Core Glossary

Core Glossary — Jeremiah (English → Spanish)

This glossary consolidates every load-bearing term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md across Jeremiah 1–52, including full verse-by-verse treatment of the core passage (31:31–34). Risk tiers, categories, and review-routing conventions follow doctrine_risk_registry.json exactly. Terms already fixed in the baseline Romans translation_memory.json are marked [Baseline — reused] and must not be altered. New terms proposed here for this curriculum are marked [New] and should be added to translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json at the start of Phase 2, per that document’s Translation Memory Load and Enforcement Instructions.

New Foundational Convention: The Divine Name (YHWH)

Term	Hebrew (translit.)	Spanish rendering	Risk	Doctrine	Chapters (representative)	Notes / alternatives rejected
YHWH (tetragrammaton)	יהוה (YHWH)	Jehová	Critical	God / Divine Name	Throughout (400+ occurrences)	[New] Alternatives rejected: “Yahvé” (Catholic Biblia de Jerusalén convention — phonetically reconstructed, unfamiliar to the Reina-Valera-formed audience this package targets); “el Señor” (used by NVI, RVA2015, and most Catholic Bibles for YHWH) — rejected as the primary rendering because it would collide with “Señor” already fixed in the baseline for κύριος/Christ’s Lordship (`lord` entry, Critical), erasing the useful distinction between the Father’s covenant name in the Old Testament and the New Testament confession of Christ’s lordship. Must be used consistently for the recurring formula “ne’um-YHWH” → “dice Jehová.”
declares the LORD (oracle formula)	נְאֻם־יְהוָה (ne’um-YHWH)	dice Jehová / declara Jehová	High	False Prophets vs. True Prophecy	1:8; 31:31–34; throughout	[New] Fixed formulaic rendering; must remain identical at every occurrence for cross-lesson consistency, since Jer 23:31 makes false prophets’ misuse of this very formula a doctrinal issue in its own right.

Core Passage Terms (Jeremiah 31:31–34)

Term	Hebrew (translit.)	Spanish rendering	Risk	Doctrine	Chapters	Notes / alternatives rejected
new covenant	בְּרִית חֲדָשָׁה (berit chadashah)	nuevo pacto	Critical	The New Covenant	31:31 (thesis verse)	[New] Builds on baseline `covenant` → “pacto.” Fixed exact phrase “nuevo pacto” (matches RV1960 and NT quotations at Heb 8:8, Luke 22:20, 1 Cor 11:25) for cross-document, cross-Testament consistency. Rejected: “nueva alianza” (Catholic-tradition synonym, valid but inconsistent with this package’s “pacto” standard set in the baseline); “el Nuevo Testamento” as a substitute gloss (conflates the covenant reality with the canonical book division named after it).
to make/cut a covenant	כָּרַת (karat)	hacer/haré [un pacto] (idiomatic; literal “cortar” rejected)	Medium	The New Covenant	31:31–32	[New] Sacrificial-cutting background should be taught in notes, not rendered literally.
their fathers	אֲבוֹתָם (avotam)	sus padres / sus antepasados	Low	Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness	31:32	[New] Standard.
broke/annulled the covenant	הֵפֵרוּ (heferu, root parar)	quebrantaron [mi pacto]	High	Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness	31:32	[New] Must not be softened to “no lo cumplieron bien” (implies imperfect performance rather than annulment).
I was their husband/master	בָּעַלְתִּי בָם (ba’alti vam)	fui esposo/marido para ellos	High	Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness	31:32	[New] Textual note: LXX reads “ἠμέλησα αὐτῶν” (“I disregarded them”), a different verb; this package follows the Masoretic marriage-covenant reading for consistency with chs. 2–3’s marriage metaphor.
my law	תּוֹרָתִי (torati)	mi ley	High	The New Covenant	31:33	[Baseline — reused: `law` → “ley”] Teach as relocated, not abolished, under the New Covenant.
within them / in their inward parts	בְּקִרְבָּם (beqirbam)	dentro de ellos / en su interior	Medium	The New Covenant	31:33	[New] Do not narrow to “en su mente” alone.
write on their heart	עַל־לִבָּם אֶכְתֲּבֶנָּה (al-libam ekhtevenah)	la escribiré en su corazón	High	The New Covenant	31:33	[New] Fixed RV1960 wording; guard against a merely-emotional-sincerity misreading.
covenant formula: I will be their God, they will be my people	וְהָיִיתִי לָהֶם לֵאלֹהִים וְהֵמָּה יִהְיוּ־לִי לְעָם	yo seré a ellos por Dios, y ellos me serán por pueblo	High	The New Covenant	31:33	[New] Fixed formulaic phrase; must remain identical wherever quoted (Exod 6:7; Ezek 36:28; Rev 21:3, 7 in later curricula).
know the LORD / know me	דְּעוּ אֶת־יְהוָה / יֵדְעוּ אוֹתִי (yada)	conocer(án) a Jehová	Critical	The New Covenant; Individual Responsibility	31:34	[New] Relational-experiential knowledge; must be distinguished from mere catechetical information and from mediated/intermediary-figure religiosity, echoing the baseline’s `saints`/`intercession` syncretism cautions.
from the least to the greatest	מִקְּטַנָּם וְעַד־גְּדוֹלָם	desde el más pequeño hasta el más grande	Medium	The New Covenant	31:34	[New] Social/status rank, not chronological age.
forgive their iniquity	אֶסְלַח לַעֲוֹנָם (salach, avon)	perdonaré su maldad	High	The New Covenant	31:34	[New] Salach used only of divine forgiveness in the Hebrew Bible. Teach alongside baseline `grace` (unmerited, not merit-cooperative).
remember their sin no more	לְחַטָּאתָם לֹא אֶזְכֹּר־עוֹד (chattah, zakar)	no me acordaré más de su pecado	Critical	The New Covenant; Hope of Restoration	31:34	[New] Reuses baseline `sin` → “pecado.” Must be distinguished from a purgatorial/ongoing-temporal-reckoning framework; forgiveness here is decisive and final.
each dies for his own iniquity	אִישׁ בַּעֲוֹנוֹ יָמוּת	cada uno morirá por su propia maldad	High	Individual Responsibility	31:29–30 (immediate lead-in to core passage)	[New] Teach as the deliberate interpretive hinge into 31:31–34.

