Semantic Analysis

Several Spanish terms in this Language Package carry a narrower, broader, or differently-connotated range than the underlying Hebrew, affecting how consistently they can be used.

Narrower-than-source terms

• Pacto (covenant): as identified in 1 Kings, the underlying Hebrew berit denotes a relational, often unilateral divine commitment; “pacto” skews toward a negotiated bilateral bargain, including its folk-religious occult association.
• Profeta (prophet): must be understood narrowly as one who speaks God’s actual, authoritative word, not broadly as any spiritually intuitive or gifted person.

Broader-than-source terms

• Reforma (reform): covers both Josiah’s Old Testament religious renewal and, in wider Spanish usage, the 16th-century Protestant Reformation — this broader everyday range must be narrowed by context every time it refers to 2 Kings.
• Pascua (Passover): covers both the Old Testament feast and the Christian Easter celebration in everyday usage — an unusually wide range requiring careful contextual anchoring.
• Exilio (exile): used broadly in Spanish for many kinds of displacement; this Language Package deliberately narrows it to the specific Assyrian removal of Israel, using “cautiverio” for the later Babylonian removal of Judah, to preserve the text’s own distinction between the two events.

Implication

Where a Spanish term’s semantic range diverges from the underlying Hebrew or risks anachronistic confusion (reforma, Pascua), the glossary’s notes field exists specifically to flag the mismatch, consistent with the approach already established for the 1 Kings Language Package.