[B-Greek] In Re: Greek Dictionary Resources

George F. Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Sun Oct 31 05:48:09 EST 2004


On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 02:38:41 -0800 "Seth VM" <sethvm at hotmail.com> writes:
> B-Greekers,
> 
> Since I'm a relative n00b at studying greek, I was curious about the 
> 
> resources that most of you use. I've heard a gamut of commentaries, 
> 
> grammars, and lexicons used in your studies and various post 
> analyises. 
> However, I almost never hear of anyone using a Vine's Expository 
> Dictionary 
> or Tyndale's Dictonary. Are these inferior? Most Christian 
> bookstores tend 
> to push customers to purchase these dictionaries for their greek 
> study 
> resources, along with a Strong's or such. What's wrong with using 
> these?
> 
> Thanks for the bit of insight :).
> 
> --Seth Moran
____________

In a word, "Yes."  The best lexicon you can get for NT is BDAG so avoid
the others (you might make an exception for a compact lexicon which you
can carry with you).  Strong's, in particular, has inspired the
abberations of more kooks than one can shake a stick at -- a pox on it!

george
gfsomsel



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