Core Glossary
Core Glossary — 3 John (English → Ukrainian)
This glossary records every load-bearing theological term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md, covering the entire book of 3 John (a single 14-verse chapter). Terms marked [BASELINE] reuse the exact rendering already established in the Romans/Galatians translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json; these renderings are locked and must not be altered. Terms marked [NEW] are introduced by this curriculum and are proposed for addition to translation memory at the version increment following this Phase 1 delivery.
| English Term | Greek (transliteration) | Ukrainian Rendering | Status | Doctrine(s) | Risk Tier | Rationale / Ukraine-Specific Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elder (self-designation of the author) | πρεσβύτερος (presbyteros) | Старець | NEW | Church Leadership and Pride | High | Established Ohienko rendering, but “старець” in Ukrainian Orthodox/Greek Catholic monastic piety denotes a revered charismatic spiritual father; must be glossed as a pastoral-apostolic office title, not a claim to that specific monastic charism. |
| Beloved | ἀγαπητός (agapētos) | улюблений | NEW | Truth and Christian Fellowship | Medium | Recurs 4x (vv.1,2,5,11) as a structural marker of the letter’s warmth; keep lexically consistent, do not vary with дорогий/любий. |
| Truth (noun) | ἀλήθεια (alētheia) | правда | NEW | Truth and Christian Fellowship; Commendation of Faithful Witness | High | Wartime public discourse (disinformation, war-crimes documentation) pulls правда toward a narrow factual-accuracy sense; must be anchored to gospel fidelity and Christian conduct, not left to default to the political/journalistic register. |
| Truly / in truth (idiom) | ἐν ἀληθείᾳ (en alētheia) | направду / поправді | NEW | Truth and Christian Fellowship | Medium | Fixed adverbial idiom distinct from the noun правда; risk of the idiom being flattened into a generic intensifier and losing its doctrinal link to the noun form used throughout the letter. |
| Love | ἀγάπη (agapē) | любов | [BASELINE] | Truth and Christian Fellowship; Hospitality | High | Reused exactly per Galatians TM entry “love.” Must be committed active good, not sentiment. |
| Soul | ψυχή (psychē) | душа | NEW | (supports Hospitality/general pastoral doctrine) | Low | Standard term; anchors v.2’s prosperity-wish to spiritual, not merely material, well-being. |
| Prosper / be in good health | εὐοδοῦσθαι / ὑγιαίνειν (euodousthai / hygiainein) | вестися добре / бути здоровим | NEW | (general pastoral care) | High | Classic prosperity-gospel proof text; exposition must frame this as an epistolary greeting-wish reversing outward-first priority, not a doctrinal promise of material blessing. Human theologian review recommended for teaching material. |
| Rejoice / joy | χαίρω / χαρά (chairō / chara) | радіти / радість | NEW | Commendation of Faithful Witness | Low | Standard vocabulary across all traditions. |
| Walk (conduct of life) | περιπατέω (peripateō) | ходити / жити (у правді) | NEW | Truth and Christian Fellowship | Medium | Conduct-of-life idiom; must be glossed on first occurrence to avoid confusion with the letter’s literal travel/hospitality theme (vv.5-8). |
| Children (spiritual) | τέκνα (tekna) | діти | NEW | Commendation of Faithful Witness | Medium | Spiritual children/converts, not biological offspring; requires the same disambiguation the baseline applies to “adoption.” |
| Brothers | ἀδελφοί (adelphoi) | брати | NEW | Hospitality to Traveling Ministers | Medium | Fictive-kinship term for traveling ministers/fellow believers (vv.3,5,10); must remain lexically distinct from φίλοι/друзі (v.14) to preserve Johannine stylistic variation. |
| Stranger / guest | ξένος (xenos) | чужі / незнайомці / чужинці | NEW | Hospitality to Traveling Ministers | High | Central term for the hospitality doctrine; resonates strongly, and positively, with Ukraine’s wartime displacement/refugee-hospitality experience, but must not be narrowed only to that referent — text specifically concerns hospitality to traveling gospel ministers. |
