Common Abbreviations
Sigla and short forms used across the notes and commentary.
| Abbreviation | Citation / Meaning |
|---|---|
| ANE | Ancient Near East(ern) |
| ANT | Greek New Testament of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, edited by Basileios Antoniades (1904); see GRCBYZ. |
| BDAG | Arndt, William, Frederick W. Danker, Walter Bauer, and F. Wilbur Gingrich. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. |
| BHS | Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Electronic ed. Stuttgart: German Bible Society, 2003. |
| BHQ | Schenker, Adrian, et al. Biblia Hebraica Quinta. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2011. |
| BTV | Robert Adam Boyd, Byzantine Text Version. See TCENT.Texts & Translations → |
| CT | Critical Text (general term for critical editions of the Greek New Testament). In TCENT footnotes, this designation is used when NA, SBL, TH, and WH are all in agreement. |
| DSS | Dead Sea Scrolls. |
| ENGLXXUP | Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton, Robert Adam Boyd, ed., Updated Brenton English Septuagint (ENGLXXUP), 1851 / 2020.Texts & Translations → |
| ECM† | Editio Critica Maior (1997–2024) split guiding line alternative readings in TCENT footnotes. |
| EOB | Laurent Cleenewerck, ed. The Eastern/Greek Orthodox Bible: New Testament. 2011. |
| GRCBRENT | Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton, comp., Brenton Septuagint (μετάφραση τῶν ἑβδομήκοντα); the Koine Greek Septuagint underlying ENGLXXUP.Texts & Translations → |
| GRCBYZ | Η Καινή Διαθήκη, Byzantine Greek New Testament; the 1904 Patriarchal text with later corrections. I've found this electronic edition to most closely conform to the printed 1904/1912 edition.Texts & Translations → |
| Kr | Family 35 NT manuscripts; see PCK. |
| HALOT | Ludwig Koehler, Walter Baumgartner, et al., The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994–2000). |
| HEBWLC | Westminster Hebrew Institute, Westminster Leningrad Codex; the Hebrew Masoretic Text.Texts & Translations → |
| HF | Hodges and Farstad, The Greek New Testament According to the Majority Text, 2nd edition (1985). |
| KNT | N. T. Wright. The Bible for Everyone: A New Translation. London: SPCK, 2018 (the NT was originally published as the Kingdom New Testament, hence the acronym; sometimes also NTFE). |
| KJV | The Holy Bible: King James Version. 1611 / 1769. |
| LES | Brannan, Rick, et al. The Lexham English Septuagint (LES). Second Edition. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2020. |
| LSJ | Liddell, Scott, Jones Ancient Greek Lexicon, wiki edition, 2013–. |
| LXX | Septuagint (Greek Old Testament). |
| MSS | Manuscripts. |
| MT | The "Masoretic Text" of the Hebrew Bible. |
| NA | Nestle-Aland, Greek New Testament, 29th ed. (2026). |
| NA27 | Nestle, Eberhard, et al. The Greek New Testament. 27th ed. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1993. |
| NA28 | Aland, Kurt, et al. Novum Testamentum Graece. 28th Edition. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2012. |
| NET | New English Translation / NET Bible®, Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C., 1996, 2019. |
| NETS | Pietersma, Albert, and Benjamin G. Wright, eds. A New English Translation of the Septuagint. Oxford University Press, 2007. |
| NKJV | The New King James Version. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982. |
| NT | New Testament. |
| NTFE | N. T. Wright, New Testament For Everyone. See KNT. |
| OSB | St. Athanasius Orthodox Academy, ed. The Orthodox Study Bible. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2008. |
| OT | Old Testament. |
| PCK | Wilbur Pickering, The Greek New Testament According to Family 35, 3rd edition (2020). |
| Rashi | Rabbi Shlomo Yitzḥaqi (1040–1105), medieval French Jewish exegete. |
| RP | Robinson and Pierpont, The New Testament in the Original Greek, electronic text (2025). |
| RSV | The Revised Standard Version. 1971. |
| SBL | Holmes, Michael W. The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition. Lexham Press; Society of Biblical Literature, 2011–2013. |
| SCR | Scrivener, Textus Receptus, 1st edition (1881). |
| ST | Stephanus, Textus Receptus, 3rd edition (1550). |
| TCENT | Robert Adam Boyd, Text-Critical English New Testament.Texts & Translations → |
| TH | The Greek New Testament, Produced at Tyndale House, Cambridge (2017). |
| TR | Textus Receptus (in TCENT footnotes, this designation is used when SCR and ST are in agreement). |
| UBS4 | Aland, Kurt, et al. The Greek New Testament, Fourth Revised Edition. Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1993; 2006. |
| UBS5 | Aland, Barbara, et al. The Greek New Testament. Fifth Revised Edition. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2014. |
| WEB | World English Bible by M. P. Johnson (2020).Texts & Translations → |
| WH | Westcott and Hort, Greek New Testament (1881). |