Core Glossary
Core Glossary — Jude — English → Sanskrit
This glossary extends the baseline Romans translation_memory.json for the Jude curriculum. Terms marked (TM reuse) are already fixed in the baseline and are reused here exactly as recorded, with no deviation permitted. Terms marked (NEW) are introduced by this Jude Language Package extension and should be added to translation_memory.json (with version increment) before Phase 2 translation begins. All Critical/High new terms require human theologian review before finalization per the escalation rules in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.
1. Contending for the Faith Once Delivered
| English Term | Greek (translit.) | Sanskrit | Transliteration | Risk | Notes / Rejected Alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| faith (the faith, objective deposit) | πίστις (pistis) | विश्वासः | viśvāsaḥ | High | (TM reuse). Same word as Romans’ subjective-trust sense; requires an explicit first-occurrence gloss distinguishing “the act of trusting” from “the fixed body of doctrine trusted.” |
| once for all | ἅπαξ (hapax) | सकृत् | sakṛt | High (NEW) | Must be taught as unrepeatable/closed, guarding against cyclical-ritual-repetition assumptions (parallel to Resurrection’s हपax-equivalent caution in the baseline). |
| delivered / entrusted | παραδοθείσῃ (paradotheisē) | समर्पितः / दत्तः | samarpitaḥ / dattaḥ | Critical (NEW) | सम्प्रदाय-vocabulary absolutely forbidden — sampradāya names a living, branching guru-lineage tradition (Vaiṣṇava sampradāyas, Advaita sampradāya); Jude asserts a single, closed, once-for-all deposit, the opposite model. |
| saints | ἅγιοι (hagioi) | पवित्राः जनाः | pavitrāḥ janāḥ | High | (TM reuse). |
| contend for | ἐπαγωνίζεσθαι (epagōnizesthai) | संघर्षः (कुर्वन्तः) | saṃgharṣaḥ | High (NEW) | युद्धम् (“battle/war”) rejected — imports Gītā 2.31–37 dharma-yuddha/kṣatriya-duty framing; contention here is reasoned doctrinal defense, not martial or caste duty. |
| common (salvation) | κοινῆς (koinēs) | साधारण | sādhāraṇa | Medium (NEW) | सामान्य rejected — fixed Vaiśeṣika ontological category (“generality/universal,” one of the padārthas). |
| salvation | σωτηρία (sōtēria) | त्राणम् | trāṇam | Critical | (TM reuse). Never मोक्षः/मुक्तिः/निर्वाणम्. |
| grace | χάρις (charis) | अनुग्रहः | anugrahaḥ | High | (TM reuse). |
| ungodly | ἀσεβεῖς (asebeis) | अधार्मिकाः | adhārmikāḥ | High (NEW) | Built on the negation of धार्मिकता (TM reuse root, Righteousness). Inherits the mandatory redefinition rule: “without reverence for God,” never “failing varṇāśrama duty.” |
2. Judgment on Ungodly False Teachers
| English Term | Greek (translit.) | Sanskrit | Transliteration | Risk | Notes / Rejected Alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| judgment / condemnation | κρίσις (krisis) | दण्डः / दण्डाज्ञा | daṇḍaḥ / daṇḍājñā | High (NEW) | निर्णयः rejected (reserved for the fixed “justification” compound, धर्मीति निर्णयः, a declaration of righteousness — opposite forensic outcome). न्यायः rejected (Nyāya-school-name collision, per baseline “righteousness” entry). |
| punishment | δίκη (dikē) | दण्डम् | daṇḍam | Medium (NEW) | Consistent with κρίσις family above. |
| blaspheme / revile | βλασφημέω (blasphēmeō) | निन्दा (निन्दन्ति) | nindā | Medium (NEW) | General classical censure-term; contextually distinguished from guru-nindā ethical usage. |
| eternal (chains, fire, etc.) | ἀΐδιος / αἰώνιος (aïdios / aiōnios) | नित्य | nitya | High (NEW) | सनातन explicitly forbidden — collides with sanātana dharma, the primary Hindu self-designation for “the eternal order/religion.” |
| darkness / gloom | ζόφος (zophos) | अन्धकारः | andhakāraḥ | Medium (NEW) | तमः/तमस् explicitly rejected — the third guṇa (sattva-rajas-tamas) in Sāṅkhya-Yoga cosmology; would import guṇa-metaphysics into a simple judgment-image. |
| licentiousness / sensuality | ἀσέλγεια (aselgeia) | स्वैराचारः | svairācāraḥ | Medium (NEW) | Plain descriptive compound, no major collision. |
| lordship / authority (angelic/governmental) | κυριότης (kyriotēs) | प्रभुत्वम् | prabhutvam | Medium-High (NEW) | Built on प्रभुः (TM reuse root). Must be disambiguated contextually from Christ’s own lordship. |
| glorious ones (angelic dignitaries) | δόξαι (doxai) | महिमावन्तः | mahimāvantaḥ | High (NEW) | Built on महिमा (TM reuse root, Glory). Must never be confused with Christ’s own unique underived glory. |
| devil / Satan | διάβολος (diabolos) | शैतान् | śaitān (translit.) | Critical (NEW) | असुरः/राक्षसः/पिशाचः all rejected — each names one member of a multiple-being class in Puranic/epic cosmology; “the devil” is unique and singular. |
| desires / lusts | ἐπιθυμία (epithymia) | कामेच्छा (दुष्ट-) | kāmecchā (with duṣṭa- qualifier) | Medium-High (NEW) | Must be qualified so as not to condemn काम as a legitimate puruṣārtha generally; refers specifically to disordered self-indulgent desire. |
| mockers / scoffers | ἐμπαῖκτης (empaiktēs) | उपहासकाः | upahāsakāḥ | Low-Medium (NEW) | Plain classical term. |
| worldly / soulish (without the Spirit) | ψυχικός (psychikos) | लौकिकाः | laukikāḥ | Critical (NEW) | आत्मा-based coinages strictly forbidden — direct collision with Holy Spirit reservation of आत्मा; requires a note distinguishing “governed by natural human life, without the Spirit” from any claim about the Vedāntic ātman. Escalate to human theologian review whenever this verse (v. 19) is processed. |
3. Old Testament Warnings as Types (Israel, Angels, Sodom, Cain, Balaam, Korah)
| English Term | Greek (translit.) | Sanskrit | Transliteration | Risk | Notes / Rejected Alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| example / type | δεῖγμα (deigma) | दृष्टान्तः | dṛṣṭāntaḥ | Low-Medium (NEW) | Plain classical rhetorical term; Nyāya-syllogism use is compatible, not distorting. |
| destroyed | ἀπόλλυμι (apollymi) | नाशम् (गच्छन्ति / नाशितवान्) | nāśam | Low-Medium (NEW) | Consistent pattern-word for judgment, reused vv. 5, 10, 11. |
| did not believe | μὴ πιστεύσαντας (mē pisteusantas) | अविश्वासिनः | aviśvāsinaḥ | Medium (NEW) | Negative formation on विश्वासः (TM reuse root). |
| angels | ἄγγελος (angelos) | स्वर्गदूताः | svargadūtāḥ | Medium (NEW) | दूत is plain/non-technical; qualifier स्वर्गीय retained for consistency and to distinguish from human messengers. |
| kept (τηρέω word-family) | τηρέω (tēreō) | रक्षा / रक्षितः | rakṣā / rakṣitaḥ | High (NEW) — central doctrinal term | Not a classical-philosophical-school collision but a live ritual-practice collision: रक्षा-सूत्र (protective thread-tying, e.g. Rakṣā Bandhan) risks an apotropaic-charm reading; every occurrence needs a note distinguishing God’s sovereign preserving grace from a protective ritual/amulet. Appears vv. 1, 6, 13, 21, 24 with both divine-agency and reflexive senses — disambiguate direction of agency at each occurrence. |
