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Hebrew equivalent of Greek words?


Paul Daunno

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A month or so ago my Pastor preached on James 4:7 "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." He went in depth into the Greek and in particular the word "hupotasso". It made me interested in knowing if the word "subject" in 1 Peter 3:1 was the same Greek word - "Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands ..." I went to Accordance to find the answer and sure enough it was. A word study on the key number G5293, hupotasso, was born! In fact, this type of word study is a personal first http://www.accordancebible.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif. I'm using the ESVS to do my study and a search for G5293 found 37 hits in 31 verses. I've studied each verse to the best of my ability, making notes in a User Tool, etc. Now I'm curious if this word (or a Hebrew word that has the same meaning) is found in the OT. Is this possible and if so how would I accomplish it? I'm running 9.0.5 of Accordance and have the Library Standard Collection plus a few other individual modules. If there's other Texts, Tools, etc. that would help let me know what those are.

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There is not currently a text with key numbers that link the Old Testament English text to the LXX, which is what you would need to do this kind of word study using key numbers. (I have requested such a version of the NETS-New English Translation of the Septuagint--but I am quite certain that such a project is a huge undertaking and may not be feasible at all)

 

It is possible to do such a study with the original language texts, however. I do this all the time, searching the LXX for uses of a word I encounter in the GNT-T. I did a quick search, and hupotasso occurs 28 times in the LXX: 1 Kings 10:15; 1 Chr 22:18; 29:24; 2 Chr 9:14; Esth 13:1

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Hi, Paul!

 

If you are ready and willing to do many of these kinds of studies, you should probably consider moving to the Scholar's Collections!

 

Lorinda's suggestion is good, but there is another "quick and dirty" method you may want to try in the meantime.

 

A good Bible dictionary, lexicon or wordbook may be able to give you the rough Hebrew equivalent for the Greek. Look up the English equivalent ("submission"), then read the article. In particular, you are looking for the Hebrew word(s) that the article says are the rough equivalent of the Greek. If the [Holman Dictionary, which you probably own] article doesn't give them, look up the various OT passages it cites in the article, then find the Hebrew word(s) for yourself. Identify the Strong's number for it by using your cursor and the Instant Details box—and you're good to go!

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Another good option is to use a topical Bible, like Nave's. You could do a search first for the topic Submission. In Nave's, you will be referred to Obedience. You could then look at the different OT passages it lists under that heading. You can also search Nave's by Scripture Reference to see what other topics or verses are related to the ones in question. After you search for your key number in the NT, look up a few of the hit verses in Nave's and see what topics they cover. You can find subjects related to submission and corresponding OT verses that way, which will help you locate key words to study.

 

For this kind of English study, I would recommend you get the New International Dictionary of NT Theology from Zondervan (http://www.accordancebible.com/store/details/?pid=NIDNTT) with the Zondervan Essentials Suite (http://www.accordancebible.com/store/details/?pid=Essential+ZBSS). The Essentials Suite would provide a keyed NIV text that links to NIDNTT. NIDNTT is a rather complete dictionary of NT word usage, but it also gives the OT background and equivalent words in the Hebrew text. If you are wanting to do word studies without delving into original language texts, these two resources would be a great help.

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For this kind of English study, I would recommend you get the New International Dictionary of NT Theology from Zondervan (http://www.accordancebible.com/store/details/?pid=NIDNTT) with the Zondervan Essentials Suite (http://www.accordancebible.com/store/details/?pid=Essential+ZBSS). The Essentials Suite would provide a keyed NIV text that links to NIDNTT. NIDNTT is a rather complete dictionary of NT word usage, but it also gives the OT background and equivalent words in the Hebrew text. If you are wanting to do word studies without delving into original language texts, these two resources would be a great help.

 

I certainly agree. NIDNTT and NIDOTT are excellent resources. I much prefer them to their more "scholarly" cousins. However, you don't necessarily need the NIV-G/K to use them. You can amplify any Accordance key number text directly to any Greek or Hebrew tool. Accordance will automatically use the Greek/Hebrew lemma to search the Greek/Hebrew language field for a match.

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There is not currently a text with key numbers that link the Old Testament English text to the LXX, which is what you would need to do this kind of word study using key numbers. (I have requested such a version of the NETS-New English Translation of the Septuagint--but I am quite certain that such a project is a huge undertaking and may not be feasible at all)

 

It is possible to do such a study with the original language texts, however. I do this all the time, searching the LXX for uses of a word I encounter in the GNT-T. I did a quick search, and hupotasso occurs 28 times in the LXX: 1 Kings 10:15; 1 Chr 22:18; 29:24; 2 Chr 9:14; Esth 13:1

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