Review: TOUGH FOR A NOVICE>>>GREEK TO ENGLISH; POOR NAVAGATION CAPABILITIES
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 3, 2014
STRONG'S GREEK DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE by James Strong is tricky to navigate for a couple of different reasons. First and foremost, it IS NOT an English dictionary that gives the Greek  definitions. To look up a word, you have to know the Greek spelling, and then you have to locate the first and second letter combinations in the book's front menu in order to link to the word's definitive conclusion. At first glance, this doesn't sound like a big deal, but if you are unfamiliar with Greek (as I am) it is often difficult to distinguish between letters due to slight variations between the letters AND how they're written. So it is laborious for a person starting to study the Greek definitions but learnable. However, this was personally too time consuming for me to be a very effective way to use with Bible study.Additionally the other drawback is the Kindle navigation. It is duly noted that this book was published 5/14/2011 and the first Kindle Fire was not released until 11/15/2011. So it is not the publisher's fault for some of the navigation issues you can run into.  That being said, if you have a Kindle Touch or one with 5-way navigation, you're at least better off than if you're using the Fire. Since the older models at least enable you to move from chapter to chapter, and the Fire doesn't. Also in the older Kindle models, you could type the letter h plus Strong’s four digit code and navigate directly to a particular glossary entry. For example I was researching the word peace. Couldn’t figure out how to find the word through the first two Greek letters, but I did run across a website that had Strong’s 4 digit code for the word listed. So I wanted to read more. However, Kindle Fire doesn’t allow any alpha letters in the search function. It only accommodates numerical entries of either the location or page number. So I ended up guessing at location numbers and paging until I got where I wanted to be, but it took an excessive length of time. By the time I got where I needed to be, I'd forgotten what I was even studying to begin with. SO I went hunting for a better solution. None of the Hebrew or Greek dictionaries listed appeared to be any better, but I did find a KJV Bible with Strong's Markup and Dictionary that is at least faster to navigate. Every single word is underlined and linked to it's Hebrew/Greek meaning. This exact dictionary (as well as Strong's Hebrew Dictionary) are included in the Bible purchase. Note some reviewers of this particular Bible are still dissatisfied because the definitions are not an exhaustive search, but it sure is a lot better than do-it-yourself searching through the dictionaries for beginners. Admittedly, it’s not a perfect solution, but it’s workable until the dictionaries are updated to Kindle Fire functions and updated versions are released.