Core Glossary
Core Glossary: Mark (Koine Greek → Urdu)
Legend: Risk follows the baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json tiers (Critical/High/Medium/Low). Reused = “Yes” indicates the term is already recorded in the baseline Romans/Galatians translation_memory.json and is reused here exactly, unchanged. New indicates a term first assigned an Urdu rendering in this Mark package (pending promotion into translation memory at Phase 2).
A. Christological Titles and Core Identity Terms
| Term (English) | Greek | Transliteration | Urdu Rendering | Risk | Reused | First Occurrence(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gospel | εὐαγγέλιον | euangelion | خوش خبری | High | Yes | 1:1, 1:14-15 | Frames the whole book; distinguish from انجیل-as-corrupted-book framing per baseline. |
| Son of God | υἱὸς θεοῦ | huios theou | خدا کا بیٹا | Critical | Yes | 1:1, 1:11, 3:11, 9:7, 15:39 | Mandatory eternal-not-begotten note at every occurrence. |
| Son of Man | ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου | ho huios tou anthrōpou | ابنِ آدم | Critical | New | 2:10, 2:28, 8:31, 8:38, 9:9, 9:31, 10:33, 10:45, 13:26, 14:21, 14:41, 14:62 | Highest-priority new title risk: defaults in Urdu to a generic “human being” idiom, stripping Daniel 7’s dominion/glory/judgment freight. Mandatory theologian review every occurrence. |
| Messiah / Christ | Χριστός / מָשִׁיחַ | Christos / Mashiach | مسیح | Critical | Yes | 1:1, 8:29, 9:41, 12:35, 13:21-22, 14:61-62, 15:32 | Shared with Qur’anic al-Masih; content (divine Son, atoning death) goes beyond that shared title. |
| Lord | κύριος | kyrios | خداوند | Critical | Yes | 1:3, 2:28, 5:19, 11:3, 12:36-37, 13:35 | Exclusive, supreme Lordship; never softened to آقا. |
| Teacher | διδάσκαλος | didaskalos | استاد | Low-Medium | New | 4:38, 9:5, 9:17, 10:17, 10:35, 10:51, 12:14 | Correct but insufficient title; never the summary Christology. |
| Beloved Son (voice from heaven) | ὁ υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητός | ho huios mou ho agapētos | میرا پیارا بیٹا | Critical | Yes (extends son_of_god, father) | 1:11, 9:7 | Carries mandatory Sonship annotation. |
B. Kingdom, Authority, and Miracle Terms
| Term (English) | Greek | Transliteration | Urdu Rendering | Risk | Reused | First Occurrence(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingdom of God | βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ | basileia tou theou | خدا کی بادشاہی | Medium | Yes | 1:15, 4:11, 4:26, 4:30, 9:1, 10:14-15, 14:25 | Distinguish from a caliphate-style political kingdom. |
| Authority | ἐξουσία | exousia | اختیار | Medium | New | 1:22, 1:27, 2:10, 3:15, 6:7, 11:28-33 | Distinguish from قدرت (capacity/power); names the right to act. |
| Power of God | δύναμις θεοῦ | dynamis theou | خدا کی قدرت | High | Yes | 5:30, 6:2, 6:5, 9:1, 13:26 | Safe shared divine-attribute vocabulary. |
| Demon / unclean spirit | δαιμόνιον / πνεῦμα ἀκάθαρτον | daimonion / pneuma akatharton | بدروح / ناپاک روح | Medium | New | 1:23-27, 1:34, 3:11, 5:1-20, 7:25-30, 9:17-29 | Never جن (jinn) — distinct Islamic cosmological category. |
| Satan | Σατανᾶς / Βεελζεβούλ | Satanas / Beelzeboul | شیطان (transliterate بعل زبوب) | Medium | New | 1:13, 3:22-26, 4:15, 8:33 | Genuine shared referent; safe bridge term. |
| Repentance | μετάνοια / μετανοέω | metanoia / metanoeō | توبہ | High | New | 1:4, 1:15, 6:12 | Shared Islamic tawbah vocabulary; must connect explicitly to faith in Christ and the inaugurated kingdom. |
| Baptism | βάπτισμα / βαπτίζω | baptisma / baptizō | بپتسمہ | Medium | New | 1:4-9, 10:38-39, 16:16 | Distinct from ritual ablution (wudu/ghusl); note metaphorical “baptism of suffering” sense at 10:38-39. |
| Save / heal | σῴζω | sōzō | شفا پانا (healing) / نجات پانا (salvation) | Medium | Adjacent to salvation (Yes) | 3:4, 5:23, 5:28, 5:34, 6:56, 10:52, 13:13 | Same Greek verb spans physical healing and spiritual salvation; flag deliberate overlap. |
| Leprosy / leper | λέπρα / λεπρός | lepra / lepros | کوڑھ / کوڑھی | Low | New | 1:40-42 | No significant collision. |
| Compassion | σπλαγχνίζομαι | splanchnizomai | ترس کھانا | Low | New | 1:41, 6:34, 8:2, 9:22 | Deliberately not رحم, to avoid drift toward the baseline’s grace/رحمت caution. |
C. Sin, Forgiveness, and Judgment Terms
| Term (English) | Greek | Transliteration | Urdu Rendering | Risk | Reused | First Occurrence(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sin | ἁμαρτία | hamartia | گناہ | High | Yes | 1:5, 2:5-10, 3:28-29 | Baseline Adamic-nature caveat applies. |
| Forgive | ἀφίημι | aphiēmi | معاف کرنا | High | New | 2:5-10, 4:12, 11:25 | Jesus’s direct forgiveness-claim implies deity; parallels Lordship/Deity Critical risk. |
| Blasphemy (against the Spirit) | βλασφημία | blasphēmia | روح القدس کی گستاخی | Critical | New | 3:28-29, 14:64, 15:29 | Avoid کفر/توہین as primary rendering given Pakistani blasphemy-law resonance; mandatory theologian review. |
| Gehenna / hell | γέεννα | geenna | دوزخ | High | New | 9:43-48 | Shared eschatological term (cf. baseline resurrection/قیامت pattern); mechanism of deliverance differs sharply — contrast required. |
| Hardness of heart | πώρωσις καρδίας | pōrōsis kardias | دل کی سختی | Low | New | 3:5, 6:52, 8:17, 10:5 | No collision. |
| Stumbling block | σκάνδαλον | skandalon | ٹھوکر | Medium | Adjacent to stumbling_block_of_the_cross (Yes) | 9:42-47 | Generalized ethical use vs. Galatians’ cross-specific use. |
| Defile / unclean (ritual) | κοινός / κοινόω | koinos / koinoō | ناپاک / ناپاک کرنا | Medium-High | New | 7:2, 7:15, 7:18-23 | Parallels but is not commentary on halal/haram; source-of-defilement teaching, not dietary-law critique. |
| Tradition (of men) | παράδοσις | paradosis | انسانوں کی روایت | High | New | 7:3-13 | Never bare روایت — collides with hadith-transmission terminology. |
| Corban | κορβάν | korban | قربان (transliterated) | High | New | 7:11 | Distinct from Qurbani/Eid al-Adha sacrifice; mandatory clarifying note every occurrence. |
| Divorce | ἀπολύω (γυναῖκα) | apolyō (gynaika) | طلاق | High | New | 10:2-12 | Live Muslim-personal-law collision, not a theological-doctrine collision; frame as addressing Mosaic provision and creation order specifically. |
D. The Cross, Ransom, and Atonement Terms (Core Passage Focus)
| Term (English) | Greek | Transliteration | Urdu Rendering | Risk | Reused | First Occurrence(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cross / crucify | σταυρός / σταυρόω | stauros / stauroō | صلیب / مصلوب | Critical | Yes | 8:34, 10:21(v.l.), 15:13-27, 15:32 | Historical event Qur’an 4:157 denies; never allegorize. |
| Take up the cross (discipleship) | ἄρῃ τὸν σταυρὸν αὐτοῦ | arē ton stauron autou | اپنی صلیب اٹھانا | Critical | Extends cross_crucifixion (Yes) | 8:34 | Concrete, costly, public identification — not a metaphor for general hardship. |
| Cup (of suffering) | ποτήριον | potērion | پیالہ | Medium | New | 10:38-39, 14:23, 14:36 | Metonym for appointed suffering/wrath; gloss required. |
