Bible Word Study Linguistics

General references

• SIL: Glossary of linguistic terms

Methodology

• In-depth word study: Introduction and Aids | William J. Larkin, Jr.

For the beginner: concepts applied in (usually) English

• Part of Speech (Lexical category) |Wikipedia
• Grammatical Category | Wikipedia
• Syntactic Category | Wikipedia
• Grammatical Polarity | Wikipedia
• Cognate | Wikipedia
• Types of Definitions | Wikipedia index
• Etymology | Wikipedia
• -onym | Wikipedia – for fun as much as for word relationships

• Word Study Dangers: Overview | Participatory Bible Study Blog
• Word Study Dangers: The Process | Participatory Bible Study Blog
• Word Study Dangers: Glosses and Definitions | Participatory Bible Study Blog
• Word Study Dangers: Your Dependence on Scholars | Participatory Bible Study Blog
• From Word to Study | Participatory Bible Study Blog

• Roots
• Senses | WordNet, the base of the Bible Sense Lexicon
• Word families: “I should like to use the term “paronym” to indicate the intralingual (language specific) word family member, reserving Matisoff’s term “allofam” for the inter-linguistic word family member.” from Making Waves in Proto-Sino-Tibetan: Ripples of PST <WAVE>
• Etymology analysis | STEDT
• Word relationships | WordNet Glossary section only