| Church | ἐκκλησία (ekklēsia) | церква | [BASELINE] | Church Leadership and Pride; Hospitality | Critical | Reused exactly per baseline. Acutely live in Ukraine given OCU/UOC/UGCC jurisdiction disputes; especially sensitive at v.10 “cast out of the church” — see below. |
| Send on one’s journey (support travel) | προπέμπω (propempō) | спорядити в дорогу / провести в дорогу | NEW | Hospitality to Traveling Ministers | Medium-High | Technical early-church missionary-support term (cf. Acts 15:3); connects to baseline “mission” doctrine; denotes concrete material provisioning, not mere farewell. |
| Worthily of God | ἀξίως τοῦ θεοῦ (axiōs tou theou) | достойно Бога | NEW | Hospitality to Traveling Ministers | Medium | Standard of hospitality is God’s own honor, not social propriety alone. |
| The Name (absolute, = Christ) | τὸ ὄνομα (to onoma) | Ім’я | NEW | Hospitality to Traveling Ministers | High | Absolute Christological idiom (cf. Acts 5:41); must be glossed on first occurrence so readers recognize the referent as Christ, not reputation or fame. |
| Gentiles / non-believing outsiders | ἐθνικοί (ethnikoi) | погани | [BASELINE-ADJACENT] | Hospitality to Traveling Ministers | High | Distinct Greek word-form from baseline’s ἔθνη entry but shares its risk profile; render погани per baseline convention (not мission-scope народи here), flagging the same derogatory colloquial drift noted in the baseline TM. |
| Fellow worker with the truth | συνεργὸς τῇ ἀληθείᾳ (synergos tē alētheia) | співробітник правді / співпрацівник істини | NEW | Truth and Christian Fellowship | High | Unique compound: hospitality as active partnership in advancing gospel truth, not generic kindness; must not be flattened into “helper/supporter.” |
| Loves to be first / craves preeminence | φιλοπρωτεύων (philoprōteuōn) | той, що любить бути першим / прагне першості | NEW | Church Leadership and Pride (Diotrephes) | Critical | Letter’s key diagnostic term for ecclesial pride; unique NT occurrence. Must never read as commentary on any specific contemporary Ukrainian church jurisdiction’s primacy disputes. Human theologian review mandatory for every occurrence. |
| Receive / welcome | ἐπιδέχομαι (epidechomai) | приймати | NEW | Church Leadership and Pride; Hospitality | Medium | Recurs negated 3x around Diotrephes (v.9, 2x v.10); keep lexically consistent to preserve rhetorical repetition. |
| Slander with evil words | λόγοις πονηροῖς φλυαρέω (phlyareō) | лихослів’ям обмовляти / зводити наклепи | NEW | Church Leadership and Pride (Diotrephes) | High | Malicious, groundless accusation, not mere gossip; must retain accusatory force to match the seriousness of Diotrephes’s apostolic slander. |
| Cast out of the church | ἐκ τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἐκβάλλω (ekballō) | виганяти з церкви | NEW | Church Leadership and Pride (Diotrephes) | Critical | Diotrephes’s culminating abuse of power. Directly collides with live, legally contested Ukrainian church jurisdiction/parish-expulsion disputes (OCU/UOC/UGCC). Must be taught as Scripture’s condemnation of abuse, never as commentary on any real jurisdiction dispute. Human theologian review mandatory for every occurrence, parallel to “anathema” in the Galatians package. |
| Imitate | μιμέομαι (mimeomai) | наслідувати | NEW | Imitating Good rather than Evil | High | Sustained, patterned emulation of an example (root of “mimic”), not a single incidental act; central verb applying the Diotrephes/Demetrius contrast. |
| Good / evil (moral categories) | ἀγαθόν / κακόν (agathon / kakon) | добро / зло | NEW | Imitating Good rather than Evil | Medium | Standard moral vocabulary; preserve parallel construction with the agent-noun pair below. |
| Doer of good / doer of evil | ἀγαθοποιῶν / κακοποιῶν (agathopoiōn / kakopoiōn) | той, хто чинить добро / той, хто чинить зло | NEW | Imitating Good rather than Evil | Medium | Deliberate Greek wordplay (agent nouns built on the abstract nouns above); preserve as parallel Ukrainian constructions. |
