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Hebrew & Greek parsing quiz

Recognizing a word is only half of reading the original languages — the other half is parsing: looking at an inflected form and naming exactly what it is. Is ἐποίησεν aorist or imperfect? Active or middle? This drill shows you a real form straight from the text and asks you to build its full parse from scratch — part of speech, then every grammatical attribute — rather than picking from a list of options. Producing the answer, not recognizing it, is the skill that transfers to reading.

Every form is a genuine word from the tagged text, and the answer is its actual decoded morphology — the same parse shown on the verse pages and in the grammar search. Nothing here is invented. You parse the main (head) word of the form; any attached prefix or suffix is set aside, the standard way parsing is taught. Your score is kept only on this device.

Off by default — you parse only the main word. Turn this on to also identify each attached prefix (the conjunction ו, prepositions בְּ/כְּ/לְ/מִ, the article הַ) in order.

The interactive quiz needs JavaScript. Here is one fully worked example from the Hebrew Old Testament so you can see exactly what the drill asks — a real form and its complete correct parse.

Parse this form of כי “that”:

כִּ֤י

Correct parse

Part of speech
Conjunction
Noun type
—
Stem
—
Aspect
—
State
—
Person
—
Gender
—
Number
—

Study כי in the lexicon →

How the quiz works

  • You produce the parse. For each form you choose the part of speech and every grammatical attribute from dropdowns — there is no multiple-choice list of finished answers to recognize.
  • Graded against the real morphology. Your selections are checked facet by facet against the form's decoded parse — the exact same data the verse pages and grammar search use.
  • Set the not-applicable facets to “—”. A noun has no tense; a verb may have no case. Leaving an inapplicable facet on “—” is the correct answer for it.
  • Private by design. Your running accuracy is kept only in this browser. Nothing is uploaded; there is no account.

Reading settings

Reading text

Shown beneath each verse's original-language words.

Old Testament
Old Testament edition

Read the OT as the Masoretic Hebrew (MT) or the Greek Septuagint (LXX).

English shown for the Greek Septuagint (in the Hebrew ↔ Greek comparison).

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