Theological Dicitonary of the Old TestamentG. Johannes Botterweck, Helmer Ringgren This multivolume work is still proving to be as fundamental to Old Testament studies as its companion set, the Kittel-Friedrich Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, has been to New Testament studies. Beginning with father, and continuing through the alphabet, the TDOT volumes present in-depth discussions of the key Hebrew and Aramaic words in the Old Testament. Leading scholars of various religious traditions (including Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, Greek Orthodox, and Jewish) and from many parts of the world (Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States) have been carefully selected for each article by editors Botterweck, Ringgren, and Fabry and their consultants, George W. Anderson, Henri Cazelles, David Noel Freedman, Shemaryahu Talmon, and Gerhard Wallis. The intention of the writers is to concentrate on meaning, starting from the more general, everyday senses and building to an understanding of theologically significant concepts. To avoid artificially restricting the focus of the articles, TDOT considers under each keyword the larger groups of words that are related linguistically or semantically. The lexical work includes detailed surveys of a word s occurrences, not only in biblical material but also in other ancient Near Eastern writings. Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian, Ethiopic, Ugaritic, and Northwest Semitic sources are surveyed, among others, as well as the Qumran texts and the Septuagint; and in cultures where no cognate word exists, the authors often consider cognate ideas. TDOT s emphasis, though, is on Hebrew terminology and on biblical usage. The contributors employ philology as well as form-critical and traditio-historical methods, with the aim of understanding the religious statements in the Old Testament. Extensive bibliographical information adds to the value of this reference work. This English edition attempts to serve the needs of Old Testament students without the linguistic background of more advanced scholars; it does so, however, without sacrificing the needs of the latter. Ancient scripts (Hebrew, Greek, etc.) are regularly transliterated in a readable way, and meanings of foreign words are given in many cases where the meanings might be obvious to advanced scholars. Where the Hebrew text versification differs from that of English Bibles, the English verse appears in parentheses. Such features will help all earnest students of the Bible to avail themselves of the manifold theological insights contained in this monumental work. |
Contents
Editors Preface V | xi |
Transliteration | xx |
terror Zobel אֵימְתָן אָים émah éma אֵימָה | xxii |
perish destroy Otzen אֲבַדּוֹן אַבְדָן אֲבֵדָה abhadh abad אָבַד | 19 |
11 ebhyôn ebyôn poor Botterweck | 27 |
abhîr abîr a strong Mighty One Kapelrud | 42 |
1ebhen eben stone Kapelrud | 48 |
ādhôn āḍôn lord the Lord Eissfeldt | 59 |
X Žsh 1š 78 man woman Bratsiotis | 236 |
widow Hoffner אַלְמָנוּת almanah almand אַלְמָנָה | 261 |
anan 8 10 nog be faithful believe truth Jepsen | 267 |
be strong Schreiner מַאֲמָץ אַמִּיץ אַמְצָה אֹמֶץ amats amas אָמַץ | 323 |
end Hamp אֶפֶס ps אפס | 361 |
lion Botterweck שַׁחַל יְלָיִשׁ לָבִיא קְפִיר גּוּר אַרְיֵה 4ri אֲרִי | 374 |
Perets eres land Ottosson Bergman | 388 |
DVṆ āshām āšām DWN DWN MYN sin be guilty Kellermann | 429 |
mighty Ahlström אַדֶּרֶת addir אַדִּיר | 73 |
dhāmāh ªdāmâ land Plöger | 88 |
ahabh ahab 8 8 7 love Wallis Bergman Haldar | 99 |
nix ôth ôt sign Helfmeyer | 167 |
Techadh eḥād one Lohfink Bergman | 193 |
blessed Cazelles אַשְׁרֵי | 445 |
ʼn bābhel bābel Babel Ringgren | 466 |
bādhādh bāḍāḍ 13 777 alone Zobel | 473 |
Other editions - View all
Theological Dicitonary of the Old Testament G. Johannes Botterweck,Helmer Ringgren Snippet view - 1974 |
Theological Dicitonary of the Old Testament G. Johannes Botterweck,Helmer Ringgren Snippet view - 1974 |
Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament: Volume 1 G. Johannes Botterweck,Helmer Ringgren No preview available - 2011 |
Common terms and phrases
abhah abhal Abraham According adham adhamah adhon adhonai ahabh Ahaz Akkadian amar Amorite ancient Ancient Near East anger appears Arabic Aramaic Asherah aven Ba'al badhadh brother Canaan Canaanite concept connection context covenant cult cultic curse darkness David deity Deuteronomy divine earth ebhyon Egypt Egyptian elohim emeth emphasizes emunah enemies epithet erets Etymology expression faith father formula God's gods he'emin heaven Hebrew hiphil Ibid idea idem interpretation ishshah Israel Israelite Jerusalem Josh kephir king land light lion literature Lord meaning Moses occurs ohel oracle original parallelism passages patriarchal Pentateuch person promise proper name prophetic Prov Psalms Qumran reference relationship root salvation sanctuary Semitic Semitic languages speaks statements TDNT tent texts theological theophany tion tradition trans Ugaritic verb Wisdom Wisdom Literature word worship Yahweh yhvh Zimmerli