Word Study Reference Tool Recommendations of Henry A. Virkler

In his book A Christian’s Guide To Critical Thinking, Henry A. Virkler recommends the following books for discovering denotations of words and used in biblical passages and for doing word studies:

Strong’s Concordance

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, edited by R. Laird Harris, Gleason Archer, and Bruce Waltke

The New International Dictionary of New Testament

Bullinger’s Critical Lexicon and Concordance

Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words

R. B. Girdlestone’s Synonyms of the Old Testament

R.C. Trench’s Synonyms of the New Testament

The Expository Dictionary of Bible Words, by Lawrence O. Richards