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

James Spinti JSpinti at Eisenbrauns.com
Tue Jan 16 12:39:33 EST 2007


There are actually 3 resources that might meet your request:
"A Concise Dictionary of the Greek New Testament"
by Warren C. Trenchard
Cambridge University Press, 2003
172 pages, English, Paper
ISBN: 0-521-52111-4
ISBN13: 978-0-521-52111-6
Your Price: $15.00
http://www.eisenbrauns.com/wconnect/wc.dll?ebGate~EIS~~I~TRECONCIS

"Greek English Dictionary of New Testament"
by Barclay M., Jr. Newman
German Bible Society, 1993
203 pages, English and Greek, Cloth
List Price: $29.99
Your Price: $26.99
http://www.eisenbrauns.com/wconnect/wc.dll?ebGate~EIS~~I~NEWGREEKE

This is a word list according to frequency (which is what Jim West was
referring to):
Lexical Aids for Students of new Testament Greek
3rd edition
by Bruce Manning Metzger
Baker Academic, 1998
xi +100 pages, English, Paper
ISBN: 0-8010-2180-4
ISBN13: 978-0-8010-2180-0
List Price: $10.99
Your Price: $7.68
http://www.eisenbrauns.com/wconnect/wc.dll?ebGate~EIS~~I~METLEXICA

But, I agree with Carl, they are essentially worthless for serious
translation work. What you are assuming is that a word can be reduced to
a one-for-one equivalence from language to language, a false assumption.
Even in English, a word has more than one meaning, depending on context,
which is why an English dictionary has multiple entries for a word.

James

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of 
> George F Somsel
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 12:33 PM
> To: Jerry Reimer; b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Greek Lexicon 1st century Eng-Greek
> 
> 
> I think the Barclay Newman _A Concise Greek-English 
> Dictionary of the New Testament_ would come about as close as 
> any to this.  I believe it's the one bound with the UBS4.
>  
> george
> gfsomsel
> _________
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jerry Reimer <Jerry at lsm.org>
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 11:47:06 AM
> Subject: [B-Greek] Greek Lexicon 1st century Eng-Greek
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Jerry Reimer
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