[B-Greek] Publicly available Greek lexicon? Or Lexicons?!
Lauren Albrecht
laurenski5485 at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 23 14:48:43 EDT 2011
Hello,
Amateur, but avid reader here, any Greek Concordances online? With Strong #'s?!
In anticipation,
Lauren Albrecht
New York
--- On Wed, 3/23/11, spencerj76 at aol.com <spencerj76 at aol.com> wrote:
From: spencerj76 at aol.com <spencerj76 at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Publicly available Greek lexicon?
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 12:41 PM
23 March 2011
Friends:
I have most of the lexicons mentioned in discussion so far -- the three Liddell & Scotts, Thayer's, BDAG, Gingrich's "Shorter Lexicon," and even the newer House and Souter "Compact Lexicon," as well as the Langenscheidt volume mentioned by Conrad in this discussion. Anyway, as a busy pastor turning to sundry lexical sources, I find myself returning again and again to Barclay m. Newman, Jr.'s "A Concise Greek-English Dictionary of the New Testament" (London: United Bible Societies, 1971). In 203 pages he does the job especially well--and you can find most forms and idioms there as well. I like the clarity of the fonts in this dictionary. It makes the dictionary a pleasure to use. I've literally used the same volume with its kivar cover for 25 years, and it's held up well (I mean the cover, the binding, and its contents).
Sometimes when things like dictionaries are discussed, what may be overlooked is, well, the physical act of looking things up. Does the binding flex (easily)? Can I flip through the pages when I'm in a hurry? If I'm working at the computer when using the dictionary, I don't want the dictionary to flop shut just when I'm about to type a definition into my notes. So, when open, does the book lie flat and stay that way? I don't know if anyone's studied the ergonomics of dictionary use, but that does come into play when the phone's ringing and you've got to get a newsletter out, and the dictionary's sitting on a stack of other volumes. Do I need to see a precise textual citation along with a definition, or will a definition alone suffice? The BDAG is great for citations--but you have to scan through lots of citations to find that text in Colossians 3 you're looking for. (Sometimes I can spot them quickly.) And then (sigh) there's Moulton and Milligan's
"Vocabulary of the Greek N
ew Testament." To use that lexicon, it's often wise to have a classical dictionary handy -- that is, to have a lexicon that you can use to use the lexicon (it's fun, granted, but it's time consuming). I suppose dictionaries are very personal things; like tools in a tool box, each dictionary has its uses, and in time, students of Greek, like skilled carpenters and mechanics, learn exactly when to pick up the tool they need.
Best wishes,
Jeremy Spencer
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin W. Woodruff <cierpke at prodigy.net>
To: Russell Allen <oebible at openenglishbible.org>; Biblical Greek List <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wed, Mar 23, 2011 8:21 am
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Publicly available Greek lexicon?
Russell
The older Liddell-Scott is available at:http://www.archive.org/details/agreekenglishle00drisgoog
Souter is avaialble at:
ttp://www.archive.org/details/pocketlexicontog00soutuoft
Abbot-Smith is available
ttp://www.archive.org/details/cu31924021607464
Thayer's is available at:
ttp://www.archive.org/details/greekenglishlexi00grimuoft
Moulton and Milligan is available at:
ttp://www.archive.org/details/vocabularyofgree00mouluoft
I hope this helps,
Kevin
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-- On Wed, 3/23/11, Russell Allen <oebible at openenglishbible.org> wrote:
> From: Russell Allen <oebible at openenglishbible.org>
Subject: [B-Greek] Publicly available Greek lexicon?
To: "b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 3:13 AM
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...
Thanks,
Russell
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