Product Description

Here is a verse-by-verse arrangement, with definitions, of all words appearing fewer than 50 times, as well as appendices which give summaries of major points in Greek grammar.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #138285 in Books
• Published on: 1975-12-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

From the Back Cover
When you want to get straight to the heart of meaning in the Greek New Testament, A Reader’s Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament is indispensable. By eliminating time-consuming lexical work, this book helps the pastor or student read the Greek New Testament easily and swiftly.

Features: * All words that occur fewer than 50 times in the New Testament appear verse by verse * The translation is provided next to each word * A list at the beginning of each book shows words that occur more than five times in that book but less than 50 in the New Testament * In-text frequency numbers show how often a word is used both in a given book and in the entire New Testament * An appendix lists all words that occur more than 50 times * Definitions are based on the Bauer-Arndt-Gingrich Greek-English Lexicon (BAG)

By making rapid reading of the Greek text possible, A Reader’s Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament provides a powerful study tool for pastors, students, and all who have a high regard for the New Testament.

About the Author
Sakae Kubo served as a pastor and taught biblical languages and New Testament. He was professor of Greek at Newbold College in England and was vice president of academic affairs at Atlantic Union College.

Customer Reviews

Useful for beginning Greek reading.
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.

Indispensible - for what it was meant to do
If you are going to study the NT seriously, you will have to put the $125 on the table and get the BDAG lexicon. This lexicon was never meant to take the place of a serious, in depth book which has the dimensions to impress your friends and a pricetag to irritate your wife.

That said, it will take you decades to get the gist of the NT in Greek if you spend all of your time working through passages with a lexicon and a grammar. But with this handy little tool, if your word frequency knowledge is better than 50 occurences, you can do your daily devotional with your handy-dandy UBS4 or NA27.

I read ten pages in the Greek New Testament per day, hoping to read through the GNT four times per year. I use Kubo to help me get a relatively good translation in my head of what I'm reading in Greek and it works wonderfully.

The key to using this book is in carefully reading the title: it's not "A Translator's Greek-English Lexicon..." but "A Reader's Greek-English Lexicon..." For $30 or less, this thing is a steal.

A Must Have!
This work was suggested to me by my seminary Greek professor after going through a basic textbook. His reasoning was that in class we learned all of the words that appeared at least fifty times in the New Testement and Kubo's lexicon gives a simple definition of the words that do not appear fifty times. Simply open your Greek New Testament and this book to the corresponding chapter and verse and you are set to read. This has cut my reading time in half! Besides UBS Greek New Testament and the BDAG Lexicon, this is the most important book for a biblical Greek scholar's library!