Core Glossary
Core Glossary — Acts — English → Ukrainian
Purpose and Use
This glossary consolidates every load-bearing theological term identified in analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md across the whole book of Acts (chapters 1–28), organized for direct use in Phase 2 translation memory maintenance. Terms are split into two sections:
- Section A — Terms already established in the baseline Romans/Galatians
translation_memory.json, which recur in Acts and MUST be reused with their exact recorded Ukrainian rendering. No deviation is permitted. - Section B — New terms introduced specifically by the Acts curriculum, with full glossary fields, ready for addition to
translation_memory.jsonat the next version increment.
Risk tiers follow the shared Critical/High/Medium/Low framework established in doctrine_risk_registry.json. Every Critical and High risk term requires human theologian review per the baseline’s escalation rules; Medium requires native speaker review; Low requires automated review only.
Section A — Baseline Terms Reused Exactly (Acts Occurrences)
| Term (EN) | Ukrainian (exact, from baseline) | Risk | Acts Chapters | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gospel | Євангеліє | High | 2, 8, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20 | Reused exactly; Acts 20:24 “gospel of the grace of God” compounds with благодать. |
| grace | благодать | Critical | 4, 11, 13, 14, 15, 18, 20 | Must never default to any one tradition’s grace-framework without explicit statement, per baseline. |
| faith | віра | High | 3, 6, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 24, 26 | Personal trust in Christ, not confessional identity; recurs constantly across the missionary narrative. |
| righteousness | праведність | Critical | 13 (implicit), 24 | Acts 24:25 (Felix); never справедливість. |
| justification | виправдання | Critical | 13 | Acts 13:39, the book’s only explicit forensic-justification vocabulary; mandatory theologian review. |
| salvation | спасіння | Critical | 2, 4, 11, 13, 16, 27, 28 | Must anchor to Christ’s death/resurrection; Acts 4:12 and 16:31 are key occurrences. |
| apostle | апостол | Medium | 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13–16, 21 | Shared, uncontested term throughout. |
| called / calling | покликаний / покликання | Medium/High | 1, 2, 9, 13, 16 | Extends to Paul’s own calling (9:15; 22:21; 26:16). |
| holy | святий | Medium | throughout (Holy Spirit, holy ones) | Consistent with baseline. |
| saints | святі | High | 9:13, 32, 41; 26:10 | Must read as corporate, inclusive of all believers, not a venerated few. |
| sanctification | освячення | Critical | 20:32; 26:18 | 26:18 “inheritance among those sanctified” — mandatory theologian review. |
| adoption | усиновлення | High | (thematic, esp. 26:18 inheritance language) | Acute wartime-orphans resonance retained. |
| resurrection | воскресіння | Critical | 1, 2, 3, 4, 9 (Tabitha, distinguish sense), 17, 23, 24, 25, 26 | Single most recurrent Critical term in Acts; never reincarnation-adjacent; distinguish Christ’s unique resurrection from temporary resuscitations (Tabitha, ch. 9). |
| lord | Господь | Critical | throughout | Господь καὶ Χριστός (2:36) is the sermon’s climax; restore personal force. |
| son_of_god | Син Божий | Critical | 9:20; 13:33 | Shared Nicene-heritage confession. |
| incarnation | втілення | Critical | (thematic, seed_of_David echoes at 2:30; 13:23) | No аватар substitution. |
| peace | мир | High | 9:31; 10:36; 15:33; 24:2 | War-vs-peace homograph caution applies throughout. |
| spiritual_gifts | духовні дари | Medium | (thematic, distinguish from δωρεά at 2:38, 8:20 — see Section B) | Never conflate with the singular “gift of the Spirit.” |
| thanksgiving | подяка | Low | 24:3; 27:35; 28:15 | Standard. |
| fellowship | спілкування | Low | 2:42 | Reused exactly. |
| church | церква | Critical | 2:47; 5:11; 8:1, 3; 9:31; 11:22, 26; 12:1, 5; 13:1; 14:23, 27; 15:3–4, 22, 41; 16:5; 18:22; 20:17, 28 | Single most frequent Critical term in Acts by raw occurrence count; must be framed as the universal people of God, never any one OCU/UOC/UGCC jurisdiction. |
| kingdom_of_god | Царство Боже | High | 1:3, 6; 8:12; 14:22; 19:8; 20:25; 28:23, 31 | Frames the book’s beginning (1:3) and ending (28:31); avoid imperial/tsardom resonance. |
| law | закон | Medium | 6:13; 7:53; 13:39; 15:5, 24; 18:13, 15; 21:20, 24, 28; 22:3, 12; 23:3, 29; 24:14; 25:8; 28:23 | Extremely frequent given Acts’ Jewish-Gentile Law controversy; ties to works_of_the_law (Section A, from Galatians extension). |
| sin | гріх | High | 2:38; 3:19; 5:31; 7:60; 10:43; 13:38; 22:16; 26:18 | Consistently paired with ἄφεσις/forgiveness language. |
| gentiles | погани / народи (context-sensitive per baseline) | High | 4:25 (quoted); 9:15; 10:45; 11:1, 18; 13:46–48; 14:2, 5, 27; 15:3, 7, 12, 14, 19, 23; 18:6; 21:11, 19, 21, 25; 22:21; 26:17, 20, 23; 28:28 | Extremely frequent; use народи in mission-scope contexts per baseline explicit guidance. |
| glory | слава | Medium | 7:2, 55; 12:23; 22:11 | Keep distinct from “Слава Україні” patriotic resonance. |
| power_of_god | сила Божа | Medium | (thematic, underlies δύναμις in signs-and-wonders triad, ch. 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 19) | Never енергія. |
| messiah | Месія | High | (implicit throughout; Χριστός as title, e.g. 2:31, 36; 3:18, 20; 5:42; 8:5; 9:22; 17:3; 18:5, 28; 26:23) | Resurface Jewish messianic-fulfillment sense explicitly. |
| prophet | пророк | Low | 2:16, 30; 3:18, 21–25; 7:37, 48, 52; 8:28, 30, 34; 10:43; 13:1, 6, 20, 27, 40; 15:32; 21:10; 24:14; 26:22, 27; 28:23 | Distinguish from fortune-teller. |
| prophecy | пророцтво | Low | 2:17–18; 19:6; 21:9 (implicit) | Distinguish from horoscope/divination. |
| covenant | завіт | Medium | 3:25; 7:8 | God’s covenant with Abraham, cited by Peter and Stephen. |
| election | обрання | High | 9:15 (“chosen instrument,” see Section B for the specific phrase); 22:14 (implicit) | Never доля/фатум. |
| intercession | клопотання | Medium | (implicit, esp. prayer scenes 1:14; 4:24; 12:5, 12; 20:36; 21:5) | Distinguish from заступництво. |
| providence | провидіння Боже | High | 2:23; 4:28; 13:36 (implicit); 15:28; 17:26–28; 27:24, 34 | Never доля/випадок/карма; Acts 27’s storm narrative is a key occurrence. |
| mission | місія / благовістя | High | 1:8; 13:1–3; 26:16–18 | Wartime chaplaincy/displaced-persons sensitivity applies throughout the missionary journeys. |
| david | Давид | Low | 2:25, 29, 34; 4:25; 7:45; 13:22, 34, 36; 15:16 | Standard proper name. |
| israel | Ізраїль | Low/Medium | 1:6; 2:36; 4:10, 27; 5:21, 31; 7:23, 37, 42; 9:15; 10:36; 13:16–24; 21:28; 28:20 | Distinguish biblical people from the modern state where relevant. |
| jesus | Ісус | Critical | throughout | Never Иисус (Russian spelling). |
| god | Бог | Critical | throughout | Standard. |
| holy_spirit | Святий Дух | Critical | 1:2, 5, 8, 16; 2:4, 33, 38; 4:8, 25, 31; 5:3, 9, 32; 6:5; 7:51, 55; 8:15–19, 29, 39; 9:17, 31; 10:19, 38, 44–47; 11:12, 15–16, 24, 28; 13:2, 4, 9, 52; 15:8, 28; 16:6–7; 19:2, 6; 20:23, 28; 21:4, 11; 28:25 | The single most theologically central and most frequent term in Acts; never bare дух. |
| father | Отець | Medium | 1:4, 7; 2:33; 3:13, 25; 5:30; 7:2, 4, 11–12, 15, 19–20, 32, 38–39, 44–45; 13:17, 32–33; 15:10; 22:1, 3, 14; 24:14; 26:6; 28:17, 25 | God’s paternal covenant faithfulness (Stephen’s speech, ch. 7) and ancestral “fathers” (context-sensitive, see 7 and 22 entries). |
| abba | Авва | High | not directly quoted in Acts; retained for cross-document consistency with Romans/Galatians | No Acts occurrence; listed for completeness. |
| exhort | закликати | Low | 2:40; 11:23; 14:22; 15:32; 16:40; 20:1–2 | Context-sensitive per baseline (entreaty vs. encouragement). |
| seed_of_david | з насіння Давидового | Medium | 2:30; 13:23 (pattern reused, “descendant of David”) | Consistent with Romans 1:3 rendering. |
| works_of_the_law | діла закону | Critical | 15:1, 5, 10–11, 24 | Direct narrative counterpart to the Galatians doctrine; cross-reference mandatory. |
| circumcision | обрізання | High | 7:8; 10:45; 11:2–3; 15:1, 5, 24; 16:3; 21:21 | The Jerusalem Council’s central contested practice. |
| election (obrannya, extended) | обрання | High | 9:15 (“chosen instrument”) | See Section B for the compound phrase. |
| love | любов | High | (thematic, implicit in koinōnia/fellowship contexts) | No direct high-density occurrence but retained for cross-curriculum consistency. |
Section B — New Terms Introduced by Acts
| # | Term (EN) | Original (Greek) | Transliteration | Literal Meaning | Ukrainian Rendering | Risk | Key Acts Citations | Translation Risk Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pentecost | Πεντηκοστή | Pentēkostē | ”fiftieth [day]“ | П’ятдесятниця | Critical | 2:1; 20:16 | Collides with the folk-cultural weight of Трійця (Trinity Sunday); Acts 2’s specific narrative content must be explicitly anchored, not assumed already associated with the feast-day name. |
