A pocket lexicon to the Greek New Testament

Alexander Souter

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PROFESSOR J.S.WILLA POCKET LEXICON
TO THE
GREEK NEW TESTAMENT
BY
ALEXANDER M.A.SOUTER,
(MAGDALEN COLLEGE)
SOMETIME YATES PROFESSOR OF NEW TESTAMENT CREEK
AND EXEGESIS IN MANSFIELD C0LLEC;E
OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1917Oxford Press
University
London NewEdinburgh Glasgow York
Toronto Melbourne Bombay
Milford M.A.Humphrey Publisher to the
University
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yOSTSR.PREFACE
Thk work is the third lastpresent and volume of
the which I have been to con-tiny trilogy permitted
tribute for the use of students of the New Testament.'
In Oxford I was struck themy days particularly by
fact that which in theirmany theological works,
(jerman form cost a small were to besum, only
obtained at a increased whengreatly price, they
in an dress. It seemed toappeared English me
that there was at least as a for suchlarge public
in Britain and America as inproductions Germany,
and I could never see that the usual inimprovement
form the cost. The ofjustified higher supineness
the and others interested has been and isclergy to
me a of wonder, as few of them aresubject especially
men of means. I have held the view that thelong
most in all shouldnecessary knowledge departments
be available to the at a moderateEnglish reading public
and in this view I have beenprice, heartily encouraged
the the .of Clarendon Press.by Delegates
The last of a or so as is wellhas,quarter century
seen a vast accession to the material ofknown, value
for the textual of the Greek New Testa-
interpretation
in Greek discovered inment, particularly papyri Egypt.
These documents are infor the most written thepart
the 'the commonnon-literary Greek, koh'J] (^tuAcKTos),
dialect' or and writtenlinguafranca, spoken through-
' The others are A'ovum Tcstamcnttim Tcxtui a Ke-Graecc,
tractaiorihus adhihito brevcm CriticamAdnotationemAnglis
sithiccil A. .?. Clarendon(Oxford. Press, 1910, 191 1, reprinted
T^^^ Text and Canon the New Testament'9'3;> of (London,
Duckworth & Co., 1913,.
iii 2aPREFACE
out almost the whole Graeco-Roman world. Of this
Greek an excellent account will be found in A. Meillet's
de la aApergu langiie grecque (Paris, 191 3), delightful
volume which all interested in Greek to read.ought
A number of I formed the ofyears ago a smallplan
in which aspocket much of this newdictionary,
as should be inknowledge possible anincorporated
unobtrusive This had beenway. plan quite given
before the end ofup but in 12 such191 1, 19 pressure
was the of theapplied by Clarendon PressDelegates
that I felt to take it and do whatcompelled up again
I could with it.
The aim I have set before me is to the fofmsgive
of Greek words in the New Testament and their
as as tomeanings exactly possible, the bestaccording
available at theknowledge time. I havepresent
studied mattersbrevity throughout, connectedomitting
with declension, and evenconjugation, gender, &c.,
references to in the New Testamentpassages itself,
in cases where the reader beexcept left inmight
doubt which of two or more senses to choose.
I have thus been able to secure for extendedspace
where the ofexplanation, the issimplicity language
I havemerely endeavoured also tospecious. assign
all ofwords or idioms from otherborrowings languages
(Latin, Aramaic, as asHebrew) accurately possible.
It be where no suchmay assumed, isborrowing
that the evidence nowindicated, favours the verna-
cular of word or idiom. Iorigin haveOccasionally
added the Latin word the of theexpressing meaning
Greek.
As I toreaders, have all who arehope interested in
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the Greek New from the whoTestament, maai,working
'with Moulton's smaller and thegrammar present
work to understand the of the Newstruggles meaning
Testament as as to theexactly possible, experienced
who sometimes the of ascholar, forgets meaning word,
and be for some of the information culledmay grateful
from the Latin Fathers and not accessible.
readily
Most will to the class ofreaders, however, belong
students or whether atministers, who,theological
home or in the be to have atrain, may glad handy
volume to turn to in a Unless I am
difficulty.
a ofthe newer sheds floodmistaken, knowledge light
on hitherto misunderstood or aspassages regarded
i Cor. x. i. i Pet. ii.unprofitable (e.g. ii, James 3, 2),
and into the dustbin a deal of the well-meantsweeps
but of the
hair-splitting theology past (cf. ei?), quite
unsuited as it was to the ofcomprehension plain
Christians.
first-century
a iswork like the indebtedNaturally present deeply
to former It is based not ohmany publications. any
New Testament toof Greek—preceding dictionary
—them I am under almost no direct at allobligation
but on the Concordance of Moulton and Geden.
The best available modern commentaries on the New
Testament are main source. I should like tomy
toindebtedness theexpress my deep posthumous
commentaries of Hort in for the
particular, precise
definitions of whichwords, unsurpassed anywhere,
contain. His as he did withthey method, working
material less abundant and of far inferior usefulness,
^
Introduction to New Testament Greek Kelly,(London,
3rd edition).PREFACE
has led him andagain aagain by whichdivination,
to thebelongs only finest toscholarship, conclusions
made certain the newerby I amknowledge. Next,
under the profoundest to theobligation ofVocabulary
Moulton and whichMilligan, one in angives extremely
attractive form, gracefully a severeconcealing philo-
logical indiscipline unequalled the all theworld,
lexicalimportant fromknowledge the recentaccruing
finds. book alsoMy bears traces of the closest
of thestudy invaluable ofProlegomena Moulton.
For the names I amproper indebted above all to the
Kurzes editedBibehvorterbuch, H.Gutheby (Tubingen
and InLeipzig, 1903). addition to these works I have
made use of and I trustmany others, that their authors
will thisregard asacknowledgement sufficient.
Of frompersonal, apart Iliterary, obligations, ought
to mention indebtedness tomy the true friend of many
Dr.years. forSanday, constant counsel and interest
;
to Dr. for soMilligan, mekindly the firstlending
of thepart in whileVocabulary proof, it was still
unpublished; toand, two formerfinally, pupils,
Mr. John Fraser, M.A., Lecturer in Latin and Lecturer
in Comparative in thePhilology of Aber-University
from whosedeen, revision the bookscholarly has
greatly andbenefited, Rev. C. H. Dodd, M.A.,
now Lecturer, Mansfield College, Oxford, whose
critical I have oftenfaculty had occasion to appreciate.
For the defects that remain—and even in a small
work like wherethis, thousands of statements are
made, arethey inevitable—I am
entirely responsible.
University ofAberdeen, i()i^.
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