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The Zondervan Greek and English Interlinear New Testament (NASB/NIV)

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This interlinear is great for what it is...a study resource. It is not meant to be lugged around and taken to church. It is meant to sit on your desk and study. As such it includes the GK numbers for each Greek word, and each Greek word is parsed. It is meant for a person who is either really serious about their Bible despite having no Greek training, or someone who has a little understanding of the Greek language, but not enough to pop open a Greek New Testament and start reading.

The Greek font is wonderful compared to the old style you see in other interlinears, and the page does not feel cluttered, despite the fact that it is fully used.

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For those of us who actually study our bibles this is a great tool. The only thing I didn't realize is that the Greek is not numbered with the Strong's Concordance. Although if you look up a word in the back of this book you will find the Strong's number at the end of the definition. Just be aware you can't go straight from the text to a Strong's Concordance otherwise you will be looking up the wrong word.

I have owned at least four interlinear New Testaments over the last forty years, and this is by far the most useful. I am only a dilettante in Greek (two years in college 1973-74), so I need all the help I can get. As others have mentioned, the parsing guides, and the G/K numbers coupled with the lexicon support my amateurish attempts to use the Greek. Parallel columns with the literal NASB and the rather paraphrastic NIV offer alternate renderings. It's dangerous to draw doctrinal conclusions from the Greek at my level of fluency, but this is a terrific tool that I can use to check other expositor's claims about the original language of the New Testament.

This is my second interlinear Greek and English bible. I finished Mounce's Greek text a year ago, and decided to write about John's gospel prologue. I've been seeking more precise interlinear, I mean, even including parcing with each word. And finally this is the one.

This is an excellent tool for seminary students and faculty as well as bible college level Greek students. I use this for bible study and sermon preparation and to complete seminary projects. It saves steps by giving you the Strong's numbers and lexicon references which saves time. This is an excellent work which every serious scholar would want to have in their library, however, I hesitate to suggest its use to lay people who have not had any formal Greek training. For those with no background in biblical Greek, try William Mounce's "Greek For The Rest of Us" and also mounces other textbooks and workbooks as well.

With great expectations I preordered this bible two months ago, and it finally arrived last week. This bible has all the great features as advertized, but unfortunately I found it too bulky to be carried around. The fonts are also too small to read comfortably.

I hope Zondervan would consider publishing a revised version by: 1) Reducing the width of the book, use NASB only, forget about the paraphrased NIV, and 2) Increasing the size of the Greek font. If necessary, they might also consider: 3) Removing the G/K number row and the dictionary at the back, and 4) Removing the parsing info row as well. [...]
The objective is to reduce the size and to improve the portability of this excellent work. A size and weight such as the NASB Study Bible is marginally acceptable. Anything bulkier will reduce this bible to a desktop reference. With excellent bible software such as Bibleworks, Pradis, etc., I personally find little use for a desktop reference bible.

I'm giving this bible a low rating for its poor readability and portability. However, if you're looking for a Greek interlinear bible, this one might be the best one among those on the market today. Since Amazon has good return policy, you might want to order a copy and decide for yourself.

This is not a bad bible for the price and someone just getting into the greek. It is a trinitarin bible so if you are a biblical monotheist like me, don't expect an unbiased translation. On the other hand if you are new to it, it is easy enough to get a Vines or I highly reccomend the Yale anchor dictinary or an Eerdmans to go with it to look further into the words that seem not to make sense. It is on the big side and not the best to drag around with you. The Marjority Greek Text Greek New Teastament Interlinear I think is much better for the NT. There are pure Greek bibles but I have not reached that level of Greek yet. So if you are in the middle that is what I would recommend.

The interlinear translation is pretty clunky because it contains words in their normal English usage order and then again below the Greek word. For example, Philippians 1:19: "For I know for that this will turn out for my will turn out for deliverance through the your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. This may not be what many people are looking for. Purchase accordingly.

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