Book-Wide Terms by Doctrine

The New Covenant (additional terms beyond core passage)

Term	Hebrew (translit.)	Spanish rendering	Risk	Chapters	Notes
righteous Branch	צֶמַח צַדִּיק (tsemach tsadiq)	renuevo justo / Vástago justo	Critical	23:5; 33:15	[New] Messianic; teach with baseline `messiah` (Mesías) and `seed_of_david`.
”The LORD our righteousness”	יְהוָה צִדְקֵנוּ (YHWH Tsidqenu)	Jehová, justicia nuestra	Critical	23:6; 33:16	[New] Direct OT anchor for baseline `imputed_righteousness` (“justicia imputada,” Critical; “justicia infundida” forbidden).
restore the fortunes / return from captivity	שׁוּב שְׁבוּת (shuv shevut)	restauraré la suerte / haré volver de la cautividad	Medium-High	30:3, 18; 31:23	[New] Encompasses both material and relational restoration.
right of redemption	גְּאֻלָּה (ge’ulah)	derecho de redención	Medium	32:7–8	[New] Legal-familial term, conceptually continuous with but distinct from NT σωτηρία.

Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry

Term	Hebrew (translit.)	Spanish rendering	Risk	Chapters	Notes
covenant	בְּרִית (berit)	pacto	High	11; 31; 34	[Baseline — reused] exactly as in Romans package.
spiritual harlotry	זָנָה (zanah)	fornicar / prostituirse (contextual)	High	2–3	[New] Mandatory pastoral-sensitivity note: indicts corporate covenant infidelity, not women/sexuality generally.
vain things / idols	הֶבֶל (hevel)	vanidades	Medium	2; 8; 10; 14; 16	[New] Gloss needed to prevent confusion with modern “vanidad” = personal vanity.
Baal (proper noun)	בַּעַל (Ba’al)	Baal	Low-Medium	2; 7; 11; 12; 19; 23; 32	[New] Retain as proper noun; specific rival deity, not a generic “false god” word.
queen of heaven	מְלֶכֶת הַשָּׁמַיִם (malkat hashamayim)	la reina del cielo (lowercase)	CRITICAL — flagship collision	7:18; 44:17–19, 25	[New] Direct terminological collision with the Catholic Marian title “Reina del Cielo”/Regina Caeli. Mandatory teaching note at every occurrence identifying an ancient Mesopotamian/Canaanite fertility goddess (likely Ishtar/Astarte); must never be used to imply Scripture condemns Marian devotion. Route to human theologian review at every occurrence, no exceptions.
abomination	תּוֹעֵבָה (to’evah)	abominación	Medium	7; 16; 32; 44	[New] Full range (idolatry, hollow ritualism, ethical violation), not narrowed to sexual sin alone.
covenant of release/liberty	בְּרִית הַדְּרוֹר (berit haderor)	pacto de libertad	Medium-High	34	[New] Structural/social-justice instance of covenant-breaking.
justice and righteousness (royal-justice cluster)	מִשְׁפָּט וּצְדָקָה (mishpat utsedaqah)	justicia y derecho	Medium-High	21–22	[New] Reuses baseline `righteousness`; teach as inseparable from the cultic-idolatry strand of judgment.
the day [of reckoning]	יוֹם (yom, construct forms)	día [de venganza/de su ruina]	Medium	46–51	[New] Universalizes judgment to all nations, including Babylon itself.
sin / iniquity	חַטָּאת / עָוֹן (chattah / avon)	pecado / maldad	High / High	throughout	[Baseline — reused: `sin` → “pecado”]; avon (“maldad/iniquidad”) is a [New] paired term distinguished from chattah in 31:34.

The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry

Term	Hebrew (translit.)	Spanish rendering	Risk	Chapters	Notes
weeping / lament	בְּכִי / בָּכָה (bekhi / bakah)	llanto / lágrimas / lamento	Medium	8–9; 13; 14; 31	[New] Grief is a modeled, not faithless, prophetic response.
man of strife	אִישׁ רִיב (ish riv)	hombre de contienda	High	20	[New] Anchor text for costly, unrelenting faithfulness under social rejection.
a fire shut up in my bones	אֵש עֲצֻרָה בְּעַצְמֹתַי	fuego ardiente encerrado en mis huesos	Medium	20:9	[New] Idiom for compulsion to speak despite personal cost.
balm of Gilead / physician	צֳרִי / רֹפֵא (tsori / rofe)	bálsamo… médico	Medium	8:22	[New] Rhetorical lament over an unapplied remedy.
Rachel weeping for her children	רָחֵל מְבַכָּה עַל־בָּנֶיהָ	Raquel que llora por sus hijos	Medium	31:15	[New] Grief and hope held together; cross-reference Matt 2:18 for later curricula.

False Prophets versus True Prophecy

Term	Hebrew (translit.)	Spanish rendering	Risk	Chapters	Notes
prophet	נָבִיא (navi)	profeta	Low	throughout	[Baseline — reused]
prophecy	(see below, “dream vs. word”)	profecía	Low	throughout	[Baseline — reused]
“Peace, peace” (false shalom)	שָׁלוֹם שָׁלוֹם (shalom shalom)	Paz, paz… y no hay paz	High	6:14; 8:11	[New] Reuses baseline `peace` → “paz.” Paradigm case of false prophetic reassurance.
dream versus word	חֲלוֹם / דָּבָר (chalom / davar)	sueño… palabra	High	23:25–32	[New] The book’s operative test distinguishing false from true prophecy.
oracle/burden	מַשָּׂא (massa)	oráculo / carga	Medium	23:33–40; 46–51	[New] Formal heading for prophetic pronouncements; note the wordplay where false prophets trivialize the term (23:33–38).
yoke	עֹל (ol)	yugo	Medium-High	27–28	[New] Head-to-head true-vs-false prophecy test case (Jeremiah’s iron yoke vs. Hananiah’s broken wooden yoke).
scroll	מְגִלָּה (megillah)	rollo	Medium	36	[New] God’s word cannot be nullified by human hostility.

God’s Sovereign Plans for His People

Term	Hebrew (translit.)	Spanish rendering	Risk	Chapters	Notes
plans / thoughts	מַחְשָׁבֹת (machashavot)	pensamientos (primary) / planes (gloss)	High	29:11	[New] RV1960 anchor “pensamientos de paz.” Must restore corporate, 70-year, exile-specific context against generic individual-prosperity misreadings.
potter / clay	יוֹצֵר / חֹמֶר (yotser / chomer)	alfarero… arcilla/barro	Medium	18:1–11	[New] Responsive, not capricious, sovereignty; harmonize with the unconditional New Covenant promise of ch. 31.
seventy years	שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה (shiv’im shanah)	setenta años	Low (term) / High (doctrine)	25:11–12; 29:10	[New] Concrete, datable prophecy grounding the Hope-of-Restoration doctrine.
providence	(conceptual, cf. machashavot)	providencia	Medium	29; 32	[Baseline — reused]; avoid fatalistic “destino/suerte” framing per baseline note.

