English definitions from LXX Greek words in Hebrew Word Studies?
I often do Hebrew word studies in order to see what corresponding Greek words were used in the LXX. But my Greek is not that good. i would like to find an easy way of seeing the English definitions for those Greek words, or least the way an English translation of the LXX translates them. Is there a way to do this?
I try to do a Bible Word Study on the GR words but I get no results, since the word study is done on the surface form rather than the lemma.
In the example below, I did a word study on HB gadol. I get a list of over a dozen corresponding GK words, but I can't find a way of looking at the English definition of these words, apart from saving all the verses as a passage list and then looking at that entire list of verses in the Lexham English LXX and then trying to figure out which English word came from the GR word I was looking at. That is very tedious.
I can right click on one of the GR words, such as GK μεγασ and get the option to do a Bible Word Study. That would be great, except i get zero result, since it is searching based on the surface form and not the lemma.
Any advice?
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Interestingly enough, exactly what I would like to see does work in the reverse situation! When I start with a GR new testament word study, I see the corresponding Hebrew words based on the Ralhfs or Swete's LXX, and these Hebrew words are shown with their English translations. Furthermore, when i right click on one of those Hebrew words, for example HB yereq, I can select Bible Word Study and it actually does a productive word study. That is just what I wish i could do when starting from the Hebrew and going to the Greek!
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I can replicate what you're describing: when choosing an LXX in the Translation section in a Hebrew BWS, the lemma information in the LXX isn't used in the translation ring graph. I can't think of a way to make this work the way you want, but have filed a feature suggestion.
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