Part 1.
Lexicography is the science of words, that branch of learning which teaches and applies the proper meaning and correct application of words to a subject. This science is a systematic study of words that has been placed on the table, made ready to be disected.
A lexicon is a dictionary; a vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language, with the definition of each, or an explanation of its meaning.
A linguist, is a person skilled in languages. This term is usually applied to a person well versed in the languages. They are acknowledged as teaches of Languages. They write the books. Most of the great Linguist have taught in the universities of the world. They are not one or two year Bible students.
To define a word, or the definition of a word, is to give an explanation of the signification of a word or term, or to give the idea of what a word is understood to express.
What does it mean to translate?
To translate is to interpret from one language into another language, words, phrases, etc. It is also to express the sense of one language in the words of another. The Hebrew O.T. was translated into the Greek language more than two hundred years before Christ. Since then, both the Old and the New Testaments have been translated into most every language of the world. This work has been finished and completed by those whose love for God, and His Word were foremost in their minds and hearts.
Why do we need Lexicons and Dictionaries? And who are the people behind these work?
A full and scientific dictionary, or lexicon of any language, embraces a wide field of research. The serious scholars who pursue the study of languages, both critically and philologically, will not rest until they have traced each word to its origin, investigating each words primitive form and meaning.
These establish the various forms and senses of words and phrases. Their study includes the way words have been used throughout different periods of history, the particular people with their dialects, and the manner and order in which all these are deduced from the original root usage. This step is very important in getting at the truth of a words meaning. This is a step left out today, because of personal biases, lack of effort, and rush to publish.
Lexicocographers observe the relationship to which the words and phrases stand to other words, both in construction, phrases, and the various modifications which they has undergone in these respects. When all these above points are properly learned with certainty and arranged in their own minds, then have these scholars mastered the word in question. With the transcript of their view, the necessary documentation, then is the true lexicography of the words published.
This is justly termed the historological method of Lexicography. This has grown out of the general progress of the study of ancient literature and of relevant fields. It is linguistics, historical, logical, and comparative.
1. Historical linguistcs: This in the sense that a word, phrase, or passage which is deduced from the circumstances of time, place, and under which it was written, its primary sense, as opposed to any secondary or even more remote sense.
2. Logical linguistcs: Logic is the science of correct reasoning, implying correct thinking and legitimate inferences from premises, which are principles assumed or admitted to be correct. Logic includes the art of thinking, as well as the art of reasoning.
Isa.1:18, "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD." The Lord demands correct reasoning, correct thinking, and Holy principles in the study of His word.
3. Comparative linguistcs: It is to estimate by comparison. Example, our body may be considered heavy when compared to a feather, but light when compared to a truck. To compare is to set or bring things together in fact, or in contemplation, and to examine the relations they bear to each other, with a view to ascertain their agreement or disagreement. God's word is truth, is light, is life, is the way.
The above proceed upon the supposition, that a language is in itself ancient and independent of every other language. Its words may therefore be traced to their ultimate roots within itself. This is true in both the Greek and Hebrew languages.
Phil LaSpino www.seekfirstwisdom.com
Lexicography is the science of words, that branch of learning which teaches and applies the proper meaning and correct application of words to a subject. This science is a systematic study of words that has been placed on the table, made ready to be disected.
A lexicon is a dictionary; a vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language, with the definition of each, or an explanation of its meaning.
A linguist, is a person skilled in languages. This term is usually applied to a person well versed in the languages. They are acknowledged as teaches of Languages. They write the books. Most of the great Linguist have taught in the universities of the world. They are not one or two year Bible students.
To define a word, or the definition of a word, is to give an explanation of the signification of a word or term, or to give the idea of what a word is understood to express.
What does it mean to translate?
To translate is to interpret from one language into another language, words, phrases, etc. It is also to express the sense of one language in the words of another. The Hebrew O.T. was translated into the Greek language more than two hundred years before Christ. Since then, both the Old and the New Testaments have been translated into most every language of the world. This work has been finished and completed by those whose love for God, and His Word were foremost in their minds and hearts.
Why do we need Lexicons and Dictionaries? And who are the people behind these work?
A full and scientific dictionary, or lexicon of any language, embraces a wide field of research. The serious scholars who pursue the study of languages, both critically and philologically, will not rest until they have traced each word to its origin, investigating each words primitive form and meaning.
These establish the various forms and senses of words and phrases. Their study includes the way words have been used throughout different periods of history, the particular people with their dialects, and the manner and order in which all these are deduced from the original root usage. This step is very important in getting at the truth of a words meaning. This is a step left out today, because of personal biases, lack of effort, and rush to publish.
Lexicocographers observe the relationship to which the words and phrases stand to other words, both in construction, phrases, and the various modifications which they has undergone in these respects. When all these above points are properly learned with certainty and arranged in their own minds, then have these scholars mastered the word in question. With the transcript of their view, the necessary documentation, then is the true lexicography of the words published.
This is justly termed the historological method of Lexicography. This has grown out of the general progress of the study of ancient literature and of relevant fields. It is linguistics, historical, logical, and comparative.
1. Historical linguistcs: This in the sense that a word, phrase, or passage which is deduced from the circumstances of time, place, and under which it was written, its primary sense, as opposed to any secondary or even more remote sense.
2. Logical linguistcs: Logic is the science of correct reasoning, implying correct thinking and legitimate inferences from premises, which are principles assumed or admitted to be correct. Logic includes the art of thinking, as well as the art of reasoning.
Isa.1:18, "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD." The Lord demands correct reasoning, correct thinking, and Holy principles in the study of His word.
3. Comparative linguistcs: It is to estimate by comparison. Example, our body may be considered heavy when compared to a feather, but light when compared to a truck. To compare is to set or bring things together in fact, or in contemplation, and to examine the relations they bear to each other, with a view to ascertain their agreement or disagreement. God's word is truth, is light, is life, is the way.
The above proceed upon the supposition, that a language is in itself ancient and independent of every other language. Its words may therefore be traced to their ultimate roots within itself. This is true in both the Greek and Hebrew languages.
Phil LaSpino www.seekfirstwisdom.com
