Update the Bible Word Study

MJ. Smith
MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 55,128
edited April 14 in English Suggestions

I rarely use the Bible Word Study Guide as a whole although I use sections of it in other contexts This is for two reasons:

  1. It isn't old enough in its methodology to support the philology I was trained in
  2. It isn't modern enough in its methodology to support basic modern linguistics

Please add an etymology section to support philology. This should contain:

  • root in PIE for Greek/Latin and PS for Hebrew/Aramaic/Syriac
  • cognate words in related languages
  • other words sharing the root
  • decomposition of the word into its morphemes
  • stems and conjugation/declination classes

Please add a constituent part of section. This should contain all the idioms, fixed phrases, collocations, cliches and other multi-word lexical units of which this word is a part.

Please add a related words section which includes:

  • synonym/antonym
  • hyponym/hypernym
  • meronym/holonym
  • polysemy/heteronym
  • homonym/homophome/homograph
  • troponym/pertainym

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  • NichtnurBibelleser
    NichtnurBibelleser Member Posts: 621 ✭✭✭

    Please add an etymology section to support philology.

    +1 - absolutely!

    Please add a related words section which includes:

    +1 - Would be nice

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