| 2 | tongues (fire-sign / language-miracle) | γλῶσσα (pl. γλῶσσαι) | glōssa | ”tongue” (organ); “language” | язики / мови (context-sensitive) | High | 2:3–4, 6, 8, 11; 10:46; 19:6 | Must be disambiguated from ecstatic glossolalia debates live in Ukrainian Pentecostal/Charismatic circles; Acts 2’s tongues are known human languages (see διάλεκτος). |
| 3 | repentance | μετάνοια / μετανοέω | metanoia / metanoeō | ”a change of mind” | покаяння / покаятися | Critical | 2:38; 3:19; 5:31; 8:22; 11:18; 13:24; 17:30; 19:4; 20:21; 26:20 | Structurally parallel to освячення’s Critical risk: покаяння also names the Orthodox/Greek Catholic sacrament of Confession; must be taught as personal inward turning, not primarily a call to the sacramental rite. |
| 4 | baptism / to baptize | βάπτισμα / βαπτίζω | baptisma / baptizō | ”immersion, dipping” | хрещення / хреститися | Critical | 2:38, 41; 8:12–13, 16, 36–38; 9:18; 10:47–48; 11:16; 16:15, 33; 18:8; 19:3–5; 22:16 | The single highest-stakes term in the Acts glossary: collides with (1) the civilizational weight of Хрещення Руси (988 AD), (2) the near-universal Ukrainian practice of infant baptism, and (3) the credobaptist reading Acts 2:38/16:31 most naturally supports. Mandatory theologian review for every occurrence. |
| 5 | gift of the Holy Spirit | δωρεὰ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος | dōrea tou hagiou pneumatos | ”the free gift of the Holy Spirit” | дар Святого Духа | Critical | 2:38; 8:20; 10:45; 11:17 | Must remain lexically distinct from духовні дари (spiritual gifts/charismata, Section A); conflating the singular gift of the Spirit’s own indwelling with the plural enablements blurs a live Ukrainian charismatic-vs-other-traditions debate over “Spirit baptism.” |
| 6 | witness | μάρτυς | martys | ”one who testifies” | свідок | High | 1:8, 22; 2:32; 3:15; 5:32; 6:13; 7:58; 10:39, 41; 13:31; 22:15, 20; 26:16 | Greek wordplay between “witness” and “martyr” (мученик) is not reproducible in Ukrainian; must be carried by explicit exposition, esp. at Stephen’s death. Wartime “свідчення” (testimony) resonance is an asset but must not replace the evangelistic sense. |
| 7 | martyr | μάρτυς (specialized sense) | martys | ”witness [unto death]“ | мученик | High | 7 (Stephen, implied); 22:20 | Deep, positive Ukrainian resonance with 20th-century clergy/lay martyrdom under Soviet persecution and current wartime losses; keep Stephen’s specific narrative primary. |
| 8 | boldness | παρρησία | parrēsia | ”freedom/openness of speech” | сміливість / відвага | High | 4:13, 29, 31; 9:27–28; 13:46; 14:3; 18:26; 19:8; 26:26; 28:31 | Acute contemporary courage-under-threat resonance; must remain anchored to Spirit-given gospel boldness, not generalized patriotic/military courage. |
| 9 | signs and wonders / mighty works | σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα / δυνάμεις | sēmeia kai terata / dynameis | ”signs and portents / mighty deeds” | знамення і чудеса / сили | High | 2:19, 22, 43; 4:30; 5:12; 6:8; 8:6, 13; 14:3; 15:12; 19:11; 28:3–9 | Must stay anchored as God’s own attesting acts through Christ/the apostles, not generic marvels colliding with post-Soviet folk-occult “чудо” usage. |
| 10 | filled with the Holy Spirit | πίμπλημι πνεύματος ἁγίου | pimplēmi pneumatos hagiou | ”filled completely with the Holy Spirit” | наповнені Святим Духом | Critical | 2:4; 4:8, 31; 9:17; 13:9, 52 | Raises the live question of repeated/subsequent “fillings” vs. a once-for-all indwelling; framing must be stated explicitly rather than defaulting to any one tradition’s settled answer. |
| 11 | name of Jesus | ὄνομα Ἰησοῦ | onoma Iēsou | ”the name of Jesus” | ім’я Ісуса [Христа] | High | 3:6, 16; 4:7, 10, 12, 17–18, 30; 5:28, 40–41; 9:14–16, 27–28; 10:43; 16:18; 19:5, 13, 17; 22:16; 26:9 | Guard against a magical-incantation misreading; “the name” = personal trust in and appeal to Christ himself, never an independent power-formula. |
| 12 | restoration | ἀποκατάστασις | apokatastasis | ”a restoring, setting right again” | відновлення [всього] | Medium | 3:21 | Keep distinct from contemporary national/territorial “restoration” hopes; this is cosmic-eschatological. |
| 13 | Servant [of God] | παῖς [θεοῦ] | pais [theou] | “servant, child” | Слуга [Божий] | Medium | 3:13, 26; 4:27, 30 | Echoes Isaiah’s Servant of the LORD; requires OT background. |
| 14 | with one accord | ὁμοθυμαδόν | homothymadon | ”with one mind/passion” | однодушно | Low | 1:14; 2:46; 4:24; 5:12 | Positive fellowship resonance; avoid Soviet колектив association. |
| 15 | great fear | φόβος [μέγας] | phobos [megas] | “[great] fear/awe” | [великий] страх | Medium | 2:43; 5:5, 11; 9:31; 19:17 | Reverential awe before divine holiness/judgment, not superstitious dread. |
| 16 | to lie to / test the Holy Spirit | ψεύδομαι / πειράζω τὸ πνεῦμα | pseudomai / peirazō to pneuma | ”to deceive/put to the test the Spirit” | обманути / випробовувати Святого Духа | High | 5:3, 9 | Preserves the personal, divine referent of Дух; gravity of deceiving God himself must not be softened. |
| 17 | laying on of hands | ἐπίθεσις τῶν χειρῶν | epithesis tōn cheirōn | ”the placing on of hands” | покладання рук | Critical | 6:6; 8:17–19; 9:12, 17; 13:3; 19:6; 28:8 | Maps closely onto Chrismation (Миропомазання) in the Orthodox/Greek Catholic traditions; Acts’ varied narrative sequence (before/with/after baptism) must not be flattened into or against any single tradition’s fixed sacramental order. |
| 18 | service / ministry | διακονία | diakonia | ”service, waiting on, ministry” | служіння | Medium | 6:1, 4; 11:29; 12:25; 20:24; 21:19 | Ad hoc, practical service in Acts 6 vs. the later fully developed ordained диякон office; keep distinct. |
| 19 | to resist the Holy Spirit | ἀντιπίπτω τῷ πνεύματι | antipiptō tō pneumati | ”to fall against, resist” | противитися Святому Духові | High | 7:51 | Stephen’s own historical indictment; must not be weaponized against any contemporary Ukrainian church body. |
| 20 | magic / sorcery | μαγεία / μαγεύω | mageia / mageuō | ”magic, sorcery” | чарівництво / чаклунство | High | 8:9–11, 18–24 (Simon Magus); 13:6, 8 (Bar-Jesus); 19:19 | Direct collision with persistent post-Soviet folk-occult culture (екстрасенси, ворожки); Simon’s specific sin (commodifying the Spirit) is the passage’s real point. |
| 21 | clean / unclean | καθαρός / κοινός | katharos / koinos | ”clean” / “common, defiled” | чисте / нечисте | Medium | 10:14–15, 28; 11:8–9 | OT ritual-purity categories applied metaphorically to Gentile inclusion; low native collision risk but needs explicit background. |
| 22 | God shows no partiality | οὐ προσωπολήπτης [ὁ θεός] | ou prosōpolēptēs [ho theos] | “not a receiver/favorer of faces” | Бог не звертає уваги на обличчя | High | 10:34 | Parallels the baseline’s unity_of_jews_and_gentiles doctrine; affirm full, unqualified impartiality. |
| 23 | Christian | Χριστιανός | Christianos | ”belonging to/follower of Christ” | християнин | Low | 11:26; 26:28 | Fully established, shared, uncontested; originally an outsider label later embraced. |
| 24 | angel of the Lord | ἄγγελος Κυρίου | angelos Kyriou | ”messenger of the Lord” | ангел Господній | Low | 5:19; 8:26; 10:3; 12:7, 23; 27:23 | Strong positive devotional resonance (Guardian Angel piety); no collision. |
| 25 | is justified | δικαιοῦται | dikaioutai | ”is declared righteous” | виправдовується / [є] виправданий | Critical | 13:39 | The book’s only explicit forensic-justification vocabulary; must match Romans/Galatians rendering exactly; mandatory theologian review. |
| 26 | a light for the Gentiles | φῶς ἐθνῶν | phōs ethnōn | ”a light of/for the nations” | світло для народів | High | 13:47; 26:23 | Must render identically at both occurrences per cross-document consistency; ties to mission_to_nations and unity_of_jews_and_gentiles doctrines. |
| 27 | Jerusalem council (“Sobor”) | (no fixed Gk. noun; event described, later termed σύνοδος in tradition) | — | “council, synod” | Собор [апостолів] | Critical | 15:1–29 | Collides directly with the 1946 “Lviv Sobor,” the Soviet-orchestrated forced liquidation of the UGCC — an acute, named historical trauma. Mandatory theologian review for every occurrence; contrast with Acts 15’s genuine, free, Spirit-led deliberation may be made explicit but only deliberately, never by accident. |
| 28 | it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us | ἔδοξεν τῷ πνεύματι τῷ ἁγίῳ καὶ ἡμῖν | edoxen tō pneumati tō hagiō kai hēmin | ”it seemed good…“ | здалося добрим Святому Духові і нам | Critical | 15:28 | Models Spirit-guided yet genuinely collective human decision-making; balance must not collapse toward either pure fatalism or pure human agency. |