| Has not seen God | οὐχ ἑώρακεν τὸν θεόν (ouch heōraken ton theon) | не бачив Бога | NEW | Imitating Good rather than Evil | Medium | Relational-knowledge statement (echoes 1 John’s knowing/not-knowing-God language), not a claim about literal vision — worth distinguishing from Orthodox/Greek Catholic visio Dei/theophany traditions. |
| Testify / witness (verb) | μαρτυρέω (martyreō) | свідчити | NEW | Commendation of Faithful Witness (Demetrius); Truth and Christian Fellowship | High | Wartime resonance: “свідчення” is presently strongly associated with documented war-crimes testimony; exposition must clarify the letter’s concern is attested Christlike character, not forensic atrocity documentation, without erasing the term’s dignity. |
| Testimony (noun) | μαρτυρία (martyria) | свідчення | NEW | Commendation of Faithful Witness (Demetrius) | High | See μαρτυρέω above; keep lexically paired with the verb form. |
| True / truthful | ἀληθής (alēthēs) | правдивий | NEW | Commendation of Faithful Witness (Demetrius) | Medium | Standard factual-reliability adjective; reinforces the letter’s cumulative emphasis on verifiable Christian character. |
| ”The truth itself” (personified witness) | ἡ ἀλήθεια αὐτή (hē alētheia autē) | сама правда | NEW | Commendation of Faithful Witness (Demetrius) | High | Rhetorical personification (truth as an independent witness to character); must not be confused with the Holy Spirit or any Orthodox/Greek Catholic devotional “Truth” category. |
| Ink | μέλαν (melan) | чорнило | NEW | (material-culture detail) | Low | Concrete term; no doctrinal weight. |
| Reed-pen | κάλαμος (kalamos) | перо / тростинка для писання | NEW | (material-culture detail) | Low | Concrete term; may gloss as “reed pen” for reader clarity. |
| Mouth to mouth (face to face) | στόμα πρὸς στόμα (stoma pros stoma) | устами до уст | NEW | Truth and Christian Fellowship | Medium | Hebraic idiom (cf. Numbers 12:8 LXX); preserve idiomatic Scripture-register phrase with a brief gloss on its OT background; plain-register gloss: особисто / віч-на-віч. |
| Peace | εἰρήνη (eirēnē) | мир | [BASELINE] | (epistolary greeting-blessing) | High | Reused exactly per baseline. Since 2022, мир carries acute wartime weight; distinguish from the homograph “world” and from the political sense of “ceasefire,” exactly as flagged for Romans 5:1. |
| Friends | φίλος (philos) | друзі | NEW | Truth and Christian Fellowship | Low-Medium | Deliberate Johannine variation from ἀδελφοί (cf. John 15:14-15); keep distinct from брати to preserve the closing greeting’s personal-friendship register. |
| By name / individually | κατ’ ὀνόμα (kat’ onoma) | пойменно / кожного окремо | NEW | Truth and Christian Fellowship | Low | Warm, individually-attentive closing detail; preserve rather than generalize. |
| Gaius (proper name) | Γάϊος (Gaios) | Гай | NEW | — | Low | Standard transliteration, Ohienko form. |
| Diotrephes (proper name) | Διοτρεφής (Diotrephēs) | Діотреф | NEW | Church Leadership and Pride | Low | Standard transliteration. |
| Demetrius (proper name) | Δημήτριος (Dēmētrios) | Димитрій | NEW | Commendation of Faithful Witness | Low | Standard transliteration. |
Summary of Risk Distribution
| Risk Tier | Count | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 3 (Старець-adjacent φιλοπρωτεύων, ἐκβάλλω “cast out of church,” and церква baseline reuse in this letter’s context) | Human theologian review mandatory |
| High | 15 | Human theologian review required |
| Medium | 14 | Native speaker review recommended |
| Low | 8 | Automated review sufficient |
Notes for Phase 2 Translation Memory Update
The following terms are proposed as new entries to be appended to translation_memory.json at the next version increment, following the same schema (translation, transliteration, doctrine_risk, doctrine, alternatives_rejected, notes) as existing entries: presbyteros/Старець, alētheia (noun)/правда, xenos/чужі, philoprōteuōn/любить бути першим, ekballō ek tēs ekklēsias/виганяти з церкви, synergos tē alētheia/співробітник правді, martyreō/martyria/свідчити/свідчення, mimeomai/наслідувати, ethnikoi/погани (adjectival form, distinct entry from baseline ethnē). Proper names (Гай, Діотреф, Димитрій) should be added as Low-risk entries following the David/Israel pattern already established.
