Hebrew & Greek vocabulary trainer
The fastest way into reading the Bible in its original languages is to learn its words in order of how often they occur. A small core of words carries most of the text: learn the words that appear 50 or more times in the Greek New Testament and you can already recognize the great majority of words on a typical page. This trainer builds a deck of exactly those words — the most frequent first — and drills them with spaced review. Reveal each word's meaning, rate how well you knew it, and the words you find hard come back sooner.
Every count is a real occurrence count from the tagged text, and every gloss comes from the lexicon — nothing here is invented. Your progress is kept only on this device; there is no account and nothing is sent anywhere.
The interactive flashcard trainer needs JavaScript. Below is the start of the Greek New Testament deck for words occurring 50+ times — 315 words in all. Each links to its full lexicon entry.
- ο ho the 19,763×
- και kaí and 8,969×
- αυτος autós he 5,556×
- δε dé but 2,771×
- εν en in 2,740×
- ειμι eimí to be 2,459×
- λεγω légō to say 2,252×
- υμεις hymeîs you 1,828×
- εις eis into 1,764×
- εγω egṓ I 1,719×
- ου ou not 1,626×
- ος hós who 1,406×
- ουτος hoûtos this 1,379×
- θεος theós God 1,312×
- οτι hóti that 1,299×
- πας pâs all 1,224×
- συ sý you 1,070×
- γαρ gár for 1,036×
- μη mḗ not 1,033×
- εκ ek from 915×
How the drill works
- Frequency-ordered. The deck leads with the most common words, so the time you spend pays off fastest.
- Spaced review (Leitner). Each word lives in one of five boxes. Get it right and it moves up a box and comes back later; miss it and it drops to box one and returns soon.
- Pronunciation. Tap the speaker to hear the word read aloud, using your device's own speech voices — no audio is downloaded.
- Private by design. Your review history is stored only in this browser. Clearing site data resets it; nothing is uploaded.
Curious how a grammatical form spreads across the whole Bible? Search by grammar → — find every imperative (command), or every aorist verb, in one place.