1. English sources for English words (Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine &
Covenants, Pearl of Great Price)
The CBD Parallel Bible (Rel/Fam Ref. BS 125 .B5 2003)
[Contains four of the most commonly used English translations of the 21st century:
the King James Version, the New King James Version, the New International Version,
and the New Living Translation]
The Contemporary Parallel New Testament (Rel/Fam Ref. BS 2025
1997 .K64)
[Contains the KJV, New American Standard, New Century, Contemporary English,
New International, New Living Translation, New KJV, and The Message translations
into English]
Eight Translation New Testament (Rel/Fam Ref. BS 2025 1974 .C48) [Contains the KJV, The Living Bible, Phillips Modern English, Revised Standard Version, Today's English Version, New International Version, Jerusalem Bible, New English Bible]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language,
1828
(Hum. Ref. PE 1625 .W3) [English definitions contemporary with Joseph Smith]
Oxford English Dictionary (Hum. Ref. PE 1625 .O87)
[Available on the Web at http://dictionary.oed.com/entrance.dtl]
2. English sources for Hebrew and Greek words and their meanings (Bible only)
The Anchor Bible Dictionary (Rel/Fam Ref. BS 440 .A54)
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (Rel/Fam Ref. BS 425 .S8)
[numerically coded to all sources below with *] [Available on the Web Eliyah.com]
3. Hebrew words and meanings only (Old Testament)
Botterweck, Theological Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and
Exegesis
(Rel/Fam Ref. BS 440 .B5713) [more detailed etymologies]
Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures
(Rel/Fam Ref. PJ 4833 .G4)* [basic meanings]
JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh: The Traditional Hebrew Text and the
New JPS Translation (Rel/Fam Ref. BS 895 .J4) [Old Testament translation by
the Jewish Publication Society, 1999]
Van Gemeren, The New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and
Exegesis (Rel/Fam Ref. BS 440 .N438)* [more detailed meanings and exegesis]
4. Greek words and meanings only (New Testament)
Balz, Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament (Rel/Fam Ref. BS 2312 .E913) [incomplete]
Brown, The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology
(Rel/Fam Ref. BS 2397 .N48) [briefer version of Kittel below]
The Complete Word Study Dictionary of the New Testament (Rel/Fam Ref. PA 881 .Z63)*
The English Hexapla (Rel/Fam Ref. BS 2025 1841 .S36x) [Contains the Greek, Wiclif, Tyndale, Cranmer, Genevan, Rheims, and King James in parallel columns]
Kittel, Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (Rel/Fam
Ref. BS 2312 .K58x)
[detailed meanings and word etymologies]
The New International Version Interlinear Greek-English New Testament
(Rel/Fam Ref. BS 1965)
The Precise Parallel New Testament (Rel/Fam Ref. BS 2025 1995 .P743x) [Contains the Greek, KJV, Rheims, Amplified, New International Version, New Revised Standard, New American, and New American Standard versions in English]
5. Online sources for exegesis
(from the Library Website under Subjects > Religion)
New Testament
Gateway
English
translations of the Bible at
http://collections.chadwyck.com/bie/htxview?template=basic.htx&content=frameset.htx
Gary P. Gillum, September 2, 2005