[B-Greek] translating words
David C. Hindley
dhindley at compuserve.com
Sun Mar 9 13:29:03 EST 2003
Neal Massey asks:
>>I'm working on translating some Greek sentences and was wondering if
anyone knows of any www sites that may help in translating Greek words to
English. Sorry this is so basic. I know you guys are on a higher level
than I am.<<
If, as I took you to mean, you want to find some tools that take Greek words
as you find them in the NT (the inflected form), and somehow get an English
rendering of that inflected form, I am not aware of anything like that.
If you want tools that provide a "morphological analysis" of the inflected
form (2nd person plural, etc) and the basic meanings of the root word, in
English, then try Mark Goodacre's New Testament Gateway web pages. Under
"Greek NT" he has a number of resources, including Greek texts with
morphological analysis and associated tools.
http://www.ntgateway.com/greek/ These will almost all use the Nestle-Aland
26 text, but I suppose several variants of the Majority text or the Textus
Receptus or Westcott & Hort's text are available as well.
The Perseus Project also has several tools available:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/perscoll?collection=Perseus:collection:
PersInfo&type=interactive+resource (Mind that my e-mail program wraps the
text after 60 or so characters and thus breaks the link into parts. You will
have to mend them together to search for this on your browser)
Or, go to
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ and in the blue graphic block at the top
center of the screen, just under where it says "The Perseus Digital
Library," click on the word "Tools" from the list of available sub-menus
(Configure Display, Help Library, Tools, Publications, Collaborations,
Support Perseus). It is hard to miss, so be sharp! <g>
If you are looking for a basic meaning for each inflected Greek word you may
have to use a <gasp> interlinear NT.
Example: RSV John 11:35 "Jesus wept." EDAKRUSEN O IHSOUS
EDAKRUSEN verb, indicative, aorist, active, 3rd person, singular of DAKRUW,
"Weep" = "he wept"
O definite article, nominative, masculine, singular, "the"
IHSOUS noun, nominative, masculine, singular, "Jesus"
However, I found that Perseus' morphological tools can be very picky at
times. I suppose you could also go right to their online version of Westcott
& Hort's (1881?) edition. Usually, you can click on the Greek words (most
but not all) and get a morphological analysis as well as the lexical
meaning.
Have fun.
Respectfully,
Dave Hindley
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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