Can anyone suggest a source of short definitions of the kind that might be used for basic memorisation with students, or as a note in a reader? For these applications, even complex lemmas would aim for only five or six word definitions.
ἀδελφός -ου, ὁ -- brother
βλέπω -- to see
λόγος -ου, ὁ. -- word, saying, speech, reason, thought (etc).
ἔχω -- to hold, possess, have, be, (etc)
καί -- and; also; even
Obviously, to have the declension ending and article would be nice also. An example of this kind of resource is
http://www.letsreadgreek.org/resources/ ... ocab02.txt -- but there is only a small sample vocabulary in those files.
I have the LSJ (via Perseus) and StrongsXML (via Bible Foundation) as files, and thus databases, and any number of books, but these definitions tend toward completeness, and the vocab-oriented books would have to be critically combined to produce a work that could be used and shared freely. There are only 5,300 lemmas in the NT (vs ~35000 in the LSJ; and only half those appear more than twice), but it would still take some time to produce a Creative Commons dictionary for this purpose. The StrongsXML has a KJV_DEF field that might make a good starting point but is full of words like "strumpet" and "lambkin", and has no declension/gender info.
Note: To be useful the resource would preferably be downloadable (not just a web-based lookup tool; though it's possible to write a script to rip accessible data) and either public domain or licensed for re-use, e.g. as CC-BY-SA. I've been looking around for a while, but haven't seen anything like this. Any leads would be much appreciated.