Koine Greek

In Romans 1:14, Paul writes: I am a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. (NRSV). Assuming your browser can show Unicode characters, here's what that looks like in Koiné, or 'common' first-century Greek:

• Ἕλλησίν τε καὶ βαρβάροις, σοφοῖς τε καὶ ἀνοήτοις ὀφειλέτης εἰμί

This page collects some useful resources for Koiné Greek, and its online use with Unicode-compatible browsers. If you ever have to produce accented Greek text, e.g. for essays, our Koiné character generator may save you some time and frustration. If you maintain a website which uses accented Greek, the PHP Betacode Script which provides these functions may be more useful still.