Best 1-vol Bible Dictionary?
Happy Boxing Day everyone! I hope your Christmas was a peaceful one (with far too much turkey gravy tho! 
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Just a question for discussion: what do you think is the best single volume Bible Dictionary?
For my part I vote for the Nelson's New Illustrated Bible Dictionary which I bought years ago in paper format, and now have in Logos, which has never failed to find a word I'm looking for (well, till today, anyway, when I went looking for the word "Shephelah", which isn't in there, LOL!) But for my money, there is no better or more affordable dictionary that I would recommend to the new student of the Word.
Any others you'd recommend?
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I think you expanded your specs (smiling). Must be the gravy.
- Single volume (I guess originally, since Logos combines them, for most dictionaries?)
- For a new student of the Word
Initially, I would have picked the Lexham dictionary ... very low price (free!) and has pretty much everything, with good depth. Wouldn't be my pick (instead Anchor, or the IVP series, both multi-volume).
But then you expanded to a new student; hmmm. Something like your choice indeed would probably be best, I think. Too much depth can discourage or go off the rails. Illustrated, yes. Easily available. Yep.
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I go with Eerdmans, but the New Bible Dictionary is also good.
The Gospel is not ... a "new law," on the contrary, ... a "new life." - William Julius Mann
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I think the Lexham Bible Dictionary is quite incredible considering it is free.
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Bible Lexham Dictionary and combine that with the Faithlife Study Bible and you'll have a good entry level set of tools to get you started. Plus, they link to each other.
DAL
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Fore me, it would be either, The New Bible Commentary or the ESV Study Bible.
mm.
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I like several of the ones mentioned already, but I also appreciate the one from Harpercollins and often use it for a quick reference/overview.
https://www.logos.com/product/27782/harpercollins-bible-dictionary
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I like several of the ones mentioned already, but I also appreciate the one from Harpercollins and often use it for a quick reference/overview.
https://www.logos.com/product/27782/harpercollins-bible-dictionary
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Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell said:
what do you think is the best single volume Bible Dictionary?
For my purposes, this one.
“The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.” St. Peter of Alcántara
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Cool! Thanks for all your replies... I was just interested in what people like to go to. I must agree with Kevin as well that the free Lexham Bible Dictionary is most impressive. I know that it's always being updated in Logos. So do Lexham press have a paper copy of it available? Or has this been strictly developed as a Logos resource? I looked around but couldn't find anything.
Just curious.
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The Lexham Bible Dictionary as far as I’m aware is only digital, and was in fact designed to be a digital resource from the word go, rather than be a print resource converted to digital.
My go to single volume dictionary is ‘The New Bible Dictionary (3rd Edition)’ by IVP. The black dictionaries also by IVP are a great multivolume series.
Current MDiv student at Trinity Theological College - Perth, Western Australia
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