| Sodom and Gomorrah | Σόδομα καὶ Γόμορρα | सदोमगोमोरे | sadoma-gomore | Low (NEW) | Transliterated proper names. |
| eternal fire | πῦρ αἰώνιον (pyr aiōnion) | नित्याग्निः | nityāgniḥ | Medium (NEW) | नित्य per the “eternal” decision above; अग्नि generic use noted, distinguished from ritual/sacrificial Agni. |
| error / delusion | πλάνη (planē) | भ्रान्तिः | bhrāntiḥ | Medium-High (NEW) | Advaita epistemological term (superimposed/illusory cognition, cf. adhyāsa); here means simple moral/doctrinal error, requires first-use note. |
| wandering stars | ἀστέρες πλανῆται (asteres planētai) | भ्रमन्तः ताराः | bhramantaḥ tārāḥ | Medium-High (NEW) | ग्रह (“planet/seizer,” navagraha astrology) explicitly avoided — would import astrological fate-determinism. |
| Cain, Balaam, Korah | Κάϊν, Βαλαάμ, Κόρε | कयिनः, बालाम्, कोरहः | kayinaḥ, bālām, korahaḥ | Low (NEW) | Transliterated proper names; second OT “type” triad. |
| Michael (archangel) | Μιχαήλ ὁ ἀρχάγγελος | प्रधानदूतः मीखायेलः | pradhānadūtaḥ mīkhāyelaḥ | Low-Medium (NEW) | Plain compound, “chief messenger.” |
| holy myriads (angelic hosts) | ἅγιαι μυριάδες (hagiai myriades) | पवित्रैः असंख्यैः (गणैः) | pavitraiḥ asaṃkhyaiḥ (gaṇaiḥ) | High (NEW) | Must not be confused with पवित्राः जनाः (“saints,” human believers, TM reuse, Sainthood doctrine); distinct referent (angelic hosts) requires a disambiguating note. |
4. Mercy and Rescue of the Wavering
| English Term | Greek (translit.) | Sanskrit | Transliteration | Risk | Notes / Rejected Alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mercy | ἔλεος (eleos) | दया | dayā | High (NEW) | कृपा not fully rejected but disfavored as primary term: carries Vaiṣṇava bhakti-responsive resonance (guru’s/God’s compassion bestowed in response to devotion). दया preferred as more general; note biblical mercy precedes and does not depend on the recipient’s spiritual attainment. |
| those who doubt / waver | διακρινόμενοι (diakrinomenoi) | द्विविधचित्ताः / संदिग्धाः | dvividhacittāḥ / saṃdigdhāḥ | Medium (NEW) | Plain psychological-state vocabulary; distinguish from Gītā 17’s threefold guṇa-classified śraddhā typology (already flagged in the baseline “faith” entry) — this is an unsettled state, not a guṇa-classification. |
| save | σῴζω (sōzō) | त्रायध्वम् (त्रा-root verb forms) | trāyadhvam | Critical | (TM reuse root) — same √trā as त्राणम् (Salvation). Excellent consistency; never shift to मुच्/मोच् (mokṣa-root) verb forms. |
| snatching out of the fire | ἐκ πυρὸς ἁρπάζοντες (ek pyros harpazontes) | अग्नेः उद्धरन्तः | agneḥ uddharantaḥ | Low-Medium (NEW) | उद्धरण (“lifting/rescuing out”) shares a root cluster loosely near avatāra’s “descent” sense; footnote only, not a doctrinal collision — clearly distinguishable from देहधारणम् (Incarnation, TM reuse, Critical). |
| stained garment (moral defilement) | ἐσπιλωμένος χιτών (espilōmenos chitōn) | दूषितं वस्त्रम् | dūṣitaṃ vastram | Medium (NEW) | Note: distinguish moral revulsion at sin’s contaminating influence from ritual cloth-contact purity codes (śuddhi); parallel caution to the baseline’s “sin” entry. |
5. Kept by God and Presented Blameless
| English Term | Greek (translit.) | Sanskrit | Transliteration | Risk | Notes / Rejected Alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| kept (divine agency, doxology) | φυλάσσω (phylassō) | रक्षा (रक्षितुं शक्तः) | rakṣā | High (NEW) | Same term-family and risk profile as τηρέω above; here specifically God as active subject (contrast v. 21’s reflexive “keep yourselves”) — preserve this agency-contrast explicitly. |
| without stumbling | ἄπταιστος (aptaistos) | निष्खलितः | niṣkhalitaḥ | Low-Medium (NEW) | Descriptive coinage from स्खल् (“stumble”). |
| present (before his glory) | ἵστημι (histēmi, “to set/present”) | स्थापयितुम् | sthāpayitum | Medium-High (NEW) | Combines with महिमा (TM reuse root, Glory). |
| blameless | ἄμωμος (amōmos) | निर्दोषः | nirdoṣaḥ | High (NEW) — central doctrinal term | Note distinguishing forensic, positional blamelessness granted through Christ (parallel to आरोपिता धार्मिकता, TM reuse, Imputed Righteousness, Critical) from practical/behavioral fault-freedom or Āyurvedic doṣa-balance. |
| glory (God’s presence) | δόξα (doxa) | महिमा | mahimā | High | (TM reuse). |
6. Doxology and God’s Preserving Power
| English Term | Greek (translit.) | Sanskrit | Transliteration | Risk | Notes / Rejected Alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| exceeding joy | ἀγαλλίασις (agalliasis) | हर्षः | harṣaḥ | Critical (NEW) — major cross-cutting finding | आनन्दः explicitly and emphatically forbidden: the third term of Vedānta’s sat-cit-ānanda (existence-consciousness-bliss), the defining nature of Brahman/the liberated Self across Advaita and other Vedānta schools. Using it here risks collapsing “joy before God’s glory” into attainment of Brahman’s intrinsic bliss-nature. हर्ष is a plain, comparatively untheorized term for gladness/delight. Escalate to mandatory human theologian review at every occurrence, on the same footing as आत्मा. |
| only God, Savior | μόνος θεός σωτήρ (monos theos sōtēr) | एकः सर्वेश्वरः, त्राता | ekaḥ sarveśvaraḥ, trātā | Critical | सर्वेश्वरः (TM reuse); त्राता is a new agent-noun (NEW) built naturally on the same √trā root as त्राणम् (TM reuse, Salvation) — strong, desirable consistency, no independent collision risk. “Only” (μόνος → एकः) must be preserved emphatically. |
| majesty | μεγαλωσύνη (megalōsynē) | गौरवम् | gauravam | Low-Medium (NEW) | General honorific-abstraction term, no major collision. |
| dominion / might | κράτος (kratos) | सामर्थ्यम् | sāmarthyam | High | (TM reuse root), Power of God entry. Never शक्ति — hypostasized Śākta Tantric divine-feminine creative power. |
| authority | ἐξουσία (exousia) | अधिकारः | adhikāraḥ | Low-Medium (NEW) | Standard administrative/legal-authority term. |
| before all time / forever | πρὸ παντὸς τοῦ αἰῶνος… εἰς πάντας τοὺς αἰῶνας | सर्वकालात् पूर्वम्… सर्वं कालं यावत् | sarvakālāt pūrvam… sarvaṃ kālaṃ yāvat | High (NEW) | युग explicitly forbidden for “age/time” here and at v. 18 — collides with the cyclical four-yuga scheme; काल (plain “time”) required to preserve linear, single, bracketing eternity. |
| Amen | Ἀμήν | आमीन् | āmīn | Low | Established transliteration per baseline AI-requirements document. |
7. Reused Baseline (Romans) Terms Cited Throughout Jude
(Exact TM values restated for cross-reference convenience; no deviation permitted.)
