Core Glossary
Core Glossary — 1 Timothy (English → Spanish)
This glossary consolidates every load-bearing term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md across all six chapters of 1 Timothy. Terms already established in the baseline Romans translation_memory.json are marked [BASELINE — REUSE EXACTLY] and MUST use the recorded rendering without modification. New terms introduced by 1 Timothy are marked [NEW] and are proposed for addition to translation memory with the risk tier and grounded reasoning below, pending theologian sign-off per the AI requirements’ “new term” protocol.
Reused Baseline Terms (confirmed present in 1 Timothy)
| English term | Spanish rendering | Risk (baseline) | Chapters occurring | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gospel | evangelio | High | 1 | Reuse exactly; no change |
| grace | gracia | High | 1, 6 | Reuse exactly; reinforces baseline’s merit-cooperation warning (esp. 1:14) |
| faith | fe | High | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 | Reuse exactly; extremely high-frequency term throughout |
| church | iglesia (lowercase) | Medium | 3 | Reuse exactly; “iglesia de Dios” / “casa de Dios” — never capitalized institutional “la Iglesia” |
| law | ley | High | 1 | Reuse exactly |
| sin | pecado | Medium | 1 | Reuse exactly; “no softening to falta” rule applies |
| holy / saints | santo / santos | High / Critical | 5 (5:10 “washed the feet of the saints”) | Reuse exactly; the Critical all-believers teaching note applies at every occurrence |
| glory | gloria | Medium/High | 1, 3 | Reuse exactly |
| apostle | apóstol | Low | 1, 2 | Reuse exactly |
| called / calling | llamado | High | 6 (6:12) | Reuse exactly; the baseline’s “never vocación without a gloss” rule applies |
| sanctification (root) | santificación / santificar | High | 4 (4:5, of food/creation, not believers directly) | Reuse exactly; flag the shifted referent (creation, not the believer’s moral transformation) |
| intercession (root) | intercesión | Critical | 2 (2:1, human prayer for rulers) | Reuse exactly; must not default to saint/Marian mediation — distinct from but consistent with the baseline’s Romans 8 usage |
| spiritual gifts / gift | dones espirituales / don | Medium | 4 (4:14) | Reuse exactly |
| thanksgiving | acción de gracias | Low | 2 (2:1) | Reuse exactly |
| fellowship (root) | compañerismo | Low | 6 (6:18, κοινωνικός) | Reuse exactly |
| righteousness | justicia | Critical | 6 (6:11) | Reuse exactly, BUT flag the sense-shift: 6:11 uses an ethical-virtue referent (“pursue righteousness”), not the forensic-declaration referent central to Romans 3-5. Teach both senses explicitly to prevent learner confusion |
| justification (root, applied to Christ) | justificado/justificación (root) | Critical | 3 (3:16, “vindicated in the Spirit”) | Reuse the lexical root, but flag the DIFFERENT referent: Christ’s own vindication, not the sinner’s forensic justification by faith |
| Lord | Señor | Critical | 1, 6 | Reuse exactly; 6:15’s “Rey de reyes y Señor de señores” must preserve absolute exclusivity |
| Jesus / Christ | Jesús / Cristo | Critical | throughout | Reuse exactly |
| God | Dios | Critical | throughout | Reuse exactly |
| Father | Padre | Critical | 1 (1:2) | Reuse exactly |
| providence (root) | providencia (root) | Medium | 5 (5:8, human provision — distinct sense) | Reuse root but flag the shifted referent: human familial provision, not divine governance |
| election (root) | elección/elegido (root) | High | 5 (5:21, “elect angels”) | Reuse root but flag the distinct referent: angelic election, not soteriological election |
| encarnación (doctrine) | encarnación | High | 3 (3:16) | Reuse exactly; must be taught with full doctrinal scope beyond the Christmas-nativity association |
| exhort (root) | exhortar / exhortación | Low | 4 (4:13, παράκλησις) | Reuse exactly |
New Terms Introduced by 1 Timothy
| English term | Original / Transliteration | Spanish rendering | Risk | Doctrine | Chapters | Alternatives rejected | Grounded risk reasoning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| overseer / bishop | ἐπίσκοπος / episkopos | obispo | Critical | Qualifications for Church Leadership | 3 | ”supervisor” (too generic/secular-administrative, loses ecclesial register); “superintendente” (Protestant-denominational jargon, regionally inconsistent) | RV/RVA2015 precedent renders “obispo,” but mainstream Spanish-speaking Catholic usage denotes a diocesan hierarch under apostolic succession, categorically different from Paul’s local-congregation elder-overseer (synonymous with πρεσβύτερος per Titus 1:5-7). Requires an explicit teaching note at every occurrence. |
| office of overseer | ἐπισκοπή / episkopē | obispado / el cargo de obispo | High | Qualifications for Church Leadership | 3 (3:1) | — | Inherits the collision risk of ἐπίσκοπος above. |
| elder (office) | πρεσβύτερος / presbyteros | anciano | High | Qualifications for Church Leadership | 3 (implied via Titus parallel), 4, 5 | ”presbítero” (directly evokes the Catholic ordained priesthood/sacramental clergy — REJECTED) | “Anciano” is the RV-standard, collision-minimized rendering, but MUST be taught as synonymous with ἐπίσκοπος/obispo (same office, two titles), not a separate or lesser rank. Context-sensitive: also means simply “older man” (5:1) — track which sense is active per occurrence, same methodology as baseline’s “called.” |
| deacon | διάκονος / diakonos | diácono | High | Qualifications for Church Leadership | 3, 4 (general sense) | — | Collision with the Roman Catholic ordained, sacramental permanent diaconate within a graded clerical hierarchy; 1 Timothy’s diaconal office is a recognized service role, not a rung in a sacramental holy-orders ladder. Requires teaching note. |
| council/body of elders | πρεσβυτέριον / presbyterion | presbiterio / concilio de ancianos | Medium | Qualifications for Church Leadership | 4 (4:14) | — | Low collision itself, but tied to the laying-on-of-hands rite below. |
| laying on of hands | ἐπίθεσις τῶν χειρῶν / epithesis tōn cheirōn | imposición de manos | High | Qualifications for Church Leadership | 4, 5 | — | Collides with the Catholic sacrament of Holy Orders (sacramental grace via apostolic succession through a bishop); here it is public recognition/commissioning of an already Spirit-given gift by a plural body of local elders. |
