[B-Greek] Building Targeted Vocabulary

Clwinbery at aol.com Clwinbery at aol.com
Wed Mar 26 17:44:43 EST 2003


In a message dated 3/26/03 3:48:02 PM, dbielby at bloomingtonvineyard.org writes:

>Does anyone know of a vocabulary drill flash card system that allows you
>to
>take a NT Greek passage...say Romans 1:8-17 as an example, mark all the
>words you do not know, and drill yourself over and over on
>them....selectively focusing on the words you do not already know....without
>having to manually add each word from a passage to a unique stack/file?
>For example, I would like to be able to quickly drill myself on a group
>of
>words from the passage I'm preparing to exegete each week for my sermon.
>Typically I know about 80 to 95% of the passage, depending on the
>passage...and am looking for a speedy way to get to the point of drilling
>the words I don't know. It's almost always by sections of Scripture or
>Bible
>passages...not by chapters in someones grammar.
> 
>It may be better to respond offline.
David, did you ever use the volume by Sakae Kubo, A Reader's Lexicon of the 
Greek New Testament. 

It list the special vocabulary for each book of the NT at the beginning of 
each book. He then list by chapter and verse the words that occur 50 times or 
less in the GNT. Since words that occur 50 or more are generally used in 
grammars, this covers the words that a student most likely does not know. As 
you translate you keep this lexicon open to the appropriate chapter. It saves 
looking up so many words as you go. The blurbs given are usually appropriate 
to the context, but this is not an acceptable lexicon by itself.

Carlton Winbery
Louisiana College


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