Individual Responsibility

Term	Hebrew (translit.)	Spanish rendering	Risk	Chapters	Notes
each dies for his own iniquity	אִישׁ בַּעֲוֹנוֹ יָמוּת	cada uno morirá por su propia maldad	High	31:29–30	[New] See core passage table above; interpretive hinge into the New Covenant.
obedience [to a command]	שָׁמַע (shama)	obedecer	Medium	35	[New] Rechabites’ human-tradition obedience contrasted with Judah’s disobedience to God; do not conflate with baseline `obedience_of_faith`.

Hope of Restoration after Exile

Term	Hebrew (translit.)	Spanish rendering	Risk	Chapters	Notes
return / repent	שׁוּב (shuv)	volver / arrepentirse / volverse [a Jehová]	High	3; 29–33; throughout	[New] Full semantic range (physical return, repentance, restoration) must not be collapsed into only one sense.
remnant	שְׁאֵרִית (she’erit)	remanente	High	23:3; 24; 30–33; 40–44	[New] Concrete historical-theological category; note the ironic counter-example of the Egypt-fleeing “remnant” in chs. 40–44.
restore the fortunes	שׁוּב שְׁבוּת (shuv shevut)	restauraré la suerte / la cautividad	Medium-High	30–31	[New] See New Covenant table above.
seek the peace of the city	דִּרְשׁוּ אֶת־שְׁלוֹם הָעִיר	buscad la paz de la ciudad	Medium	29:7	[New] Reuses baseline `peace`; counter-intuitive command to bless the captor city.
exile / captivity	גּוֹלָה / גָּלוּת (golah / galut)	cautiverio / exilio	Medium	throughout; 52	[New] Standard term; theological weight carried by surrounding restoration promises, not the term itself.

Cross-Cutting / Foundational Terms (Baseline Reuse Confirmation)

Term	Spanish rendering	Risk	Confirmation
god	Dios	Critical	[Baseline — reused exactly]
lord (of Christ; NT only — not used for YHWH in this package)	Señor	Critical	[Baseline — reused exactly]; kept distinct from “Jehová” (YHWH), see divine-name convention above
covenant	pacto	High	[Baseline — reused exactly]
law	ley	High	[Baseline — reused exactly]
sin	pecado	Medium (High in New Covenant contexts)	[Baseline — reused exactly]; never softened to “falta”
righteousness	justicia	Critical	[Baseline — reused exactly]
imputed righteousness	justicia imputada	Critical	[Baseline — reused exactly]; “justicia infundida” forbidden; directly anchored in Jer 23:6/33:16
grace	gracia	High	[Baseline — reused exactly]
faith	fe	High	[Baseline — reused exactly]
holy	santo	Medium	[Baseline — reused exactly]
saints	santos	Critical	[Baseline — reused exactly]; not directly a Jeremiah term, but the corporate-not-canonized clarifying note applies identically to Jeremiah’s “los santos”-adjacent covenant-people language
messiah	Mesías	Critical	[Baseline — reused exactly]; anchored in Jer 23:5, 33:15 (righteous Branch)
david / seed of David	David / descendencia de David	Low / Medium	[Baseline — reused exactly]
israel	Israel	Low	[Baseline — reused exactly]
gentiles / nations	not directly reused — see note	—	[New — clarification] Baseline `gentiles` → “gentiles” maps to NT ἔθνη in a Jew-Gentile-unity frame; Jeremiah’s Hebrew גּוֹיִם (goyim) in the Oracles Against the Nations (chs. 46–51) is broader and judgment-oriented. Render as “las naciones”, not “los gentiles,” to avoid importing the NT unity-in-Christ frame into OT judgment oracles where it does not belong. Medium risk; native speaker review recommended.
intercession	intercesión	Critical	[Baseline — reused exactly]; Jer 14–15’s forbidden-intercession motif must be taught as a distinct, historically specific case, not a contradiction of the baseline’s Romans 8 intercession doctrine
providence	providencia	Medium	[Baseline — reused exactly]
peace	paz	Medium (High in false-peace contexts)	[Baseline — reused exactly]
mission	misión	Medium	[Baseline — reused exactly]; not heavily load-bearing in Jeremiah but applicable to 1:5’s “prophet to the nations”

Risk Summary

Risk Tier	Count (new + reused terms in this glossary)	Review Routing
Critical	11	Human theologian (mandatory, no exceptions)
High	19	Human theologian
Medium	22	Native speaker review
Low	9	Automated review

Highest-priority flags for Phase 2:

queen of heaven / la reina del cielo (7:18; 44:17–19, 25) — flagship syncretism collision with Marian devotional title; every occurrence requires human theologian review and a mandatory clarifying note.
new covenant / nuevo pacto (31:31) — curriculum’s thesis term; must match Reina-Valera and NT-quotation wording exactly across all lessons.
know the LORD / conocerán a Jehová (31:34) and YHWH / Jehová divine-name convention — foundational to distinguishing this package’s Old Testament divine-name handling from the baseline’s New Testament “Señor” (Christ) usage.
each dies for his own iniquity / cada uno morirá por su propia maldad (31:29–30) — must be taught as the deliberate interpretive hinge into the New Covenant passage, not in isolation.

This glossary must be loaded alongside the baseline translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json before Phase 2 segment translation begins. New terms marked [New] above must be added to those files, versioned, and flagged for theologian review per their assigned risk tier, following the Translation Memory Load and Enforcement Instructions in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.

Critical Risk Terms

God

Approved rendering: Dios
Transliteration: Elohim / theos
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: אֱלֹהִים
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. Universally standard; no rival deity-name confusion in mainstream Hispanic Christian usage. Jeremiah usage: contrasted throughout with manufactured idols and rival deities (Baal, the queen of heaven); see ‘living_god’ entry for the specific ‘Dios vivo’ contrast term.

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 (New Testament only; not used for YHWH in this package)
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package. Jeremiah usage: deliberately NOT used for YHWH anywhere in this package. ‘Señor’ is reserved exclusively for the New Testament title of Christ; see ‘yhwh’ entry below for the Old Testament divine name. Any drafted Jeremiah segment rendering YHWH as ‘el Señor’ is a validation failure.

Righteousness

Approved rendering: justicia
Transliteration: dikaiosynē (NT) / tsedaqah (OT)
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: rectitud moral autónoma, mérito acumulado
Original: צְדָקָה
Category: Justice

Inherited from Romans package. Jeremiah usage: anchors both the ethical royal-justice cluster (22:3, ‘justicia y derecho’) and the messianic title ‘Jehová, justicia nuestra’ (23:6; 33:16), the direct Old Testament root of ‘imputed_righteousness’ below.