| Life / soul (given up) | ψυχή | psychē | جان | Medium | New | 8:35-37, 10:45 | Distinguish جان (life/self) from روح (spirit); “give one’s life” idiom. |
| Ransom | λύτρον | lytron | رہائی کی قیمت | Critical | Extends redemption (Yes) | 10:45 | Deliberately avoids فدیہ per baseline precedent; person’s life as price, not ritual compensation. |
| ”Instead of / in place of many” | ἀντὶ πολλῶν | anti pollōn | بہتوں کے بدلے | Critical | New | 10:45 | بدلے preserves strict substitutionary logic; echoes Isaiah 53. Automatic theologian review. |
| Covenant | διαθήκη | diathēkē | عہد | High | Yes | 14:24 | ”Blood of the covenant” ties directly to 10:45’s ransom language. |
| Body / blood (Eucharistic) | σῶμα / αἷμα | sōma / haima | جسم / خون | Medium | New; polysemy flag vs. flesh (Yes) | 14:22-24 | Distinguish literal body (σῶμα) from doctrinal “flesh” sense (σάρξ, Galatians جسم). |
| Cry of dereliction | Ἐλωϊ Ἐλωϊ λαμὰ σαβαχθάνι | Eloi Eloi lama sabachthani | اِیلی، اِیلی، لَما سَبقتنی / “میرے خدا، میرے خدا، تُو نے مجھے کیوں چھوڑ دیا؟“ | Critical | New | 15:34 | Transliterate + translate; do not resolve the Trinitarian paradox by flattening either pole. |
| King of the Jews | βασιλεὺς τῶν Ἰουδαίων | basileus tōn Ioudaiōn | یہودیوں کا بادشاہ | High | New | 15:2-26 | Mocking-yet-true messianic kingship; preserve irony. |
| Temple veil/curtain | καταπέτασμα | katapetasma | ہیکل کا پردہ (never bare پردہ) | Medium | New | 15:38 | پردہ alone risks purdah/veiling-practice confusion. |
| Resurrection (of Christ) | ἀνάστασις / ἠγέρθη | anastasis / ēgerthē | قیامت (مُردوں میں سے جی اُٹھنا) | Critical | Yes | 12:18-27, 16:6 | Distinguish Christ’s unique accomplished rising from general end-times qiyamat. |
E. Servanthood, Greatness, and Discipleship Terms
| Term (English) | Greek | Transliteration | Urdu Rendering | Risk | Reused | First Occurrence(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Servant / deacon | διάκονος | diakonos | خادم | Low-Medium | New | 9:35, 10:43, 10:45 | Positive service-model; distinct from Khadim-ul-Haramain-style custodial honorific. |
| Slave / bondservant | δοῦλος | doulos | غلام | Medium | Extends slavery (Yes) | 10:44 | Semantic-tension flag: positive voluntary servanthood here vs. negative bondage in Galatians baseline usage. |
| Lord it over (dominate) | κατακυριεύω | katakyrieuō | حکمرانی کرنا / رعایا پر غلبہ پانا | Medium-High | New | 10:42 | Antithetical model to خداوند; do not let vocabulary bleed together. |
| Exercise authority over (domineer) | κατεξουσιάζω | katexousiazō | اختیار کا زور دکھانا | Medium | New | 10:42 | Near-synonym of κατακυριεύω. |
| Great / greatness | μέγας / οἱ μεγάλοι | megas / hoi megaloi | بڑا / بڑے لوگ | Low | New | 9:34, 10:42-43 | Load-bearing for Servanthood-vs-Greatness doctrine; no lexical risk. |
| First | πρῶτος | prōtos | اول / سب سے پہلا | Low | New | 9:35, 10:44 | Names the redefined ambition. |
| Follow (discipleship) | ἀκολουθέω | akoloutheō | پیروی کرنا / پیچھے چلنا | Low-Medium | New | 1:18, 2:14, 8:34, 10:21, 10:28, 10:52 | Central discipleship-summons verb. |
| Deny oneself | ἀπαρνέομαι ἑαυτόν | aparneomai heauton | اپنے آپ کا انکار کرنا | High | Extends cross_crucifixion context | 8:34 | Positive discipleship sense — contrast with Peter’s negative “deny Christ” sense below. |
| Deny (Christ) | ἀπαρνέομαι | aparneomai | انکار کرنا | Medium | New | 14:30-31, 14:66-72 | Same verb root, opposite object/sense from 8:34; flag distinction. |
| Fear (amid discipleship) | φόβος | phobos | خوف | Low | New | 4:41, 5:36, 6:50, 9:32, 16:8 | Central to “Faith and Discipleship amid Fear” doctrine; contrasted repeatedly with πίστις. |
| Watch / stay alert | γρηγορέω / ἀγρυπνέω | grēgoreō / agrypneō | بیدار رہنا / جاگتے رہنا | Low | New | 13:33-37, 14:34-38 | Readiness amid pressure, not anxious fear. |
F. Kingdom-Breaking-In, Parable, and Messianic Secret Terms
| Term (English) | Greek | Transliteration | Urdu Rendering | Risk | Reused | First Occurrence(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parable | παραβολή | parabolē | تمثیل | Low-Medium | Extends allegory_hagar_sarah term (Yes) | 3:23, 4:2-34, 12:1, 13:28 | Established literary-device term. |
| Mystery / secret (of the kingdom) | μυστήριον | mystērion | بھید | Medium-High | New | 4:11 | Must not be assimilated to Sufi kashf or esoteric hidden-knowledge frameworks. |
| Command to silence | διαστέλλομαι / σιωπάω | diastellomai / siōpaō | سختی سے حکم دینا / خاموش رہنا | Medium | New | 1:44, 5:43, 7:36, 8:30, 9:9 | Core mechanism of the Messianic Secret doctrine. |
| Elect / chosen | ἐκλεκτός | eklektos | خدا کے چنے ہوئے لوگ | High | Extends election (Yes) | 13:20, 13:22, 13:27 | Never تقدیر as primary substitute; engage qadar debate respectfully in Providence material, not here. |
| Kingdom at hand | ἤγγικεν ἡ βασιλεία | ēngiken hē basileia | بادشاہی قریب آ گئی ہے | Low | New | 1:15 | Core “Kingdom Breaking In” declaration. |
G. Institutional, Ritual, and Proper-Name Terms
| Term (English) | Greek | Transliteration | Urdu Rendering | Risk | Reused | First Occurrence(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sabbath | σάββατον | sabbaton | سبت کا دن | Medium | New | 1:21, 2:23-28, 3:2-4 | Distinct institution from Friday jumu’ah; teach as specific Sabbath-authority claim. |
| Temple | ἱερόν / ναός | hieron / naos | ہیکل | Low-Medium | New | 11:11, 11:15-17, 13:1-3, 14:58, 15:29 | Never مسجد. |
| Prayer | προσευχή | proseuchē | دعا | Medium | New | 9:29, 11:17, 11:24, 14:32-39 | Bridge term; distinguish “house of prayer” from مسجد framing. |
| High priest | ἀρχιερεύς | archiereus | سردار کاہن | Low | New | 14:53, 14:60-63, 15:1-11 | Institutional term. |
| Scribe | γραμματεύς | grammateus | شریعت کے عالم / فقیہ | Medium | New | 1:22, 2:6, 3:22, 7:1, 12:28-38 | شریعت echo of baseline High-risk law entry; keep as specific first-century Jewish class. |
| Pharisee / Sadducee | Φαρισαῖος / Σαδδουκαῖος | Pharisaios / Saddoukaios | فریسی / صدوقی | Low | New | 2:16, 2:18, 3:6, 12:18 | Established, low-collision group names. |
| Passover | πάσχα | pascha | فسح / عیدِ فسح | Low-Medium | New | 14:1, 14:12-16 | ”Eid” generic (festival), not the Islamic Eid festivals specifically. |
| Caesar | Καῖσαρ | Kaisar | قیصر | Medium | New | 12:14-17 | Government/authority sensitivity, parallel to Romans 13 caution. |
| Hosanna | ὡσαννά | hōsanna | ہوشعنا | Low | New | 11:9-10 | Established transliteration. |
| Cornerstone | κεφαλὴ γωνίας | kephalē gōnias | کونے کا پتھر | Medium | New | 12:10-11 | Rejection-then-vindication motif; ties to Necessity of the Cross doctrine. |
| Angel | ἄγγελος | angelos | فرشتہ | Medium | New | 1:13, 8:38, 12:25, 13:27, 13:32, 16:5 | Shared vocabulary, low friction; no specific-identity claim made in Mark. |
| Gentiles / nations (general sense) | ἔθνη | ethnē | غیر قوموں | Medium | Yes (distinct sense flagged) | 10:33, 10:42, 11:17, 13:8, 13:10 | In 10:42 = “worldly rulers/nations,” not the Jew/Gentile covenant category. |
H. Terms Reused Unchanged from the Romans/Galatians Baseline (for cross-reference)
