Analytical Lexicons

Eric S. Weiss eweiss at gte.net
Wed Oct 2 09:54:49 EDT 2002


> I'm curious as to people's preferences on analytical lexicons. Mounce? Kubo?
> Han?
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Han is known to have lots of errors; plus, it's verbs only, I recall, so I
wouldn't even consider it.

Mounce is good, and up to date, though it indicates at the beginning that
errors (if any found) will be corrected in future printings. They claim
they went over and corrected and updated the old standby analytical
lexicon, though they kept many of the definitions (revised as necessary).

Kubo is a reader's guide, not an analytical lexicon.

Perschbacher has an analytical lexicon that is very similar to Mounce's,
and costs 25 - 30% less, but the introductory and supplementary features
are different. Compare the two. In many instances they are identical, with
a slightly different parsing format. I personally prefer Mounce, though
Perschbacher's is thinner.

The Friebergs (of the Analytical Greek NT fame) have an Analytical
Lexicon, also cheaper than Mounce, I believe. But you'll have to get used
to their grammatical abbreviations (e.g., VPAI--MZ or whatever). It is
supposed to be up-to-date, also, and is probably the newest of the three
(i.e., Mounce, Perschbacher and Frieberg).

Go to a seminary bookstore, or a good Christian bookstore like Mardel,
that stocks all three. Look, look, look up various words, entries, etc.,
look at the introductory material, and then ... buy the one you like best.
Hopefully you will get to the place in your Greek reading ability where
you will use an analytical lexicon only sparingly.



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