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JOSEPH HENRY THAYER (1828-1901)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 728 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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HENRY
HENRY (1129-1195)
HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY See also:
THAYER, ABBOTT HANDERSON (1849— )
THAYER, JAMES BRADLEY (1831—1902)
JOSEPH HENRY THAYER (1828-1901)
THAYER (1828-1901) , See also:

AMERICAN

American biblical See also:

SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

Boston on the 7th of See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1828 . He studied at the Boston Latin School, and graduated at Harvard in 185o . Subsequently he studied See also:

THEOLOGY

theology at the Harvard Divinity School, and graduated at See also:

ANDOVER

Andover Theological See also:

SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

Seminary in 1857 . He preached in See also:

Quincy, and in 1859—64 in See also:

SALEM

Salem, See also:

MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

Massachusetts, and in 1862—63 was See also:

CHAPLAIN

chaplain of the 4oth Massachusetts See also:

VOLUNTEERS

Volunteers . He was See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of sacred literature in Andover Seminary in 1864—82, and in 1884 succeeded See also:

Ezra See also:

Abbot as Bussey professor of New Testament See also:

criticism in the Harvard Divinity School . He died on the 26th of November 1901, soon after his resignation from the Bussey professorship . He was a member of the American See also:

Bible Revision See also:

COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

Committee and recording secretary of the New Testament See also:

COMPANY

company . His See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

WORKS

works were his See also:

TRANSLATION

translation of See also:

Grimm's Clavis Novi Testa-, menti (1887; revised 1889) as A See also:

Greek-See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

LEXICON

Lexicon of the New Testament, and his New Testament bibliography (1890) .

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Additional information and Comments

Dispite the date of Thayer's lexicon, it is certainly not "outdated." Indeed, there have been many mss discoveries since his time, not the least of which are the Dead Sea Scrolls, yet a comparison of Thayer to Dauer or Gingrich or Liddell and Scott will find this lexicon trustworthy and even elucidating [at times]in comparison to the more recent lexicons. The student should not be concerned about the date of this classic work. The fact that Thayer's work is only confirmed in the more recent works is a testament to the varied sources of evidence for the biblical record perserved for us over centuries and centuries of time.

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