Sindhi · سنڌي
Father's Heart Bible™ key-term glossary — anchored to the historic Sindhi Scriptures · Script: Perso-Arabic (Sindhi alphabet)
For the reviewer
These are the proposed renderings of FHB's key terms. The heart of the review: wherever English says our Father, the rendering must feel like a beloved child addressing their own father — warm, reverent, natural to your language's Bible — and never the distant generic word for "God." Mark anything that reads wrong, stiff, or irreverent. Tip: your browser's translate feature can back-translate this page as a second witness. Approvals or corrections go to Kevin White.
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Reverent literary contemporary Sindhi in the tradition of the Pakistan Bible Society Sindhi Bible (سنڌي پاڪ ڪتاب) that Sindhi Christians already read and pray in — dignified and gently Arabo-Persianized where the church's ear expects it, yet warm and rooted in native Sindhi kinship words (پيءُ, پُٽ) rather than generic or Islamic-formal substitutes; intelligible to ordinary believers across Sindh.
Quotation marks
Double quotation marks "…" read right-to-left; reported and direct speech is commonly introduced with the complementizer ته (ta, 'that'), and the vocative particle اي (ai, 'O') marks address (e.g. اي اسان جا پيءُ).
Poetry lines
Hebrew poetic parallelism (Psalms, Proverbs, prophetic oracles) set as discrete right-aligned verse lines, one clause per line, matched couplets kept adjacent with the second line indented; no forced rhyme or ghazal metre imposed — the parallel sense carries the line.
| # | English term | Proposed rendering | Literal back-translation | Why |
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| 1 | our Heavenly Father | اسان جو آسماني پيءُ | our heavenly Father | Filial divine name; پيءُ ('father') is the native Sindhi kinship word the Sindhi Bible uses for God as Father in the Lord's Prayer, not خُدا — آسماني ('heavenly') keeps the reverent height without going generic. |
| 2 | our Father | اسان جو پيءُ | our Father (vocative: اي اسان جا پيءُ, 'O our Father') | Primary filial divine name, on the wording of the Sindhi Bible's Lord's Prayer (اي اسان جا آسماني پيءُ). NEVER revert to خُدا or خُداوند; پيءُ is the warm, paternal child-to-father register FHB requires. |
| 3 | the Father | پيءُ | the Father | Definite filial name; the bare پيءُ carries the definite divine sense in context (cf. پُٽ, 'the Son'), preserving the father–son correlation without an article Sindhi does not use. |
| 4 | Heavenly Father | آسماني پيءُ | heavenly Father | Filial; same پيءُ stem as the possessive forms so machine conformance holds; آسماني marks reverent transcendence. |
| 5 | Abba, Father | ابا اي پيءُ | Abba, O Father | Anchored to the Sindhi Bible (Rom 8:15 / Mk 14:36) — the established rendering this language's church already prays; FHB shifts only the person (our), never the construction. ابا preserves the Aramaic cry, اي پيءُ ('O Father') the vocative. |
| 6 | God | خُدا | God | REVERSION TOKEN — the traditional generic word for God in Sindhi Christian usage. Non-filial contrast term; use ONLY where the English keeps 'God' as God-as-God, never as a stand-in for پيءُ. |
| 7 | the LORD | خُداوند | the LORD / Sovereign-Lord | REVERSION TOKEN — the covenant-name rendering of the Sindhi Bible (Yahweh). Non-filial. Note: 'Lord' as a title for Jesus is also خُداوند (e.g. خُداوند يسوع); disambiguate by context. Never a substitute for پيءُ. |
| 8 | the Holy Spirit | پاڪ روح | the Holy Spirit | The standard Sindhi Bible term (پاڪ = 'holy', روح = 'spirit'); universally recognized among Sindhi Christians. Sindhi prefers this native-formed compound over the Arabic رُوحُ القُدس used in Urdu. |
| 9 | the Spirit of our Father | اسان جي پيءُ جو روح | the Spirit of our Father | Anchored to the Sindhi Bible (Mt 10:20) — the established rendering this language's church already prays; FHB shifts only the person (our), re-anchoring the Spirit to پيءُ, never changing the construction. |
| 10 | the Son of Man | ابنِ آدم | the Son of Adam/Man | The fixed Sindhi Bible Christological self-title (Arabic-derived); instantly recognized, do not literalize with پُٽ. |
| 11 | the Son | پُٽ | the Son | The warm, filial correlate of پيءُ, and the native Sindhi word the Sindhi Bible uses for the Son (John 3:16, اڪيلو پُٽ); keeps the father–son bond in the same kinship word-family. |
| 12 | the Son of God | خُدا جو پُٽ | the Son of God | Traditional Christological title. Filial alternative پيءُ جو پُٽ ('the Father's Son') is available and coheres with the FHB vision — native reviewer to confirm which to adopt. |
| 13 | one and only Son | اڪيلو پُٽ | sole/only Son | The John 3:16 wording of the Sindhi Bible (پنهنجو اڪيلو پُٽ); اڪيلو conveys 'one and only' with covenant tenderness. |
| 14 | the kingdom of our Father | اسان جي پيءُ جي بادشاهي | the kingdom of our Father | FHB renders 'kingdom of God' filially: بادشاهي is the standard Sindhi Bible word for 'kingdom', re-anchored to پيءُ instead of خُدا. |
| 15 | Jesus | يسوع | Jesus | Standard Sindhi Bible spelling (Christian usage); not the Qur'anic عيسيٰ. |
| 16 | Christ | مسيح | Christ / the Anointed | Standard; commonly يسوع مسيح when paired with the name. |
| 17 | Messiah | مسيح | Messiah / the Anointed | Sindhi uses the same word مسيح for both 'Christ' and 'Messiah'; where the English distinguishes, context carries it — reviewer to confirm no separate transliteration is wanted. |
| 18 | covenant | عهد | covenant / solemn pact | Standard Sindhi Bible term; نئون عهد = 'new covenant'. |
| 19 | steadfast love | اٽل محبت | unshakeable/steadfast love | For Hebrew ḥesed (loyal covenant love). اٽل ('immovable, unshakeable') foregrounds covenant loyalty. وفادار محبت ('faithful love') and the native ٻاجهه ('tender kindness') are close alternatives — reviewer to confirm. |
| 20 | compassion | رحم | compassion / womb-tender mercy | For racham / splanchnizomai (gut-level tenderness). رحم shares the Semitic r-ḥ-m root ('womb') and renders being 'moved with compassion' in the Sindhi Bible; the native ٻاجهه and ترس ('pity') are alternatives, distinct from اٽل محبت above. |
| 21 | righteousness | راستبازي | righteousness / uprightness | The established Sindhi Bible abstract noun (راستباز = 'righteous one'); no substitution needed. |
| 22 | eternal life | هميشه جي حياتي | everlasting life | The John 3:16 phrasing of the Sindhi Bible, using the native Sindhi حياتي ('life'); ابدي حياتي ('eternal life') is a more formal synonym if a loftier register is wanted. |
| 23 | born again | نئين سِري کان ڄمڻ | to be born from a fresh start / anew | The Sindhi Bible wording of John 3:3,7, using the native Sindhi verb ڄمڻ ('to be born'); natural and unmistakable to Sindhi readers, and clear of Hindu rebirth vocabulary. |
Terms we deliberately avoid
These common words carry another religion's meaning, so Scripture in Sindhi has always chosen different vocabulary — and so do we. Please don't recommend them; the established Bible alternative is listed beside each.
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Machine conformance stems (every filial rendering must contain one): پيءُ · پيء
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