| English Term | Sanskrit | Transliteration | Risk | Jude Verse Refs. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| God | सर्वेश्वरः | sarveśvaraḥ | Critical | 1, 4, 21, 25 |
| Lord | प्रभुः | prabhuḥ | Critical | 1, 4, 5, 9, 14, 17, 21, 25 |
| Jesus | यीशुः | yīśuḥ | Critical | 1, 4, 17, 21, 25 |
| Christ | ख्रीष्टः | khrīṣṭaḥ | Critical | 1, 4, 17, 21, 25 |
| Holy Spirit | पवित्र आत्मा | pavitra ātmā | Critical | 19, 20 |
| Holy | पवित्रम् | pavitram | High | 3, 14, 20 |
| Saints | पवित्राः जनाः | pavitrāḥ janāḥ | High | 3 |
| Called | आहूतः | āhūtaḥ | High | 1 |
| Faith | विश्वासः | viśvāsaḥ | High | 3, 5, 20 |
| Grace | अनुग्रहः | anugrahaḥ | High | 4 |
| Salvation | त्राणम् | trāṇam | Critical | 3, 23, 25 (त्राता) |
| Peace | शान्तिः | śāntiḥ | Medium | 2 |
| Glory | महिमा | mahimā | High | 8, 24, 25 |
| Apostle | प्रेषितः | preṣitaḥ | Medium | 17 |
| Righteousness (root) | धार्मिकता | dhārmikatā | Critical | (root of अधार्मिकाः, “ungodly,” 4, 15, 18) |
| Israel (people, typological reference) | इस्राएलः | isrāelaḥ | Medium | 5 |
| Power of God (root) | सामर्थ्यम् | sāmarthyam | High | 25 |
| Prayer | प्रार्थना | prārthanā | Medium | 20 |
Risk Summary for This Extension
| Risk Tier | New Terms Introduced | Reused Baseline (TM) Terms |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 4 (ψυχικός→लौकिक; ἀγαλλίασις→हर्ष; παραδοθείσῃ→समर्पित/दत्त [in context]; διάβολος→शैतान्) | 6 |
| High | 15 | 6 |
| Medium | 14 | 2 |
| Low | 6 | 1 |
All Critical and High new terms require human theologian review before Phase 2 translation, per the escalation rules established in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md. Medium-tier new terms are routed to a Sanskrit-philosophically-literate scholar. Low-tier new terms require automated review only.
Critical Risk Terms
Righteousness
Approved rendering: धार्मिकता
Transliteration: dhārmikatā
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: धर्मः, न्यायः, पुण्यम्
Inherited from Romans package. Root term for Jude’s अधार्मिकाः (‘ungodly,’ vv.4, 15, 18) via simple negation; see ‘ungodly’ entry below. The baseline’s mandatory explicit-redefinition rule applies with equal force to the negated form.
Justification
Approved rendering: धर्मीति निर्णयः
Transliteration: dharmīti nirṇayaḥ
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: क्षमा, पुण्यार्जनम्
Inherited from Romans package. Cross-referenced in Jude solely as a FORBIDDEN-COLLISION ANCHOR: निर्णयः, fixed here for the specific compound ‘declared righteous,’ must never be reused loosely for Jude’s κρίσις (‘judgment/condemnation,’ the opposite forensic outcome). See ‘judgment_condemnation’ entry below.
Salvation
Approved rendering: त्राणम्
Transliteration: trāṇam
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: मोक्षः, मुक्तिः, निर्वाणम्
Original: σωτηρία / σῴζω
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Reused in Jude 1:3 (‘common salvation,’ साधारणं त्राणम्) and via the same √त्रा root in imperative verb form at 1:23 (‘save,’ त्रायध्वम्) and in the doxology’s agent-noun त्राता (‘Savior,’ 1:25). Never मोक्षः/मुक्तिः/निर्वाणम् in any inflected or derived form throughout Jude.
Lord
Approved rendering: प्रभुः
Transliteration: prabhuḥ
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ईश्वरः, स्वामी
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Recurs throughout Jude (1:4, 1:5, 1:9, 1:14, 1:17, 1:21, 1:25). In 1:4 it appears alongside the new term अधिपतिः (δεσπότης, ‘Master/Sovereign’) applied to the SAME Person; every occurrence of this pairing requires a note that both titles name one Person, not two beings, per neither implying subordination to a prior nirguṇa/saguṇa hierarchy (cf. baseline Advaita-Īśvara caution).
Jesus
Approved rendering: यीशुः
Transliteration: yīśuḥ
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Inherited from Romans package. Recurs throughout Jude (1:1, 1:4, 1:17, 1:21, 1:25).
Christ
Approved rendering: ख्रीष्टः
Transliteration: khrīṣṭaḥ
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Inherited from Romans package’s established transliteration convention (per 12_ai_translation_requirements.md’s Serampore-precedent transliteration table; not a separate entry in the baseline translation_memory.json but fixed there for consistent use). Recurs throughout Jude paired with यीशुः.
God
Approved rendering: सर्वेश्वरः
Transliteration: sarveśvaraḥ
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ईश्वरः, ब्रह्मन्, भगवान्, देवः
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Recurs in Jude 1:1 (God the Father), 1:4, 1:21, and climactically 1:25 (‘the only God, our Savior,’ एकः सर्वेश्वरः, त्राता — see new entry below).
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: पवित्र आत्मा
Transliteration: pavitra ātmā
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: ब्रह्मन्, परमात्मा
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Jude 1:19-20 places this term under MAXIMUM pressure: v.19 denies the Spirit to the ψυχικοί (‘worldly,’ rendered लौकिकाः — see new entry below, NEVER an आत्मा-based coinage), and v.20 commands ‘praying in the Holy Spirit.’ This adjacency is the single highest-stakes Holy-Spirit-personhood risk in the Jude curriculum; every occurrence requires the mandatory personhood note and escalation to human theologian review as a matter of course.
Father
Approved rendering: पिता
Transliteration: pitā
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Rejected alternatives: ब्रह्मा, प्रजापतिः
Inherited from Romans package. Jude 1:1: believers are ‘beloved in God the Father.‘
Imputed Righteousness
Approved rendering: आरोपिता धार्मिकता
Transliteration: āropitā dhārmikatā
Doctrine: Justification by Faith
Rejected alternatives: अर्जिता धार्मिकता
Inherited from Romans package. Cross-referenced in Jude solely as the STRUCTURAL PARALLEL for निर्दोषः (‘blameless,’ Jude 1:24): both name a forensic, positional status credited/granted by God through Christ’s work, not a self-achieved moral or ritual state. See ‘blameless’ entry below.
Delivered Entrusted
Approved rendering: समर्पितः / दत्तः
Transliteration: samarpitaḥ / dattaḥ
Doctrine: Contending for the Faith Once Delivered
Rejected alternatives: सम्प्रदायेण दत्तः, सम्प्रदाय-आधारित कोई भी रचना
Original: παραδοθείσῃ (παραδίδωμι)
Category: Faith
New term (Jude 1:3, παραδοθείσῃ). THE single most important lexical decision in this Language Package extension. Any rendering built on सम्प्रदाय (sampradāya) is ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN: sampradāya is the primary Indian technical term for a living, branching guru-to-disciple teaching-lineage (the four Vaiṣṇava sampradāyas, the Advaita sampradāya), implying an evolving tradition with competing lineage-variants — the structural opposite of Jude’s single, closed, once-for-all deposit identical for all believers. Use समर्पितः/दत्तः instead.
