I'm not going to further size up Robin, nothing heretical I see.
Ive used a Concordant and YLT...fun, but after a while kinda impractical. I do like the Expanded Bible though.
I find the best for word comparison is to read several bibles in parallel and/or several Greek/Hebrew lexicons, comparing.
Usually though they give pretty much similar renditions and definitions.
(Robin)
Ahhhhh ... Hello! there Crossnote; Who was that other fellow...the "dismissive" one?
So like Galahad, I don't "see" what you see in the Hebrew scriptures ... I may, someday, be blessed with that,
but it's not an arena I'm much interested in anymore. That said, I do enjoy the mechaniich of their parallel poetry,
but I can find that exhibited in our apostle Paul, so I've no longer, any "thirst" for the Hebrew word ... it aint aimed at me.
But speaking of "picturing" scripture ... picturing any written word, for that matter, that's how my mind works. I've a bit of a
problem with dyslexia, but after more than two generations of dealing with this ... "blessing" ... I've come to deal with it (on a personnal basis, not a very acceptable public one). That is, I "see" the printed word in pictures .... it's an ongoing projected screen play on against the backdrop, the back of my mind, of a dilapidated old theater off St Giles High Street in London. I "think," in other words, in pictures. Hence, my dear "fellow" ... my brethren in Christ ... God "blessed" me with a thorn in the side, which I would, now, never have second-guessed Him about having.
Galahad asks about idiom ... cats and dogs ... I can, actually "see" such a thing ... I'm doomed, right!
But, for instance, I just listened to the overture of Rossini's "The Thieving Magpie," and I tell you this,
I can actually "see" what the music is saying. But back to scripture, the H'ebrew ... and NT scriptures
other than Paul "escape" me. But Paul ... he speacks to me, I actually, spiritually, "SEE" what he is saying.
Galahad mentions "cats and dogs" ... I "SEE" love roofing over other believers unintended and intended offenses ...
I actuall "See" love working, diligently, as a lowly carpenter, to "roof [over]" the hurts, that other dullard believers
arrow our way ... I'm dyslectic, but it's a "grace" that I would not have any other way ... Thank you God!