The following terms recur throughout Mark with no change to their baseline Urdu rendering, risk tier, or notes: gospel (خوش خبری, High), son_of_god (خدا کا بیٹا, Critical), messiah (مسیح, Critical), lord (خداوند, Critical), holy_spirit (روح القدس, Critical), god (خدا, Critical), jesus (یسوع, Critical — always یسوع مسیح), father (باپ, High), abba (ابّا, Medium), faith (ایمان, High), sin (گناہ, High), kingdom_of_god (خدا کی بادشاہی, Medium), apostle (رسول, Medium), prophet (نبی, Low), covenant (عہد, High), resurrection (قیامت, Critical), cross_crucifixion (صلیب/مصلوب, Critical), glory (جلال, High), power_of_god (خدا کی قدرت, High), election (خدا کا انتخاب, High), redemption (چھڑایا/چھٹکارا, High), flesh (جسم, High), gentiles (غیر قوموں, Medium), salvation (نجات, Critical), stumbling_block_of_the_cross (صلیب کی ٹھوکر, High), slavery (غلامی/غلام, Medium). See translation_memory.json for full entries; all notes and forbidden-substitution rules from the baseline apply unchanged in Mark.
Critical Risk Terms
Righteousness
Approved rendering: راستبازی
Transliteration: rāstbāzī
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: نیکی, تقویٰ
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Low direct occurrence in Mark’s own narrative surface; retained for doctrinal consistency across the curriculum family and for any teaching material connecting Mark’s ransom-saying (10:45) to the forensic righteousness Paul later expounds.
Salvation
Approved rendering: نجات
Transliteration: najāt
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: مکتی
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Underlies Mark’s healing/deliverance narratives (see save_heal) and the whole passion narrative. The shared-word risk (نجات operating under two different soteriological mechanisms — mercy-weighed-against-deeds vs. Christ’s substitutionary ransom, Mark 10:45) requires explicit contrastive teaching every time it carries doctrinal weight, exactly as in Romans.
Lord
Approved rendering: خداوند
Transliteration: k͟hudāvand
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: مالک, آقا
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Mark occurrences: 1:3 (Isaiah citation), 2:28 (Sabbath-lordship), 5:19, 11:3, 12:36-37 (Psalm 110 citation), 13:35. Never softened to آقا; must remain strictly quarantined from the negative حکمرانی کرنا (lord-it-over) vocabulary used for worldly rulers in 10:42.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: خدا کا بیٹا
Transliteration: k͟hudā kā beṭā
Doctrine: Jesus as the Suffering Servant and Son of God
Rejected alternatives: ابن اللہ
Original: υἱὸς θεοῦ
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Recurs at Mark’s four structural hinge-points: 1:1 (opening line), 1:11 (baptism), 3:11 and 9:7 (demons’ testimony / Transfiguration), 15:39 (centurion’s confession at the cross). Every occurrence must carry or reference the mandatory eternal-not-begotten annotation, since Qur’an 112:3 and 4:171 deny the underlying claim, not merely a word choice.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: روح القدس
Transliteration: rūḥ al-qudus
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Mark occurrences: 1:8, 1:10, 1:12, 3:29, 12:36, 13:11. Especially urgent at 3:28-29, the blasphemy-against-the-Spirit warning, where the mandatory note affirming the Spirit’s full co-equal divine personhood (distinct from any created angelic being) is doctrinally load-bearing, not merely background.
God
Approved rendering: خدا
Transliteration: k͟hudā
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: اللہ
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Used throughout Mark; خدا, never اللہ, per the established Khuda-tradition choice.
Jesus
Approved rendering: یسوع
Transliteration: yasū’
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: عیسیٰ
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Always combined as یسوع مسیح where both name and title co-occur; never bare عیسیٰ, which signals the Qur’anic prophet-Isa rather than Mark’s full narrative portrait.
Messiah
Approved rendering: مسیح
Transliteration: masīḥ
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Mark 8:29 (Peter’s confession) is the book’s hinge verse; also 1:1, 9:41, 12:35, 13:21-22, 14:61-62, 15:32. The Qur’an’s own al-Masih (3:45) makes the title shared but content-thin; Mark’s content (divine Sonship, atoning death, resurrection) must be taught as exceeding it.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: قیامت
Transliteration: qiyāmat
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Rejected alternatives: پنر جنم
Original: ἀνάστασις
Category: Eschatology
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Mark 12:18-27 (the Sadducees’ question, affirming the general resurrection all humanity awaits — genuinely shared ground with Islamic qiyamat) and 16:1-8 (Christ’s own unique, already-accomplished rising). Every occurrence must distinguish the two; the risk here is conflation, not denial.
Cross Crucifixion
Approved rendering: صلیب / مصلوب
Transliteration: ṣalīb / maṣlūb
Doctrine: The Necessity of the Cross
Original: σταυρός / σταυρόω
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans/Galatians package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Mark 8:34, 15:13-27, 15:32. Chapters 14-15 narrate this as concrete historical event with named participants (Pilate, chief priests, soldiers) — the single most direct, repeated point in this curriculum where Qur’an 4:157’s denial collides with the text; never allegorized, softened, or presented as merely apparent.
Freedom
Approved rendering: آزادی
Transliteration: āzādī
Doctrine: Freedom in Christ
Inherited from Galatians package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Low direct occurrence in Mark’s own text, but retained for cross-curriculum consistency; discipleship-cost material (cross-bearing, following Jesus at real risk) must never be reframed using this politically resonant term in a way readable as freedom FROM Islam as a social-political system.
Son Of Man
Approved rendering: ابنِ آدم
Transliteration: ibn-e-ādam
Doctrine: The Son of Man
Rejected alternatives: ایک انسان (bare, unqualified — collapses the title into generic humanity)
Original: ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου
Category: Christology
NEW for Mark; single highest-priority new Christological-title risk in this package. Mark’s most frequent self-designation for Jesus (~14 occurrences: 2:10, 2:28, 8:31, 8:38, 9:9, 9:31, 10:33, 10:45, 13:26, 14:21, 14:41, 14:62). Ordinary Urdu and Qur’anic idiom read ابنِ آدم as merely ‘a human being/mankind,’ with no inherent dominion, glory, or judgment connotation, silently stripping out the Daniel 7:13-14 apocalyptic-figure freight the title carries throughout Mark. Every occurrence requires an explicit clarifying note or footnote gloss (‘دانی ایل کی کتاب کے مطابق اختیار، جلال اور بادشاہی پانے والی ہستی’ — per the book of Daniel, the figure who receives authority, glory, and kingdom). Mandatory human theologian review at every occurrence.
