Today we’re continuing with our series on Bible study at the word level. Last time we talked about exegetical fallacies that arise from flawed word study methods. In this episode, I want to transition to some important elements that go into word study. Today we’ll primarily be focused on examining a word as it’s used by a single author throughout the material that author wrote – in this case the apostle Paul. But the word I’ve chosen for our focus also means that we’ll be getting into the issue of a word’s distribution across a corpus – in this case, obviously, the New Testament. Since this example is so restrictive – since my primary interest in this episode is a single author’s use – I’ll probably return to word distribution when doing word studies in a future episode.
Greek-English Lexicons cited in the episode:
BDAG
A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd Edition
older edition of the above (1979, now out-of-date, but useful):
A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Second Edition
Digital edition of BDAG
Liddell-Scott (abridged hard copy edition)
Liddell-Scott in digital: full 9th edition