| one Mediator | εἷς μεσίτης / heis mesitēs | un mediador / el único mediador | Critical | Christ as the One Mediator | 2 (2:5) | “intercesor” (blurs into the saints/Marian-intercessor category the baseline already flags as Critical for “intercesión”) | Direct collision with Roman Catholic Marian mediatrix/co-redemptrix piety and the veneration of saints as intercessory mediators. Romans 8’s already-Critical “intercesión” entry and this term must be taught together as reinforcing Christ’s EXCLUSIVE mediatorial role. Must render “εἷς” (one/only) with unqualified exclusivity. |
| ransom | ἀντίλυτρον / antilytron | rescate | High | Christ as the One Mediator | 2 (2:6) | “ayuda,” “liberación” (too generic, loses the substitutionary-payment sense) | Substitutionary atonement term parallel to Romans 3:25’s propitiation (an existing baseline High-risk escalation trigger); must preserve the payment/ransom imagery. |
| Savior | σωτήρ / sōtēr | Salvador | High | Christ as the One Mediator / Godliness and Contentment | 1, 2, 4 | — | Not present in the Romans baseline; add to translation memory. No rival-deity confusion, but must be taught as an exclusive divine title, distinct from colloquial use of “salvador” for human liberators/patrons/civic heroes. |
| pillar and foundation/buttress of the truth | στῦλος καὶ ἑδραίωμα τῆς ἀληθείας / stylos kai hedraiōma tēs alētheias | columna y fundamento de la verdad | Critical | The Church as Pillar of Truth | 3 (3:15) | “columna y sostén de la verdad” (acceptable variant; record as alternative) | Central to Roman Catholic ecclesiology’s warrant for Magisterial teaching authority over/alongside Scripture; must be taught as the church displaying and upholding already-revealed truth, not generating or possessing independent magisterial authority over it. |
| mystery | μυστήριον / mystērion | misterio | High | The Church as Pillar of Truth / Sound Doctrine vs False Teaching | 3 (3:9, 3:16) | — | Collides with the Catholic devotional category of “los misterios” (rosary mysteries, sacramental mysteries); here it denotes previously hidden, now-revealed gospel truth, not a devotional meditation theme. |
| godliness | εὐσέβεια / eusebeia | piedad | High | Godliness and Contentment | 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 | ”devoción” (too narrowly emotional/private); “religiosidad” (too generic/nominal) | The single most pervasive new collision term in 1 Timothy (occurs 8+ times). “Piedad” in mainstream Latin American and Iberian Catholic usage strongly connotes piedad popular — external devotional practices (novenas, processions, veneration of images/saints) — rather than the NT sense of reverent, God-honoring character expressed in the whole of daily life (household, finances, speech, ministry). Requires a standing teaching note at every occurrence. |
| contentment | αὐτάρκεια / autarkeia | contentamiento | Medium | Godliness and Contentment | 6 (6:6, 6:8 via cognate) | “autosuficiencia” (imports the rival Stoic self-sufficiency concept — REJECTED) | αὐτάρκεια’s ordinary Greek philosophical sense is Stoic self-sufficiency; Paul reorients it as contentment grounded in God’s provision, not self-reliance. Must not be rendered with a term implying the believer is sufficient in himself. |
| love of money | φιλαργυρία / philargyria | amor al dinero | High | Godliness and Contentment | 3 (cognate ἀφιλάργυρος), 6 (6:10) | “avaricia” (narrower — greed/hoarding specifically, loses the broader “love of” framing); record as acceptable secondary gloss | Anchor term for 6:10’s widely-quoted “root of all evils” statement; must avoid overclaiming it as the sole/only root of literally every evil in existence — the point is money-love’s uniquely pervasive destructive reach. |
| the good confession | ἡ καλὴ ὁμολογία / hē kalē homologia | la buena confesión | Critical | Guarding the Deposit of Faith / Sound Doctrine vs False Teaching | 6 (6:12-13) | “el buen testimonio” (acceptable clarifying gloss, but must not fully replace “confesión” since ὁμολογία has a distinct public-declaration nuance) | Direct collision with the Roman Catholic sacrament of Penance/Reconciliation (“confesión” = auricular confession of sins to a priest in everyday usage). Requires an explicit teaching note at every occurrence, paired structurally with Romans 10:9-10 (already Critical in the baseline) as the same public-profession-of-faith category, NOT a sacramental rite. |
| the deposit (of the faith) | παραθήκη / parathēkē | el depósito (de la fe) | Critical | Guarding the Deposit of Faith | 6 (6:20) | “el tesoro” (loses the specific legal/entrusted-safekeeping nuance); “la herencia” (imports inheritance-law categories not present in the term) | The single highest-stakes new collision in this curriculum: Roman Catholic theology uses the technical phrase “depósito de la fe” (Latin depositum fidei) for the body of revealed truth entrusted to the Magisterium’s authoritative interpretation (cf. Dei Verbum; Catechism §84-95). In 1 Timothy, the deposit is the apostolic gospel content entrusted to Timothy (and by pattern, every faithful minister/believer) to guard through Scripture and sound teaching — NOT a truth-deposit requiring a Magisterium to authoritatively adjudicate it. Mandatory theologian teaching note at every occurrence. |
| sound doctrine / sound words | ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία / ὑγιαίνοντες λόγοι / hygiainousa didaskalia / hygiainontes logoi | sana doctrina / sanas palabras | High | Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching | 1 (1:10), 6 (6:3) | — | Lexically stable, well-established Spanish Bible phrase (low lexical-collision risk), but doctrinally central to the whole letter; requires consistent, unqualified rendering across every occurrence per cross-document consistency rules, and must not be diluted into vague “buena enseñanza.” |
| to teach a different doctrine | ἑτεροδιδασκαλέω / heterodidaskaleō | enseñar una doctrina diferente/distinta | High | Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching | 1 (1:3), 6 (6:3) | “enseñar de otra manera” (too weak — sounds like mere stylistic variation rather than doctrinal deviation) | Anchor verb naming the letter’s central problem; must convey doctrinal deviation, not stylistic variety. |