Ransom
Approved rendering: رہائی کی قیمت
Transliteration: rihā’ī kī qīmat
Doctrine: The Ransom for Many
Rejected alternatives: فدیہ
Original: λύτρον
Category: Salvation
NEW for Mark, 10:45 — the doctrinal center of the assigned core passage. Deliberately avoids فدیہ (fidyah), following the established baseline precedent rejecting it for the closely related concept of redemption, because Islamic fidyah names a repeatable ritual compensatory payment discharging a specific still-owed obligation, a fundamentally different logical structure from Christ’s once-for-all substitutionary self-giving. Every occurrence requires explicit teaching that (1) the price paid is a person’s own life, not money or ritual compensation; (2) it is once-for-all, not repeatable. Mandatory human theologian review.
Instead Of Many
Approved rendering: بہتوں کے بدلے
Transliteration: bahutõ ke badle
Doctrine: The Ransom for Many
Rejected alternatives: بہتوں کے لیے (weaker, benefit-only preposition — rejected as it flattens strict substitution into vague benefit)
Original: ἀντὶ πολλῶν
Category: Salvation
NEW for Mark, 10:45. بدلے (‘in exchange for/instead of’) must be preserved precisely; a weaker preposition would sever the direct link to Isaiah 53:11-12’s Suffering Servant, who bears the sin ‘of many.’ Automatic theologian review alongside the crucifixion/atonement escalation rule, since it presupposes the historical death Qur’an 4:157 denies and states its substitutionary purpose explicitly. The single highest-priority silent-drift risk identified in this entire Language Package.
Blasphemy Against Spirit
Approved rendering: روح القدس کی گستاخی
Transliteration: rūḥ al-qudus kī gustākhī
Doctrine: The Unforgivable Sin: Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit
Rejected alternatives: کفر, توہین
Original: βλασφημία
Category: Salvation
NEW for Mark, 3:28-30 (also 14:64, 15:29). Avoid کفر (the standing Islamic category for unbelief/apostasy) and especially توہین (the specific term used in Pakistan’s blasphemy-law statutes, Section 295 family, carrying severe and sometimes lethal real-world social/legal consequences); either risks collapsing Jesus’s narrow warning about willful, informed attribution of the Spirit’s work to Satan into an unrelated legal-religious category. This is a real-world reader/teacher-safety issue, not only a doctrinal-precision one. Mandatory pastoral framing and human theologian review.
Take Up Cross
Approved rendering: اپنی صلیب اٹھانا
Transliteration: apnī ṣalīb uṭhānā
Doctrine: The Cost of Discipleship: Cross-Bearing
Original: ἄρῃ τὸν σταυρὸν αὐτοῦ
Category: Salvation
NEW for Mark, 8:34. Extends the baseline’s absolute prohibition on softening crucifixion language into its discipleship application; must never be allegorized into a vague metaphor for ‘life’s difficulties’ but must retain the concrete, costly, public-identification force the passage intends — a call to potential martyrdom, taught with pastoral awareness given real social, familial, and in some jurisdictions legal risk in Urdu-speaking contexts.
Cry Of Dereliction
Approved rendering: اِیلی، اِیلی، لَما سَبقتنی (میرے خدا، میرے خدا، تُو نے مجھے کیوں چھوڑ دیا؟)
Transliteration: Eloi Eloi lama sabachthani
Doctrine: Jesus as the Suffering Servant and Son of God
Original: Ἐλωϊ Ἐλωϊ λαμὰ σαβαχθάνι
Category: Salvation
NEW for Mark, 15:34. Presupposes both full deity (the Son’s unique relationship to the Father) and the reality of his suffering and abandonment-experience in bearing sin; must be presented with pastoral care, never softened into mere human despair devoid of divine sonship, and never implying a break in the Trinity’s eternal unity. Transliterate the Aramaic and give the translation immediately following, per Mark’s own transliterate-then-gloss technique. Mandatory human theologian review.
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: خوش خبری
Transliteration: khush khabrī
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: انجیل شریف کی تعلیم
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Mark occurrences: 1:1 (opening word of the book), 1:14-15 (programmatic summary), 16:15 (Great Commission). Frames the whole Gospel as authoritative proclamation, not primarily a claim about a preserved scripture-book — distinguish from انجیل alone and its tahrif (corruption) baggage.
Grace
Approved rendering: فضل
Transliteration: faz̤l
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: رحمت, احسان, کرم
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Not independently thematized in Mark’s narrative surface but retained for cross-curriculum doctrinal consistency; the unmerited-favor sense underlies Mark’s healing and forgiveness narratives even where the word itself does not appear.
Faith
Approved rendering: ایمان
Transliteration: īmān
Doctrine: Faith and Discipleship amid Fear
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Central to Mark’s Faith-and-Discipleship-amid-Fear doctrine: 2:5, 4:40, 5:34, 5:36, 6:6, 9:23-24, 10:52, 11:22-24. Every occurrence must keep the object of faith explicit (trust in Jesus’s own person and word, in concrete danger), since ایمان’s Islamic usage names creedal assent to a six-article list rather than personal trust in a specific mediator amid a storm, an illness, or a demonic affliction.
Glory
Approved rendering: جلال
Transliteration: jalāl
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Mark 8:38, 9:2-8 (Transfiguration), 10:37 (James and John’s throne-request presupposes a genuinely royal, glorious Christ — the error is in the means sought, not the belief itself), 13:26. Always anchor to Christ specifically.
Covenant
Approved rendering: عہد
Transliteration: ahd
Doctrine: Institution of the New Covenant
Rejected alternatives: معاہدہ
Original: διαθήκη
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Mark 14:24, “This is my blood of the covenant, poured out for many” — directly parallels 10:45’s ransom-for-many language and must be taught in continuity with it, not as an isolated liturgical formula.
Law
Approved rendering: شریعت
Transliteration: sharī’at
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: توریت
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Underlies the scribe (γραμματεύς) and Sabbath material throughout Mark (1:22, 2:6, 2:23-28, 3:1-6, 7:1, 12:28-38); render scribe-related occurrences with care so شریعت names the specific first-century Jewish legal-scholar class’s frame of reference, not a general Islamic legal-theological equivalence.
Sin
Approved rendering: گناہ
Transliteration: gunāh
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Mark 1:5, 2:5-10, 3:28-29. The baseline’s Adamic-nature caveat (Islamic theology affirms individual accountability without inherited guilt, per fitrah) continues to apply.
Flesh
Approved rendering: جسم
Transliteration: jism
Doctrine: Flesh versus Spirit
Rejected alternatives: نفس
Original: σάρξ
Category: Sin
Inherited from Galatians package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). In Mark 10:8 (“the two shall become one flesh,” σάρξ) the sense is the ordinary marital-union idiom, NOT the doctrinal self-reliant-sinful-nature sense used in Galatians. A THIRD, unrelated sense also shares this Urdu word: σῶμα (“body,” the literal physical body given at the Last Supper, 14:22-24 — see body_blood). All three senses must be disambiguated by context; none should bleed into another.
Redemption
Approved rendering: چھڑایا / چھٹکارا
Transliteration: chhuṛāyā / chhuṭkārā
Doctrine: The Ransom for Many
Rejected alternatives: فدیہ
Inherited from Galatians package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). The rejection of فدیہ (fidyah) established here for the general redemption concept is the direct precedent extended in Mark’s own new ransom entry (10:45’s λύτρον), which likewise avoids fidyah’s repeatable ritual-compensation logic in favor of a once-for-all substitutionary payment.
Election
Approved rendering: خدا کا انتخاب / خدا کے چنے ہوئے لوگ
Transliteration: k͟hudā kā intik͟hāb / k͟hudā ke chune hu’e log
Doctrine: The Elect and God’s Sovereign Preservation
Rejected alternatives: تقدیر
Original: ἐκλογή / ἐκλεκτός
Category: Kingdom
Inherited from Romans package; extended in Mark with the adjectival form ἐκλεκτός at 13:20, 13:22, 13:27 (God’s sovereign preservation of the elect amid end-times tribulation). Never use تقدیر (taqdir) as a primary substitute, since it names a separate, precisely debated classical Islamic doctrine of divine decree; engage that debate respectfully in supporting material, not by conflation here.