Devil
Approved rendering: शैतान्
Transliteration: śaitān
Doctrine: The Devil as a Unique Personal Adversary
Rejected alternatives: असुरः, राक्षसः, पिशाचः
Original: διάβολος
Category: Angelology
New term (Jude 1:9, διάβολος), transliterated. असुरः, राक्षसः, and पिशाचः are all explicitly rejected: each names one member of a MULTIPLE class of beings within established Vedic/Purāṇic/epic cosmology, whereas ‘the devil’ is a single, unique personal adversary. A native mythological term would fold this unique figure into an existing multiplicity. शैतान् must always carry a note affirming singular, unique personal identity.
Worldly Soulish
Approved rendering: लौकिकाः
Transliteration: laukikāḥ
Doctrine: Worldliness and the Personhood of the Holy Spirit
Rejected alternatives: आत्मिकः (कोई भी आत्मन्-आधारित नवरचना), जीवात्मपरः
Original: ψυχικοί
Category: Sanctification
New term (Jude 1:19, ψυχικοί), a cross-cutting Critical risk on the same order as the baseline’s ātman discussion. ANY आत्मा-based coinage is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN here, because पवित्र आत्मा (Holy Spirit) is denied to these same people in the immediately following clause of the SAME verse — rendering both the psychē-contrast and the Spirit with आत्मा-family words would directly collapse the very ātman-Brahman-identity distinction the baseline’s Holy Spirit entry exists to protect. लौकिकाः (from loka, ‘world’) is used instead. Every occurrence must carry a note: ‘governed by natural human life, without the Holy Spirit — NOT a claim about the Vedāntic ātman.’ Escalate to mandatory human theologian review at every occurrence.
Exceeding Joy
Approved rendering: हर्षः
Transliteration: harṣaḥ
Doctrine: Doxology and God’s Preserving Power
Rejected alternatives: आनन्दः
Original: ἀγαλλίασις
Category: Doxology
New term (Jude 1:24, ἀγαλλίασις), a MAJOR cross-cutting finding on par with the baseline’s ātman discussion. आनन्दः must be REJECTED as the primary rendering: it is the third term of Vedānta’s sat-cit-ānanda (‘existence-consciousness-bliss’), the defining threefold characterization of Brahman/the liberated Self across Advaita and other Vedānta schools. Using आनन्द here risks the strongest possible false equivalence in this Language Package: hearing believers’ joy before God’s glory as attainment of Brahman’s own intrinsic bliss-nature rather than relational, granted joy in the presence of a distinct, worshipped God. हर्षः, a plain and comparatively untheorized classical gladness-term, is required instead. Escalate to mandatory human theologian review at every occurrence, exactly as आत्मा is flagged in the baseline.
Only God Savior
Approved rendering: एकः सर्वेश्वरः, त्राता
Transliteration: ekaḥ sarveśvaraḥ, trātā
Doctrine: Doxology and God’s Preserving Power
Original: μόνῳ θεῷ σωτῆρι
Category: God
New term (Jude 1:25, μόνῳ θεῷ σωτῆρι), combining सर्वेश्वरः (TM reuse, God, Critical) with एकः (‘only, alone’) and the new agent-noun त्राता (‘Savior’), naturally built on the same √trā root as त्राणम् (TM reuse, Salvation, Critical) — a desirable, low-risk lexical reinforcement, not a new coinage collision. The ‘only’ (μόνος) qualifier must be preserved emphatically given the Universal Scope/exclusivity doctrines already flagged Critical/High in the Romans baseline.
High Risk Terms
Grace
Approved rendering: अनुग्रहः
Transliteration: anugrahaḥ
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: कृपा, प्रसादः, पुण्यम्
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. In Jude 1:4 this term appears in its abuse-form: grace itself is perverted into license for sensuality (see ‘Grace Perverted into License’ doctrine). अनुग्रहः must retain its full unmerited-favor sense so the perversion is visible as a genuine perversion of a genuine gift, not merely redescribed as license from the outset.
Faith
Approved rendering: विश्वासः
Transliteration: viśvāsaḥ
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: श्रद्धा, भक्तिः
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. In Jude 1:3, 1:20 this word must additionally bear an OBJECTIVE sense (‘the faith,’ the fixed body of apostolic doctrine), not only the Romans subjective-trust sense. Because विश्वासः does not formally mark this distinction the way Greek’s article + noun construction does, every first occurrence in Jude must carry an explicit gloss distinguishing ‘the act of believing’ from ‘the fixed content believed.‘
Called
Approved rendering: आहूतः
Transliteration: āhūtaḥ
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: निमन्त्रितः
Original: κλητοί
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Opens the Jude salutation (1:1, κλητοῖς): those summoned by God, addressed alongside ‘beloved in God the Father’ and ‘kept for Jesus Christ.‘
Holy
Approved rendering: पवित्रम्
Transliteration: pavitram
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: शुद्धम्
Original: ἅγιος / ἁγιωτάτῃ
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. In Jude appears at 1:3 (पवित्राः जनाः, ‘saints’), 1:14 (पवित्रैः असंख्यैः गणैः, ‘holy myriads’ — angelic hosts, a DISTINCT referent, see below), and 1:20 (superlative, पवित्रतमे विश्वासे, ‘most holy faith’). Every extension of this root beyond human believers requires a disambiguating note per occurrence.
Saints
Approved rendering: पवित्राः जनाः
Transliteration: pavitrāḥ janāḥ
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: ऋषयः, संन्यासिनः
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Jude 1:3: the faith was once for all delivered ‘to the saints.’ Must be kept strictly distinct in this book from पवित्रैः असंख्यैः (गणैः), the angelic ‘holy myriads’ of 1:14 — two different referents sharing the पवित्र root.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: पवित्रीकरणम्
Transliteration: pavitrīkaraṇam
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: शुद्धिः
Inherited from Romans package. Not directly lexicalized as a single word-instance in Jude’s Greek text, but named as the doctrine-category for several Jude terms (worldly_soulish, kept_guarded, without_stumbling, present_before_glory, blameless) in bible_term_registry.json (Jude). Retained here for cross-reference completeness.
Sin
Approved rendering: पापम्
Transliteration: pāpam
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: अधर्मः
Inherited from Romans package. Not itself the primary lexical choice for any single Jude term, but cross-referenced as the parallel case for the ‘stained garment’ (दूषितं वस्त्रम्, 1:23) caution: sin’s moral contamination must not be read as a ritual-impurity category resolved through prescribed penance (prāyaścitta) rather than through Christ’s work, exactly as the baseline warns for पापम्.
Glory
Approved rendering: महिमा
Transliteration: mahimā
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: तेजस्
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Jude 1:24 (‘present you blameless before the presence of his glory’) and 1:25 (doxological ascription). Must be kept carefully distinct from महिमावन्तः (‘glorious ones,’ created angelic dignitaries, 1:8) — God’s/Christ’s own underived glory versus created beings described with the same root.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: परमेश्वरस्य सामर्थ्यम्
Transliteration: parameśvarasya sāmarthyam
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Rejected alternatives: शक्तिः
Inherited from Romans package. Root सामर्थ्यम् is reused in Jude 1:25 for κράτος (‘dominion/might’) in the doxology’s fourfold ascription (glory, majesty, dominion, authority). NEVER शक्तिः — the hypostasized, personified divine-feminine creative power of Śākta Tantric theology (Devī Māhātmyam).
