Thursday, June 14, 2007

Vocabulary Lists for the Course

I've finally completed the vocabulary lists by Lesson for the course - click on the link on the sidebar under "Class Links" that says:
Vocabulary list (MS Excel) for A Primer of Biblical Greek, expanded from the textbook to include all words that occur in the New Testament 25x or more (plus 20x-24x); Extra Words only
The list is sorted in Lesson order. Words added from the Exercises LXX/NT vocabulary lists are indicated by LN; extra words that occur 25x or more in the New Testament are indicated by +; extra words that occur 20x-24x are indicated by ++.

Because Excel sorts alphabetically according to English, the Greek ordering may not be alphabetical (e.g., it treats ζ, the sixth letter in the Greek alphabet, as a "z," the last letter in the English alphabet, and the accents and breathing marks are treated as the characters on the the keys that are used to type them). At some point I'll get around to sorting each Lesson's words in proper Greek alphabetical order.

I've input brief definitions for the + and ++ words; you have definitions for the other words, since they're in the textbook. The LXX/NT words are not in the vocabulary lists in the back of the book; they're only in the lists for the Exercises. Some of these words appear in more than one Lesson, and I've indicated the Lesson(s) in my list. Also, the forms given for the LXX/NT vocabulary are the way they appear in the Exercises, and not necessarily the lexical/dictionary form, which is what I list in the Vocabulary lists and how you should learn/memorize them. I'll double-check the definitions by the time we get to the Lesson.

If you learn all the words in the lists, you will have a very sizable vocabulary by the end of the course, quite a bit larger than what many 1st-year courses teach.

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