The Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible: KJV Edition, Hardbound

The Keyword Study bible is made to sit down and tear into the small nuances of the Word of God... bringing serious understanding to the bible! This bible is an excellent tool that will become an invaluable study weapon! Here's what sets this book apart (its selling point). Instead of carrying around a large Strongs Concordance and a bible, a concise strongs concordance is built right into the back of the book and nearly every word in the biblical text is keyed with its Strongs number for easy referencing! What, dont think thats a great feature? Look up Matthew 3:2 and Matthew 27:3 and you'll find the word Repent. However there are two different versions/meanings of the word Repent but how would you know that! Under careful observation you'd know this if you had a Strongs Concordance to show you the different numbers which indicate the different meaning! This tool is built into this bible! This is a must buy! This book has everything one needs for real bible study, cross references, concise study notes and a concordance (a rather weak one... but theres something there). Now, lets talk the presentation: Genuine Leather - the only edition I would suggest you buy. The hardback might be a glued spine and is sure to fall apart within a years worth of heavy use. Gold gilded edges look beautiful. Leather grain is outstanding not too hard but not too soft. Font is a 9pt - standard among study bibles. Red Lettering for the words of Christ - good deep red. One Black ribbon - for this student oriented study bible their should be 3 ribbons at least but you do have one. Paper - thin. Not so thin that I can see the text through the page like my beloved Macarthur Study Bible ( which is shambley thin) but to thin to be a study tool where I'd write notes in it. If I write notes into this bible I'd keep a piece of plastic between the pages so the impression wont dig several pages deep (disrespectful for something called a study bible but hey they probably used paper this thin to keep cost down). Overall: Every pastor should have one! Everyone that does not have an Exhaustive Strong's Concordance should have this. The quality is rock solid! Definitely a good buy for anyone who honestly wants to know what the bible says. The low amount of study notes are also an excellent feature (yes it defeats the premise of the study bible - but it causes one to study the bible for themselves!). The price is excellent I caught mines for $39.95 and the following week after I bought it I went to get another for my wife and the price had risen to $45.95. I'd say with that in mind... get one while you can now - before everyone else catches on to a good bible! p.s. The ESV translation is stellar! For example it used the definition of the word repent instead of "Repent" (the great KJV uses the word "repent" however without a strongs concordance you would not know precisely what the meaning of the word was see Matthew 3:2 and Matthew 27:3). What does this do? It defines directly it into the text itself. The whole phrase would be underlined and actually keyed to the word Repent as this is the word was originally used! Excellent! BUY ONE NOW! UPDATE: I saw my pastors old copy of the KJV version of the Keyword Study bible. I see several upgrades and one downgrades. Upgrades: 1.) The newer version is significantly wider (due to the wider margins to write into the bible). 2.) The leather on the newer version is much better and softer. The newer version leather grain is a lot smoother. Downgrades: 1.) The older versions font is markedly darker. 2.) The Older versions font was definitely larger.

This Bible is essentially a serious attempt to integrate the Strong's Concordance into the Bible, so that, while you are reading the words, you have many opportunities to look up the word in the Hebrew and Greek dictionaries in the back. This can be quite enriching, giving you a much more accurate sense of the translation, which the creators explain in the preface, when they say that when you read the word "love", for example, it's important to know there are 3 senses of the word, and so by underlining the text and directing you to the dictionary in the back, you can get a better sense of the verse's meaning. Other features of this Bible are the grammatical notes (done with a special abbreviation key process, which simply educates you on the precise grammatical tense of the verb or grammatical rule being used on the verse's word; it's quite easy to use. Like other reference bibles, it has a cross-reference system, a concordance in back (not complete), and several other nice features, such as the red-letter edition (my edition), introductions, and a "key" diagram for key concepts and its exegesis at the bottom of the page. Since most Bible enthusiasts spend a lot of time with their Bibles, other factors come into play, such as texture of pages, see-through, smell, font size, spacing, etc. I find all these features to be just fine. The pages are a bit thin, and a little handling will definitely start some creases going, but bibles are meant to be READ, right? And to put all that info into one volume (Bible + Hebrew+Greek dictionaries), you need a lot of pages. For example, this Bible is 2300 pages! Compare that to Zondervan's KJV Study Bible at 1975 pages. Please note that only the UNDERLINED words have references to the dictionaries in the back, so that means if you run across a non-underlined word, and you want to know more about its translation, you cannot look it up! You must break out your own Strong's Exhaustive Bible Concordance and look it up. Also, this is NOT a study Bible, i.e., if you need some passages explained to you (esp. with the KJV), you won't get it here. This is pretty much a word-based "lookup" Bible; technically, you CAN interpret it yourself, if you know the exact translation, but unless you are a Biblical scholar.... But I love that this Bible successfully tries to make God's word "come to life" by integrating, in a very attractive and easy-to-use package, Strong's Concordance (as well as an amplified AMG dictionary/concordance) with Scripture. It makes one really inspired to look things up, esp. because the authors seem to select interesting "key words" for you. Over time, you cannot help to become much more familiar with the Hebrew and Greek words themselves. I am very pleased with this volume!