| 29 | household salvation | οἶκος [σωθήσῃ] | oikos [sōthēsē] | “household [will be saved]“ | дім/домашні [спасуться] | High | 10:2, 24, 44; 16:15, 31, 33–34; 18:8 | Intersects the paedobaptist/credobaptist tension already Critical at “baptism”; present narrative on its own terms without overclaiming for either position. |
| 30 | Spirit of Jesus forbidding/guiding | τὸ πνεῦμα Ἰησοῦ οὐκ εἴασεν | to pneuma Iēsou ouk eiasen | ”the Spirit of Jesus did not allow” | Дух Ісуса не дозволив | High | 16:6–7 | Models Spirit-directed missionary guidance; ties to провидіння Боже. |
| 31 | Areopagus / unknown god | Ἄρειος Πάγος / ἄγνωστος θεός | Areios Pagos / agnōstos theos | ”Hill of Ares” / “unknown god” | Ареопаг / невідомий бог | Medium | 17:19, 22–23 | Low native collision; useful pattern for respectful cross-cultural apologetic engagement. |
| 32 | idols | εἴδωλα | eidōla | ”images, idols” | ідоли | Low | 17:16, 29; 15:20, 29; 21:25 | No significant native idol-worship collision; historical-cultural teaching, light bridge to “idolatry of the heart” only if made explicit. |
| 33 | elders / overseers | πρεσβύτεροι / ἐπίσκοποι | presbyteroi / episkopoi | ”elders” / “overseers” | старійшини / єпископи (наглядачі) | Critical | 11:30; 14:23; 15:2, 4, 6, 22–23; 16:4; 20:17, 28; 21:18 | Sharpest institutional-collision point in the glossary: єпископ today denotes a rank within the fully developed, jurisdictionally significant OCU/UOC/UGCC episcopal hierarchy. Use старійшини as primary rendering; gloss overseer-function without importing modern jurisdictional rank. Mandatory theologian review. |
| 34 | shepherd | ποιμήν / ποιμαίνω | poimēn / poimainō | ”shepherd / to shepherd” | пастир / пасти | Medium | 20:28–29 | Warm, well-established pastoral image; low collision, genuine asset. |
| 35 | innocent of the blood | ἀναίτιος τοῦ αἵματος | anaitios tou haimatos | ”guiltless of the blood” | чистий від крові | Low | 18:6; 20:26 | Idiom; preserve theological meaning (absolution from responsibility for hearers’ unbelief) over literal phrasing. |
| 36 | the Way | ἡ ὁδός | hē hodos | ”the Way, the Path” | Шлях | Medium | 9:2; 19:9, 23; 22:4; 24:14, 22 | Early church’s self-designation; distinguish from unrelated modern Ukrainian movements using a similar name. |
| 37 | Nazirite vow | εὐχή [Ναζιραίου] | euchē [Nazirēou] | “vow [of a Nazirite]“ | обітниця назорея | Low | 21:23–26; 18:18 | Requires OT background (Numbers 6); ties to обітниця (promise/vow). |
| 38 | Sanhedrin | συνέδριον | synedrion | ”council, assembly” | Синедріон | Medium | 4:15; 5:21, 27, 34, 41; 6:12, 15; 22:30; 23:1, 6, 15, 20, 28; 24:20 | Kept lexically distinct from Собор (Acts 15) to avoid compounding that term’s Critical-risk collision. |
| 39 | heavenly vision | οὐρανίῳ ὀπτασίᾳ | ouraniō optasia | ”heavenly vision/sight” | небесне видіння | Medium | 26:19 (cf. 9:3–6; 22:6–10) | Distinguish from post-Soviet folk-occult vision/prophecy practices; keep as Christ’s own commissioning vision. |
| 40 | to turn from darkness to light | ἐπιστρέψαι ἀπὸ τοῦ σκότους εἰς φῶς | epistrepsai apo tou skotous eis phōs | ”to turn from darkness into light” | навернутися від темряви до світла | Medium | 26:18 | Vivid conversion metaphor; low collision, extends ἐπιστροφή (conversion) entry. |
| 41 | do not be afraid | μὴ φοβοῦ | mē phobou | ”stop fearing / do not fear” | не бійся | Medium | 27:24 (cf. 18:9; 23:11) | Ties to providence; acute pastoral resonance for wartime danger/displacement readers; keep anchored to God’s purposes, not a blanket physical-safety promise. |
| 42 | without hindrance | ἀκωλύτως | akōlytōs | ”unimpeded, freely” | безперешкодно | Medium | 28:31 | Book’s deliberately open-ended, hope-affirming closing note. |
| 43 | conversion / turning | ἐπιστροφή / ἐπιστρέφω | epistrophē / epistrephō | ”a turning, turning back” | навернення | Medium | 9 (paradigm narrative); 11:21; 15:3, 19; 26:18, 20 | Standard, well-established term across traditions; keep specifically Christ/gospel-content sense distinct from secular “conversion to a cause.” |
| 44 | chosen instrument | σκεῦος ἐκλογῆς | skeuos eklogēs | ”vessel of election” | обраний [Богом] інструмент/посудина | High | 9:15 | Ties directly to обрання (election); personal, purposive divine choice, never доля/фатум. |
| 45 | breaking of bread | κλάσις τοῦ ἄρτου | klasis tou artou | ”the breaking of the loaf” | ламання хліба | High | 2:42, 46; 20:7, 11; 27:35 | Simple, communal in Luke’s own usage; avoid both over-sacramentalizing and stripping all sacred significance — native speaker and theologian review recommended. |
| 46 | had all things in common | ἅπαντα κοινά | hapanta koina | ”all things common/shared” | усе спільне | Medium | 2:44–45; 4:32–35 | Voluntary Spirit-motivated generosity; must not echo Soviet forced collectivization (колектив). |
| 47 | the promise is for you and your children and all far off | (ἡ ἐπαγγελία)… τοῖς εἰς μακράν | (hē epangelia)… tois eis makran | ”the promise… to those far off” | обітниця… тим, що далеко | High | 2:39 | Widens the promise’s horizon toward Gentile inclusion (cf. Ephesians 2:13, 17); preserve breadth, do not narrow prematurely. |
| 48 | mighty works of God | τὰ μεγαλεῖα τοῦ θεοῦ | ta megaleia tou theou | ”the great things of God” | великі діла Божі | Low | 2:11 | Keep distinct from слава (glory)‘s separate patriotic-resonance caution. |
| 49 | day of the Lord | ἡμέρα Κυρίου | hēmera Kyriou | ”day of the Lord” | день Господній | Medium | 2:20 | Eschatological climactic Day; must not flatten into routine liturgical phrase. |
| 50 | calls upon the name of the Lord [shall be saved] | ἐπικαλέσηται τὸ ὄνομα Κυρίου | epikalesētai to onoma Kyriou | ”calls upon the name of the Lord” | покличе ім’я Господнє [буде спасенний] | High | 2:21 | Must render identically to however Romans 10:13 renders the same Joel citation in this Language Package; cross-document consistency mandatory. |
| 51 | cut to the heart | κατενύγησαν τὴν καρδίαν | katenygēsan tēn kardian | ”pierced/stabbed in the heart” | вражені в серце | Medium | 2:37 | Spirit-produced conviction, not mere guilt/shame. |
| 52 | forgiveness of sins | ἄφεσις τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν | aphesis tōn hamartiōn | ”release/dismissal of sins” | прощення гріхів | High | 2:38; 5:31; 10:43; 13:38; 26:18 | Distinct from, and must not substitute for, виправдання (justification)‘s fuller declarative sense per baseline’s existing warning. |
| 53 | to pour out [the Spirit] | ἐκχέω | ekcheō | ”to pour out, spill” | вилити | Medium | 2:17–18, 33; 10:45 | Preserve full “on all flesh” universality per baseline universality-claims rule. |
| 54 | added [to their number] | προστίθημι | prostithēmi | ”to add to, increase” | додалося | Low | 2:41, 47; 5:14; 11:24 | Acts’ characteristic church-growth term; avoid bureaucratic/institutional-membership register. |
| 55 | John’s baptism vs. Spirit-baptism | βάπτισμα Ἰωάννου / πνεῦμα ἅγιον | baptisma Iōannou / pneuma hagion | ”baptism of John” / “Holy Spirit” | Іванове хрещення / Святий Дух | Critical | 19:1–7 | Compounds baptism and gift-of-the-Spirit Critical entries; key Ukrainian Pentecostal/Charismatic proof-text; mandatory theologian review. |
| 56 | books of magic [burned] | μαγικὰ βιβλία | magika biblia | ”magic books” | магічні книги | High | 19:19 | Extends magic/sorcery entry; public, costly renunciation useful for pastoral engagement with lingering post-Soviet occult practice. |
| 57 | gospel of the grace of God | τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τῆς χάριτος τοῦ θεοῦ | to euangelion tēs charitos tou theou | ”the gospel of the grace of God” | Євангеліє благодаті Божої | Critical | 20:24 | Compound of two already-Critical baseline terms (Євангеліє + благодать); double care required. |
| 58 | righteousness, self-control, and judgment to come | δικαιοσύνη, ἐγκράτεια, τὸ κρίμα τὸ μέλλον | dikaiosynē, enkrateia, to krima to mellon | ”righteousness, self-mastery, coming judgment” | праведність, стриманість, майбутній суд | High | 24:25 | праведність reused exactly (Critical baseline term embedded); coming judgment must stay eschatologically future and personal. |
| 59 | appeal to Caesar | ἐπικαλέομαι Καίσαρα | epikaleomai Kaisara | ”to appeal/call upon Caesar” | звернутися до Кесаря | Low | 25:11–12, 21; 26:32; 28:19 | Civil-authority/legal-appeal theme; handle with same care as Romans 13 government/authority sensitivity flagged in the baseline. |
| 60 | God of our fathers | ὁ θεὸς τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν | ho theos tōn paterōn hēmōn | ”the God of our fathers” | Бог наших батьків | Low | 22:14; 24:14; 3:13; 5:30; 7:32 | Standard covenant-continuity language. |
Cross-Reference Notes for Phase 2
