Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words is a classic work. Many have recognized it as very valuable in the past, but modern Greek scholars have some problems with it now-a-days. The problem comes in when one presumes that the formation of a word controls its meaning forever. That is just not so. As languages are fluid, people begin using words with a different meaning from what the root parts of the word are. So the actual meaning of a word in real time use today maybe different from what the word’s roots meant when it was first introduced into the language. The English word “prevent” meant originally to go before. That is the meaning in the KJV (being closer to the time when the word was first introduced into the language). Today the word means to stop something from happening. 1 Thessalonians 4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. So as you can see, the correct understanding of this word “prevent” is to go before something else. But in our modern day meaning, the…
Hastings Hastings Dictionary of the NT
Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language
Concordance of Bishops Bible 1568
Jewish Encyclopedia (1901)
Anon-Plants animals of Bible
Liddell Scott Greek-English Lexicon is a classic work for those who study Greek. This focuses on classical Greek as a comparison of Biblical Greek.
Church Fathers by Topic
From the co-author of the classic Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Commentary, Fausset’s Bible Dictionary stands as one of the best single-volume Bible encyclopedias ever written for general use.
This Catholic dictionary is from 1990. It has thousands of short articles that seek to explain things from the Catholic point of view. Buyer beware!