedoria (personificada) | Wisdom Personified | Critical | 1:20-33; 8:1-36; 9:1-6 | Risk of (a) Arian-adjacent “created lesser being” misreading colliding with Kardecist “espíritos superiores,” and (b) syncretistic assimilation to female orixás (e.g., Oxum) or independent Marian-style veneration. Must be taught as personified divine attribute pointing typologically to Christ, not an autonomous being. Human theologian review every occurrence. |
| Woman Folly | אִוֶּלֶת (ἀφροσύνη) | ivvelet | Insensatez (personificada) / “a mulher Loucura” | The Contrast of the Wise and the Fool | High | 9:13-18 | Risk of literal-spirit misreading paralleling Umbanda/Candomblé personified-spirit categories (e.g., pomba-giras); teach as literary personification of a moral disposition. |
| favor (relational/social reward) | חֵן (χάρις) | chen | favor (NOT graça) | Wisdom’s this-life rewards | Critical | 3:4, 3:34 (also cited at James 4:6/1 Peter 5:5) | Distinct from baseline’s soteriological “graça” (χάρις in Romans). Using “graça” here risks teaching that saving grace is earned by wise conduct — a direct doctrinal collision with both Tridentine-merit and Kardecist-merit-across-lifetimes readings baseline already flags for “grace.” Human theologian review required before any Phase 2 use. |
| discipline / reproof | מוּסָר / תּוֹכַחַת (παιδεία / ἔλεγχος) | musar / tokhachat | disciplina / repreensão (correção) | The Fear of the Lord; Practical Righteousness | High | 3:11-12; 6:23; 13:1, 18; 15:5, 32; 29:15 | Direct collision with Kardecism’s “lei de causa e efeito” moral correction distributed across reincarnations; teach as a personal Father’s in-this-life, once-for-all loving correction (echoing Hebrews 12:5-6). |
| tree of life | עֵץ חַיִּים (ξύλον ζωῆς) | etz chayim | árvore da vida | Wisdom’s reward; eschatological hope | Critical | 3:18; 11:30; 13:12; 15:4 | Collision with esoteric/New Age and Spiritist-syncretic “árvore da vida” cosmological symbolism prevalent in some Brazilian occult and Afro-Brazilian religious circles. Must be tied to Eden and to Revelation 22’s eschatological fulfillment, not cosmic “life-force” imagery. |
| fool (four-fold semantic domain) | אֱוִיל / לֵץ / כְּסִיל / פֶּתִי (ἄφρων / ἀκόλαστος / ἄφρων / ἄκακος) | evil / letz / kesil / peti | tolo (moralmente obstinado) / escarnecedor(zombador) / insensato / símplice(ingênuo) | The Contrast of the Wise and the Fool | Medium | 1:7, 22, 32; 9:7-8; 10:23; 14:6-9; 26:1-12 | Keep four distinct Portuguese terms consistently across the whole curriculum rather than collapsing to one generic “tolo,” preserving the book’s deliberate semantic gradation of folly. |
| righteous / wicked (character pair) | צַדִּיק / רָשָׁע (δίκαιος / ἀσεβής) | tsaddiq / rasha | justo / perverso (ímpio) | Practical Righteousness; Wise vs. Fool | High | 10:2-32 (and pervasively chs. 10-29) | “Justo” reuses baseline “justiça” word-family (Critical in baseline) but here names observable practical conduct/character, not forensic justification — teach the distinction explicitly rather than importing Romans’ soteriological weight uncritically onto every Proverbs occurrence. |
| sluggard / diligent | עָצֵל / חָרוּץ (ὀκνηρός / ἐπιμελής) | atsel / charuts | preguiçoso / diligente | Diligence versus Sloth | Medium | 6:6-11; 10:4-5, 26; 13:4; 19:24; 20:4; 24:30-34; 26:13-16 | Standard, low ambiguity, but should be rendered consistently across every occurrence so the recurring character-type is recognizable to learners. |
| tongue / mouth (speech ethics) | לָשׁוֹן / פֶּה (γλῶσσα / στόμα) | lashon / peh | língua / boca | Speech and Self-Control | Medium | 6:17, 24; 10:19-21, 31-32; 12:18-19; 15:1-4; 18:21; 25:15 | Clarify biblical concern is moral/relational harm and self-control, not the folk-magical efficacy of spoken curses/blessings (praga) found in Brazilian popular religiosity. |
| soft/gentle answer | מַעֲנֶה־רַךְ (ἀπόκρισις πραεῖα) | ma’aneh rakh | resposta branda/mansa | Speech and Self-Control | Low | 15:1 | Standard, well-attested phrase. |
| patience / slow to anger | אֶרֶך אַפַּיִם (μακρόθυμος) | erekh appayim | paciência / tardio para a ira | Speech and Self-Control | Low-Medium | 14:29; 15:18; 16:32; 19:11; 25:15 | Reinforce cross-curriculum consistency with NT “fruit of the Spirit” (Galatians 5:22) vocabulary if this curriculum later intersects that passage. |
| trust (in the LORD) | בָּטַח (πεποιθὼς) | batach | confiar | Trust in the Lord’s Providence | High | 3:5; 16:20; 28:25; 29:25; 31:11 | Must exclude reliance on mediumistic guidance (Kardecist mediums, Umbanda/Candomblé consultation of entidades) as an alternative, mainstream source of “guidance” in Brazil. |
| way / path | דֶּרֶךְ / אֹרַח / מַעְגָּל / נָתִיב (ὁδός / τρίβος) | derekh / orach / ma’gal / nativ | caminho / vereda / trilha | Two Ways framework; Providence | Medium | 2:8, 20; 3:6; 4:18-19, 26-27; 12:15, 28; 14:12 | Brazil’s pluralistic religious marketplace (Kardecist “caminho evolutivo,” Umbanda’s “caminhos,” astrology) requires explicit framing as submission to God’s one revealed moral way. |
| the LORD’s providence over outcomes | (multiple: goral 16:33; lev melekh 21:1; kol pa’al 16:4) | goral / lev melekh beyad YHWH / kol pa’al | sorte (lançada) / o coração do rei na mão do Senhor / tudo para o seu propósito | Trust in the Lord’s Providence | High | 16:4, 33; 19:21; 20:24; 21:1, 30-31 | Direct parallel to baseline’s providence entry (Romans 8:28) risk profile; “sorte” specifically risks collision with Brazilian divination practice (jogo de búzios, tarot, horóscopo) and must be explicitly de-linked from fatalistic or divinatory reading. |
| vision / prophetic revelation | חָזוֹן (ὅρασις) | chazon | visão / profecia | Inspiration of Scripture (cross-reference to baseline doctrine) | High | 29:18 | Parallels baseline’s inspiration_of_scripture risk note: must be distinguished from Kardecist mediumistic “visões”/clairvoyance claims. |
| word of God | אִמְרַת אֱלֹוהַ (λόγοι θεοῦ) | palavra de Deus | palavra de Deus | Inspiration of Scripture | High | 30:5-6 | Same collision profile as chazon; must be distinguished from psicografia (mediumistic transcription), per baseline’s forbidden-substitution note. |
| honor with wealth / firstfruits | כָּבֵד…הוֹן / רֵאשִׁית תְּבוּאָה (τίμα…ἀπαρχάς) | kabed…hon / reshit tevu’ah | honrar…bens / primícias | Practical Righteousness; Trust in Providence | High | 3:9-10 | Brazil-specific: risk of prosperity-gospel (“seed offering”) transactional misreading given the scale of neo-Pentecostal prosperity theology in Brazil (e.g., IURD-style teaching). Must be taught as worship/trust, not a guaranteed-return formula. |
| virtuous/excellent wife | אֵשֶׁת־חַיִל (γυνὴ ἀνδρεία) | eshet chayil | mulher virtuosa | Practical Righteousness in Daily Life | Medium | 12:4; 31:10-31 | Render identically at both occurrences (12:4 and ch. 31) for curriculum consistency. |
| strange/forbidden woman | אִשָּׁה זָרָה / נֹכְרִיָּה (γυνὴ ἀλλοτρία) | ishah zarah / nokriyah | mulher estranha / mulher alheia | Practical Righteousness; Wise vs. Fool | Medium | 2:16-19; 5:3-20; 6:24-35; 7:5-27; 23:27 | Teach in its moral-religious sense (adultery/idolatry figure); avoid an ethnic/xenophobic misreading of “estrangeira.” |
