[B-Greek] English to Greek

David C. Hindley dhindley at compuserve.com
Fri May 2 13:38:17 EDT 2003


Jeffrey Gibson asks:

>>Some of my students have asked me a question I couldn't answer:  Is there
a reverse NT Greek Lexicon or an online resource (excluding Perseus) that
moves from English words to their NT greek "equivalents"?

Wenham has this in the back of his textbook, but is there anything else?<<

Jeffrey,

Why are they trying to do this? To quickly find passages, or to discover (by
trial & error) the range of meanings any single word may have?

Couldn't your students get the same result from a good concordance? Of
course, you'd be restricting the English to the words used by a specific
version, but that would be true for any tool such as you mention.

The Greek-English/English-Greek lexicon that Follett Publishing used(?) to
produce will give them a range of Greek words for each English word as found
in the standard translations of the Classics. I do not know what those
standard translations were (the lexicon is vague, but I think they would
have had to have been available around the turn of the 20th century or a
little later) but the Greek-English portion is clearly Liddle & Scott
Intermediate. There are quite a few available at ABE, cheap, and if they
want to cut down the possibilities to those words appearing in the NT, have
them also get a stand-alone pocket sized UBS dictionary to cross-reference.

Respectfully,

Dave Hindley
Cleveland, Ohio, USA





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