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Strong's Dictionary and the Septuagint (Annotated): The Letter A
This book is an abridged edition of Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries, which was taken from James Strong’s The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890). The changes I made are as follows.
* Only Greek definitions have been reproduced (the letter “A”).
* Etymologies and references to other Strong’s entries have been removed.
* Archaic spellings have been modernized, misspellings corrected.
* Parts of speech and Bible references have been added from other sources.
LXX references are from Alfred Rahlfs’ Septuagint (1935). They include the apocryphal Psalm 151. I compared the LXX with the Apostolic Bible Polyglot (1995) whenever I found errors. This book also contains an introduction, a list of abbreviations, an appendix, and a bibliography.
Many legends surround the creation of the Septuagint or the LXX (“seventy”), an ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). Regardless of its origin, the document exists. This fact tells me one thing: God chose Israel to be a “light to the Gentiles” because he wants “the ends of the earth” to be saved (Isaiah 45:22, 49:6).
Must everyone learn Hebrew, then? No. God speaks every language, even those now extinct. He inspired the creation of the Septuagint in order to prepare the way for the church, which received the Gentiles. Through both the Septuagint and the apostles’ preaching, Gentiles were granted “access by one Spirit unto the Father” and became “fellow citizens with the saints” (Ephesians 2:18-19). Translation was thus the means by which God offered his salvation to the world.
Note on the Second Edition
In the first edition of this book, Bible references were representative (one per book of the Bible). In this edition, they’re exhaustive; no reference has been left out. Numbers in parentheses indicate the frequency of a word in each reference. References that contain alternate readings are in italics. Since Bible references are from the LXX, they don’t always match the King James Version.
* Only Greek definitions have been reproduced (the letter “A”).
* Etymologies and references to other Strong’s entries have been removed.
* Archaic spellings have been modernized, misspellings corrected.
* Parts of speech and Bible references have been added from other sources.
LXX references are from Alfred Rahlfs’ Septuagint (1935). They include the apocryphal Psalm 151. I compared the LXX with the Apostolic Bible Polyglot (1995) whenever I found errors. This book also contains an introduction, a list of abbreviations, an appendix, and a bibliography.
Many legends surround the creation of the Septuagint or the LXX (“seventy”), an ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). Regardless of its origin, the document exists. This fact tells me one thing: God chose Israel to be a “light to the Gentiles” because he wants “the ends of the earth” to be saved (Isaiah 45:22, 49:6).
Must everyone learn Hebrew, then? No. God speaks every language, even those now extinct. He inspired the creation of the Septuagint in order to prepare the way for the church, which received the Gentiles. Through both the Septuagint and the apostles’ preaching, Gentiles were granted “access by one Spirit unto the Father” and became “fellow citizens with the saints” (Ephesians 2:18-19). Translation was thus the means by which God offered his salvation to the world.
Note on the Second Edition
In the first edition of this book, Bible references were representative (one per book of the Bible). In this edition, they’re exhaustive; no reference has been left out. Numbers in parentheses indicate the frequency of a word in each reference. References that contain alternate readings are in italics. Since Bible references are from the LXX, they don’t always match the King James Version.
146 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 8, 2022
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James Strong
116 books12 followersJames Strong was an American academic, biblical scholar, lexicographer, Methodist theologian and professor, best known for being the creator of Strong's Concordance.
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