[B-Greek] Comprehensive 1c Bilingual Koine Greek Dictionary [*Webster's]

Oun Kwon kwonbbl at gmail.com
Thu Aug 21 23:25:51 EDT 2008


On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:25 AM, Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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> On bilinguals--
> I am only interested in a bilingual dictionary, in any case, if it were
> restricted to 1-2 centuries CE. That would be of service to us, since
> nothing currently exists.
> "Ask the question: when Luke used
> the word 'xyz' in Acts 21, what other options for that word
> probably or certainly existed in the first century?"
> The answer is not easy to extract from current resources. That would
> be useful and could be started before a mon-lingual dictionary was
> started or in place. I would not call that a *Webster's Greek-Eng-Eng-
> Greek.
> Better would be a "comprehensive first century bidirectional
> Greek-English English-Greek dictionary".
> That is needed.
> ERRWSO
> IWANHS
>

So far I'm very happy with BDAG. Any Gk-Gk dictionary will be greek to
me and be useless.

However, one thing I miss in BDAG is that  it does not seem to cover
about synonyms (meaning, nuance, usage). It would be very nice if
there is some flavor something like that of Fowler's Modern English
Usage (but not in Greek, please). Also coverage of etymology is
minuscule.

Oun.



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