- Terms shared with Romans/Galatians (Section A) must be pulled from the existing
translation_memory.jsonwithout modification; do not re-derive or paraphrase. - New terms (Section B) must be added to
translation_memory.jsonat the next version increment following the Pre-flight Checklist procedure in12_ai_translation_requirements.md, with risk levels and rejected-alternatives fields populated from this glossary’s notes column. - Highest-priority mandatory-theologian-review terms for Acts, in descending order of structural risk: baptism/хрещення (#4), gift of the Holy Spirit/дар Святого Духа (#5), laying on of hands/покладання рук (#17), John’s baptism vs. Spirit-baptism (#55), the Jerusalem council/Собор (#27), elders-overseers/старійшини-єпископи (#33), and repentance/покаяння (#3) — each colliding with a specific, named, currently live feature of the Ukrainian ecclesial landscape (sacramental theology, infant baptism practice, episcopal jurisdiction, and the 1946 Lviv Sobor’s historical trauma), distinct from and in addition to the doctrinal risk categories already flagged in the baseline.
- Cross-document consistency required: item #50 (Acts 2:21) must match the Romans 10:13 rendering of the identical Joel quotation exactly, per the baseline’s established cross-document consistency rule for shared Scripture citations.
This glossary extends, and never contradicts, the baseline Romans/Galatians translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json. See analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md for full verse-by-verse and chapter-by-chapter argumentation supporting each entry.
Critical Risk Terms
Grace
Approved rendering: благодать
Transliteration: blahodat’
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: милість, талан, щастя
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. CRITICAL. Acts 15:11 (‘saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus’) and 4:33 (‘great grace’) must never default to any one of Ukraine’s three living traditions’ grace-framework without explicit statement, exactly as the baseline requires.
Righteousness
Approved rendering: праведність
Transliteration: pravednist’
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: справедливість, чесність
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Never справедливість (justice/fairness); Acts 24:25 (Felix) must not reduce this to civic fairness in a trial context, where that false-friend risk is especially live.
Justification
Approved rendering: виправдання
Transliteration: vypravdannya
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: прощення гріхів, оправдання (Russian-influenced spelling, avoid)
Original: δικαιοῦται / δικαίωσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Acts 13:39 (‘everyone who believes is justified’) is the book’s only explicit forensic-justification vocabulary and must render identically to Romans/Galatians occurrences; mandatory theologian review.
Salvation
Approved rendering: спасіння
Transliteration: spasinnya
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: визволення, рятування (too generic, ‘rescue’)
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Must anchor to Christ’s death and resurrection; Acts 4:12’s exclusivity (‘salvation in no one else’) and 16:31’s household salvation must preserve full force.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: освячення
Transliteration: osvyachennya
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: обоження (reserve for explicit theosis discussion only), очищення
Original: ἁγιασμός / ἡγιασμένοι
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Acts 26:18 (‘inheritance among those sanctified’) and 20:32 must not collapse into the everyday ritual-object-blessing sense (свячення паски) nor into obоження without explicit teaching.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: воскресіння
Transliteration: voskresinnya
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Rejected alternatives: оживлення, реінкарнація
Original: ἀνάστασις
Category: Eschatology
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. The single most recurrent Critical term in Acts (chs. 1-4, 9, 17, 23-26); Tabitha’s raising (ch. 9, ἀνίστημι) must be explicitly distinguished as temporary resuscitation, never blurred with Christ’s unique, permanent resurrection.
Lord
Approved rendering: Господь
Transliteration: Hospod’
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: хазяїн, владика (reserve for liturgical/poetic register only)
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Acts 2:36’s double confession ‘Lord and Christ’ is the sermon’s climax and must restore personal, decisive force, not read as a recited creed line, exactly as the baseline requires for Romans 10:9.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: Син Божий
Transliteration: Syn Bozhyy
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: божественний посланець
Original: υἱὸς θεοῦ
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Applied to the risen Jesus at Acts 9:20 and 13:33; shared, settled Nicene-heritage confession.
Incarnation
Approved rendering: втілення
Transliteration: vtilennya
Doctrine: Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: аватар (never use), явлення
Original: ὁ λόγος σὰρξ ἐγένετο (thematic; seed-of-David language, 2:30; 13:23)
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Echoed in Acts’ seed-of-David/human-descent language (2:30; 13:23); аватар remains explicitly forbidden.
Church
Approved rendering: церква
Transliteration: tserkva
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: храм, громада (acceptable for local congregation emphasis)
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. The single most frequent Critical term in Acts by raw occurrence (2:47; 5:11; 8:1, 3; 9:31; 11:22, 26; 12:1, 5; 13:1; 14:23, 27; 15:3-4, 22, 41; 16:5; 18:22; 20:17, 28); must be framed as the universal people of God, never any one OCU/UOC/UGCC jurisdiction. громада remains the useful jurisdiction-neutral synonym.
Works Of The Law
Approved rendering: діла закону
Transliteration: dila zakonu
Doctrine: Justification by Faith
Rejected alternatives: добрі справи (too broad, would read as morality generally)
Original: ἔργα νόμου (thematic; ζυγὸν… τοῦ νόμου, ‘yoke of the Law,’ 15:10)
Category: Salvation
Inherited from the Galatians extension of the baseline, unchanged. The Jerusalem Council’s central rejected category (15:1, 5, 10-11, 24); must denote Torah-boundary markers only, never a blanket critique of обряд-positive Orthodox/Greek Catholic sacramental piety.
Jesus
Approved rendering: Ісус
Transliteration: Isus
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Иисус (Russian spelling, never use)
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Never the Russian spelling Иисус, throughout Acts.
God
Approved rendering: Бог
Transliteration: Boh
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Всевишній (acceptable poetic synonym only)
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: Святий Дух
Transliteration: Svyatyy Dukh
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: дух (never use alone), енергія
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. The single most theologically central and most frequent term in the whole book of Acts; never bare дух, given secular idioms like ‘бойовий дух,’ especially prominent in current wartime usage. Explicit capitalization and glossing required at every occurrence given the unmatched density of this term in Acts.
Pentecost
Approved rendering: П’ятдесятниця
Transliteration: Pyatdesyatnytsya
Doctrine: The Holy Spirit and Pentecost
Rejected alternatives: Трійця (never use as the primary Bible term; may be named only as the folk-liturgical feast name requiring explicit anchoring to Acts 2’s content)
Original: Πεντηκοστή
Category: God
NEW. Acts 2:1; 20:16. П’ятдесятниця is the correct biblical term, but Ukrainian Orthodox and Greek Catholic popular piety knows this feast primarily as Трійця (Trinity Sunday), with its own beloved folk customs (greenery, grave visits). Acts 2’s specific narrative content (Spirit’s descent, tongues, Peter’s sermon, mass conversion) must be explicitly anchored to the feast-day name, never assumed already associated with it.
Repentance
Approved rendering: покаяння / покаятися
Transliteration: pokayannya / pokayatysya
Doctrine: Repentance and Baptism
Original: μετάνοια / μετανοέω
Category: Salvation
NEW. Acts 2:38; 3:19; 5:31; 8:22; 11:18; 13:24; 17:30; 19:4; 20:21; 26:20. Structurally parallel to освячення’s Critical risk: покаяння also names the Orthodox/Greek Catholic sacrament of Confession (Таїнство Покаяння). Must be taught as personal, inward turning to God prior to and distinct from any subsequent sacramental rite, never assumed to already mean the sacrament.