| falsely called knowledge | ψευδώνυμος γνῶσις / pseudōnymos gnōsis | conocimiento falsamente llamado (así) | High | Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching | 6 (6:20) | “falsa ciencia” (RV1960-era rendering — REJECTED for modern audiences: “ciencia” in contemporary Spanish primarily means empirical/natural science, wrongly suggesting a faith-vs-science conflict absent from the text) | Modernization risk: must use “conocimiento,” not “ciencia,” to avoid an anachronistic science/faith collision reading. |
| myths and genealogies | μῦθοι καὶ γενεαλογίαι / mythoi kai genealogiai | mitos y genealogías | Medium | Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching | 1 (1:4) | — | “Mito” in modern colloquial Spanish can drift toward “misconception/urban legend” rather than “legendary religious tale” — ensure the religious-speculative sense is retained via context. |
| deceitful spirits / teachings of demons | πνεύματα πλάνα / διδασκαλίαι δαιμονίων / pneumata plana / didaskaliai daimoniōn | espíritus engañadores / doctrinas de demonios | High | Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching | 4 (4:1) | “espíritus guía” (REJECTED — collides directly with ancestral/guide-spirit categories in Espiritismo and Santería) | Same collision class the baseline already flags for “Holy Spirit” (Critical) in Caribbean/Afro-Caribbean contexts; these are explicitly hostile, deceptive spiritual beings, not neutral guides, and must be taught with that precision. |
| husband of one wife | μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἄνδρα / mias gynaikos andra | esposo de una sola mujer | High | Qualifications for Church Leadership | 3 (3:2, 3:12), 5 (5:9, inverse form) | — | Significant pastoral-application risk given high rates of civil remarriage and common-law unions (“unión libre”) across Latin America; requires theologian-level teaching note on scope (marital fidelity/singular devotion) without collapsing into vagueness. |
| exercise authority / domineer | αὐθεντεῖν / authentein | ejercer autoridad | High | Public Worship and Prayer | 2 (2:12) | “usurpar autoridad” (RV1960 variant; record as alternative, carries a stronger negative connotation than some interpreters accept) | Rare word with genuinely disputed semantic range; lexical choice must not resolve the underlying complementarian/egalitarian exegetical debate — present for theologian review, not automated resolution. |
| saved through childbearing | σωθήσεται διὰ τῆς τεκνογονίας / sōthēsetai dia tēs teknogonias | se salvará por la maternidad / al criar hijos | Critical | Godliness and Contentment / (guards against contradicting) Sound Doctrine | 2 (2:15) | “se salvará teniendo hijos” (too flatly literal — heightens the works-salvation misreading risk) | One of the most exegetically difficult phrases in the NT; must never be taught or rendered in a way that implies salvation is earned through childbirth, which would directly contradict the letter’s and Romans’ forensic salvation-by-faith doctrine (baseline Critical). Mandatory theologian note. |
| widow (truly a widow) | χήρα (ὄντως χήρα) / chēra (ontōs chēra) | viuda (viuda en verdad / verdadera viuda) | Medium | Care for Widows and the Household of Faith | 5 | — | Lexically low-risk, but doctrinally must preserve the church’s qualifying, criteria-based distinction between genuinely unsupported widows and those with family support — not a blanket, undifferentiated obligation. |
| household / house of God | οἶκος (θεοῦ) / oikos (theou) | casa (de Dios) | Medium | Care for Widows and the Household of Faith / The Church as Pillar of Truth | 3, 5 | — | Colloquial Spanish risk: “la casa de Dios” often means the physical church building; the theological referent here is God’s family/household (the community), not architecture. |
| slaves / bondservants and masters | δοῦλοι / δεσπόται / douloi / despotai | esclavos / amos | Medium | (contextual — household ethics) | 6 (6:1-2) | — | Requires a cultural-historical teaching note (parallel to the baseline’s Romans 13 government-segment handling): addresses conduct within a first-century social institution; not a timeless endorsement of slavery as such. |
| conscience | συνείδησις / syneidēsis | conciencia | Medium | Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching / Guarding the Deposit of Faith | 1 (1:5, 1:19), 3 (3:9), 4 (4:2) | — | No major syncretism collision, but must be taught as an inner moral faculty answerable to God, not merely social shame-avoidance — a live distinction in honor/shame-inflected cultural contexts. |
| trustworthy saying (formula) | πιστὸς ὁ λόγος / pistos ho logos | Palabra fiel es esta | Medium | Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching | 1 (1:15), 3 (3:1), 4 (4:9) | — | Recurring formulaic marker; render identically at every occurrence per cross-document consistency rules (parallel to baseline’s Romans 8:28/10:9 rule). |
Risk Tier Summary for 1 Timothy New Terms
| Risk Tier | Count | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 6 | obispo (episkopos), mediador (mesitēs), columna y fundamento de la verdad, la buena confesión (homologia), el depósito (parathēkē), σωθήσεται διὰ τῆς τεκνογονίας (2:15 phrase) |
| High | 13 | anciano (office sense), diácono, imposición de manos, rescate (antilytron), Salvador (sōtēr), misterio (mystērion), piedad (eusebeia), amor al dinero (philargyria), sana doctrina, enseñar una doctrina diferente, conocimiento falsamente llamado, espíritus engañadores/doctrinas de demonios, esposo de una sola mujer, ejercer autoridad (authenteō) |
| Medium | 7 | presbiterio, contentamiento (autarkeia), viuda/ontōs chēra, casa de Dios (oikos theou), esclavos/amos, conciencia, mitos y genealogías, palabra fiel es esta |
| Low | (see semantic analysis for full list of Low-risk supporting vocabulary — e.g. hospitalario, sobrio, apto para enseñar, digno de respeto, etc.) |
Review routing follows the baseline convention: all Critical and High-risk terms above require human theologian review before Phase 2 translation of any segment in which they occur; Medium-risk terms require native speaker review; Low-risk supporting vocabulary is eligible for automated review, consistent with doctrine_risk_registry.json’s routing framework.