| abomination | תּוֹעֵבָה (βδέλυγμα) | abominação | abominação | Practical Righteousness | Medium | 6:16-19; 11:1, 20; 12:22; 15:8-9, 26; 16:5 | Preserve full moral force per validation rule; do not soften. |
| covenant loyalty / kindness | חֶסֶד (ἔλεος) | chesed | bondade leal / benignidade | Practical Righteousness | Medium | 3:3; 14:21-22, 31; 16:6; 19:22; 20:6, 28; 21:21 | Flatten risk: plain “bondade” loses covenant-loyalty depth; use a compound gloss in teaching notes. |
| firm/reliable truth | אֱמֶת (ἀλήθεια) | emet | verdade/fidelidade | Practical Righteousness; Speech | Medium | 3:3; 8:7; 12:19; 14:22; 16:13; 20:28 | Standard, low collision risk. |
| train up a child | חָנַךְ (κατάρτισον) | chanakh | instruir/educar (a criança) | Practical Righteousness (parenting) | Low-Medium | 22:6 | Teach as a general pattern, not an ironclad guarantee, for pastoral sensitivity. |
| good name | שֵׁם טוֹב (ὄνομα καλόν) | shem tov | bom nome | Practical Righteousness | Low | 22:1; 25:2 (related shem YHWH) | Standard. |
| strong tower / name of the LORD | מִגְדַּל־עֹז / שֵׁם יְהוָה (πύργος ἰσχύος / ὄνομα κυρίου) | migdal-oz / shem YHWH | torre forte / o nome do Senhor | Trust in the Lord’s Providence | High | 18:10 | Risk of collision with folk-Catholic/Afro-Brazilian invoked-name/talisman practices (patuás, invocations of saints or orixás for protection); teach as relational trust in God’s own person, not a magical formula. |
| proverb (literary genre term) | מָשָׁל (παροιμία) | mashal | provérbio | (genre/structural, all doctrines) | Low | 1:1, 6; 10:1; 25:1; 26:7, 9 | Standard title term. |
| envy/jealousy | קִנְאָה (ζῆλος) | qin’ah | invidia/ciúme | Trust in the Lord’s Providence (contentment) | Low-Medium | 14:30; 23:17; 27:4 | Standard. |
| wine / strong drink | יַיִן (οἶνος) | yayin | vinho / bebida forte | Speech and Self-Control | Medium | 20:1; 23:29-35; 31:4-7 | Teach as warning against loss of self-control specifically, without overstating beyond the text. |
| false balance / dishonest scales | מֹאזְנֵי מִרְמָה (ζυγὰ δόλια) | mo’oznei mirmah | balança falsa | Practical Righteousness (business ethics) | Medium | 11:1; 16:11; 20:10, 23 | Standard commercial-ethics application. |
| light / darkness (ethical paths) | אוֹר / חֹשֶׁךְ (φῶς / σκότος) | or / choshek | luz / trevas | The Contrast of the Wise and the Fool | Medium | 4:18-19 | Brief clarifying note recommended given Kardecist “espíritos de luz” (evolved spirits of light) vocabulary in popular Brazilian usage. |
| justice for the poor | דִּין / מִשְׁפָּט (κρίσις) | din / mishpat | justiça/causa (dos pobres) | Practical Righteousness in Daily Life | Medium | 29:7; 31:8-9 | Social-ethical, not soteriological, sense of “justiça” — flag the distinction for teaching notes, as with 14:34’s tsedaqah. |
C. Cross-Reference Notes to Baseline Doctrine Risk Registry
- Providence collisions (goral, kol pa’al, lev melekh beyad YHWH, chazon, palavra de Deus) all extend the baseline’s
providencedoctrine entry (Romans 8:28, Kardecist “lei de causa e efeito”) into Proverbs. Recommend these share a single review workflow with baseline’s Romans 8:28 providence review in Phase 2. - Grace/favor distinction (chen vs. baseline’s charis/“graça”) is a NEW terminological fork not present in the Romans-only baseline and requires a standalone theologian decision recorded in translation memory before any Phase 2 segment translation of Proverbs 3:4, 3:34, or related favor-language occurs elsewhere in the book.
- Righteous/wicked character-pair (tsaddiq/rasha, “justo/perverso”) extends baseline’s Critical-tier
righteousnessdoctrine into a distinct but related practical-conduct sense; recommend a teaching note in every lesson bridging the two senses rather than silently merging them. - Wisdom Personified is a wholly new Critical-tier doctrine for this curriculum with no direct baseline analogue; recommend it be added to a Proverbs-specific
doctrine_risk_registry.jsonextension (Phase 1 Step 2) using the same schema as baseline’smessianic_promiseanddeity_of_christentries, given its comparable weight and its distinctive Brazilian syncretism risk profile.
This glossary extends, and must be loaded alongside, the baseline translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json for all Phase 2 Proverbs translation work. All Critical and High risk NEW terms above require human theologian review before being written into translation memory, per the baseline’s escalation rules.
Critical Risk Terms
Righteousness
Approved rendering: justiça
Transliteration: dikaiosynē
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: mérito conquistado por esforço moral próprio
Inherited from Romans package. Forensic right standing before God granted through faith. PROVERBS CROSS-REFERENCE: Proverbs’ ‘justo/tsaddiq’ (see new ‘righteous_person’ entry) and social ‘tsedaqah’ (see new ‘righteousness_social’ entry) both reuse this same Portuguese word for a related but distinct practical-conduct sense. Every lesson bridging the two senses requires an explicit distinguishing note; never silently collapse them.
Justification
Approved rendering: justificação
Transliteration: dikaiōsis
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: progresso espiritual gradual
Inherited from Romans package. A forensic declaration of righteousness received by faith, not gradual moral improvement. PROVERBS CROSS-REFERENCE: use to anchor the bridging note distinguishing Proverbs’ practical righteousness (fruit of right relationship with God) from this forensic ground of that relationship.
Salvation
Approved rendering: salvação
Transliteration: sōtēria
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: evolução espiritual através de reencarnações sucessivas
Inherited from Romans package. Decisive reconciliation with God through Christ, not Kardecist gradual spiritual evolution across reincarnations. PROVERBS CROSS-REFERENCE: directly parallels the new ‘life’ (chayim/vida) and ‘tree_of_life’ entries below, both of which must likewise exclude any ‘evolução espiritual’ reading of wisdom’s this-life and eschatological rewards.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: ressurreição
Transliteration: anastasis
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Rejected alternatives: reencarnação
Inherited from Romans package. NEVER reencarnação. PROVERBS CROSS-REFERENCE: relevant background for the eschatological fulfillment named in the new ‘tree_of_life’ entry (Proverbs 3:18 etc., pointing forward to Revelation 22); keep this bodily, once-for-all doctrine distinct from any cyclical reading.
Lord
Approved rendering: Senhor
Transliteration: kyrios (NT); cf. YHWH (OT covenant name)
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Senhor apenas em sentido devocional, sem reivindicação de senhorio total
Inherited from Romans package. Exclusive, supreme lordship. PROVERBS CROSS-REFERENCE: this is also the fixed rendering for ‘the LORD’ = Hebrew YHWH, pervasive throughout Proverbs (e.g., 1:7; 3:5-12 repeatedly; 16:1-9; 21:1; 29:25). Every occurrence must convey exclusive, personal, supreme divine authority — never a devotional title alongside spirit guides, orixás, or an impersonal governing principle.