Baptism
Approved rendering: хрещення / хреститися
Transliteration: khreshchennya / khrestytysya
Doctrine: Repentance and Baptism
Original: βάπτισμα / βαπτίζω
Category: Ordinance
NEW. Acts 2:38, 41; 8:12-13, 16, 36-38; 9:18; 10:47-48; 11:16; 16:15, 33; 18:8; 19:3-5; 22:16. Single highest-stakes term in the whole registry: collides with (1) the civilizational weight of Хрещення Руси (988 AD), (2) near-universal Ukrainian infant baptism practice and the кум/кума godparent institution, and (3) the credobaptist reading Acts 2:38/16:31 most naturally supports. Must state this curriculum’s reading as this text’s own portrayal, never as an attack on infant baptism as practiced by the majority traditions. Human theologian review mandatory for every occurrence.
Gift Of Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: дар Святого Духа
Transliteration: dar Svyatoho Dukha
Doctrine: The Gift and Filling of the Holy Spirit
Original: δωρεὰ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος
Category: God
NEW. Acts 2:38; 8:20; 10:45; 11:17. Must remain lexically and doctrinally distinct from духовні дари (spiritual_gifts). Conflating the once-for-all gift of the Spirit’s own indwelling with the plural distributed enablements blurs the live Ukrainian Pentecostal/Charismatic-versus-other-traditions debate over ‘Spirit baptism.’ This curriculum’s own position (the gift belongs to every person who repents and is baptized, per v.38-39) must be stated explicitly. Human theologian review mandatory.
Filled With Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: наповнені Святим Духом
Transliteration: napovneni Svyatym Dukhom
Doctrine: The Gift and Filling of the Holy Spirit
Original: πίμπλημι πνεύματος ἁγίου
Category: God
NEW. Acts 2:4; 4:8, 31; 9:17; 13:9, 52. Raises the live question of whether ‘filling’ names a subsequent, separable ‘Spirit baptism’ experience or the Spirit’s ongoing empowering work in an already-indwelt believer. This curriculum must state its own framing explicitly per occurrence rather than default to any one Ukrainian ecclesial tradition’s settled answer.
Johns Baptism Vs Spirit Baptism
Approved rendering: Іванове хрещення / Святий Дух
Transliteration: Ivanove khreshchennya / Svyatyy Dukh
Doctrine: The Relationship Between Water Baptism and Spirit-Reception
Original: βάπτισμα Ἰωάννου / πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
NEW. Acts 19:1-7. Compounds the baptism and gift_of_holy_spirit entries; a key contemporary Ukrainian Pentecostal/Charismatic proof-text over ‘Spirit baptism’ as separable from water baptism. Mandatory theologian review.
Laying On Of Hands
Approved rendering: покладання рук
Transliteration: pokladannya ruk
Doctrine: The Relationship Between Water Baptism and Spirit-Reception
Original: ἐπίθεσις τῶν χειρῶν
Category: God
NEW. Acts 6:6; 8:17-19; 9:12, 17; 13:3; 19:6; 28:8. Maps with unusual closeness onto Миропомазання (Chrismation) in the Orthodox/Greek Catholic traditions. Acts’ own varied narrative sequence (Spirit before/with/after baptism across chs. 2, 8, 10, 19) must be taught as Luke’s own varied historical narration of the Spirit’s sovereign freedom, neither prescribing nor contradicting any tradition’s sacramental order. Human theologian review mandatory for every occurrence.
Jerusalem Council Sobor
Approved rendering: Собор [апостолів] / Апостольський Собор
Transliteration: Sobor [apostoliv] / Apostol’s’kyy Sobor
Doctrine: The Jerusalem Council and Doctrinal Unity
Original: (no fixed Gk. noun; the event later termed σύνοδος in tradition)
Category: Church
NEW. Acts 15:1-29. Собор collides directly with the 1946 ‘Lviv Sobor,’ the Soviet-orchestrated pseudo-council that forcibly liquidated the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church into the Russian Orthodox Church, accompanied by the arrest/martyrdom of resisting clergy. Any contrast with Acts 15’s genuine, free, Spirit-led deliberation must be made deliberately, never accidentally. Human theologian review mandatory for every occurrence.
Seemed Good To Spirit And Us
Approved rendering: здалося добрим Святому Духові і нам
Transliteration: zdalosya dobrym Svyatomu Dukhovi i nam
Doctrine: The Jerusalem Council and Doctrinal Unity
Original: ἔδοξεν τῷ πνεύματι τῷ ἁγίῳ καὶ ἡμῖν
Category: Church
NEW. Acts 15:28. Models Spirit-guided yet genuinely collective human decision-making; must not collapse toward either pure fatalism or a purely human-agency reading.
Elders Overseers
Approved rendering: старійшини / єпископи (наглядачі)
Transliteration: stariyshyny / yepyskopy (nahlyadachi)
Doctrine: Church Leadership and Eldership
Rejected alternatives: єпископ used as the primary term (deliberately rejected — imports today’s jurisdictionally loaded episcopal rank into Paul’s simpler local context)
Original: πρεσβύτεροι / ἐπίσκοποι
Category: Church
NEW. Acts 11:30; 14:23; 15:2, 4, 6, 22-23; 16:4; 20:17, 28; 21:18. Ukrainian єпископ today denotes a high-ranking office within the fully developed OCU/UOC/UGCC hierarchy. Use старійшини as primary rendering (matching πρεσβύτεροι, the term Luke actually uses); gloss overseer-function without importing modern jurisdictional rank. Human theologian review mandatory for every occurrence.
Gospel Of Grace Of God
Approved rendering: Євангеліє благодаті Божої
Transliteration: Yevanheliye blahodati Bozhoyi
Doctrine: The Great Commission Fulfilled
Original: τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τῆς χάριτος τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Gospel
NEW. Acts 20:24. Compound of two already-Critical baseline terms (Євангеліє + благодать); double care required.
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: Євангеліє
Transliteration: Yevanheliye
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: добра звістка (acceptable as an explanatory gloss only)
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Gospel
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. In Acts compounds with благодать at 20:24 (‘gospel of the grace of God’), doubling required care; the wartime religious revival gives this term strong devotional weight the curriculum can build on.
Faith
Approved rendering: віра
Transliteration: vira
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: довіра, переконання
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Must be kept as personal trust, not confessional/jurisdictional identity, a risk heightened by Acts’ constant missionary-conversion narrative (e.g. 15:9, ‘cleansed their hearts by faith’).
Called
Approved rendering: покликаний
Transliteration: poklykanyy
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: запрошений
Original: κλητός / κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Extends to Paul’s own repeated calling narrative (9:15; 22:21; 26:16), the paradigm case; distinguish from доля/фатум throughout.
Calling
Approved rendering: покликання
Transliteration: poklykannya
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: призначення
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Retains the modern secular ‘vocation’ bridge sense, but Acts anchors it explicitly to God’s initiative in commissioning Paul and the apostles.
Saints
Approved rendering: святі
Transliteration: svyati
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: праведники
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Acts 9:13, 32, 41 and 26:10 use this of ordinary believers in Damascus, Joppa, Jerusalem, and of those Paul once persecuted; must read as corporate and inclusive, not a canonized minority.
Adoption
Approved rendering: усиновлення
Transliteration: usynovlennya
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Rejected alternatives: прийняття в сім’ю
Original: υἱοθεσία (thematic; κλῆρος ἐν τοῖς ἡγιασμένοις, ‘inheritance among the sanctified,’ 26:18)
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Acts does not use the noun directly, but 26:18’s inheritance language carries the same weight; acute wartime-orphans resonance retained.
Peace
Approved rendering: мир
Transliteration: myr
Doctrine: Peace with God
Rejected alternatives: спокій, затишшя
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Acts 9:31, 10:36, 24:2 use мир of the church’s condition and of the peace-gospel preached through Christ; the war-vs-peace homograph caution applies with undiminished force.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: Царство Боже
Transliteration: Tsarstvo Bozhe
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Rejected alternatives: держава Божа
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Frames the book’s beginning (1:3, 6) and ending (28:23, 31); avoid царство’s imperial/Russification resonance; 14:22’s pairing of the kingdom with ‘many tribulations’ carries pastoral weight for a wartime readership.
Sin
Approved rendering: гріх
Transliteration: hrikh
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: помилка, провина
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Consistently paired with ἄφεσις/forgiveness language throughout Acts’ conversion narratives (2:38; 3:19; 5:31; 7:60; 10:43; 13:38; 22:16; 26:18).
Gentiles
Approved rendering: погани / народи (context-sensitive)
Transliteration: pohany / narody
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Rejected alternatives: чужинці
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Mission
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Among the most frequent theological terms in Acts (4:25; 9:15; 10:45; 11:1, 18; 13:46-48; 14:2, 5, 27; 15:3-23; 18:6; 21:11-25; 22:21; 26:17-23; 28:28); use народи in mission-scope contexts per baseline guidance to avoid погани’s modern derogatory drift.
Messiah
Approved rendering: Месія
Transliteration: Mesiya
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Rejected alternatives: рятівник світу (as a stand-alone substitute)
Original: Χριστός / מָשִׁיחַ
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Used as a title throughout Acts (2:31, 36; 3:18, 20; 5:42; 8:5; 9:22; 17:3; 18:5, 28; 26:23), repeatedly the subject of apostolic proof-from-Scripture preaching; resurface the Jewish messianic-fulfillment sense explicitly since Христос functions as Jesus’s everyday surname.