Definitely my favorite Bible because it has Hebrew and Greek dictionaries in the back so you can get the full meaning of a word and also the root words. I had the pleasure of studying Greek with Dr. Spiros Zodhiates (He edited this version.) who lived in Greece when he heard the Gospel and was saved at fourteen years of age as I recall. He told me his mother disowned him and kicked him out of the house. He had no where to go and slept on the porch. The next morning she opened the door, he was still there, and she brought him back in and allowed him to share the Gospel with her. She, too, converted to Christianity. He later moved to America and started a ministry in Chattanooga, TN (AMG Publishing) I highly recommend the NASB translation because I think the NASB is a better translation than the NIV. (King James Version is the best translation but NASB is easier to understand for newbies.) I’ve given this Bible as gifts throughout the years. So will probably be buying this Bible again. Out of my Bible collection, the Hebrew/Greek is my go to Bible. To really understand God’s word, it helps to know a little about the languages they were written in. You might not ever become a Bible scholar of the 66 books of the Bible, but at least you’ll have this wonderful tool you can use to better understand the living word of the Creator. At the time the Gospel was written, Koine Greek was the language spoken throughout a large part of the then known world. Interesting that Christ was born during this age when many people spoke the same language. Perfect timing to reach a vast part of the world that needed to hear about God’s plan for redemption and salvation. A way to live eternally with God in heaven. One fun tidbit I discovered from the Greek dictionary was that the meaning of “sing songs and hymns and make melody in your heart” means to sing along with instruments that are plucked. The word “song” in Greek is kitharodos and the instruments that were plucked in the first century were harps and lyres along with other stringed instruments. Today that would include a guitar. Here’s the aha moment. The root word of kitharodos is kithar—the same word in the English language that became guitar. This is the Bible I truly recommend because of these included dictionaries.

Great Key Word reference bible. I use it to have a clearer understanding of certain scriptures amd devotionals. The pages are like every bible I have used so I dont actually mind the thin quality. Definitely dont use gel pens if you dont like seeing it through pages. Other than that it is as described and adds to your bible study resources.

I got this to better learn the meanings of words in the Bible based on their original Hebrew or Greek language counterparts. I really like that in one text now, I have the Bible, a concordance, and both a Hebrew and Greek key word dictionary. I also like the commentary provided at the start of each book, as well as amplifying footnotes throughout. Tthe pages are a little thin--I wish they were more substantial. I tore one just trying to reposition one of a set of Bible tabs I'd bought. I guess they keep the pages thin for cost as well as size/weight, as there is a lot of content in this one volume. Overall, I really like this Bible though, and I'm looking forward to being able to learn more and better understand what I'm reading, without having to learn Hebrew or Greek!

Good readable font with selective passage commentary beneath Scripture. While not all words have Greek or Hebrew reference numbers, the main words of each chapter have them. And many times the editor will mention unnumbered words in his commentary and give their lexicon number. That does induce a little bit of searching for the verse in question to figure out where the unnumbered word is located and how it's being used in that context. When I first started reading, I purposely turned to the Second Coming sections of 1st Corinthians and 1st and 2nd Thessalonians to see how he interpreted those Scriptures and to see what exact Greek words were being used in those instances. Also very interesting information about the section Paul wrote concerning woman (in the singular tense) not teaching, etc. He openly states where the original translation was wrong. In this case, he mentions that since Paul had been talking about the marriage relationship, the word woman should have been translated "wife" as that was a common usage in that context. And he gives a better and more satisfying explanation of these normally controversial topics. For instance, what Paul meant about a wife teaching a husband is that he didn't want a woman embarrassing her husband in public, it's a submission type of issue. And of course, submission means willingly accepting your husband's headship as God ordained, not to be lorded over, but to be a follower and helper. He also provides some good teaching tools for translating the Hebrew and Greek and the understanding of different verb tenses. The editor does mention quite often about his other exegesis's on various topics. It does kind of take away from the reading of the Scriptures to constantly see (at least in the New Testement), "for more and detailed information, see my book ....." I guess I can put up with that, but it's not something you commonly see in other Bibles with commentary.

I used to do a lot of study using Strong's numbers with bible apps on my windows based cellphones. My favorite programs are no longer being updated, and the new ones are sluggish on my Android phone. I don't really even like reading on a screen so it finally occurred to me there might be an in print option. This Bible is that in print option. All in one place in a nice study bible, I can drink tea with and read hands free. The overall quality of the cover is reasonable at this price, I suppose. To the plus side the leather is flexible and the Bible lays flat. The quality of the leather is not terrific and the same overall feel would be better had they used one of the new faux leather options available today, and I think the faux leather would last longer. The overall quality of the book block is reasonable. The text is of a higher quality print job than I was expecting. Black ink is a deep black with a sharp contrast to the bright white paper. The red lettering in the NT is a nice deep red leaning a bit toward the brown side, a nice change from other Bibles where the red text leans toward the pink side not giving a good contrast with the page. The main font of the Bible text is a bit thin ( not quite as bold as I like) but in bright reading light gives ample contrast. The boldness of the notes is about right, but that font would not suit the main scripture text well. The more classic style of font used for Scripture gives a nice degree of differentiation to the characters unlike many modern fonts that have little. The paper is nice and bright white. All of the fonts contrast well with it, even the smaller text in the resources in the back. Despite the paper being thin, as it must be in a study bible with so much extra material, the show through is less than expected, that fact combined with a better than expected printing job makes this Bible a good value overall. On some pages the paper is a bit ripply in feel and texture like that found in a phone book or inexpensive dictionary. The gold Gilt is of reasonable quality. The pages actually seem to be pretty well line matched, a surprise in this price point. Because of the lesser quality of leather in the cover and the phonebook like paper, I would have given 4.5 stars if I could. In terms of getting a Strong's indexed bible with a partial Concordance/Dictionary in it, I got what I ordered. Given the overall price point to quality measure, I not going to round down so 5 stars it is.

Love this Bible. It gives summary notes and the Hebrew Greek definition for words so you can have a more accurate interpretation of the word.