Hi all. I am interested in what type of modules people would like to have for e-Sword? I make modules of all sorts for people to study the Word of God.
thanks
Patchworkid
Thank you for your labor of love.
One thing lacking in my personal study library are actual complete Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Chaldee, Biblical Aramaic, and Biblical Greek dictionaries. I do have modules with the word "dictionary" or "lexicon" in the title, but these works are not actual dictionaries in the sense of the word "dictionary". For example, the popular Strong's Dictionary is coded with numbers for every word it references in Scripture, but were you aware that the majority of the words in Scripture are not the same words found in the Strong's Dictionary? Please allow me to clarify my thoughts.
The Strong's Dictionary, and most of the other modules I have within this portion of my library are limited because the majority of the words in them are simply root words. These are not the actual words you will find in your Hebrew/Chaldee/Aramaic, or Aramaic/Greek Bibles. To illustrate, do a search on Strong's number G3056. Strong's Dictionary will show this Strong's number as the Greek word "logos". But not every word in any Bible with Strong's numbers is the same word found in the Strong's Dictionary. The word found in the Strong's Dictionary is spelled Lambda Sigma Gamma Omicron ( or Omikron) Sigma (with the last Sigma written differently because it is at the end of the word).
However, e-Sword found 331 results in a New Testament search for Strong's number G3056. In these results I found my favorite Scripture, which is John 8:31, where it reads, "¶ Then said Yahushua (Jesus) to those Yahudim (Jews) which believed on him, If you continue in my word G3056, then are ye my disciples indeed;" However, and this is my point, this specific verse does not show the same exact word found in Strong's Dictionary, nor in most other lexicons and dictionaries in my library. The word for Strong's number G3056 found in John 8:31 uses a different inflection (form) of itself. Basically, all this means is that it is spelled differently. Yet, this also means, it cannot have the exact same definition. Is the definition similar? It depends on the word. But who wants similar.Are you satisfied with similar when you pop open Webster's, Merriam's, or the American Heritage dictionaries? Do you even think that to look for similar in one of these dictionaries is profitable? And please don't get me wrong. I am not making this point over such things as word ending alone, where an -s, -ing, or -ed ending will still have a similar definition among the different spellings of the words. The differences I am pointing out are not even referenced in the lexicons and dictionaries in my library.
To continue, just because some of the letters are the same does not make the definition the same. Personally, I think this is a serious error, and a common mistake among believers, to whom this thought has not yet come to mind. In John 8:31, the word is spelled Lambda Sigma Gamma Omega. The e-Sword module, "Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary of the New Testament" just so happens to define this occurrence of this word as "doctrine", which I later found to also be defined in as "instruction" in the e-Sword module, "Thayer's Unabridged Greek - English Lexicon of the New Testament". Also, the Easy-to-Read Version, Good News Bible, and Weymouth New Testament all use the word "teaching" here. This simple study showed me a similar meaning between this occurrence of this word, and the common definition of the Hebrew word "torah H8451" which some like to define as teaching and instruction because of the underlying relation torah has to "yarah H3384". But what about the words that these two hyperlinked works, above, do not include? In fact, what about the Aramaic, Hebrew, and Chaldee words of Scripture?
I hope I was able to clearly communicate my thoughts. If you or anyone else can make a module of this sort, that includes a definition for each word in Scripture, Old and New Testament, that would truly be a dearly needed work. We hunger and thirst for righteousness, and we are currently being filled on root words, and their dissimilar definitions. LoL Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of Elohim, so I hope we can have an easily accessible definition for every word. Root words, and their definitions alone lead us astray, even if our intentions are genuinely good. This is real life here, and we need real substance, not make believe, but belief supported by accurate knowledge.
Now, with all of that said, I wish to end with my thanks to you. Some of the work you and others have already added to this site, I already downloaded and put to good use. Thank you for your labor of love. May YAHAH bless you and keep you in His peace.
Shalom
