Greek Language Tools

Resources to help you to learn ancient Greek (the language in which the New Testament was originally written)

Greek Flash cards for Microsoft Excel

• A fully functional Greek Flashcard program for memorising vocabulary
• Requires:
  • Microsoft Excel 97 or above (included in Microsoft Office standard edition)
  • Font: bwgrkl available from the Bibleworks site
• Doesn't need any other Flashcard software to run

Remata: Eric Miller, Software Engineer and Professor of Bible and Biblical Languages at Quartz Hill School of Theology, has optimised and upgraded my initial Greek vocab spreadsheet to work on a number of platforms. Remata is freely available for download and I reckon it's a significant improvement on my own efforts - I suggest you check our Remata first before you download anything from this site!

On this site, there are currently four word lists available

1. Every word in the Greek New Testament (thanks Mike Turner)
   • Download it here
   • A version for Pocket PC is available at www.pdascholar.com
2. Moore College Greek - First Year
   • Chapter numbers coincide with Richard Gibson's vocab list
   • First year 2002
   • First year 2003 (Thanks Philip Swan)
   • This version works with Excel 95
     • This one also includes a space for your memory hooks
     • And it includes graphical 'difficulty distribution'!
     • Thanks Simon Curnow!
   • Here is a version which I hope works with Macintoshes (it has some bugs)
3. Moore College New Testament - Second Year Set Texts
   • Covers all words for second year set texts (2004)
     • John 1-4, 13-17
     • Romans 1-4
     • 1 Corinthians 1-2, 12, 14, 15
     • With frequency in the New Testament (words under 10 included but selected out by default).
   • Download it here
4. Moore College New Testament - Third Year Set Texts
   • Covers all words for third year set texts (2004)
     • Romans 1-8
     • 1 Corinthians 1-4, 12-15
     • Hebrews 1-4
     • 1 Peter 1-3
     • With frequency in the New Testament (words under 10 included but selected out by default).
   • Download it here

Palm cards

Printable palm cards for Microsoft Excel (requires decompression using a Unzip program). Thanks Rodney Kerr!

Prepositions: Visual

• Prepositions: Diagrams of Greek prepositions for easy memorisation by visual learners
• PowerPoint Prepositions: A dynamic learning tool for visual memorisation of Greek Prepositions (thanks to André Wheeley and Ben Gooley)

Verbs: Principal parts

• Principal Parts Tester: Requires Microsoft Excel (thanks to Anthony Douglas)

• Feeling Greek (PDF): This course is designed as a simple, phonics-based introduction to New Testament Greek. It can be used as a ‘refresher’ for students of Greek who have found themselves struggling with the complexities of the language at an advanced level and need to remind themselves of the basics; or as a basic-level introduction for new students of the language who appreciate learning a few simple rules with intensive ‘drills’ rather than extensive amounts of miscellaneous information.
  • At this stage, I have only completed the first 10 chapters - enough to give you a complete foundation in morphology and to begin applying this to nouns, etc. I'm putting it up in this draft form because I'd appreciate feedback about the course - especially feedback about whether you think it would be useful for me to add more chapters to develop this into a full-blown course in the shape of the Greek language.
• Greek Morphology (PDF): A concise (11 A4 pages) tabular summary of everything that needs to be memorised for first year Greek morphology (ie the 'shape' of the language) at Moore Theological College. It is intended for those who want to keep memorisation to a minimum and work things out from first principles.

• Microsoft Word Greek Flowcharting Macros: (thanks to Anthony Douglas)
• This version includes colour markings for verbal Aspect Theory (thanks to Philip Swan)

Grabble: The game for teaching one another Greek vocabulary. Based on Scrabble.

To use most of these resources you will need three TrueType fonts:

1. "bwgrkl" (from the Bibleworks website)

   If this box looks Greek then you have bwgrkl installed already:

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2. "Symbol" (available with Microsoft Windows)

   If this box looks Greek then you have Symbol installed already:

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3. "TekniaGreek" (from the Teknia Language Tools website)

   If this box looks Greek then you have TekniaGreek installed already:

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