Critical Risk Terms
Church
Approved rendering: церква
Transliteration: tserkva
Doctrine: Church Leadership and Pride (Diotrephes)
Rejected alternatives: храм, громада (acceptable for local congregation emphasis)
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package exactly, no alteration. Acutely live and politically contested in contemporary Ukraine (OCU/UOC/UGCC jurisdiction disputes); this risk is sharpened in 3 John 1:9-10, where Diotrephes casts believers ‘out of the church’ — the single most sensitive occurrence of this term across either curriculum. Must read as Scripture’s own critique of an ancient leader’s abuse of power, never as commentary on any real contemporary Ukrainian jurisdiction dispute. громада remains an available clarifying synonym.
Loves To Be First
Approved rendering: той, що любить бути першим
Transliteration: toy, shcho lyubyt’ buty pershym
Doctrine: Church Leadership and Pride (Diotrephes)
Rejected alternatives: амбітний (too weak, a mild personality trait), владолюбний (acceptable as expository synonym only, not the primary rendering)
Original: φιλοπρωτεύων
Category: Church Leadership
New term. 3 John 1:9. This letter’s key diagnostic term for ecclesial pride; the New Testament’s only occurrence of φιλοπρωτεύων. Must never be softened into a mild personality trait. Grounded Ukraine-specific risk: contemporary Ukrainian church life includes acute, live disputes over primacy and jurisdiction (OCU/UOC/UGCC); must be taught as Scripture’s own timeless diagnosis of a leadership vice, never as commentary on any specific contemporary Ukrainian church body or leader. Human theologian review mandatory for every occurrence.
Cast Out Of Church
Approved rendering: виганяти з церкви
Transliteration: vyhanyaty z tserkvy
Doctrine: Church Leadership and Pride (Diotrephes)
Rejected alternatives: відлучати (closer to formal excommunication register; acceptable as an expository gloss only, not the primary Scripture-register rendering)
Original: ἐκ τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἐκβάλλω
Category: Church Leadership
New term. 3 John 1:10. Diotrephes’s culminating abuse of power. Directly collides with live, legally contested Ukrainian church jurisdiction/parish-expulsion disputes (OCU/UOC/UGCC). Must be taught explicitly as Scripture’s condemnation of an abuse of power — Diotrephes is the narrative’s villain — never as commentary on, or validation of either side of, any real contemporary Ukrainian church jurisdiction dispute. Human theologian review mandatory for every occurrence, on the same footing as anathema in the Galatians package.
High Risk Terms
Love
Approved rendering: любов
Transliteration: lyubov
Doctrine: Truth and Christian Fellowship; Hospitality to Traveling Ministers
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans/Galatians package exactly. In 3 John 1:6, Gaius’s love was publicly attested before the church; must be read as committed active good, not sentiment, consistent with baseline notes on агапе.
Peace
Approved rendering: мир
Transliteration: myr
Doctrine: Truth and Christian Fellowship
Rejected alternatives: спокій, затишшя
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package exactly. 3 John 1:14’s closing epistolary greeting-blessing ‘Peace to you’ carries the same acute wartime weight already documented for Romans 5:1; must be distinguished in exposition from both the homograph ‘the world’ and the urgent political sense of ‘peace’ (ceasefire) readers will inevitably bring to the word.