Father
Approved rendering: باپ
Transliteration: bāp
Doctrine: Gethsemane: Submission to the Father’s Will
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Mark 8:38, 11:25-26, 13:32, 14:36, 14:38. At Gethsemane (14:36) directly grounds the Father-Son relational unity carrying the mandatory Sonship annotation.
Holy
Approved rendering: پاک
Transliteration: pāk
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: طاہر
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Underlies روح القدس (holy_spirit) and Mark’s broader purity vocabulary; must be distinguished from the ritual-defilement material of chapter 7 (see defile_unclean), which concerns a different, ritual-purity axis Jesus relativizes.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: خدا کی قدرت
Transliteration: k͟hudā kī qudrat
Doctrine: Jesus’ Authority over Sickness, Sin, and Nature
Original: δύναμις θεοῦ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Mark 5:30, 6:2, 6:5, 9:1, 13:26. Safe, shared divine-attribute vocabulary (Allah as al-Qadir); must be kept distinct from اختیار (authority, the new Mark-specific term for the inherent RIGHT to command), which Mark’s miracle narratives emphasize even more than raw capability.
Providence
Approved rendering: خدا کی تدبیر
Transliteration: k͟hudā kī tadbīr
Doctrine: Providence
Rejected alternatives: تقدیر
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Relevant to Mark 10:40’s ἡτοίμασται (‘the seats have been prepared’) and to the elect-preservation material of 13:20-27; never تقدیر as primary substitute — engage the qadar debate respectfully in supporting material, not by conflation.
Stumbling Block Of The Cross
Approved rendering: صلیب کی ٹھوکر
Transliteration: ṣalīb kī ṭhokar
Doctrine: The Cost of Discipleship: Cross-Bearing
Inherited from Galatians package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). This baseline entry remains reserved for the specifically cross-related sense; Mark generalizes the underlying σκάνδαλον image to a broader ethical usage at 9:42-47 (see the new stumbling_block entry) — the two contexts must be distinguished when both appear in the same curriculum.
Eternal Life
Approved rendering: ابدی زندگی
Transliteration: abadī zindagī
Doctrine: Wealth and Entry into the Kingdom
Inherited from Galatians package. Mark 10:17 (rich man’s question, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”) and 10:30 (“eternal life in the age to come”). Must be taught in continuity with the نجات (salvation) framework secured through Christ’s ransom (10:45), never as a separate reward earned by renunciation or almsgiving.
King Of The Jews
Approved rendering: یہودیوں کا بادشاہ
Transliteration: yahūdiyõ kā bādshāh
Doctrine: The Triumphal Entry and True Kingship
Original: βασιλεὺς τῶν Ἰουδαίων
Category: Christology
NEW for Mark. 15:2, 9, 12, 18, 26, 32. Used mockingly by Pilate, the soldiers, and the cross inscription, yet narratively true — Jesus’s kingship is genuinely enthroned in his crucifixion. Directly ties messianic kingship to the historical crucifixion Qur’an 4:157 denies, compounding rather than diluting that Critical risk. The mocking-yet-true irony must be preserved, never flattened.
Transfiguration
Approved rendering: صورت بدل جانا / جلالی شکل میں ظاہر ہونا
Transliteration: sūrat badal jānā / jalālī shakl mẽ z̤āhir honā
Doctrine: The Transfiguration: Glory Revealed and Veiled
Original: μεταμορφόω
Category: Christology
NEW for Mark, 9:2-8. Directly tied to the Critical glory/son_of_god/incarnation baseline entries; must be taught as a genuine but partial and temporary unveiling of an already-present divine reality (not an acquisition of something new), continuing the Messianic Secret’s pattern of disclosure followed by re-concealment (9:9).
Repentance
Approved rendering: توبہ
Transliteration: tawbah
Doctrine: Repentance and Entry into the Kingdom
Original: μετάνοια / μετανοέω
Category: Salvation
NEW for Mark, 1:4, 1:15, 6:12. توبہ is the standard Islamic theological term for turning back to Allah, operating within a mercy-weighed-against-deeds framework without substitutionary atonement. Every occurrence must connect repentance explicitly to faith in Christ’s person and the in-breaking kingdom (‘توبہ کرو اور خوش خبری پر ایمان لاؤ,’ 1:15), not left as a freestanding moral-turning concept assumed identical to Islamic tawbah.
Forgive Sins
Approved rendering: معاف کرنا
Transliteration: mu’āf karnā
Doctrine: Jesus’ Authority to Forgive Sins
Original: ἀφίημι
Category: Salvation
NEW for Mark, 2:5-10, 4:12, 11:25. معاف کرنا is appropriate for the ordinary act of forgiving, but the specific claim that Jesus personally and directly forgives sins (not merely mediating a plea to God, as a prophet would) is an implicit deity-claim — the scribes’ own in-text blasphemy charge (2:7) shows this was recognized immediately. Parallels the Lordship/Deity-of-Christ Critical risk.
Gehenna Hell
Approved rendering: دوزخ
Transliteration: dozak͟h
Doctrine: The Ransom for Many
Original: γέεννα
Category: Salvation
NEW for Mark, 9:43-48. دوزخ is the established Urdu Christian term and also the standard Islamic term for hell (جہنم/دوزخ) — structurally parallel to the resurrection/قیامت pattern: both traditions affirm a final hell (not a denial risk), but the mechanism of deliverance from it (deeds-weighed-at-judgment vs. Christ’s atoning ransom, 10:45) differs sharply and must be made explicit whenever load-bearing.
Defile Unclean
Approved rendering: ناپاک / ناپاک کرنا
Transliteration: nāpāk / nāpāk karnā
Doctrine: Defilement From the Heart, Not Ritual
Original: κοινός / κοινόω
Category: Sin
NEW for Mark, 7:2, 7:15, 7:18-23. Jesus’s relocation of defilement’s source from external/dietary categories to the heart runs structurally parallel to, though is not a direct commentary on, Islamic halal/haram dietary law; must be handled pastorally as a specific teaching about the source of defilement, never framed as a general dismissal of any dietary-law system.
Tradition Of Men
Approved rendering: انسانوں کی روایت
Transliteration: insānõ kī riwāyat
Doctrine: Tradition of Men versus the Command of God
Rejected alternatives: روایت (bare, unqualified)
Original: παράδοσις
Category: Sin
NEW for Mark, 7:3-13. روایت (riwāyat) is the specific technical term for the chains of transmitted reports (hadith) in Islamic religious scholarship. An unqualified critique of ‘tradition’ risks being heard as a direct critique of hadith transmission as a category; the qualifying phrase ‘human tradition/tradition of the elders’ must always be present. Native-speaker and theologian review required at every occurrence.
Corban
Approved rendering: قربان
Transliteration: qurbān
Doctrine: Corban and the Evasion of Religious Duty
Original: κορβάν
Category: Sin
NEW for Mark, 7:11. قربان shares its root with قربانی (qurbani), the living term for the Islamic sacrificial offering at Eid al-Adha, an act of major devotional significance for Urdu-speaking Muslim readers. Mark’s Corban is an entirely different thing — a legalistic vow-formula for evading filial duty, which Jesus condemns, not a sacrificial offering at all. Mandatory clarifying note every occurrence to prevent confusion with Qurbani.
Deny Self
Approved rendering: اپنے آپ کا انکار کرنا
Transliteration: apne āp kā inkār karnā
Doctrine: The Cost of Discipleship: Cross-Bearing
Original: ἀπαρνέομαι ἑαυτόν
Category: Sin
NEW for Mark, 8:34. The positive discipleship posture of renouncing self-will to follow Christ. Note the deliberate wordplay: the same Greek verb root (ἀπαρνέομαι) is used at 14:30-72 with the OPPOSITE sense and object (Peter denying Christ) — the two must not be confused; the contrast (self-denial vs. Christ-denial) is itself doctrinally significant and should be flagged, not smoothed.