This glossary must be merged into an updated translation_memory.json (version increment required) before Phase 2 segment translation of 1 Timothy begins, per the AI requirements’ “new term encountered” protocol in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.
Critical Risk Terms
Righteousness
Approved rendering: justicia
Transliteration: dikaiosynē
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: rectitud moral autónoma, mérito acumulado
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Timoteo 6:11 (‘sigue la justicia’) uses an ETHICAL-VIRTUE referent, not the forensic-declaration referent of Romans 3-5. Same Spanish word, distinct sense; teach both explicitly so learners do not collapse the forensic gift into a moral achievement or vice versa.
Justification
Approved rendering: justificación
Transliteration: dikaiōsis / dikaioō
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: proceso gradual de purificación interior
Original: δικαιόω
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. See separate entry ‘vindicated_in_spirit’ for 1 Timoteo 3:16’s distinct Christological referent (Christ’s own vindication), which must not be conflated with the sinner’s forensic justification by faith central to Romans 3-5.
Salvation
Approved rendering: salvación
Transliteration: sōtēria / sōzō
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: salvarse por buenas obras, merecer el cielo mediante sacramentos y penitencia
Original: σωτηρία / σῴζω
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Timoteo 2:4 and 4:10 present a universal/particular tension (‘todos los hombres… especialmente los creyentes’) that must be preserved without collapsing into universalism or exclusion of the general clause; see also ‘wills_all_to_be_saved’ and ‘saved_through_childbearing’ entries for related Critical phrases unique to this letter.
Saints
Approved rendering: santos
Transliteration: hagioi
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: los santos (canonizados, objeto de veneración e intercesión)
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Timoteo 5:10 (‘lavó los pies de los santos’) describes ordinary hospitality among fellow believers; the mandatory all-believers teaching note applies at every occurrence exactly as in Romanos 1:7.
Intercession
Approved rendering: intercesión
Transliteration: enteuxis / hyperentynchanei
Doctrine: Prayer and Intercession
Rejected alternatives: intercesión de los santos o de la Virgen como mediadores necesarios ante Dios
Original: ἔντευξις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, elevated in salience for this curriculum: 1 Timoteo 2:1 (ordinary believers interceding for civil rulers) sits directly beside 2:5’s ‘one Mediator’ formula. Must not let ‘intercesión’ default to saint- or Marian-mediated models; human intercession for others is consistent with, and never a substitute for, Christ’s exclusive mediatorial role. Teach jointly with ‘one_mediator.‘
Jesus
Approved rendering: Jesús
Transliteration: Iēsous
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Standard throughout 1 Timothy.
God
Approved rendering: Dios
Transliteration: theos
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Standard throughout 1 Timothy.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: Espíritu Santo
Transliteration: pneuma hagion
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: una fuerza impersonal, un espíritu guía o ancestral
Original: πνεῦμα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Timoteo 4:1 (‘el Espíritu dice’) sits directly opposite the letter’s naming of ‘espíritus engañadores,’ sharpening the baseline’s existing caution against confusion with ancestral/guide spirits invoked in Espiritismo and Santería.
Father
Approved rendering: Padre
Transliteration: patēr
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Timoteo 1:2 opening greeting.
Lord
Approved rendering: Señor
Transliteration: kyrios
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Señor mío (devotional-only, without lordship claim over the whole of life)
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Timoteo 6:15’s ‘Señor de señores’ must preserve absolute, unqualified exclusivity, paralleling the baseline’s Romanos 10:9 confession. See also the dedicated entry ‘king_of_kings_lord_of_lords’ for the full doxological title.
Overseer Bishop
Approved rendering: obispo
Transliteration: episkopos
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership (Elders and Deacons)
Rejected alternatives: supervisor (too generic/secular-administrative), superintendente (Protestant-denominational jargon, regionally inconsistent)
Original: ἐπίσκοπος
Category: Church Leadership
1 Timoteo 3:1-2. Single most significant new collision point in this curriculum: mainstream Spanish-speaking Catholic usage denotes a diocesan hierarch under apostolic succession; Paul’s ἐπίσκοπος is a local-congregation elder, synonymous with πρεσβύτερος (Titus 1:5-7; Acts 20:17,28). Every occurrence requires a theologian-reviewed teaching note preventing the Catholic institutional referent from becoming the default mental picture.
One Mediator
Approved rendering: mediador (el único mediador)
Transliteration: heis mesitēs
Doctrine: Christ as the One Mediator
Rejected alternatives: intercesor (blurs into the saints/Marian-intercessor category already flagged Critical for ‘intercesión’)
Original: εἷς μεσίτης
Category: Christ as the One Mediator
1 Timoteo 2:5. Direct collision with Roman Catholic Marian mediatrix/co-redemptrix piety and the veneration of saints as intercessory mediators. Must render εἷς’s numerical exclusivity unqualified. Teach jointly with ‘intercession.‘
Pillar And Foundation Of Truth
Approved rendering: columna y fundamento de la verdad
Transliteration: stylos kai hedraiōma tēs alētheias
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Rejected alternatives: columna y sostén de la verdad (acceptable secondary variant, record as alternative)
Original: στῦλος καὶ ἑδραίωμα τῆς ἀληθείας
Category: The Church as Pillar of Truth
1 Timoteo 3:15. Central proof-text within Roman Catholic ecclesiology for Magisterial authority to define and guard revealed truth alongside/through Scripture and Tradition. Teaching note required: the church displays and upholds truth already revealed in Scripture (cf. 6:20’s ‘depósito’); it does not generate, add to, or independently adjudicate that truth through an authoritative teaching office.
