Linguistic Gap Analysis — Ephesians (Turkish)

Continuing the Romans and Galatians baselines’ findings: Turkish’s agglutinative morphology again serves this curriculum well for compact, precise renderings (mühürlendik, önceden belirledi), and the recurring sensitivity-gap category (kader, amel) established in prior packages reapplies here to new material. Ephesians introduces one genuine linguistic asset and confirms the associative-overload and sensitivity-application categories already identified in Galatians.

Terms requiring careful qualification

• Works, ground versus fruit (iyi işlerin sonucu değildir, 2:9 vs. iyi işler, 2:10): no vocabulary gap, but a structural clarity gap — Turkish can state both halves precisely, but the two statements sit close enough together, and close enough to the amel-mizan framework’s own natural pull, that the ground/fruit distinction must be made explicit rather than assumed self-evident.
• Mystery (sır, μυστήριον): a partial associative gap — the Turkish word is adequate but defaults toward both an everyday “secret” sense and a Sufi/Alevi esoteric-knowledge association; requires qualification on first use, the same category of gap already identified for kader-family vocabulary in the Galatians package, though lower in stakes.
• Submission (bağımlı olun, ὑποτάσσεσθε): no vocabulary gap, but the sensitivity-gap category identified in the Romans/Galatians baselines recurs here in a new, contemporary-legal-culture form specific to Ephesians: the word itself is adequate, but its application in 5:22-24 requires the framing discipline documented in 02_cultural_context.md.

Terms requiring sensitivity notes rather than compounding

• Slaves and masters (köleler/efendiler, δοῦλοι/κύριοι): linguistically adequate, but carries the Ottoman-era historical resonance discussed in 02_cultural_context.md — a sensitivity gap, not a vocabulary gap, of the same category as the Galatians package’s circumcision note.

Terms with no gap at all — and one genuine asset

• Ortak mirasçılar, aynı bedenin üyeleri, vaadin ortakları (fellow heirs, fellow body-members, fellow partakers, 3:6): Turkish’s productive compounding and possessive-suffix structure mirrors the Greek σύν- compound pattern’s sense of shared participation clearly, a genuine linguistic asset rather than merely an adequate rendering.
• Tanrı’nın bütün silahları/zırhı, baş, mühürlendik: all precise, well-established renderings requiring no gap-filling strategy.

Gap-filling strategy

Where Ephesians presents an associative-overload risk (sır) or a sensitivity-application risk (submission, slavery), this Language Package documents the framing requirement explicitly in translation_memory.json and 02_cultural_context.md, following the same contextual-containment strategy established for kader and sünnet in the Galatians package, rather than substituting a narrower synonym that would sacrifice theological precision.

Coverage confirmation

Covers linguistic-gap material relevant across chapters 2, 3, 5, and 6; chapters 1 and 4 introduce no new gap beyond what is already addressed under the doctrine and sensitivity notes elsewhere in this package.