Elder Self Designation
Approved rendering: Старець
Transliteration: Starets’
Doctrine: Apostolic-Pastoral Authority (“The Elder”)
Rejected alternatives: посланець, єпископ (anachronistic later office title, not warranted by the text)
Original: πρεσβύτερος
Category: Church
New term. 3 John 1:1. Established Ohienko rendering, retained for consistency with the existing Ukrainian Bible text of 2-3 John. Grounded risk: in Ukrainian Orthodox and Greek Catholic piety, ‘старець’ denotes a revered charismatic monastic spiritual father (associated with e.g. Kyiv Pechersk Lavra), a distinct devotional cultus. Must be glossed as a pastoral-apostolic office title exercising real governing authority (commendation of Gaius/Demetrius, rebuke of Diotrephes), not a claim to that specific monastic charism.
Truth
Approved rendering: правда
Transliteration: pravda
Doctrine: Truth and Christian Fellowship; Commendation of Faithful Witness (Demetrius)
Rejected alternatives: істина (reserve for abstract/philosophical truth per Ukrainian literary convention; not the letter’s primary register)
Original: ἀλήθεια
Category: Truth
New term. Occurs in some form in at least six of the letter’s fourteen verses (1,3,4,8,12). Grounded wartime risk: правда is presently pulled toward a narrow forensic-factual sense (disinformation, war-crimes documentation) that must not eclipse John’s fuller relational-doctrinal sense — fidelity to the gospel lived out in conduct. Must be explicitly anchored to Christ and Christian conduct on each occurrence, not left to default to the political/journalistic register.
Prosper
Approved rendering: вестися добре
Transliteration: vestysya dobre
Doctrine: Pastoral Prayer for Well-Being (Prosperity Language)
Rejected alternatives: процвітати (too readily suggests guaranteed financial prosperity, reinforcing a Word-of-Faith misreading)
Original: εὐοδοῦσθαι
Category: Pastoral Care
New term. 3 John 1:2. Classic global prosperity-gospel proof text, now also current in post-Soviet charismatic/Word-of-Faith teaching circles active in Ukraine. Exposition must frame this as an ancient epistolary greeting-wish, with outward prosperity explicitly subordinate to the soul’s prosperity, never as a doctrinal promise of material blessing. Human theologian review recommended for any teaching material built on this verse.
Stranger Guest
Approved rendering: чужі / незнайомці
Transliteration: chuzhi / neznayomtsi
Doctrine: Hospitality to Traveling Ministers
Rejected alternatives: чужинці (acceptable synonym, carries slightly more foreignness/otherness than needed)
Original: ξένος
Category: Hospitality
New term. 3 John 1:5. Central term for the Hospitality doctrine. Ukraine’s wartime internal displacement and the extraordinary volunteer/church-based hospitality response give this term acute, positive, lived resonance — a pastoral asset — but must not be narrowed only to the wartime IDP/refugee referent; the text’s specific concern is hospitality toward traveling gospel ministers.
Send On Journey
Approved rendering: спорядити в дорогу
Transliteration: sporyadyty v dorohu
Doctrine: Hospitality to Traveling Ministers
Rejected alternatives: провести (too weak, mere farewell without material-provisioning sense)
Original: προπέμπω
Category: Hospitality
New term. 3 John 1:6. Technical early-church missionary-support term (cf. Acts 15:3, 1 Cor 16:6,11); must be glossed as concrete, practical material support for gospel workers, connecting to the baseline’s mission doctrine (місія/благовістя), not merely a farewell blessing.
The Name
Approved rendering: Ім’я
Transliteration: Im’ya
Doctrine: Hospitality to Traveling Ministers
Rejected alternatives: ім’я (lowercase, would read as the generic common noun ‘a name’ rather than the absolute Christological idiom)
Original: τὸ ὄνομα
Category: Christology
New term. 3 John 1:7. Absolute, unqualified early-Christian idiom for the name and person of Jesus Christ (cf. Acts 5:41). Must be capitalized and explicitly glossed on first occurrence so readers recognize the referent as Christ, not reputation or fame.
Gentiles Outsiders
Approved rendering: погани
Transliteration: pohany
Doctrine: Hospitality to Traveling Ministers
Rejected alternatives: народи (reserved for mission-scope/comparative contexts per baseline convention; not appropriate here, which describes actual non-believers)
Original: ἐθνικοί
Category: Church
New term, distinct adjectival Greek form (ἐθνικοί) from the baseline’s ἔθνη/gentiles noun entry, but sharing its risk profile. 3 John 1:7. Inherits the baseline’s documented derogatory colloquial drift (‘bad/wicked people’); exposition must clarify the reference is religious status (non-believer), not a character judgment.
