Semantics - Hermeneutics

concordance

a book that shows what Greek or Hebrew words are the source for our translated texts

connotative meaning

-the meanings associated with a word outside its particular lexical meanings

-accompany the primary lexical meanings

denotative meaning

the literal or lexical meaning of a word or phrase

determinate meaning

a precise meaning that can be determined nearly objectively by the textual evidence

etymology

the study of a word's beginning and development through linguistic history

figurative meaning of a term

The non-literal, metaphorical meaning of a term

hapax legomena

a word occurring only once in the Old or New Testament

indeterminate meaning

the precise meaning cannot be known by the textual evidence

lexicon

a specialized dictionary that communicates the English equivalents of words in the languages of Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Aramaic, or Koine Greek

literal meaning of a term

The basic usage of a word in its most plain context

morpheme

in language, the smallest unit that carries meaning

morphology

studies word formation and their constituent parts, its morphemes

partial synonym

a word that has some semantic overlap with another

phoneme

-a sound unit of a language that creates distinctions for the readers

-does not communicate a particular meaning by the sound

phonology

the study of a language's sound units, to create distinction so that words and meaning can be differentiated

primary usage (of a word)

the most common way a word is used

secondary usage (of a word)

a not as common way that a word is used

semantic range (in language)

a word's semantic range is the field of possible usages of that word

semantics

the study of word meaning

synonym

a word that shares semantic overlap and meaning with another word