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There are many biblical Greek words that are not in the Liddell-Scott. Does Your Grace know where I might find these words?

Liddell-Scott is a lexicon of the classical Greek before the Septuagint or the New Testament, so it does not have some of the words unique to these holy books, particularly proper names such as David and Israel. I know of no Greek lexicon that lists all Greek words in all their possible forms. Greek is very complicated, with many cases or declensions for almost every word. So most lexicons list the root words with the most common variations. That is the problem with some words that are not the basic words listed in lexicons.

Short of buying some expensive software that gives the root words and grammatical analysis of every word in the Septuagint and New Testament, the only book I can recommend is Sakae Kubo's, A Reader's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and a Beginner's Guide for the Translation of New Testament Greek. It's available from Amazon. It goes through the NT book by book, verse by verse, listing all words that occur less than fifty times. So if someone cannot recognize a verbal form of a NT word, he can look it up in Kubo and find the root word. An appendix lists all NT words occurring fifty times or more. Another appendix lists verbal forms alphabetically. So this book would help. The inside of the book can be examined on Amazon.