L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #297 Find Greek (or Hebrew) words for an English word

MJ. Smith
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edited November 21 in English Forum

Another tip of the day (TOTD) series for Logos/Verbum 10. They will be short and often drawn from forum posts. Feel free to ask questions and/or suggest forum posts you'd like to see included. Adding comments about the behavior on mobile and web apps would be appreciated by your fellow forumites. A search for "L/V 10+ Tip of the Day site:community.logos.com" on Google should bring the tips up as should this Reading List within the application.

This tip is inspired by the forum post: Word study loneliness - Logos Forums

How does one find the Greek word(s) for loneliness in order to do a word study?

Simply open a BWS and enter the word loneliness ... you may need to change the translation or the word form to get answers. My results for lonely in the NRSV.

A place to start with that (a thematic approach) is by entering loneliness or lonely into Factbook. There you'll find links to articles and key passages in the Bible. Those may (and are lonely to) introduce other related words. Taking those words and doing a Bible Word Study (BWS) like MJ showed will help identify Hebrew and Greek words that you can then study.

Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

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