Mystery Secret
Approved rendering: بھید
Transliteration: bhed
Doctrine: The Messianic Secret
Original: μυστήριον
Category: Kingdom
NEW for Mark, 4:11 (‘the secret of the kingdom of God’). Must not be assimilated to Sufi kashf (mystical unveiling attained through spiritual discipline/effort) or an esoteric ‘ilm al-bātin hidden-knowledge framework; the disclosure here is sovereignly given by God to whom he chooses (خدا کی طرف سے دیا گیا بھید), never attained through mystical practice.
Lord It Over
Approved rendering: حکمرانی کرنا / رعایا پر غلبہ پانا
Transliteration: ḥukmrānī karnā / ra’āyā par g͟halba pānā
Doctrine: Servanthood versus Worldly Greatness
Original: κατακυριεύω
Category: Church
NEW for Mark, 10:42. Must be clearly and strictly quarantined from خداوند (Christ’s own exclusive, benevolent Lordship, Critical baseline term) — the same conceptual field of rule/authority, but antithetical models; the pattern of Gentile/worldly rulers explicitly rejected by Jesus as the model for his disciples.
Divorce
Approved rendering: طلاق
Transliteration: ṭalāq
Doctrine: Marriage and Divorce
Original: ἀπολύω (γυναῖκα)
Category: Covenant
NEW for Mark, 10:2-12. طلاق is the specific, actively-used term within Islamic personal law, a body of jurisprudence with its own extensive and, in recent years, publicly contested provisions (e.g. triple-talaq reform debates in South Asia); a live legal/social-framework collision, not primarily a theological-doctrine collision. Must be taught as Jesus addressing the Mosaic-Torah concession and creation-order ideal specifically, never as commentary on Islamic personal law. Native speaker and theologian review required.
Medium Risk Terms
Gentiles
Approved rendering: غیر قوموں
Transliteration: g͟hair qaumõ
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Rejected alternatives: کافر
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). CONTEXT FLAG: at Mark 10:42 the phrase (τῶν ἐθνῶν) functions as ‘the nations/worldly rulers of the earth,’ a distinct sense from the Romans Jew/Gentile covenant-theology usage; also occurs at 7:24-30 (Syrophoenician woman), 11:17, 13:8, 13:10. Never render as کافر in either sense.
Church
Approved rendering: کلیسیا
Transliteration: kalīsiyā
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: مسجد, امت
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Mark itself never uses ἐκκλησία; retained in translation memory for consistency with any study-material cross-references to the church’s founding after the resurrection/commission (16:15-18).
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: خدا کی بادشاہی
Transliteration: k͟hudā kī bādshāhī
Doctrine: The Kingdom of God Breaking In
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Central to Mark: 1:15, 4:11, 4:26-32, 9:1, 10:14-15, 10:23-25, 14:25. Distinguish from a caliphate/khilafat-style political-territorial kingdom concept carrying specific historical weight in South Asian Muslim political discourse; Mark’s parables portray a hidden, small, but unstoppably growing present reality.
Apostle
Approved rendering: رسول
Transliteration: rasūl
Doctrine: Apostleship
Rejected alternatives: نبی
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Mark 3:14 (appointment of the Twelve), 6:30. Continue the baseline’s caution against reading رسول through the Quranic scripture-bearing-messenger/seal-of-the-prophets paradigm rather than as one commissioned directly by the risen Christ.
Abba
Approved rendering: ابّا
Transliteration: abbā
Doctrine: Gethsemane: Submission to the Father’s Will
Original: Ἀββά
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Mark 14:36 is the SOURCE narrative of the later Romans 8:15 believer’s usage — Jesus’s own filial cry in Gethsemane, extended to believers. Teach the connection explicitly in Phase 2 teaching material.
Peace
Approved rendering: صلح
Transliteration: ṣulḥ
Doctrine: Peace with God
Rejected alternatives: سلامتی
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Minimal direct occurrence in Mark’s own text; the relational-reconciliation sense is implicit in the healing/salvation overlap at 5:34 (‘go in peace’).
Slavery
Approved rendering: غلامی / غلام
Transliteration: g͟hulāmī / g͟hulām
Doctrine: Servanthood versus Worldly Greatness
Inherited from Galatians package. Mark 10:44 (δοῦλος) deliberately repurposes غلام POSITIVELY — freely chosen, costly self-giving service Christ commends and exemplifies — the OPPOSITE valence from the Galatians baseline’s negative sense (bondage under sin/law). Both are intentional, non-contradictory biblical uses of one bondage-image; context, not a different word, must carry the distinction. Mandatory translator’s note at Mark 10:44.
Mission
Approved rendering: بشارت کی خدمت
Transliteration: bishārat kī k͟hidmat
Doctrine: The Great Commission: Proclaiming the Gospel to All Creation
Rejected alternatives: دعوت, تبلیغ
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Mark 6:7 (sending of the Twelve) and 16:15 (Great Commission, within the disputed longer ending). Never دعوت/تبلیغ, per the forbidden-substitution rule.
Hypocrisy
Approved rendering: ریاکاری
Transliteration: riyākārī
Doctrine: Tradition of Men versus the Command of God
Inherited from Galatians package. Mark 7:6, Jesus quotes Isaiah applying ὑποκριτής to the Pharisees whose tradition (see tradition_of_men) substitutes for genuine heart-obedience — same underlying critique as the Galatians baseline’s Peter-at-Antioch usage, now applied to inherited religious custom rather than table-fellowship inconsistency.
Teacher
Approved rendering: استاد
Transliteration: ustād
Doctrine: Jesus as the Suffering Servant and Son of God
Original: διδάσκαλος
Category: Christology
NEW for Mark. 4:38, 9:5, 9:17, 10:17, 10:35, 10:51, 12:14. استاد is also the honorific used for Sufi spiritual masters and general religious scholars — a true but radically insufficient title, precisely the limited category James and John’s request (10:35) presupposes and that the passage corrects. Must never be presented as the book’s summary Christology.
Save Heal
Approved rendering: شفا پانا / نجات پانا
Transliteration: shifā pānā / najāt pānā
Doctrine: Jesus’ Authority over Sickness, Sin, and Nature
Original: σῴζω
Category: Salvation
NEW for Mark. 3:4, 5:23, 5:28, 5:34, 6:56, 10:52, 13:13. The same Greek verb (σῴζω) deliberately spans physical healing and spiritual salvation. Render شفا پانا for the physical sense and نجات پانا for the spiritual sense, but flag in a translator’s note that Mark exploits the overlap intentionally to display the kingdom’s holistic in-breaking power, not as lexical happenstance.
Body Blood
Approved rendering: جسم / خون
Transliteration: jism / k͟hūn
Doctrine: Institution of the New Covenant
Original: σῶμα / αἷμα
Category: Salvation
NEW for Mark, 14:22-24. جسم here names Christ’s literal, physical body (σῶμα) — a positive, concrete referent — and must be disambiguated by context from the baseline’s High-risk جسم rendering of σάρξ (‘flesh,’ the self-reliant sinful-nature sense) and from Mark 10:8’s ordinary marital-union sense of the same word. A footnote at first Eucharistic occurrence distinguishing these senses is recommended.
Stumbling Block
Approved rendering: ٹھوکر
Transliteration: ṭhokar
Doctrine: Servanthood versus Worldly Greatness
Original: σκάνδαλον
Category: Sin
NEW for Mark, 9:42-47, generalizing the baseline’s cross-specific stumbling_block_of_the_cross (صلیب کی ٹھوکر, Galatians 5:11) to a broader ethical usage: causing ‘little ones’ to fall into sin. Distinguish the two contexts when both appear in the same curriculum — this entry is never cross-specific.
Deny Christ
Approved rendering: انکار کرنا
Transliteration: inkār karnā
Doctrine: Peter’s Denial
Original: ἀπαρνέομαι
Category: Sin
NEW for Mark, 14:30-31, 14:66-72. Peter’s fearful denial of knowing Jesus; same verb root as deny_self (8:34) but opposite object and sense. Apply the same pastoral sensitivity given to public identification with Christ under real social pressure that governs the cost-of-discipleship doctrine.