Good Confession
Approved rendering: la buena confesión
Transliteration: hē kalē homologia
Doctrine: Guarding the Deposit of Faith
Rejected alternatives: el buen testimonio (acceptable clarifying gloss, but must not fully replace ‘confesión’)
Original: ἡ καλὴ ὁμολογία
Category: Guarding the Deposit of Faith
1 Timoteo 6:12-13. MAJOR collision: everyday Catholic Spanish usage overwhelmingly reads ‘confesión’ as the sacrament of Penance/Reconciliation. 1 Timothy’s ‘buena confesión’ is a public profession/testimony of allegiance to Christ before witnesses, structurally paralleling Romanos 10:9-10 (already Critical in the baseline), NOT the sacrament of confession. Mandatory theologian teaching note at every occurrence.
The Deposit
Approved rendering: el depósito (de la fe)
Transliteration: parathēkē
Doctrine: Guarding the Deposit of Faith
Rejected alternatives: el tesoro (loses the entrusted-safekeeping legal nuance), la herencia (imports inheritance-law categories absent from the term)
Original: παραθήκη
Category: Guarding the Deposit of Faith
1 Timoteo 6:20. The single highest-stakes new collision in this curriculum: near-identical to the Roman Catholic technical phrase ‘depósito de la fe’ (Latin depositum fidei; cf. Dei Verbum §10; Catechism §84-95), which the Magisterium alone authoritatively interprets. Here the deposit is the apostolic gospel content entrusted to Timoteo — and by pattern, every faithful minister/believer — to guard through Scripture and sound teaching, NOT a truth-deposit requiring a Magisterium to adjudicate. Mandatory theologian teaching note at every occurrence; must never appear without it.
Saved Through Childbearing
Approved rendering: se salvará por la maternidad / al criar hijos
Transliteration: sōthēsetai dia tēs teknogonias
Doctrine: Salvation and Childbearing — Clarification Against Misreading
Rejected alternatives: se salvará teniendo hijos (too flatly literal — heightens the works-salvation misreading risk)
Original: σωθήσεται διὰ τῆς τεκνογονίας
Category: Salvation
1 Timoteo 2:15. One of the most exegetically difficult phrases in the NT. MUST NOT be read or taught as salvation earned through childbirth, which would directly contradict this letter’s and Romans’ forensic salvation-by-faith doctrine (baseline Critical). Mandatory theologian teaching note at every occurrence.
Wills All To Be Saved
Approved rendering: quiere que todos los hombres sean salvos
Transliteration: pantas anthrōpous thelei sōthēnai
Doctrine: Universal Scope of God’s Saving Will
1 Timoteo 2:4; cf. 4:10’s ‘especialmente los creyentes.’ Must preserve both halves of the universal/particular tension without collapsing into full universalism or restricting God’s stated will to only the elect.
Vindicated In Spirit
Approved rendering: justificado / vindicado en el Espíritu
Transliteration: edikaiōthē en pneumati
Doctrine: The Mystery of Godliness (Incarnation Hymn)
1 Timoteo 3:16. Reuses the baseline’s Critical justification lexical root, but with a DIFFERENT referent: Christ’s own vindication/proof of righteousness (e.g., by resurrection/the Spirit’s power), not the sinner’s forensic justification by faith central to Romanos 3-5. Same Greek/Spanish root, different theological subject; must be taught explicitly to prevent Christological/soteriological conflation.
King Of Kings Lord Of Lords
Approved rendering: Rey de reyes y Señor de señores
Transliteration: ho basileus tōn basileuontōn kai kyrios tōn kyrieuontōn
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
1 Timoteo 6:15, part of the climactic doxology (‘el bienaventurado y único Soberano’). Reuses baseline ‘Señor’ directly; must preserve absolute, unqualified exclusivity without softening.
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: evangelio
Transliteration: euangelion
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: buenas nuevas (only as a descriptive gloss, never the standalone technical term)
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs 1 Timoteo 1:11 (‘el evangelio de la gloria del Dios bienaventurado’). No new collision; still the specific proclamation of salvation through Christ, not a generic inspirational message.
Grace
Approved rendering: gracia
Transliteration: charis
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: favor merecido, recompensa por buenas obras
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Reinforced at 1 Timoteo 1:14 (‘la gracia sobreabundó’ toward Paul, ‘el primero de los pecadores’) and the closing benediction 6:21. Must preserve unmerited-favor-by-faith sense; never a merit-cooperation reading.
Faith
Approved rendering: fe
Transliteration: pistis
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: devoción religiosa general, creencia cultural heredada
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Highest-frequency term in 1 Timothy, occurring in every chapter. Context-sensitive at 5:12 where πίστις likely denotes a formal pledge rather than saving faith; retain ‘fe’ as base rendering and flag that occurrence for ambiguity.
Calling
Approved rendering: llamado
Transliteration: klēsis / kaleō
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: vocación (in the narrow sense of a call to priesthood or religious life)
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Timoteo 6:12 (‘a la cual fuiste llamado’). NEVER use ‘vocación’ without an explicit clarifying gloss, per the baseline forbidden-substitution rule.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: santificación / santificado
Transliteration: hagiazō / hagiasmos
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: purificación penitencial, vía purgativa
Original: ἁγιάζω / ἁγιασμός
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Timoteo 4:5 (‘santificado por la palabra de Dios y la oración’) applies the verb to FOOD/CREATION, not the believer’s moral transformation as in Romans; teach the shifted referent explicitly.
Law
Approved rendering: ley
Transliteration: nomos
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Original: νόμος
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Timoteo 1:8-9 reaffirms the law is good when used lawfully; not the letter’s polemical target.
