SPECIAL TOPIC: BASIC PROCEDURES FOR A NT BIBLICAL WORD STUDY

Establish the basic meaning and semantic field, use
A Greek-English Lexicon by Bauer, Arndt, Gingrich, Danker
Establish the contemporary usage (Koine Greek), use
1. The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament by Moulton, Milligan for Egyptian papyri
2. the Septuagint
3. Redpath's Concordance of the LXX for Palestinian Judaism
Establish the semantic domain, use
1. Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament by Louw, Nida
2. Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words by Vine
Establish the Hebrew background, use
1. Strong's Concordance with its numbers linked to the Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament by Brown, Driver, Briggs
2. New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis, edited by Van Gemneren (5 vols)
3. Synonyms of the Old Testament by Girdlestone
Establish the grammatical form of the word in context, use
1. an interlinear Greek-English New Testament and an analytical lexicon
2. Analytical Greek New Testament by Timothy and Barbara Friberg
Check the frequency of usage by genre, authors, subject, etc
Use a concordance
Check your study with:
1. a Bible encyclopedia
  1. Zondervan's Pictorial Bible Encyclopedia (5 vols)
  2. The International Bible Encyclopedia (5 vols)
2. a Bible Dictionary
  1. Anchor Bible Dictionary
  2. Interpreter's Bible Dictionary
3. a theological word book
  1. The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology (3 vols) ed. Colin Brown
  2. Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (abridged) by Bromiley
4. a systematic theological book
  1. Systematic Theology by Berkhof
  2. A Theology of the New Testament by Ladd
  3. New Testament Theology by Stagg
  4. or a number of others
Write out summary of significant interpretive findings