Once For All
Approved rendering: सकृत्
Transliteration: sakṛt
Doctrine: Contending for the Faith Once Delivered
Original: ἅπαξ
Category: Faith
New term (Jude 1:3, ἅπαξ). Must be explicitly taught as unrepeatable and closed: classical Sanskrit religious literature is saturated with repeatable ritual performance (each yajña repeatable) and repeatable avatāric descent (Bhagavad Gītā 4.7-8, once per yuga), so सकृत् could otherwise be read as merely ‘on one past occasion’ without excluding future repetition.
Contend For The Faith
Approved rendering: संघर्षः
Transliteration: saṃgharṣaḥ
Doctrine: Contending for the Faith Once Delivered
Rejected alternatives: युद्धम्
Original: ἐπαγωνίζεσθαι
Category: Faith
New term (Jude 1:3, ἐπαγωνίζεσθαι), the epistle’s thesis verb. युद्धम् (‘battle, war’) is rejected: it too readily imports the dharma-yuddha frame of Bhagavad Gītā 2.31-37, where Arjuna’s fighting is his kṣatriya caste-duty, reframing reasoned doctrinal defense as martial or varṇa-based duty. संघर्ष requires a note clarifying this is intellectual/spiritual contention, not physical combat.
Ungodly
Approved rendering: अधार्मिकाः
Transliteration: adhārmikāḥ
Doctrine: Judgment on Ungodly False Teachers
Original: ἀσεβεῖς / ἀσέβεια
Category: Sin
New term (Jude 1:4, 1:15, 1:18, ἀσεβεῖς/ἀσέβεια), built on the negation of धार्मिकता (TM reuse root, Righteousness, Critical). Inherits the mandatory redefinition rule already established for धार्मिकता-family words: must be taught as ‘without reverence for the true God, in wrong standing before him,’ NEVER ‘failing one’s varṇāśrama social/ritual duty.‘
Master Sovereign
Approved rendering: अधिपतिः
Transliteration: adhipatiḥ
Doctrine: Denial of Christ’s Exclusive Lordship
Rejected alternatives: स्वामी
Original: δεσπότης
Category: Christology
New term (Jude 1:4, δεσπότης), applied to the same Person as κύριος/प्रभुः within one clause. Every occurrence requires a note that अधिपतिः and प्रभुः name one Person, not two beings, and that neither implies subordination within a prior nirguṇa/saguṇa hierarchy.
Judgment Condemnation
Approved rendering: दण्डः / दण्डाज्ञा
Transliteration: daṇḍaḥ / daṇḍājñā
Doctrine: Judgment on Ungodly False Teachers
Rejected alternatives: निर्णयः, न्यायः
Original: κρίσις
Category: Judgment
New term (Jude 1:6, 1:7 [as δίκη], 1:9, 1:15, κρίσις/δίκη). निर्णयः must be avoided: it is the fixed baseline rendering within धर्मीति निर्णयः (‘justification,’ Critical), and reusing it loosely for condemnation would blur two opposite forensic outcomes under one word. न्यायः must also be avoided (Nyāya-darśana-name collision). दण्ड, drawn from daṇḍanīti penal-statecraft vocabulary, is the distinct, safer forensic term for judgment/condemnation throughout Jude.
Eternal
Approved rendering: नित्य
Transliteration: nitya
Doctrine: Old Testament Warnings as Types: Fallen Angels
Rejected alternatives: सनातन
Original: ἀΐδιος / αἰώνιος
Category: Eschatology
New term (Jude 1:6, 1:7, 1:21, ἀΐδιος/αἰώνιος as durational adjective). सनातन is EXPLICITLY FORBIDDEN throughout this curriculum: sanātana (as in sanātana dharma) is the primary Hindu self-designating term for ‘the eternal Vedic order/religion itself,’ and its use for a Christian theological ‘eternal’ would risk sounding like appropriation of that specific self-designation. नित्य must be used consistently for the fallen angels’ chains, Sodom’s fire, and life in Christ.
Angelic Authority
Approved rendering: प्रभुत्वम्
Transliteration: prabhutvam
Doctrine: Angelic Authority, Glory, and Blasphemy
Original: κυριότης
Category: Angelology
New term (Jude 1:8, κυριότης), built directly on प्रभुः (TM reuse root, Lord, Critical). Must be disambiguated by context at every occurrence between (a) Christ’s own lordship, positive, and (b) created governmental/angelic authority-structures rejected by false teachers, negative — the same abstract noun serves both referents within a few words of each other in this chapter.
Glorious Ones
Approved rendering: महिमावन्तः
Transliteration: mahimāvantaḥ
Doctrine: Angelic Authority, Glory, and Blasphemy
Original: δόξαι
Category: Angelology
New term (Jude 1:8, δόξαι), built on महिमा (TM reuse root, Glory, High — reserved elsewhere for the Deity of Christ). Must carry an explicit note that here it names created angelic dignitaries, categorically lesser and derivative, never to be confused with Christ’s own unique, underived महिमा.
Lust Disordered Desire
Approved rendering: दुष्टकामेच्छा
Transliteration: duṣṭakāmecchā
Doctrine: Judgment on Ungodly False Teachers
Rejected alternatives: अकथित कामेच्छा (अविशेषित)
Original: ἐπιθυμία
Category: Sin
New term (Jude 1:16, 1:18, ἐπιθυμία), always paired with the qualifier दुष्ट- (‘corrupt/evil’). काम is a major term in Indian thought (one of the four puruṣārthas, legitimate desire/pleasure as a life-goal in dharmaśāstra, and the name of the god Kāma); unqualified use would risk condemning legitimate desire as such rather than specifically disordered self-indulgent desire.
Kept Guarded
Approved rendering: रक्षा / रक्षितः
Transliteration: rakṣā / rakṣitaḥ
Doctrine: Kept by God and Presented Blameless
Original: τηρέω / φυλάσσω
Category: Sanctification
New CENTRAL term-family (Jude 1:1, 1:6, 1:13, 1:21, 1:24, τηρέω/φυλάσσω), the theological keyword of the whole book. रक्ष is a plain classical root without a single dominant technical-school claim, but carries a LIVE CULTURAL (not classical-philosophical) collision: रक्षा names protective thread-tying rites (rakṣā-sūtra, e.g. Rakṣā Bandhan) and protective mantra/amulet practices in popular Hindu ritual practice. Every occurrence of ‘kept by God’ must carry a note distinguishing God’s sovereign preserving grace from an apotropaic protective-charm reading, AND must disambiguate direction of agency (God keeping believers for glory, vv.1, 21, 24, vs. God keeping the condemned for judgment, vv.6, 13; divine agency v.24 vs. reflexive human responsibility v.21).
Error Delusion
Approved rendering: भ्रान्तिः
Transliteration: bhrāntiḥ
Doctrine: Old Testament Warnings as Types: Cain, Balaam, and Korah
Original: πλάνη
Category: Sin
New term (Jude 1:11, πλάνη, of Balaam). भ्रान्ति/भ्रम is a live technical term in Advaita epistemology for superimposed/illusory cognition (adhyāsa-adjacent, cf. the baseline’s ‘imputed righteousness’ entry). Here it must be taught as simple moral/doctrinal error, not the Advaitic theory of illusory perception of reality; a brief note is required at first use.
