Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament
Greek, 3d ed.
Metzger, Bruce M.Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Pages:112
Release Date: Aug. 1998
The beginning Greek student soon
faces a vexing dilemma: a myriad of vocabulary words to learn and little time to learn
them. One of the century's leading Greek scholars offers a solid solution by organizing
Greek words according to their frequency of appearance in the New Testament. Lexical
Aids for Students of New Testament Greek helps students maximize their study by
concentrating on the words that appear most often in the Greek New Testament.
This venerable resource, which has served beginning language students for over fifty
years, is divided into two parts. Part one lists New Testament words according to their
frequency of occurrence. ³The usefulness of such lists is obvious,³ writes Metzger. ³By
consulting them the beginner will not, so to speak, waste his time memorizing words that
occur only rarely in the New Testament. He can be assured that when he has learned, say,
the first 513 words in the lists he then knows all of the words (other than proper names)
that occur at least 25 times in the New Testament.³
The second part of Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek features
another helpful list, grouping Greek words according to their root. Also included are
appendixes that provide tools for learning Greek prepositions and the principal parts of
verbs. |