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. Full phrase required; unique, eternal Sonship. PROVERBS CROSS-REFERENCE: relevant to the typological bridge historically drawn from Wisdom Personified (Proverbs 8) to Christ ‘the wisdom of God’ (1 Corinthians 1:24). Use only in explicit teaching-note bridges, never as a direct substitute rendering for ‘Sabedoria (personificada)’ itself.
Jesus
Approved rendering: Jesus
Transliteration: Iēsous / Yeshua
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Inherited from Romans package. Standard Portuguese Bible form. PROVERBS CROSS-REFERENCE: appears only in teaching-note bridges (e.g., connecting Wisdom Personified typologically to Christ), never within the translated Proverbs text itself.
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. Personal third Person of the Trinity, distinguished from Kardecist ‘espíritos guias’ and Candomblé/Umbanda orixás and spirit guides. No Proverbs-specific new risk beyond the baseline note; retained for any teaching material connecting Proverbs’ wisdom themes to the Spirit’s work.
God
Approved rendering: Deus
Transliteration: theos; cf. Elohim
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Inherited from Romans package. Standard, unambiguous. PROVERBS CROSS-REFERENCE: renders Hebrew Elohim throughout Proverbs (e.g., 2:5, 17; 3:4; 30:5, 9). No Proverbs-specific new risk beyond baseline’s note on exclusive monotheism versus orixá syncretism.
Father
Approved rendering: Pai
Transliteration: patēr
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Inherited from Romans package. God as personal Father; reserved for the divine title. PROVERBS CROSS-REFERENCE: do NOT use this capitalized divine title for Proverbs’ recurring human pedagogical father-son address (‘my son,’ 1:8; 4:1-4) — see the new ‘father_son_instruction’ entry below, rendered lowercase ‘pai/filho.’ The 3:12 simile (‘as a father the son in whom he delights’) deliberately draws the connection; draw it out in teaching notes, not by substituting this title into the human-father text.
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. PROVERBS CROSS-REFERENCE: relevant to the typological anticipation historically drawn from Wisdom Personified (Proverbs 8); use only in teaching-note bridges, never as a direct rendering of any Proverbs term.
Wisdom Personified
Approved rendering: Sabedoria (personificada)
Transliteration: chokmot / chokmah (LXX: hē sophia)
Doctrine: Wisdom Personified
Rejected alternatives: Sabedoria como espírito superior criado (leitura espírita/ariana), Sabedoria como orixá da sabedoria/prosperidade (ex.: Oxum), Sabedoria como figura mariana quase independente
Original: חָכְמוֹת / חָכְמָה (LXX: ἡ σοφία)
Category: Wisdom Personified
New Proverbs term. CRITICAL, no direct baseline analogue. Two grounded Brazilian risks: (1) an Arian-adjacent ‘created lesser being’ misreading of Wisdom colliding with Kardecism’s ‘espíritos superiores’/‘mentores espirituais’; (2) syncretistic assimilation to female orixás of wisdom/prosperity (e.g., Oxum) or independent Marian-style veneration, given Wisdom’s public invitation/feast imagery (1:20-33; 8:1-4; 9:1-6). Must be taught as a personified divine attribute pointing typologically toward Christ (1 Corinthians 1:24), never as an autonomous being to be invoked or venerated. Human theologian review every occurrence.
Wisdom Creation Agent
Approved rendering: conceber / produzir / possuir
Transliteration: qanah (LXX: ektisen)
Doctrine: Wisdom Personified
Rejected alternatives: criou (unqualified ‘created’, risks resolving the ancient qanah debate toward an Arian-adjacent, Kardecist-compatible reading)
Original: קָנָה (LXX: ἐκτισέν)
Category: Wisdom Personified
New Proverbs term. The disputed verb at 8:22 describing the LORD’s relation to Wisdom at the beginning — a genuinely contested rendering across the history of Christian doctrine (Arian controversy, Trinitarian debate). Do NOT silently resolve this dispute through word choice; pair every occurrence with an explicit both-sides teaching note. Human theologian review every occurrence.
Fear Of The Lord
Approved rendering: temor do Senhor
Transliteration: yir’at YHWH (LXX: phobos theou)
Doctrine: The Fear of the Lord as the Beginning of Wisdom
Rejected alternatives: temor servil ao castigo (leitura folk-católica), temor de uma lei impessoal de causa e efeito (leitura espírita/kardecista)
Original: יִרְאַת יְהוָה (LXX: φόβος θεοῦ / φόβος κυρίου)
Category: Fear of the Lord
New Proverbs term. The book’s thesis term (1:7; 9:10; 31:30), parallel in weight to baseline’s ‘salvation’ and ‘resurrection’ entries. Two grounded Brazilian risks: (1) folk-Catholic piety collapsing this into servile dread of punishment; (2) Kardecist/Umbanda substitution of an impersonal governing law for a personal Being to be reverently feared. Every occurrence requires an explanatory note distinguishing reverent, filial, relational awe from both risks; pair with ‘reverência confiante’ at first occurrence in every lesson unit. Human theologian review every occurrence.
Life
Approved rendering: vida
Transliteration: chayim (LXX: zōē)
Doctrine: Wisdom’s Reward
Rejected alternatives: vida entendida como evolução espiritual ao longo de reencarnações sucessivas
Original: חַיִּים (LXX: ζωή)
Category: Wisdom’s Reward
New Proverbs term. Long, blessed life granted as a fruit of walking in wisdom (3:2, 22; 4:22). The ‘life’ gained through wisdom must never be read through the Kardecist lens of ‘evolução espiritual’ across successive incarnations. Requires an explicit teaching note distinguishing a full, blessed life in this world under God’s covenant favor from any doctrine of a spirit accumulating merit across many lives, mirroring baseline’s resurrection/salvation forbidden-substitution notes.
Favor
Approved rendering: favor
Transliteration: chen (LXX: charis)
Doctrine: Wisdom’s This-Life Favor, Distinguished from Saving Grace
Rejected alternatives: graça (reserved exclusively for baseline’s soteriological charis)
Original: חֵן (LXX: χάρις)
Category: Wisdom’s Reward
New Proverbs term, the sharpest terminological fork in this Language Package. Social/relational favor and good regard, a this-life reward correlated with wise living (3:4; 3:34), NOT the forensic, unmerited saving grace of Romans 3-5. If rendered ‘graça,’ Brazilian readers (Kardecist merit theology or prosperity-gospel Pentecostalism) may conclude saving grace itself is earned by wise conduct. MANDATORY Phase 2 validation rule: scan every Proverbs segment for ‘graça’ and flag any instance not traceable to a true Romans-style soteriological grace context. Human theologian review required before any Phase 2 use.
Tree Of Life
Approved rendering: árvore da vida
Transliteration: etz chayim (LXX: xylon zōēs)
Doctrine: Wisdom as Access to the Tree of Life
Rejected alternatives: árvore da vida como cosmologia esotérica/cabalística de evolução espiritual, árvore da vida como imagem de força vital em sincretismo afro-brasileiro
Original: עֵץ חַיִּים (LXX: ξύλον ζωῆς)
Category: Eschatological Hope
New Proverbs term. Wisdom pictured as access to the tree of life lost in Eden, restored in principle and consummated in Revelation 22 (3:18; 11:30; 13:12; 15:4). Brazil-specific: also a live symbol in esoteric/Kabbalah-influenced New Age circles and Afro-Brazilian/Spiritist syncretism, denoting cosmic/spiritual evolution and continuous ‘life-force.’ Every occurrence requires an explicit teaching note tying the phrase to Eden and Revelation 22, not esoteric cosmology. Human theologian review required. Core passage doctrine (3:18).