Wandering Stars
Approved rendering: भ्रमन्तः ताराः
Transliteration: bhramantaḥ tārāḥ
Doctrine: The Corrupt, Fruitless Nature of False Teachers
Rejected alternatives: ग्रह-आधारित कोई भी रचना
Original: ἀστέρες πλανῆται
Category: Eschatology
New term (Jude 1:13, ἀστέρες πλανῆται). ग्रह (‘planet/seizer,’ the term for the nine classical astrological planets/nodes, navagraha, believed in Jyotiṣa astrology to seize and determine human fate) must be avoided: it would import astrological fate-determinism into a moral metaphor for unstable false teachers. तारा (‘star,’ plain) plus the participle भ्रमन्त् (‘wandering’) is the safer construction.
Holy Myriads
Approved rendering: पवित्रैः असंख्यैः (गणैः)
Transliteration: pavitraiḥ asaṃkhyaiḥ (gaṇaiḥ)
Doctrine: Eschatological Judgment and the Last Time
Original: ἁγίαις μυριάσιν
Category: Angelology
New term (Jude 1:14, ἁγίαις μυριάσιν), the innumerable angelic hosts accompanying the Lord’s coming in judgment per Enoch’s prophecy. Must NOT be rendered as, or confused with, पवित्राः जनाः (‘saints,’ the fixed term for human believers) — a distinct referent (angelic hosts) sharing the पवित्र root; a disambiguating note is required at every occurrence.
Mercy
Approved rendering: दया
Transliteration: dayā
Doctrine: Mercy and Rescue of the Wavering
Rejected alternatives: कृपा
Original: ἔλεος
Category: Salvation
New term (Jude 1:2, 1:21, 1:22-23, ἔλεος), core to the Mercy and Rescue of the Wavering doctrine. कृपा is not fully rejected but disfavored: it carries Vaiṣṇava bhakti-responsive resonance (the guru’s/God’s compassion bestowed in response to the devotee’s devotion already offered). दया, the more general term (found across Dharmaśāstra virtue-lists and Yogic ethical vocabulary as a basic character quality, not tied to a devotional-transactional structure), is preferred; each occurrence should carry a note distinguishing biblical mercy — given prior to and apart from the recipient’s spiritual attainment — from kṛpā’s bhakti-responsive framing.
Blameless
Approved rendering: निर्दोषः
Transliteration: nirdoṣaḥ
Doctrine: Kept by God and Presented Blameless
Original: ἀμώμους
Category: Sanctification
New CENTRAL term (Jude 1:24, ἀμώμους), THE key term for the Presented Blameless doctrine. दोष is also the term for the three humoral factors in Āyurveda (vāta, pitta, kapha doṣa) and for a moral/ritual ‘fault’ generally in dharmaśāstra ethics; a note is required clarifying that ‘blameless’ here names a forensic, positional standing granted through Christ (parallel to आरोपिता धार्मिकता, Imputed Righteousness, Critical), not the practical absence of moral lapses achieved by discipline nor a bodily-humor balance.
Before All Time Forever
Approved rendering: सर्वकालात् पूर्वम्… सर्वं कालं यावत्
Transliteration: sarvakālāt pūrvam… sarvaṃ kālaṃ yāvat
Doctrine: Doxology and God’s Preserving Power
Rejected alternatives: युग-आधारित कोई भी रचना
Original: πρὸ παντὸς τοῦ αἰῶνος καὶ νῦν καὶ εἰς πάντας τοὺς αἰῶνας
Category: Eschatology
New term (Jude 1:25, πρὸ παντὸς τοῦ αἰῶνος καὶ νῦν καὶ εἰς πάντας τοὺς αἰῶνας; parallels 1:18’s ἐσχάτου χρόνου). युग is EXPLICITLY FORBIDDEN here and at 1:18 for ‘age/time’ in an eschatological sense: it collides with the cyclical four-yuga scheme (kṛta, tretā, dvāpara, kali), within which the present order’s degeneration is itself cyclically resolved and repeated. काल (‘time,’ plain) must be used throughout to preserve a single, linear, bracketing eternity.
Love
Approved rendering: प्रीतिः
Transliteration: prītiḥ
Doctrine: The Love of God and of Believers
Rejected alternatives: प्रेम, रागः
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Faith
New term (Jude 1:1-2, 1:12, 1:21, ἀγάπη). प्रेम is EXPLICITLY REJECTED as the default: in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava (Caitanya) theology, prema names a fully theorized, graded soteriological summit — prema-bhakti, the highest devotional attainment beyond ordinary bhakti, embedded in an entire rasa theology (śānta, dāsya, sakhya, vātsalya, mādhurya modes of loving Kṛṣṇa). राग is also rejected: in Sāṅkhya-Yoga, rāga (‘attachment/passion’) is one of the five kleśas (afflictions, Yoga Sūtra 2.3) binding the soul to saṃsāra — the opposite valence from divine love. प्रीतिः, comparatively general and untheorized, is preferred but requires an introductory gloss at first occurrence (‘God’s committed, self-giving love, and the believer’s answering love’), directly parallel to the baseline’s treatment of संविद् (‘covenant’).
Eternal Life
Approved rendering: नित्यं जीवनम्
Transliteration: nityaṃ jīvanam
Doctrine: Eternal Life and the Believer’s Hope
Rejected alternatives: अमृतत्वम्
Original: ζωὴν αἰώνιον
Category: Salvation
New term (Jude 1:21, ζωὴν αἰώνιον), continuing the नित्य (not सनातन) decision. अमृतत्वम् (‘immortality’) is EXPLICITLY REJECTED: a major Upaniṣadic soteriological goal-term (the Self’s attainment of deathlessness through Self-knowledge, e.g. Kaṭha Upaniṣad, Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad), tightly bound to Advaita’s ātman-Brahman realization doctrine. Using it would collapse ‘eternal life in Christ’ into ‘immortality of an already-eternal Self,’ undermining the personal, granted nature of the gift. मोक्षः/मुक्तिः remain forbidden per the baseline’s absolute ‘salvation’ rule and are equally inapplicable here.
Medium Risk Terms
Apostle
Approved rendering: प्रेषितः
Transliteration: preṣitaḥ
Doctrine: Apostleship
Rejected alternatives: गुरुः, ऋषिः
Original: ἀπόστολοι
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Used at Jude 1:17 (‘the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ’), whose predictions believers must remember; the doctrine here is that apostolic warning is authoritative and historically reliable, paralleling the baseline’s Inspiration of Scripture contrast with apauruṣeya Vedic revelation.
Peace
Approved rendering: शान्तिः
Transliteration: śāntiḥ
Doctrine: Peace with God
Rejected alternatives: निर्वृत्तिः
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Part of the Jude 1:2 epistolary greeting alongside mercy (दया) and love (प्रीतिः).
Israel
Approved rendering: इस्राएलः
Transliteration: isrāelaḥ
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: λαόν (ἐξ Αἰγύπτου)
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Applied in Jude 1:5 to the underlying referent of λαόν (‘a people… out of Egypt’), the first member of the Israel/angels/Sodom Old Testament type-triad, though Jude’s Greek uses the common noun ‘a people’ rather than the proper name.
Intercession
Approved rendering: मध्यस्थता
Transliteration: madhyasthatā
Doctrine: Prayer and Intercession
Inherited from Romans package. Cross-referenced for the doctrine category shared with Jude’s new ‘prayer’ term (प्रार्थना, 1:20); prayer through Christ as sole mediator, distinguished from Vedic ritual invocation (āhvāna, homa) requiring precise mantra performance for efficacy.
