Glossary Term
Risk: Medium- Approved rendering
- utukufu
- Transliteration
- utukufu
- Rejected alternatives
- heshima (honor/respect, too weak)
Glory
utukufu is standard and well established. heshima (honor/respect, also central to traditional African social values around elders and authority) is too weak on its own for God’s radiant, self-revealing divine glory in passages like Romans 1:23 and 9:5.