Election
Approved rendering: обрання
Transliteration: obrannya
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: доля, фатум, приречення (use only with careful qualification)
Original: ἐκλογή (thematic; σκεῦος ἐκλογῆς, ‘chosen instrument,’ 9:15)
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Acts 9:15 calls Paul ‘a chosen instrument’ (see chosen_instrument below); never доля/фатум/приречення without qualification.
Providence
Approved rendering: провидіння Боже
Transliteration: providinnya Bozhe
Doctrine: Providence
Rejected alternatives: доля, випадок, карма (never use)
Original: πρόνοια (thematic; βουλή/πρόγνωσις, 2:23; 4:28)
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Explicit at 2:23, 4:28, 15:28, 17:26-28, and 27:24, 34 (storm narrative); 2:23 requires holding divine sovereignty and full human moral responsibility together without collapsing into fatalism.
Mission
Approved rendering: місія / благовістя
Transliteration: misiya / blahovistya
Doctrine: Mission to the Nations
Rejected alternatives: пропаганда (never use)
Original: ἀποστολή / πέμπω (thematic; ἕως ἐσχάτου τῆς γῆς, 1:8)
Category: Mission
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Acts 1:8’s programmatic statement grounds the whole book’s arc; be sensitive to the current wartime prominence of chaplaincy and displaced-persons ministry as this era’s own ‘ends of the earth’ frontier.
Promise
Approved rendering: обітниця
Transliteration: obitnytsya
Doctrine: The Abrahamic Covenant and Promise
Original: ἐπαγγελία
Category: Covenant
Inherited from the Galatians extension of the baseline, unchanged. Acts 2:39’s widening horizon toward Gentile inclusion must not be narrowed prematurely; requires OT covenant-chronology background.
Circumcision
Approved rendering: обрізання
Transliteration: obrizannya
Doctrine: Circumcision and the New Creation
Original: περιτομή
Category: Covenant
Inherited from the Galatians extension of the baseline, unchanged. The Jerusalem Council’s central contested practice (7:8; 10:45; 11:2-3; 15:1, 5, 24; 16:3; 21:21); not condemned as sinful but rejected as a basis for right standing with God.
Love
Approved rendering: любов
Transliteration: lyubov
Doctrine: Faith Working through Love
Original: ἀγάπη (thematic, implicit in koinōnia/fellowship contexts)
Category: Faith
Inherited from the Galatians extension of the baseline, unchanged. Underlies Acts’ portraits of radical mutual care (2:44-45; 4:32-35); retained for cross-curriculum consistency.
Abba
Approved rendering: Авва
Transliteration: Avva
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: אַבָּא
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. No direct Acts occurrence; retained for cross-document consistency with Romans/Galatians.
Tongues
Approved rendering: язики (вогняні) / мови (context-sensitive)
Transliteration: yazyky (vohnyani) / movy
Doctrine: The Holy Spirit and Pentecost
Original: γλῶσσα / γλῶσσαι
Category: God
NEW. Acts 2:3-4, 6, 8, 11; 10:46; 19:6. Ukrainian язик, like Greek γλῶσσα, means both ‘tongue’ and ‘language,’ preserving Luke’s wordplay. Must be disambiguated from ecstatic glossolalia debates live in Ukrainian Pentecostal/Charismatic circles; Acts 2’s tongues are explicitly known human languages (see διάλεκτος, v.6, 8), not ecstatic speech; use мова for the known-language clarification verses.
Lie To Test Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: обманути / випробовувати Святого Духа
Transliteration: obmanuty / vyprobovuvaty Svyatoho Dukha
Doctrine: The Holy Spirit and Pentecost
Original: ψεύδομαι / πειράζω τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον
Category: God
NEW. Acts 5:3, 9 (Ananias and Sapphira). Must preserve the personal, divine referent of Дух per the baseline’s caution against secular drift (‘бойовий дух’); the gravity of deceiving God himself must not be softened.
Resist Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: противитися Святому Духові
Transliteration: protyvytysya Svyatomu Dukhovi
Doctrine: Martyrdom and Suffering Witness
Original: ἀντιπίπτω τῷ πνεύματι τῷ ἁγίῳ
Category: God
NEW. Acts 7:51. Stephen’s own historical indictment of his generation’s rejection pattern; must never be weaponized rhetorically against any specific contemporary Ukrainian church body or individual.
Witness
Approved rendering: свідок
Transliteration: svidok
Doctrine: Persecution and Bold Witness
Original: μάρτυς
Category: Mission
NEW. Acts 1:8, 22; 2:32; 3:15; 5:32; 6:13; 7:58; 10:39, 41; 13:31; 22:15, 20; 26:16. Greek’s wordplay between ‘witness’ (μάρτυς) and ‘martyr’ (мученик) is not reproducible in Ukrainian and must be carried by explicit exposition, esp. at Stephen’s death. Wartime ‘свідчення’ (war-crimes documentation) resonance is an asset but must not replace the evangelistic, resurrection-testifying sense.
Martyr
Approved rendering: мученик
Transliteration: muchenyk
Doctrine: Persecution and Bold Witness
Original: μάρτυς (specialized sense)
Category: Persecution
NEW. Acts 7 (Stephen, implied); 22:20. Deep, positive Ukrainian resonance with 20th-century clergy/lay martyrdom under Soviet persecution (including the UGCC’s forced underground existence, 1946-1989) and recent wartime losses; Stephen’s specific narrative must remain the primary referent.
Boldness
Approved rendering: сміливість / відвага
Transliteration: smilyvist’ / vidvaha
Doctrine: Persecution and Bold Witness
Rejected alternatives: голосність (too weak)
Original: παρρησία
Category: Persecution
NEW. Acts 4:13, 29, 31; 9:27-28; 13:46; 14:3; 18:26; 19:8; 26:26; 28:31. Acute contemporary courage-under-threat resonance; must remain anchored to Spirit-given gospel boldness, not generalized patriotic or military courage.
Signs And Wonders
Approved rendering: знамення і чудеса / сили
Transliteration: znamennya i chudesa / syly
Doctrine: Apostolic Authority and Miracles
Original: σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα / δυνάμεις
Category: Apostolic Authority
NEW. Acts 2:19, 22, 43; 4:30; 5:12; 6:8; 8:6, 13; 14:3; 15:12; 19:11; 28:3-9. Must stay anchored as God’s own attesting acts through Christ/the apostles, never generic marvels colliding with post-Soviet folk-occult ‘чудо’ usage (екстрасенси, ворожки).
Name Of Jesus
Approved rendering: ім’я Ісуса [Христа]
Transliteration: imya Isusa [Khrysta]
Doctrine: The Name of Jesus and the Power of the Name
Original: ὄνομα Ἰησοῦ
Category: Apostolic Authority
NEW. Acts 3:6, 16; 4:7, 10, 12, 17-18, 30; 5:28, 40-41; 9:14-16, 27-28; 10:43; 16:18; 19:5, 13, 17; 22:16; 26:9. Guard against a magical-incantation misreading given the post-Soviet folk-occult backdrop (spells, ворожіння); ‘the name’ = personal trust in and appeal to Christ himself, never an independent power-formula, sharpened by the Sons of Sceva’s failed imitation (19:13-16).
Magic Sorcery
Approved rendering: чарівництво / чаклунство
Transliteration: charivnytstvo / chaklunstvo
Doctrine: Apostolic Authority and Miracles
Original: μαγεία / μαγεύω
Category: Apostolic Authority
NEW. Acts 8:9-11, 18-24 (Simon Magus); 13:6, 8 (Bar-Jesus); 19:19. Direct collision with persistent post-Soviet folk-occult culture; Simon Magus’s specific sin (commodifying the Spirit’s power) should be taught as the passage’s real corrective point.
Books Of Magic
Approved rendering: магічні книги
Transliteration: mahichni knyhy
Doctrine: Apostolic Authority and Miracles
Original: μαγικὰ βιβλία
Category: Apostolic Authority
NEW. Acts 19:19. Extends magic_sorcery; the public, costly renunciation and burning is useful for pastoral engagement with lingering post-Soviet occult practice.
God Shows No Partiality
Approved rendering: Бог не звертає уваги на обличчя
Transliteration: Boh ne zvertaye uvahy na oblychchya
Doctrine: The Universal Impartiality of God
Original: οὐ προσωπολήπτης [ὁ θεός]
Category: Mission
NEW. Acts 10:34. Directly parallel to the baseline’s unity_of_jews_and_gentiles doctrine, already High risk given Ukraine’s history of antisemitic violence; must affirm full, unqualified impartiality per the baseline’s universality-claims rule.
Light For Gentiles
Approved rendering: світло для народів
Transliteration: svitlo dlya narodiv
Doctrine: The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles
Original: φῶς ἐθνῶν
Category: Mission
NEW. Acts 13:47; 26:23 (Isaiah 49:6). Must render identically at both occurrences per cross-document consistency; ties to mission_to_nations and unity_of_jews_and_gentiles doctrines.
Household Salvation
Approved rendering: дім/домашні [спасуться]
Transliteration: dim/domashni [spasutsya]
Doctrine: Household Faith and Family Conversion
Original: οἶκος [σωθήσῃ]
Category: Salvation
NEW. Acts 10:2, 24, 44; 16:15, 31, 33-34; 18:8. Intersects the paedobaptist/credobaptist tension already Critical under baptism; present the narrative on its own terms without overclaiming decisive support for either position.