Election
Approved rendering: elección / escogidos
Transliteration: eklogē / eklektos
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: destino, suerte
Original: ἐκλεκτός
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Timoteo 5:21’s ‘los ángeles escogidos’ (elect angels) describes ANGELIC election, a distinct referent from the soteriological election of believers in Romanos 9-11; teach the different referent explicitly.
Incarnation
Approved rendering: encarnación / manifestado en carne
Transliteration: ephanerōthē en sarki
Doctrine: Incarnation
Original: ἐφανερώθη ἐν σαρκί
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, elevated in load-bearing weight here because 1 Timoteo 3:16 anchors it in a formal creedal hymn. Must be taught with full doctrinal scope, not narrowed to the Christmas-nativity association.
Office Of Overseer
Approved rendering: obispado / el cargo de obispo
Transliteration: episkopē
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership (Elders and Deacons)
Original: ἐπισκοπή
Category: Church Leadership
1 Timoteo 3:1 (‘si alguno aspira al obispado’). Inherits the collision risk of ‘overseer_bishop’; aspiring to this office is legitimate desire for a local-congregation service role, not institutional ecclesiastical promotion.
Elder Office
Approved rendering: anciano
Transliteration: presbyteros
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership (Elders and Deacons)
Rejected alternatives: presbítero (directly evokes the Catholic ordained priesthood/sacramental clergy)
Original: πρεσβύτερος
Category: Church Leadership
Office sense at 1 Timoteo 4:14 (implied), 5:17, 5:19; contrast the unrelated AGE sense at 5:1 (‘no reprendas al anciano’ = older man). Must be taught as synonymous with ‘obispo’ (same office, two titles), never a separate or lesser rank. Track which sense is active per occurrence, using the same context-sensitivity methodology the baseline applies to ‘called.‘
Deacon
Approved rendering: diácono
Transliteration: diakonos
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership (Elders and Deacons)
Original: διάκονος
Category: Church Leadership
1 Timoteo 3:8-13 (office sense); 4:6 (general ‘minister/servant’ sense, ‘buen ministro de Cristo Jesús’ — context-sensitive, same lexeme). Collision with the Roman Catholic ordained, sacramental permanent diaconate within a graded clerical hierarchy; here it is a recognized service office, not a rung on a sacramental holy-orders ladder.
Laying On Of Hands
Approved rendering: imposición de manos
Transliteration: epithesis tōn cheirōn
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership (Elders and Deacons)
Original: ἐπίθεσις τῶν χειρῶν
Category: Church Leadership
1 Timoteo 4:14; caution against haste at 5:22. Collides with the Catholic sacrament of Holy Orders (sacramental grace via apostolic succession through a bishop). Here it is public recognition/commissioning of an already Spirit-given gift by a plural body of local elders, not a grace-conferring sacrament.
Husband Of One Wife
Approved rendering: esposo de una sola mujer / esposa de un solo hombre
Transliteration: mias gynaikos andra / henos andros gynē
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership (Elders and Deacons)
Original: μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἄνδρα / ἑνὸς ἀνδρὸς γυνή
Category: Church Leadership
1 Timoteo 3:2, 3:12 (overseers/deacons); 5:9 inverse form (enrolled widows). Significant pastoral-application risk given high regional rates of civil remarriage and ‘unión libre’; requires theologian-level teaching note on scope (marital fidelity/singular devotion) without collapsing into vagueness.
Ransom
Approved rendering: rescate
Transliteration: antilytron
Doctrine: Christ as the One Mediator
Rejected alternatives: ayuda, liberación (too generic, loses the substitutionary-payment sense)
Original: ἀντίλυτρον
Category: Christ as the One Mediator
1 Timoteo 2:6. Parallel substitutionary-atonement language to Romanos 3:25’s propitiation, an existing baseline High-risk escalation trigger. Must preserve the payment/ransom imagery.
Savior
Approved rendering: Salvador
Transliteration: sōtēr
Doctrine: Universal Scope of God’s Saving Will
Original: σωτήρ
Category: Salvation
New title not present in the Romans baseline. Occurs 1:1, 2:3, 4:10. No rival-deity confusion, but must be taught as an exclusive divine title, distinct from colloquial Spanish use of ‘salvador’ for human liberators, patrons, or civic heroes.
The Man Christ Jesus
Approved rendering: el hombre Cristo Jesús
Transliteration: anthrōpos Christos Iēsous
Doctrine: Christ as the One Mediator
Original: ἄνθρωπος Χριστὸς Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christ as the One Mediator
1 Timoteo 2:5. Emphatic affirmation of Christ’s genuine, full humanity as the ground of his mediatorial role. Must preserve full-humanity emphasis without implying mere/only humanity; teach jointly with 3:16 and 6:15-16’s deity affirmations to avoid docetic drift on either side.
Mystery
Approved rendering: misterio
Transliteration: mystērion
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Original: μυστήριον
Category: The Church as Pillar of Truth
1 Timoteo 3:9 (‘el misterio de la fe’); 3:16 (‘el misterio de la piedad’). Collides with the Catholic devotional category of ‘los misterios’ (the rosary’s gozosos/dolorosos/luminosos/gloriosos; sacramental ‘mysteries’). Here it denotes previously hidden, now-revealed gospel content, not a devotional meditation theme.
Godliness
Approved rendering: piedad
Transliteration: eusebeia
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Rejected alternatives: devoción (too narrowly emotional/private), religiosidad (too generic/nominal)
Original: εὐσέβεια
Category: Godliness and Contentment
The single most pervasive new collision term in 1 Timothy (2:2; 3:16; 4:7-8; 5:4; 6:3, 6:5-6, 6:11 — 8+ occurrences). ‘Piedad’ in mainstream Latin American and Iberian Catholic usage strongly connotes piedad popular (novenas, processions, veneration) rather than the NT sense of reverent, God-honoring character across household, finances, speech, and ministry. Requires a standing teaching note at every occurrence.
