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Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains is unavailable, but you can change that!

Louw-Nida Greek Lexicon is a modern Greek lexicon using the concept of "semantic domains." This lexicon differs from other lexicons in that it does not arrange words alphabetically and it does not give one listing of a word with all of that word's meanings after it. Instead, it breaks words down by their various shades of meaning. It then groups all of those entries together and organizes them by...

‘verily, verily’), and the nature of the referent (for example, the associations of ναός ‘tabernacle,’ κύων ‘dog,’ and χοῖρος ‘pig’). This means that in determining associative meanings there are a number of dimensions: levels of formality (ritual, formal, informal, casual, and intimate), time (archaic, obsolete, obsolescent, contemporary, modern), social class (highbrow to vulgar), sex (men’s versus women’s speech), age (adults, youth, children), and education (highly educated to illiterate).
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