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- noun Plural form of
lexicon .
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Just translate word for word as much as is possible, and beware of inventing meanings not in Greek lexicons based on speculation or homiletical desire.
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Just translate word for word as much as is possible, and beware of inventing meanings not in Greek lexicons based on speculation or homiletical desire.
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She further testified that if the Lexicon is published—giving “carte blanche to . . . anyone who wants to make a quick bit of money” by drawing freely from her works and opening the doors to “a surfeit of substandard so-called lexicons and guides”—she would have much less incentive to write her own book.
Archive 2008-09-07 2008
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"Should my fans be flooded with a surfeit of substandard books -- so-called lexicons -- I'm not sure I'd have the will or heart to continue," said Ms. Rowling on the first day of a copyright trial in federal court in Manhattan that pitted Ms. Rowling and Time Warner Inc. 's Warner Bros.
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She further testified that if the Lexicon is published—giving “carte blanche to . . . anyone who wants to make a quick bit of money” by drawing freely from her works and opening the doors to “a surfeit of substandard so-called lexicons and guides”—she would have much less incentive to write her own book.
B2fxxx 2008
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Some inferences which may be gathered from this general fact are the following: -- First, that less weight should be given to lexicons, that is, to the authority of other Greek writers, and more to the context.
Scripture and Truth: Dissertations by the Late Benjamin Jowett with Introduction by Lewis Campbell. 1817-1893 1907
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Some inferences which may be gathered from this general fact are the following: — First, that less weight should be given to lexicons, that is, to the authority of other Greek writers, and more to the context.
The Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Galatians and Romans: Essays and Dissertations 1817-1893 1894
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Some inferences which may be gathered from this general fact, are the following: — First, that less weight should be given to lexicons, that is, to the authority of other Greek writers, and more to the context.
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She further testified that if the Lexicon is published -- giving "carte blanche to ... anyone who wants to make a quick bit of money" by drawing freely from her works and opening the doors to "a surfeit of substandard so-called lexicons and guides" -- she would have much less incentive to write her own book.
unalog 2008
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Different languages have different syntaxes and lexicons, which is bound to fuck with any low-level patterning based on poetical/rhetorical repetitions of sounds and structures.
Translation and Style Hal Duncan 2008
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