Imputed Righteousness

Approved rendering: justicia imputada
Transliteration: elogisthē autō eis dikaiosynēn
Doctrine: Justification by Faith
Rejected alternatives: justicia infundida (Tridentine category of righteousness progressively infused and increased through merit)
Original: (conceptual root of יְהוָה צִדְקֵנוּ)
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Jeremiah usage: Jeremiah 23:6/33:16’s title ‘Jehová, justicia nuestra’ (see ‘yhwh_tsidqenu’) is this doctrine’s Old Testament anchor — righteousness credited to God’s people through the Davidic Branch, not self-generated. ‘Justicia infundida’ remains forbidden as a substitute in every Jeremiah lesson referencing this title.

Saints

Approved rendering: santos
Transliteration: hagioi
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: los santos (canonizados, objeto de veneración e intercesión)

Inherited from Romans package. Not a direct Jeremiah term, but the same clarifying-note requirement (every believer, not only canonized figures) applies identically whenever Jeremiah’s New Covenant community is described in adjacent teaching materials.

Messiah

Approved rendering: Mesías
Transliteration: Christos / Mashiach
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Rejected alternatives: un ungido más, entre otros santos o profetas venerados
Original: (conceptual root of צֶמַח צַדִּיק)
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package. Jeremiah usage: concretely anchored in 23:5 and 33:15’s ‘righteous Branch’ (see ‘righteous_branch’) — the unique, exclusive fulfillment in Jesus, not one exalted figure among many venerated intercessors in popular piety.

Intercession

Approved rendering: intercesión
Transliteration: hyperentynchanei / enteuxis (NT); palal (OT)
Doctrine: Prayer and Intercession
Rejected alternatives: intercesión de los santos o de la Virgen como mediadores necesarios ante Dios
Original: פָּלַל (conceptual)
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package. Jeremiah usage: chs. 14-15 present God’s striking PROHIBITION of Jeremiah’s intercession for a hardened, unrepentant people (see ‘forbidden_intercession’ below) — the inverse of Romans 8’s comfort. Must be taught as a specific, historically bounded case, not a contradiction of the baseline’s direct-intercession doctrine.

Yhwh

Approved rendering: Jehová
Transliteration: YHWH
Doctrine: The Divine Name (YHWH) and Its Distinction from the New Testament ‘Señor’
Rejected alternatives: Yahvé (Biblia de Jerusalén convention, phonetically reconstructed, unfamiliar to this Reina-Valera-formed audience), el Señor (used by NVI, RVA2015, and most Catholic Bibles for YHWH; rejected as primary rendering because it would collide with ‘Señor,’ already fixed for New Testament Christ)

The personal covenant name of God, occurring 400+ times in Jeremiah. Deliberately kept distinct from ‘Señor’ to preserve the baseline’s Lordship-of-Christ distinction. Fixed component of the recurring oracle formula (see ‘oracle_formula’). Flag any drafted segment reverting to ‘el Señor’ for YHWH as a validation failure.

New Covenant

Approved rendering: nuevo pacto
Transliteration: berit chadashah
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: nueva alianza (valid Catholic-tradition synonym, rejected for package consistency with baseline ‘pacto’), el Nuevo Testamento (conflates the covenant reality with the canonical book division named after it)
Original: בְּרִית חֲדָשָׁה
Category: Covenant

Curriculum thesis term (31:31). Fixed exact phrase matching RV1960 and NT quotations (Heb 8:8; Luke 22:20; 1 Cor 11:25). Must be taught explicitly as the covenant reality those books are named after, not a synonym for ‘the New Testament’ as a set of books.

Know The Lord

Approved rendering: conocer(án) a Jehová
Transliteration: de’u et-YHWH / yed’u oti (yada)
Doctrine: Relational Knowledge of God under the New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: saber acerca de Jehová (mere catechetical information)
Original: דְּעוּ אֶת־יְהוָה / יֵדְעוּ אוֹתִי
Category: Salvation

Jer 31:34. Intimate, relational, experiential knowledge promised universally, not mediated teaching about God. Must be distinguished from Latin American folk-religious patterns of relating to God through intermediary figures (saints, the Virgin) — same syncretism risk as baseline ‘saints’/‘intercession.‘

Remember Sin No More

Approved rendering: no me acordaré más de su pecado
Transliteration: lechatta’tam lo ezkor-od
Doctrine: New Covenant Forgiveness and Its Finality
Original: לְחַטָּאתָם לֹא אֶזְכֹּר־עוֹד
Category: Salvation

Jer 31:34, fixed RV1960 wording. Must be distinguished from any purgatorial/penitential framework where forgiven sins remain subject to further temporal reckoning; this forgiveness is decisive and irrevocable.

Queen Of Heaven

Approved rendering: la reina del cielo
Transliteration: malkat hashamayim
Doctrine: The ‘Queen of Heaven’ and Marian-Title Collision
Rejected alternatives: la diosa del cielo (would depart from every existing Spanish Bible tradition and create a new inconsistency)
Original: מְלֶכֶת הַשָּׁמַיִם
Category: Idolatry

FLAGSHIP SYNCRETISM COLLISION of this curriculum (7:18; 44:17-19, 25). Always lowercase, never capitalized as a title. Mandatory teaching note at every occurrence identifying an ancient Mesopotamian/Canaanite fertility goddess, historically unrelated to the Virgin Mary. Never used rhetorically to imply Scripture condemns Marian devotion. Human theologian review required at every occurrence, no exceptions.

Righteous Branch

Approved rendering: renuevo justo / Vástago justo
Transliteration: tsemach tsadiq
Doctrine: The Righteous Branch and Messianic-Davidic Hope
Original: צֶמַח צַדִּיק
Category: Christology

Jer 23:5; 33:15. Direct messianic promise fulfilled exclusively in Jesus, continuous with the New Covenant’s Davidic dimension (ch. 33); must not be flattened into one hopeful religious figure among others venerated in popular piety.

Yhwh Tsidqenu

Approved rendering: Jehová, justicia nuestra
Transliteration: YHWH Tsidqenu
Doctrine: ‘The LORD Our Righteousness’ as the Old Testament Root of Imputed Righteousness
Original: יְהוָה צִדְקֵנוּ
Category: Christology

Jer 23:6; 33:16, applied to the Davidic Branch and later to Jerusalem. Direct Old Testament anchor for the baseline’s ‘imputed_righteousness’; teach the continuity explicitly — righteousness credited through the Davidic Branch, not self-generated.

High Risk Terms

Covenant

Approved rendering: pacto
Transliteration: diathēkē (NT) / berit (OT)
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Rejected alternatives: contrato legal, alianza (valid Catholic-tradition synonym, rejected here for package consistency)
Original: בְּרִית
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Jeremiah usage: governs the covenant-lawsuit genre (ch. 2-3, 11), the broken covenant of release (ch. 34), and the New Covenant thesis passage (31:31-34, see ‘new_covenant’). Never reduce to a mere legal contract; the occult/superstitious connotation some Spanish speakers associate with ‘pacto’ (e.g. ‘pacto con el diablo’) should be pre-empted with a brief clarifying note in judgment-genre passages.