Fellow Worker With Truth
Approved rendering: співробітник правді
Transliteration: spivrobitnyk pravdi
Doctrine: Truth and Christian Fellowship
Rejected alternatives: помічник (too weak, generic ‘helper’, loses the partnership-in-a-cause force)
Original: συνεργὸς τῇ ἀληθεί�ᾳ
Category: Truth
New term. 3 John 1:8. Unique compound central to this doctrine: hospitality to gospel workers is active partnership in advancing gospel truth, not generic kindness.
Slander Evil Words
Approved rendering: лихослів’ям обмовляти
Transliteration: lykhoslivyam obmovlyaty
Doctrine: Church Leadership and Pride (Diotrephes)
Rejected alternatives: плітки (gossip, too weak, understates the malicious, accusatory force)
Original: λόγοις πονηροῖς φλυαρέω
Category: Church Leadership
New term. 3 John 1:10. Deliberate campaign of false accusation against the apostolic delegation, not mere idle talk.
Imitate
Approved rendering: наслідувати
Transliteration: nasliduvaty
Doctrine: Imitating Good rather than Evil
Rejected alternatives: копіювати (too mechanical, suggests a single act rather than sustained character-patterning)
Original: μιμέομαι
Category: Ethics
New term. 3 John 1:11. Central verb applying the Diotrephes (negative) / Demetrius (positive) contrast. Must be glossed to convey sustained, habitual patterning of one’s own life on an example, not a single incidental act.
Testify
Approved rendering: свідчити
Transliteration: svidchyty
Doctrine: Commendation of Faithful Witness (Demetrius); Truth and Christian Fellowship
Original: μαρτυρέω
Category: Witness
New term. 3 John 1:3,12. Grounded wartime risk: since 2022, ‘свідчення/свідчити’ is strongly associated in public discourse with documented war-crimes testimony. Exposition must clarify the letter’s witness-language concerns attested Christlike character and gospel fidelity, not forensic atrocity documentation, without erasing the term’s dignity.
Testimony
Approved rendering: свідчення
Transliteration: svidchennya
Doctrine: Commendation of Faithful Witness (Demetrius)
Original: μαρτυρία
Category: Witness
New term. 3 John 1:12. Noun form of testify; keep lexically paired with свідчити. Same wartime-resonance caution as above.
Truth Itself
Approved rendering: сама правда
Transliteration: sama pravda
Doctrine: Commendation of Faithful Witness (Demetrius)
Rejected alternatives: Дух правди (never use — this is the established Johannine title for the Holy Spirit, John 14:17/15:26/16:13, a distinct concept from this rhetorical personification)
Original: ἡ ἀλήθεια αὐτή
Category: Witness
New term. 3 John 1:12. Rhetorical personification meaning Demetrius’s conduct is self-evidently consistent with the gospel he professes; must not be confused with the Holy Spirit or any Orthodox/Greek Catholic devotional ‘Truth’ category.
Medium Risk Terms
God
Approved rendering: Бог
Transliteration: Boh
Doctrine: Imitating Good rather than Evil
Rejected alternatives: Всевишній (acceptable poetic synonym only)
Inherited from Romans package exactly. 3 John 1:11’s ‘whoever does evil has not seen God’ is a relational-knowledge claim about conduct, not a claim about literal vision; distinguish from the strong visio Dei/theophany traditions in Orthodox and Greek Catholic spirituality.
Beloved
Approved rendering: улюблений
Transliteration: ulyublenyy
Doctrine: Truth and Christian Fellowship
Rejected alternatives: дорогий, любий
Original: ἀγαπητός
Category: Christian Fellowship
New term. Recurs 4x (vv.1,2,5,11) as a structural marker of the letter’s warmth; keep lexically consistent at every occurrence, do not vary.
