Biblical Greek and Word Origins

Richard Maurer rsmaurer at aol.com
Sat Mar 27 07:25:22 EST 1999


On 03/26/99, ""Tony Stark" <Data7201 at aol.com>" wrote:
> Greetings,I'm Interested in knowing what publications are out there that
delves into greek word origins.Can anyone out there recommend some Great 
titles? Thank you for your reply.:-)

For common words (e.g., hand, send, east, grief, mind, shout, noble) try *A 
Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages* 
by Carl Darling Buck, which costs $30 or so. It’s a fun book to browse and 
includes ancient Greek as first among its entries for each word, along with 
Latin, French, Gothic, Old Norse, Old English, and a couple of dozen other 
IE languages. Buck shows how the different forms usually have common roots, 
which may answer your question about word origins. A different kind of book 
is *Theological Lexicon of the New Testament* by Ceslas Spicq (3 vols., 
$100 list, big discount from CBD). He has an interesting choice of Greek 
words with special significance to the New Testament. He goes into great 
depth on each word and is also fun to browse.

Richard Maurer



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