Law

Approved rendering: ley
Transliteration: nomos (NT) / torah (OT)
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy

Inherited from Romans package. Jeremiah usage: ‘mi ley’ (torati) in 31:33 is not abolished but relocated under the New Covenant from external tablets to the internal heart; teach as changed location and mode of keeping, not changed content.

Sin

Approved rendering: pecado
Transliteration: hamartia (NT) / chattah (OT)
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: falta (minimizing euphemism common in pastoral speech)
Original: חַטָּאת
Category: Sin

Inherited from Romans package. Jeremiah usage: in 31:34 ‘pecado’ (chattah) stands in a fixed parallel pair with the distinct term ‘maldad’ (avon, iniquity); the two must not be collapsed into a single Spanish word, which would erase the verse’s parallelism.

Grace

Approved rendering: gracia
Transliteration: charis
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: favor merecido, recompensa por buenas obras
Original: (conceptual; cf. חֶסֶד and unmerited forgiveness in 31:34)
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Jeremiah usage: 31:34’s unilateral, unmerited forgiveness (‘perdonaré su maldad’) and 31:31-32’s unilateral covenant-initiative both embody this doctrine before the New Testament names it explicitly; must not drift toward a merit-cooperation reading given Latin American folk-Catholic emphasis on penance.

Faith

Approved rendering: fe
Transliteration: pistis
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: devoción religiosa general, creencia cultural heredada
Original: (conceptual; cf. אֱמוּנָה/relational yada)
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package. Jeremiah usage: 31:34’s ‘conocer a Jehová’ (see ‘know_the_lord’) supplies the relational content that the New Testament term ‘faith’ will later develop; must not be reduced to inherited religious identity.

Calling

Approved rendering: llamado
Transliteration: klēsis
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: vocación (in the narrow sense of a call to priesthood or religious life)

Inherited from Romans package. Jeremiah usage: never use ‘vocación’ for Jeremiah’s prophetic calling (1:5) without an explicit clarifying gloss; prefer ‘llamado’ per baseline convention.

Oracle Formula

Approved rendering: dice Jehová / declara Jehová
Transliteration: ne’um-YHWH
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: dijo Dios (erases the formulaic, courtroom-oracle force)
Original: נְאֻם־יְהוָה
Category: Prophecy

The formal prophetic-oracle formula marking direct divine speech, distinct from the prophet’s own words. Must be rendered identically at every occurrence (400+ times) because Jer 23:31 makes false prophets’ misuse of this exact formula a direct doctrinal issue.

Broke Covenant

Approved rendering: quebrantaron [el pacto]
Transliteration: heferu (parar)
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Rejected alternatives: no lo cumplieron bien (understates covenant annulment as mere imperfect performance)
Original: הֵפֵרוּ (root פָּרַר)
Category: Covenant

Legal-covenantal term for unilateral nullification, stronger than ordinary disobedience (31:32). Grounds the diagnosis that the Old Covenant could be broken from the human side — the exact problem the New Covenant’s internalized law resolves.

Divine Husband

Approved rendering: fui esposo/marido para ellos
Transliteration: ba’alti vam
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Rejected alternatives: yo los descuidé / yo los desatendí (LXX ‘disregarded them’ reading; rejected as primary since the Masoretic marriage-covenant sense is essential to Jer 2-3)
Original: בָּעַלְתִּי בָם
Category: Covenant

Jer 31:32. Marriage-covenant imagery casting Israel’s covenant-breaking as marital unfaithfulness. Flag the LXX textual variant (different verb, ‘disregarded’) in a translator note so reviewers using Catholic study Bibles that footnote the Greek are not startled.

Write On Heart

Approved rendering: la escribiré en su corazón
Transliteration: al-libam ekhtevenah
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: lo sentirán en el corazón (reduces to mere emotional sincerity)
Original: עַל־לִבָּם אֶכְתֲּבֶנָּה
Category: Covenant

Jer 31:33, fixed RV1960 wording. Guard against a merely-emotional-sincerity misreading; Hebrew ‘lev’ is the seat of intellect, will, and moral decision, not primarily emotion.

Covenant Formula

Approved rendering: yo seré a ellos por Dios, y ellos me serán por pueblo
Transliteration: vehayiti lahem le’Elohim vehemah yihyu-li le’am
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Original: וְהָיִיתִי לָהֶם לֵאלֹהִים וְהֵמָּה יִהְיוּ־לִי לְעָם
Category: Covenant

The fixed relational covenant-formula (‘Bundesformel’), Jer 31:33. Must remain identical wherever quoted (Exod 6:7; Ezek 36:28; Jer 32:38; Rev 21:3, 7) per the baseline’s cross-document consistency rule.

Forgive Iniquity

Approved rendering: perdonaré su maldad
Transliteration: eslach la’avonam (salach)
Doctrine: New Covenant Forgiveness and Its Finality
Original: אֶסְלַח לַעֲוֹנָם
Category: Salvation

Jer 31:34. Salach is used only of divine forgiveness in the Hebrew Bible. Teach alongside ‘grace’: granted, not earned through sacramental cooperation, confession quotas, or accumulated merit.

Individual Iniquity

Approved rendering: cada uno morirá por su propia maldad
Transliteration: ish ba’avono yamut
Doctrine: Individual Responsibility
Original: אִישׁ בַּעֲוֹנוֹ יָמוּת
Category: Individual Responsibility

Jer 31:29-30. Corrects the popular fatalistic ‘sour grapes’ proverb about inherited guilt; the deliberate interpretive hinge into 31:31-34 — must be taught together with the New Covenant passage, not in isolation.

Spiritual Harlotry

Approved rendering: fornicar / prostituirse (contextual)
Transliteration: zanah
Doctrine: The Marriage-Covenant Metaphor and Spiritual Harlotry
Original: זָנָה
Category: Idolatry

Chs. 2-3, 31:32. Corporate metaphor indicting Israel’s covenant infidelity toward God. MANDATORY pastoral-sensitivity note at every occurrence: never preach in a way that shames women or trivializes the doctrine into a purity-culture warning.

Return Repent

Approved rendering: volver / arrepentirse / volverse [a Jehová]
Transliteration: shuv
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
Rejected alternatives: collapsing the full range into only ‘arrepentirse’ or only ‘volver’
Original: שׁוּב
Category: Restoration

The single most repeated summons in the book (chs. 3, 29-33). Spans physical return from exile, relational repentance, and covenantal restoration — never collapse the whole semantic range into one Spanish word.

Circumcise Heart

Approved rendering: circuncidad vuestro corazón
Transliteration: himmolu la-YHWH vehasiru orlot levavkhem
Doctrine: The Deceitful Heart and the Need for Inner Transformation
Original: הִמֹּלוּ לַיהוָה וְהָסִרוּ עָרְלוֹת לְבַבְכֶם
Category: Covenant

Jer 4:4. Figurative, not a call to a ritual act; must be linked forward to 31:33’s ‘law written on the heart’ as its fulfillment, not left as an isolated strange image.

