This is just another of the many reasons why the OP cries out for a solution to what should not even be an issue within the body of believers. And the geek Greek sideshow is a major contributor to the rampant lack of the believer's spiritual authority today.
God does not inflate egos. God hates a proud look and a haughty attitude.
Biblical Greek is a language by itself, whose word meanings should be framed to fit the Christian, not the pagan world view. Wisely, western Christians had been afraid of the corruption of paganism if they knew Greek.
Contrariwise, the liberal scholar condemns what he calls the 'too frequent isolation' of New Testament Greek from the 'profane Greeks.' These 'scholars' launched a full revolt, a thorough reconstruction, in their Greek grammar textbooks. They began reframing the words of the New Testament, twisting tenses, manipulating modes, corrupting the cases, and perverting participles and prepositions until the N.T. was patterned to match their anti-Christian sand castle (ala the leading ASV translator, Unitarian and unsaved liberal J. Henry Thayer and Revised Version Committee member, W.F. Moulton, where the text of spiritualists, necromancers and admitted heretics Westcott and Hort is followed). The danger in this was documented by preeminent Oxford scholars and its fruits permeate forums such as this.
The idea of giving pagan 'meanings' to Bible words brings sneers from true Christians. Corrupt Greek textbooks sourced from faulty Greek texts now rule in most "Christian" forums (compliments of Blass, Cox, DeBrunner, Dana, Easley, Funk, Goodrick, Hadjiatoniou, Mounce, Summers, Sawyer, Wallace, Winberg, Young, and Zodhiates et al). Even the preface of the Greek New Testament UBS 3rd edition admits, "the meanings are given in present-day English, rather than in accord with traditional ecclesiastical terminology."
Any needed theological distinctions are preserved in the majority text. Greek is an inflected language, that is, affixes (extra or altered letters) are added to express grammatical relationships. In current English, word order fills this function.
The authors of Greek study tools (e.g. lex-icons and editions) are the sordid sources from which new versions, such as the NIV, TNIV, NKJV,
ESV, NASB, and HCSB, take their corrupt words. These are the very same study 'aids' which kill a sermon or Bible study when used to 'define' a word in the Holy Bible. Lexicon and Bible dictionary authors dug down into the depths of pagan lore, then ransacked the English dictionary to find a match which could burn the Bible word-by-word. The smoke darkens the directing light of the holy scriptures and renders self-styled Greek-o-philes spiritually powerless. Hence many suffer the frustration evinced by the OP.
This world is bigger than your (or my) posts; liberalism adds insult to injury. We have others reading these posts and owe them a responsibility to deal forthrightly with the subject (OP) matter.
