Lexical Aids to Help Students Master New Testament Greek

M. F. Cayley: A good way to increase, or reinforce, your knowledge of Biblical Greek vocabulary. The book is in two main parts. The first part groups words by frequency, listing all words that occur ten times or more in the Greek New Testament. The second part groups words by their stem, so you can see how words are built up. There is an index of words at the end.

There are also some appendices. The most useful are likely to be an appendix on the compounding of prepositions with word stems, and another giving the main parts of major verbs - though the font size in the latter is rather small and I need a magnifying glass to read it comfortably.

One small complaint. The typeface means that breathing marks can be hard to differentiate, especially where they appear alongside accents on the same vowel. The same is true of a number of other books on the Greek language, and it can be a problem for ageing eyes like mine.

United Kingdom on Jul 13, 2023

John N: I purchased an e-book version and am thankful I did. It works well with the portability of my Kindle allowing me to memorize or refresh on Greek words while on the go.

Canada on Oct 13, 2022

Daniel N. Lionsden: A couple months ago, my wife asked me to teach her Koine Greek. She's still working on the first year textbook, so there's not any need for her to use this yet, but she'll need it when we graduate to the second year. It will be great for her spelling and vocabulary quizzes.

United States on Jul 05, 2021

Sven_der_VikingerSven_der_Vikinger: This guide is based on frequency of usage, and is extremely helpful if you want to learn NT Greek on your own,, or as a compliment to a grammar course. Combining its use with the following book by Mark Wilson would be ideal:
Mastering New Testament Greek Vocabulary Through Semantic Domains (Greek Edition) (Greek) Paperback – January 7, 2003

United States on Dec 08, 2020

Rigel Holmes: This book is absolutely essential for the student of NT Greek, I repeat absolutely essential, as in not books like this... but this exact book.
Why you ask? Here's why...
The canon of the NT limited in scope and includes a finite range of vocabulary (Only 5446 unique words). While this range is robust, because of its similar subject matter (and the inherent similarity of human linguistic communication) certain words are way more commonly used than others. Metzger (who is the man BTW) organized every word in the NT by order of frequency (not alphabetically- you can buy other books for that for reference). Because of this,if you memorize the first 5-10 lists you can begin to read (or at least recognize) much of the NT. This, coupled with flash cards will make short work of vocabulary study.

Source: I took 2 years of Koine Greek while earning my MDiv. This book was such a blessing. Stands out above the rest.

United States on Nov 20, 2016

F. Marsden: this was described as an invaluable aid for the theological student, and I can wholeheartedly agree. the book arrived in good time, well packaged.

United Kingdom on Mar 06, 2013

" Anti Microchip ": I bought this book after reading Dr. P.C. Comminos review. This is a gem of a little book. Here's how it's set up: list words by their frequency (from 500 occurances all the way down to 10), words classified according to their root, ino-european family of languages (helps you see the big picture), prepositions in composition with verbs, principal parts of important verbs, feminine nouns of the second declension, and an index of greek words. Yes I got that from the table of contents.

Total length of this book is 100 pages. It is inexpensive and comprehensive for it's size. A superior product given that it is only 100 pages. You can get this book for under ten dollars. There are few purchases that qualify as "No brainers" in my humble opinion. This is one of those "NO BRAINERS." As a side note if your learning greek you should check out Dr. PC Commino's profile. I have found it very informative, and have never been steered wrong by him.

United States on Aug 27, 2007

L. Steubing: Depending upon the style in which the reader learns best, this book may be a great asset.

If you learn via "word association" or by using cognates of words, this will help you tremendously. In most cases, a cognate is listed in the definition, which will enable the reader to associate a modern word to the Greek equivalent. Additionally, words are ordered by root (in the last half of the book) further enabling the student to remember and associate words of like definition.

If you learn by any other method, unfortunately, this book will be nothing more than a long list of words. Although it will be of service to you, it will not be the tremendous service to you that it is to word association types.

In any case, a great resource, especially for the price.

United States on Mar 24, 2007