An interesting aspect of this useful work is that definitions for words were included that were not meanings at the time the GNT (Greek New Testament) was written, but meanings inferred and assumed by later theologians and writers.

In this respect, one must be very careful when using Strong's definitions and, in fact, many modern dictionaries of words in the GNT.

One way to check a word is to use a dictionary of ancient and Biblical Greek. A dictionary written in Greek by a Greek (who should understand Greek) can be helpful.

One red flag is that a word is only translated in a particular way one or two times (similar passages) and all other ways are translated using the more common definition.

Another red flag is that the suspect definition or meaning is listed last, as an afterthought, for completeness.

There are idioms where words are used in a special sense. This is not a way to admit all questionable meanings.

If the most common meaning of a word still makes sense, when that verse is studied in the context it is used, while the less common meaning of a word (never used in ancient times) makes less sense, in the context the verse is used, then one may have found an inaccurate translated meaning of that word.

When that happens, one should try to determine why that variant meaning was used. One can often make the case that the variant meaning was to correct a perceived inconsistency of the text, to solidify the power of some hierarchical human organization, etc.

There are many examples of such issues.

Some of these examples are detailed in various places on this web site and will be added as time permits (and those pages are updated).

Details are left as a future topic.