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What in the world are those crazy people at Logos doing now? What is The Lexham Analytical Lexicon of the Greek New Testament? Why another lexicon?

There are a few reasons, actually. Here are three of them.

First, this lexicon takes advantage of the classification in Louw & Nida's Greek-English Lexicon based on Semantic Domains and offers definitions of each lemma broken into the different senses used in the Greek New Testament, as shown below.

Second, this lexicon lists every instance of every word in the NA27/UBS4 Greek New Testament classified by Louw-Nida sense. Why is this important? It means that you can be in the Greek New Testament, KeyLink into the Lexham Analytical Lexicon, and (particularly if you're using the Active Reference Visual Filter) note the classification of the instance from which you KeyLinked.

Third, The Lexham Analytical Lexicon of the Greek New Testament is an analytical lexicon. That means that in addition to all lemma forms of each NT word, each inflected form is included as well. Again, why is this important? It is important because the Lexham Analytical Lexicon can be a target both for the Greek New Testament and also for other Greek text outside of morphologically tagged resources. It means that if you see text of the Greek NT quoted in, say, Word Biblical Commentary, you can right-click and keylink on the Greek word and (likely) end up at the correct article in the Lexham Analytical Lexicon. You can see how the entry looks below. From the inflected form, one can click on the link to go to the full article of the word within the Lexham Analytical Lexicon.

The Lexham Analytical Lexicon to the Greek New Testament is a great complement to the Lexham Greek-English Interlinear of the New Testament and is designed to provide keylinking help when keylinking from text that is not morphologically tagged—like commentaries, as described in the third point above.

Interested? Then this one is for you. No waiting for this one to make it through the Pre-Pub process. It's already done. Get yours today!

The recently-released Lexham Greek-English New Testament Interlinear has, as one of its primary distinguishing features, domain-article references to the Louw-Nida Greek Lexicon (info here, here and here). That's all well and good, but -- beyond keylinking to a specific Louw-Nida article -- what can we do with the references?

One thing that you can do (shown in the below-referenced video) is begin to explore using the concept of "semantic chaining" (also known as "semantic chunks" or "semantic clustering"). The idea is to explore how a section of text (a pericope or chapter or book) uses or repeats ideas found in particular domains or domain-subdomain references.

OK, I'll speak in English this time. You know how repeated words can be important when you're looking at a passage? Well, Louw-Nida references let you expand that notion to repeated concepts. The theoretical backgound for this concept is well-established in the literature* but as of yet has not really been available in a consumer-level Bible study product.

But you can do it with the Lexham Greek-English Interlinear New Testament if you've also got the Louw-Nida lexicon (Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament Based on Semantic Domains) and are willing to learn how to reference search using the Bible Speed Search dialog.

The video shows you how. Our sample passage is 1Ti 2.1, and our sample concept is prayer.

• Video: Flash, 13 megs, 9:50, with sound.

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* Some references include:

• Reed, Jeffrey T. A Discourse Analysis of Philippians, pp. 296-331. This book will be available in the Studies in New Testament Greek and JSNTS Collection.


• Porter, Stanley E. and O'Donnell, Matthew Brook. "Semantics and Patterns of Argumentation in Romans: Definitions, Proposals, Data and Experiments", pp. 154-204 in Stanley E. Porter (ed.), Diglossia and Other Topics in New Testament Linguistics. This book will be available in the Studies in New Testament Greek and JSNTS Collection.


• Guthrie, George, The Structure of Hebrews: A Text-Linguistic Analysis.


• Van Neste, Ray, Cohesion and Structure in the Pastoral Epistles. This book is available in the Library of NT Studies: JSNTS on Paul collection.