Truly In Truth
Approved rendering: направду / поправді
Transliteration: napravdu / popravdi
Doctrine: Truth and Christian Fellowship
Rejected alternatives: дійсно (too weak, generic intensifier, loses the doctrinal link to правда)
Original: ἐν ἀληθεί�ᾳ
Category: Truth
New term. 3 John 1:1. Fixed adverbial idiom distinct from the noun правда; must not be flattened into a generic intensifier.
Good Health
Approved rendering: бути здоровим
Transliteration: buty zdorovym
Doctrine: Pastoral Prayer for Well-Being (Prosperity Language)
Original: ὑγιαίνειν
Category: Pastoral Care
New term. 3 John 1:2. Must be read alongside, not apart from, the ψυχή/soul clause that reverses the priority a prosperity reading would assume.
Walk Conduct
Approved rendering: ходити / жити (у правді)
Transliteration: khodyty / zhyty
Doctrine: Truth and Christian Fellowship
Rejected alternatives: мандрувати (would wrongly suggest literal travel, confusable with the letter’s actual travel/hospitality theme, vv.5-8)
Original: περιπατέω
Category: Sanctification
New term. 3 John 1:3-4. Conduct-of-life idiom; must be glossed on first occurrence as figurative for habitual manner of life, not literal walking or travel.
Children Spiritual
Approved rendering: діти
Transliteration: dity
Doctrine: Commendation of Faithful Witness (Demetrius)
Rejected alternatives: нащадки (implies biological descent)
Original: τέκνα
Category: Church
New term. 3 John 1:4. Spiritual children/converts under the author’s pastoral care, not biological offspring; requires the same disambiguation the baseline requires for ‘adoption’ and ‘calling’ language.
Brothers
Approved rendering: брати
Transliteration: braty
Doctrine: Hospitality to Traveling Ministers
Original: ἀδελφοί
Category: Church
New term. 3 John 1:3,5,10. Fictive-kinship term for traveling ministers/fellow believers. Must remain lexically distinct from друзі (v.14) to preserve the deliberate Johannine stylistic variation (cf. John 15:14-15) between the two terms.
Worthily Of God
Approved rendering: достойно Бога
Transliteration: dostoyno Boha
Doctrine: Hospitality to Traveling Ministers
Original: ἀξίως τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Hospitality
New term. 3 John 1:6. Must retain the sense that God’s own honor/character, not social propriety, is the standard of the hospitality shown.
Receive Welcome
Approved rendering: приймати
Transliteration: pryymaty
Doctrine: Church Leadership and Pride (Diotrephes); Hospitality to Traveling Ministers
Original: ἐπιδέχομαι
Category: Hospitality
New term. 3 John 1:9-10 (negated 3x). Keep lexically consistent across all three occurrences to preserve the rhetorical repetition of Diotrephes’s refusal.
Good Evil
Approved rendering: добро / зло
Transliteration: dobro / zlo
Doctrine: Imitating Good rather than Evil
Original: τὸ ἀγαθόν / τὸ κακόν
Category: Ethics
New term. 3 John 1:11. Standard moral vocabulary; grounded risk that current wartime moral-binary rhetoric (aggressor-as-‘evil’ framing) could displace the letter’s personal, ecclesial-example application (imitate faithful believers, not a corrupt leader).
Doer Of Good Evil
Approved rendering: той, хто чинить добро / той, хто чинить зло
Transliteration: toy, khto chynyt’ dobro / toy, khto chynyt’ zlo
Doctrine: Imitating Good rather than Evil
Rejected alternatives: добродій (archaic/folk ‘benefactor’ connotation; must not be used for the agent-noun wordplay)
Original: ὁ ἀγαθοποιῶν / ὁ κακοποιῶν
Category: Ethics
New term. 3 John 1:11. Deliberate Greek agent-noun wordplay; preserve as parallel Ukrainian constructions to retain the verse’s rhetorical symmetry.
Has Not Seen God
Approved rendering: не бачив Бога
Transliteration: ne bachyv Boha
Doctrine: Imitating Good rather than Evil
Original: οὐχ ἑώρακεν τὸν θεόν
Category: God
New term. 3 John 1:11. Relational-knowledge statement echoing 1 John’s knowing/not-knowing-God dualism; not a claim about literal vision — distinguish from the strong visio Dei/theophany traditions in Orthodox and Greek Catholic spirituality.
