[B-Greek] Publicly available Greek lexicon?

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Wed Mar 23 06:27:17 EDT 2011


On Mar 23, 2011, at 3:13 AM, Russell Allen wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> This is probably a FAQ, but is there a quality lexicon with English meanings that is freely available?  And if not, what is the nearest thing?
> 
> This is for people who aren't formally trained in Greek and aren't able or willing to spend significant money on a modern scholarly lexicon and so tend to rely a lot on Strongs numbers; so just recommending they buy BDAG isn't what I'm after...

Here we go again with the nitpicking over what is meant by a "quality lexicon." Some will trot out
the usual suspects, notably Thayer's, available in a cheap print edition and as a PDF from several sources.
The little Liddell and the middle Liddell are both about the same Victorian vintage as Thayer's, but 
the great Scott is accessible online at the Harvard Archimedes site
(http://archimedes.fas.harvard.edu/pollux/)
at TLG (http://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/lsj/#eid=1&context=lsj).
I personally think that the little Langenscheidt's pocket lexicon is perfectly adequate for reading
GNT or standard school texts.


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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