Allusion has been made in the preface to certain peculiarities of New
Testament Greek, which distinguish it from the classic Greek of the
heathen world.
This Lexicon indicates some of these peculiarities, by distinguishing
three classes of words:
I. Later Greek words, marked L. G., the occurrence of which may be
regarded as commencing within the Later Greek period, which is here
reckoned from and includes the writing of the historian Polybius, B.C.
204-123.
II. New Testament words, marked N. T., which only occur in the New
Testament, or if found elsewhere are only in certain peculiar quarters.
III. Septuagint words, marked S., which besides their occurrence in the
New Testament are found only in the Septuagint Version of the Old
Testament, the Greek Apocryphal books, and kindred writings; and the
meaning of which is to be studied, not in the usage of classical Greek
writings, but rather in the light of the Hebrew Old Testament, and the
writings of Jewish authors who were familiar with Hebrew ideas and
Hebrew literature.