# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juni 1858_S179
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Lutheran-Theological Pastor's Library. 179

with the great so-called Weimar Bible-work,*) this Lutheran David was occupied by the thought of applying everything to make a gift to the Church also of a complete biblical Verbal-concordance. The godly prince learned that the famous, learned, and pious Leipzig bookseller M. Lanckisch had undertaken to work out just such a work. He therefore at once entered into correspondence with him, rejoiced most heartily over the plan devised for it, and now supported the progress of the work in every way; he had it looked over by the then Electoral-Saxon court preacher Dr. Martin Geyer in Dresden, a famous Orientalist, as well as by his own court preacher Jer. Balth. Ludwig, and took care that the admirable work (though, after its completion, but before its appearance in print, both the untiring author and Duke Ernest had been called home to eternal rest) should be published in the worthiest form. The distinctive feature of this concordance consists in this: that, in alphabetical order, at the head of each article stands a word of the German Lutheran Bible, and beside it the Hebrew words of the Old Testament text rendered by that same German word by Luther, and the corresponding Greek words of the Septuagint, as well as those of the original text of the Old Testament Apocrypha and of the New Testament. There then follow all the Bible passages in which the word standing at the head occurs in the German Bible, in the order of the biblical books. At the same time the various Hebrew and Greek words are marked with different letters, which correspond to the letters attached to the passages in such a way that one can see at a glance which Hebrew or Greek word, in the various places, has been rendered by the German word standing at the head, as translated by Luther. The passages in which the German word has no equivalent in the original text are marked with an asterisk. Let the following example illustrate the matter:

Gemüth. [= disposition, mind, spirit]

Naephesch a
Ruach β

a. διάνοια.    d. προθυμία.    g. φρήν.
b. σύνεσις.    e. στέρνον.    h. πνεῦμα.
c. νοῦς.    f. Ψυχή.    i. πραΰθυμος.

2 Sam. 17:8 that they are of angry mind (Gemüths). a f.
2 Reg. 9:15 Jehu said: is it your mind (Gemüth)? a f.
1 Chr. 29:12 what was in his mind (Gemüth). β h.
(Heb. c. 28.)
Ps. 34:19 those who have a broken mind (Gemüth). β h.
Prov. 16:19 it is better to be of a lowly mind (Gemüths). β i.
Eccles. 7:10 be not hasty in mind (Gemüths) to be angry. β h.

*) See: "Lehre und Wehre," vol. 1, July issue, p. 202 ff.