Angel
Approved rendering: فرشتہ
Transliteration: farishtah
Doctrine: The Resurrection of Christ
Original: ἄγγελος
Category: God
NEW for Mark, 1:13, 8:38, 12:25, 13:27, 13:32, 16:5. فرشتہ is genuinely shared, low-friction vocabulary; no specific angelic-identity claim is made at any Mark occurrence, so this term carries minimal doctrinal collision on its own.
Satan
Approved rendering: شیطان
Transliteration: shaitān
Doctrine: Jesus’ Authority over Sickness, Sin, and Nature
Original: Σατανᾶς / Βεελζεβούλ
Category: God
NEW for Mark, 1:13, 3:22-26, 4:15, 8:33. شیطان is genuine shared vocabulary (recognized in Islamic theology as Iblis/Shaitan) and functions as a safe bridge term for a personal evil adversary; traditions differ on narrative details of his final judgment, a difference not requiring resolution in the base text. Transliterate Beelzeboul (3:22) as بعل زبوب with a brief gloss (‘شیطان کا ایک پرانا لقب’).
Demon Unclean Spirit
Approved rendering: بدروح / ناپاک روح
Transliteration: bad-rūh / nāpāk rūh
Doctrine: Jesus’ Authority over Sickness, Sin, and Nature
Rejected alternatives: جن (jinn)
Original: δαιμόνιον / πνεῦμα ἀκάθαρτον
Category: God
NEW for Mark, 1:23-27, 1:34, 3:11, 5:1-20, 7:25-30, 9:17-29. Must never be rendered جن (jinn) — a distinct Islamic cosmological category of created beings with independent moral agency (some jinn considered Muslim in Islamic tradition); بدروح/ناپاک روح keeps demons as personal evil spirits wholly under Satan’s dominion, a different category entirely.
Authority
Approved rendering: اختیار
Transliteration: ik͟htiyār
Doctrine: Jesus’ Authority over Sickness, Sin, and Nature
Original: ἐξουσία
Category: Kingdom
NEW for Mark, 1:22, 1:27, 2:10, 3:15, 6:7, 11:28-33. Distinguish from خدا کی قدرت (power_of_god, capacity/ability) — اختیار names the inherent RIGHT to act, which the crowds recognize as unprecedented and undelegated (1:22), unlike any scribe’s derivative teaching authority. Enforce this pair distinction consistently across all authority-claims material.
Parable
Approved rendering: تمثیل
Transliteration: tamsīl
Doctrine: The Messianic Secret
Original: παραβολή
Category: Kingdom
NEW for Mark, 3:23, 4:2-34, 12:1, 13:28. Extends the Galatians baseline’s تمثیل term (used there for allegory) to the general sense of ‘parable’; established, low-collision literary term that both reveals and conceals kingdom-truth depending on the hearer’s receptivity (4:11-12).
Sabbath
Approved rendering: سبت کا دن
Transliteration: sabt kā din
Doctrine: Sabbath Authority
Original: σάββατον
Category: Kingdom
NEW for Mark, 1:21, 2:23-28, 3:1-6. No direct Islamic-legal collision (Friday jumu’ah is a distinct institution), but teach as a specific claim about the Sabbath’s own inherited legal-covenantal weight, not a general claim that all religious law is now irrelevant.
Exercise Authority Over
Approved rendering: اختیار کا زور دکھانا
Transliteration: ik͟htiyār kā zor dikhānā
Doctrine: Servanthood versus Worldly Greatness
Original: κατεξουσιάζω
Category: Church
NEW for Mark, 10:42. Near-synonym of lord_it_over (κατεξουσιάζω), reinforcing the negative model of forceful, positional-authority domination.
Follow Discipleship
Approved rendering: پیروی کرنا / پیچھے چلنا
Transliteration: pairavī karnā / pīchhe chalnā
Doctrine: Faith and Discipleship amid Fear
Original: ἀκολουθέω
Category: Church
NEW for Mark, 1:18, 2:14, 8:34, 10:21, 10:28, 10:52. Central discipleship-summons verb; following Jesus specifically, at real cost (cf. 10:28-30’s promise of persecution alongside blessing).
Life Soul
Approved rendering: جان
Transliteration: jān
Doctrine: The Ransom for Many
Original: ψυχή
Category: Church
NEW for Mark, 8:35-37, 10:45. جان distinguishes ‘life/self’ from روح (spirit, the baseline’s holy_spirit component and immaterial-soul sense) so that ‘giving his life’ is not confused with a claim about the spirit departing, but about Christ’s whole embodied life being surrendered in death.
Cup Of Suffering
Approved rendering: پیالہ
Transliteration: piyālah
Doctrine: The Necessity of the Cross
Original: ποτήριον
Category: Church
NEW for Mark, 10:38-39, 14:23, 14:36. A safe, ordinary word (drinking cup); the risk is ensuring the OT suffering/wrath-bearing metonymy is taught explicitly (footnote to Gethsemane, 14:36), since the bare word reads as literal drinkware without that connection.
Baptism
Approved rendering: بپتسمہ
Transliteration: baptismah
Doctrine: Repentance and Entry into the Kingdom
Original: βάπτισμα
Category: Church
NEW for Mark, 1:4-9, 10:38-39, 16:16. Distinct from Islamic ritual ablution (wudu/ghusl) — no confusion there — but the metaphorical extension to ‘baptism of suffering’ (10:38-39) is non-obvious and needs a translator’s note. Also distinguish John’s water-baptism from Spirit-baptism (1:8).
Temple
Approved rendering: ہیکل
Transliteration: haikal
Doctrine: The Temple and Its Judgment
Rejected alternatives: مسجد
Original: ἱερόν / ναός
Category: Covenant
NEW for Mark, 11:11, 11:15-17, 13:1-3, 14:58, 15:29. Must never be rendered مسجد (mosque), per the baseline’s church entry precedent; ہیکل names a specific, historical, now-destroyed building, not a live institution with a modern Muslim parallel.
Temple Veil
Approved rendering: ہیکل کا پردہ
Transliteration: haikal kā pardah
Doctrine: The Temple and Its Judgment
Rejected alternatives: پردہ (bare, rejected)
Original: καταπέτασμα
Category: Covenant
NEW for Mark, 15:38. Never render as bare پردہ, which carries strong cultural resonance with purdah, the practice of female veiling/seclusion in South Asian Muslim and broader South Asian culture; the qualifying phrase ‘temple(‘s) curtain’ must always accompany the word.
Prayer
Approved rendering: دعا
Transliteration: du’ā
Doctrine: Gethsemane: Submission to the Father’s Will
Original: προσευχή
Category: Covenant
NEW for Mark, 9:29, 11:17, 11:24, 14:32-39. دعا is shared vocabulary with the Islamic category of informal, personal supplication (distinct from the ritually-fixed namaz/salat) — a reasonably safe bridge term, but ‘house of prayer’ (11:17) should not be rendered suggesting equivalence to مسجد.
Cornerstone
Approved rendering: کونے کا پتھر
Transliteration: kone kā patthar
Doctrine: The Necessity of the Cross
Original: κεφαλὴ γωνίας
Category: Covenant
NEW for Mark, 12:10-11, quoting Psalm 118:22. Ties directly to the Necessity-of-the-Cross doctrine’s rejection-then-vindication motif; cross-reference with the resurrection material (ch. 16) so the connective arc is taught, not merely the isolated image.
Caesar
Approved rendering: قیصر
Transliteration: qaiṣar
Doctrine: Faith and Discipleship amid Fear
Original: Καῖσαρ
Category: Covenant
NEW for Mark, 12:14-17. Not a doctrinal-collision risk per se, but connects to the government/authority sensitivity flagged in the baseline for Romans 13:1-7; native speaker review recommended given the real political weight faith-versus-state loyalty questions can carry in some Urdu-speaking contexts.
