[B-Greek] Greek Lexicon 1st century Eng-Greek

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Tue Jan 16 12:30:00 EST 2007


At 11:47 AM 1/16/2007, Jerry Reimer wrote:
>Dear Sir,
>
>Is there such a thing as a NT Greek lexicon which gives only a 
>generic meaning to each entry? A generic Greek lexicon that simply 
>puts you into the ballpark without consideration of contextual 
>extensions (meanings that are context sensitive). One which would 
>derive the generic meaning from usage (say, if a given word is used 
>86 times in the NT and 69 ot these times it has essentially the same 
>meaniing and possibly the same translation) thus the generic meaning 
>would be determined by a simple majority of 69 outof 86. The other 
>meanings can fend for themselves. I am looking for such a list or 
>such a book even though most lexica do give something of a generic 
>meaning at the first of an entry. Looking for something simpler than 
>standard lexicography just to get general, majority meanings.


Hi Jerry,
That sounds very much like a "vocabulary list" or a "word frequency 
list".  I seem to recall something like a list which offers the 500 
most used words and a simple definition followed by the 450 most used 
words, etc.  All the way down to 10.  But its been decades.  Perhaps 
someone making use of such a word list now would know the exact title.

hth

Jim



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