Common Salvation
Approved rendering: साधारणं त्राणम्
Transliteration: sādhāraṇaṃ trāṇam
Doctrine: Contending for the Faith Once Delivered
Rejected alternatives: सामान्यं त्राणम्
Original: κοινῆς σωτηρίας
Category: Salvation
New term (Jude 1:3, κοινῆς σωτηρίας). सामान्य is rejected for ‘common’ because it is the fixed Vaiśeṣika ontological category of ‘generality/universal’ (one of the padārthas alongside dravya, guṇa, viśeṣa, samavāya), risking a metaphysical-category reading rather than ‘shared equally by all believers.‘
Punishment
Approved rendering: दण्डम्
Transliteration: daṇḍam
Doctrine: Old Testament Warnings as Types: Sodom and Gomorrah
Original: δίκη
Category: Judgment
New term (Jude 1:7, δίκη), consistent with the दण्ड-family established for κρίσις above.
Blaspheme Revile
Approved rendering: निन्दा
Transliteration: nindā
Doctrine: Angelic Authority, Glory, and Blasphemy
Original: βλασφημέω / βλασφημία
Category: Judgment
New term (Jude 1:8-10, 1:15, βλασφημέω/βλασφημία). A general classical censure-term, used broadly including the ethical sense of guru-nindā (censuring a teacher) in dharmaśāstra literature; this usage supports rather than undermines the biblical sense of sinful, irreverent mockery.
Darkness Gloom
Approved rendering: अन्धकारः
Transliteration: andhakāraḥ
Doctrine: Old Testament Warnings as Types: Fallen Angels
Rejected alternatives: तमः / तमस्
Original: ζόφος
Category: Judgment
New term (Jude 1:6, 1:13, ζόφος). तमः/तमस् is explicitly rejected: it is the third guṇa in Sāṅkhya-Yoga psycho-cosmology (sattva-rajas-tamas), the constitutive principle of inertia/ignorance within prakṛti’s triad; using it here would risk a guṇa-metaphysics reading rather than a simple description of a state of punishment.
Sensuality Licentiousness
Approved rendering: स्वैराचारः
Transliteration: svairācāraḥ
Doctrine: Grace Perverted into License
Original: ἀσέλγεια
Category: Sin
New term (Jude 1:4, ἀσέλγεια). A plain descriptive compound (svaira, ‘at one’s own will’ + ācāra, ‘conduct’); no major school-specific collision.
Scoffers Mockers
Approved rendering: उपहासकाः
Transliteration: upahāsakāḥ
Doctrine: Eschatological Judgment and the Last Time
Original: ἐμπαῖκται
Category: Eschatology
New term (Jude 1:18, ἐμπαῖκται). A plain classical term for mockers/deriders; no significant doctrinal collision.
Example Type
Approved rendering: दृष्टान्तः
Transliteration: dṣṭāntaḥ
Doctrine: Old Testament Warnings as Types: Sodom and Gomorrah
Original: δεῖγμα
Category: Covenant
New term (Jude 1:7, δεῖγμα), THE key term for the Old Testament Warnings as Types doctrine. A plain classical rhetorical term for ‘example/illustration’; its secondary technical use in Nyāya syllogism for an illustrative example is compatible with, not distorting of, the ‘type/pattern’ sense intended here.
Destroyed
Approved rendering: नाशम्
Transliteration: nāśam
Doctrine: Old Testament Warnings as Types: Israel’s Unbelief
Original: ἀπόλλυμι
Category: Judgment
New term (Jude 1:5, 1:10, 1:11, ἀπόλλυμι), the recurring PATTERN-WORD for divine judgment. Must be rendered consistently across all three occurrences (Israel’s unbelieving generation, the instinct-driven false teachers, Korah’s rebels) to preserve Jude’s deliberate rhetorical repetition tying these three judgments together.
Unbelief
Approved rendering: अविश्वासिनः
Transliteration: aviśvāsinaḥ
Doctrine: Old Testament Warnings as Types: Israel’s Unbelief
Original: μὴ πιστεύσαντας
Category: Faith
New term (Jude 1:5, μὴ πιστεύσαντας), a negative formation on विश्वासः (TM reuse root, Faith, High); consistent, low-collision negation pattern.
Angels
Approved rendering: स्वर्गदूताः
Transliteration: svargadūtāḥ
Doctrine: Old Testament Warnings as Types: Fallen Angels
Original: ἄγγελοι
Category: Angelology
New term (Jude 1:6, ἄγγελοι; also underlying 1:9’s Michael and 1:14’s holy myriads). दूतः alone is a plain, non-technical classical word for ‘messenger’ (used of both human envoys and mythological messenger-figures, e.g. Hanumān as dūta); the qualifier स्वर्ग-/स्वर्गीय is retained consistently to distinguish these beings from human messengers and generic devatā multiplicity.
Eternal Fire
Approved rendering: नित्याग्निः
Transliteration: nityāgniḥ
Doctrine: Old Testament Warnings as Types: Sodom and Gomorrah
Rejected alternatives: सनातनाग्निः
Original: πυρὸς αἰωνίου
Category: Judgment
New term (Jude 1:7, πυρὸς αἰωνίου), consistent with the नित्य (not सनातन) decision. अग्नि’s generic use for ‘fire’ is standard and unavoidable, but translator notes should clarify ‘eternal fire’ names a place/state of judgment, not the ritual sacrificial Agni central to Vedic yajña.
Wavering Doubt
Approved rendering: द्विविधचित्ताः / संदिग्धाः
Transliteration: dvividhacittāḥ / saṃdigdhāḥ
Doctrine: Mercy and Rescue of the Wavering
Original: διακρινόμενοι
Category: Faith
New term (Jude 1:22, διακρινόμενοι), the vulnerable middle group in Jude’s threefold pastoral strategy. Plain psychological-state vocabulary; must be distinguished from the graded threefold guṇa-classified śraddhā typology of Bhagavad Gītā 17 (already flagged in the baseline’s ‘faith’ entry) — this term describes an unsettled state prior to settled faith, not a guṇa-classification.
Snatch From Fire
Approved rendering: अग्नेः उद्धरन्तः
Transliteration: agneḥ uddharantaḥ
Doctrine: Mercy and Rescue of the Wavering
Original: ἐκ πυρὸς ἁρπάζοντες
Category: Salvation
New term (Jude 1:23, ἐκ πυρὸς ἁρπάζοντες). उद्धरति (‘lifts out, rescues’) shares a loose etymological neighborhood with the root behind avatāra’s ‘descent’ sense; this is a minor footnote-level proximity only, clearly distinguishable from देहधारणम् (the fixed Incarnation term, Romans baseline, Critical) and not itself a doctrinal collision.
Stained Garment
Approved rendering: दूषितं वस्त्रम्
Transliteration: dūṣitaṃ vastram
Doctrine: Mercy and Rescue of the Wavering
Original: τὸν χιτῶνα ἐσπιλωμένον
Category: Sin
New term (Jude 1:23, τὸν χιτῶνα ἐσπιλωμένον). This image sits close to ritual-purity vocabulary in Indian religious culture (garment/clothing purity within varṇa-based ritual codes, e.g. contact-pollution transmitted via cloth). A translator note should clarify the image conveys moral revulsion at sin’s contaminating influence, not a ritual-purity/śuddhi mechanism requiring prescribed purification rites.
Without Stumbling
Approved rendering: निष्खलितः
Transliteration: niṣkhalitaḥ
Doctrine: Kept by God and Presented Blameless
Original: ἀπταίστους
Category: Sanctification
New term (Jude 1:24, ἀπταίστους), a descriptive coinage from स्खल् (‘to stumble, slip’); no significant doctrinal collision.