True Truthful
Approved rendering: правдивий
Transliteration: pravdyvyy
Doctrine: Commendation of Faithful Witness (Demetrius)
Original: ἀληθής
Category: Witness
New term. 3 John 1:12. Standard factual-reliability adjective reinforcing the letter’s cumulative emphasis on verifiable Christian character as public testimony.
Mouth To Mouth
Approved rendering: устами до уст
Transliteration: ustamy do ust
Doctrine: Truth and Christian Fellowship
Rejected alternatives: особисто / віч-на-віч (acceptable plain-register gloss only, not a substitute for the Scripture-register idiom)
Original: στόμα πρὸς στόμα
Category: Christian Fellowship
New term. 3 John 1:14. Hebraic idiom for direct, personal, unmediated communication (cf. Numbers 12:8 LXX); preserve the idiomatic Scripture-register phrase per Ohienko convention, with a brief gloss on its Old Testament background.
Friends
Approved rendering: друзі
Transliteration: druzi
Doctrine: Truth and Christian Fellowship
Original: οἱ φίλοι
Category: Christian Fellowship
New term. 3 John 1:14. Deliberate Johannine stylistic variation from ἀδελφοί/брати (cf. John 15:14-15); keep lexically distinct from брати, not collapsed into one word.
Low Risk Terms
Soul
Approved rendering: душа
Transliteration: dusha
Doctrine: Pastoral Prayer for Well-Being (Prosperity Language)
Original: ψυχή
Category: Pastoral Care
New term. 3 John 1:2. Standard term; functions as the essential corrective anchor for the prosperity-language risk in the same verse (outward prosperity wished ‘as’ the soul already prospers).
Joy
Approved rendering: радіти / радість
Transliteration: radity / radist’
Doctrine: Commendation of Faithful Witness (Demetrius)
Original: χαίρω / χαρά
Category: Pastoral Care
New term. 3 John 1:3-4. Standard vocabulary across all Ukrainian Christian traditions.
Ink
Approved rendering: чорнило
Transliteration: chornylo
Doctrine: (material-culture detail; no assigned doctrine)
Original: μέλαν
Category: Material Culture
New term. 3 John 1:13. Concrete material-culture term; no doctrinal weight. Parallels the near-verbatim wording of 2 John 12.
Reed Pen
Approved rendering: перо
Transliteration: pero
Doctrine: (material-culture detail; no assigned doctrine)
Rejected alternatives: тростинка для писання (acceptable fuller gloss for reader clarity)
Original: κάλαμος
Category: Material Culture
New term. 3 John 1:13. Concrete term for an ancient reed writing-pen; no doctrinal weight.
By Name
Approved rendering: пойменно
Transliteration: poymenno
Doctrine: Truth and Christian Fellowship
Rejected alternatives: кожного окремо (acceptable synonym)
Original: κατ’ ὀνόμα
Category: Christian Fellowship
New term. 3 John 1:14. Warm, individually-attentive closing detail; preserve rather than generalize to ‘greet everyone.‘
Gaius
Approved rendering: Гай
Transliteration: Hay
Doctrine: (proper name)
Original: Γάϊος
Category: Proper Names
New term, proper name. Standard Ohienko transliteration. The letter’s addressee, commended for hospitality to traveling ministers.
Diotrephes
Approved rendering: Діотреф
Transliteration: Diotref
Doctrine: (proper name; see Church Leadership and Pride for associated doctrinal risk)
Original: Διοτρεφής
Category: Proper Names
New term, proper name. Standard transliteration. Low lexical risk in itself; the associated doctrinal risk is carried entirely by ‘loves_to_be_first’ and ‘cast_out_of_church’ above, not by the proper name.
Demetrius
Approved rendering: Димитрій
Transliteration: Dymytriy
Doctrine: (proper name; see Commendation of Faithful Witness)
Original: Δημήτριος
Category: Proper Names
New term, proper name. Standard transliteration. Commended as a positive example of faithful, truth-consistent character (v.12).
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