Love Of Money
Approved rendering: amor al dinero
Transliteration: philargyria
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Rejected alternatives: avaricia (narrower — greed/hoarding specifically; acceptable secondary gloss only)
Original: φιλαργυρία
Category: Godliness and Contentment
1 Timoteo 6:10 (cognate ἀφιλάργυρος, 3:3). One of the most widely quoted verses in this letter; must avoid overclaiming it as the sole/only root of literally every evil — the point is money-love’s uniquely pervasive, wide-ranging destructive reach, illustrated by v.10b.
Sound Doctrine
Approved rendering: sana doctrina / sanas palabras
Transliteration: hygiainousa didaskalia / hygiainontes logoi
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Rejected alternatives: buena enseñanza (too weak/vague, dilutes the doctrinal-health metaphor)
Original: ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία / ὑγιαίνοντες λόγοι
Category: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
1 Timoteo 1:10; 6:3. Lexically stable, well-established Spanish Bible phrase, but doctrinally central to the whole letter; requires consistent, unqualified rendering across every occurrence per cross-document consistency rules.
Teach Different Doctrine
Approved rendering: enseñar una doctrina diferente/distinta
Transliteration: heterodidaskaleō
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Rejected alternatives: enseñar de otra manera (too weak — sounds like stylistic variance rather than doctrinal deviation)
Original: ἑτεροδιδασκαλέω
Category: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
1 Timoteo 1:3; 6:3. Anchor verb naming the letter’s central problem; must convey doctrinal deviation, not stylistic variety.
Falsely Called Knowledge
Approved rendering: conocimiento falsamente llamado (así)
Transliteration: pseudōnymos gnōsis
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Rejected alternatives: falsa ciencia (RV1960-era rendering; rejected for modern audiences — ‘ciencia’ now primarily means empirical/natural science, wrongly implying a faith-vs-science conflict absent from the text)
Original: ψευδώνυμος γνῶσις
Category: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
1 Timoteo 6:20. Modernization risk: use ‘conocimiento,’ never ‘ciencia.‘
Deceiving Spirits Teachings Of Demons
Approved rendering: espíritus engañadores / doctrinas de demonios
Transliteration: pneumata plana / didaskaliai daimoniōn
Doctrine: Apostasy and Deceiving Spirits
Rejected alternatives: espíritus guía (rejected — collides directly with ancestral/guide-spirit categories in Espiritismo and Santería)
Original: πνεύματα πλάνα / διδασκαλίαι δαιμονίων
Category: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
1 Timoteo 4:1. Same collision class the baseline flags for ‘Espíritu Santo’ (Critical) in Caribbean/Afro-Caribbean contexts: these are explicitly hostile, deceptive spiritual beings, not neutral guides, and must be taught with that precision, never diluted into a vague ‘mala influencia.‘
Exercise Authority
Approved rendering: ejercer autoridad
Transliteration: authentein
Doctrine: Public Worship and Prayer
Rejected alternatives: usurpar autoridad (RV1960 variant; record as alternative — carries a stronger negative connotation than some interpreters accept)
Original: αὐθεντεῖν
Category: Public Worship and Prayer
1 Timoteo 2:12. Rare word (only NT occurrence) with genuinely disputed semantic range between neutral ‘exercise authority’ and negative ‘domineer/usurp.’ Lexical choice must NOT resolve the underlying complementarian/egalitarian exegetical debate; flag every occurrence for theologian review.
Quietness In Assembly
Approved rendering: quietud / silencio
Transliteration: hēsychia
Doctrine: Public Worship and Prayer
Original: ἡσυχία
Category: Public Worship and Prayer
1 Timoteo 2:11-12. Shares a root with 2:2’s ‘vida tranquila’ — a settled, non-disruptive demeanor, not absolute silence. Genuine, ongoing complementarian/egalitarian interpretive debate; present without resolving it through word choice. Flag every occurrence for theologian review.
Medium Risk Terms
Called
Approved rendering: llamado
Transliteration: klētos
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: convocado (bureaucratic/legal register)
Inherited from Romans package. Context-sensitive; general summons sense.
Holy
Approved rendering: santo
Transliteration: hagios
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: puro en sentido ritual
Inherited from Romans package. Applies to believers generally, e.g. ‘manos santas’ (2:8) reused in the moral-purity-in-prayer sense, not ritual purity.
Church
Approved rendering: iglesia
Transliteration: ekklesia
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: la Iglesia (institución jerárquica en sentido católico-institucional)
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Timoteo 3:5, 3:15 (‘iglesia de Dios,’ ‘iglesia del Dios viviente’); always lowercase, never the capitalized institutional ‘la Iglesia.‘
Sin
Approved rendering: pecado
Transliteration: hamartia / hamartōlos
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: falta (minimizing euphemism common in pastoral speech)
Original: ἁμαρτία / ἁμαρτωλός
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Timoteo 1:15 (‘el primero de los pecadores’); never soften with ‘falta.‘
Glory
Approved rendering: gloria
Transliteration: doxa
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs 1:11 (gospel of the glory of God) and 3:16 (Christ ‘recibido arriba en gloria,’ the climax of the incarnation hymn).
Spiritual Gifts
Approved rendering: dones espirituales / don
Transliteration: charisma / charismata
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts
Rejected alternatives: poderes espirituales
Original: χάρισμα
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Timoteo 4:14 refers to Timoteo’s specific ministry gift, conferred with prophecy and the laying on of elders’ hands; must not be rendered as merit-earned or personal supernatural power (folk-healing/curanderismo collision remains in force).
Providence
Approved rendering: providencia
Transliteration: pronoia / pronoeō
Doctrine: Providence
Rejected alternatives: destino, la suerte
Original: πρόνοια (cf. προνοέω, 5:8)
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Timoteo 5:8 (‘proveer para los suyos’) describes a believer’s HUMAN duty to provide for family, a distinct referent from God’s own governance in Romanos 8:28; note the shared root but different sense explicitly.
