Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible KJV Edition - Hardbound for In-Depth Scripture Analysis | Perfect for Bible Study, Sermon Preparation & Theological Research

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!