Bible Translation Resources

[Twisp]

What are some comprehensive books that you can look up the Hebrew and Greek meanings of words in the Bible? I tend to gravitate towards blb, backed up with some googling. However, I would like to have a hard copy of something for when I am not at my comp. Any advice on what to get?

[Justin]

Originally Posted by Twisp

What are some comprehensive books that you can look up the Hebrew and Greek meanings of words in the Bible? I tend to gravitate towards blb, backed up with some googling. However, I would like to have a hard copy of something for when I am not at my comp. Any advice on what to get?

http://www.amazon.com/Strongest-Stro...2318626&sr=8-1

This is what I have. I picked it up at Borders for 19.99 last year. Vines is another good one.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Twisp

What are some comprehensive books that you can look up the Hebrew and Greek meanings of words in the Bible? I tend to gravitate towards blb, backed up with some googling. However, I would like to have a hard copy of something for when I am not at my comp. Any advice on what to get?

Hebrew try Brown, Driver and Biggs

Greek try Liddel and Scott or bauer

http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&key...l_3bpf9og4fm_b

Don't use Strongs or Thayers

This one is probably considered the best of them all and I am hoping to add it to my Logos Library some day

http://www.amazon.com/Greek-English-.../dp/0226039331

I also use e-sword with all the strongs and stuff, I have vines. I also have a lexicon by Zodhaites which is no where near the best but better to use than just a strongs or a thayers.

And if I was gonna use Thayers I'd rather have a real copy of the lexicon and not that stripped down online "dictionary"...the lexicon shows you how the word is or should be used based on tense and other factors and gives scriptural examples. I have a Thayers hard copy btw

[Sam]

Someone recommended the Strongs Concordance for the meaning of the Hebrew and Greek words.

The Apostolic Bible Polyglot is an interlinear Bible. It contains the Greek text of the Septuagint Bible (not the Hebrew Old Testament but the Greek Old Testament used by the New Testament preachers and writers) and the Greek text of the New Testament. It has an interlinear, literal translation in English. Also, each of the words are identified by the Strongs (of Strongs Concordance fame) numbers. In the back there is a dictionary of the Greek words and a concordance of the Greek words.

The Hebrew Greek Key Study Bible is a King James Version of the Old and New Testaments and many of the words are coded with the Strongs numbers. There is also the Strongs Greek and Hebrew dictionary in the back.

[Praxeas]

strongs is a dictionary ONLY. It does not tell you how a word should be used in a sentence depending on the grammar.

For example. The number ONE...used to be in Strongs he lumped all three genders under one heading "heis"...

Heis is the masculine greek word for one. I remember my first pastor saying the greek word for One in John 10:30 is Heis and means 1 in number.

Well the fact is the greek word is HEN, not HEIS. HEN is the neuter form. And while it does mean 1 in number it's use is most often to indicate a One in unity. Strongs does not tell you that.