Resources for Studying Greek
Free Online Tools to help you as you read the Greek Bible.
Greetings, everyone.
In this post, I’d like to highlight some wonderful free tools that are out there for reading the Greek Bible. Most of these are focused on the New Testament, but some of them can be used to study the Septuagint as well. Today, we’ll focus on tools that help you with reading.
There’s something to be said for really learning Greek as a language - struggling through grammar and vocabulary until you can actually open the New Testament and read without help. As a student, I’ve been lucky enough to have time and the opportunity to work towards that, but for most people, that simply isn’t an option. Thankfully, there are a number of great resources out there to fill the gaps. Here are some websites that will give you grammatical information on each word in the New Testament (and Septuagint) if you just hover over or click on the word itself.
Parabible, for instance, (www.parabible.com) contains the NT and the Septuagint, and each word is linked to a definition and to grammatical information. Below, you can see that I’ve pulled up Mark 4 and clicked on a word in verse 3. The interface is very clean, and you immediately get the information you need.
Bible Bento (www.biblebento.com) is based on a similar idea. They host a lot of different texts. The information that’s there is good and helpful, but sometimes can be a little messy. The best way to get used to the website is to click around until you understand everything that’s there.
Bible Arc (www.biblearc.com) is a beautiful, feature-rich website for in-depth Bible study. They offer all kinds of options for note-taking, sentence diagramming, and sermon preparation. Some of you may be familiar with it. Among many other things, they do have Greek texts of the Septuagint and New Testament with grammatical information on each word.
Finally, the Greek New Testament Reader (www.gntreader.com) is quite similar to Parabible, but limited to the New Testament. This site has much, much better dictionary definitions, and it’s much easier to search for individual words.
Hopefully these resources can support you as you keep going in your journey of studying the New Testament in Greek! Thanks for reading, and have a great day.