Scribe
Approved rendering: شریعت کے عالم / فقیہ
Transliteration: sharī’at ke ālim / faqīh
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Original: γραμματεύς
Category: Covenant
NEW for Mark, 1:22, 2:6, 3:22, 7:1, 12:28-38. شریعت echoes the baseline’s High-risk law entry, a term also central to Islamic legal-theological vocabulary; render with care so the term names a specific first-century Jewish legal-scholar class, not a general ‘alim/mufti equivalence.
Tribulation
Approved rendering: مصیبت / آزمائش
Transliteration: muṣībat / āzmā’ish
Doctrine: Eschatological Watchfulness and the Coming of the Son of Man
Original: θλῖψις
Category: Eschatology
NEW for Mark, 13:19, 13:24. End-times affliction and distress; ties to the Faith-and-Discipleship-amid-Fear doctrine.
False Prophet False Messiah
Approved rendering: جھوٹا نبی / جھوٹا مسیح
Transliteration: jhūṭā nabī / jhūṭā masīḥ
Doctrine: Eschatological Watchfulness and the Coming of the Son of Man
Original: ψευδοπροφήτης / ψευδόχριστος
Category: Eschatology
NEW for Mark, 13:6, 13:21-22. Must not be read, or misused, as a coded reference to any specific historical or contemporary religious leader outside the text’s own first-century apocalyptic horizon.
Low Risk Terms
Prophet
Approved rendering: نبی
Transliteration: nabī
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Original: προφήτης
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Mark 6:4, 6:15, 8:28. Continue awareness of Islamic prophetology’s ‘seal of the prophets’ framework without needing to engage it directly here.
Exhort
Approved rendering: نصیحت کرنا
Transliteration: naṣīḥat karnā
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Inherited from Romans package (exact term, risk, and rationale unchanged). Minimal direct occurrence in Mark’s own text; retained for cross-curriculum consistency.
Hardness Of Heart
Approved rendering: دل کی سختی
Transliteration: dil kī sak͟htī
Doctrine: Jesus’ Authority over Sickness, Sin, and Nature
Original: πώρωσις καρδίας
Category: Sin
NEW for Mark, 3:5, 6:52, 8:17, 10:5. Standard, low-collision vocabulary for moral-spiritual insensibility to God’s clearly displayed authority.
Leprosy
Approved rendering: کوڑھ / کوڑھی
Transliteration: koṛh / koṛhī
Doctrine: Jesus’ Authority over Sickness, Sin, and Nature
Original: λέπρα / λεπρός
Category: Kingdom
NEW for Mark, 1:40-42. No significant collision; healing displays kingdom-authority over sickness and restores the ritually-excluded to community.
Compassion
Approved rendering: ترس کھانا
Transliteration: taras khānā
Doctrine: The Kingdom of God Breaking In
Rejected alternatives: رحم
Original: σπλαγχνίζομαι
Category: Kingdom
NEW for Mark, 1:41, 6:34, 8:2, 9:22. Deliberately not رحم, to avoid drift toward the baseline’s caution against رحمت as a primary grace-rendering; ترس keeps this in the register of Jesus’s visible, personal, gut-level compassion for crowds and sufferers.
Proclaim
Approved rendering: منادی کرنا / اعلان کرنا
Transliteration: munādī karnā / e’lān karnā
Doctrine: The Great Commission: Proclaiming the Gospel to All Creation
Rejected alternatives: دعوت, تبلیغ
Original: κηρύσσω
Category: Kingdom
NEW for Mark, 1:4, 1:14, 1:38-39, 16:15. Standard proclamation vocabulary tied to the gospel doctrine; never substitute دعوت/تبلیغ, per the forbidden-substitution rule for mission language.
Servant Deacon
Approved rendering: خادم
Transliteration: k͟hādim
Doctrine: Servanthood versus Worldly Greatness
Original: διάκονος
Category: Church
NEW for Mark, 9:35, 10:43, 10:45. خادم is a positive, dignified Urdu word, also present in the honorific ‘Khadim-ul-Haramain’; unlike that elevated custodial title, Mark’s خادم denotes voluntary, lowly, others-focused service as the very definition of true greatness — a genuine reversal of honor-shame expectations, not a collision risk.
Fear
Approved rendering: خوف
Transliteration: k͟hauf
Doctrine: Faith and Discipleship amid Fear
Original: φόβος
Category: Church
NEW for Mark, 4:41, 5:36, 6:50, 9:32, 16:8. Central to the Faith-and-Discipleship-amid-Fear doctrine; repeatedly contrasted with ایمان (faith) at moments of real, concrete danger.
Watch Stay Alert
Approved rendering: بیدار رہنا / جاگتے رہنا
Transliteration: bedār rahnā / jāgte rahnā
Doctrine: Eschatological Watchfulness and the Coming of the Son of Man
Original: γρηγορέω / ἀγρυπνέω
Category: Church
NEW for Mark, 13:33-37, 14:34-38. The discourse’s climactic repeated command; readiness amid uncertainty and pressure, not anxious fear.
Love Command
Approved rendering: محبت
Transliteration: muḥabbat
Doctrine: The Greatest Commandment: Love of God and Neighbor
Original: ἀγαπάω / ἀγάπη
Category: Faith
NEW for Mark, 12:30-31. Broadly shared, safe vocabulary (Islamic tradition also has mahabbah); preserve the totalizing scope (‘with all your heart, soul, mind, strength’) intact, not reduced to a generic ethical platitude.
Neighbor
Approved rendering: پڑوسی
Transliteration: paṛosī
Doctrine: The Greatest Commandment: Love of God and Neighbor
Original: πλησίον
Category: Faith
NEW for Mark, 12:31, 12:33. Second object of the greatest commandment.
Pharisee Sadducee
Approved rendering: فریسی / صدوقی
Transliteration: farīsī / ṣadūqī
Doctrine: The Resurrection Debate and the Hope of Resurrection
Original: Φαρισαῖος / Σαδδουκαῖος
Category: Covenant
NEW for Mark, 2:16, 2:18, 3:6, 12:18. Established, low-collision proper-name-adjacent first-century group terms.
Passover
Approved rendering: فسح / عیدِ فسح
Transliteration: fasḥ / ‘īd-e-fasḥ
Doctrine: Institution of the New Covenant
Original: πάσχα
Category: Covenant
NEW for Mark, 14:1, 14:12-16. ‘عید’ here functions generically as ‘festival,’ per established Urdu Bible usage, not a reference to the Islamic Eid festivals specifically; a brief clarifying note at first occurrence prevents conflation with Eid al-Fitr/Eid al-Adha.
High Priest
Approved rendering: سردار کاہن
Transliteration: sardār kāhin
Doctrine: The Trial and Crucifixion of Christ
Original: ἀρχιερεύς
Category: Covenant
NEW for Mark, 14:53, 14:60-63, 15:1-11. Established institutional term, low collision.
False Testimony
Approved rendering: جھوٹی گواہی
Transliteration: jhūṭī gawāhī
Doctrine: The Trial and Crucifixion of Christ
Original: ψευδομαρτυρία
Category: Sin
NEW for Mark, 14:56-59. The fabricated accusations brought against Jesus at trial.
Hosanna
Approved rendering: ہوشعنا
Transliteration: hoshanā
Doctrine: The Triumphal Entry and True Kingship
Original: ὡσαννά
Category: Christology
NEW for Mark, 11:9-10. Established transliteration of a Hebrew messianic-royal acclamation citing Psalm 118, low collision.
Send Mission
Approved rendering: بھیجنا
Transliteration: bhejnā
Doctrine: The Great Commission: Proclaiming the Gospel to All Creation
Rejected alternatives: دعوت, تبلیغ
Original: ἀποστέλλω
Category: Church
NEW for Mark, 6:7, cognate root of رسول (apostle). Ties to the baseline’s mission entry (بشارت کی خدمت); never render the Twelve’s sending with دعوت/تبلیغ per the forbidden-substitution rule.
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