False Peace

Approved rendering: Paz, paz… y no hay paz
Transliteration: shalom shalom
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
Original: שָׁלוֹם שָׁלוֹם
Category: Prophecy

Jer 6:14; 8:11, fixed RV1960 idiom. The paradigm case of false prophetic reassurance; explicitly distinguished from the baseline’s ‘peace_with_god’ doctrine (genuine peace secured through justification).

Covenant Loyalty Justice Righteousness

Approved rendering: misericordia (lealtad), juicio y justicia
Transliteration: chesed, mishpat, tsedaqah
Doctrine: Relational Knowledge of God under the New Covenant
Original: חֶסֶד, מִשְׁפָּט, צְדָקָה
Category: Justice

Jer 9:24. Defines the content of truly ‘knowing the LORD.’ Chesed is hardest to render: ‘misericordia’ alone under-conveys covenant loyalty; recommend combined gloss ‘lealtad y amor de pacto’ in teaching notes.

Forbidden Intercession

Approved rendering: intercesión (contexto de intercesión prohibida)
Transliteration: palal
Doctrine: Forbidden Intercession for a Hardened Covenant-Breaking People
Original: פָּלַל (root); cf. Jer 14:11, 15:1
Category: Ministry

Jer 14:11; 15:1 (‘though Moses and Samuel stood before me’). Must be taught as addressing a specific, hardened, pre-exilic community under active judgment, not a general principle undermining intercessory prayer — harmonize explicitly with Romans 8:26-34.

Deceitful Heart

Approved rendering: engañoso es el corazón más que todas las cosas
Transliteration: aqov halev
Doctrine: The Deceitful Heart and the Need for Inner Transformation
Original: עָקֹב הַלֵּב
Category: Sin

Jer 17:9-10, fixed RV1960 wording. Diagnostic half of a single argument resolved only at 31:33; must not be translated as isolated psychological commentary detached from covenant theology.

Man Of Strife

Approved rendering: hombre de contienda
Transliteration: ish riv
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry
Original: אִישׁ רִיב
Category: Ministry

Jer 20:10. Model of costly, sometimes despairing, but ultimately unrelenting faithfulness; do not soften the text’s raw honesty (20:14-18) into mild inconvenience.

Royal Justice

Approved rendering: justicia y derecho
Transliteration: mishpat utsedaqah
Doctrine: Social Justice as a Covenant Obligation
Original: מִשְׁפָּט וּצְדָקָה
Category: Justice

Jer 22:3, 15-16. The king’s covenant duty to deliver the oppressed, fatherless, and widow; teach as inseparable from, not competing with, the cultic-idolatry strand of the Judgment doctrine.

Remnant

Approved rendering: remanente
Transliteration: she’erit
Doctrine: Remnant Theology
Original: שְׁאֵרִית
Category: Restoration

Jer 23:3; 24; 30-33; 40-44. Concrete historical-theological category, not a vague ‘few faithful’ trope. Note the ironic counter-example in chs. 40-44: fleeing to Egypt against Jeremiah’s explicit word does not make one part of the true remnant.

Dream Vs Word

Approved rendering: sueño / palabra
Transliteration: chalom / davar
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
Original: חֲלוֹם / דָּבָר
Category: Prophecy

Jer 23:25-32. The book’s operative test for distinguishing true from false prophecy — fidelity to the LORD’s actual word, not the vividness of a claimed dream-experience. Always taught as a paired phrase, never abbreviated to one side.

Plans Thoughts

Approved rendering: pensamientos (planes)
Transliteration: machashavot
Doctrine: God’s Sovereign Plans for His People
Original: מַחְשָׁבֹת
Category: Sovereignty

Jer 29:11. Use ‘pensamientos’ as primary (RV1960 register); permit ‘planes’ only as an explanatory gloss. Mandatory context-restoring note at every occurrence: this is a corporate, 70-year, exile-specific promise, not a generic individual-prosperity verse.

Iniquity Avon

Approved rendering: maldad
Transliteration: avon
Doctrine: New Covenant Forgiveness and Its Finality
Original: עָוֹן
Category: Sin

Jer 31:34. Distinguished from ‘pecado’ (chattah) in the same verse’s parallel clause; must not be collapsed into a single Spanish word, losing the parallelism.

Medium Risk Terms

Holy

Approved rendering: santo
Transliteration: hagios / qadosh
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: puro en sentido ritual
Original: קֹדֶשׁ / קָדוֹשׁ (conceptual, cf. temple/covenant-community holiness)
Category: Sanctification

Inherited from Romans package. Not a frequent standalone term in Jeremiah, but conceptually present in the temple-holiness material (ch. 7) and the New Covenant’s transformed people.

Seed Of David

Approved rendering: descendencia de David
Transliteration: sperma Dauid
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Jeremiah usage: paired with ‘righteous Branch’ (23:5) to identify the messianic figure as physical Davidic royal lineage.

Providence

Approved rendering: providencia
Transliteration: pronoia
Doctrine: Providence
Rejected alternatives: destino, la suerte
Original: (conceptual; cf. מַחְשָׁבֹת and the potter/clay imagery)
Category: Sovereignty

Inherited from Romans package. Jeremiah usage: governs 29:11’s ‘pensamientos de paz’ and the potter/clay passage (18:1-11); avoid fatalistic ‘destino/suerte’ framing especially given Jer 29:11’s popularity in Spanish devotional culture.

Peace

Approved rendering: paz
Transliteration: eirēnē (NT) / shalom (OT)
Doctrine: Peace with God
Rejected alternatives: tranquilidad emocional
Original: שָׁלוֹם
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Jeremiah usage: risk escalates to High in the false-shalom contexts of 6:14 and 8:11 (‘Paz, paz… y no hay paz’ — see ‘false_peace’) and is used positively in 29:7’s ‘buscad la paz de la ciudad’ (see ‘seek_peace_of_city’).

Mission

Approved rendering: misión
Transliteration: apostolē / pempō
Doctrine: Mission to the Nations

Inherited from Romans package. Jeremiah usage: applicable to 1:5’s ‘prophet to the nations’ commissioning; retain the baseline’s brief colonial-association contextual note.

Called

Approved rendering: llamado
Transliteration: klētos
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: convocado (bureaucratic/legal register)

Inherited from Romans package. Jeremiah usage: relevant to 1:5’s prophetic appointment before birth; see ‘foreknown_appointed’ for the specific Jeremiah term ‘te conocí,’ which carries additional relational-foreordaining weight beyond a generic ‘llamado.‘

Cut Covenant

Approved rendering: hacer / haré un pacto
Transliteration: karat
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: cortaré (nonsensical/violent literal rendering)
Original: כָּרַת
Category: Covenant

Idiom ‘to cut a covenant’ from ancient sacrificial covenant-ratification practice. Render idiomatically; teach the sacrificial background in notes, not in the translation itself.

