Passage
Romans 9
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of intimacy preserved untranslated in Romans 8:15.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Adoption
Somali clan culture has a real, positive parallel: sheegad, the customary practice of incorporating an outsider into a clan lineage for protection and belonging.
ROM.9.4
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
A legal-relational status change with full inheritance rights.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Called
Context-sensitive: in 1:1 = called to apostleship; in 1:7 = called to be saints; in 8:28-30 = effectual calling to salvation.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Calling
Noun form for the act/state of being called by God.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Covenant
Axdiga (also used for Axdiga Hore/Axdiga Cusub, Old/New Testament) is the established relational-covenant term.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
David
Established Somali Bible proper name, recognizable from the Qur'anic Daa'uud, though the Qur'an presents him as a prophet-king without the messianic covenant content Romans assumes.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
The Qur'anic Daa'uud is a prophet-king without the specific covenant content Romans assumes.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Deity of Christ
CRITICAL: The single most direct collision with tawhid.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
God's sovereign call must be distinguished from qaddar-style impersonal fate and from a merely optional religious invitation one may decline without consequence to God's purpose.
ROM.9.11-12
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
God's sovereign, personal call that secures the salvation of the called, distinguished from qaddar-style impersonal predetermination.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Election
God's sovereign, personal choosing for salvation.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Father
CRITICAL: Calling God 'Father' can register as implying literal offspring, which tawhid forbids, made more pointed still by the extraordinary weight Somali culture places on paternal lineage (abtirsiimo).
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Glory
God's radiant honor and majesty.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
God
Ilaah is the pre-Islamic Cushitic-root Somali word for God, the settled term used across Somali Bible translation.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Messiah
CRITICAL: Masiixa is shared with the Qur'anic al-Masih title given to Ciise, but the Qur'an empties it of Old Testament content.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
CRITICAL: The Qur'an grants Ciise the al-Masih title but strips it of the OT king-priest-savior content Paul assumes.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
Romans 1:3; conveys physical lineage and fulfillment of the Davidic covenant promise.
ROM.9.5