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Analytical Lexicon of the Greek New Testament

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This is an excellent lexicon that contains all the words of the New Testament (not just the lexical forms). The typography is very well thought out which makes it easy to find words and read the definitions. The lexical form of words are set in boldface and the variants are set in regular face. The definitions with the lexical forms are quite thorough with extensive explanations of the glosses and idiomatic usage. For example, the definitions of the prepositions generally offer a fuller explanation than what you see in the grammars. The entries for variant forms show the parsing and identify lexical form. A handy card is enclosed which explains the abbreviations and serves as a good bookmark. The hardcover edition is very well assembled with high quality printing and and legible typefaces.

I use the version of Friberg that is found on the BibleWorks 7 software program. But comparing BibleWorks to this hardcopy edition, it looks like they are the same.

That said, I used this lexicon extensively when I was working on my Analytical-Literal Translation of the New Testament: Third Edition (ALT). It was always the first lexicon I would check when doing a word study. And with BibleWorks, this was very easy. Just right click on the word. But even in hardcopy, it would not be that difficult to look up the word if you know Greek.

Friberg's lexicon gives the basic definition using one word or a short phrase, along with some sample verse references, with sometimes a partial verse included. Shades of meanings are represented by Friberg giving more than one word or phrase for the basic meaning. When a word has more than one basic meaning, these are numbered and listed individually, again with sample verse references. When a word has a literal and a common figurative meaning, these are both given.

I found Friberg's lexicon to be very accurate. I would often do more detailed word studies by referring to several other lexicons and theological dictionaries, but often, I ended up using one of Friberg's suggested translations. I also sometimes used both Friberg's literal definition for the main text of the ALT and its figurative meanings for the bracketed figurative meanings in the ALT.

So I cannot recommended this lexicon highly enough. It is detailed enough for general word studies while being simple enough that one can get a grasp of the meanings(s) of a word at a glance.

Bought this book as a companion to my Greek Syntax & Exegesis class at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Friberg's lexicon is very accurate, though his parsing code takes a bit to catch onto. I also have Mounce's analytical, which is easier to use but can be tricky because Mounce parses all deponent verbs as either passive or middle (which can truly mess up your translations!). Friberg makes the distinction if a verb is deponent, and is the FIRST source I go to if I can't parse a verb confidently.

Friberg's analyt has to be the most reliable one out there.

At first glance I was a bit overwhelmed by the text, but have found it to be very helpful. If you are struggling with New Testament Greek and need help with all the word forms this is the book I would recommend.

Excellent Lexicon for Greek class student and lecturer, the content of this book has included an deep understanding of the Greek grammartical parsting for noun, verb, adjesctive, definite article, preposition, conjunction, participle.Thanks for the great effort that these three authors have done for us.

This thing is great! For any one who is a student of New Testament Greek and has trouble remembering the seemingly endless list of forms that each word can take on (which I assume would be almost everyone), this thing is priceless. Each word can be looked up in every form in which it occurs in the NT, so even if your not sure of the lexical form you can still look up the word in a matter of seconds.

This is a good source for morphology. It could use better explaination on the way the words are listed, they're a little confusing. The definitions are very limited in content.
The reason I chose this lexicon over others is the fact it includes words from all greek text editions and not just ignorantly following only the so called critical text from Nestle/Alands and UBS. Most all modern scholarship lists Nestle's and ignores Scrivener's et. al.
I do recommend this book but only for the morphology, not the definitions.In all fairness, so far the definitions that are listed are mostly accurate.

Dudes,

This is it! The best Lexicon on the market today. I own them all, this one rocks your world. Enough said.