Want to remove ads? Support Godless Engineer

John

Greek — Tischendorf 8th edition · 21 chapters

Explore the Greek grammar of this book: Search John by grammar → — find every imperative (command), or every aorist verb.

John 1:1

Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος

in · beginning · to be · the · word · and · the · word · to be · to · the · God · and · God · to be · the · word

Open John 1:1 word-by-word →

Chapters

Words John uses most

Counted here from the morphology-tagged text of John — nouns, verbs and adjectives only, so the article, conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns are left out. Each word opens its full lexicon entry and every verse it appears in.

  1. λέγω G3004 légō to say 475
  2. εἰμί G1510 eimí to be 445
  3. Ἰησοῦς G2424 Iēsoûs Jesus 240
  4. ἔρχομαι G2064 érchomai to come 156
  5. πατήρ G3962 patḗr father 134
  6. ποιέω G4160 poiéō to make 109
  7. πιστεύω G4100 pisteúō to believe 98
  8. ἔχω G2192 échō to have 87
  9. ὁράω G3708 horáō to see 86
  10. εἴδω G1492 eídō to see 85
  11. θεός G2316 theós God 82
  12. μαθητής G3101 mathētḗs disciple 78

About this book

  • 21 Chapters
  • 878 Verses
  • 15,519 Greek words
  • 1,017 Distinct lemmas

John is part of the Greek New Testament and contains 21 chapters in the Tischendorf 8th edition. Every chapter on this site is browseable verse by verse, with each verse showing the original Greek text alongside transliteration, Strong's number, concise gloss, and Thayer's lexicon entries. Pick a chapter above to begin.

The counts on this page are not copied from a concordance — they are computed here from the morphology-tagged text of John and our own curated glosses. How Lemma builds this →

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.