Within Them

Approved rendering: dentro de ellos / en su interior
Transliteration: beqirbam
Doctrine: The New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: en su mente (too narrow; loses totality when paired with ‘on their heart’)
Original: בְּקִרְבָּם
Category: Covenant

Jer 31:33. Interior, not merely communal or external, locus of the New Covenant’s law, distinguishing it from the external tablets of Sinai.

Least To Greatest

Approved rendering: desde el más pequeño hasta el más grande
Transliteration: miqtonam ve’ad gedolam
Doctrine: Relational Knowledge of God under the New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: desde el más joven (wrongly implies chronological age rather than social/status rank)
Original: מִקְּטַנָּם וְעַד־גְּדוֹלָם
Category: Salvation

Jer 31:34. Merism expressing total social inclusion in the New Covenant’s promise, without rank, class, or status exemption.

Foreknown Appointed

Approved rendering: te conocí
Transliteration: yeda’ticha (yada)
Doctrine: Jeremiah’s Prophetic Call and Authority
Rejected alternatives: supe de ti (mere factual awareness, loses relational-foreordaining force)
Original: יְדַעְתִּיךָ
Category: Prophecy

Jer 1:5, ‘before you were born I consecrated/knew you.’ Same root (yada) as 31:34’s ‘know the LORD,’ linking Jeremiah’s own call to the New Covenant’s universal relational-knowledge promise.

Commissioning Verbs

Approved rendering: arrancar y derribar, destruir y arruinar, edificar y plantar
Transliteration: lintosh, lintots, leha’avid, laharos, livnot, velinto’a
Doctrine: Jeremiah’s Prophetic Call and Authority
Original: לִנְתוֹשׁ וְלִנְתוֹץ וּלְהַאֲבִיד וְלַהֲרוֹס לִבְנוֹת וְלִנְטוֹעַ
Category: Prophecy

Jer 1:10. Four judgment verbs followed by two restoration verbs; keep the pairing rhythmically parallel — the four-then-two structure previews the whole book’s balance of judgment and hope.

Vain Things Idols

Approved rendering: vanidades
Transliteration: hevel
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: הֶבֶל
Category: Idolatry

Chs. 2, 8, 10, 14, 16. ‘Vapor, breath, emptiness’ — idols as worthless nothings, not rival powers. Requires a gloss (‘cosas vanas, sin poder real, es decir, los ídolos’) since modern Spanish ‘vanidad’ primarily means personal pride.

Baal

Approved rendering: Baal
Transliteration: Ba’al
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Rejected alternatives: señor/dueño (would obscure the proper name)
Original: בַּעַל
Category: Idolatry

Retain as an untransliterated proper name across all Spanish Bible traditions. Note it names a specific rival deity, not a generic ‘false god,’ and shares its root with the common noun for ‘husband/master’ relevant to Jer 31:32.

Treacherous Unfaithful

Approved rendering: infiel / traicionera
Transliteration: bogedah
Doctrine: The Marriage-Covenant Metaphor and Spiritual Harlotry
Original: בֹּגְדָה
Category: Idolatry

Jer 3:6-11. Reinforces the marriage-covenant metaphor; same pastoral-sensitivity caution as ‘spiritual_harlotry’ applies.

Abomination

Approved rendering: abominación
Transliteration: to’evah
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: תּוֹעֵבָה
Category: Idolatry

Chs. 7, 16, 32, 44. Must be taught with its full range (idolatry, hollow ritualism, ethical violation), not narrowed to sexual sin alone, a common contemporary Spanish drift.

House Bears My Name

Approved rendering: esta casa que lleva mi nombre
Transliteration: habayit hazeh asher niqra-shemi alav
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: הַבַּיִת הַזֶּה אֲשֶׁר נִקְרָא־שְׁמִי עָלָיו
Category: Church

Jer 7. Old Testament root for caution against purely institutional/sacramental confidence; the temple offers no automatic protection apart from covenant faithfulness.

Balm Of Gilead

Approved rendering: bálsamo / médico
Transliteration: tsori / rofe
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry
Original: צֳרִי / רֹפֵא
Category: Ministry

Jer 8:22, rhetorical lament (‘¿No hay bálsamo en Galaad? ¿No hay allí médico?’). Preserve the rhetorical-question form; do not read as a literal medical inquiry.

Weeping Lament

Approved rendering: llanto / lágrimas / lamento
Transliteration: bekhi / bakah
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry
Original: בְּכִי / בָּכָה
Category: Ministry

Chs. 8-9, 13, 14, 31. Grief is a modeled, commanded prophetic response, not a lapse of faith; explicit teaching needed since some church cultures read visible grief as faithlessness.

Living God

Approved rendering: Dios vivo
Transliteration: Elohim chayim
Doctrine: Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
Original: אֱלֹהִים חַיִּים
Category: God

Jer 10:10. Contrasts God’s dynamic, personal activity with inert manufactured idols; standard, unambiguous in Spanish Christian usage.

Potter Clay

Approved rendering: alfarero / arcilla (barro)
Transliteration: yotser / chomer
Doctrine: The Potter’s Sovereignty and Responsive Judgment
Original: יוֹצֵר / חֹמֶר
Category: Sovereignty

Jer 18:1-11. Responsive, not capricious, sovereignty; harmonize explicitly with the unconditional New Covenant promise of ch. 31 rather than leaving the two passages in apparent tension.

Fire In Bones

Approved rendering: fuego ardiente encerrado en mis huesos
Transliteration: esh atsurah be’atsmotai
Doctrine: The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry
Rejected alternatives: no podía dejar de hablar (flatter paraphrase, loses physical/compulsive intensity)
Original: אֵש עֲצֻרָה בְּעַצְמֹתַי
Category: Ministry

Jer 20:9, RV1960 idiom. Preserve the physical, compulsive intensity of Jeremiah’s inability to withhold God’s word despite personal cost.

Scattering Shepherds

Approved rendering: pastores
Transliteration: ro’im
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
Original: רֹעִים
Category: Prophecy

Jer 23:1-4. Judah’s kings/leaders indicted as shepherds who scatter God’s flock; sets up the positive counter-image of the righteous Branch shepherd-king.

Cup Of Wrath

Approved rendering: copa del furor de Jehová
Transliteration: kos chemah / chamat YHWH
Doctrine: Universal Judgment on the Nations
Original: כּוֹס חֵמָה / חֲמַת יְהוָה
Category: Sovereignty

Jer 25:15-17. Judgment as forced, not voluntary, consumption of consequence; universalizes the Judgment doctrine to all nations, not Judah alone.

