The Complete Vocabulary Guide to the Greek New Testament (Hardcover)

~ (Author) "The most efficient way to learn a large portion of the vocabulary of the Greek NT is to study the words in cognate groups..." (more)
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The Complete Vocabulary Guide to the Greek New Testament sets a new standard as the most comprehensive book of its kind. Covering the entire vocabulary of the Greek New Testament, this revision of The Student’s Complete Vocabulary Guide to the Greek New Testament contains changes that make it more useful than ever as a benchmark vocabulary study book and reference tool. ? Goodrick-Kohlenberger numbers have been added to the index, allowing fast cross-referencing to the NIV Exhaustive Concordance and the Greek-English Concordance. ? The section on Principal Parts of Verbs, showing all the verbs used in the New Testament, now includes column headings on each page for greater ease of use. ? The Frequency List of Words is marked with a gray edge for easy location and to define preceding and ensuing sections. ? New introductions are included for each section. ? The new hardcover binding offers sturdier construction and better protection -- Publisher

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This volume is the best book available for building New Testament Greek vocabulary with new improvements to make it even better!

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Zondervan; Revised edition (November 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0310226953
• ISBN-13: 978-0310226956
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #71,486 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!!!, October 12, 2000

By	Peter Richert (Round Rock, TX United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Warren Trenchard's book is an awesome resource for anybody doing serious greek study. Warren gives words in listings for both frequency and cognate groups. While the frequency list is the obvious choice for order of memorization, the cognate section has been the real key to me for memory retention. It transforms the learning from sheer memorization to the fluent understanding of concepts. Often times, seeing the commen root has instantely made difficult words easy. I am on a eight year plan to learn all the words in the Greek New Testament and Warren's book is my main source of study.

44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Top Vocabulary Resource for the New Testament, February 9, 2000

By	Micheal W. Palmer (Chapel Hill, NC United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Trenchard's book is without doubt the most thorough and helpful work available for building the Greek vocabulary necessary to read the New Testament in the original language. While several other good books have been written for this purpose, none is as complete as this one. With an exaustive list of the New Testament Greek vocabulary organized by word families and by frequency of usage, plus several other helpful lists, this book lends itself well to the task of enlarging the reader's vocabulary.

I have used this book for second semester classes in Biblical Greek and as a guide for review in second year Greek. It has worked well in both contexts.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This volume is indeed "complete" and is highly useful, December 11, 2006

By	a voice of reason (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews

Warren Trenchard's book is a fantastic resource for building vocabulary as well as for reference and review. This revised edition contains many updates that make it even more 'user-friendly' and comes with a hardcover binding that will make it hold up to the repeated use it will get.

The first section of the book lists words by their cognate group and is obviously the section to use in order to rapidly build a working vocabulary. Trenchard also lists the frequency of occurence of each word in this section, so students can decide which words are most important to memorize at first (however, with the cognate approach, it's easier to memorize many words that occur infrequently as well). Following this section is another section that lists words only by their frequency, from most frequent to least frequent.

The third major section provides the principal parts of all the verbs in the GNT. It is best used for review or for reference on those occasions when your mind just goes blank. If you are not careful, however, you will come to rely on this section as a crutch and will likely never memorize the principal parts of all verbs. Again, when used as intended, this section is valuable, but if you let it become a crutch, then it will actually become an impediment to learning Greek verbs.

Trenchard also provides a list of all proper nouns, which (for reasons I've never yet been able to figure out) tend to be omitted from a great many lexicons. He also has a catch-all section of 'Other Lists' that provides number words, Aramaic words, Hebrew words, and a slew of other useful items.

This is the definitive book for students who are building their NT Greek vocabulary. If you find this volume to be a valuable tool, then check out Trenchard's "A Concise Dictionary of New Testament Greek" as well (see my review of that book for more information).