Present Before Glory
Approved rendering: स्थापयितुम्
Transliteration: sthāpayitum
Doctrine: Kept by God and Presented Blameless
Original: στῆσαι κατενώπιον τῆς δόξης αὐτοῦ
Category: Sanctification
New term (Jude 1:24, στῆσαι κατενώπιον τῆς δόξης αὐτοῦ), combined with महिमा (TM reuse root, Glory, High); a consistent, low-collision extension of the established term.
Servant Slave
Approved rendering: दासः
Transliteration: dāsaḥ
Doctrine: Apostleship
Rejected alternatives: भृत्यः
Original: δοῦλος
Category: Church
New term (Jude 1:1, δοῦλος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ), Jude’s self-designation, total-ownership relationship. Absent from the Romans baseline though the identical Greek phrase opens Romans 1:1; this Jude package establishes it and it should be back-ported to the Romans package for consistency. भृत्यः (‘hired servant/employee’) is rejected as wrongly implying a wage-contract relationship rather than total ownership. दास also names the dāsya-bhāva (‘servant-mood’) of bhakti devotion, one of five classical devotional relational modes to Kṛṣṇa; this mild collision, if anything, reinforces rather than undermines the intended sense of glad, relational submission.
Love Feasts
Approved rendering: प्रीतिभोजनम्
Transliteration: prītibhojanam
Doctrine: The Love of God and of Believers
Original: ἀγάπαι
Category: Church
New term (Jude 1:12, ἀγάπαι), built on प्रीति (see ‘love’ entry above). Must be distinguished from Vaiṣṇava communal prasāda meal-sharing practices, which carry their own ritual offering-and-return theology already flagged for ‘grace’ in the baseline.
Cause Division
Approved rendering: भेदं जनयन्तः
Transliteration: bhedaṃ janayantaḥ
Doctrine: Worldliness and the Personhood of the Holy Spirit
Original: ἀποδιορίζοντες
Category: Church
New term (Jude 1:19, ἀποδιορίζοντες). भेद is also a technical term in Dvaita Vedānta (the doctrine of real ontological difference between jīva and Brahman, opposed to Advaita’s abheda); here it is used generically for social/ecclesial division, not a metaphysical claim, but a brief disambiguating note is warranted given the term’s philosophical double-life.
Beloved
Approved rendering: प्रियाः
Transliteration: priyāḥ
Doctrine: The Love of God and of Believers
Rejected alternatives: प्रेमास्पदाः, प्रेम-आधारित कोई भी रचना
Original: ἀγαπητοί
Category: Church
New term (Jude 1:3, 1:17, 1:20, ἀγαπητοί), Jude’s covenantal, affectionate address to his readers. प्रेमास्पदाः or any compound built on प्रेम is avoided given प्रेम’s Gauḍīya-Vaiṣṇava technical loading (see ‘love’ entry). प्रिय is the least encumbered adjective for ‘dear/beloved.‘
Prayer
Approved rendering: प्रार्थना
Transliteration: prārthanā
Doctrine: Worldliness and the Personhood of the Holy Spirit
New term (Jude 1:20, προσευχόμενοι, ‘praying in the Holy Spirit’), sharing its doctrine-category with the baseline Romans ‘Prayer and Intercession’ entry (मध्यस्थता). Direct access to God in Christ’s name through the Spirit; distinguish from Vedic ritual invocation (āhvāna, homa) requiring precise mantra performance for efficacy. This particular occurrence is elevated by its direct adjacency to पवित्र आत्मा (Critical) in the same verse — see ‘holy_spirit’ and ‘worldly_soulish’ entries.
Michael
Approved rendering: प्रधानदूतः मीखायेलः
Transliteration: pradhānadūtaḥ mīkhāyelaḥ
Doctrine: The Devil as a Unique Personal Adversary
Original: Μιχαὴλ ὁ ἀρχάγγελος
Category: Angelology
New term (Jude 1:9, Μιχαὴλ ὁ ἀρχάγγελος), a plain compound (‘chief-messenger Michael’) consistent with the स्वर्गदूत decision for ‘angel.‘
Cain Balaam Korah
Approved rendering: कयिनः, बालाम्, कोरहः
Transliteration: kayinaḥ, bālām, korahaḥ
Doctrine: Old Testament Warnings as Types: Cain, Balaam, and Korah
Original: Κάϊν, Βαλαάμ, Κόρε
Category: Covenant
New term (Jude 1:11, Κάϊν, Βαλαάμ, Κόρε), transliterated proper names forming the second Old Testament type-triad (parallel to Israel/angels/Sodom in vv.5-7); grouped together this triad forms a core doctrinal unit and should be flagged together for review of the associated typological teaching.
Low Risk Terms
Prophet
Approved rendering: भविष्यद्वक्ता
Transliteration: bhaviṣyadvaktā
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: ऋषिः
Inherited from Romans package. Relevant to Jude’s citation of Enoch’s prophecy (1:14-15) and the apostles’ prophetic warning (1:17-18); ऋषिः remains rejected for the same reason as in Romans — a Vedic ṛṣi perceives eternal, uncreated mantras rather than receiving a historically situated message from a personal God.
Prophecy
Approved rendering: भविष्यवाणी
Transliteration: bhaviṣyavāṇī
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Inherited from Romans package. Root for Jude 1:14’s भविष्यवाणीम् उक्तवान् (‘prophesied,’ of Enoch).
Majesty
Approved rendering: गौरवम्
Transliteration: gauravam
Doctrine: Doxology and God’s Preserving Power
Original: μεγαλωσύνη
Category: Doxology
New term (Jude 1:25, μεγαλωσύνη), part of the fourfold doxological ascription (glory, majesty, dominion, authority). A general honorific-abstraction term with no major school-specific collision.
Authority
Approved rendering: अधिकारः
Transliteration: adhikāraḥ
Doctrine: Doxology and God’s Preserving Power
Original: ἐξουσία
Category: Doxology
New term (Jude 1:25, ἐξουσία), part of the fourfold doxological ascription. A standard administrative/legal-authority term without a single dominant darśana-specific claim on it.
Amen
Approved rendering: आमीन्
Transliteration: āmīn
Doctrine: Doxology and God’s Preserving Power
Original: Ἀμήν
Category: Doxology
Inherited convention from the Romans package’s established AI-requirements transliteration table. Closing liturgical affirmation, Jude 1:25.
Moses
Approved rendering: मोशेः
Transliteration: mośeḥ
Doctrine: The Devil as a Unique Personal Adversary
Original: Μωϋσῆς
Category: Covenant
Inherited transliteration convention (established in the Romans-package AI-requirements transliteration table). Jude 1:9: the body of Moses, subject of Michael’s dispute with the devil.
Sodom And Gomorrah
Approved rendering: सदोमगोमोरे
Transliteration: sadoma-gomore
Doctrine: Old Testament Warnings as Types: Sodom and Gomorrah
Original: Σόδομα καὶ Γόμορρα
Category: Judgment
New term (Jude 1:7, Σόδομα καὶ Γόμορρα), transliterated proper names. Low risk as names; associated moral-content terms carry the doctrinal weight (see ‘example_type,’ ‘eternal_fire,’ ‘punishment’).
Enoch
Approved rendering: एनोकः
Transliteration: enokaḥ
Doctrine: Eschatological Judgment and the Last Time
Original: Ἑνώχ
Category: Covenant
New term (Jude 1:14, Ἑνώχ), transliterated proper name, ‘the seventh from Adam.’ Low risk; the surrounding prophecy content carries the doctrinal weight (see ‘holy_myriads,’ ‘judgment_condemnation’).
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