Chosen Instrument
Approved rendering: обраний [Богом] інструмент/посудина
Transliteration: obranyy [Bohom] instrument/posudyna
Doctrine: Election and Divine Calling
Original: σκεῦος ἐκλογῆς
Category: Salvation
NEW. Acts 9:15. Ties directly to обрання; personal, purposive divine choice, never доля/фатум overtaking a persecutor, given intensified wartime fatalism discourse.
Forgiveness Of Sins
Approved rendering: прощення гріхів
Transliteration: proshchennya hrikhiv
Doctrine: Repentance and Baptism
Original: ἄφεσις τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν
Category: Salvation
NEW. Acts 2:38; 5:31; 10:43; 13:38; 26:18. Must not substitute for виправдання’s fuller declarative sense per the baseline’s existing warning; Acts 2:38 itself uses only ἄφεσις vocabulary, not the forensic terms of 13:39.
Breaking Of Bread
Approved rendering: ламання хліба
Transliteration: lamannya khliba
Doctrine: The Church as Community
Original: κλάσις τοῦ ἄρτου
Category: Church
NEW. Acts 2:42, 46; 20:7, 11; 27:35. All three majority traditions hold a developed sacramental Eucharistic theology; must be neither over-sacramentalized nor stripped of all sacred significance at this early narrative point.
Calls Upon Name Of Lord
Approved rendering: покличе ім’я Господнє [буде спасенний]
Transliteration: poklyche imya Hospodnye [bude spasennyy]
Doctrine: The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles
Original: ἐπικαλέσηται τὸ ὄνομα Κυρίου
Category: Salvation
NEW. Acts 2:21 (Joel 2:32 LXX). Must render identically to however Romans 10:13 renders this same Joel citation in this Language Package; cross-document consistency mandatory.
Righteousness Selfcontrol Judgment
Approved rendering: праведність, стриманість, майбутній суд
Transliteration: pravednist’, strymanist’, maybutniy sud
Doctrine: Government and Legal Authority in Acts
Original: δικαιοσύνη, ἐγκράτεια, τὸ κρίμα τὸ μέλλον
Category: Ethics
NEW. Acts 24:25. праведність reused exactly (already-Critical baseline term embedded); the coming judgment must stay eschatologically future and personal, not reduced to vague moralism.
Spirit Of Jesus Guiding
Approved rendering: Дух Ісуса не дозволив
Transliteration: Dukh Isusa ne dozvolyv
Doctrine: Providence and God’s Sovereign Plan
Original: τὸ πνεῦμα Ἰησοῦ οὐκ εἴασεν
Category: God
NEW. Acts 16:6-7. Models Spirit-directed missionary guidance; ties to провидіння Боже.
Medium Risk Terms
Apostle
Approved rendering: апостол
Transliteration: apostol
Doctrine: Apostleship
Rejected alternatives: посланець, проповідник
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Acts’ narrative shows apostleship actively contested and defended (esp. Paul’s story), not only a settled, closed hagiographic category.
Holy
Approved rendering: святий
Transliteration: svyatyy
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: чистий, непорочний
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Used throughout Acts of the Holy Spirit and of believers (‘holy ones’).
Spiritual Gifts
Approved rendering: духовні дари
Transliteration: dukhovni dary
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts
Rejected alternatives: екстрасенсорні здібності (never use), таланти
Original: χαρίσματα (thematic; distinguished from δωρεά)
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Must be kept lexically distinct from the new Acts term дар Святого Духа (see gift_of_holy_spirit below); conflating them blurs a live Ukrainian charismatic-versus-other-traditions debate.
Law
Approved rendering: закон
Transliteration: zakon
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: правило, заповідь (reserve for individual commandments)
Original: νόμος
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Extremely frequent given Acts’ sustained Jewish-Gentile Law controversy (6:13; 7:53; 13:39; 15:5, 24; 18:13, 15; 21:20-28; 22:3, 12; 23:3, 29; 24:14; 25:8; 28:23).
Jews
Approved rendering: юдеї
Transliteration: yudeyi
Doctrine: Justification by Faith
Original: Ἰουδαῖοι
Category: Covenant
Inherited from the Galatians extension of the baseline, unchanged. Constantly paired with ἔθνη throughout Acts’ missionary narrative (2:5; 13:45; 14:1-2; 17:1, 10, 17; 18:4; 19:10; 21:20-21); the юдеї/погани contrast must read as historical ethnic-theological description, never an insult, given Ukraine’s history of antisemitic violence (Babyn Yar).
Glory
Approved rendering: слава
Transliteration: slava
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: шана, велич
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs at 7:2, 55; 12:23; 22:11; keep distinct from слава’s patriotic resonance (‘Слава Україні’).
Power Of God
Approved rendering: сила Божа
Transliteration: syla Bozha
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Rejected alternatives: енергія
Original: δύναμις θεοῦ (thematic, underlying the signs-and-wonders triad)
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Underlies the recurring δυνάμεις of Acts 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 19; never енергія (Palamite technical term).
Covenant
Approved rendering: завіт
Transliteration: zavit
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Rejected alternatives: договір, угода
Original: διαθήκη
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Acts 3:25 and 7:8 cite God’s covenant with Abraham.
Intercession
Approved rendering: клопотання
Transliteration: klopotannya
Doctrine: Prayer and Intercession
Rejected alternatives: заступництво (reserve for saints’/Theotokos intercession contexts)
Original: (thematic; prayer scenes 1:14; 4:24; 12:5, 12; 20:36; 21:5)
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Recurs throughout Acts’ prayer scenes (1:14; 4:24; 12:5, 12; 20:36; 21:5); distinguish from заступництво.
Seed Of David
Approved rendering: з насіння Давидового
Transliteration: z nasinnya Davydovoho
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Rejected alternatives: нащадок Давида (acceptable modern-register gloss)
Original: σπέρμα Δαυίδ
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. The pattern is echoed at Acts 2:30 and 13:23.
Israel
Approved rendering: Ізраїль
Transliteration: Izrayil’
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: Ἰσραήλ
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Subject of restoration hope (1:6), the sermon’s address (2:36), and repeated apostolic appeal; distinguish the biblical covenant people from the modern nation-state where relevant.
Abraham
Approved rendering: Авраам
Transliteration: Avraam
Doctrine: The Abrahamic Covenant and Promise
Original: Ἀβραάμ
Category: Covenant
Inherited from the Galatians extension of the baseline, unchanged. Stephen’s speech (7:2-8) and Paul’s Antioch sermon (13:26) both root the gospel in the Abrahamic covenant.
Father
Approved rendering: Отець
Transliteration: Otets’
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Rejected alternatives: батюшка (reserve exclusively for addressing an Orthodox priest, and is itself a Russicism increasingly avoided)
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Context-sensitive between God-as-Father and ancestral ‘fathers’ (especially Stephen’s speech, ch. 7, and Paul’s defenses, chs. 22, 24, 26).
Restoration
Approved rendering: відновлення [всього]
Transliteration: vidnovlennya [vsyoho]
Doctrine: The Great Commission Fulfilled
Original: ἀποκατάστασις
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Acts 3:21. Keep distinct from contemporary national/territorial ‘restoration’ hopes (of territory, sovereignty); this text’s referent is cosmic-eschatological.
Servant Of God
Approved rendering: Слуга [Божий]
Transliteration: Sluha [Bozhyy]
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: παῖς [θεοῦ]
Category: Christology
NEW. Acts 3:13, 26; 4:27, 30. Echoes Isaiah’s Servant of the LORD, applied to Jesus; requires OT Isaianic background to be supplied.
Great Fear
Approved rendering: [великий] страх
Transliteration: [velykyy] strakh
Doctrine: Apostolic Authority and Miracles
Original: φόβος [μέγας]
Category: God
NEW. Acts 2:43; 5:5, 11; 9:31; 19:17. Must read as reverence before God’s holiness and judgment, not superstitious dread divorced from His character as revealed in the gospel.
Diakonia Service
Approved rendering: служіння
Transliteration: sluzhinnya
Doctrine: Church Leadership and Eldership
Rejected alternatives: диякон (reserve for the later, fully developed ordained office)
Original: διακονία
Category: Church
NEW. Acts 6:1-2, 4; 11:29; 12:25; 20:24; 21:19. Ad hoc, practical service in Acts 6 must be kept distinct from the fully developed ordained диякон office familiar to contemporary Ukrainian readers in all three majority traditions.
Clean Unclean
Approved rendering: нечисте / чисте
Transliteration: nechyste / chyste
Doctrine: The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles
Original: καθαρός / κοινός
Category: Mission
NEW. Acts 10:14-15, 28; 11:8-9. OT ritual-purity categories applied metaphorically to Gentile inclusion; requires explicit background that people-groups, not food, are the real point.
Shepherd
Approved rendering: пастир / пасти
Transliteration: pastyr / pasty
Doctrine: Church Leadership and Eldership
Original: ποιμήν / ποιμαίνω
Category: Church
NEW. Acts 20:28-29. Warm, well-established pastoral image across all traditions; low collision risk, a genuine asset.
The Way
Approved rendering: Шлях
Transliteration: Shlyakh
Doctrine: The Church as Community
Original: ἡ ὁδός
Category: Church
NEW. Acts 9:2; 19:9, 23; 22:4; 24:14, 22. The early church’s own self-designation; clarify it is not an allusion to modern secular Ukrainian movements bearing a similar name.