High Risk Terms
Grace
Approved rendering: graça
Transliteration: charis (baseline NT term; cf. Hebrew chen, tracked separately below)
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: mérito espiritual acumulado ao longo de vidas sucessivas
Inherited from Romans package. Unmerited favor received by faith, distinguished from Kardecism’s merit-across-reincarnations doctrine. PROVERBS CROSS-REFERENCE (CRITICAL): this rendering must NEVER be used for Hebrew chen (Proverbs 3:4, 3:34) — see the new ‘favor’ entry below. Reserve ‘graça’ exclusively for New Testament soteriological grace to prevent Brazilian readers concluding saving grace is earned by wise conduct.
Faith
Approved rendering: fé
Transliteration: pistis
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: convicção espírita, fé genérica em forças espirituais
Inherited from Romans package. Personal trust in Christ, not generic spiritist belief. PROVERBS CROSS-REFERENCE: conceptually adjacent to, but not identical with, the new ‘trust’ entry (batach/confiar) which names practical daily reliance on the LORD rather than saving faith specifically; teach the two as related, not synonymous.
Law
Approved rendering: lei
Transliteration: nomos; cf. torah (statute sense)
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Inherited from Romans package. The Mosaic Law/Torah, distinguished from Kardecist ‘lei de causa e efeito.’ PROVERBS CROSS-REFERENCE: use ONLY where Proverbs’ torah/chok denotes God’s general revealed statutes (28:4, 7, 9; 29:18). Do NOT use for the parental-instruction sense of torah in 1:8 and 3:1 — see the new ‘instruction_parental’ entry below, which is the required rendering there.
Providence
Approved rendering: providência
Transliteration: pronoia (cf. Romans 8:28)
Doctrine: Providence
Rejected alternatives: lei de causa e efeito espírita (regência cármica das reencarnações)
Inherited from Romans package. God’s personal, purposive governance, not the Kardecist ‘lei de causa e efeito.’ PROVERBS CROSS-REFERENCE: directly extends to the new ‘gods_purposive_governance,’ ‘the_lot,’ and ‘kings_heart’ entries below (Proverbs 16:4, 33; 21:1). Recommend this doctrine share ONE review workflow with Romans 8:28 in Phase 2.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: santificação
Transliteration: hagiasmos
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: purificação cármica ao longo de reencarnações (leitura espírita)
Inherited from Romans package. The Spirit’s ongoing work of making believers holy in this life, not Kardecist cyclical purification. PROVERBS CROSS-REFERENCE: parallels the new ‘discipline_instruction’ and ‘reproof’ entries (musar/tokhachat, Proverbs 3:11-12), which describe the Father’s formative, in-this-life correction — teach as complementary doctrines.
Wisdom
Approved rendering: sabedoria
Transliteration: chokmah (LXX: sophia)
Doctrine: Wisdom
Rejected alternatives: sabedoria como marca de um espírito evoluído (leitura espírita), sabedoria genérica de autoajuda desvinculada de Deus
Original: חָכְמָה (LXX: σοφία)
Category: Wisdom
New Proverbs term. Skill for living rightly before God, not Kardecist evolved-spirit wisdom nor secular self-help sabedoria. Must be anchored to ‘temor do Senhor’ (fear_of_the_lord entry) in every teaching context. Pervasive throughout, especially chs. 1-9.
Instruction Parental
Approved rendering: instrução / ensino
Transliteration: torah (parental-sapiential sense) (LXX: nomos)
Doctrine: Wisdom
Rejected alternatives: lei (statute-code sense, appropriate only for the distinct law_statute entry)
Original: תּוֹרָה (parental-sapiential sense) (LXX: νόμος)
Category: Wisdom/Instruction
New Proverbs term. A father’s/sage’s accumulated wisdom teaching passed to a ‘son’/disciple (1:8; 3:1), distinct from the statute sense of the same Hebrew word. Use ‘instrução’/‘ensino’ here, NOT ‘lei,’ or readers will assume Proverbs is legalistic Torah-code material rather than sapiential fatherly teaching.
Law Statute
Approved rendering: lei
Transliteration: torah (statute sense) (LXX: nomos)
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Original: תּוֹרָה (statute sense) (LXX: νόμος)
Category: Law
New Proverbs term (tracked separately from instruction_parental though it reuses the baseline ‘law’ rendering exactly). Applies ONLY at 28:4, 7, 9 and 29:18, where torah/chok denote God’s general revealed statutes, closer to the Romans/Mosaic-Law sense. See baseline ‘law’ entry for the fuller doctrinal note.
Trust
Approved rendering: confiar
Transliteration: batach (LXX: pepoithōs)
Doctrine: Trust in the Lord’s Providence
Rejected alternatives: confiança em orientação mediúnica (consulta a médium espírita ou a entidade de Umbanda/Candomblé)
Original: בָּטַח (LXX: πεποιθὼς)
Category: Trust in the Lord’s Providence
New Proverbs term. Confident, total, personal reliance on the LORD (3:5; 16:20; 28:25; 29:25; 31:11). Must exclude reliance on mediumistic guidance — a live, mainstream alternative source of ‘guidance’ in Brazilian religious practice. Requires explicit teaching contrast every occurrence. Human theologian review required.
Firstfruits
Approved rendering: primícias
Transliteration: reshit tevu’ah (LXX: aparchas gennēmatōn)
Doctrine: Stewardship
Rejected alternatives: primícias como fórmula garantida de retorno material (leitura neopentecostal da ‘oferta de semente’)
Original: רֵאשִׁית תְּבוּאָה (LXX: ἀπαρχὰς γεννημάτων)
Category: Stewardship
New Proverbs term. The first and best portion of produce/increase, offered as trust and worship (3:9-10). Brazil-specific: ‘primícias’ has become a heavily loaded, transactional term in large neo-Pentecostal/prosperity movements (e.g., IURD-style ‘seed offering’ teaching). Must be taught as trust/worship, explicitly NOT a guaranteed-return formula; balance with Proverbs 30:8’s own qualification. Human theologian review recommended for any lesson connecting 3:9-10 to giving/tithing.
Abundance
Approved rendering: abundância
Transliteration: sova (LXX: plēsthōsin)
Doctrine: Stewardship/Providence
Rejected alternatives: abundância como garantia incondicional (leitura teologia da prosperidade)
Original: שָׂבָע (LXX: πλησθῶσιν)
Category: Stewardship/Providence
New Proverbs term. Material abundance as the ordinary, not invariable, pattern following wise, God-honoring living (3:10). Directly tied to the firstfruits risk above; teach alongside Proverbs’ own qualifications elsewhere (e.g., 30:8) to prevent a flattened prosperity-gospel reading.
Discipline Instruction
Approved rendering: disciplina
Transliteration: musar (LXX: paideia)
Doctrine: The Lord’s Fatherly Discipline
Rejected alternatives: disciplina como resolução cármica distribuída ao longo de reencarnações sucessivas (leitura espírita)
Original: מוּסָר (LXX: παιδεία)
Category: Discipline
New Proverbs term. God’s fatherly correction of his own people in this life (3:11; 13:1, 18; 15:5, 32; 29:15). Direct collision point with Kardecism, which teaches hardships/corrections as the outworking of an impersonal ‘lei de causa e efeito’ resolving across reincarnations. Proverbs (echoed at Hebrews 12:5-6) teaches a personal Father’s loving, in-this-life, once-for-all discipline. Requires explicit teaching contrast every occurrence. Human theologian review required. Core passage doctrine (3:11-12).