Seventy Years

Approved rendering: setenta años
Transliteration: shiv’im shanah
Doctrine: The Seventy Years as Concrete, Datable Prophecy
Original: שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה
Category: Sovereignty

Jer 25:11-12; 29:10. Low lexical risk, high doctrinal weight: grounds the Hope of Restoration doctrine in a concrete, falsifiable, later-confirmed prophecy (cf. Dan 9:2), not vague hope.

Oracle Burden

Approved rendering: oráculo / carga
Transliteration: massa
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
Original: מַשָּׂא
Category: Prophecy

Formal heading for prophetic pronouncements against nations (chs. 46-51; cf. 23:33-40). Flag the wordplay where false prophets trivialize this exact term as a flippant catchphrase (23:33-38).

Yoke

Approved rendering: yugo
Transliteration: ol
Doctrine: False Prophets versus True Prophecy
Original: עֹל
Category: Sovereignty

Chs. 27-28. Head-to-head true-vs-false prophecy test case (Jeremiah’s iron yoke vs. Hananiah’s broken wooden yoke). Teach carefully so learners do not conclude submission to unjust human power is always divinely mandated.

Seek Peace Of City

Approved rendering: buscad la paz de la ciudad
Transliteration: dirshu et-shelom ha’ir
Doctrine: Seeking the Welfare of the Captors’ City
Original: דִּרְשׁוּ אֶת־שְׁלוֹם הָעִיר
Category: Restoration

Jer 29:7. Counter-intuitive command to bless the captor city; requires an explanatory note against a purely separatist reading of exile.

Restore Fortunes

Approved rendering: restauraré la suerte / haré volver de la cautividad
Transliteration: shuv shevut
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
Original: שׁוּב שְׁבוּת
Category: Restoration

Jer 30:3, 18; 31:23. Summary idiom for the whole Restoration doctrine; encompasses both material and relational restoration, not merely geographic repatriation. Gloss ‘suerte’ carefully to avoid confusion with fatalistic ‘luck.‘

Rachel Weeping

Approved rendering: Raquel que llora por sus hijos
Transliteration: Rachel mevakah al-baneha
Doctrine: Rachel’s Grief Held Together with Hope
Original: רָחֵל מְבַכָּה עַל־בָּנֶיהָ
Category: Ministry

Jer 31:15-17. Personifies the nation’s grief, immediately followed by God’s promise of return; grief and hope held together. Cross-reference note to Matthew 2:18 recommended for continuity with later Gospel curricula.

Redemption Right

Approved rendering: derecho de redención
Transliteration: ge’ulah
Doctrine: Hope of Restoration after Exile
Original: גְּאֻלָּה
Category: Restoration

Jer 32:7-8. Legal-familial kinsman-redemption right enacted as a sign-act of hope; distinguish from the New Testament’s fuller redemption doctrine while noting conceptual continuity.

Covenant Of Release

Approved rendering: pacto de libertad
Transliteration: berit haderor
Doctrine: The Broken Covenant of Release as Structural Covenant-Breaking
Original: בְּרִית הַדְּרוֹר
Category: Justice

Jer 34:8-22. Judah’s re-enslavement of freed Hebrew slaves; illustrates that the Judgment doctrine addresses structural/social sin as well as individual and cultic sin.

Rechabite Obedience

Approved rendering: obedecer
Transliteration: shama
Doctrine: The Rechabites’ Obedience as an Ironic Contrast
Original: שָׁמַע
Category: Individual Responsibility

Jer 35. Human-tradition obedience ironically contrasted with Judah’s disobedience to the living God; do not conflate with the baseline’s ‘obedience_of_faith’ doctrine.

Scroll

Approved rendering: rollo
Transliteration: megillah
Doctrine: The Scroll and the Preservation of God’s Word
Original: מְגִלָּה
Category: Prophecy

Jer 36. Jehoiakim’s burning of Baruch’s scroll and its divinely commanded rewriting (with additions, 36:32) demonstrates God’s word cannot be nullified by human hostility.

Day Of Reckoning

Approved rendering: día de venganza / de su ruina
Transliteration: yom (yom neqamah)
Doctrine: Universal Judgment on the Nations
Original: יוֹם (construct forms, e.g., יוֹם נְקָמָה)
Category: Sovereignty

Chs. 46-51. Universalizes the Judgment doctrine — God’s covenant lawsuit extends to every nation, including Babylon, his own instrument of judgment.

Nations Goyim

Approved rendering: las naciones
Transliteration: goyim
Doctrine: Universal Judgment on the Nations
Rejected alternatives: los gentiles (imports the New Testament Jew-Gentile-unity frame, which does not belong in these Old Testament judgment oracles)
Original: גּוֹיִם
Category: Sovereignty

Chs. 46-51 (Oracles Against the Nations). Broader and judgment-oriented, distinct from baseline ‘gentiles’ → New Testament ethnē in a unity-in-Christ frame.

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David

Approved rendering: David
Transliteration: Dawid
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Standard proper name; Jeremiah’s Davidic-covenant material (23:5-6; 33:14-22) reaffirms rather than alters this baseline entry.

Israel

Approved rendering: Israel
Transliteration: Yisra’el
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: יִשְׂרָאֵל
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Jeremiah usage: ‘casa de Israel’ (31:31) names the northern covenant nation already fallen to Assyria by Jeremiah’s day; the New Covenant promise is addressed to both ‘casa de Israel’ and ‘casa de Judá,’ not Judah alone.

Gentiles

Approved rendering: gentiles
Transliteration: ethnē
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Rejected alternatives: paganos (pejorative in modern Spanish)

Inherited from Romans package, with a Jeremiah-specific restriction: do NOT use ‘gentiles’ for Hebrew goyim in Jeremiah’s Oracles Against the Nations (chs. 46-51); that New Testament Jew-Gentile-unity frame does not belong in Old Testament judgment oracles. Use ‘las naciones’ instead — see ‘nations_goyim’ entry.

Prophet

Approved rendering: profeta
Transliteration: prophētēs / navi
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: vidente, adivino
Original: נָבִיא
Category: Prophecy

Inherited from Romans package. Jeremiah usage: 1:5’s ‘te di por profeta a las naciones’ establishes the book’s authority claim underlying the whole False Prophets vs. True Prophecy doctrine.

Prophecy

Approved rendering: profecía
Transliteration: prophēteia
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: horóscopo, predicción esotérica

Inherited from Romans package. Jeremiah usage: safely distinguished from astrology/fortune-telling in contemporary Hispanic usage; the book’s actual true/false diagnostic test is the paired term ‘sueño… palabra’ (see ‘dream_vs_word’), not the word ‘profecía’ itself.

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