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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+ times0 words in all. Each links to its full lexicon entry.

No words are available for this band yet. Try a lower threshold, or reset the deck.

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.

Reading settings

Comparing translations? Open the Compare panel on any verse page to stack up to four side by side.