Reproof
Approved rendering: repreensão / correção
Transliteration: tokhachat / yakach (LXX: elegchos / elegchei)
Doctrine: The Lord’s Fatherly Discipline
Original: תּוֹכַחַת / יָכַח (LXX: ἔλεγχος / ἐλέγχει)
Category: Discipline
New Proverbs term. Verbal correction that exposes fault, paired with musar (3:11-12); motive is fatherly love, not punitive rejection. Same risk profile as discipline_instruction; keep paired in teaching notes.
Woman Folly
Approved rendering: Insensatez (personificada) / “a mulher Loucura”
Transliteration: ivvelet (LXX: aphrosynē)
Doctrine: Woman Folly as the Foil to Wisdom
Rejected alternatives: Insensatez como entidade espiritual literal e maligna (leitura exu/pomba-gira)
Original: אִוֶּלֶת (LXX: ἀφροσύνη)
Category: Wise/Fool Contrast
New Proverbs term. Folly personified as a rival woman, the direct literary foil to Wisdom Personified (9:13-18). Risk of literal-spirit misreading paralleling Umbanda/Candomblé personified-spirit categories (exus, pomba-giras). Teaching must clarify both Wisdom and Folly are literary personifications of two ways of life, not independent supernatural agents. Human theologian review required.
Righteous Person
Approved rendering: justo
Transliteration: tsaddiq (LXX: dikaios)
Doctrine: Practical Righteousness in Daily Life
Original: צַדִּיק (LXX: δίκαιος)
Category: Practical Righteousness
New Proverbs term. The righteous, morally upright person whose observable, practical conduct is the fruit of a right relationship with God (10:2-32 and pervasively chs. 10-29). Connects to baseline’s Critical-tier ‘righteousness’/‘justiça’ doctrine but must be carefully distinguished from Romans’ forensic sense — Proverbs’ tsaddiq describes conduct commended as fruit, not ground, of right standing. Every lesson bridging Proverbs and Romans usage requires an explicit distinguishing note.
Gods Purposive Governance
Approved rendering: o Senhor fez tudo para o seu propósito
Transliteration: kol pa’al YHWH (LXX: panta ērgasato ho kyrios)
Doctrine: Trust in the Lord’s Providence
Rejected alternatives: lei de causa e efeito espírita
Original: כֹּל פָּעַל יְהוָה (LXX: πάντα ἠργάσατο ὁ κύριος)
Category: Trust in the Lord’s Providence
New Proverbs term. ‘The LORD has made everything for its purpose’ (16:4; cf. 16:9; 19:21; 20:24). Reuses baseline’s providence risk profile (Romans 8:28) almost word for word; flag for the same High-risk theologian-review treatment. Share review workflow with baseline providence entry.
The Lot
Approved rendering: sorte (lançada)
Transliteration: goral (LXX: klēros)
Doctrine: Trust in the Lord’s Providence
Rejected alternatives: sorte como acaso impessoal ou destino descoberto por adivinhação
Original: גּוֹרָל (LXX: κλῆρος)
Category: Trust in the Lord’s Providence
New Proverbs term. A lot cast for decision-making, whose every outcome the LORD sovereignly determines (16:33). Brazil-specific: ‘sorte’ carries strong luck/fate/fortune connotations tied to divination practice (jogo de búzios, tarot, horóscopo). Must be explicitly taught as the opposite of impersonal luck or divinatory destiny; mandatory teaching note required at every occurrence.
Kings Heart
Approved rendering: o coração do rei está na mão do Senhor
Transliteration: lev melekh beyad YHWH (LXX: kardia basileōs en cheiri theou)
Doctrine: Trust in the Lord’s Providence
Original: לֵב־מֶלֶךְ בְּיַד־יְהוָה (LXX: καρδία βασιλέως ἐν χειρὶ θεοῦ)
Category: Trust in the Lord’s Providence
New Proverbs term. Providence extends even over the highest political authority (21:1). Reuses the providence risk profile of gods_purposive_governance and the_lot above; flag High for the same theologian-review workflow.
Strong Tower Name
Approved rendering: torre forte / o nome do Senhor
Transliteration: migdal-oz / shem YHWH (LXX: pyrgos ischyos / onoma kyriou)
Doctrine: The Lord as Strong Tower and Refuge
Rejected alternatives: invocação de nomes de santos, orixás ou entidades protetoras (patuás, invocações)
Original: מִגְדַּל־עֹז / שֵׁם יְהוָה (LXX: πύργος ἰσχύος / ὄνομα κυρίου)
Category: Trust and Protection
New Proverbs term. The LORD’s own name and person, not a talisman or invoked formula, is the place of refuge (18:10). Real collision risk with Brazilian folk-Catholic and Afro-Brazilian invocation practices. Must be taught as relational refuge in God’s own person and character, not a magical formula.
Vision Revelation
Approved rendering: visão / profecia
Transliteration: chazon (LXX: horasis)
Doctrine: Inspiration and Reliability of God’s Revealed Word
Rejected alternatives: visões ou clarividência mediúnica (psicografia, leitura kardecista)
Original: חָזוֹן (LXX: ὅρασις)
Category: Inspiration of Scripture
New Proverbs term. Prophetic vision/revelation for a community; where absent, the people ‘perish’ or ‘cast off restraint’ (29:18). Directly parallels baseline’s inspiration-of-scripture risk note. Brazilian Kardecism claims ongoing ‘visões’ via mediums; must be taught as God’s own authoritative, Scripture-bounded revelation, explicitly distinguished from mediumistic vision claims.
Word Of God
Approved rendering: palavra de Deus
Transliteration: imrat Elohim (LXX: logoi theou)
Doctrine: Inspiration and Reliability of God’s Revealed Word
Rejected alternatives: mensagens transcritas por médiuns (psicografia)
Original: אִמְרַת אֱלֹוהַ (LXX: λόγοι θεοῦ)
Category: Inspiration of Scripture
New Proverbs term. ‘Every word of God proves true’ (30:5), an explicit claim of Scripture’s tested reliability. Same collision profile as vision_revelation; must be explicitly distinguished from Kardecist psicografia’s rival claim to communicate authoritative ‘words’ from discarnate spirits.
Righteousness Social
Approved rendering: justiça
Transliteration: tsedeq / tsedaqah (LXX: dikaiosynē)
Doctrine: Practical Righteousness in Daily Life
Original: צֶדֶק / צְדָקָה (LXX: δικαιοσύνη)
Category: Practical Righteousness
New Proverbs term (tracked separately from baseline ‘righteousness’ though it reuses the exact same Portuguese word). Righteous conduct applied corporately/nationally (‘righteousness exalts a nation,’ 14:34) or socially (11:4-6; 31:9), not the forensic sense. In this corporate-social use, flag the distinction explicitly for teaching notes so this sense is not silently collapsed into the baseline’s forensic justification doctrine.
Medium Risk Terms
Peace
Approved rendering: paz
Transliteration: eirēnē; cf. shalom
Doctrine: Peace with God
Rejected alternatives: tranquilidade emocional
Original: שָׁלוֹם (LXX: εἰρήνη)
Category: Peace
Inherited from Romans package. Relational peace through justification, not mere emotional calm. PROVERBS CROSS-REFERENCE: reused exactly for Hebrew shalom at Proverbs 3:2, 3:17 — wisdom’s relational, covenantal flourishing.
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. Moral transgression before a personal, holy God, not a correctable karmic ‘erro’ worked off across future incarnations. PROVERBS CROSS-REFERENCE: underlies Proverbs’ whole wise/fool and righteous/wicked ethical framework; general-purpose anchor term, no Proverbs-specific new risk beyond the baseline note.
Glory
Approved rendering: glória
Transliteration: doxa; cf. kavod
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: כָּבוֹד (LXX: δόξα)
Category: God’s Attributes
Inherited from Romans package. God’s radiant honor and presence. PROVERBS CROSS-REFERENCE: reused exactly for Hebrew kavod at Proverbs 25:2, with a distinctive nuance — glory expressed through concealment (‘it is the glory of God to conceal a matter’), unlike a king’s glory expressed through disclosure. Note this nuance in teaching materials.
