The Louw-Nida Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains (LN) is a great resource for finding and comparing Greek words in a specific semantic domain.
There is no comparable work for the Hebrew OT, but we do have:
- The Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew from the UBS, but this resource is incomplete, and very little progress seems to be occurring. (It's also rather confusing trying to negotiate the site...)
- Logos offers James Swanson's A Dictionary of Biblical Languages: Hebrew Old Testament which provides links to the semantic domains identified by Louw-Nida. Swanson is well aware of the drawbacks and limitations of such a solution, but it definitely does have value.
BUT (and I'm getting to a question), I can't seem to find anywhere where Swanson's analysis has been indexed in terms of the semantic domains. That is, w/ LN, I can go to domain 1.69-78 and find all the terms related to "Bodies of Water." I can't do the same w/ Swanson, and LN codes embedded in the definitions are not one of the search fields. Thus, it seems the only way to find the Hebrew words in a domain is to do a laborious and cumbersome search within the document using CTRL-F.
Am I missing something? Is there another resource I'm overlooking?
It would be work but not overly difficult (I think) to supply a LN domain index for Swanson...