[B-Greek] Analytical Greek Lexicon

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at ioa.com
Wed Jan 18 06:42:51 EST 2006


On Jan 17, 2006, at 9:14 PM, Revdpickrel at wmconnect.com wrote:

> Oliver,
>
> See if this is what you need.  http://www.zhubert.com/concordance

If the original question had been phrased to indicate that an  
analytical dictionary for the GNT or the Greek Bible is wanted, I  
probably would have, and I probably should have included Zack  
Hubert's site. Zack's site  allows for Biblical texts the same  
immediate parsing information that the Perseus site allows; what  
Zack's site does not allow (thus far, although I suspect he could  
easily construct it) is the possibility to enter into a CGI form an  
inflected verb-form, noun-form, or adjective-form and have immediate  
access to lemma and dictionary. I'm not altogether sure, however,  
that that this is especially valuable when the text corpus available  
consists of the Greek Bible alone. Perseus does have immediate access  
to the unabridged LSJ lexicon; the lexicon at Zack's site is helpful,  
but it is incomplete and cannot provide the extensive usage  
information accessible in the entries of LSJ.

Quite frankly, as George Somsel noted in his addition to this thread,  
an analytical lexicon such as published by the Fribergs is more or  
less a crutch that hinders rather than helps one attempting to learn  
Greek: one really must learn to recognize the inflected forms  
instantaneously and to be able to make quick intelligent guesses at  
the lemma.

Zack's vocabulary tools are immensely helpful, especially for early- 
stage learners -- but they may very well keep some from going on and  
really learning the language. I think one of the most valuable  
features of your vocabulary tools is the opportunity to compare usage  
and context of words in all biblical texts and to see where they are  
used with greater frequency. That's what the Perseus tools also do,  
but they do it for a textual corpus of Greek literature that is  
vastly greater, extending from Homer through at least the second  
century A.D.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad2 at mac.com
WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/




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