Council Of Elders
Approved rendering: presbiterio / concilio de ancianos
Transliteration: presbyterion
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership (Elders and Deacons)
Original: πρεσβυτέριον
Category: Church Leadership
1 Timoteo 4:14. Low collision alone; tied directly to the laying-on-of-hands commissioning rite — teach jointly with ‘laying_on_of_hands.‘
Household Of God
Approved rendering: casa de Dios
Transliteration: oikos theou
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Original: οἶκος θεοῦ
Category: The Church as Pillar of Truth
1 Timoteo 3:15. Colloquial Spanish risk: ‘la casa de Dios’ commonly means the physical church building; the theological referent here is God’s family/household community, not architecture.
Contentment
Approved rendering: contentamiento
Transliteration: autarkeia
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Rejected alternatives: autosuficiencia (imports the rival Stoic self-sufficiency concept)
Original: αὐτάρκεια
Category: Godliness and Contentment
1 Timoteo 6:6, 8. αὐτάρκεια’s ordinary Greek philosophical sense is Stoic self-sufficiency; Paul reorients it as contentment grounded in God’s provision, not self-reliance.
Myths And Genealogies
Approved rendering: mitos y genealogías interminables
Transliteration: mythoi kai genealogiai aperantoi
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Original: μῦθοι καὶ γενεαλογίαι ἀπέραντοι
Category: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
1 Timoteo 1:4. ‘Mito’ in modern colloquial Spanish can drift toward ‘misconception/urban legend’ rather than ‘legendary religious tale’ — ensure the religious-speculative sense is retained via context.
Conscience
Approved rendering: conciencia
Transliteration: syneidēsis
Doctrine: Conscience and Personal Integrity
Original: συνείδησις
Category: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
1 Timoteo 1:5, 1:19, 3:9, 4:2. No major syncretism collision, but must be taught as an inner moral faculty answerable to God, not merely social shame-avoidance (‘el qué dirán’) — a live distinction in honor/shame-inflected Hispanic cultural contexts.
Trustworthy Saying
Approved rendering: Palabra fiel es esta
Transliteration: pistos ho logos
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Original: πιστὸς ὁ λόγος
Category: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Recurs at 1:15, 3:1, 4:9. Fixed formulaic marker certifying what follows as reliable apostolic teaching. Render identically at every occurrence per the cross-document consistency rule already applied to Romanos 8:28/10:9 in the baseline.
Widow Truly Widow
Approved rendering: viuda / viuda en verdad
Transliteration: chēra / ontōs chēra
Doctrine: Care for Widows and the Household of Faith
Original: χήρα / ὄντως χήρα
Category: Care for Widows and the Household of Faith
1 Timoteo 5:3, 5, 16. Lexically low-risk, but doctrinally must preserve the church’s qualifying, criteria-based distinction between a genuinely unsupported widow and one with family support — not a blanket, undifferentiated obligation.
Double Honor
Approved rendering: doble honor
Transliteration: diplēs timēs
Doctrine: Honor and Discipline of Elders
1 Timoteo 5:17. τιμή likely includes material/financial support, not merely respect; teach as encompassing provision, not sentiment alone.
Two Or Three Witnesses
Approved rendering: dos o tres testigos
Transliteration: dyo ē triōn martyrōn
Doctrine: Honor and Discipline of Elders
1 Timoteo 5:19. Procedural safeguard rooted in OT legal principle (Deut 19:15), protecting elders from unsubstantiated accusation while not exempting them from real accountability (v.20).
Train For Godliness
Approved rendering: ejercítate para la piedad
Transliteration: gymnaze seauton pros eusebeian
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
1 Timoteo 4:7-8. Athletic-training metaphor applied to spiritual discipline; preserve the vivid image while carrying the ‘piedad’ collision risk documented in the ‘godliness’ entry.
Slaves And Masters
Approved rendering: esclavos / amos
Transliteration: douloi / despotai
Doctrine: Household Ethics: Slaves and Masters
Original: δοῦλοι / δεσπόται
Category: Household Ethics
1 Timoteo 6:1-2. Requires a cultural-historical teaching note, parallel to the baseline’s handling of Romanos 13’s government instructions: addresses conduct within the first-century social institution, not a timeless endorsement of slavery.
Appearing Of Christ
Approved rendering: venida / manifestación
Transliteration: epiphaneia
Doctrine: The Appearing (Return) of Christ
Rejected alternatives: epifanía (rejected — collides with the Spanish Catholic liturgical Feast of the Epiphany, the visit of the Magi)
Original: ἐπιφάνεια
Category: Eschatology
1 Timoteo 6:14. Prefer ‘venida’ or ‘manifestación’ to avoid the liturgical-calendar collision while preserving the eschatological force of the term.
Low Risk Terms
Apostle
Approved rendering: apóstol
Transliteration: apostolos
Doctrine: Apostleship
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Timoteo 1:1, 2:7 ground Paul’s apostolic authority behind the letter’s instructions.
Gentiles
Approved rendering: gentiles
Transliteration: ethnē
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Rejected alternatives: paganos (pejorative in modern Spanish)
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Timoteo 3:16 (‘predicado a los gentiles’) within the incarnation hymn’s universal proclamation.
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: acción de gracias
Transliteration: eucharistia
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. One of four stacked prayer terms in 1 Timoteo 2:1.
Fellowship
Approved rendering: compañerismo
Transliteration: koinōnia / koinōnikos
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Rejected alternatives: comunión de los santos (specific Catholic liturgical formula)
Original: κοινωνικός
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Timoteo 6:18 applies the κοινωνία root to material generosity (‘generosos, dispuestos a compartir’).
Exhort
Approved rendering: exhortar / exhortación
Transliteration: parakaleō / paraklēsis
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παράκλησις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Timoteo 4:13 names it as one of three core elements of public worship’s verbal ministry (reading, exhortation, teaching).
Prophecy
Approved rendering: profecía
Transliteration: prophēteia
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: horóscopo, predicción esotérica
Original: προφητεία
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Timoteo 4:14 accompanies the commissioning of Timoteo’s gift.
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