Understanding Discernment
Approved rendering: entendimento / discernimento
Transliteration: binah / tevunah (LXX: synesis / phronesis)
Doctrine: Wisdom
Original: בִּינָה / תְּבוּנָה (LXX: σύνεσις / φρόνησις)
Category: Wisdom
New Proverbs term. Discernment and insight, part of the ‘wisdom vocabulary cluster’ (1:2-4). Keep distinct from ‘sabedoria’ as its own Portuguese word. At 3:5 (‘lean not on your own understanding’), clarify this names a virtue rightly subordinated to trust in the LORD, not rejected outright (cf. its positive commendation at 2:2-3).
Prudence Discretion
Approved rendering: prudência / discrição
Transliteration: ormah / mezimmah (LXX: panourgia / phronesis)
Doctrine: Wisdom
Original: עָרְמָה / מְזִמָּה (LXX: πανουργία / φρόνησις)
Category: Wisdom
New Proverbs term. Prudence and discretion, one facet of the wisdom cluster (1:4). Keep as distinct terms rather than collapsing into a generic ‘sabedoria’ synonym.
Fool Categories
Approved rendering: tolo (obstinado) / escarnecedor (zombador) / insensato / símplice (ingênuo)
Transliteration: evil / letz / kesil / peti (LXX: aphron / akolastos / aphron / akakos)
Doctrine: The Contrast of the Wise and the Fool
Rejected alternatives: tolo (single undifferentiated term for all four Hebrew categories)
Original: אֱוִיל / לֵץ / כְּסִיל / פֶּתִי (LXX: ἄφρων / ἀκόλαστος / ἄφρων / ἄκακος)
Category: Wise/Fool Contrast
New Proverbs term. Four distinct fool categories (1:7, 22, 32; 9:7-8; 26:1-12). Fix all four terms and forbid collapsing them into one generic word throughout the whole curriculum, preserving the book’s deliberate literary gradation.
Heart
Approved rendering: coração
Transliteration: lev (LXX: kardia)
Doctrine: Inner Life
Rejected alternatives: coração em sentido apenas emocional
Original: לֵב (LXX: καρδία)
Category: Inner Life
New Proverbs term. The inner organ; seat of thought, will, and moral choice — broader than English ‘heart’ (emotion only). Especially at 4:23 (‘guard your heart’); must be taught with its full range or Brazilian readers will reduce it to sentimental piety.
Covenant Loyalty
Approved rendering: bondade leal / benignidade
Transliteration: chesed (LXX: eleos)
Doctrine: Practical Righteousness
Rejected alternatives: bondade (unqualified — flattens the covenant-loyalty depth into generic niceness)
Original: חֶסֶד (LXX: ἔλεος)
Category: Practical Righteousness
New Proverbs term. Loyal, covenant-keeping love and kindness modeled on God’s own character; expanded at 14:21, 31 to concrete kindness toward the poor (3:3). A plain ‘bondade’ loses the covenant-loyalty nuance; use the compound gloss and reinforce in teaching notes.
Truth Faithfulness
Approved rendering: fidelidade / verdade
Transliteration: emet (LXX: alētheia)
Doctrine: Speech/Righteousness
Original: אֱמֶת (LXX: ἀλήθεια)
Category: Speech/Righteousness
New Proverbs term. Firmness, reliability, truthfulness, paired with chesed (3:3; 12:19; 14:22; 16:13; 20:28). Standard, low-collision; distinguish from mere factual accuracy in teaching notes.
Way Path
Approved rendering: caminho / vereda / trilha
Transliteration: derekh / orach / ma’gal / nativ (LXX: hodos / tribos)
Doctrine: The Two Ways Framework
Rejected alternatives: caminho como uma entre várias opções espirituais igualmente válidas (leitura kardecista/umbandista/hindu)
Original: דֶּרֶךְ / אֹרַח / מַעְגָּל / נָתִיב (LXX: ὁδός / τρίβος)
Category: Two Ways Framework
New Proverbs term. Structures the book’s ‘two ways’ framework (2:8, 20; 3:6; 4:18-19). Brazil’s pluralistic religious marketplace (Kardecism’s evolutionary ‘caminho,’ Umbanda’s ‘caminhos,’ astrology, secular self-help) offers many competing senses of ‘path.’ Requires explicit framing as submission to God’s one revealed moral way, not one spiritual path among many.
Acknowledge
Approved rendering: reconhecer
Transliteration: yada (LXX: gnōrison)
Doctrine: Relationship with God
Original: יָדַע (LXX: γνώρισον)
Category: Relationship with God
New Proverbs term. To know intimately, to acknowledge relationally (3:6). Must retain relational/covenantal weight, echoing baseline’s ‘obedience of faith’ pattern; not mere cognitive awareness.
Healing
Approved rendering: saúde / cura
Transliteration: marpe (LXX: iasis)
Doctrine: Wisdom’s Reward
Rejected alternatives: cura garantida sob demanda (leitura teologia da prosperidade)
Original: מַרְפֵּא (LXX: ἴασις)
Category: Wisdom’s Reward
New Proverbs term. Physical health/healing as a metaphor for wisdom’s holistic benefit (3:8; 4:22; 16:24). Must not be taught as a prosperity-gospel guarantee of physical healing on demand, a live risk given Brazil’s large neo-Pentecostal ‘health and wealth’ movements.
Honor Wealth
Approved rendering: honrar … bens
Transliteration: kabed … hon (LXX: tima … hyparchonta)
Doctrine: Stewardship
Original: כָּבֵד … הוֹן (LXX: τίμα … ὑπάρχοντα)
Category: Stewardship
New Proverbs term. To honor the LORD with material resources rather than treating them as autonomous (3:9). Keep ‘honrar’ distinct from ‘glorificar’ to avoid confusing this stewardship command with the baseline ‘glória’ doctrine.
Wicked Person
Approved rendering: perverso / ímpio
Transliteration: rasha (LXX: asebēs)
Doctrine: Practical Righteousness in Daily Life
Original: רָשָׁע (LXX: ἀσεβής)
Category: Practical Righteousness
New Proverbs term. The wicked, guilty person, negative counterpart to tsaddiq throughout chs. 10-29. Standard rendering; ensure consistency with the paired righteous_person entry.
Sluggard
Approved rendering: preguiçoso
Transliteration: atsel (LXX: oknēros)
Doctrine: Diligence versus Sloth
Original: עָצֵל (LXX: ὀκνηρός)
Category: Diligence versus Sloth
New Proverbs term. The lazy one contrasted with the diligent ant (6:6-11; 10:26; 13:4; 20:4; 24:30-34; 26:13-16). Must be rendered consistently across all nine occurrence-chapters; avoid diminutives (e.g., ‘preguicinha’) that would comedically soften the moral seriousness intended.
Tongue Mouth
Approved rendering: língua / boca
Transliteration: lashon / peh (LXX: glōssa / stoma)
Doctrine: Speech and Self-Control
Rejected alternatives: poder oculto/mágico da palavra falada (leitura de praga/feitiço)
Original: לָשׁוֹן / פֶּה (LXX: γλῶσσα / στόμα)
Category: Speech and Self-Control
New Proverbs term. Extensively personified speech-ethics vocabulary (10:19-21, 31-32; 12:18-19; 18:21). Clarify the biblical concern is moral/relational harm and self-control, not the folk-magical efficacy of spoken curses/blessings (praga) found in Brazilian popular religiosity. Especially critical at 18:21 (‘death and life are in the power of the tongue’).
Abomination
Approved rendering: abominação
Transliteration: to’evah (LXX: bdelygma)
Doctrine: Practical Righteousness
Rejected alternatives: coisa ruim (softened rendering)
Original: תּוֹעֵבָה (LXX: βδέλυγμα)
Category: Practical Righteousness
New Proverbs term. That which the LORD detests, grounding ethics in God’s own character (6:16-19; 11:1, 20; 16:5). Well-established, strong Portuguese Bible term; preserve full moral force, never soften.
