Theological Lexicon of the New Testament

Ceslas Spicq, O.P.

Translated and Edited by James D. Ernest

Copyright © 1994 by Hendrickson Publishers, Inc.

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Translated from: Ceslas Spicq, O.P. Notes de lexicographie néo-testamentaire, 3 volumes (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 22/1, 2, 3); © 1978, 1982, Editions Universitaires, Fribourg, Switzerland.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Spicq, Ceslas, 1901–1993

[Notes de lexicographie néo-testamentaire. English]

Theological lexicon of the New Testament / Ceslas Spicq: translated and edited by James D. Ernest.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Greek language, Biblical—Semantics. 2. Greek language, Biblical—Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. I. Ernest, James D. II. Title.

PA875.S613 1994 94–42932

487′.4—dc20 CIP

The article ἀπαρχή is a translation of “ἈΠΑΡΧΗ. NOTE DE LEXICOGRAPHIE NÉO-TESTAMENTAIRE.” by Celas Spicq, in The New Testament Age. Essays in Honor of Bo Reicke (Macon: Mercer Universtiy Press, 1984), volume 2, pages 493–502, and is used with persmission by Mercer University Press, 1400 Coleman Avenue, Macon, GA 31207.

Table of Contents

Volume 1

Preface

Translator’s Preface

Table of Greek Words

Abbreviations: Bible, Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Rabbinic and Mishnaic Writings, Qumran

Abbreviations: Ancient Greek and Latin Writers

Abbreviations: Papyri and Ostraca

Abbreviations: Inscriptions

Abbreviations: General Works

Abbreviations: Periodicals

Transliteration Tables

Articles in Volume 1

Articles in Volume 2

Articles in Volume 3

List of Greek Words

List of English Glosses

Index of Ancient Sources

Index of Strong’s Numbers

Preface

I have often been asked to bring together in one volume the NT word studies scattered throughout my previous works, especially in the commentaries. I could not simply collect them as they were, even filling in the references and bringing the bibliographies up to date. Still less could I think of producing an exhaustive work, a project so perfectly completed by the dictionaries of W. Bauer or Moulton-Milligan,1 not to mention the grammars,2 some of the articles in the Theologisches Wörterbuch of G. Kittel and G. Friedrich,3 and especially A. Deissmann’s Licht vom Osten (Tübingen, 1923; ET Light from the Ancient East, New York, 1927), Bibelstudien, (Marburg, 1895) and Neue Bibelstudien (Marburg, 1897).

Not only do I study a restricted choice of words, but also my intention is theological. What interests me is not orthographic novelties, idioms, phonetics, or declensions, but the semantics and the religious and moral sense of the language of the NT.4 This language has its own rules and its own vocabulary. One cannot understand it except in light of the usages of the Greek language as it was spoken and written in the oikoumene of the first century, which is called “standard Koine,” the popular language understood by the hearers and readers of the NT authors....