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Biblical Language Study Resources

This guide is a collection of reference sources at UPSem Libraries for studying biblical Hebrew and koine Greek. Most of these are in the Reference collection of the Richmond library; many are also available in the Charlotte library.

Concordances & Analytical Concordances

  • Aland, Kurt. Vollständige Konkordanz zum Griechischen Neuen Testament. 2 volumes. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1978.
    • Richmond: REF. CD 23 V924 bds. 1-2
    • The title is in German but you don’t need to know German to use this. It lists every Greek word in the NT in alphabetical order and breaks down how often it occurs in each biblical book (it doesn’t give the specific textual references), and all total. It also breaks down roots into each form that occurs in the NT and identifies hapax legomena in each book. 

 

 

  • † Clapp, Philip S., Barbara Friberg, and Timothy Friberg, eds. Analytical Concordance of the Greek New Testament. 2 volumes. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1991. REF CD 23 C589 vols. 1 & 2.
    • Richmond: REF. CD 23 C589 Vols.1 & 2
    • Charlotte:  REF. 225.4803 C589A Vols.1 & 2
    • This is a resource for doing grammatical study more than individual word studies. Volume 1  has a lexical focus: that is, it is a concordance that has each word segregated by its  individual forms. Additionally, each word has a grammatical tag attached to it, allowing for study of the grammatical role of that word in its literary context as compared with other uses of the same word in the NT. The second volume’s focus is grammatical: it divides words by their part of speech (adjectives, verbs, conjunctions, etc.).