Greek Reader (iPhone)
The Greek Reader’s Lexicon gives you a convenient way to look up rare vocabulary verse-by-verse through the New Testament.
Even the most competent readers of New Testament Greek do not know each and every word that appears in the New Testament by heart. You want to spend as much time reading the text, not looking up words in a lexicon.
On the other hand, learning all words that occur more than 100 times in the New Testament is a straightforward task, even for a first-year student of Koine Greek. Likewise, however, you too want to read as much New Testament Greek as you can, without being distracted by looking up every other word in a lexicon.
This app helps you to do that — spend time reading the New Testament in Greek — wherever you are on the vocabulary-learning scale. Select the passage of Scripture that you’re looking at, and the vocabulary threshold (from words that occur once in the entire NT to those that occur 100 times), and a verse-by-verse lexicon is generated for you. As you read each verse, definitions of rare words are right there with you. Quick gloss definitions of words in each verse are there at a glance, and more information for greater depth and insight is only a tap away.
This app won’t replace your Greek Bible — in fact, it’s designed to sit alongside it. What it will do is help you to spend more time in it, and, hopefully, encourage you to read it more.
Extended lexical definitions are drawn from Thayer’s Greek Lexicon (public domain), and the glosses are derived from this source too.
Requires iPhone OS 3.1 or greater. Available on the app store now.
Paradigmatic
(requires Mac OS X 10.4 or greater)
Paradigmatic is a paradigm/grammar tool for learning Biblical Hebrew and New Testament (Koine) Greek verb forms. Any student of these Biblical languages should find this program useful. I’m assuming a certain level of knowledge of Greek and/or Hebrew – it won’t teach you fundamental grammar or syntax – but it will help you drill in and learn what you already know.
More info about the program, a FAQ, and a current download can be found at the Paradigmatic site.
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Functionality now includes a full set of Greek paradigm data, in addition to the Hebrew tables. This includes the ability to view a given paradigm, edit paradigm entries (and add/remove whole paradigms), and a parsing tool to test recognition. Additional tables relating to noun declension, pronominal suffixes, and verb patterns are also available.
The Hebrew paradigm data available in the program includes the following:
- Strong Paradigms (קטל/פקד)
- I-Aleph, I-Guttural
- I-Nun
- I-Waw, I-Yodh
- II-Guttural
- III-Aleph, III-Guttural
- III-He
- Hollow Verbs, including polel/polal/hithpolel
- Geminates
- ‘Special’ roots: היה and הוה
The Greek paradigm data available includes:
- Strong Paradigm (λυω)
- Contract verbs (-εω/-αω/-οω)
- Principal parts of irregular verbs
- -μι verbs
Note that Paradigmatic is a universal Binary.
If you need to contact me in any way, want to report a bug or an error, or want to send feedback, use the contact form at the paradigmatic site.
[Thanks to Bathgate for work on the icon.]
Finally, I’ve spent a fair bit of time working on this program, and I’m happy to provide it free of charge. If, however, you would like to support the ongoing work of developing, testing, and supporting Paradigmatic, please make a small donation by clicking on the PayPal button below.
Thanks.