A Reader's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (Zondervan Greek Reference Series) Review

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A Reader's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (Zondervan Greek Reference Series) ReviewThis 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.A Reader's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (Zondervan Greek Reference Series) Overview

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