WORD STUDY CITATIONS
NOTE: Most students use BLB (Blue Letter Bible) “Dictionary and Word Search” to find their
verses, BLB Thayer for Biblical Greek Lexicon 1, Eliyah Strong for Biblical Greek Lexicon 2, and
either Donnegan or Liddell hard copy for Extra-Biblical Lexicon; BLB Gesenius for Hebrew Lexicon
1, and Eliyah Strong for Hebrew Lexicon 2. These are the starred entries below.
Works Cited
OR
Works Consulted
CONCORDANCES Hard Copy
Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. New York: Abingdon, 1958.
Strong, James. The Strongest Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. Eds. John R.
Kohlenberger III and James A. Swanson. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2001.
Wigram, George W. The Englishman’s Greek Concordance of the New Testament. Peabody,
MA: Hendrickson, 2002.
Wigram, George W. The Englishman’s Hebrew Concordance of the Old Testament. Peabody,
MA: Hendrickson, 2001.
GREEK LEXICONS Hard Copy
Biblical Greek
The Big Green Book with Blue Tape
Bauer, Walter. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early
Christian Literature. Trans. William F. Arndt and F. Wilbur Gingrich. 2nd ed.
Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1979.
The Yellow or Brown Paperback
Thayer, Joseph Henry. Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament. Grand Rapids, MI:
Baker, 1977.
The Brown Hardcover
Thayer, Joseph Henry. Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament. New York:
American (Harper), 1889.
The Brown Hardcover with Upside Down Title on Spine
Thayer, Joseph Henry. Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament. Grand Rapids, MI:
Zondervan, 1977.
Extra-Biblical Greek
The Ancient, Fat, Yellow-Brown Book
Donnegan, James, M.D. A New Greek and English Lexicon. Philadelphia: Butler and
Williams, 1844.
The Big Black Book in the Cardboard Sleeve
Liddell, H.G. and R. Scott. Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford: Clarendon, 1843, 1996.
HEBREW LEXICONS Hard Copy
The Gray Book
Brown, Francis, S.R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of
the Old Testament. Trans. Edward Robinson. Oxford: Clarendon, 1979.
The Paperback with Strong’s Numbers
Gesenius. Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon. Trans. Samuel Prideaux Tregelles. Grand
Rapids, MI: Baker, 1979.
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DOWNLOADED PROGRAMS ON COMPUTER
Meyers, Rick. e-sword. 2003. Apr. 2005 <http://www.e-sword.net>.
ONLINE PROGRAMS
Blue Letter Bible
Following is a sample citation copied from the bottom of a definition/word-search page, with
punctuation corrected. Redded are the elements that will change from word to word, and the
access date, which will change.
Blue Letter Bible. "Dictionary and Word Search for paideuō (Strong's 3811)." Blue Letter
Bible. 1996-2012. 26 Feb. 2012 <http://
www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?
Strongs=G3811&t=KJV>.
OR use the generic citation, in which case only the date will change:
"Dictionary and Word Search." Blue Letter Bible. 1996-2012. 26 Feb. 2012 <http://
www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm>.
If you use the default Greek (Thayer) dictionary from Blue Letter, cite so:
Thayer, Joseph Henry. Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament. New York: American
(Harper), 1889. Blue Letter Bible. 1996-2012. 26 Feb. 2012 <http://
www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?
Strongs=G3811&t=KJV>.
OR use the generic citation:
Thayer, Joseph Henry. Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament. New York: American
(Harper), 1889. Blue Letter Bible. 1996-2012. 26 Feb. 2012 <http://
www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm>.
If you use the default Hebrew (Gesenius) dictionary from Blue Letter, cite so:
Gesenius. Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon. Trans. Samuel Prideaux Tregelles. Grand Rapids, MI:
Baker, 1979. Blue Letter Bible. 1996-2012. 26 Feb. 2012 <http://
www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?
Strongs=H1369&t=KJV>.
OR use the generic citation:
Gesenius. Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon. Trans. Samuel Prideaux Tregelles. Grand Rapids, MI:
Baker, 1979. Blue Letter Bible. 1996-2012. 26 Feb. 2012 <http://
www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm>.
Eliyah.com (Strong’s Concordance)
If you use Strong’s from Eliyah.com, cite so:
Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. New York: Abingdon, 1958.
Eliyah.com. n.d. 26 Feb. 2012 <http://www.eliyah.com/lexicon.html>.
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Some format notes on the word study.
Italicize words used as words, e.g., “Whenever charis is used in the New Testament...”; “Grace is a
favorite word for Paul.”
Remove quotation marks from definitions where rewording (e.g., expansion) was done.
In definitions, delete # references to other related words if those words themselves are not supplied.
In definitions, expand abbreviations, or delete them if they don’t help the English reader. Abbreviations
include idiom. (= idiomatic[ally]), impl. (= implication), figur. (= figure or figuratively),
metaph. (= metaphor[ically]).
In definitions, expand the symbols:
:- to “This word is translated in the King James as....”
x to “This word is used in a Greek/Hebrew idiom to mean....”
+ to “This word, used in conjunction with another word, is translated as....”