Lying Tongue
Approved rendering: língua mentirosa
Transliteration: leshon shaqer (LXX: glōssa pseudēs)
Doctrine: Speech and Self-Control
Original: לְשׁוֹן שֶׁקֶר (LXX: γλῶσσα ψευδής)
Category: Speech and Self-Control
New Proverbs term. A lying tongue, listed among the things the LORD hates (6:17). In Brazilian folk practice (praga, feitiço) spoken words are sometimes believed to carry inherent magical efficacy; clarify the biblical concern is the moral/relational harm of deceit, not occult verbal power.
False Balance
Approved rendering: balança falsa
Transliteration: mo’oznei mirmah (LXX: zyga dolia)
Doctrine: Business and Social Ethics
Original: מֹאזְנֵי מִרְמָה (LXX: ζυγὰ δόλια)
Category: Business Ethics
New Proverbs term. False/deceitful scales, grounding business ethics in God’s character (11:1; 16:11; 20:10, 23). Standard commercial-ethics anchor for practical righteousness applied to commerce.
Excellent Wife
Approved rendering: mulher virtuosa
Transliteration: eshet chayil (LXX: gynē andreia)
Doctrine: Family and Marriage Ethics
Original: אֵשֶׁת־חַיִל (LXX: γυνὴ ἀνδρεία)
Category: Family and Practical Righteousness
New Proverbs term. A woman of strength/valor/excellence, the positive female wisdom-character type (12:4; climactically 31:10-31). Render identically at both occurrences for curriculum consistency; do not switch phrasing between the two passages.
Forbidden Woman
Approved rendering: mulher estranha / mulher alheia
Transliteration: ishah zarah / nokriyah (LXX: gynē allotria)
Doctrine: Family and Marriage Ethics
Rejected alternatives: mulher estrangeira (risks a xenophobic/ethnic misreading)
Original: אִשָּׁה זָרָה / נֹכְרִיָּה (LXX: γυνὴ ἀλλοτρία)
Category: Family and Practical Righteousness
New Proverbs term. A figure of sexual and religious infidelity entwined with covenant unfaithfulness and idolatry (2:16-19; 5; 6:24-35; 7; 23:27). Must be taught in its moral-religious sense (adulterous/idolatrous seductress), NOT as an ethnic warning against foreigners; avoid rendering choices suggesting an ethnic reading.
Eyes Of The Lord
Approved rendering: os olhos do Senhor
Transliteration: eynei YHWH (LXX: hoi ophthalmoi kyriou)
Doctrine: Trust in the Lord’s Providence
Original: עֵינֵי יְהוָה (LXX: οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ κυρίου)
Category: Providence
New Proverbs term. The LORD’s all-seeing awareness undergirding trust in his providence (15:3). Standard anthropomorphism, low ambiguity.
Wine Strong Drink
Approved rendering: vinho / bebida forte
Transliteration: yayin (LXX: oinos)
Doctrine: Speech and Self-Control
Original: יַיִן (LXX: οἶνος)
Category: Speech and Self-Control
New Proverbs term. Wine/strong drink, which ‘mocks’ and leads to loss of self-control (20:1; 23:29-35; 31:4-7). Teach as a warning against loss of self-control specifically, not a blanket prohibition beyond the text.
Justice For Poor
Approved rendering: justiça / causa (dos pobres)
Transliteration: din / mishpat (LXX: krisis)
Doctrine: Business and Social Ethics
Original: דִּין / מִשְׁפָּט (LXX: κρίσις)
Category: Social Ethics
New Proverbs term. Defending the rights/cause of the poor and needy (29:7; 31:8-9). Concrete social-justice application; flag the social-ethical, not soteriological, sense of ‘justiça’ for teaching notes.
Father Son Instruction
Approved rendering: pai / filho
Transliteration: av / ben (LXX: patēr / huios)
Doctrine: Family and Marriage Ethics
Rejected alternatives: Pai / Filho (capitalized divine titles substituted for the human pedagogical address)
Original: אָב / בֵּן (LXX: πατήρ / υἱός)
Category: Family Formation
New Proverbs term. The recurring human address ‘my son’ from a father/sage to a disciple (1:8; 4:1-4), distinct from baseline’s capitalized doctrinal ‘Pai’ (God as Father). Do not conflate; render plainly lowercase ‘pai’/‘filho.’ The 3:12 simile deliberately draws the theological connection — draw it out in teaching notes, not by substituting the divine title into the human-family text.
Light Darkness
Approved rendering: luz / trevas
Transliteration: or / choshek (LXX: phōs / skotos)
Doctrine: The Two Ways Framework
Rejected alternatives: espíritos de luz (leitura kardecista de espíritos evoluídos)
New Proverbs term. The path of the righteous as light, the way of the wicked as darkness (4:18-19), a foundational light/dark ethical metaphor. Ensure it is not read through Kardecist/esoteric ‘espíritos de luz’ (evolved spirits of light) framing; a brief clarifying note is prudent.
Nation
Approved rendering: nação
Transliteration: goy (LXX: ethnos)
Doctrine: Practical Righteousness in Daily Life
New Proverbs term. Corporate/national application of righteousness (14:34, ‘righteousness exalts a nation’), not merely individual. Pairs with righteousness_social entry.
Fatherly Love Delight
Approved rendering: ama / tem prazer em (agrada-se de)
Transliteration: ahav / ratsah (LXX: agapa / eudokei)
Doctrine: The Lord’s Fatherly Discipline
Rejected alternatives: favoritismo arbitrário (misreading to be avoided)
New Proverbs term. The motive behind divine discipline is fatherly love and settled delight (3:12), grounding the doctrine of adoption (baseline: adoption, Pai, Abba). Ensure it does not read as arbitrary favoritism but as settled fatherly delight. Core passage doctrine (3:12).
Low Risk Terms
Prophet
Approved rendering: profeta
Transliteration: prophētēs
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: médium (channeler of spirit messages)
Inherited from Romans package. God’s spokesperson, not a Kardecist medium. PROVERBS CROSS-REFERENCE: cross-references the new ‘vision_revelation’ entry (chazon, Proverbs 29:18).
Prophecy
Approved rendering: profecia
Transliteration: prophēteia
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: psicografia (spirit messages transcribed through mediums)
Inherited from Romans package. Not psicografia. PROVERBS CROSS-REFERENCE: cross-references the new ‘vision_revelation’ and ‘word_of_god’ entries (Proverbs 29:18; 30:5-6), both of which extend this same Kardecist-collision risk into Proverbs.
David
Approved rendering: Davi
Transliteration: Dawid
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Standard proper name. PROVERBS CROSS-REFERENCE: Solomon, Proverbs’ primary human author (1:1), is David’s son; minor background note only.
Fellowship
Approved rendering: companheirismo
Transliteration: koinōnia
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Rejected alternatives: comunhão dos santos (specific Catholic liturgical formula)
Inherited from Romans package. PROVERBS CROSS-REFERENCE: reused for the friendship/mutual-encouragement sense of the new ‘neighbor_friend’ entry (rea, Proverbs 17:17, 27:17).
Proverb
Approved rendering: provérbio
Transliteration: mashal (LXX: paroimia)
Doctrine: Literary Genre
Original: מָשָׁל (LXX: παροιμία)
Category: Literary Genre
New Proverbs term. Genre-title term matching the established Portuguese book title ‘Provérbios’ (1:1, 6; 10:1; 25:1; 26:7, 9). Never transliterate; standard, low-ambiguity.
