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This dictionary is a landmark Greek dictionary which has come to us through a lot of people and years of scholarship dedicated to making this scholarly work available.  One of the neat features about this work is that it has Strongs numbers, so those who are not proficient in the Greek language can still use the work, working off of the Strong’s Greek Numbers.

Note that there is a foundational work back to Gerhard Kittel, and thus that work is called “Big Kittels” or just “Kittel”, and there is the present work we are offering which is abridged, and called “Little Kittels”. The unabridged Kittel is very large, and has very long and detailed studies on each word, including a lot of linguistics, Greek, German, Latin, Hebrew, etc. It is a very scholarly work, and understood best “by scholars” (very educated scholars at that). Little Kittel though has been edited so as to delete most of that, and leave a simple work that most laymen could understand (and most Bible students with normal Greek abilities, or no Greek abilities at all, in the style of Strong’s Lexicon perhaps).

For actual samples of articles in the dictionary, click on the image at left (a popup viewer should open) and then use the left-right arrow keys on the keyboard, or click on the far left or far right arrows on the image itself.

The samples are:
ábyssos/άβυσσος [abyss]
agathós/αγαθός [good],
ángelos/άγγελος [messenger, angel],
kýrios/κύριος [Lord, lord], -searching dictionary for a word
kýrios/κύριος [Lord, lord],  – searching using Strongs Number
mágos/μάγος [magician, Magus],
méli/μέλι [honey]

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This monumental reference work, complete in ten volumes, is the authorized and unabridged translation of the famous Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament, known commonly as “Kittel” and considered by many scholars to be the best New Testament Dictionary ever compiled. Mediating between ordinary lexicography and the specific task of exposition, TDNT treats more than 2,300 theologically significant New Testament words, including the more important prepositions and numbers as well as many proper names from the Old Testament. Presenting the words in the order of the Greek alphabet, TDNT typically discusses the following for each word: its secular Greek background, its role in the Old Testament, its use in extra biblical Jewish literature, and its varied uses in the New Testament. Substantial bibliographies and footnotes supplement the articles. It is designed for the intermediate and advanced Greek student. Each significant Greek word of the New Testament is comprehensively presented and takes account of its:

• Greek background
• role in the Old Testament (in the Hebrew and the Septuagint)
• use by Philo, Josephus, and in the rabbinical literature
• uses in the New Testament and its various genres
• appearances (where appropriate) in the Apostolic Fathers

More than 100 distinguished scholars contributed to the work, including specialists in Old Testament, Septuagint, Hellenistic, Semitic and Rabbinic studies. Extensive bibliographies and detailed footnoting supplement the articles.

Overview of the resource inside theWord

theWord Features:

• Verse popups
• Abbreviation popups
• Fully searchable text
• Easy navigation of topics via topics tree display.
• Greek Lemmas
• Strong’s Numbers in topic tree
• Special Text Colors
  • Normal: Text
  • Hyperlink: Grundmann | 2 Tm. 3:1 ff. | ¹ | †
  • Volume & Page Number: ^{v1 p162}
  • Latin: supra
  • Transliteration: qādēs̆: ṭāhēr
  • Greek: σωμάτων
  • Hebrew: מִשְׁפָּט

Note: This is the unabridged version which is 10 volumes in print.

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