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Submitted: Oct 30 2012 12:50 PM
Last Updated: Jan 02 2022 09:32 AM
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Author: J B Jackson
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J B Jackson

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9.x - 10.x

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J B Jackson

Some years since, the present writer, in pursuing his studies in the Bible, reached a portion which consisted largely of Proper Names, and at once he was confronted with the fact, that a considerable and, to him, important portion of the Bible was untranslated.

Fully persuaded that “whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning,” and that “all Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine” (Rom. 15:4, 2 Tim. 3:16); and hence that there could be no idle word in God’s Book; he set about preparing an accurate, alphabetical list of all the Proper Names of the Old and New Testaments with a view to securing the best possible renderings of the same.

Fortunately, there was ready access to the works of Cruden, Long, Oliver, Young, Wilkinson, Charnock, McClintock & Strong, Smith’s Bible Dictionary, Abbott’s Dictionary, Imperial Bible Dictionary, Encyclopaedia Biblica, and, before the list was complete, Strong’s Concordance, Tregelles, F. W. Grant, and others.

At the end of about three years, the writer had obtained a meaning for nearly every proper name in the Bible, and, on the recommendation of friends, began preparations for publishing the results of his labours for the benefit of others similarly interested.

His plan was to arrange the names alphabetically, as spelled in our common English Bibles, attaching the meanings he had found in the order in which he considered them to have weight, i.e., in the order in which he considered their sources to be authoritative.

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JodyHarding

Dec 31 2023 12:31 PM

I find this dictionary of Bible names extremely difficult to use. Names do not come up automatically when clicked on in the the Bible window, and have to be searched for in the Topic window. Just typing in the name will also not bring it up, because the name in the list has been separated by spaces between syllables, accent marks, etc. You must type the first letters of the name, then scroll down and hope to find the full name in the list. Again, VERY difficult to use. I gave it 3 stars because, once you find the name you want, the translation is usually very good.

Olaf Bacon

Dec 31 2023 04:01 PM

In reply to JodyHarding, How to find the entry - read the list with your eye. This is NOT a "topic" entry, but a "dictionary" entry. The entries are listed in alphabetical order.

Submitted by david psalms Oct 30, 2012 and last updated Jan 02 2022.

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