Commandments
Approved rendering: mandamentos
Transliteration: mitzvah (LXX: entolē)
Doctrine: Instruction
Original: מִצְוָה (LXX: ἐντολή)
Category: Instruction
New Proverbs term. A specific directive flowing from a father’s/sage’s teaching (3:1). Standard, low-ambiguity.
Good Understanding Reputation
Approved rendering: bom senso / boa reputação
Transliteration: sekhel tov (LXX: epinoia agathē)
Doctrine: Wisdom
Original: שֵׂכֶל טוֹב (LXX: ἐπίνοια ἀγαθή)
Category: Wisdom
New Proverbs term. Good understanding/insight producing a visible, socially recognized soundness of judgment (3:4). Standard rendering.
Upright
Approved rendering: direito / reto / integridade
Transliteration: yashar / tom (LXX: euthys / haplotēs)
Doctrine: Practical Righteousness
Original: יָשָׁר / תֹּם (LXX: εὐθύς / ἁπλότης)
Category: Practical Righteousness
New Proverbs term. Straight, morally right; integrity (2:21; 3:6; 11:3, 11). Standard, low-collision.
Evil
Approved rendering: mal / maldade
Transliteration: ra (LXX: kakon)
Doctrine: Sin/Ethics
Original: רַע / רָע (LXX: κακόν)
Category: Sin/Ethics
New Proverbs term. Moral evil, harm, calamity; object of active rejection at 3:7. Preserve Proverbs’ active, practical rejection of wrongdoing, not merely theoretical avoidance.
Diligent
Approved rendering: diligente
Transliteration: charuts (LXX: epimelēs)
Doctrine: Diligence versus Sloth
Original: חָרוּץ (LXX: ἐπιμελής)
Category: Diligence versus Sloth
New Proverbs term. The diligent, industrious person, tied to blessing (10:4-5; 13:4). Standard, low-risk.
Soft Answer
Approved rendering: resposta branda / mansa
Transliteration: ma’aneh rakh (LXX: apokrisis praeia)
Doctrine: Speech and Self-Control
Original: מַעֲנֶה־רַךְ (LXX: ἀπόκρισις πραεῖα)
Category: Speech and Self-Control
New Proverbs term. A soft/gentle answer that turns away wrath (15:1). Well-attested Portuguese Bible phrase; foundational verse for this doctrine.
Patience Slow To Anger
Approved rendering: paciência / tardio para a ira
Transliteration: erekh appayim (LXX: makrothymos)
Doctrine: Speech and Self-Control
Original: אֶרֶך אַפַּיִם (LXX: μακρόθυμος)
Category: Speech and Self-Control
New Proverbs term. Slowness to anger as wisdom and glory (14:29; 15:18; 16:32; 19:11). Standard, well-attested phrase; echoed in Galatians 5:22’s fruit of the Spirit list.
Good Name
Approved rendering: bom nome
Transliteration: shem tov (LXX: onoma kalon)
Doctrine: A Good Name and Reputation
Original: שֵׁם טוֹב (LXX: ὄνομα καλόν)
Category: Practical Righteousness
New Proverbs term. A good name/reputation worth more than riches (22:1). Standard, low-risk.
Train Up Child
Approved rendering: instruir / educar (a criança)
Transliteration: chanakh (LXX: katartison)
Doctrine: Family and Marriage Ethics
Original: חָנַךְ (LXX: κατάρτισον)
Category: Family Formation
New Proverbs term. To train up/dedicate a child in a lifelong direction (22:6). Describes a general pattern of formation, not an ironclad guarantee; note for pastoral sensitivity with parents of wayward adult children.
Envy
Approved rendering: invidia / ciúme
Transliteration: qin’ah (LXX: zēlos)
Doctrine: Contentment and the Danger of Envy
Original: קִנְאָה (LXX: ζῆλος)
Category: Contentment and Providence
New Proverbs term. Envy or jealousy, warned against especially toward the wicked’s apparent short-term success (14:30; 23:17; 27:4). Standard, low-risk.
Neighbor Friend
Approved rendering: próximo / amigo / vizinho
Transliteration: rea (LXX: ho plēsion / ho philos)
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Original: רֵעַ (LXX: ὁ πλησίον / ὁ φίλος)
Category: Fellowship
New Proverbs term. Neighbor, companion, friend; deepened at 27:17 (‘iron sharpens iron’) into a mutual-formation community model. Strong cross-reference to baseline’s fellowship/mutual-edification doctrines.
Self Praise Warning
Approved rendering: louvor / elogio
Transliteration: tehillah (LXX: epainos)
Doctrine: Speech and Self-Control
Original: תְּהִלָּה (LXX: ἔπαινος)
Category: Speech and Self-Control
New Proverbs term. Praise; warns against self-promotion (27:2). Low risk, a self-control application to pride/humility.
Worthless Schemer
Approved rendering: homem vil / homem perverso
Transliteration: beliya’al (LXX: anomos)
Doctrine: Ethics
Original: בְּלִיַּעַל (LXX: ἄνομος)
Category: Ethics
New Proverbs term. A morally corrupt, worthless schemer, used of a human character type (6:12). Low risk in context; standard descriptive rendering.
Sound Wisdom
Approved rendering: sabedoria prática / juízo sólido
Transliteration: tushiyyah (LXX: sōtēria, contextually ‘sound wisdom’)
Doctrine: Wisdom
New Proverbs term. Sound, effective wisdom that actually works, not merely theoretical (chapter 2). Low-Medium risk, standard.
Guard Keep
Approved rendering: guardar
Transliteration: natsar (LXX: phylaxei)
Doctrine: Wisdom
New Proverbs term. Active, vigilant preservation of wisdom’s teaching (chapter 2; reused at 4:23 for the heart). Low risk, standard.
Blessed Happy
Approved rendering: feliz / bem-aventurado
Transliteration: esher (LXX: makarios)
Doctrine: Wisdom’s Reward
New Proverbs term. Beatitude-form declaration over the wisdom-finder (3:13), echoed structurally by NT beatitudes. ‘Bem-aventurado’ carries strong NT resonance in the Almeida tradition; good choice here.
Wellspring Of Life
Approved rendering: fonte / manancial (da vida)
Transliteration: motsa (LXX: ekbasis)
Doctrine: Inner Life
New Proverbs term. The heart as the source from which life’s whole direction flows (4:23). Low risk, figurative.
Surety Pledge
Approved rendering: fiança / penhor
Transliteration: arev / arubah (LXX: engyē)
Doctrine: Business and Social Ethics
New Proverbs term. Surety/pledge for another’s debt (6:1-5). Practical financial-ethics wisdom; low risk.
Ant Harvest
Approved rendering: formiga / colheita
Transliteration: nemalah / qatsir (LXX: myrmēx / therismos)
Doctrine: Diligence versus Sloth
New Proverbs term. The ant models diligent, self-directed preparation without external oversight (6:6-8). Low risk, standard.
Wife Of Youth
Approved rendering: mulher da tua mocidade / esposa da juventude
Transliteration: eshet ne’urekha (LXX: gynaikos neotētos sou)
Doctrine: Family and Marriage Ethics
New Proverbs term. Marital fidelity to one’s own covenant spouse, the positive alternative to the forbidden woman (5:18). Low risk, standard.
Desire
Approved rendering: desejo
Transliteration: ta’avah (LXX: epithymia)
Doctrine: Wisdom’s Reward
New Proverbs term. Desire rightly or wrongly directed (13:12, ‘desire fulfilled is a tree of life’); when paired with ‘árvore da vida’ apply the Critical risk note from the tree_of_life entry.
King Lemuel
Approved rendering: rei Lemuel
Transliteration: melekh Lemuel (LXX: Lemouēl basileus)
Doctrine: Family and Marriage Ethics
New Proverbs term. Proper name; King Lemuel, taught sayings by his mother (31:1-9), paralleling Solomon’s authorial role. Low risk, proper name.
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