Theological Dictionary of the New Testament: Abridged in One Volume
The standard one-volume reference on what New Testament Greek words actually meant — including eucharisteo, "to give thanks", the everyday word for gratitude that the church's central meal, the Eucharist, is literally named after. Goodreads 4.41.
The one-volume abridgment (Eerdmans, 1985) of the nine-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament — “little Kittel” — is the standard accessible reference for New Testament word meanings. Cited here for the vocabulary of thanksgiving: eucharisteo and its family, the words behind every “give thanks” in the New Testament.
Lexical scholarship: it describes how words were used, and settles no doctrine. Word history is context for reading, not an argument that any practice produces any outcome.
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