Looking Up God’s Word: How to Use Greek and Hebrew Word Tools Without Knowing Greek and Hebrew

You do not need to read Greek or Hebrew to study the words behind your English Bible. You need to know how to find a word, how to read what the tools say about it, and how to check that what you found is true. Those three skills can be learned, and the tools that teach them are free on a phone, a tablet, or a computer at the public library.

This handbook is written for the Bible class teacher who has a lesson on Wednesday and no seminary training. It is written for the young preacher in a small congregation with no library budget, and for the bivocational preacher who studies at the kitchen table after a full day's work.

Inside you will find what a lexicon is and what it is not, how the Strong's number opens the door, and step-by-step directions for Blue Letter Bible, STEPBible, Bible Hub, and e-Sword. You will learn a seven-step word study and six traps every preacher must avoid. Then you will walk through five complete word studies, three in Greek and two in Hebrew, including ekklesia, agapao and phileo, and chesed. The last chapters carry a word study into the pulpit and the classroom, and close with a lesson simple enough for a ten-year-old.

At the back: worksheets you may copy for your own study and for classes in your congregation, a quick reference to the tools, and a glossary.

64 pages. Digital PDF, delivered instantly. Scripture quotations from the American Standard Version (1901).

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Dr. John W. Edmerson, DMin. The Dr. John W. Edmerson Teaching Series. Edmerson Ministry Publications, Cincinnati, Ohio.