Read the New Testament in Ancient Greek
News
- 05 May 2010 -- You can now add the Greek NT search to your
browser's search bar (Try it! -- Help).
About This Site
- This site is a New Testament browser and commentary. Here's how Philippians 1:2 would be displayed:
- Note that moving the cursor over any word will show its parsing and
translation in the sidebar.
- Read on for a short introduction to the site's main features!
Click Help (left sidebar) for more details.
Reading Passages
- Enter any normal reference in the navigation form (top left).
- Click Home (top left) to return to this page.
- Click Random for an unidentified block of text (for those who
unconsciously translate back from English).
- Click Navigator to select a New Testament chapter.
Teaching and Learning
- Click OHP (right) to reformat any page for an overhead
projector. (Works best with Greek pages, but try it here.)
- When viewing a passage, click Vocabulary for a list of word
meanings ordered by their particularity to that passage.
Highlighting and Searching
- Try dragging Greek words from the page into the search box (top right).
The lemma and parsing will appear there, e.g. logos.n.nom.sing.masc.
Here's John 1:1 to practice on:
- Note that the words are automatically highlighted. If you drag
theos into the search box and click the Trim button, you'll
notice theon lights up as well. That's because the pattern has
been trimmed down to just it's lemmas.
- Click Find to list passages which match the pattern.
- Click '×' to clear the search pattern.
- You can highlight (and search for) up to six terms.
Display Options
- Click Colorize (to the right) to apply informative color schemes
to the Greek text.
- Click Romanize to switch between Greek letters and English
romanization. This enables in-page searching using CTRL-F in your
browser. Note that for easy searching, eta and omega are
simply capitalized.
Neat Highlighting Tricks
- Say you know there's something about law and grace in Romans 6; click the link, then type nomos
charis into the search box and press <TAB>. Words having these
lemmas will now be highlighted and can be quickly spotted.
- Suppose a certain verb is a masculine singular dative and you
want to see what words in its context agree in gender, number and case.
Enter .masc.sing.dat in the search box and press <TAB>.
- Here's a list of the grammatical properties which are
recognized.
Linking to Search Results
- You can enter grammatical patterns yourself (including wildcards
in lemmas) and even link directly to them. Here are some examples:
- See Finding Patterns for more
search options.
Download a better Greek font
- This site will be more attractive with a modern Greek Unicode font
installed. For example:
- This is Gentium by SIL (free download); probably the best Greek
font ever. Linux users can just apt-get install
ttf-sil-gentium.
- The Greek Font Society has released some excellent OpenType faces,
including GFS
Neohellenic, GFS Elpis (free download; see also GFS Bodoni and GFS
Didot.)
- This site will use these fonts, in this order of preference, if you
install them.
About this site
- Site by Nigel Chapman, though much
inspired by Zack
Hubert and (another Aussie) James Tauber.
- The software that runs this site was developed by the site maintainer,
using PHP, MySQL, Zend Framework and jQuery.
Sources and copyright
- Greek Text is from Tischendorf's 8th Edition with morphology, prepared
by Ulrik
Sandborg-Petersen (public domain).
- Lemma meanings from Strongs Dictionary, prepared by the Bible Foundation (public domain).
- Both sources are old and imperfect; my intention in the longer term is
to provide a resource for collaborative production of open source critical
editions, translations and commentaries, wiki-style. I'll start with a
commentary system under a creative commons license and see where we go from
there.
Feedback and discussion
- Drop me a line if you find it helpful, or have comments or
suggestions.
- Nigel Chapman, Sydney AU.
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