Bible (Berean Standard)/Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic Sources and Abbreviations

Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic Sources and Abbreviations

We are blessed to live in an era where God’s Word can be viewed through a vast collection of ancient sources. We believe that these original language sources serve to strengthen each other by their amazing consistency across thousands of years and thousands of miles.

The Scriptures in their original form are God’s inerrant word to us and to all generations. Scholars have sought to reconstruct these Scriptures by collating the manuscripts and sources deemed to be closest to the originals.

For simplicity, we have footnoted significant variants between major collections of source texts. Please see the Berean Bible website for full documentation of these sources. The following abbreviations are used in the footnotes to document differences among original language sources:

NA	Nestle Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece
SBL	Society of Biblical Literature, Greek New Testament
ECM	Editio Critica Maior, Novum Testamentum Graecum
NE	Eberhard Nestle Novum Testamentum Graece
WH	Westcott and Hort, New Testament in the Original Greek
BYZ	The New Testament in the Original Greek: Byzantine Textform
GOC	Greek Orthodox Church, New Testament
TR	Scrivener’s Textus Receptus Stephanus Textus Receptus
DSS	Dead Sea Scrolls
MT	Hebrew Masoretic Text: Westminster Leningrad Codex Hebrew Masoretic Text: Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
LXX	Greek OT Septuagint: Rahlfs-Hanhart Septuaginta Greek OT Septuagint: Swete's Septuagint
SP	Samaritan Pentateuch