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Lexicons

Brown, Francis, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs. The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1994. The classic lexicon that has served scholars and pastors for over a century. Its entries are arranged by Hebrew root which, while important for seeing all the meanings and uses of words derived from the same root, makes finding a word more difficult for a beginner. 

*Koehler, Ludwig, and Walter Baumgartner. The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament: Study Edition. Translated by M.E.J. Richardson. 2 vols. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2000. The most important (reasonably affordable) Hebrew lexicon for the OT. Important if you’re doing work in the original languages. Two key benefits for the pastor: entries are arranged by spelling, making words easier to find, and HALOT contains the most comprehensive and up-to-date material on cognate languages (e.g., Ugaritic, Akkadian, Aramaic, etc.).

Bauer, Walter, and Frederick W. Danker. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. The standard Greek lexicon—a must-have for students. The 3rd edition fully utilizes information gained from the papyri finds of the 20th century, as well as incorporating insights from linguistics absent from earlier works. Entries are in Greek, so some knowledge of Greek (or the Greek alphabet) is required.

Liddell, Henry George, Robert Scott, Henry Stuart Jones, and Roderick McKenzie. A Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford, England: Clarendon, 1996. While few pastors will purchase this, LSJ is a standard, most comprehensive dictionary of ancient Greek in the world, covering every surviving ancient Greek author and text discovered up to 1940. It thus covers the entire period from the Pre-Classical Greek of Homer, through the period of Classical Greek, to the Hellenistic period (including the Greek Old and New Testaments. Benefits include its treatment of texts not covered by BDAG, along with the comprehensive sense it provides for how words were used in ordinary life.  (interesting factoid: Henry Liddell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford was the father of Alice Liddell, the eponymous “Alice” of the writings of Lewis Carroll—whose real name was Charles Dodgson, a friend of Liddell’s).

Louw, Johannes P., and Eugene A. Nida. Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament Based on Semantic Domains. New York: United Bible Societies, 1988. The title implies the contribution of this important work. By grouping words together under their semantic domains, L-N aids in understanding an author’s choice of a particular word over against other words available to him.