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BIBLICAL WORDS AND THEIR MEANING: AN INTRODUCTION TO LEXICAL SEMANTICS
Moises Silva

Price: $19.99
Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 224pp.
ISBN: 0310479819
Publisher: Zondervan Publishing House
Pub. Date: July  1994
Edition Desc : Rev. and expanded ed

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Annotation
A revised and expanded edition to present a comprehensive exposition of biblical lexicology.

From the Publisher
Authors of an earlier century who filled title pages with never-ending qualifications knew what they were doing. How can one adequately describe the contents of a book in one or two phrases? The present work, for example, makes the pretension of covering the broad field of word meanings in the Bible, a task that cannot be executed in one volume without oversimplifying the material. But on the other hand, unsuspecting readers who have not given much prior thought to linguistics may notice the subtitle and decide to tackle the book, only to wonder what my brand of semantics has done to the simple word 'introduction.'

 Table of Contents
Preface to the Second Edition 8
Preface 9
Abbreviations 13
Introduction 17
1 Etymology 35
2 Semantic Change and the Role of the Septuagint 53
3 Semantic Change in the New Testament 75
4 Some Basic Concepts 101
5 Sense Relations 119
6 Determining Meaning 137
Conclusions 171
Annotated Bibliography 179
Recent Developments in Semantics 183
Appendix: Distinguishing the Meaning of Greek Verbs in the Semantic Domain for Worship 201
Index of Authors and Titles 212
Index of Subjects and Glossary 218
Index of Greek Words 221
Index of Hebrew and Aramaic Words 222
Index of Biblical References 223