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Summary: Useful for beginning Greek reading.
Review: 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.
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Summary: an indispenable aid - even in the age of computers
Review: 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.
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Summary: an indispenable aid - even in the age of computers
Review: 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.
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Summary: Save lots of time !!
Review: This lexicon is great ! It lets you get a lot more read in the time you have. Make some 4 x 6 cards with verb forms on them for parsing and with this book you will really be able to move through the GNT.
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Summary: Save lots of time !!
Review: This lexicon is great ! It lets you get a lot more read in the time you have. Make some 4 x 6 cards with verb forms on them for parsing and with this book you will really be able to move through the GNT.
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Summary: A Must Have!
Review: 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!
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Summary: An Essential Companion for the Devotional Reader
Review: Unless you have memorized all the Greek frequency lists (and I mean all -- including the words that only appear in the New Testament once), this is an invaluable tool. It is much easier to use this work than to flip back and forth through BAGD. The only possible improvement upon this book would be in its binding: a spiral-bound edition would make it much easier to manage, but the work itself, and its intended purpose make it outstanding. Also consider purchasing the similar work for the Hebrew Bible.
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Summary: An Essential Companion for the Devotional Reader
Review: Unless you have memorized all the Greek frequency lists (and I mean all -- including the words that only appear in the New Testament once), this is an invaluable tool. It is much easier to use this work than to flip back and forth through BAGD. The only possible improvement upon this book would be in its binding: a spiral-bound edition would make it much easier to manage, but the work itself, and its intended purpose make it outstanding. Also consider purchasing the similar work for the Hebrew Bible.
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