Sanhedrin
Approved rendering: Синедріон
Transliteration: Synedrion
Doctrine: Persecution and Bold Witness
Original: συνέδριον
Category: Persecution
NEW. Acts 4:15; 5:21, 27, 34, 41; 6:12, 15; 22:30; 23:1, 6, 15, 20, 28; 24:20. Kept lexically and orthographically distinct from Собор (Acts 15) to avoid compounding that term’s Critical-risk collision.
Conversion Turning
Approved rendering: навернення
Transliteration: navernennya
Doctrine: Conversion of Paul
Original: ἐπιστροφή / ἐπιστρέφω
Category: Conversion
NEW. Acts 9 (paradigm narrative); 11:21; 15:3, 19; 26:18, 20. Standard, well-established Ukrainian religious term; distinguish from its occasional secular-metaphorical usage (‘converted’ to a cause).
Turn From Darkness To Light
Approved rendering: навернутися від темряви до світла
Transliteration: navernutysya vid temryavy do svitla
Doctrine: Conversion of Paul
Original: ἐπιστρέψαι ἀπὸ τοῦ σκότους εἰς φῶς
Category: Conversion
NEW. Acts 26:18. Vivid, universally accessible conversion metaphor; low collision risk.
Cut To The Heart
Approved rendering: вражені в серце
Transliteration: vrazheni v sertse
Doctrine: Repentance and Baptism
Original: κατενύγησαν τὴν καρδίαν
Category: Salvation
NEW. Acts 2:37. Care that this reads as Spirit-produced conviction, not mere guilt-feeling or social shame.
Pour Out Spirit
Approved rendering: вилити
Transliteration: vylyty
Doctrine: The Holy Spirit and Pentecost
Original: ἐκχέω
Category: God
NEW. Acts 2:17-18, 33; 10:45. Preserve the full ‘on all flesh’ universality per the baseline’s universality-claims rule.
Had All Things In Common
Approved rendering: усе спільне
Transliteration: use spil’ne
Doctrine: Mutual Care and Economic Sharing
Rejected alternatives: колектив (never use — Soviet forced-collectivization association)
Original: ἅπαντα κοινά
Category: Church
NEW. Acts 2:44-45; 4:32-35. Voluntary, Spirit-motivated generosity, must not echo Soviet-era forced collectivization.
Day Of The Lord
Approved rendering: день Господній
Transliteration: den’ Hospodniy
Doctrine: The Holy Spirit and Pentecost
Original: ἡμέρα Κυρίου
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Acts 2:20. Eschatological, climactic Day; must not flatten into a routine liturgical phrase.
Areopagus Unknown God
Approved rendering: Ареопаг / невідомий бог
Transliteration: Areopah / nevidomyy boh
Doctrine: The Great Commission Fulfilled
Original: Ἄρειος Πάγος / ἄγνωστος θεός
Category: Mission
NEW. Acts 17:19, 22-23. Low native-cultural collision; models respectful cross-cultural apologetic engagement.
Heavenly Vision
Approved rendering: небесне видіння
Transliteration: nebesne vydinnya
Doctrine: Conversion of Paul
Original: οὐρανίῳ ὀπτασίᾳ
Category: Conversion
NEW. Acts 26:19 (cf. 9:3-6; 22:6-10). Distinguish from post-Soviet folk-occult vision/prophecy practices; keep as Christ’s own commissioning vision.
Do Not Be Afraid
Approved rendering: не бійся
Transliteration: ne biysya
Doctrine: Providence and God’s Sovereign Plan
Original: μὴ φοβοῦ
Category: God
NEW. Acts 27:24 (cf. 18:9; 23:11). Carries acute pastoral resonance for wartime danger/displacement readers; must stay anchored to God’s purposes, not a blanket promise of physical safety.
Without Hindrance
Approved rendering: безперешкодно
Transliteration: bezpereshkodno
Doctrine: The Great Commission Fulfilled
Original: ἀκωλύτως
Category: Mission
NEW. Acts 28:31. The book’s deliberately open-ended, hope-affirming closing note; should land with full force for a wartime readership.
Ascension
Approved rendering: вознесіння
Transliteration: voznesinnya
Doctrine: The Great Commission Fulfilled
Original: ἀνελήμφθη
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Acts 1:9-11. Вознесіння is a shared, uncontested major feast across Orthodox, Greek Catholic, and Protestant calendars alike; low collision risk, an asset similar to resurrection’s cultural centrality.
Casting Lots
Approved rendering: жереб
Transliteration: zhereb
Doctrine: Providence and God’s Sovereign Plan
Original: κλῆρος
Category: Church
NEW. Acts 1:26. Must not be read through the lens of Ukrainian folk fortune-telling/chance-divination practices (ворожіння); frame explicitly as prayerful submission to God’s sovereign choice.
End Of The Earth
Approved rendering: аж до краю землі
Transliteration: azh do krayu zemli
Doctrine: The Great Commission Fulfilled
Original: ἕως ἐσχάτου τῆς γῆς
Category: Mission
NEW. Acts 1:8. Be sensitive to the current wartime prominence of chaplaincy and displaced-persons ministry as this era’s own ‘ends of the earth’ frontier.
Low Risk Terms
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: подяка
Transliteration: podyaka
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία (thematic)
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs at Acts 24:3; 27:35; 28:15.
Fellowship
Approved rendering: спілкування
Transliteration: spilkuvannya
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Rejected alternatives: дружба, колектив (avoid Soviet-collective connotation)
Original: κοινωνία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. One of the four marks of the earliest church at Acts 2:42; avoid колектив entirely.
Prophet
Approved rendering: пророк
Transliteration: prorok
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: ворожбит, екстрасенс
Original: προφήτης
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Frequent throughout Acts (2:16, 30; 3:18-25; 7:37, 48, 52; 8:28-34; 10:43; 13:1, 6, 20, 27, 40; 15:32; 21:10; 24:14; 26:22, 27; 28:23).
Prophecy
Approved rendering: пророцтво
Transliteration: prorotstvo
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: ворожіння, гороскоп
Original: προφητεία
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Cited (2:17-18) and enacted (19:6; 21:9) throughout Acts; distinguish from horoscope/fortune-telling.
David
Approved rendering: Давид
Transliteration: Davyd
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: Δαυίδ
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Cited repeatedly in apostolic preaching (2:25, 29, 34; 4:25; 7:45; 13:22, 34, 36; 15:16).
Exhort
Approved rendering: закликати
Transliteration: zaklykaty
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs at 2:40; 11:23; 14:22; 15:32; 16:40; 20:1-2; context-sensitive between entreaty and encouragement.
With One Accord
Approved rendering: однодушно
Transliteration: odnodushno
Doctrine: The Church as Community
Original: ὁμοθυμαδόν
Category: Church
NEW. Acts 1:14; 2:46; 4:24; 5:12. Positive resonance with спілкування; avoid the rejected Soviet колектив association.
Christian
Approved rendering: християнин
Transliteration: khrystyanyn
Doctrine: The Church as Community
Original: Χριστιανός
Category: Church
NEW. Acts 11:26; 26:28. Fully established, shared, uncontested across all Ukrainian traditions and secular usage; originally an outsider label later embraced.
Angel Of The Lord
Approved rendering: ангел Господній
Transliteration: anhel Hospodniy
Doctrine: Providence and God’s Sovereign Plan
Original: ἄγγελος Κυρίου
Category: God
NEW. Acts 5:19; 8:26; 10:3; 12:7, 23; 27:23. Strong positive devotional resonance (Guardian Angel piety significant in Orthodox/Greek Catholic devotion); no collision.
Added To Number
Approved rendering: додалося
Transliteration: dodalosya
Doctrine: The Church as Community
Original: προστίθημι
Category: Church
NEW. Acts 2:41, 47; 5:14; 11:24. Avoid a bureaucratic/institutional-membership register that could evoke Soviet-era organizational reporting idiom; prefer a warmer, communal register.
Appeal To Caesar
Approved rendering: звернутися до Кесаря
Transliteration: zvernutysya do Kesarya
Doctrine: Government and Legal Authority in Acts
Original: ἐπικαλέομαι Καίσαρα
Category: Persecution
NEW. Acts 25:11-12, 21; 26:32; 28:19. Civil-authority/legal-appeal theme; handle with the same care as Romans 13’s government/authority sensitivity given acute wartime sensitivity.
God Of Our Fathers
Approved rendering: Бог наших батьків
Transliteration: Boh nashykh bat’kiv
Doctrine: Conversion of Paul
Original: ὁ θεὸς τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν
Category: Covenant
NEW. Acts 22:14; 24:14; 3:13; 5:30; 7:32. Standard covenant-continuity language.
Innocent Of Blood
Approved rendering: чистий від крові
Transliteration: chystyy vid krovi
Doctrine: The Great Commission Fulfilled
Original: ἀναίτιος τοῦ αἵματος
Category: Ethics
NEW. Acts 18:6; 20:26. Idiom; preserve theological meaning (absolution from responsibility for hearers’ unbelief) over literal phrasing per the baseline’s idiom-handling rule.
Idols
Approved rendering: ідоли
Transliteration: idoly
Doctrine: The Great Commission Fulfilled
Original: εἴδωλα
Category: Mission
NEW. Acts 17:16, 29; 15:20, 29; 21:25. No significant native idol-worship collision in contemporary Ukraine; teach as historical-cultural reality.
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