Readers Greek English Lexicon Of The New Testament

The Reader's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament makes reading of the Greek New Testament easier. It goes through the New Testament verse by verse and gives the meaning of each word that is found fewer than fifty times in the New Testament as a whole. The definitions are based on the Bauer-Arndt-Gingrich Greek Lexicon (BAG). At the beginning of each New Testament book is a list of the words that occur fewer than five times in a particular book. After each word, two numbers are included: the first indicates the number of times the word is found in the book, the second reflects the number of times the word is found in the New Testament. This is a helpful feature for exegesis, as the author's illustration shows: "It is quite revealing, for instance, to find that from the special vocabulary (i.e., words occurring more than five times in a given book) of I Peter one can derive the theme of the book." An appendix lists all words occurring more than fifty times in the New Testament. Another appendix gives a list of irregular verb forms. An additional useful feature is a forty-three page "Beginner's Guide for the Translation of New Testament Greek, " ideal for review.