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Title: Reader's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, A by Sakae Kubo ISBN: 0-310-26920-2 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 25 December, 1975 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Useful for beginning Greek reading.
Comment: This book exists to solve a very specific problem. Once you've worked through a basic grammar (e.g., Mounce), you want to get into the text -- but at first, your vocabulary in the language leaves something to be desired. You've diligently studied your vocabulary lists from the basic grammar, but these are only the most common words; nearly every sentence has words you don't know. Eventually, though reading the text, you'll learn many of them, but at first you'll find yourself needing to look up so many words, it takes forever to translate a passage. This book helps with that. It helps quite a lot.
This book is not, and is not intended to be, the only lexicon you need. If you can only get one lexicon, get the big one (Bauer, Arndt, Gingrich, Danker). The big lexicon has all the words; this one only has the words that occur fewer than fifty times. The big lexicon gives the full range of meaning for each word; this one only gives a basic meaning for each word. The big lexicon gives examples of sentences from the text, showing how the word is used; this one does not.
However, the big lexicon is big; you'll want it on your desk, but you won't want to haul it around everywhere you go; this one is small enough to take with you; it's barely larger than a copy of the NT.
But the really big difference is the arrangement: the big lexicon (and almost all lexicons, for that matter) are arranged entirely in lexical order -- all the words starting with alpha are at the front, and so forth. This one is different: it lists the words in the order in which they occur in the text. (This means it repeats them each time. That's why it has to leave out the common words.) So, if you're reading a certain passage, you can open your Kubo lexicon to the corresponding section, prop it open with a rubber band or clip, and refer to it repeatedly as you work through the passage, without a lot of page-flipping. This is a huge time-saver.
When you start digging into the more nitty gritty details of a shorter passage, studying each word carefully, you'll want the bigger lexicon. This one is too basic for that. But for reading through longer passages, for understanding the whole context of a passage and getting the big picture, this lexicon will save you a lot of time. Highly recommended.
Rating: 4
Summary: an indispenable aid - even in the age of computers
Comment: This book is an invaluable aid to reading through the Greek New Testament. It gives verse by verse vocabulary, and tells you the frequency of each word in the book and in the NT as a whole.
I find it useful to make lists of words to learn for books I am planning to read. Then I study the list a bit before I begin reading the section, and continue to study the list between reading sessions. In this way my vocabulary has grown by leaps and bounds, and I have actually seen the words in context as I have been learning them.
There are some mistakes, and some of the definitions are too limited, so this can not be your only lexicon. But its usefulness for learning words in context make it too valuable to miss.
Rating: 1
Summary: Not very Helpfull
Comment: Although this book makes it a little faster to translate and understand the greek, there are some serious problems. Some of the definitions are too simple that it doesn't really help you to understand the word. For instance One word was listed as fall asleep, when in the context of the verse it really meant to die. It gives only partial help in Greek class, I still have to use a second lexicon (Danker) for other words
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Title: Greek New Testament (With Dictionary) by B. Aland, K. Aland, J. Karavidopoulos ISBN: 3438051133 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $45.99 |
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Title: Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics by Daniel B. Wallace ISBN: 0310218950 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 02 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Complete Vocabulary Guide to the Greek New Testament by Warren C. Trenchard ISBN: 0310226953 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar by William D. Mounce ISBN: 0310250870 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $41.99 |
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Title: Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek by Bruce Manning Metzger ISBN: 0801021804 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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